Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the Year Ending ..., Volume 23E. L. Freeman & Company, printers to the state, 1904 |
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Albuminoid AMMONIA Apoplexy Apoplexy and Paralysis Average Age bacilli Bacteria per c. c. Bacteriological Examination beds board of health Bristol County Bronchitis Cancer CAUSES OF DEATH cent Central Falls Chemical and Bacteriological Chlorine Clergymen make returns Color coroner DATE OF COLLECTION diphtheria district divorce effluent feet following Table gallons Gratuitous vaccination GROUP health officer inclusive Influenza July June Kent County Loss on Ignition Males marriages marriages promptly medical examiner Monthly avg months Newport City Newport County Nitrates NITROGEN North Kingstown number of deaths Oxygen Consumed Pawtucket Percentage Peritonitis physician Pneumonia population proportion Providence City Providence County pumping RESIDUE ON EVAPO returns of deaths returns of marriages Rhode Island sample being taken sanitary scarlet fever Sediment septic sewage shows the number sludge South Kingstown tank Town Clerk town council Turbidity unsanitary premises Washington County Water Supply whole number Woonsocket Yearly avg ཆེ
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Page 311 - ... treasurer in the sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties.
Page 237 - ... or other agency, whether material or not material, for the cure, relief or palliation of any ailment or disease of the mind or body, or for the cure, or relief, of any wound, fracture or bodily injury or deformity, after having received, or with the intent of receiving therefor, either directly or indirectly, any bonus, gift or compensation.
Page 308 - OF DIVORCE. SECTION 1. Divorces from the bond of marriage shall be decreed in case of any marriage originally void or voidable by law, and in case either party is for crime deemed to be or treated as if civilly dead, or from absence or other circumstances may be presumed to be actually dead.
Page 239 - ... he shall forthwith repair to the place where such body lies, and take charge of the same ; and if, on view thereof and personal inquiry into the cause and manner of the death, he deems a further examination necessary, he shall, upon being thereto authorized in writing by the...
Page 305 - ... whenever the same can be ascertained; and the clerk or registrar so receiving such certified copies shall record the same in the books kept for recording births, marriages, and deaths.
Page 234 - SEC. 8. The governor shall provide a suitable office for the board in the city of Providence, and the actual expenses of the board and of the members thereof, when certified by the chairman and approved by the governor shall be pai d from the state treasury.
Page 239 - ... and shall then and there carefully reduce or cause to be reduced to writing every fact and circumstance tending to show the condition of the body and the cause and manner of death, together with the names and addresses of said witnesses, which record he shall subscribe; before making such autopsy he shall call the attention of the witnesses to the position and appearance of the body.
Page 236 - The State Board of Health may refuse to issue the certificate, provided for in section three of this article, to any individual guilty of grossly unprofessional conduct of a character likely to deceive or defraud the public, and it may, after due notice and hearing, revoke such certificates for like cause.
Page 233 - ... year for the term of six years from the first day of July. Any appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the remainder of the term. Of the persons so appointed, at least three shall be well educated physicians and members of some medical society incorporated by the state.
Page 308 - ... for neglect or refusal on the part of the husband, being of sufficient ability, to provide necessaries for the subsistence of his wife, and for any other gross misbehavoir and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and in violation of the marriage covenant.