Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennslyvania, Issue 20E. K. Meyers, State Printers, 1906 |
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Abscess Allegheny county annum Benjamin Lee Berks births Board of Health borough Bradford Bradford county Butler Cambria Cambria county Cancer Cause of Death cent Chester Clearfield Contagious diseases reported County Medical Inspector creek Dauphin death rate December Delaware county diphtheria disinfected district drainage epidemic Erie examination Fayette feet Female fumigated health officer Hemorrhage hospital Houses placarded infected Inflammation inspection Lackawanna Lancaster county Lebanon Lehigh county liver Male Measles meningitis milk Montgomery county month Northampton Northumberland November nuisance October Partial registration enforced patients Pennsylvania Philadelphia physician Pittsburg placarded and quaran placarded and quarantined Pneumonia pollution Puerperal Quarantine Officer quarantined registration enforced including reported and houses Salary of health Salary of secretary Sample sanitary Sarcoma scarlet fever school board school children Schuylkill county September small-pox Suicide Susquehanna tion Total number town township Tuberculosis tumors typhoid fever vaccination vaccination of school virus ward Warren water supply Westmoreland county York county
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Page 564 - An act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
Page 48 - All school-houses for which plans and detailed statements shall be filed and approved, as required by this section, shall have all halls, doors, stairways, seats, passage-ways and aisles and all lighting and heating appliances and apparatus arranged to facilitate egress in cases of fire or accident and to afford the requisite and proper accommodations for public protection in such cases.
Page 377 - ... hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong tight wooden box. Or the body being prepared for shipment by...
Page 378 - Before selling tickets, agents should carefully examine the transit permit and note the name of the passenger in charge, and of any others proposing to accompany the body, and see that all necessary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. The transit permit in such cases shall specifically state who is authorized by the health authorities to accompany the remains.
Page 48 - No door shall open immediately upon a flight of stairs, but a landing at least the width of the door shall be provided between such stairs and such door.
Page 378 - Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket and also present a full first-class ticket marked "Corpse...
Page 378 - In cases of contagious, infectious or communicable diseases, the body must not be accompanied by persons or articles which have been exposed to the infection of the disease, unless certified by the health officer as having been properly disinfected; and before selling...
Page 444 - If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance, or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; (3) If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it...
Page 378 - ... cavities with an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the body with the same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton and enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged...
Page 381 - Pennsylvania, be it ordered by the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and it is hereby ordered by the authority of the same: Nuisances denned.