Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the Year Ending ..., Volume 16

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E.L. Freeman & Company, printers to the State, 1894
 

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Page 261 - Every clergyman, physician, undertaker, town clerk, clerk of any meeting of the Society of Friends, or other person who shall...
Page 180 - 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 paid from the state treasury. SEC. 9. The board shall make a report...
Page 266 - Said court shall have no cognizance of or jurisdiction over any petition for the same, or either of the same, unless the petitioner shall, at the time of preferring such petition, be a domiciled inhabitant of this state, and have resided therein for the period of one year, next before the preferring of such petition, SEC.
Page 261 - He shall, also, within two days thereafter, notify the physician last in attendance upon the deceased person of the name and date of death of the same.
Page 256 - Ascites" have been allowed to stand as determining causes of death because of extended use, and because of the obscurity with which their causes in rare instances are involved. We can scarcely conceive of a dropsical accumulation without antecedent organic or functional disorder, derangement of the absorbent or secretory system, or depravation of the blood. They are left in the tabular list with not a little reluctance. Paralysis...
Page 179 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health...
Page 260 - ... child, or give to the undertaker or person who conducts the funeral a certificate stating, in case of a death, the name of the deceased, the date of the death, and the disease or cause of the death, and in case of the bringing forth of a...
Page 261 - ... child unless he shall first obtain the physician's certificate required by section six of this chapter, if a physician was in attendance upon such person who has deceased, or the person bringing forth such still.born child, and shall return the same, together with his own certificate of the information required by section three of this chapter, to the town clerk of the town where such death or bringing forth took place.
Page 3 - Secretary presented his report of attendance at the recent meeting of the American Public Health Association in the City of Mexico.
Page 260 - Monday of every month, to the town clerk of the town in which such rite shall have been performed; and no marriage shall be solemnized until the parties shall have signed and delivered to the person about to solemnize it, or to...

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