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1,000 vaccinations 300 vaccinations appointed Board of Health breaks of smallpox cattle cent Chairman charge chief difficulties cholera cinated City Board cost of management County Board county court county in loss county judge county officials deaths difficulties in stamping disease was brought disinfected districts or precincts duty enforce esti estimate that 1,000 estimate that 300 estimated cost expense exposed persons fiscal court following districts Gentlemen Greenup county guards health officer Henderson hospital or pest house was provided including hospital interference of business isolated J. N. McCORMACK July 16 Kentucky last four leaving loss of trade mated cost method of management Middlesboro mild named negroes nurses occurred outbreaks of smallpox Owsley county patients pest house physicians prevent previously vaccinated promptly recognized quarantine re-vaccinated refused regulations removed respectfully Rule sanitary scarlet fever Secretary spread suspects tion total cost total population town trade and interference unprotected veterinarian
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Page 126 - ... he shall collect information concerning vital statistics, knowledge respecting diseases, and all useful information on the subject of hygiene; and through an annual report, and otherwise, as the board may direct, shall disseminate such information among the people, and shall supply, on demand, to local boards of health, reliable vaccine virus for gratuitous vaccination of the poor.
Page 157 - Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the extent and boundaries of the police power, and however difficult it may be to render a satisfactory definition of it, there seems to be no doubt that it does extend to the protection of the lives, health, and property of the citizens, and to the preservation of good order and the public morals.
Page 138 - No parent, guardian or other person having charge or control of any child or children shall allow or permit any such child or children to go from any house or building infected with...
Page 143 - Rules 1 and 2, may be received for transportation when prepared for shipment by filling 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 and encased in an air-tight coffin or casket: Provided.
Page 129 - And that the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this Resolution into effect.
Page 143 - 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 144 - Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or cause, shall be treated as infectious...
Page 125 - Health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than sixty days, or both so fined and imprisoned.
Page 142 - ... and all enclosed in a strong, tight wooden box. Or, the body, being prepared for shipment by, disinfecting and wrapping as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket, and said coffin or casket encased in an air-tight zinc, copper or tin case, all joints and seams hermetically soldered, and all enclosed in a strong outside wooden box..
Page 153 - ... to inaugurate and execute and to require the heads of families and other persons to execute such sanitary regulations as the local board may consider expedient to prevent the outbreak and spread of cholera, smallpox...