Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Wisconsin for the Year Ending ..., Volume 13

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Wisconsin State Board of Health, 1891
1902/04- include also reports on the vital statistics of the state. From 1906/08- these rports are compiled by the State Bureau of Vita Statistics.
 

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Page 102 - ... be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500...
Page 12 - 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 13 - RULE 5. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person In charge, who must be provided with a ticket, and also present a full first-class ticket marked "Corpse...
Page 12 - RULE 2. The bodies of those who have died of Diphtheria, Anthrax, Scarlet Fever, Puerperal Fever, Typhoid Fever, Erysipelas, Measles, and other contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases must be wrapped in a sheet thoroughly saturated with a strong solution of bi-chloride of mercury, in the proportion of one ounce...
Page 100 - ... tea or other article of food or drink or drug made or offered for sale within this state which he may suspect or have reason to believe to be impure, unhealthful, adulterated or counterfeit...
Page 102 - ... been diluted or any part of its cream abstracted, or that it or any part of it was drawn from cows known...
Page 13 - Corpse," and a transit permit from Board of Health, or proper health authority, giving permission for the removal, and showing name of deceased, age, place of death, cause of death, (and if of a contagious or infectious nature), the point to which it is to be shipped, medical attendant, and name of undertaker. RULE 6.
Page 101 - ... or other suitable person, for the purpose of examination; and the cost of such removal shall be paid out of the state treasury, in the same manner as when removed by the sheriff, as in this title provided.
Page 13 - RULE 8. It is intended that no dead body shall be moved which may be the means of spreading disease, therefore, all disinterred bodies, dead from any disease or cause, will be treated as infectious and dangerous to the public health, and will not be accepted for transportation unless said...
Page 3 - States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the President that cholera, yellow fever...

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