Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Vermont ...

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State Board of Health, 1891
Vols. for 1896/97- include also 41st- (1st- biennial) report relating to the registry and returns of births, marriages, deaths and divorces in the state of Vermont, 1897-
 

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Page 118 - Resolved, That it is the sense of the National Conference of State Boards of Health that it is the duty of each State, provincial and local board of health in any locality in which said diseases may at any time occur, to furnish immediately information of the existence of such...
Page 83 - ... fifty feet of any well, spring, or other source of water used for drinking or culinary purposes ; unless the surface of such vault, cesspool or reservoir is at a lower level than the bottom of such well.
Page 30 - ... zinc, copper or tin case and all enclosed in a strong outside wooden box of material not less than one inch and a half thick.
Page 47 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals/' and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 28 - State, when encased in a sound coffin or metallic case, and enclosed in a strong wooden box, securely fastened so it may be safely handled. But when it is proposed to transport them out of the State...
Page 48 - ... ounces of chloride of lime to each gallon of water, or disinfect the cars with a jet of steam under a pressure of not less than fifty pounds to the square inch.
Page 47 - June 30, 1891, you are hereby notified that a contagious and infectious disease known as splenetic or Southern fever exists among cattle in the following-described area of the United States: All that country lying east and south of a line commencing at the southeast corner of the...
Page 28 - 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 78 - Sulphur Fumigation. To use this effectively, two pounds of sulphur should be burned in a room ten feet square. Every opening in the room...
Page 31 - ... or infectious nature), the point to which it is to be shipped, medical attendant and name of undertaker.

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