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

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Wisconsin State Board of Health, 1897
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 41 - Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Commonwealth. For the year ending December 31, 1880.
Page 12 - ... solution of bichloride of mercury as above, and placed in a strong coffin or casket, and said 'coffin or casket encased in a hermetically sealed (soldered) 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. RULE 3. In cases of contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases, the body must not be accompanied by articles which have been exposed to the infection of the disease.
Page 12 - ... 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 removal has been approved by the State Board of Health, and the consent of the health authority of the locality to which the corpse is consigned...
Page 91 - Valley," extends from the sources of the Mississippi in the north, to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, and from the Alleghany mountains on the east to the Rocky mountains on the west.
Page 12 - 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 12 - RULE 4. The bodies of persons dead of diseases that are not contagious, infectious, or communicable, may be received for transportation to local points in same 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 21 - State boards, in regard to the location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation of any public institution or building.
Page 13 - 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 7 - Prevention of Tuberculosis or Consumption". The Board now issues circulars pertaining to the prevention of small pox, diphtheria, .scarlet fever, tuberculosis or consumption, and typhoid fever, and these circulars have had a very wide distribution. The Board desires to also urge (that the -contingent fund established by legislative act two years ago, to .be used for the prevention of cholera and other dangerous contagious diseases, should (they occur, be continued; that fund not being used by the...
Page 11 - 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 of bi-chloride of mercury to a gallon of water; and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, copper or lead [lined] coffin, or.

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