Report of the State Board of Health of Wisconsin ... 1876-78

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State Board of Health, 1876
 

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Page 30 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 100 - And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Page iv - The State Board of Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State.
Page vi - The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the salary of the secretary...
Page 91 - State, at least once a year to report to the State Board of Health their proceedings and such other facts required on blanks and in accordance with instructions received from said State Board. They shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the State Board of Health.
Page iv - 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; and they shall gather such information in respect to those matters as they may deem proper, for diffusion among the people.
Page iv - The persons so appointed shall hold their offices for seven years ; Provided, That the terms of office of the seven first appointed shall be so arranged that the term of one shall expire on the thirtieth day of December of each year, and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies occurring otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor, with the...
Page 91 - ... your position astride the body, grasp the points of the shoulders by the clothing, or, if the body is naked, thrust your fingers into the armpits, clasping your thumbs over the points of the shoulders, and raise the chest as high as you can (Fig.
Page vi - The members of the Board shall receive no compensation for their services, but their traveling and other necessary expenses, while employed on the business of the Board, shall be allowed and paid.
Page vi - Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State. They shall have charge of all matters pertaining to quarantine; and shall have authority to make such rules and regulations, and such sanitary investigations, as they may from time to time deem necessary, for the preservation or improvement of public health ; and it shall be the duty of all police officers, sheriffs, constables and all other officers and employes of the State, to enforce...

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