Annual report of the Indiana State Board of Health. 1882

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State Board of Health, 1883

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Page 208 - Whenever any physician shall know that any person whom he is called to visit is Infected with the small-pox, or any other disease dangerous to the public health...
Page 208 - These duties are as follows : " (1734.) SEC. 43. Whenever any householder shall know that any person within his family is taken sick with the small-pox, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the Board of Health, or to the health officer, of the township (city or village*) in which he resides; and if he shall refuse or neglect to give such notice, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Page 209 - ... sickness prevails, said cloth or card to be maintained during the existence of the disease, and until such time as the health physician is satisfied the premises have been properly cleaned, disinfected and purified. If said yellow cloth or card is removed without authority from the health physician, the name of the person, or the head of the family, occupying the premises, together with the number of the street or location, shall be published, and the person removing said cloth or card, •or...
Page 217 - Health of the town, city or county in which they may occur, and within fifteen days thereafter, all births and deaths which may occur under their supervision, with a certificate of the cause of death, and such co-relative facts as maybe required in the blank forms furnished as provided in this Act.
Page 216 - They shall annually, in the month of January of each year, complete their organization by the election of a Secretary, who shall be a physician. The Secretary of such local Boards of Health, and the Secretary of any regular constituted Board of...
Page 216 - The Trustees of each town, the Mayor and Common Council of each incorporated city, except where a regularly constituted Board of Health, by ordinance of such city, exists, or may hereafter be created, and the Board of...
Page 218 - It shall be the duty of all physicians and accoucheurs in this State, to report to the Secretary of the Board of Health of the town, city or county, in which they may occur...
Page 216 - They shall annually, at their first meeting in December, elect a secretary, who shall be the executive officer of the board who shall serve as such health officer for one year, from the first of January next ensuing his election. He shall receive such compensation from the town, city or county treasury, respectively, as the board electing him may determine. The records of the county board of health shall be kept at the county seat.
Page 217 - ... to report such facts and statistics as may be required under instructions from and according to forms and blanks furnished by said board ; and the board of health of each town and city situate in any county of this state shall act in conjunction with the board of health of such county, and it shall be the duty of the secretary of such local boards, at least once each quarter and as often as may be deemed necessary by the county board, to report such facts and statistics as may be required under...
Page 217 - ... any person or persons, or the officers of any corporation, neglecting or refusing after having been notified in writing to comply with the requirements of such regulations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than...

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