Annual report of the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Health for the fiscal year ending ... 1893

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State Department of Health, 1895

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Page lxxxvii - ... been approved by the state or provincial health authorities having jurisdiction where such body is disinterred, and the consent of the health authorities of the locality to which the corpse is consigned...
Page lxxxvi - ... hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong, tight wooden box ; or the body...
Page ii - Resolved, That no papers shall be published in the Annual Report of this Board except such as are ordered or approved for purposes of such publication by a majority of the members of the Board; and that any such paper shall be published over the signature of the writer, who shall be entitled to the credit of its production, as well as responsible for the statements of facts and opinions expressed therein.
Page 316 - The State Board of Health and the local boards shall have power and authority to examine into all nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness...
Page lxxxvii - 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.
Page 309 - In all matters concerning nuisances and waste, where there is not a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law, and may grant injunctions to stay and prevent such nuisances and waste; 3.
Page xxxi - Should typhoid discharges pass into such a privy an outbreak of typhoid fever among those using the water from a neighboring well would be likely to occur. If such a well were the source of the general water supply of a city, typhoid fever might soon be epidemic there.
Page lxxxvi - ... a strong 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 thick. In all cases the outside box must be provided with four iron chest handles.
Page lxxxii - No. 2. 3. Exposure not less than six hours to sulphurous acid gas, made by. burning not less than three pounds of roll sulphur to each 1,000 cubic feet of space. 4.
Page 317 - ... for the exercising of any trade or employment offensive to the inhabitants or dangerous to the public health, and may forbid the exercise thereof in places not so assigned, and may change or revoke such assignments at pleasure ; and whenever a business carried on in any place so assigned or in any other place in the...

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