Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Wisconsin for the Year Ending ..., Volume 19

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Wisconsin State Board of Health, 1903
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 31 - Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America will be held in Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 10 and 11, 1898. The "quarter centennial celebration of the establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health" will be in progress at the abovenamed time.
Page 171 - As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a water supply must be judged from those conditions that present its worst and most dangerous aspect.
Page 111 - Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending December 31, 1898.
Page 16 - ... hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong, tight wooden box. Or the body being prepared for shipment by disinfecting and wrapping as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket, and said coffin or casket encased in an air-tight zinc, copper, or tin-lined box, all joints and seams hermetically soldered.
Page 114 - Annual Report of the Superintendent of Health, of the city of Providence, for the year ending December 31, 1898.
Page 27 - ... with necessary medical aid and with temporary hospitals for their accommodation and for the accommodation of their nurses and attendants. And the said board may declare any and all of its rules and regulations made in accordance with the provisions of this...
Page 15 - 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.
Page 20 - The Secretary of the Board shall keep a record in which shall be registered the names and residences of all persons to whom certificates (as prescribed) have been granted, and the number and date of the certificates.
Page 17 - 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 97 - That when, in the opinion of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, the interests of the public health would be promoted by a conference of said service with State or Territorial Boards of Health, quarantine authorities, or State Health Officers, the District of Columbia included...

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