Annual report of the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Health for the fiscal year ending ... 1889

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State Department of Health, 1890
 

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Page 283 - ... and shall have full equity jurisdiction, according to the usage and practice of courts of equity, in all other cases, where there is not a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law.
Page xxxiv - Agents will require an affidavit from the shipping undertaker, stating how body has been prepared and kind of coffin or casket used, which must be in conformity with Rule 2.
Page xxxiv - 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 xxxv - ... not be accepted for transportation unless said removal has been approved by the State Board of Health, and the consent of the health...
Page 277 - an extraordinary writ issued out of equity enjoining a threatened Injury to property or property rights, where there Is not a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law.
Page 268 - SECTION 1. — The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the board of health of each city, village and township may, at any time, direct its health officer or health physician to offer vaccination, with bovine vaccine virus, to every child not previously vaccinated, and to all other persons who have not been vaccinated within the preceding five years, without cost to the persons [person] va'ccinated, but at the expense of such city, village, or township, as the case may be.
Page 155 - ... may appoint the supervisor or some other person as such health officer. The board of health shall establish his salary or other compensation, and shall regulate and audit all fees and charges of persons employed by them in the execution of the health laws and of their own regulations. Within thirty days after the annual township...
Page 150 - It shall be lawful for any person, being the owner of any negroes or mulattoes of and above the age of fifteen years, and owing service and labor as slaves in any of the states or territories of the United States, or for any citizen of the United States purchasing the same, to bring the said negroes or mulattoes into this territory.
Page 242 - ... per cent of the males and 58 per cent of the females recovered before the* thirty-fifth day of sickness. The average duration was: — males 34 days, females 33 days.
Page 211 - The room into which one sick with Diphtheria is placed should previously be cleared of all needless clothing, carpets, drapery, and other materials likely to harbor the poison of the disease. This room should constantly receive a liberal supply of fresh air, without currents or drafts directly upon the patient. It will be well also to have the sun shine directly into the room. 3.

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