Annual report of the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Health for the fiscal year ending ... 1890

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State Department of Health, 1892

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Page lvii - No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title...
Page xxix - It is intended that no dead body shall be moved which may be the means of spreading disease; therefore, all disinterred bodies, dead from any disease or cause, will be treated as infectious and dangerous to the public health, and will not be accepted for transportation unless said removal has been approved by the State Board of Health, and the consent of the health authority of the locality to which the corpse is consigned...
Page xxviii - ... (soldered) zinc, copper, or tin case, and all enclosed in a strong outside wooden box of material not less than one inch thick.
Page lxix - Report on Medical Education, Medical Colleges, and the Regulation of the Practice of Medicine in the United States and Canada, 1765-1891.
Page lx - An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases, provided that no vessel or vehicle coming from any foreign port or country where any contagious or infectious disease exists, or any vessel or vehicle conveying persons...
Page 271 - ... 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 lxv - Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the year 1851, under the direction of George Biddell Airy, Esq.
Page xxviii - RULE 2. The bodies of those who have died of Diphtheria, Anthrax, Scarlet Fever, Puerperal 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 xxviii - ... casket, hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong, tight wooden box; or the body...
Page 263 - If any person shall knowingly sell any kind of diseased, corrupted or unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink, without making the same fully known to the buyer...

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