Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the powers and duties of the medical examiners, and the registration of vital statistics, together with references to decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Massachusetts.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the powers and duties of the medical examiners, and the registration of vital statistics, together with references to decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Salary of sec- retary. EzpenBea of board and office. Certain general powers and duties of the Btate board of health. MANUAL OF HEALTH LAWS. necessary, elect one of the members secretary pro tempore who may in the absence or disability of the secretary per- form the duties of that officer. The secretary shall receive from the treasury an annual salary of three thousand dol- lars and his necessary travelling expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. No member of the board shall receive any compensation ; but the actual personal expenses of any member while engaged in the duties of the board shall be paid from the treasury, after they have been audited by the board. All other necessary expenses arising in the secretary's oflSce or from the discharge of the duties of the board shall be paid out of the treasury in the same manner as those of the different departments of the government. p. s , 80, § 1. Acts of 1886, 101, § 4. The state board of health shall take cognizance of the interests of health and life among the citizens of the commonwealth. It shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics and the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, and cir- cumstances, on the public health; and shall gather such information in respect to those matters as it may deem proper, for diffusion among the people. It shall ad'sdse the government in regard to the location and other sani- tary conditions of any public institutions. The state board of health was originally established by chap. 420, Acts of 1869. Its powers were subsequently enlarged by chap. 167, Acts of 1871, and chap. 183, Acts of 1878. By chap. 291, Acts of 1879, its powers were transferred to the newly established state board of health, lunacy and charity. By chap. 101, Acts of 1886, the state board of health was re- established, and its powers were still further enlarged by chap. 274, Acts of 1886, and further by chap. 375, Acts of 1888. P. S., 80, § 2. Acts of 1894, 218, § 4. Further duties jf small-pox or auv other contagious or infectious dis- m case of con- i .; o tagiousdiseases, easc dangerous to the public health exists, or is likely to 1879 exist in any place within the state, the state board shall