The effect of tuberculosis institutions on the value and desirability of surrounding property / by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.

  • National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (U.S.)
Date:
1914
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Credit: The effect of tuberculosis institutions on the value and desirability of surrounding property / by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Section 319. Consents requisite to the establishments of hospitals or camps for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.—A hospital, camp or other establishment for the treatment of patients suffering from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis, shall not be established in any town by any person, association, corporation or municipality except when authorized as provided by this section. The person, association, corporation or munici- pality proposing to establish such a hospital, camp or other establishment shall file with the state commissioner of health a petition describing the character thereof, stating the county and town in which it is to be located and describing the site in such town for such proposed hospital, camp or other establishment, and requesting the commissioner to fix a date and place for a hearing on such petition before the state commissioner of health and the local health officer, who shall constitute a board to approve or disapprove the establishment of such hospital, camp or other establishment in accordance with such petition. The state commissioner of health shall fix a date and place for a hearing on such petition, which date shall be not less than thirty nor more than forty days after the receipt thereof. A notice of such hearing specifying the date and place thereof and briefly describing the proposed site for such hospital, camp or other establishment shall be mailed to the person, association, corporation or municipality proposing to establish the same and to the health officer and each member of the board of health of the town in which it is proposed to establish such hospital, camp or other establishment at least twenty days before the hearing, and also publish twice in a local newspaper of the town, or if there is no such paper published there, then in the newspapers of the county designated in pursuance of law to publish the session laws. At the time and place fixed for such hearing the state commissioner of health and the local health officer shall hear the peti- tioner and any person who desires to be heard in reference to the location of such hospital, camp or other establishment, and they shall within thirty days after the hearing, if they are able to agree, approve or disapprove of the location thereof and shall notify the person, association, corporation or municipality of their determination. The determination of the state com- missioner of health and local health officer shall be final and conclusive; but if within thirty days after the hearing they are unable to agree, they shall within such thirty days notify the person, association, corporation or municipality, proposing to establish such hospital, camp or other estab- lishment that they are unable to agree. Within ten days after the receipt of such notice, such person, association, corporation or municipality may file in the office of the state commissioner of health a request that the petition be referred to a board consisting of the lieutenant-governor, the speaker of the assembly and the state commissioner of health. Such officers shall ap- prove or disapprove of the proposed location of such hospital, camp or other establishment after a hearing of which notice shall be mailed to the person, association, corporation or municipality proposing to establish the same and to the health officer and to each member of the board of health of the town, or without a hearing, upon the evidence, papers and documents filed with the state commissioner of health or that may be submitted to them, as the board shall determine. They shall make their determination within thirty days after the request for such submission has been filed in the office of the state commissioner of health and cause a copy thereof to be mailed to the person, association, corporation or municipality proposing to establish such hospital, camp or other establishment and to the health officer of the town in which it is proposed to establish the same. Such determination shall be final and conclusive. New Jersey The New Jersey law is significant in that it provides for a somewhat simpler procedure. The State Board of Health is