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 I. Every hospital, sanitarium, pest house, asylum or other place maintained or conducted for the purpose of caring for or treating per- sons afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease, for or without reward or charge, located within four hundred (400) feet of the dwelling of another person, or within two thousand six hundred forty (2640) feet of a school house or within thirteen hundred twenty (1320) feet of a flowing stream of water, water ditch or open water conduit from which water for domestic pur- poses is taken, is hereby declared to be a menace to the public health and safety, and a public nuisance, and shall be abated by civil action brought in the proper court. Section II. Provides that violation of the foregoing is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $500, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.