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 : with references to decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared under the direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Massachusetts.
Date:
1903
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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 : with references to decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared under the 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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    as determined by the latest national or state census at least one member of the board, unless composed of the selectmen, shall be a physician. 1S94, 218; 473, § 1. 1895, 506, §§ 2,3. 1898, 548, § 334. Town board Section 343. The election of the board of health manner of shall be by ballot, election. Rev. Laws, 75. Section 12. The board of health in towns which have according Town board *° *ne latest census more than five thousand inhabitants of health, shall send an annual report of the deaths in such town report of to the state board of health upon forms to be prescribed deaths to. ^y sai<j state board. 1894, 218. 1897,428, § 2. Section 13. The board of health in a city or town may appoint an agent or agents to act for it in cases of emergency or if it cannot „ , , be conveniently assembled; and any such agent shall Town board J . J ., . of health, have all the authority which the board appointing him agents of. ^ad ; but he shall in each case report his action to the board within two days for its approval, and shall be directly respon- sible to it and under its direction and control. An agent who is appointed to make sanitary inspections may make complaint of vio- lations of any law, ordinance or by-law relative to the public health in a city or town. 1866, 271. 1879, 75. P. S. 80, § 16. It is not necessary that a complaint to recover the forfeiture provided by the Pub. Stats., chap. 80, sect. 21 (Rev. Laws, chap. 75, sect. 67), for permit- ting a nuisance to remain on the premises after the time prescribed by the board of health of the town for its removal, should be made by the town treasurer, but it may be made by an agent of the board of health, appointed under the Pub. Stats., chap. 80, sect. 16 (Rev. Laws, chap. 75, sect. 13). An omission in a complaint, under the Pub. Stats., chap. 80, sect. 21 (Rev. Laws, chap. 75, sect. 67), for permitting a nuisance to remain on the prem- ises after the time prescribed by the board of health of the town for its re- moval, to allege that the complainant is an agent of the board of health, he being in fact such agent, is at most a formal defect, which can be availed of only by a motion to quash. Commonwealth v. Alden, 143 Mass. 113. A notice issued, under Pub. Stats., chap. 80, sect. 21 (Rev. Laws, chap. 75, sect. 67), by the board of health of a town to the occupant of certain prem- ises, ordering him to remove the nuisance existing thereon, maybe served by a constable, although he is a member of the board of health and signs the notice. Commonwealth v. Alden, 143 Mass. 113. Section 14. The board of health of a town shall publish all regulations made by it in a newspaper of its town, or, if there is no Notice of such newspaper, shall post them up in a public place regulations. in the town. Such publication or posting shall be notice to all persons. 1816, 44, §§ 3,11. R. S. 21, § 8. G. S. 26, § 6. P. S. SO, § 19. 98 Mass. 443.