Annual report of the Commissioner of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1914 v. 2

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Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1917
 

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Página 882 - An act to preserve the purity of the waters of the State for the protection of the public health," approved the twenty-second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five.
Página 1324 - Meeting of the Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America will be held in Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 10, and n, 1898. The " Quarter- Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health " will be in progress at the above named time.
Página 882 - Under the provisions of the same law, it is the duty of the public authorities having by law charge of the sewer system of every municipality in the State...
Página 991 - Health shall consider the case and whenever it is their unanimous opinion that the general interests of the public health would be subserved thereby, the Commissioner of Health may issue a permit for the discharge of sewage from...
Página 990 - No person, corporation, or municipality shall place, or permit to be placed, or discharge, or permit to flow into any of the waters of the State, any sewage, except as hereinafter provided.
Página 899 - ... of human and animal origin. To preserve their purity absolutely is impossible. The law aims at the protection of waters yet undefiled and the continuing improvement of the present conditions, and the attainment of a degree of practical purity of those now polluted. Measures advanced or instituted under the direction and supervision of the State Department of Health and under the law for the preservation of the purity of the waters of the State...
Página 883 - PETITIONS AND COMPLAINTS. The Commissioner of Health, in addition to the powers conferred by the new law, has all the powers conferred and must perform all the duties heretofore imposed by law upon the former State Board of Health, or any member, committee, or officer thereof, including the Secretary. The. work of supervising the general interests of the health and lives of the citizens of the Commonwealth has been done in part in answer to petitions and complaints and requests for advice.
Página 1174 - ... evidence in this case, we quote the following : "The public water supplies for the two towns, drawn from the Allegheny river, were undoubtedly the source of infection of typhoid fever. The extensive entry of the disease in Kittanning was facilitated by the inexcusable shut-down of the water works filter plant in order to make easier certain repair work. The filter plant, though old and inefficient, is believed to have effected a certain degree of protection.
Página 991 - State board of health- shall consider the case of such a sewer system, otherwise prohibited by this act from discharging sewage into any of the waters of the State, and whenever .it is their unanimous opinion that the general interests of the public health would be subserved thereby, the...
Página 1213 - For the constructing, equipping, and maintaining sanatoria, infirmaries, and dispensaries for the free treatment of indigent persons affected with tuberculosis; and for the maintenance of laboratories for sanitary supervision, isolation, and treatment of indigent persons affected with tuberculosis; and for the preventive education...

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