Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Wisconsin for the Year Ending ...

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Wisconsin State Board of Health, 1887
 

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Página 5 - That it is the sense of the National Conference of State Boards of Health that it is the duty of each State, provincial and local board of health in any locality in which said diseases may at any time occur, to...
Página 70 - ... metallic coffin or is encased with an abundance of powerful disinfectants according to the written or printed directions of said public health authority, so as to render the same entirely innocuous, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than twenty days, nor more than one hundred...
Página 24 - Their action Is Intended to be prompt and summary. They are clothed with extraordinary powers for the protection of the community from noxious Influences affecting life and health, and It Is Important that their proceedings should be embarrassed and delayed as little as possible by the necessary observance of formalities.
Página 176 - Not one of the transmitted wrongs, physical or mental, is more certainly passed on to those yet unborn than the wrongs which are inflicted by alcohol.
Página 5 - ... information thereon not being obtainable from the proper health authorities, this Conference recommends that the health officials of one State shall be privileged and justified to go Into another State for the purpose of investigating and establishing the truth or falsity of such reports. 3.
Página 76 - It will thus be seen that the plea of rights acquired by virtue of prior possession, even long continued, has no force as against the rights of those resident or doing business in the neighborhood to do so in comfort; nor is it necessary to show that actual jeopardy to life or health exists. " Slaughter houses are regarded as prima facie nuisances, and their existence so near to dwellings as to prevent their comfortable enjoyment is an actionable injury.
Página 60 - February 1, 1886 WF ATWELL, MD, Medford, Wis. DEAR SIR: — Your favor of the 28th ult. came duly to hand. At date of reception the Board was in session at Madison, to which place samples of the meat said to have caused the disease were forwarded . " Probably the method best adapted to secure safety is that of warning all persons concerned against eating raw or uncooked pork at any time or under any circumstanws.
Página 171 - Its origin is hereditary, like that of other diseases. ' For if a phlegmatic person be born of a phlegmatic, and a bilious of a bilious, and a phthisical of a phthisical, and one having spleen disease, of another having disease of the spleen, what is to hinder it from happening that where the father and mother were subject to this disease, certain of their offspring should be so affected also ? As the semen comes from all parts of the body, healthy particles will come from healthy parts, and unhealthy...
Página 75 - Carrying on an offensive trade for any number of years, in a place remote from buildings and public roads, does not entitle the owner to continue it in the same place after the houses have been built and roads laid out in the neighborhood, to the occupants of which and the travellers upon which, it is a nuisance.
Página 41 - Instances of the occurren e of diphtheria in the vicinity of partially dried mill-ponds have also been reported, but in these cases there was not clear and definite knowledge of the absence of contagion as a factor. Somewhat similar reports have been made in other reports of Health Boards, the earliest and most circumstantial of which, so far as I know, is to be found in the report of the State Board of Health of California, for 1884-6, from Dr. GM Kober, USA, who gives the following instance among...

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