Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Kansas, Volume 1

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State Board of Health, 1886
 

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Page 14 - The Kansas State Board of Health." Three of said physicians shall be appointed for one year, three for two years, and three for three years ; and annually thereafter...
Page 133 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 23 - An actionable nuisance is said to be anything wrongfully done or permitted which injures or annoys another in the enjoyment of his legal rights.
Page 143 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 181 - The removal of local unsanitary conditions favorable to the development of cholera is the especial work of State and Local Boards of Health. Much has been done already in some States, but much remains which should receive immediate attention. Where it can be done, State Sanitary Inspectors should be appointed to visit all towns and cities specially liable to the disease, to counsel with the local authorities as to the best methods of prevention.
Page 180 - We further recommend, in case of those foreign ports which have no consular agents of this country or no telegraphic communication with this country, and which are liable to transmit pestilence through commercial intercourse, that one or more medical officers be chosen to visit such ports as often as may be deemed necessary by the central health authority in this country, so as to give trustworthy information of the health and sanitary condition of those places.
Page 14 - State; shall keep and file all reports received from such boards, and all correspondence of the office appertaining to the business of the board. He shall so far as possible aid in obtaining contributions to the library and museum of the board.
Page 34 - Ohio, that it shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of said state, who has not attended two full courses of instruction, and graduated at some school of medicine, either of the United States or some foreign country, or, who cannot produce a certificate of qualification from some state or county medical society, and is not a person of good moral character...
Page 15 - Assistant aforesaid, any of the aforesaid sanitary inspectors, and such other officer or person as may at any time be by said Board authorized, may, without fee or hindrance, enter, examine, and survey all grounds, erections, vehicles, structures, apartments, buildings, and places...
Page 180 - Inasmuch as the Dominion of Canada is equally interested with the United States in protecting itself and the United States from the importation of dangerous diseases, we suggest that Congress take such measures as will bring about concerted action with the Dominion and the British government, by which the consuls of this country or of England at foreign ports shall examine and take such action as they may deem effective, and notify the authorities of...

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