Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Maryland for the Year Ending ..., Volume 7King Bros., 1888 - Public health |
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Page 186 - ... of any well, spring or other source of water used for drinking or culinary purposes, unless the surface of such vault, cesspool or reservoir is at a lower level than the bottom of such well.
Page 456 - Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine within the meaning of this act, who shall profess publicly to be a physician and to prescribe for the sick, or who shall append to his name the letters of "MD...
Page 189 - Health ; and for the purposes of this section, the keeper of a hotel, inn or other house for the reception of lodgers, shall be deemed to let or hire part of a house to any person admitted as a guest into such hotel, inn or house.
Page 184 - No person or company shall erect or maintain any manufactory or place of business dangerous to life or detrimental to health, or where unwholesome, offensive, or deleterious odors, gas, smoke, deposit, or exhalations are generated, within one mile of the limits of any city or borough, without the permit of the board of health of said city or borough ; and all such establishments shall be kept clean and wholesome so as not to be offensive or prejudicial to public health...
Page 188 - There shall not be a public or church funeral of any person who has died of Asiatic cholera, smallpox, typhus fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever or measles, and the family of the deceased shall in all such cases limit the attendance to as few as possible, and take all precautions possible to prevent the exposure of other persons to contagion or infection...
Page 183 - Commonwealth; and the keeping and slaughtering of all cattle, sheep and swine, and the preparation and keeping of all meats, fish, birds or other animal food, shall be in the manner best adapted to secure and continue their wholesomeness as food; and every butcher or other person owning, leasing or occupying any place, room or building wherein any cattle, sheep or swine have been or are killed or dressed, and every...
Page 331 - ... any smell, and especially if the odor is in the least repulsive, the water should be rejected for domestic use. By heating the water to boiling, an odor is evolved sometimes that otherwise does not appear. Taste. Water fresh from the well is usually tasteless, even though it may contain a large amount of putrescible organic matter. Water for domestic use should be perfectly tasteless, and remain so even after it has been warmed, since warming often develops a taste in water which is tasteless...
Page 1 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, especially of epidemics, the source of mortality and the effects of localities.
Page 183 - ... offensive matter to be removed therefrom at least once in every twenty-four hours, after the use thereof for any of the purposes herein referred to, and shall also at all times keep all wood work, save floors and counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid thoroughly painted or whitewashed...
Page 188 - Whenever any householder knows that any person within his family or household has a communicable disease, dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately report the same to the school board (or borough council), giving the street and number, or location of the house.