Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island. 1890

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E. L. Freeman, 1891

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Page 173 - If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia...
Page 173 - Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia or other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work. 3. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which it is sold.
Page 174 - If it is an imitation of, or is sold under the name of, another article. (5) If it consists wholly, or in part, of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted, or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manufactured or not ; or in the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal.
Page 174 - ... any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity ; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it ; (3) If any valuable...
Page 237 - December next preceding, accompanying the same with a list of the persons required by law to make returns to them, who have neglected to do so, and with such remarks relating to the object of this chapter as they may deem important to communicate. SEC. 2.
Page 239 - ... immediately to the town or city clerk or registrar of the town or city in which the death occurred. He shall, also, within two days thereafter, notify the physician last in attendance upon the deceased person of the name and date of death of the same.
Page 174 - ... fine not exceeding fifty dollars for the first offence, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each subsequent offence. SEC. 2. The term " food," as used in this act, shall include every article used for food or drink by man.
Page 193 - Health of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee.
Page 187 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health...
Page 240 - No letters of administration or letters testamentary shall be granted by any court of probate, upon the estate of any person, until the death of such person, or the facts from which the same is presumed...

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