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Insanity-Variety and mode of death.

Intermittent Fever Variety, as Quotidian, Tertian, etc.
Jaundice-Cause.

Malarial Fever―Variety.

Malignant Pustule-Location and cause; whether probably dependent on contagion or not.

Malformation (Congenital)—Variety.

Metritis-Variety and cause; whether Puerperal or not.

Necrosis and Caries-Seat, original cause, and mode of death. +Ovarian Tumor-Mode of death; whether operation.

Paralysis-Variety and cause.

*Peritonitis-Variety, whether Simple, Puerperal, Traumatic, etc., and if the last, how produced.

Phlebitis-Cause, seat, and variety.

*Pyœmia—Cause, nature of antecedent injury, if any, and how pro

duced.

*Premature Birth-Probable cause; foetal age.

Preternatural or Abnormal Birth-Manner of.

Small-Pox-How often and when patient vaccinated, or if never.
Syphilis-Variety, chief location, and mode of death.

* Tetanus-Whether Idiopathic or Traumatic; nature of antecedent injury, if any, and how produced.

†Tumor-Location, variety, and mode of death; whether operation. Ulcers-Nature, chief location, and mode of death.

Uræmia-Cause or associate affection; whether Puerperal. *Wounds-Cause, variety, seat, and mode of death.

Mention Intemperance whenever recognized as having produced or complicated the direct cause of death. Give as many particulars as possible in instances of rare diseases, such as Hydrophobia, Glanders, etc.

Respectfully submitted.

IRVING A. WATSON,

Sec'y State Board of Health.

APPENDIX:

CONTAINING THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE SANITARY LAWS OF THE STATE ;—

ALSO, THE LAWS RELATIVE TO THE REGISTRATION OF VITAL STATISTICS.

Compiled from the General Laws, and from the Pamphlet Laws of 1869 and 1881.

APPENDIX.

REMOVAL OF NUISANCES.

CHAPTER 111, GENERAL LAWS.

SECTION 1. The health officers may make regulations for the prevention and removal of nuisances, and such other regulations relating to the public health as in their judgment the health and safety of the people may require, which shall take effect when they shall be approved by the selectmen, recorded with such approbation by the town-clerk, and published in some newspaper printed in the town, or copies thereof posted in two or more public places in the town. And any person wilfully violating such regulations shall incur a penalty of ten dollars, to be recovered by the health-officers in the name of the town.

SEC. 2. Health-officers, and each of them, shall inquire into all nuisances and other causes of danger to the public health, and whenever they shall know, or have cause to suspect, that any nuisance or other thing injurious to the public health is in any building, vessel, or enclosure, they shall make complaint under oath to some justice, who shall issue a warrant directed to them to search such building, vessel, or enclosure; and they may in the day-time forcibly enter therein and make such search.

SEC. 3. The health-officers may notify the owner or occupier of any building, vessel, or inclosure to remove or destroy any nuisance or other thing therein deemed by them on examination to be injurious to the public health within a time limited; and, in case such owner or occupier, after such notice in writing given to him or left at his abode, shall neglect to comply therewith, the

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