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Page 11 - No person shall knowingly let any room, house or part of a house in which there has been a person suffering from...
Page 4 - That disease, over which science has since achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories, was then the most terrible of all the ministers of death. The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid : but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory ; and the...
Page 2 - Department's orders issued by the Commissioner constitutes a misdemeanor and is punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. Such are the powers conferred by these respective acts. Previous legislation provided for the organization of local Boards of Health in cities, boroughs and townships of the first-class. A few of the larger cities were already doing effective work. The smaller boroughs and towns were doing nothing except in times when smallpox became epidemic, when spasms of activity would be...
Page 8 - ... of communciable diseases and pestilence from foreign countries. Thus we have a state system of sanitary administration, complete and symmetrical; its head at the seat of power in the State, untrammeled in the exercise of authority, reaching down through the subdivisions of county and township to the people, and a department in daily touch with every nook and corner of the State through its faithful allies, the physicians of the Commonwealth.
Page 10 - On close observation it will be seen that the burrow is dark gray or blackish in color, thread-like, and may be slightly more elevated at one end. It is in this that the eggs are, deposited and the elevated end of the burrow usually contains the female, which in the vast majority of instances has already perished. As the mite extends its channel into deeper portions of the skin and as they hatch, the young feed upon the surrounding tissues; when fully grown they wander out and mate on the surface...