Manual for the Use of Boards of Health of Massachusetts: Containing the Statutes Relating to the Public Health and the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts Relating to the Same

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Page 63 - Of the members of the commission first appointed one shall hold office for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of five years, from and after his appointment.
Page 94 - In the case of food: (1) If 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...
Page 69 - In the case of drugs, — (1.) If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein ; (2.) If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia but which is found in some other pharmacopeia, 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 falls...
Page 94 - If it is colored, coated, polished, or powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is. (7) If it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health.
Page 77 - ... adulterated milk, or milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added...
Page 90 - No dealer in milk, and no servant or agent of such a dealer, shall sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or possession, with intent to sell, exchange, or deliver...
Page 77 - ... by fine of not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days; and for subsequent offence, by fine of fifty dollars and by imprisonment in the house of correction for not less than sixty nor more than ninety days.
Page 68 - ... as a regular branch of study to all pupils in all schools which are supported wholly or partly by public money, except schools which are maintained solely for instruction in particular branches.
Page 81 - Whoever, by himself or his agents, sells, exposes for sale, or has in his possession with intent to sell, any article, substance or compound, made in imitation or semblance of butter, or as a substitute for butter, and not made exclusively and wholly of milk or cream, or containing any fats, oils or grease not produced from milk or cream, shall have the words
Page 14 - ... respecting articles which are capable of containing or conveying infection or contagion, or of creating sickness, brought into or conveyed from its town, or into or from any vessel.

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