Excerpt from Manual for the Use of Boards of Health of Massachusetts: Containing the Statutes Relating to the Public Health, the Medical Examiner Laws, the Laws Relating to the Registration of Vital Statistics, and the Directions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts Relating to the Same This Manual of the Statutes of Massachusetts relative to Public Health has been prepared at the direction of the State Board of Health, for the use of local boards and for all per sons directly interested in questions which pertain to public health. It is not an annual publication, but is issued by the Board at such intervals as occasion may demand. A former manual prepared in 1882 followed quite closely through the first ninety-six sections the numbering employed in the Public Statutes. In consequence of the introduction of many new statutes, enacted since 1882, and the repeal of others, such numbering has necessarily been abandoned in the later editions, and the chapter and section is given in connec tion with each section. The statutes and the decisions of the supreme court have both been subjected to careful scrutiny with reference to the accuracy of their presentations, and much irrelevant material hasbeen omitted and new and more important material added. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.