Excerpt from Manual of the Laws Relating to the Public Health, the Powers and Duties of Boards of Health, State Inspectors of Health, Medical Examiners and Others, and to the Registration of Vital Statistics: With Decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts Relative Thereto This Manual of the statutes of Massachusetts relating to public health con tains all health legislation enacted up to and including the year/1907. It has been prepared for the use of local boards of health, and others directly or indirectly interested in public health problems. Under each section of the laws presented will be found references to such Supreme Judicial Court decisions as may affect it in any way, and in the Appendix the more important of these decisions are given. It has been deemed advisable to exclude those which later legislation or changed condi tions have rendered obsolete. 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.