Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, Volume 19Wright & Potter., 1888 |
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1887 estimated 272 gallons adulteration Air sample taken albuminoid albuminoid ammonia algæ ammonia amount analyses Applied water article of food average Barom Board of Health Boston breathing line brook butter carbonic acid cellar cent Charles River chemical chlorine color contained cubic feet dealers diphtheria discharge disease drainage effluent emulsion examined feet per hour filter gallery filtering bed flues Food and Drug free ammonia gallons gallons of water green algae Humid inches inlets inspectors lard Loss on Ignition Lower Room manufacture margarine Massachusetts milk nitrates number of deaths Number of samples oleo oil oleomargarine outlets Percentage below standard pipe pond population pounds present provisions pumped quantity Red Rock Street reservoir residue retail River sanitary scholars School sewage sewer sewerage small-pox sold stove Sudbury River surface tank temperature tion Total deaths United States Pharmacopoeia Upper Room ventilation water supply
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Page 219 - 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.
Page 281 - ... to that effect, that he had no reason to believe at the time when he sold it that the article was otherwise, and that he sold it in the same state as when he purchased it...
Page 219 - 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 pharmacopoeia, 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 below the professed standard under which it is sold...
Page 219 - An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act...
Page 220 - Act, shall furnish to any person interested, or demanding the same, who shall apply to him for the purpose, and shall tender him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the analysis of any such drug or article of food which is in his possession.
Page 95 - ... pollution thereof, in order to protect and develop the rights and property of the Commonwealth therein and to protect the public health. It shall have authority to conduct experiments to determine the best practicable methods of purification of drainage and sewage or disposal of the same.
Page 219 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 220 - Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food, if each and every package sold or offered for sale be distinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds, with the name and per cent of each ingredient therein, and are not injurious to health.
Page xxiv - Resolved, That it is the sense of the National Conference of State Boards of Health that it is the duty of each State, provincial and local board of health in any locality in which said diseases may at any time occur, to furnish immediately information of the existence of such diseases to boards of health of neighboring and provincial States and to the local board in such States as have no State board. 2.
Page 219 - 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...