Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-22

rectionS as to modes of management
quarantine and means Tor preventing the
spread of contagious and infectious dis
ease among the people of this state The
secretary shall superintend the perform
ance of the work of the board prescribed
in this act, and shall perform such other
duties as the board shall direct. He shall
in case Of epidemicS, contagious diseases
or other unusual sickness, at the re-
quest of any health officer or local board
of health render such assistance as he
shall judge is for the public safety. He
shall from the reports required by law to
be made to him issue biennIal registration
reports, and shall biennially in the month
of April make a report to the governor Of
the Investigations, discoveries and rec
concentrations of the board, and all facts
in regard to the causes and prevalence
of infectious diseases in the state which
he shall consider important to the pub
lie health, which reports shall be printed
and distributed. as other public documents
are required to be printed and distri-
buted.
Sec. s. The state board of health shall,
as often as it judges to be necessary,
issue to the local boards of health it's
regulations as to the lighting, heating and
ventilation of senoolhouseS, and shall
cause sanitary inspections to be made OF
churches schoolhouses and all places OF
public resort, and make such regulations
concerning the same as it shall deem
necessary for the safety of persons who
may attend schools or services therein or
resort thereto. And all school houses,
churches and public buildings hereafter
erected shall conform to the regulations
of said state board of health in respect
to all sanitary conditions for the public
health, and all persons, corporations or
committees intending to erect any public
building herein named shall submit plans
thereof so far as to show the method of
heating, plumbing, ventilation and sani-
tary arrangements to the health officer,
and procure his approval thereof or the
approval of the state board of health,
before erecting said building, and shall
conform strictly to all requirements OF
said board in the respects aforesaid, and
any person, corporation or committee who
shall erect any such schoolhouse, church.
or public building without such approval
and without complying with such regula-
ton, shall on conviction thereof pay "A
fine to the treasurer of the state Of not
less than one hundred dollars, and not
more than five hundred dollars, and shall
make said building conform to the sani-
tary regulations of said board before the
same shall be used, otherwise said build
ing shall be deemed nuisance, and be
put in proper condition by the health Of
ficer. under direction of the state board
of health, at the expense Of the owner.
The health officer of each town and city
in the state shall make, under directions
of state board of health, sanitary sur
vey of each schoolhouse and other build
ing, used for public purposes, and make
report each year to the state board OF
health in the month of March, and to the
board Of aldermen of cities, and to each
annual March meeting IN towns.
Sec. 9. The state board Of health, upon
the recommendation of the Selectmen OF