Manual for the Use of Boards of Health of Massachusetts: Containing the Statutes Relating to the Public Health, the Powers and Duties of the Medical Examiners, and the Registration of Vital Statistics, Together with References to Decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on the SameWright & Potter, 1899 - 274 pages |
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Page 160 - If, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity, as determined by the test laid down In the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary official at the time of investigation...
Page 122 - drug" as .used in this Act, shall include all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term "food...
Page 133 - Whoever by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person, sells, exchanges, or delivers, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell or exchange, or exposes or offers for sale or exchange, adulterated milk, or milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added...
Page 160 - 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 204 - 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 106 - Every factory in which five or more persons are employed, and every factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment or office in which two or more children, young persons or women are employed, shall be kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance...
Page 160 - ... 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 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 : (6.) In the case of...
Page 112 - ... and shall at such time and place as may be designated by the board of examiners hereinafter provided for, to whom such application shall be referred, be examined as to his qualifications for such business. In case of a firm, or corporation, the examination and licensing of any one member of such firm, or the manager of such corporation, shall satisfy the requirements of this act.
Page 160 - If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it.
Page 184 - February, transmit to the secretary of the Commonwealth, certified copies of the records of the births, marriages, and deaths, which have occurred therein during the year ending on the last day of the preceding December.