...together with a plan for a national public-health organization. By section 4 of tho act of June 2, 1879, entitled " An act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States," said board is required to make to the Secretary of the Treasury an annual report of its operations,...

...United States, State and local authorities engaged in the preparation of such statistics. 5. That the Act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States should be so amended, that, in order to enforce the penalties provided for vessels which shall enter...

...United States, State, and local authorities engaged in the preparation of such statistics. 5. That the Act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States should be so amended, that, in order to inforce the penalties provided for vessels which shall enter...

...United States, State, and local authorities engaged in the preparation of such statistics. 5. That the Act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States should be so amended, that, in order to inforee the penalties provided for vessels which shall cuter...

...3, 1879, an Act was approved by Congress " to prevent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the United States, and to establish a National Board of Health." Since June, 1879, a weekly bulletin has been issued by this Board, which is now in full working order....

...insisted upon the necessity for national quarantine. Accordingly, an act was passed, approved June 2d, to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States — in other words, a National Quarantine Act. Besides its quarantine features, however, this act authorized...

...insisted upon the necessity for national quarantine. Accordingly, an act was passed, approved June 2d,to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States — in other words, a National Quarantine Act. Besides its quarantine features, however, this act authorized...

...distrust exists as to our entire system of quarantine. The United States Congress passed, June 2d, 1879, an Act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States, which makes it a penal offence for vessels from infected or suspected ports to enter -any port, or...

...municipal boards of health, in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations of such boards to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States from foreign countries, and into one State from another." A code of rules and regulations was also...

...2C2. March 3, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 484. AN ACT TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF INFECTIOUS OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES INTO THE UNITED STATES, AND TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH. SKCTION 1. National Board of Health established ; members, compensation, &o. — meetings, president...