Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island. 1891

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E. L. Freeman, 1892

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Página 251 - SECTIONS 1, 2, and 3 show what kindred persons cannot marry, and declare marriages within prohibited degrees null and void. SECTION 4 makes an exception in favor of Jews, within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity allowed by their religion.
Página 249 - No undertaker or other person shall conduct a funeral, or bury or deposit in a tomb, or remove from this State or otherwise dispose of the remains of any deceased...
Página 170 - SEC. 8. The governor shall provide a suitable office for the board in the city of Providence, and the actual expenses of the board and of the members thereof, when certified by the chairman and approved by the governor, shall be paid from the state treasury. SEC. 9. The board shall make a report in print to the general assembly, annually, of its proceedings during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, with such suggestions in relation to the sanitary laws and interests...
Página 247 - December next preceding, accompanying the same with a list of the persons required by law to make returns to them, who have neglected to do so, and with such remarks relating to the object of this chapter as they may deem important to communicate. SEC. 2. The secretary of the state board of health shall receive the returns made in pursuance of the preceding section, and annually make a general abstract and report thereof, in form as...
Página 169 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health...
Página 248 - ... second, third, or other marriage, the occupation, birthplace, and name of their parents, and the time of recording, so far as the same can be ascertained. The record of deaths shall state the date of...
Página 253 - ... for neglect or refusal on the part of the husband, being of sufficient ability, to provide necessaries for the subsistence of his wife...
Página 254 - In case of such divorce, the court may assign to the petitioner a separate maintenance out of the estate or property of the husband or wife, as the case may be, in such manner, and of such amount as they may think necessary or proper.
Página 135 - Wilful desertion for five years of either of the parties, or for a shorter period, in the discretion of the court. 4. Continued drunkenness. 5.
Página 249 - Undertakers and others making returns of death as required by sections six and eight of this chapter, shall receive for each full report of a death made to the town clerk five cents in the cities of Providence and Newport, and ten cents in the other towns of the state.

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