The department of health is authorized and directed to investigate any conditions associated with any case or suspected case of, or the spread of, the disease known as anterior poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis in this state and, as far as possible, to aid in the suppression of that disease.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-6-7
Investigation and suppression of poliomyelitis
P.L. 1911, ch. 728, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 153, § 19; G.L. 1938, ch. 255, § 16; impl. am
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