health-officer

This was basically a realistic ordinance, one the first great health-officer Moses knew well, when he led his people for forty years across deserts where such pale tender meat would rot in minutes, if by chance a pig could have lived there long enough to be edible.

Cardiac 2009

When the health-officer came on board, each person was inspected as to his sanitary condition, and then left to excited crowds, who delivered their solicitations for patronage in excellent Spanish mixed with a little broken English.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Various

A salute of twenty-one guns and an address of welcome from the health-officer at once assured him that he came to us, not to be pitied as a defeated refugee, but to receive all honor due a conquering hero.

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

We had not lain a day at the anchorage when the fright of the Corfiotes at our proximity, as great as if we had the plague on board, caused a popular demonstration against us, and the health-officer coming off in a boat ordered us from a distance to move off to the lazaretto island.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

The panic on shore increased to such a point that Woodley and the health-officer had a quiet consultation, and it was agreed to give us pratique immediately.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

Of course this view was scientifically shattered two or more decades ago by our recognition of the infectious nature of these diseases, but practically its hold on the public mind constitutes one of the most serious and vital obstacles in the way of the health-officer when he endeavors to attack and break up an epidemic of measles, whooping-cough, or chicken-pox.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

Then, in the persons of a scandalized health-officer, a naval captain,

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

Miss Mohun came back in the dark after a long day, for once in her life quite jaded, and explaining that the health-officer and the landlord had been by no means agreed, and that nothing could be done till Sir Jasper came home and decided whether to retain the house or not.

Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The health-officer came on board, and by this time it was after sunrise.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

The health-officer presently gives us _pratique_, and we welcome the good 'monopolist,'

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855