Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-25

Gil and submit to the council the repor
of said physician and such other facts In
relation thereto ss may have come to hi
knowledget e4 s
Sec. 8. The city council shall, if the,
deem it necessary or expedient. estAhllsf
not more than five miles from tile city
small pox hospital and may employ some
regular phvsician to attend the patti emit
in said hospital and said physician i
hereby authorized and empowered to EN-
plcy such nurses and attendants at such
hospital as he msy deem necessary.
Sec. 4. The city council may employ
persons to take any person or persons Ia
boring under the disease o. small pox OF
any OF the symptoms thereof or any. per
son who has had communication or inter.
course with any person laboring under
the disease aforesaid, who has entered the
CITY Of Mexico within twenty days there
after, without using the necessary precau-
tion te prevent the spread OF said disease,
to the hospital provided for 10 the pre-
cseding sestion. and any person taken to
said hospital who shall escape or attempt
to escape therefroIn without . written per-
NIT from the attending physician. shall be
deemed guilty of q misdemeanor and
upon conviction fined the sum of one hun
dred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 5. The attending physician 1T
said hospital shall not grant a permit to
any person in said hospital who has not
been entirely cured of said disease or
from whom there would be my dangsr If
said person was at large.
Sec. 6, Nothing herein provided shall
prevent any person from remaining at his.
her or their residence while laboring an.
der the disease of small pox, or any Of the
symptoms thereof, or who shall have had
communication or intercourse with any
person laboring under the disease afore-
said and who shall eEter the city or go
from place to place in said city without
using the necessary p~recaution to prevent
the spread of said dis .ase, provided ssid
person or pei son shall, at his. her or
their own expense. have every p%lecaution
required by the physician APPOINTED by
the city, used to prevent the spread Of
said disease.
Sec. 7. 1t shall be the duty of the
MAYER to have arrested and detained any
person or persons who snall have been
reported by the physician appointed by
thu city as lobsring under the aiserse Of
small pox or having any of the symptoms
thereof, or who shall within twenty days
thereafter, have edtered the city or code
from place to place in said city after hav-
IuS udu tnbSsCOafSO OE SouuluHESA tlOu
with any one laboring under said dis ease
without having used the necessary pre-
caution to prevent the spread of said dis
ease.
Sec. s. Every person who shall will
fully and knowingly enter the city of
Mexico while L,boring under the disease
of small pox or any of the symptoms
thereof, or who has had communication
or intercourse Nth any one laboring un-
der said disease without having used the
necessary pr~ecautiOn to prevent the
spread CT said disease, shall De deemed
guilty. of a misds Sun and fined the
sum of one hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. g.. Amy person violating any of
the provisions oft1is ordnance shall be
deemed guilty of u misdem sanor and upon
conviction fined not less than fifty nor
exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 10. The cost and expense incurr-
ed by the city in removing, earring and
providing for any person laboring under
or having any OF the symptoms OF said
disease shall be Maid by SAID person.
Passed January Sd, 1877.
r. Ii. FOWLER, Mayor.