The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-03-27
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ises public highways or elsewhere; and
shall examine and report on market houses
and butcher stalls and any other matters that
may, in the opinion of said health officer have
tendency to iniuriously affect the public
health; and it shall be the duty of the county
board OF health to report TO the board of
supervisors such matters as are of Importance
and require the attention of the board of
supervisors, and also to recommend, from time
to time, to the board of supervisors, all meas
ures that in the opinion of the county board
OF health, will tend to prevent epidemic,
endemic or contagious diseases or that will
improve the public health.
SEC. l6 Be It further enacted That in
all cases where such county board of health
may make report of any matter in their
county calculated in their opinion, to produce
or to aggravate cause the spread of any
epidemic, endemic or contagious disease or to
cause typhoid fever or other disease, or in any
way inuriously affect public health, the board
OF supervisors of such county may declare
the same nuisance, and upon their request,
it shall be the duty of the district attorney of
that district to Immediately commence pro-
ceedings by an information in the name of the
State In the circuit court of the county, TO
have the same abated as nuisance; and if,
III the opinion of the board of supervisors, the
same is urgent the said board shall so state
in their order, and in that case the Judge of
the circuit court of such district may try the
ested, IN VACATION and may suppress the same
as a nuisance, allowing all the rights of appeal
and writs of error as in other cases tried i'll the
proper court at term time; but it shall be in
the power of such judge to grant said
appeal or writ of error without supersedeas,
if, in his opinion, the matter is urgent and the
public health would be injuriously affected by
granting the supersedeas.
SEC. II. Be II further enacted, That the
county board of health shall have power to
make all rules deemed needful for enforced
vaccination, for compelling reports to the
health officer of cholera, yellow fever, scarlet
fever, diptheria. measles or small pox, or other
contagious infectious diseases; and said
boards of health shall have power to make all
rules and regulations that they may deem
necessary TO prevent the spread of any such
diseases and may cause persons so affected to
be separated; and may order that families or
establishments of any kind, where such
diseases or any of them supposed to exist,
shall not leave the houses so affected, or shall
be quarantined, and may make such rules as
they may deem necessary for disinfecting
premises where such diseases are or have
been, and for disinfecting clothing or destroy
ing the same; and any person violating such
rules, orders or regulations, shall be fined for
each offence, in any sum not exceeding fifty
dollars, or by imprisonment in the county
Jail not exceeding one month, or by both such
fine and Imprisonment.
SEC. Is. BE 1t JuFtheT enacted, That IN all
cases where the State board Of health may be
OF the opinion that there is in any county in
this State anything calculated to cause the
spread of disease, they may request the dis
trict attorney of the district in which the
same may be, to have the same suppressed as
a nuisance, and shall state whether or not, in
their opinion, the same is urgent, and there
upon such district attorney may Immediately
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ceedings shall be had as in cases where the
request was made by the board of supervisors
of any county
SEC. 10. Be 1t further enacted, That all in
corporated towns in this State shall have the
power to pass sanitary laws and to create
boards of health, and to suppress as nuisances
anything that is dangerous to the public
health, with full powers of enforcing ordinan-
ces for re gstration and mortuary statistics.
Sec 20. Be 1t further enacted, That moth
ing in this Act shall repeal the provisions of
an Act entitled, san Act more effectually to
protect the health OF the citizens Of this State"
approved January 81, 1877, relating to the
counties of Harrison, Hancock and jackson.
SEC. 21. Be 1t further enacted, That this
Act take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
APPROVED, March l. 1878,