Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-05-12
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Contagious Diseases.
CHATTER l6S.
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AN ACT to prevent the spread of
contagious, infectious, and pestilen-
tial diseases
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assem-
bly,, do enact as follows:
SECTION l. Any person who shall
bring, knowingly aid in bringing or
cause to be brought, by railroad,
steamboat, sailing vessel. stage coach
or other public or private conveyance,
into any town, village OF city in State
of Wisconsin, the dead body of a
deceased person, unless such dead
body is accompanied by a written or
printed certificate of a physician or
coroner, clearly stating the cause of
death, and unless, when the cause of
death is SMALLPOX, Diphtheria, Scar
let Fever or other dangerous, conta-
Sious, Infectious or pestilential dis
ease, such dead body is also accompa-
MED by the written or printed permit
of lawfully constituted public
health authority and by the sworn
declaration Of an undertaken in writ
ing, that the body Of the deceased as
aforesaid is Theoretically inclosed IN
air tight metallic coffin or is encased
with an abundance of powerful disin-
fectants according to tie written or
printed directions of said public
health authority SO as to render the
same entirely innocuous shall be deem
guilty of misdemean0r, and on con-
Viction thereof, shall be punished by a
fine not less than fifty dollars. nor
mole than three hundred dollars, or
by Imprisonment in the county jail not
less than twentw days, nor more than
one hundred days.
SECTION .. Ag hts and employees
of incorporated transportation com
panies, and public or private carriers
of whatsoever name or nature, shall
not receive for transportation, nor
transport, the dead body of any per-
son, except on receipt of duly execut-
ed papers showing that the conditions
required by section one of this act
have been complied with, under the
same penalties as therein provided
SECTION 3. Any physician, OF
any person assuming to act as a physi-
elan, who shall issue a false certificate
whereby a case Of Small Pox, Diohth-
era, Scarlet Fever or other dangerous,
contagious, infectious or presidential
disease may be concealed, shall be
deemed guilty. of misdemeanor, and
shall, on conviction thereof, be punish.
ed by fine of not less than fifty dol
lars, nor more than three hundred
dollars, and by Imprisonment in the
county jail not less than twenty DAYS,
nor more than one hundred DAYS: and
the ignorance of an uneducated prac-
titioner of medicine shall nor be plead
ed in justification or extenuation of
| his offense.
SECTION t Any person Knowingly
laboring under Small Pox, Diphtheria,
Scarlet Fever. or other dangerous con-
tagious, infections or pestilential dis
ease, who shall willfully enter public
place or public conveyance or shall
in any way willfully subject others to
danger of contracting his disease or
any person who shall knowingly and
willfully take, aid in taking, or cause
to be ia ken, child or other irrespon-
sible person while laboring nnder any
OF the aforesaid diseases into public
place or public conveyance, or shall in
any way knowingly and willfully sub
Ject others to danger OF contracting