Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-23
the health and improved sanitary condi-
ton of the city.


Sec. IA. 1t shall be the further duty of
| the Health officer to visit and examine or
| cause to have visited and examined, all
sick persons who shall be reported to him
| as laboring or supposed to be laboring
under any yellow or ship fever, smallpox,
cholera, or any infections or pestilential
| disease and cause all such infected per
sons to be removed to the pest house or to
such other safe and proper place as he
may think proper not exceeding three
miles from said city, and cause them to be
provided with suitable nurses and medical
attendance at their own expense if they
are able to pay for the same, but if not,
then at the expense of the city.
Sec. 15. The Health officer shall have
charge of the city quarantine or smallpox
hospital and shall have power to employ
such assistants and nurses as he may deem
necessary and it shall be his duty to see
that said hospitals are supplied with suita-
bic furniture, nourishment, fuel and med
icines, and that persons dying therein
or in other places under the
charge of the city, are decently
and promptly buried at the expense of the
city, provided such deceased persons have
not the means to defraY their own ex-
penses of sickness or burial.
Sec. Is. In case of pestilence or cpl
dem1c disease, or of danger from antici-
pated or impending pestilence or epidemic
disease, or an case the sanitary condition of
the city should be of such character as to
warrant it, it shall be the duty of the said
Health Officer to take such measures and to
do and order and cause to be done such
acts for the preservation of the public
health Though not herein o. elsewhere or
otherwise authorized) as he may in good
faith declare the public safety and health
to demand
Sec. II. The Health Officer may take
such measures as he may from time to
time deem necessary to prevent the spread
of the smallpox by issuing an order re-
curing all persons in the city or any part
thereof, requiring vaccination, to be vac
cinated within such time as he shall pre-
scribe; and ii | persons refusing or
neglecting to obey such order shall
be liable to the penalty here
matter specified. Provided, that it shall
be the duty Of he Health Officer to pro
vide for the Vaccination OF such persons
as are unable pay for the same, at the
expense of the city.
Sec. Is. He shall have power to cause
any house or any premises to be cleaneed,
disinfected, Or closed to visitors, and pre-
vent persons from Jesorting thereto while
any person is laboriug under any pesti-
lential or infectious disease; he may by an
order in writing, direct any nuisance to be
abated, or unwholesome matter or sub
stance, dirt or filth, to be removed from
any house or premises, and may prescribe
the time and mode of doing so, and take
any other measures he may deem neces-
sary and proper to prevent the spread of
any infectious, pestilential or epidemic
disease.
Sec. 10. Said Health Officer whenever
and at such times as by him
it shall be deemed necessary. may
by proclamation the approval of the Com
mon Council being first had and obtained)
require all boats, vessels, railroad cars or
other public conveyaDces bound for this
city, befuie the same shall land or stop
at any wharf, depot or landing, or stop
ping place therein, to touch or stop at any
Or either of the sites, places or boundaries
SO selected and established for quarantine
purposes and leave all such emigrants,
travellers or persons, and all such sick, dis
eased or unclean persons with their stores
and baggage, as in the opinion of the Off
GERS stationed at such quarantine sites,
places Or boundaries shall be deemed
proper, on account of the existence or gen.
eral report of cholera, ship fever or any
contagious disease, or disease apprehended,
to endanger the health of the city
Sec. 20. Whenever it shall be deemed
necessaryto issue such proclamation,i it shall
be the duty of the said Health Officer to
send the same, together with the substance
of the regulations for quarantine, and the
period for which the same shall be In
force, unless sooner revoked, to Chicago,
st. Louis, Fargo, Duluth, Milwau-
kee, Saltwater, Sioux City, Mime
apoiis and such other cities
and places as by him shall be deemed
proper.
Sec. 81. He shall also cause to be sta
toned at such quarantine sites, places and
boundaries as he may deem advisable one
or more physicians or assistant health in
spector, whose duty it shall be to 60 on
board and examine ali boats, vessels, cars
or other public conveyances, so as afore-
said required to touch or stop at said quar-
antines respectively, and then and there
determine what emigrants, passengers or
persons (if any shall be permitted to
come to the city, and what emigrants, pas
sengers or persons (if any shall stop at
such quarantine; and it shall be the duty
of ali persons conducting or in charge OF
any such vessel, boat, car or public convey
ance, TO aid and assist any such physician
or health officer in the exercise of his
duties.
Sec. %. Said physician or assistant
health inspector shall attend to all sick
persons who may be landed or placed in
quarantine, and provide medicines and
necessaries for their use. end shall have
general supervision of such guarantees
and compel persons therein to purify their
bodies, clothes and baggage, and do all
such acts and things as shall be proper in
the premises, keeping correct accounts of
all expenditures and wages which shall be
allowed and paid Ey order of the Board of
Health.
Sec. %. Whenever the physician or
officer IN charge of any quarantine station
or place as aforesaid, shall, upon examina-
ton, be satisfied that there is no longer
occasion for the detention of any boat.
vessel, car or conveyance at such qtaran-
tine or place, and such boat, vessel, car or
conveyance shall have been thoroughly
cleansed, and such persons as aforesaid
landed and placed in the care of such
physici or officer, such physician or Off
I oh.