Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-24
QUARANT1NELAWS
OF THE
Taxing District,

d. - ~
Board Of Health to recommend 70 the fresi
I dent Of the Board of Fire and Police Gem
missioners the es ablishment Of quarantine
/, at such place or places, as the Board OF Pub
Sec. 46I. Immediately after such recon-
incubation IS made, the President OF the
Board Of Fire and Police Commissioners shall
+. convene the board O., Fable norks. wac
By lease or purchase suitable guarantee
J grounds and buildings; and the Legislative
s. Council shall declare BY resolution what
boats and persons aud from what points,
sh ali be subjected to quarantine regulations.
Sec. 262 immediataly thereafter. the Pres
ident Of tho Board Of Fire and Police Com
missioners shall publish hisproelamaion, set
ting forth the action Of the Board Of Health
and that Of the Board Of Public WORKS, and
requiring all persons and boats coming from
any named Injected points, elites or places,
TO be subjected to said quarantine regulations,
under the penalty provided BY this ordinance.
Sec. 26S. No boat subject to quarantine, as
above stated, shall be permitted to land Mt or
in the District or at any point within be
distance 10 be speeihedin the President ofthe
Board of Fire and Police Commissioner
proclamation, except at the quarantine
grounds established as aforesaidi nor shall
any passenger or any freight DO landed except
Sec. Isl. The quarantine grounds, build
inRs, and hospital shall be under the control
of some one or more MUSICIANS. teleoted by
the President of the Board Of tire and Po-
lice Commissioners and the Board Of Health.
aud of such other assistants as the same may
Sec i65. Boats from infected places, aud
subject 70 quarantine as abeve, shall first
land at said quarantine grounds. and shall
undergo inspection and examination by a
physician appointed for that purpose; aud
if found to. be in healthy condition, and
| free from disease, shall receive certificate
to that effect on, the inspecting physician,
and be then permitted to land at the District
wharf In no case shall boats receive said
permission to land at the District wharf m
til all danger Of contagioh or nfectien shall
| have passed. For such inspection and GER
tifcate, each boat shall pay the sum Of ten
dollars.
and land any sick person az said quarantine
hospital, upon the payment by said officers
| oil ten dOllats for each one so landed; and said
/ sick person shall be received and nursed in
said hospital, and shall pay the sum of two
and one; balf dollars ~ ovl per day for such
Sec. 267 If any boat shall be so infected as
| to require it. the inspecting physician shall
have power to cause any freight on such b lat
intended for the District to be frs landed
at the quarantine, to be there kept BY such
assistants and police as shall be appointed
until all danger Of infection or contaeion
| shall have ceased. For landing, inspecting
and keeping said freight, no charge shall be
made; but whom reshlpped or removed to is
de. tinatiOu, IL shsll be at the expense Of the
owner. Tho phvsicilns In attendance at
/ quarantine grounds shall receive each sal
airy, to be fixed by the Legislative Council;
and all fees for inspection and for other
services, except attendance on the sick, shall
Sec. rs The President Of the Board Of
Fire and Police Commissioners shall have
power, and it shall be his dut upon the
recommendation of the Board of Health. To-
i remove to the quarantine grounds or hos
p tai, any and all boats lying AZ the District
wharf, or to some point not within five miles
of the District.
Sec. 269 While quarantine regulations are
enforced, no dead body. nor any SICK person,
| shall be put of from any boat in tue District,
or at any point wi hin FIVE miles thereof, ex-
cept at the qua autine grounds or hospital,
without the permission of the President of
| the Board of Fire and Police Comm ssioners,
and some one member ofthe Board Of Health,
under penalty OF fifty dollars tor each Of
feose; and for each and all other viola ions
of this article, foe shall be imposed of not
more than fifty dollars 10 be recovered By
seizure of the boat, arrest of persons, or by
convif tion before the President of the Board
of Fire and Polite Commissioners, as in other
cases Of misdemeanor.
QUARANTINE STATION AUTHORIZED, AND REG
| ULATl0Es THsREFOR PROVIDED.
| Sec. go. That there shall be established
/ bLdllOu w lub ulbblhblpDl river
| &c such point as may be found most eonve'
nient for the purpose, not moro than ten DO
miles south of the District, and nearer, if
possible; and TO that purpose, the President
of tue Board Of ire and Police Commits
al 1ners, and the President of the Board of
Health, aud the Engineer, are hereby EN-.
powered to select and lease or purchase, in
accordance with the provisions Of the act es-
tablishing this District, not more than ten
acres of land, and to contract for and have
erected suitable buildings, with necessary
furniture, etc., for the purpose OF quar-
antine station; the whole not to exceed FIVE
thousand dollars in co t.
Sec III. When laid grounds are purchased
ard the BUILDINGS are erected and furnished,
they shall be under the direction aud con-
troll Of the Board Of Health, and Whenever
the said Board of Health may be satisfied
hat yellow fever or other contagious or in.
tecti0us diseases are prevailing at any point,
aud likely to be spread or disseminated in
the District. they shall 50 infcrm the Presi-
dent OF the Board of Fire and Police COm.
missioners, giving the name of places and Of
tue diseases requiring the establishment o.
quarantine regulations, and the eupon II
| shall DO the duty OF the President Of the
Board Of Fire and Police Commissioners to
Immediately issue his proclamation estab-
fishing a quarantine of all boa 5 or persons
aad freight coming from the infected local.
ties,
Sec. 90 Whenever. by direction of the
Board of Health nd the procla m alton of the
President OF the Board of Fire and Police
Commissioners q quarantine of all boats,
passengers and freight from infected districts
is declared, ii shall ne the duty of the Beard
OF Health to Immediately place competent
physician OF medioa officer at the Quarantine
station to examine boat, their. passengers
or cargoes, and to decide according to the
rules and instru tiOns of the said Board OF
Health, whether or not fuch boats, passen
gers or cargoos shall be permitted to come to
] the District; and i nots0 permitted to come
to the District, such pa scr gers are to be re.
tanned shall be provided with quarters at the
/ quarantine station until such time as they
: are permitted to co into the District; but
may be charged for board and medic atten-
tion By the District for the time they are dc,
tanned at he station. u Sci
Sec. 27S It hall be the duty Of the physi-
clan In charge OF the quarantine station, To
grant permits to persons who have been de-
Jained at the quarantine 81 tion to come into
: the District as soon as the public ga iety will
J admit. and in no case shall persons who asC
days. And cargOes Of freight which may be
; | un lOaded or detained at Quara ntine shall be
disinfected. and forwarded as soon as posi-
BILE. And whenever 1t may be considered
necessary to do so, permits may be granted
J TO steamboats, to pass up the river without
landing or communicating with the District
{ | in any way.
Sec. ga. Any officer. employe or 9th per.
: son on any steamboat that may be subjsct Il
quarantine, under the provisions Of this ar.
| tlcle, who shah refuse u obey the orders OF
the quarantine physician, or shall evade in
any way the orders or regulations of theBoar
Of Health in relation TO quarantine regula-
1 tons, shall be guilty Of misdemeanpr, anC
shall be arrested and brought before th,
President " the Board Of FIRE and Polio,
E Commissioners, and, upon conviction, shal
y BIO fined not more than fifty dollars for each
/, oheRse; and any sseamboat passiog tho quar-
u antine station, without landing for iuspec
G ton, OF that comes TO the Diet lot without
q permit from the quarantine physician IT
charge OF the station, during the existence O
D such quarantine, shall be deemed guilty Z
Il resisting an ctiicer and violating this article
and the captain, mate, engineers, pilots AM
Jerks shall be deemed guilty, and shall b
= arrested, and unless they can show BY com
petent proof that they were not guilty o
either aiding or sbettin In suah violation o
this article. By asst ting Ia the navigation o
such boat, they shall DO fined not more thai
IS fifty dollars each for each ofienss, to be col
\, lected as other fines.
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