The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-13
AT AUGUSTA.
Large Discretionary Powers for
Boards of Health.
ASTONISHING PETITION BY PEG.
PIE WHO SENT SUBSTI-
TUTES TO WAR.

interchangeable Mileage Tickets Asked
For-House Concurs With Senate in
Reference of Drug BilI-Lewiston
Sisters of Charity Want State Aid
New Shore Line.
Especial to the Press.1
AUGUSTA, January 12.-The bill pre-
pared by the State Board of Health and
which was introduced in the House to-
day by Mr.. Drew of Fort Fairfield, while
in it's title it is aimed especially at dan
ger from cholera, gives the board ex-
tensive power in taking precautions to
care for the public health. It's scope in
cludes dangerous contagious diseases"
and such diseases are to be included un-
der this term as the board shall desig-
nate. Freed from it's legal phraseology,
the bill is as follows:
The more effectually to protect the
health, the state board shall have power
to establish such system of inspection as
in it's Judgment may be necessary to as
certain the actual or threatened pres
ence of the infection of Asiatic cholera
or other dangerous contagious disease,
and any duly authorized agent or inspec-
tor of, said board shall have p wer to
enter any building, vessel, raj way car
or any other public vehicle and to re-
move threfrom any person affected by
Asiatic cholera or any other dangerous
contagious disease and for this purpose
he may require the person in charge of
of any vessel or public vehicle other
than railway car to stop such vessel or
vehicle at any place, and he may require
the conductor ofany railway train to
stop his train at any station or upon any
side track for such time as he may
deem necessary. And the state board of
health may, from time to time, make
rules and regulations for guarding
against the Introduction of contagi us
diseases into the state; for
the control and suppression
thereof, if within the state for the quar-
antine and disinfection of persons, local
tiles, and things infected or suspected of
being infected by such diseases; for the
transportation of dead bodies for the
speedy and private intermen- of the
bodies of persons who have died from
dangerous contagious diseases, for the
proper sanitary care of jails, asylums,
school houses, hotels, and all other pub
lie buildings, and the premises connected
Herewith; and, in emergency, for
providing those with dangerous cpnta-
gious disease with necessary medical aid
and with temporary hospitals for their
accommodation and for the accommoda-
ton of their nurses and attendants. The
board may declare Its rules to be in force
in the whole or any part of the state, and
to apply to any vehicles. General rules
shall be published in the official paper of
the state, but the board may make ne
cessary rules for any locality without
such publication.
Municipal officers shall enforce the
rules of the state board. Any person
who shall refuse to obey such rules on
conviction shall be punished by fine of
not less than $25, nor more than $500 OF
by Imprisonment. County and munich
pal authorities shall cooperate with the
State board in enforcing the law. In case
such cooperation is refused, the board
may execute its orders by its own agents
and all expenses incurred shall be paid
by the county or municipal officers as
the case may br. In case of failure to
pay such expenses may be recovered by
action.
The term dangerous contagious dis
eases shall be construed to mean those
diseases designated SIS such by the state
board
Some of the Senate Business.
An order was introduced in the Senate
by Mr.. Hersey of Oxford, that the com
mittee on public buildings be authorized
40 suitably furnish the rooms of the sec
retary of the Senate and clerk of the
House.
1t was ordered that the committee on
Insane hospital and committee on finance
be made joint committee to which all
matters referring to the Insane hospital
be referred.
The resolve for the appointment by
the Governor. of commission to revise
the militia law of the state, received a
final passage.
Senator Hersey introduced bill to in
corporate the Rumford Falls Trust Com.
The incorporators named George d. Bis
bee, Waldo Pettingiil, Hugh F. CHS
holm, Daniel F. Emery, Fred E.. Rich
ards, Stanley Bisbee, j. S. Harlow, A. E.
Herrick and O. II. Hersey.
Senator Mallet put in a bill to amend
chapter 11S of the public laws of 1891 by
striking out in section IA in the first line
the words lone thousand and inserting
the words "twenty- hundred" This
relates to the law for registration of vital
statistics and increases from $1,000 to
S250O the amount to be expended in
printing, postage and clerical help.
Mr. Herrick of Oxford introduced a
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