, 1899-03-20

health, the Board of Health of the County. CITY or Town
where such person may be shall make effectual provision
in the maner in which they shall Judge best for the safety
of the inhabitants by removing such sick or infected person
to a separate house, if it can be done without danger to his
health, and by providing nurses and other assistance and
necessaries, which shall be at the charge of the person him.
self, his parents or other person who may be liable for his
which he belongs.
Sec. IS. If any such infected person cannot be re-
moved without danger to his health, the Board of Health
shall make provision for him as directed in the preceding
Section, in the house in which he may be, and In such case
they may cause the persons in the neighborhood to be re-
moved, and may take such other measures as they may deem
necessary for the safety of the inhabitants.
Sec. 16. The Board of Health of any County, City or
Town near to or bordering upon either of the neighboring
States, may appoint by writing under their hands suitable
persons to attend any places by which travellers may pass
from infected places in other States, and the persons so APP
pointed may examine such passengers as they may suspect
of bringing with them any infection which may be danger
GUS TO the public health, and if need be. NAV restrain them
from travelling until licenses thereto by the Board of Health
of theCounty, City orTown to which such persons may come,
and any person coming from such infected place who shall,
without license as aforesaid, travel within this State unless
it be to travel by the most direct way to the State from
whence he came, after he shall be cautioned to depart by
the persons appointed as aforesaid, shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered and used as
hereinbefore provided.
Sec. II. Any Justice of the Peace may, if need be,
make out a warrant under his hand, directed to the Sheriff
or any Constable of the County, requiring him, under the
direction of the Board of Health, to remove any person in
fected with contagious sickness, or to take possession of
convenient houses and lodgings, and to provide nurses, at
PENDANTS and other necessaries for the accommodation,
safety and relief of the sick.
Sec. Is. Whenever on application of any Board of
Health it shall be made to appear to any Justice of the
Peace of the County that there is just cause to suspect that
any baggage, clothing or goods of any kind found within
the County. City or Town are infected with any disease
which may he dangerous TO the public health. such Justice
of the Peace shall by warrant under his hand directed to the
Sheriff or any Constable of the County, require him to take
with him as many men as he shall deem necessary and
secure such baggage. clothing or other goods, and to post
such men as a guard over the house or place where such
baggage, clothing or other goods shall be lodged, which
guard shall take effectual care to prevent any person re
moving or coming near to such baggage, clothing or other
goods until due inquiry be made into the circumstances
thereof.
Sec. 10. The said Justice may also, by the same war
rant, if it shall appear to him necessary, require the said
officer under the direction of the Board of Health to impress
and take up convenient houses or stores for the safe keeping
of such baggage, clothing or other goods. and the Board
of Health may cause them to be removed to such houses OF
stores or 70 be otherwise detained until they shall, in the
opinion of said Board of Health, be free from infection.
Sec. 20. Such officer in the execution of such warrant
shall, if need be, break open anv house, shop or any other
places mentioned in said warrant, where such baggage, cloth
ing or other goods shall be, and he may require such aid as
shall be necessary to effect the execution of the warrant, and
all persons shall, at the command of any such officer, under a
penalty not exceeding ten dollars assist in the execution of
the warrant, if able to do so.
Sec. 81. The charges of securing such baggage, cloth
ing or other goods and of transporting and purifying the
Same shall be paid by the owner or owners thereof at such
rates and prices as shall be determined by the Board of
Health.
Sec. %. Whenever the Sheriff or other officer shall
take possession of any houses, stores, lodgings or other
necessaries, or shall employ any nurse or attendants as pro-
vided in this Chapter, the several parties interested shall be
entitled to a just compensation therefor to be paid by the
County in which such person or property shall have been so
employed or taken possession of.
Sec. %. Whenever any person confined in any com
mon Jail shall be attacked with any disease whichin theopin-
ion of the physician of the Board of Health, or of such other
physicians as they may consult, shall be considered danger
Gus to the safety and health of the other prisoners or the
inhabitants of the County, City or Town, the Board of
Health shall by their order in writing direct the removal
of such person to some hospital or other place of safety,
there to be provided for and securely kept so as to prevent
his escape until other or further orders, and if such prisoner
shall recover from the disease he shall be returned to such
Jail.
Sec. "a. If the person so removed shall have been com
mitted by order of any court or any judicial process, the
order for his removal or a copy thereof attested by the pre-
siding member of the Board of Health shall be returned by
the custodian of said prisoner with the doings thereon into
the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the County,
and no person removed as aforesaid shall be considered as
thereby having committed an escape.
Sec. %. Any County, City or Town may establish a
quarantine ground in any suitable place, either within or
without it's own limits, provided, that if such place shall be
without the limits of the County the assent of the County
within whose limits it may be established shall be first OBJ
tanned therefor.
Sec. 26. The Board of Health of any County, City or
Town may establish within their County, City or Town and
be constantly provided with one or more hospitals for the
reception of persons having the small pox or other disease
which may be dangerous to the public health.
Sec. %. All such hospitals shall be subject to the or
ders and regulations of the Board of Health establishing
the same, or a committee appointed by such Board for that
purpose, but no such hospital shall be established within
one hundred rods of any inhabited dwelling house.
Sec. %. When any hospital shall be so established the
physician attending the same, the persons inoculated or sick
therein, the nurses attending, and all persons who shall APP
proach or come within the limits of the same, and all such