The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-03
THE TEXT OF THE LAW
THOSE REFUSING ARE GUILTY OF
MISDEMEANOR.
THE PENALTYA FINE OF Fifty DOLLARS
Or it May be Thirty Days Imprisonment. Also
Msdemeanor TO Conceal Case Of
Contagious Disease or Fail
to Report il.

The following ordinance. making vacci-
nation compulsory, was last night passed
by the Board of Aldermen. at special
meeting:
Whereas, it is apprehended that the
disease of smallpox may spread among
the citizens of Raleigh and the sur
rounding vicinity to such an extent that
stringent laws of health and quarantine
are required, and precautionary measures
are necessary to prevent said disease
from becoming epidemic and from get
ting beyond control:
And whereas, the Board of Health
and the Academy of Medicine of said
city insists upon compulsory vaccination
us a necessary preventive and safeguard
under the existing conditions: There
fore,
Be it ordained 10y the Board of Alder
men of the city of Raleigh:
Section l. That every person in the
city of Raleigh or within one mile there
of, whether such person be a resident or
a sojourner therein. shall be vaccinated
forthwith; and that any person within
said city or within one mile thereof,
whether he be resident or sojourner
therein, who shall fail, after due notice,
to be vaccinated, and shall thereafter r.
main in said city or within one nile
thereof for twenty -four hours after such
notice, and who, upon demand of the
proper officer of said city shall then rc.
fuse to be vaccinated, such person shall
be deemed guilty of misdencanor, and
upon conviction before the mayor, shall
be fined 5000 or imprisoned thirty
4 InI fhnf fh1, i.in .,f
this section shall not apply to such per-
sons who may be excused therefrom hy
the certificate of a regularly licensed and
practicing physician that such person
has been successfully vaccinated within
the two years past, or that vaccination
would be dangerous or materially i!arm
full to the health of such person.
Section .. Any person who shall ad-
wise, counsel or procure any person 10
violate the provisions of the foregoing
section, or who shall resist, hinder, in,
terfere with or obstruct any physician
or officer of the city in carrying out The
provisions of the foregoing section, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction before the mayor shall be
fined 5000 or imprisoned thirty days.
Section 3. Whenever any householder,
hotel keeper. keeper of a boarding house
or tenant shall know, or shall be in
formed by a physician, or shall have real
son to believe that any person i'll his
family, hotel, boarding house or premises
is taken sick with smallpox, cholera,
diphteria. scarlet fever, or any other dis
ease dangerous to the public health, he
shall Immediately give notice in writing
thereof to the Sanitary Inspector of
said city. Said notice shall state the
name of the person sick, the name of
the householder, hotel-keeper, keeper Of
boarding house or tenant giving the no
tice, and shall by street and number, OIL
otherwise, sufficiently designate the
house in which he resides or the room
in which the sick person may be; and
il he shall refuse or wiffully neglect i'm
mediately to give such notice, he shall
be deemed guilty of Il misdemeanor, and
upon conviction before the mayor, be
fined $1,000 or imprisoned thirty days
Provided, that such fine or imprisonment
shall not be enforced if IA physician IL
attendance has given to the Sanitary In
spector or the Superintendent of Health
an immediate notice of said sick person
and the true name of the disease. III az
cordance with the requirements OF this
section.
Under a previous order passed by the
Board of Aldermen in regard to vaccl-
nation the mayor is empowered to en-
ploy as many physicians and public vac
tipators as he may deem necessary. lie
will today employ several new ones-lil
fact all that he can get-and push the
work of vaccination as rapidly as posi-
bic.
Touching the difficulties that have to
be overcome by the vaccinator among