Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-04-07

who by virtue of his office shall be the
cousel and advisor of said committee,
shall have the power and il is hereby
made their duty:
(a) To make or cause TO be made,
diligent inquiry in respect to nuisances
of every description within the city,
which may be injurious To the public
health and TO abate the same or cause
them TO be abated.
(b) To stop, detain, and examine, or
cause TO be stopped, detained and exam
ined, every person coming from any
place or locality infected with a danger
Gus, communicable disease, in order TO
prevent the introduction of such disease
within the city limits.
(c) To cause any person coming from
place or locality infected with a
/ dangerous, communicable disease TO be
sent back to the place from whence he
or she came, or to be placed in the pest
house of the City of Bedding, or City
Hospital, il in the opinion of the health
officer and the health committee, the
same shall be necessary.
| (d) To cause any person or persons,
other than those mentioned in the pre-
ceding subdivision, who have been ex-
posed TO any dangerous, communicable
disease, TO be promptly vaccinated or
isolated either in the pest house, city
hospital or other convenient place, and
/, TO order the prompt and thorough isola-
ton of those sick or infected with any
such dangerous, communicable disease,
so long as there is danger OF commune
eating the disease to other persons; and
TO cause such person or persons TO be
removed to the pest house, city hospital
or separate house when necessary, pro-
vided such removal can be done with
out danger to the health of such infected
person.
(e) To cause any building, room,
furniture, clothing, material, ETC.,
which shall have been exposed TO or
infected with any dangerous, commune
cable disease, TO be properly and
thoroughly disinfected.
o. To put up or require the occupant
or occupants of any dwelling house,
store, hotel, or other building in which
there shall be any person sick with
smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, OF
other dangerous, communicable disease,
TO put up and maintain in conspicuous
place on the front of such dwelling
house, store, hotel, or other building, a
placard which shall be furnished by
the health committee, free of charge,
on which shall be printed in large letter,
the word 'small poX," ''diphteria, y
"scarlet fever" or the name of any
other dangerous, communicable disease,
as the case may be; and in case of the
neglect or refusal of any person or per
sons shall be required To remove q
patient or patients, sick with danger
Gus, communicable disease, TO the pest
house or city hospital, and the person
neglects or refuses so TO do, or If the
said patients shall refuse TO be removed
thereto, they and each of them shall bt
deemed TO have violated the provisions
of this ordinance, and punished accord
ingly.
u (g) TO exercise general supervision
of the health of the city and TO make
from time to time, such recommends
tons to the common council as they
may deem proper, to promote the clean
illness and salubrity of the city.
(h) Whenever the committee shall
deem it necessary for the preservation
of the public health, they may take
possession of any building, factory
hotel, dwelling house, Clubhouse, prem
ises or grounds, upon which, in theil
Judgment, there exists any nuisance
prejudicial to public health, il the owner
or occupant refuses or neglects to abatt
such nuisance in the manner directed
by the said health committee or com.
mon council, and said health committee
or common council may cause the same
to be abated in such manner as they
may deem proper and all expenses in
CURED thereby shall be legal claim
against the owner and alien upon the
property to be collected in the same
manner as any other special assessment
The committee may also, by direction
OF the common council, in times OF
epidemics of contagious diseases and
when they shall deem il necessary fol
the public health, at once and by force
If necessary, close up such houses, build.
ings, hotels, places of amusement and
premises, as are liable To assist i'm spread
ing such contagious disease and exclude
all occupants or persons therefrom un-
Til the danger TO the public health from
such houses, buildings, hotels, places
OF amusement and premises shall be
fully abated and the air of such build
ing and premises be thoroughly pu-
rified. Any person who shall resist, or
in any way interfere with the action of
the health committee or the health
officer, under any of the subdivisions
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deemed guilty of a violation thereof.
Section III.
No person having the smallpox,
diphtheria,s scarlet fever, or other danger
Gus, communicable disease, or who has
been exposed to the same, shall go
about the city, but all such persons are
hereby required to keep closely confined
within their respective dwellings or
places of abode, and no person who has
been confined with such disease, nor
any person who has been exposed TO
such disease or who has been I'm any
dwelling house, store, hotel, or other
building which has been placed under
quarantine, shall go outside of such
dwelling house, store, hotel, or other
building, or go about the city until, i'm
the opinion of the health officer, there
shall be no further danger of such per-
son spreading such disease and he has
been thoroughly fumigated and granted
permit by the health officer.
Section III.
No person shall bring or cause to be
brought into the city OF Bedding, any