SEC. 18. That it shall be the duty of every person who has discov- Dead body to be reported.. ered or seen the body of a dead human being, or any part thereof (if there is reason for such person to think that the fact of the death, or the place of such body, or part thereof, is not publicly known), to immediately communicate to this Board the fact of such discovery of such body, the place where and time when the same was discovered or seen, and where the same is or may be found, and any facts known by which said body may be identified, or the cause of death ascertained. 275, tit. 3, 34. SEC. 19. That the word "physician" shall include dentists, and every Meaning of "physician." other person who practices about the cure of the sick or injured, or Laws 1863, Ch. 358, § 11. who has the charge of, or professionally prescribes for, any person sick, Laws 1850, Ch. injured, or diseased; that the phrase "contagious disease" shall be Laws 1867, Ch. 956, § 3. held to include all persons sick, affected, or attacked by or of a disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature (more especially, Meaning of "contagious disease." however, referring to the cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, diphtheria, ship, or typhus, typhoid, spotted, and scarlet fevers), but also including any new disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by this Board dangerous to the public health; and every physician in said District shall at all times cause his or her name, office, and residence, and also his or her kind port names and and class of practice, to be registered with this Board, and in a manner according to its regulations. Physicians to re address. port persons sick diseases. 35. SEC. 20. That every physician shall report to this Board in writing Physicians to reevery person (and the state of his or her disease, and his or her place with contagious of dwelling and name, if known) which such physician has prescribed H. Laws N. Y., p for, or attended for the first time, having a contagious disease, during Brooklyn Laws, any part of the preceding twenty-four hours; but not more than two P. 122, § 5. reports shall be required in one week concerning the same person; but every attending or practicing physician thereat must, at his peril, see that such report is or has been made by some attending physician. etc., to report. pp. 35, 36. SEC. 21. That every keeper of any boarding-house or lodging-house, Hotel-keepers, and every inn-keeper and hotel-keeper, shall, within twenty-four H. Laws N. Y., hours, report in writing to this Board the same particulars in the last section required of any physician concerning any person being at any of the aforesaid houses or hotels, and attacked with any contagious disease. SEC. 22. That the commissioners, managers, principal, or other Institutions to proper head officer of each and every public or private institution in H. Bill, § 24. report. Masters of vessels to report. said District shall twice in each week report in writing (or cause such report by some proper and competent person to be made twice in each week) to this Board, and state therein the name, if known, and condition, and disease of any and every person being thereat, and sick of any contagious disease. SEC. 23. That the master, chief officer, and consignee, or one of H Laws N. Y., p. them, of every vessel, not being in quarantine, or within quarantine 36, § 12. limits, but being within one-fourth of a mile of any dock, wharf, pier, or building in any city, village, or town in said district, shall daily report to this Board, or cause to be reported, in writing, the particulars, and shall therein state the name, disease, and condition of any person being in or on such vessel, and sick of any contagious disease. Duty to report persons sick of contagious diseases. 35. SEC. 24. That it shall be the duty of every person knowing of any individual in said District sick of any contagious disease (where H. Laws N. Y., p. such person shall have reason to regard such individual as neglected or not properly cared for, to avoid giving said disease to others), and the duty of every physician hearing of any such sick person, who he shall have reason to think requires the attention of this Board, to at once report the facts to this Board in regard to the disease, condition, and dwelling-place or position of such sick person. Persons sick of contagious dis removed or ex posed. H. Laws N. Y., pp. 32, 33, 34. SEC 25. That no person shall, within the built-up portions of any eases not to be city or village, without a permit from this Board, carry or remove from one building to any other, or from any vessel to the shore, any person sick of any contagious disease, except that, outside of the built-up portions of the cities of New York or Brooklyn, such removal from any building may be made pursuant to the written consent of a physician in regular practice, or of an inspector of this Board. Nor shall any person, by any exposure of any individual sick of any contagious disease, or of the body of such person, or by any negligent act connected therewith, or in respect of the care or custody thereof, or by a needless exposure of himself, cause or contribute to or endanger the spread of disease from any such person or from any dead body. No person sick of contagious disease to be re moved from vessels. SEC. 26. That no captain, officer, consignee, owner, or other person in charge of any vessel (or having right and authority to prevent the same) shall remove or aid in removing from any vessel to the shore (save as legally authorized by the Health Officer of the port of New H. Laws N. Y., P. York, and into quarantine grounds or building only) any person sick of, or person that has been exposed to and is liable very soon to Laws Brooklyn, pp. 122, 123. 36. posed to conta develop any contagious disease, nor so remove or aid in removing any Nor articles exarticles that have been exposed to the contagion of any such disease, gion. except in accordance with a permit of this Board, or with its special regulations. sick persons. SEC. 27. That the keeper, lessees, tenants, and owners of every Boarding and lodging-house boarding-house and lodging-house shall, within six hours after the keepers to report fact shall come to his or her or their knowledge, notify this Board in Laws Brooklyn, p. 122, § 6. writing of the fact of any seafaring man or person lately from any H. Laws N. Y., vessel being taken sick at such house, and shall in such notice state where such sick person may be found, and from what vessel, and when he came, to the best of the knowledge of the person giving such notice. pp. 35, 36. nors not to be ex H. Laws N. Y., p. SEC. 28. That no parent, master, or custodian of any child or minor Children and mi(having power and authority to prevent) shall permit any such child or posed to disease. minor to be unnecessarily exposed, or to needlessly expose any other 31, § 5. person, to the taking or to the infection of any contagious disease. cinate. SEC. 29. That every person, being the parent or guardian, or hav- Obligation to vacing the care, custody, or control of any minor or other individual, H. Bill, § 16. shall (to the extent of any means, power, and authority of said parent, guardian, or other person, that could properly be used or exerted for such purpose) cause and procure such minor or individual to be so promptly, frequently, and effectively vaccinated, that such minor or individual shall not take, or be liable to take the small-pox. report vessels, Laws 1863, pp. Laws 1857, p. 832, ch. 412, § 1, SEC. 30. That the Health Officer of the Port of New York, his Health Officer to assistants and deputies, shall at all times keep this Board informed, persons sick, etc. by weekly written reports, of the number of vessels in Quarantine, 580, 585, 27, 45. of the number of persons sick in the floating or other hospitals thereat, and of the diseases with which they are severally afflicted; he and they shall also receive into the floating hospital all cases of yellow fever found in this District; he or they shall not send or allow to H. Laws N. Y., p. return to the vicinity of any city, village, or town in this District, without the permit of this Board, any person, vessel, or article which this Board has ordered to Quarantine. Laws 1863, ch. 19, § 5. etc., from infect land without per SEC. 31. That no master, charterer, consignee, or other person, Vessels, persons, shall order, bring, or allow (having power and authority to prevent) ed ports not to any vessel or person, or article therefrom, from any infected port, mit. nor any vessel, or person, or article therefrom liable to quarantine, Sama according to the ninth section of the three hundred and fifty-eighth Same laws as Articles or persons from infect H. Laws N. Y., 19. Laws Brooklyn, pp. 123, 124. chapter of the Laws of 1863 (or under any other laws, and whether such quarantine has been made or suffered, or not), to come or be brought to any point nearer than three hundred yards of any dock or pier, or to any building on the shore of any city or village of said District, without or otherwise than according to the permit of this Board. Nor shall any vessel, or person or thing therein or therefrom, having been in quarantine, come or be brought within the lastnamed distance of any last-named place, without the permit or assent of this Board. SEC. 32. That no person shall bring into any city, or into any ed port or vessel. village of this District, from any infected place or land, or take pp. 13, 14, 15, 16. therein from any vessel lately from any infected port, or from any vessel or building in which had lately been any person sick of a contagious disease, any article or person whatsoever, nor shall any such person land or come into any such village or city without a permit of this Board, and it shall be no excuse that such person or article so offending, or the occasion of offence, has passed through quarantine, or has a permit from any other source than this Board. Notice of persons sick on vessels. 31, subd. 5. SEC. 33. That every master, charterer, owner, part owner, and H. Laws N. Y., p. consignee of any vessel or of the cargo thereof which shall be in any water in said District, unless detained in quarantine, shall at once give, or cause to be given, to this Board, written notice of any infected article or person, and of every person sick of a contagious disease, being or having within ten days been on board said vessel; and also of each and every fact and thing relative to said vessel, sick person, or cargo, or to the crew of such vessel, which any of the first mentioned persons shall have reason to think may be useful for this Board to know, or be or become dangerous or prejudicial to life or health in said district.;; Cotton to be reported. SEC. 34. That every master, owner, charterer, part owner, and H. Laws N. Y., p. consignee of any vessel that shall bring any cotton into this District 28, § 24. between the first day of May and the first day of November of each year, shall at once report to this Board, or cause to be made in writing a report of the fact of any such cotton being in a dangerous, infected, or unsound condition, or having been exposed to any infection. Skins, hides, rags, etc., arriv SEC. 35. That no master, charterer, owner, part owner, or coning not to be un-signee of any vessel, or any other person, shall bring to any dock, pier, wharf, or building within one thousand feet thereof, in said H. Laws N. Y., District, or unload at any dock, building, or pier therein, or have on loaded except by permit. p. 38, § 22. P 31, subd. 5. storage in the built-up portion of any city or village of said District, any skins, hides, rags, or similar articles or materials, having been brought from any foreign country or any infected place, or from any point south of Norfolk, Virginia, without or otherwise than according to a written permit so to do from this Board; and no person shall sell, exchange, or in any way make exposure of any straw, bedding, or other articles that have been exposed to the contagion or infection Straw, bedding etc., exposed to of any contagious disease, or have been or are liable to communicate contagion, or such disease, or have lately been on any emigrant vessel, till after the vessel. same have been adequately cleansed or disinfected. from emigrant vessels to report 31, subd. 5. SEC. 36. That every master and chief officer of any vessel, and Officers, etc., of every physician of, or who practiced on, any vessel which shall arrive H. Laws N. Y., p. in this District from any other port, shall at once report to this Board any facts connected with any person or thing on said vessel, or that came thereon, which he has reason to think may endanger the public health of this District; and he shall report the facts as to any person being or having been sick thereon of a contagious disease, and as to there being, or having been during the voyage or since her arrival, any infected person or articles thereon. bles." SEC. 37. That the word " meat," whenever herein used, includes Meaning of 66 meat, ""fish," every part of any land animal and eggs (whether mixed or not with and vegeta any other substance), and the word "fish" includes every part of any animal that lives in water, or the flesh of which is not meat, and the word "vegetable" includes every article of human consumption as food, which (not being meat, or fish, or milk) is held or offered, or intended for sale or consumption as food for human beings, at any place in said District; and all fish and meat found therein shall be deemed to be therein, and held for such sale or consumption as such food, unless the contrary be distinctly proved. . SEC. 38. The word "cattle" shall be held to include all animals, Meaning of "cattle," butcher," except birds, fowl, and fish, of which any part of the body is used as etc., etc. food; the word "butcher" shall be held to include whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving, or slaughtering any cattle, or in selling any meat; the words "private market” shall include every store, cellar, stand, and place (not being part of a public market) at which the business is the buying, selling, or keeping for sale, of meat, fish, or vegetables for human food. |