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Suspected vessels.

Quarantining vessels.

Sec. 10. It may order or direct any vessel lying at or near any wharf, landing place or shore of said city from which they shall deen it probable that any infectious or contagious disease may be brought into said city, or communicated to its inhabitants to be removed therefrom to such distance as they shall consider safe, and after a copy of the order or resolution of said board certified by the secretary thereof shall be delivered to the person or persons having command of such vessel or to the master, owner or consignee thereof, it shall be the duty of such person or persons, master, owner or consignee, to whom such copy of such order shall be delivered to forthwith comply with the same. And it may order or direct to be removed to a place to be designated by them, all things within the city which in their opinion shall be infected with any matter likely to communicate disease to the inhabitants, and every person who shall violate or neglect or refuse to comply with any such order or provision contained in this section or in the resolution made or passed by the boar of health in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding six months or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 11. When the state board of health shall have declared any town or city to be infected with a pestilential, contagious or infectious disease, the board of health of the city of Detroit may in its discretion, subject to quarantine at a place to be designated by it, all vessels arriving at the port of Detroit, from such infected place, town or city for such time as said board may deem necessary for the protection or safety of the inhabitants of said city, and said board may in its discretion prohibit or regulate the internal intercourse by land or water between the city of Detroit and such infected place, town or city, and may

direct that all persons who shall come into the city contrary to their prohibition or regulations shall be apprehended and conveyed to the vessel or place whence they last came, or if sick, that they be conveyed to such place as the board of health shall direct, and it may send to such place as it may direct all persons in the city not residents thereof who shall be sick of any infectious, pestilential or contagious disease, and it may remove or cause to be removed, to a proper place designated by them any person sick with any contagious, pestilential or infectious disease, and shall have exclusive charge and control of any public hospitals for the treatment of such cases. Provided, the city prepares as good, comfortable and suitable rooms as the sick person occupied when taken sick, and shall have power to provide for and pay for the use of proper places to which to remove such person.

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Notice to

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Sec. 12. Said board may, by its rules or ordinances, cause any householder who knows that a person within his family is Board of sick of small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other disease dangerous to the public health, and every keeper of a hotel or lodging house who knows that a person within said hotel or house is sick with any such disease to immediately give notice to the board of health of said city, and upon the death or recovery and removal of such person, to cause the rooms occupied and the articles used by him to be disinfected in a manner approved by said board, and they may by like rules and ordinances cause any physician who knows that a person whom he has called to visit is infected with small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other disease dangerous to the public health, to immediately give notice thereof to the board of health. It shall be the duty of said board to cause a record to be kept of all reports received as provided by this section, which record shall contain the name of the persons who are sick, the localities in

Sanitary precautions.

which they live, their disease and the date and name of the persons reporting any such cases, and the board of health shall give the board of education or the superintendent of schools immediate information of all cases of contagious diseases reported to said board.

Sec. 13. Every person employing five or more persons in a factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment or office, or employing children, young persons or women, two or more in number, in a workship, factory, mercantile establishment or office, shall keep such factory, shop, establishment or office in a cleanly state, and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance, and such shop, factory, establishment or office shall be provided within reasonable access with a sufficient number of proper closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, and whenever five or more male persons and five or more female persons are employed as aforesaid together, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water closets, earth closets or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex, and plainly so designated and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to the persons of the other sex, and it shall be the duty of every owner, lessee or occupant of any premises so used, to carry out the provisions of this section, and to make the necessary changes therefor, and it shall be the duty of the board of health to enforce the provisions of this section, and any person violating the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, but no criminal prosecution shall be made for such violation, until four weeks after notice in writing by the health officer, of the changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of this section has been sent by mail or delivered to such person, nor then, if in the meantime, such changes have

been made, in accordance with such notification; a notice shall be deemed a sufficient notice under this section to all the members of a firm or to a corporation when given to one member of such firm or to the clerk, cashier, secretary, agent or any other officer, having charge of the business of such corporation or to its attorney, and in case of a foreign corporation notice to the officer having such charge of the factory, establishment or workshop, shall be sufficient, and such officer shall be personally liable to the amount of any fine if execution against the corporation be returned unsatisfied. The expression "factory" means

any premises where steam, water or other mechanical power is used in aid of manufacturing there carried on. And the expression "worshop" means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is therein exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to any process in making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article or part of an article, and to which, or over which premises, room or place, the employer of the persons working therein has the right of access or control: Provided, however, that the exercise of such manual labor in a private house or private room by the family dwelling therein, or by any of them, or in case the majority of the persons therein employed are members of such family, shall not of itself, constitute such house or room a workshop within this definition, and the aforesaid expressions shall have the meanings above defined for them respectively in the following section hereof.

Sec. 14. No person shall employ any labor in such factory or workshop in which five or more persons are employed, nor in any factory or workshop in which children, young persons or women, five or more in number, are employed in which there

Ventilation.

shall be such a want of ventilation while work is carried on therein, that the air shall become so exhausted as to be injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, and which shall not be so ventilated as to render harmless as far as practicable all the gases, vapors, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the manufacturing process or handicraft carried on therein that may be injurious to health, and if a factory or workshop in which any process is carried on by which dust is generated and inhaled, to an injurious extent, by the persons. employed therein, and it appears to the health officer that such inhalation could be to a great extent prevented by the use of a fan or other mechanical means, and that the same can be provided without excessive expense, such health officer may direct a fan or other mechanical means of proper construction to be provided within a reasonable time, and such fan or other mechanical means shall be provided, and it shall be the duty of every owner, lessee or occupant of any premises so used, to make the necessary changes therefor as directed by the said board or the health officer, and to bring said premises within the pro-visions of this section, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, but no person shall be punished therefor until a notice shall have been given to such person, or to the firm or corporation in the man

ner provided in the preceding action, and at least thirty days preceding_action before a complaint for such violation shall have been made, nor then if in the meantime such changes have been made in accordance with such notification, and in case changes are made, by order of the board of health or the health officer, by the occupant or lessee of any premises as provided by this or the preceding section, he may recover against any other person having an interest in such premises, such proportion of the expense of making such changes as the court adjudges should justly and equitably

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