A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Connecticut.
Date:
1902
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Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    penalty for violation of the quarantine laws; but no person shall be allowed to leave said vessel except to make fast to the wharf until said vessel shall have been visited by a health officer and by him discharged from quarantine. If the health officer on visiting any such vessel shall find such sickness on board as, in his opinion, shall make it proper for him to cause such vessel to continue subject to quarantine, he shall order it to be removed to such place as shall be assigned as a place of quarantine. This section shall not apply to any vessels coming from any foreign port other than a port in the Dominion of Canada or Newfoundland. 1848, i85n. § 2539. Vessel visited by health officer. On notice given to a health m^d^m, officer or member of the board of health of the arrival of any vessel as aforesaid, he shall visit it without delay, and may, on examination, give a certificate of health, discharging it from quarantine, or cause it to continue subject to quarantine; every vessel so subjected to quarantine shall perform quarantine under the regulations of such health officer or board of health. 1848.1850. § 2540. Fees for visiting vessel. The health officer or board of health 1898,ch.akf§k may establish the fees, not exceeding five dollars, which the health officer shall be entitled to receive for visiting a vessel as aforesaid, and the master or owner of such vessel shall pay the same to such health officer or board of health. 1848,1860. § 2541. Fraudulently eluding quarantine. No master of any vessel ?' liable to perform quarantine as aforesaid shall fraudulently attempt to elude a quarantine by false declarations of the port or place from whence he came, or land, or suffer to be landed from his vessel any person or thing except in the manner above provided, nor permit any person to board such vessel, before it shall have been visited as aforesaid. 18. 1895,011.101,888, § 2542. Quarantine of vessels having sickness on board. Every vessel, from any port or place, having sickness on board shall be subject to inspection and quarantine before making fast to any wharf. Every master of a tugboat who shall violate, or assist any other person to violate, the quarantine regulations of a port shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both. 1848,1850. § 2543. Vessel ordered to be cleansed. When a health officer or a leas,ch.8487sS6. member of the board of health shall on visiting any vessel as aforesaid think it necessary that it should be cleansed or purified, he shall direct its master to hoist a white flag on the head of the mainmast, there to be kept during the day- time, and shall without delay direct the time and manner in which the cargo on board such vessel shall be in part or in whole cleansed or purified, and such vessel, or such part thereof as may be infected, shall be cleansed in such method as shall be directed. When such vessel shall contain any person ill of a con- tagious or infectious disease he shall be removed on shore to such place as said health officer or board may direct and shall be nursed and provided for in the manner prescribed by law. Such health officer or board may cause any pas- senger, and such of the mariners as the master shall not require to continue on board, to be removed on shore and secluded for fourteen days in such place as the health officer or board shall direct; and if any person shall, without per- mission, visit any person so confined, he shall be deemed to be contaminated