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

  • Connecticut.
Date:
1893
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Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut relating to the public health / 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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    chapterccxiviu. Whenever any statute reach town board of health'' or 'toicn Sec. 12, Public , , j ,7 ,. Acts 1893. health committee the same is hereby changed and amendea to read town health officers. All town boards of health shall be abolished when this act takes effect. Chapter ccxlviii, sec. 12, Public Acts 1893. g.s. lTO.m §2. Sec. 259:.'. Such board or such health officers or health cora- ueTofboardaormittees shall examine into all nuisances and sources of tilth health, health j 11 £l*.u office™, etc. hnurious to the public health, and cause to be removed all nitn 51 Conu., 80. J £ found within the town which, in their judgment, shall endanger the health ofkthe inhabitants ; and all expenses for such removal shall be paid by the person who placed it there, if known, and if not known, by the town ; and when any such filth or nuisances shall be found on private property, such board shall notify the owner or occupant of such property to remove the same at his expense, within such time as the board shall direct ; and if he shall neglect to remove it, he shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay such expense and costs as the town shall incur by such removal ; and, after the expiration of such time, such board shall cause such filth or nuisance forthwith to be removed or abated ; and such board, or such health officer or committee as it shall direct, may enter all places where such board shall have just cause to suspect any such nuisances fir causes of filth to exist. g.s. 1875,ass, 5 3. Sec. 2593. It shall be sufficient notice to all persons of any 18S2, ch, 14, 5 2. Notice'oi'regu-regulation of such board, if it be published in a newspaper pub- latlonsof boards c l t -i i given*11' howlisbed in the town, or posted for three days on each sign-post in said town ; and if any person shall willfully violate such rules, after they have been so published or posted, or after actual notice thereof shall have been given to him, he shall forfeit not less than fifteen nor more than one hundred dollars. g.s. 1875.258.5J. Sec. 2594. The board of health, in any town contiguous to May establish •> o quarantine lines, navigable waters, may assign within the town, or the waters contiguous thereto, the port or place in any harbor, road, river, or bay, where vessels coming into the limits of such town or into such contiguous waters, shall, if need be, perforin quarantine ; and every vessel which shall, between the first day of June and the first day of November, come from any foreign port or place, or from any port or place in the United States south of the capes of Delaware Bay, and come to anchor in any such harbor, road, bay, river, or contiguous waters, if any place for quarantine shall have been assigned as aforesaid, shall come to anchor and lie at