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

  • Connecticut.
Date:
1896
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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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    shall be left with or filed at the office of the board of health of the town or city having jurisdiction over said port, within twenty- four hours after the arrival of such vessel. Sec. 2. Section 2596 of the General Statutes is hereby amended Foreign vessels subject to quar- by adding at the end thereof the following : But this section shall amine in New J & © Haven Harbor. not apply to any vessels coming from any foreign port or ports, except a port in Canada and the British provinces. Sec. 3. Any vessel from any port or place having sickness of ah vessels hav- J . Idk Blcknr-ss on any kind on board shall be subject to inspection and quarantine bo^iiawe to before making fast to any wharf. Sec. 4. Any master of any tug-boat who shall violate, or penalty, assist any other person to violate, the quarantine regulations of any port, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both. Sec. 2595. When the board of health (town health officer) in o.s.ms. 259,55. v . • ' Wssels from anv town shall deem it expedient that vessels arriving in its town nr,tn,°' tpee J 1 o of Delaware may or in the waters contiguous thereto, from any port or place in thebe °.uarai]|ined. United States, north of the capes of Delaware Bay, should per- form quarantine, such board may by an order, published or posted as aforesaid, subject such vessels to quarantine in the same man- ner as if they arrived from a foreign port or place. Sec 2596. Any vessel subject to quarantine, arriving in the g.s. 1875,259.56. V £ SBC 16 6Q DJ GCC harbor of New Haven, on board of which there shall be no sick- ^^Ha^e^ ness at the time of such arrival, or on board of which, during the bor' passage, there shall have been no case of malignant or contagious disease, may come to and make fast at the end of any public wharf in said harbor, without incurring any 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 auarantine; and if the health officer, on visiting any such Amended by . . . . <*. ci. 1895 vessel, shall find any such sickness on board as, in his opinion, 5 2, above, 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. Sec. 2597. On notice given to a health officer or member of g-s-187?'-259;57. ^ te To be visited by the board of health of the arrival of any vessel as aforesaid, he heaUli officer, 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 ; and every vessel so subjected 2