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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![with infection and be liable to the same confinement and penalty as are imposed upon the person visited. § 2544. Certificate of health fraudulently obtained, if the health b^Mmm. officer or board of health shall find that any certificate of health granted by them ^chajsTsse, was obtained by fraud or false representation, or be of opinion that any vessel, person, or cargo should perform further quarantine for the purpose of being cleansed or purified, on notice thereof being given to such person, or the owner, master, supercargo, or consignee of such vessel or cargo, as the case may be, the same shall in all respects be liable to be proceeded with as if no certificate of health had been given. § 2545. Prohibiting communication between towns. The health ]£»*-^ authority of a town, city, or borough may inderdict communication between it i^.ffd^iMSe, and any town or place in which a contagious or malignant disease is prevalent. § 2546. Notice of contagious diseases in hotel. Every hotel or ^^^mb. lodging-house keeper, in whose house any lodger becomes sick of any malignant 1898,c^affl,SS*. or contagious disease, shall within twelve hours after such lodger becomes sick j^> ;;J|;'.;}:]; |J; report in writing to the board of health or health officer the name of such per- son if known and the nature of his disease. § 2547. Enforcement of orders of health authorities, when any R,v J§| §3fi(?4. person shall refuse to obey a legal order given by a health officer, health com- im' ct]o48' ^6' mittee, or board of health, or shall endeavor to prevent it from being carried ms'ch'14)''' into effect, a justice of the peace may issue his warrant to a proper officer, or to an indifferent person, therein stating such order and requiring him to carry it into effect, and such officer or indifferent person shall execute the same. § 2548. Disposition of fines and penalties. All fines imposed for the Bev.uafjaws. violation of any provision of this chapter, or any regulation of a health officer W*.<*•»«, H*i or board of health, shall be paid to the town, city, or borough in which the offense is committed. § 2549. Quarantine of persons infected with contagious disease, s^^poe. Any town, city, or borough, health officer, or the board of health of a city or »89S, c^aC«e, borough, may order any person, whom they have reasonable grounds to believe «*,«*. i«. fl- to be infected with any malignant, infectious, or contagious disease, into con- finement in a place to be designated by them, there to remain so long as said health officer or board shall judge necessary. § 2550. Vaccination. Health officers and boards of health may adopt Rev .jjfgw. such measures for the general vaccination of the inhabitants of their respective J898-<*-M87s«6, towns, cities, or boroughs as they shall deem proper and necessary to prevent 1895, ch. us, si. the introduction or arrest the progress of smallpox, and the expenses in whole or in part of such general vaccination shall upon their order be paid out of the town, city, or borough treasury, as the case may be. §2551. Refusal to be vaccinated; penalty. Every person who shall ReTl^§2608 refuse to be vaccinated, or prevent a person under his care and control from »»8,<ajM6jS8«. 1895, ch. 145. 81. § 2550. De powers of health officer to prevent spread of smallpox. 42 C. 162. Health offi- cers- may adopt suitable measures of prevention, although no case of disease has appeared. 65 C. 189.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21012064_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
