Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![DANGEROUS DISEASES. Hospitals may be pro- vided by towns; R. S. 21, §35. to be un- der orders of board of health. R. S. 21, §36. Hospitals not to be within, &c. R. S. 21, §37. Physicians, &c, in hos- pitals, sub- ject to board of health. R. S. 21, §39. Hospitals not to be erected or occupied without consent of town or city au- thorities. G. S. 26. Board of health to provide hos- pital, &c, and remove sick, &c. 1837, 244, §2. 1848, 119. See § 51, and 1872, 189. Selectmen to give notice of infected places. R. S. 21, §41. 1838, 158. See § 51, and 1872, G-. S. c. 26, Sect. 40. Any town may establish within its limits, and be constantly provided with, one or more hospitals for the reception of persons having a disease dangerous to the public health. Ibid., Sect. 41. Such hospitals shall be subject to the orders and regulations of the board, or of a committee of the town appointed for that purpose. Ibid., Sect. 42. No such hospital shall be established within one hundred rods of an inhabited dwelling-house situated in an adjoining town, without the consent of such town. Ibid., Sect. 43. When a hospital is so established, the physician, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein, and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of the same, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there, shall be subject to such regulations as may be made by the board of health or the committee appoint- ed for that purpose. Acts of 1870, c. 306. Whoever erects, occupies, or uses any building in an}* place, for a hospital, in such part thereof as the mayor and aldermen, or selectmen prohibit, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for every month he so occupies or uses such building, and in like proportion for a longer or shorter time ; and the supreme judicial court, or any one of the justices thereof, either in term-time or vacation, may issue an injunction to prevent such erection, occupancy or use. G. S. c. 26, Sect. 44. When a disease dangerous to the public health breaks out in any town, the board shall immediately provide such hospital or place of reception for the sick and infected as is judged best for their accom- modation and the safety of the inhabitants ; which shall be subject to the regulations of the board ; and the board may cause an}* sick and infected person to be removed thereto, unless the condition of such person will not admit of his removal without danger to his health, in which case the house or place where he remains shall be consid- ered as a hospital, and all persons residing in or in any way concerned within the same shall be subject to the regulations of the board as before provided. Ibid., Sect. 45. When such disease is found to exist in a town, the selectmen and board of health shall use all possible care to prevent the spreading of the infection, and to give public notice of infected places to travellers, by displaj'ing red flags at proper distances, and by all other means which in their judgment shall be most effec- tual for the common safety. [Amended by the following addition.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
