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Page 59 - Sec. 3. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction...
Page 62 - Any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this section, or of any order or proclamation of the President promulgated, or of any permit, rule, or regulation issued thereunder, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than...
Page 61 - ... disease. Nor shall any person, by any exposure of any individual sick of any contagious disease, or of the body of such person, or by any negligent act connected therewith, or in respect of the care or custody thereof, or by a needless exposure of himself, cause or contribute to, or promote, the spread of disease from any such person, or from any dead body.
Page 59 - ... to give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such house or part thereof requiring him to cleanse and disinfect such house or part thereof and articles within a time specified in such notice.
Page 58 - Such justice shall thereupon issue a warrant, directed to the sheriff or any constable of the county, commanding him to take sufficient aid, and...
Page 59 - Where any local authority are of opinion, on the certificate of their medical officer of health or of any other legally qualified medical practitioner, that the cleansing and disinfecting of any house or part thereof, and of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or check infectious disease, it shall be the duty of such...
Page 60 - When a disease dangerous to the public health breaks out in any township the board shall immediately provide such hospital or place of reception for the sick and infected as is judged best for their accommodation and the safety of the inhabitants, which shall be subject to the regulations of the board...
Page 59 - ... or is on board any ship or vessel, may, on a certificate signed by a legally qualified medical practitioner, and with the consent of the superintending body of such hospital or place, be removed, by order of any justice, to such hospital or place at the cost of the local authority...
Page 62 - ... or any dangerous, infectious or contagious disease, or any child residing in any house in which any such disease exists, or has recently existed, to attend any public or private school until the board of health of the town, village, borough or city shall have given its permission therefor...
Page 61 - Health who shall neglect his duties under the provisions of this act shall be liable, upon conviction in a court having competent jurisdiction, to be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for the first offense; and for conviction for violation of this act the second time, shall, in addition to the fines already provided, become disqualified from holding the office of, or to which is attached the duties of a member of a Board of Health.

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