TITLE 1 health, and shall perform such other duties as the board of health shall enjoin. 1. Health commissioner. Ib. to give bond. [424] and deposit monies. $ 7. The health commissioner, under the direction of the board of health, shall assist the resident physician in the discharge of his official duties. S8. He shall also receive all monies appropriated to the use of the marine hospital, and shall pay all demands against the hospital that shall be approved by a majority of the commissioners of health; and before he shall enter on the duties of his office, shall execute a bond in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his trust, and with such sureties as the mayor or recorder of the city shall approve. The bond shall be given to the people of this state, and be filed by the officer taking it, in the office of the clerk of the city and county. Laws of 1840, ch. 19. $9. He shall render to the board of health, a monthly To account account of his receipts and disbursements on account of the marine hospital, and shall deposit the balance that shall appear to be in his hands, in such bank in the city of New-York, as the board shall designate, to the credit of the commissioners of health. Monies how drawn. Meetings of physicians and com $10. The monies so deposited shall not be drawn out, except on the check of the health commissioner, countersigned by the president of the board of health. S11. In the discharge of their duties, the resident physician and health commissioner, shall meet daily at the office of the missioners. board of health, during such part of the year and at such hours of the day, as the board shall designate. Their salaries. Fees of health officers. Consulting physician. Inspector of vessels. $12. The resident physician shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred and fifty dollars to be paid out of the monies appropriated for the use of the marine hospital. Laws of 1844, ch. 316. S 13. The health officer shall be entitled to receive the following fees for visiting and examining vessels in the discharge of his official duties: 1. For each vessel from a foreign port, six dollars and fifty cents. 2. For each vessel from a place in the United States south of Cape Henlopen, if above one hundred and sixty tons, three dollars; if not exceeding one hundred and sixty, and above one hundred tons, two dollars; if below one hundred tons, one dollar. And such fees shall be paid by the respective masters of the vessels so visited and examined. S 14. The board of health may, from time to time, appoint so many consulting physicians as they may deem necessary, designate their duties, and fix their compensation. S15. The board of health shall appoint an inspector of vessels, who shall perform the duties required of him in this Chapter, and shall be entitled to receive the following fees: ART. 2. For each cargo inspected by him under the direction of the His fees. board of health, three dollars; For each vessel cleansed and purified by him under the like direction, five dollars; Which fees shall be paid by the owner or consignee of the cargo inspected or vessel purified. S16. It shall be the duty of such inspector, after he shall His duty. have performed any service required of him, to make an immediate report of his proceedings and their result, to the board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health. See Laws of 1850, ch. 275, which enact a new health law for New York TITLE II. OF QUARANTINE AND REGULATIONS IN THE NATURE OF QUAR- ART. 1.—Of the place of quarantine, and the vessels and persons subject thereto.* ART. 4.- Regulations concerning the treatment and conduct of vessels, articles ART. 5. — Of the regulation of intercourse with infected places. ART. 6. Penalties for violating the provisions of this Title.* (*Articles 1, 3, 4, 6 were repealed by Laws of 1846, ch. 300, and a new system of quarantine substituted, but not made a part of the Revised Statutes. The act of 1846 was repealed by Laws of 1850, ch. 275, without reviving the Revised Statutes ] ARTICLE SECOND. OF THE DUTIES OF PILOTS IN RELATION TO VESSELS SUBJECT TO SEC. 14. To hail vessels. QUARANTINE. 15. When to direct them to proceed to quarantine. 16. Duties in conducting vessels into port. [425] [427] vessels. S 14. It shall be the duty of each branch and deputy pilot To hail belonging to the port, to use his utmost endeavours to hail every vessel which he shall discover to be entering the port, and to demand of the master of every such vessel, whether any person has died or been sick on board, during the passage, and whether any pestilential fever existed, at the time of her sailing, at the port whence she sailed. duty. $15. If any of the above questions shall be answered in Further the affirmative, the pilot shall immediately give notice to the master of the vessel, that he, his vessel, crew, passengers and cargo, are subject to the examination of the health officer; and shall direct him to proceed and anchor his vessel at the [428] quarantine anchorage, there to await the further directions of the health officer. S 16. It shall be the duty of every pilot who shall conduct b. in into port a vessel subject to quaratine, 1. To bring such vessel to anchor within the buoys marking the quarantine anchorage. bringing vessels into port. TITLE 2. 2. To prevent any vessel or boat from coming along side of the vessel under his charge, and to prevent any thing on board from being thrown into any other vessel or boat. [436] Proclamation of infected places. Ib. Consequence of. Powers of board of health. 3. To present to the master of the vessel a printed copy of this Chapter, when such copy shall have been delivered to him for that purpose. 4. To take care that no violations of this Chapter be committed by any person on board, and to report such as may be committed, as soon as may be, to the health officer. Ch. 275 of Laws of 1850 contains three sections almost identical with this article; but this article is repealed only so far as it is inconsistent with that act. ARTICLE FIFTH. OF THE REGULATION OF INTERCOURSE WITH INFECTED PLACES. SEC. 64. Proclamation of infected places. 65. Period for its ceasing to be fixed; may be extended. 66. Vessels arriving after proclamation, subject to quarantine. 67. Board of health may regulate intercourse with infected place. $ 64. The mayor of the city of New-York, or the president, at the time, of the board of health, may issue his proclamation, declaring any place where there shall be reason to believe a pestilential or infectious fever actually exists, to be an infected place within the meaning of the health laws of this state. $65. Such proclamation shall fix the period when it shall cease to have effect; but such period, if they shall judge the public health to require it, may from time to time be extended by the board of health, and notice of such extension shall be published in one or more of the newspapers of the city. $66. After such proclamation shall have been issued, all vessels arriving in the port of New-York from such infected place, shall be subject to a quarantine of at least thirty days, and, together with their officers, crews, passengers and cargoes, to all the provisions, regulations and penalties of this Chapter, in relation to vessels subject to a similar quarantine. $67. The board of health may, in their discretion, prohibit or regulate the internal intercourse by land or water, between the city of New-York and such infected place; and may direct, that all persons who shall come into the city of New-York, contrary to their prohibitions or regulations, shall be apprehended and conveyed to the vessel or place whence they last came; or if sick, that they be conveyed to the marine hospital, or such other place as the board of health shall direct. Ch. 275 of Laws of 1850, contains an Article and four sections identical with this Article, but this is not repealed, except as it is "inconsistent." TITLE IIII. INTERNAL REGULATIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ART. 1. Of certain duties and powers of the board of health, the mayor and ART. 2. Of the duties of physicians and other persons. ART. 3. Ch. 275 of Laws of 1850 contains a Title with three Articles almost ARTICLE FIRST. OF CERTAIN DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, THE SEC. 1. General powers of the board of health. 2. Its duty in the prevention of diseases. 3. Any thing injurious to public health may be removed or destroyed. 4. May send non-residents to marine hospital. 5. Commissioners must communicate all reports and information. 1. The board of health shall have power, ART. 1. [440] Power of the board 1. To appoint from time to time so many health wardens of health. and other officers to carry into effect the provisions of this Title, and the rules and regulations of the board, as they may deem necessary: 2. To authorize such officers, at such times as the board shall think fit, to enter into and examine in the day time, all buildings, lots and places of every description, within the city, and to ascertain and report to the board the condition thereof, so far as the public health may be affected thereby : 3. To give all such directions and adopt all such measures, as in their judgment may be necessary, for cleansing and purifying all such buildings, lots and other places; and to do or cause to be done every thing in relation thereto, which in their opinion may be proper to preserve the health of the city: 4. To cause any avenue, street, alley or other passage whatever, to be fenced up, or otherwise enclosed, if they shall think the public safety to require it, and to adopt suitable measures for preventing all persons from going to any part of the city so enclosed. $ 2. It shall be the duty of the board of health, 1. To adopt prompt measures to prevent the spreading of a contagious disease, when it shall appear to them by a report of the resident physician or health commissioner, or of a consulting physician, that any person within the city is afflicted with a disease of that character: 2. To forbid and prevent all communications with the house or family so infected, except by means of physicians, nurses or messengers, to carry the necessary advice, medicines and provisions to the afflicted: 3. To adopt such measures for preventing all communication, between any part of the city infected with a fever of a malig Its duties. TITLE 3. [441] Putrid articles, &c., to be destroyed. Persons to be sent to hospital. nant or contagious character, and all other parts of the city, as shall be prompt and effectual: and, 4. To exercise all such other powers, whenever a contagious disease shall appear in the city, as in their judgment the circumstances of the case and the public good shall require. $3. The board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health, when they shall judge it necessary, may cause any cargo or part of a cargo, or any matter or thing, within the city, that may be putrid or otherwise dangerous to the public health, to be destroyed or removed; such removal, when ordered, shall be to the quarantine ground, or such other place as the board of health shall direct. $4. The board of health, the mayor or either of the comthe marine missioners of health, may send to the marine hospital, or such other place as the board of health shall direct, all persons in the city, not residents thereof, who shall be sick of any malignant or contagious fever. Report to board of health. $5. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of health, from time to time, to communicate to the president of the board of health all reports that shall be made to them, or either of them, under the provisions of this Chapter; and it shall be the further duty of the commissioners, and of each of them, so to communicate all information in their power, that may better enable the board of health to preserve the health of the city. Physicians. ARTICLE SECOND. OF THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS AND OTHER PERSONS. SEC. 6. Certain duties of practising physicians; to report patients. 7. Do. of keepers of boarding-houses. 8. Do. of masters, &c. of vessels. 9. Do. of commissioners of health and consulting physicians. $ 6. It shall be the duty of each practising physician in the city of New-York, 1. To make a report in writing to the mayor, the board of health, or either of the commissioners of health, of every patient he shall have labouring under yellow, bilious-malignant or other pestilential or infectious fever, between the thirty-first day of May and the first day of November in any year, and within twenty-four hours after he shall ascertain or suspect the nature of the disease: 2. To report, if so directed by the board of health, every patient he shall have between the same days, laboring under fever of any description, and to state in his report, the specific name and type of such fever: 3. To report, when required by the board of health, the death of any of his patients who shall have died of fever, within forty-eight hours after such death shall have occurred, and to state in such report, the specific name and type of such fever. |