1822 - Edocs

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nail have arrived within the same, having an infectious
or pestilential disorder, or shall have been attacked with
the same alter his arrival, the said board shall direct said
sick person to be carefully removed to the quarantine
hospital, unless such sick person, or his friends, shall provide
some other place out of the city, to whi< h he may be
conveyed, and immediately after such removal, the said
board shall cause the apartment m which such person laid
to be thoroughly cleansed and fumigated, and the bed and
bed clothes in which he laid, to be either washed or destroyed,
as circumstances may seem to them to require.
Art. 10. It shall be the duty of the board of health to
publish every vveek during the months of May, June. July,
August, September and October, in every year, a detailed
account of the deaths, designating the name, age, places
of nativity and abode of the oeceasea, the disease of which
he died, the time of his residence in the city, and nature
of his sickness, and if possible (in cases of fever winch
may be supposed infectious) the place at which the infection
is supposed to have been taken.
Art. 11. The board shall provide a convenient covered
litter with curtains, for the conveyance of the ssck, when
it is found necessary to remove them; as also for the same
purpose a convenient boat, with an awning, and shall have
hands to row the said boat, and bear the said litter, which
shall be under the immediate direction of the Resident
Physician, and the bedding or linen on which the sick
shall be removed shall, after every removal, be carefully
changed and purified, or washed.
Art. 12. Whenever it shall appear to the board that
any operation for the cleansing, watering, rilling, or draining
the streets, squares, or other places of the city, or of
the ground adjoining the same, is necessary, they may
pass resolutions stating the information, and their opinion
as to the measures necessary to be taken on the subject,
to ensure health, and it is made the duty of the Mayor
and Aldermen, to carry the resolution into immediate ef-
fect.
CHAP. II.
Of the Officers of the Board of Health and their duties.
Section 1.
Art. 1. The officers to be appointed are, first, a Resident
Physician, second, a health officer, third a steward to
the quarantine ground, fourth, two health wardens. The
board of health shall also have power to employ :;;ich
workmen, boatmer- and other persons as may be necessa-
rv to carrv their duties into effect.
B.of H. to report
Health and disease.
Covered litter fe
boat won awning'.
Cleansing", Draining
ice. &c.
Officers of thr
hoard of health.