Health. Statutes. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 1. Precautions against infected persons; duty of municipal officers. 2. Precautions against persons arriving from infected places. 3. Restrictions on such persons; may be removed if refractory; penalty if they return. 4. Precautions authorized in border towns. 5. Process for removal or separate accommodation of infected 10. Compensation for men or property impressed. 11. Adjournment of courts because of danger from infection. 12. Removal of infected prisoners from places of confinement. Order for removal, how returned. Such a removal not an escape. 13. 14. 15. Health committee, how chosen; their duties. If no committee chosen, selectmen to perform the duties. 16. May order removal of private nuisances; proceedings thereon. 17. Masters, &c., of vessels may be examined on oath in certain 18. 19. cases. Vessels with infected persons to anchor at a distance from towns. Penalty for violation of this provision. 20. Selectmen may establish quarantine regulations. Penalty for breach thereof. 21. Duty of pilots to give notice thereof. 22. Punishment for violation or evasion of quarantine, after notice. 23. Selectmen to furnish signals, to be kept hoisted by master. Restriction of persons visiting vessels at quarantine. 24. Health committee may exercise authority of selectmen relating to quarantine. 25. Quarantine expenses, how paid. 26. Hospitals may be established. thereof. Restrictions as to location 27. Restrictions on inoculation with the small pox. 28. Physicians and others liable to hospital regulations. 29. Hospitals to be provided on breaking out of infectious diseases; regulations. 30. Precautions to prevent the spread of such diseases. 31. Penalty for violation of hospital regulations by persons subject thereto. 32. Householders and physicians to give notice of infectious diseases under their care. 33. Forfeitures, how recovered and appropriated. 34. Towns may choose a board of health; their powers and duties. 35. Vaccination, free. 36. By-laws may be established. UNWHOLESOME PROVISIONS AND DRINKS. 37. Selling unwholesome provisions and drinks, &c. 41. Vinegar, inspectors of. 42. Fresh meat and fish, sale of, regulated. Penalties. 45. Cattle killed to be appraised. 46. Further powers to city officers. 47. Passage of animals, how regulated. 48. Regulations to be recorded and published. 49. Sale of infected animals prohibited. Penalty. Owners 50. Disobedience of orders of mayor, &c., how punished. 51. Knowledge, &c., of disease to be reported. punished. 52. Neglect, &c., of officers, penalty for. 53, Appraisals, how made; to whom certified. Failure, how 54. Further powers of cities. Amount of appraisal, how paid. Owner dissatisfied, his remedy. Amount to be reimbursed. 55. Notice to governor, &c. 56. Commissioners may be appointed; powers of, &c. 57. Regulations by comissioners to supersede others. Municipal authorities to enforce directions of commissioners. 58. Glanders. 59. Medical act. Disposition of dead bodies. 60. Man's consent to anatomical use of his body. 61. Medical school has body under some circumstances. 62. Notice to municipal officers. 11. Vaults, &c., restriction upon erection. Proviso. 12. Fresh fish, where sold. 13. 14. Same subject. Offensive substances not to be thrown into wells. 15. Unwholesome provisions not to be sold. 16. Regulations respecting hog-sties. Penalty. 19. Mayor and aldermen to appoint person to have charge of cart. 20. Offal to be delivered to person appointed. Penalty. Penalty. 22. Vaults, &c., in unhealthy condition to be cleansed. 23. Persons in tenements, where too numerous, or unprovided with vaults, may be removed. Penalty. 24. Hides or leather not to be exposed in streets. Penalty. 25. Harbor master and city physician, duty of, in relation to quarantining vessels. 34. Superintendent of burials. Authority. Subject to regu lations of mayor and aldermen. 35. Superintendent to be chosen annually. To give bonds and be sworn. 36. His duties. 37. Superintendent to have care of funeral cars. 38. Undertakers to be appointed and licensed. May employ porters. May be removed. Penalty for acting as undertakers without license. 39. No interment to be made without license. What time interments may be made. 40. Undertaker's fees. 41. Depth of graves. 42. No body of deceased persons to be removed out of city for interment without permission. attend to removal. 43. Undertakers to make returns. Superintendent to 44. Bodies not to be removed from graves without permit. 45. "" when to be removed from city tomb. 46. Superintendent to remove bodies. 47. Bodies not to be interred in city cemeteries, except, &c. 48. Mayor and aldermen may close tombs. against persons. R. S., 1871, c. 14,, § 1. 1. When any person is, or has recently been infected Precautions with any disease or sickness dangerous to the public health, the municipal officers of the town where he is, shall provide for the safety of the inhabitants, as they think best, by removing him1 to a separate house, if it can be done without great danger to his health, and by providing nurses and other assistants and necessaries, at his charge or that of his parent or master, if able, otherwise that of the town to which he belongs. against persons arriving 2. When any infectious or malignant distemper is Precautions known to exist in any place out of the State, the municipal officers of any town in the State, by giving from infected public notice therein, as they find convenient, may require any person coming from such place to inform one 1 Such expenses must be borne by town. Kennebunk v. Alfred, 19 Maine, 221; Orono v. Peavey, 66 Maine, 60. See also Haverly v. Bass, 66 Maine, 71. places. Ibid. § 2. Restrictions on may be removed if refractory. of them or the town clerk of their arrival and from what place; and if he does not, within two hours after his arrival, or after actual notice of such requirement, give such information, he shall forfeit one hundred dollars to the use of the town. 3. Said officers may prohibit a person, required to give such persons; such information, from going to any part of their town where they think his presence would be unsafe for the inhabitants; and if he does not comply, they may order him, unless disabled by sickness, forthwith to leave the State in the manner and by the road they direct; and if he neglects or refuses so to do, any justice of the peace in the county, on complaint of either of said officers, may issue his warrant to any proper officer or other person named therein, and cause him to be removed out of the State; and if during the prevalence of such distemper, in the place where he resides, he returns to any Penalty if they town in this State without the license of the municipal officers thereof, he shall forfeit not exceeding four hundred dollars. return. Ibid. § 3. Precautions border towns. Ibid. § 4. 4. The municipal officers of any town near to or authorized in adjoining the line of the State, may appoint by writing under their hands, suitable persons to attend at any places by which travelers may pass into such town from infected places in other States or Provinces, who may examine such passengers, as they suspect of bringing with them any infection dangerous to the public health, and if need be, may restrain them from travelling until licensed thereto by a justice of the peace in the county, or one of said officers; and any such passenger who without such license travels in this State, except to return by the most direct way to the State or Province whence he came, after he has been cautioned to depart by the persons so appointed, shall forfeit not exceeding one hundred dollars. Process for removal or separate accommodation of infected persons. Ibid. § 5. 5. Any two justices of the peace may issue a warrant, directed to a proper officer, requiring him to remove any person infected with contagious sickness, under the direction of the municipal officers of the town where he is; or to impress and take np convenient houses, |