Letters on yellow fever, cholera, and quarantineMcSpedon & Baker, 1852 - 88 pages |
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Aldermen antine appeared ARTICLE August BEUREN bilious fever black vomit Board of Health brig Captain cargo Catharine street cause cholera City Inspector cleansed clothing Commissioners of Emigration Commissioners of Health consignee contagion contagious or infectious crew deaths died direct discharged duty epidemic feet five days fomites gale Havana Health Officer hundred imprisonment infected vessels JACK BRITTON lazaretto Lombardy Lombardy street malady Marine Hospital Mayor and Commissioners missioners of Health occurred offence Ogeechee rivers Orleans owner passengers period person on board pestilential disease present prevailed provisions public health purified quarantine ground recovered regulations removed river sailed September ship Ann Maria shore sickened sickly ports sickly vessels SINCLAIR six days Staten Island subject to quarantine taken ill taken sick thereof thirty days tion United States wharf VAN BEUREN ventilated vessel arrived vessels subject vicinity visited voyage Ward's Island washing wharves yellow fever York
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Page 74 - To proceed to and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, at the time of his arrival ; or, 2.
Page 67 - Bahama, Bermuda or Western Islands, or from any place in America in the ordinary passage from which they pass south of Cape...
Page 86 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page 75 - ... imprisonment, and for each subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 74 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
Page 75 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 78 - ... necessary and proper, for the preservation of the public health of said city, and also for the abatement and removal of all and every nuisance in said city, and for compelling the proprietors or owners of the lot or lots, upon which the same may be, to abate and remove the same.
Page 67 - Henlopen, and all vessels on board of which, during the voyage or while at the port of their departure, any person shall have been sick, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November, and all vessels from a foreign port...
Page 68 - November, and all vessels from a foreign port, not embraced in the first subdivision of this section, shall, on their arrival at the quarantine ground, be subject to visitation by the Health Officer, but shall not be detained beyond the time requisite for due examination and observation, unless they...
Page 75 - ... department, shall on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of felony, and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding...