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Disinfection.

§ 146. Adequate disinfection or cleansing and renovation of premises, furniture and belongings, deemed by the Department of Health to be infected by contagious or communicable diseases, shall immediately follow the recovery, death or removal of the person suffering from such disease, and such disinfection or cleansing and renovation shall be performed by the owner or occupant of said premises when ordered by the Board of Health. (Id., sec. 146.)

Vaccination, Antitoxin.

§ 147. Every person, being the parent or guardian, or having the care, custody, or control of any minor, or other individual, shall (to the extent of any means, power and authority of said parent, guardian, or other person that could properly be used or exerted for such purpose) cause and procure such minor or individual to be so promptly, frequently, and effectively vaccinated, that such minor or individual shall not take, or be liable to take the smallpox. (Id., sec. 147.)

But if a person be not vaccinated he cannot be quarantined unless the conditions to communicate the disease exist. Smith vs. Emery, 11 App. Div. 10; Matter of Smith, 146 N. Y. 68; Viermeir vs. White, 179 N. Y. 235.

§ 148. That no preparation of diphtheria antitoxin shall be offered or exposed for sale in this city unless the receptacle containing such preparation bear a label on which is placed the name and the address of the producer, and upon such label, or upon a circular accompanying such receptacle and inclosed with it in a sealed package, shall be printed or written the date of production and the value of the contents in antitoxin, as measured by some generally recognized standard. (Id., sec. 148.)

Vessels and Seamen.

§ 149. The master, chief officer, and consignee of every vessel not being in quarantine, or within quarantine limits, but being within one-fourth of a mile of any dock, wharf, pier or building of said city, shall daily report to the Department of Health, or cause to be reported, in writing, the particulars, and shall therein state the name, disease and condition of any person being in or on such vessel, and sick of any infectious disease. (Id., sec. 149.)

The power of public authorities to protect the public from contagious diseases on vessels considered. Lockwood vs. Bartlett, 130 N. Y. 340.

§ 150. The keepers, lessees, tenants and owners of every boarding-house and lodging-house shall forthwith notify the Department of Health of the fact of any sea-faring man or person lately from any vessel being taken sick at such house, and shall in such notice state where such sick person

may be found, and from what vessel, and when he came, to the best of the knowledge of the person or persons give ing such notice. (Id., sec. 150.)

§ 151. Every master and chief officer of any vessel, and every physician of, or who practiced on, any vessel which shall arrive in the port of New York from any other port, shall at once report to this department any facts connected with any person or thing on said vessel, or that came thereon, which he has reason to think may endanger the public health of this city; and he shall report the facts as to any person being or having been sick thereon, of an infectious disease, and as to there being or having been, during the voyage or since her arrival, any infected person or articles thereon. (Id., sec. 151.)

§ 152. No master, charterer, owner, part owner or consignee of any vessel, or any other person, shall bring to any dock, pier, wharf or building within 1,000 feet thereof, in said city, or unload at any dock, building, or pier therein, or have on storage in the built-up portions of said city, any skins, hides, rags, or similar articles or materials having been brought from any foreign country or any infected place, or from any points south of Norfolk, Virginia, without or otherwise than according to a permit from the Board of Health, and no person shall sell, exchange, remove or in any way expose any straw, bedding or other articles used by immigrants upon any vessel bringing immigrants to this port, until it has been adequately and properly cleansed or disinfected; and all straw, bedding or other articles that have been exposed on any vessel to contagion or infection of any contagious disease, or have been or are liable to communicate such disease, shall be destroyed by fire on said vessel. (Id., sec. 152.)

§ 153. No owner, agent, or consignee of any vessel, or cargo, and no officer of any vessel (in respect of either of which vessel or cargo a permit, according to any law, ordinance, or regulation shall or should have been obtained to pass quarantine, or to come up to the water front of The City of New York) shall unload, or land, or cause to be unladen or landed, such cargo, or any part thereof, in said city, without having first received a permit from the Board of Health so to do. (Id., sec. 153.)

§ 154. No captain, officer, consignee, owner or other person in charge of any vessel (or having right and authority to prevent the same) shall remove or aid in removing from any vessel to the shore (save as legally authorized by the Health Officer of the Port of New York, and into quarantine grounds and buildings only) any person sick of, or person that has been exposed to, and is liable very soon to develop any infectious disease, or so remove or aid in removing any articles that may have been exposed to the contagion of any such disease, except in accordance with a permit from the Board of Health. (Id., sec. 154.)

§ 155. No master, charterer, consignee, or other person shall order, bring or allow (having power and authority to prevent the same) any vessel or person, or article therefrom, from any infected port, or any vessel, or person or article therefrom, liable to quarantine, according to the ninth section of the three hundred and fifty-eighth chapter of the Laws of 1863 (or under any other laws, and whether such quarantine has been made or suffered or not), to come or be brought to any point nearer than 300 yards from any dock or pier, or to any building in said city without or otherwise than according to a permit from the Board of Health. Nor shall any vessel, or person or thing therein or therefrom, having been in quarantine, come or be brought within the last-named distance of any last-named place, without the permit or assent of this board. (Id., sec. 155.)

§ 156. No person shall bring into this city from any infected place, or land or take therein from any vessel lately from an infected port, or from any vessel or building in which has lately been any person sick of an infections disease, any article or person whatsoever, nor shall any such person land or come into said city without a permit from the Board of Health; and it shall be no excuse that such person or article so offending, or the occasion of offense, has passed through quarantine, or has a permit from any other source than this board. (Id., sec. 156.)

§ 157. No owner, part owner, charterer, agent or consignee of any vessel, or any officer or person having charge or control of the same, shall allow to be cast therefrom, and no person shall cast therefrom, into any public waters of The City of New York, any straw, bedding, clothing or other substance. (Id., sec. 157.)

Marriages, Births and Deaths.

§ 158. It shall be the duty of the clergymen, magistrates and other persons who perform the marriage ceremony in The City of New York, to keep a registry of the marriages celebrated by them, which shall contain, as near as the same can be ascertained, the place and date of marriage, age, color, name and surname of the parties married, birthplace, residence, number of marriage and condition of each, whether single, widowed or divorced, the occupation of the groom, maiden name of the bride, if a widow, the names of the parties of each and the maiden name of the mother of each. And every person authorized by law to perform the ceremony of marriage shall register his or her name and address in the office of the Bureau of Records. (Id., sec. 158.)

§ 159. It shall be the duty of the parents of any child born in said city (and if there be no parent alive that has made such report, then of the next of kin of said child born), and of every person present at such birth, within ten days after such birth, to report to the Department of Health,

in writing, as far as known, the date, borough and street number of said birth, and the name, sex and color of such child born, and the names, residence, birthplace and age of the parents, the occupation of the father and the maiden name of the mother. It shall also be the duty of physicians and professional midwives to keep a registry of the several births in which they have assisted professionally, which shall contain, as near as the same can be ascertained, the time and place of such birth, name, sex and color of the child, the name, residence, birthplace and age of the parents, the occupation of the father and the maiden name of the mother, and to report the same within ten days to the Department of Health. (Id., sec. 159.)

§ 160. It shall be the duty of the next of kin of any person deceased, and of each person being with such deceased person at his or her death, to report, in writing, to the Department of Health, within five days after such death, the age, color, nativity, last occupation and cause of death of such deceased person and the place of such person's death and last residence. Physicians who have attended deceased persons in their last illness shall make and preserve a registry of such death, stating the cause thereof and specifying the date, hour, place and street number of such death, and shall, in the report of the death of such persons, specify, as near as the same can be ascertained, the date of death, sex, name and surname, age, occupation, term of residence in said city, place of nativity, condition of life, whether single, married, widowed or divorced, color, last place of residence, the names and birthplaces of the parents, the maiden name of the mother and the cause of death of such diseased persons, and the Coroners of the city, in such cases as an inquest may have been held, shall, in their certificates, conform to the requirements of this section. Every physician in said city shall register his or her name and address in the office of the Bureau of Records of said department. (Id., sec. 160.)

Mandamus will lie to compel a hospital to correct a certificate of death which they have filed with the Health Department. People ex rel. Haase vs. German Hosp., 8 Abb. N. C. 332.

§ 161. It shall be the duty of every person required to make or keep a registry of births, marriages or deaths, to present to the Bureau of Records a copy of such registry signed by such person, within ten days after the birth or marriage, and within thirty-six hours after the death of any person to whom such registry may or should relate, which shall thereupon be placed on file in the said bureau. (Id., sec. 161.)

This does not mean leaving the notice personally with the Board of Health; mailing is sufficient. Dept. Health City of N. Y. vs. Owen, 94 App. Div. 425.

§ 162. No person shall make, prepare, deliver or issue any false certificate, statement or report of a birth, marriage or death, or any such certificate, statement or report, which

is not in accordance with the facts of the birth, marriage or death; all certificates, statements and reports of births, marriages or deaths, shall be signed by the person purporting to make the same, and no person shall sign or forge the name of another to any such certificate, statement or report. (Id., sec. 162.)

Transportation of Dead Bodies.

§ 163. That no captain, agent or person having charge of or attached to any ferryboat, sailing or other vessel, nor any person in charge of any car, stage or other vehicle or public or private conveyance, shall convey or allow to be conveyed thereon or by any means aforesaid, nor shall any person convey or allow to be carried or conveyed, in any manner, from, through, into or within The City of New York, the dead body of any human being, or any part thereof, without a permit therefor from the Board of Health. And the proper coupon for that purpose attached to any such permit, when issued, shall be preserved and returned to this department, as its regulations may require, by the proper officer or person on each boat or vessel, and by the proper person in charge of any train of cars or vehicle on which any such body may be carried from said city. Provided, however, that the same effect shall be given, under this section, to transit permits issued severally by Boards of Health of cities, towns or villages in the State of New York, or by Boards of Health that may be hereafter organized, pursuant to Laws of the State of New York, or when issued by the Health Officer of any such city, town or village, as to a transit permit issued from this board, when the death of the person named in the permit shall have occurred in the city, town or village from which such permit shall have been issued.

And provided that the same effect shall be given, under this section, to a transit permit issued under the laws of the State of New Jersey, as to a transit permit issued from this board; subject, nevertheless, in every case to all the care, precautions and diligence prescribed by the rules and regulations of this department. And provided, that the same effect be given, under this section, to a transit permit issued under the laws of the State of Connecticut, as to a transit permit from this board; subject, nevertheless, in every case, to all the care, precautions and diligence prescribed by the rules and regulations of this department. (Id., sec. 163.)

§ 164. No person shall retain, expose or allow to be retained or exposed, the dead body of any human being to the peril or prejudice of the life or health of any person. (Id., sec. 164.)

§ 165. No person shall allow to be retained unburied the dead body of any human being for a longer time than four days, or where death has resulted from smallpox, diphtheria

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