Health officers. Infected vessels not to enter without permit. TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. CHAPTER 46. CHAPTER XLVI. TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. SEC. 1. Three health officers to be appointed for each county. 2. Infected or crowded vessels not to en- Nor vessels coming from sickly places. 3. Duty of the health officers to inspect Penalty for concealing sick persons. 4. Health officers to report refusal to per- Mayor or justices, &c., may give a Fee for such license, $2. 5. Penalty for boarding vessels without 6. Vessels not to bring in more than one These to be well supplied with sea stores. Penalty. SEC. 6. Health officers to inquire; and prose cute. 7. Proclamation of the existence of infectious disease. Vessels from infected places ordered off. Quarantine; proviso; penalty $500. 8. Power to suspend intercourse with infected places. Restrictions; penalty 9. Liability of owners &c., of vessels &c. for violating health laws. Vessels &c., may be seized and sold after notice. Unless special bail be entered. 10. Penalty on foot passengers coming from infected places. 11. All civil officers required to execute this law. They may call out the power of the county. 12. Penalties; how recovered and applied. 13. Suits for; must be brought within six months. HEALTH OFFICERS. SECTION 1. The Governor shall appoint three physicians in each county, to be health officers for such county. SEC. 2. No master or person having charge of any vessel bound to any port in this State, having on board more than forty persons, or any one sick with any infectious disease, or coming from any sickly port, shall bring his vessel, or permit it to be brought, nearer Nor land passen. to any place of landing than one mile; nor shall he land, or permit to be landed, at any place in this State, any person, or any goods, until he shall have obtained a permit in writing from the Penalty $1,000. health officer nearest the place of landing, under the penalty of one thousand dollars. gers or goods. Duty of health vessels. SEC 3. It shall be the duty of the health officer upon notice officer to inspect being giving to him by the master, or person having charge of such vessel, to go on board the same, and diligently inquire and examine respecting the persons on board, and the condition of the cargo. And if any master or persons having charge of such vessel, shall, during the voyage, have had, or shall then have, on board, any person sick with any infectious disease, and shall knowingly conceal the same from said health officer, he shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars. The health officer shall give information of this penalty, and may administer an oath to any person on board, to answer truly all such questions as he shall put on the subject. Penalty for concealment. Fees. Report of health His fee for these services shall be ten dollars, to be paid by the the master, owner or consignee of the vessel. SEC. 4. If the health officer shall refuse to permit the landing of officers refusing persons, or goods, from any such vessel, he shall forth with make report thereof to the mayor of the city of Wilmington, if the vessel is permit. TO PREVENT HE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. CHAPTER 46. bound to that port; or, in any other case, to two justices of the peace residing nearest to the place where such vessel is; and the said mayor, with the advice of the city council, or the said justices, with the advice of the nearest town commissioners, are authorized and required, under such regulations as may seem most consistent with the public health and safety, to grant a written license to the owner, consignee, master, or person in charge of said vessel, for the landing of any of such sick persons, as the person to whom such Landing license. license is granted, shall provide with suitable accommodations. The fee for such license shall be two dollars. Fee. boarding vessels SEC. 5. If any person shall go on board such vessel, before a Penalty for landing permit shall have been obtained from the health officer, without license. without the special license of such officer, he shall forfeit and pay ten dollars for every such offense. number of passengers, SEC. 6. No master, or person having charge of any vessel bound Limitation of to any port in this State, shall bring any more passengers than shall be well supplied with wholesome meat, drink, and other necessaries for the voyage; nor shall bring more passengers than one for every two tons, custom house measurement, of said vessel, (estimating two children, between five and twelve years old, as one full passenger) under penalty of six hundred dollars for such offense; and the health officer, on visiting any vessel, shall inquire into this matter, and forthwith cause suit to be brought for any violation of this section. INTERCOURSE WITH INFECTED PLACES. the existence of SEC. 7. The mayor and city council of Wilmington, with the ad- Proclamation of vice of the nearest health officer, and two justices of the peace in infectious disease any other town or hundred of the State, with the advice of the nearest town commissioners, and health officer, are respectively authorized and empowered, on receiving information of the prevalence of any infectious disease in any port or place, to make that fact known by proclamation; and thereby to order that no vessel bound from, Vessel ordered or which may have touched at such infected place, shall be brought off. nearer to said city than the mouth of the Christiana river, or nearer to the port or place of landing, designated for such town or hundred, than one mile; and that no person, or goods be landed from any such vessel; and all persons on board said vessel, shall be subject to such quarantine, and other cautionary measures, as the said proclama- Quarantine, tion shall prescribe: provided, that vessels bound further up the Proviso. said Christiana river may, notwithstanding such proclamation, pass the said city, if they do not land any person, or goods, within one mile thereof, or cast anchor within one mile, except in stress of weather or other unavoidable necessity. The penalty for any violation of this section, or for resisting or Penalty $500, violating any proclamation, or regulation made under it, shall be five hundred dollars. Suspending intercourse with TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. CHAPTER 46. SEC. 8. After proclamation so issued, the officers issuing the same, infected places. With the advice aforesaid, shall respectively have full power and authority, by further proclamation, to suspend altogether, during the prevalence of such infectious disorder, the intercourse by land between such infected place and the said city, town, or hundred, or to impose such regulations and restrictions thereon, as may be deemed necessary to the public health and safety. Restrictions. Penalty $300. Liability of owners, violating this chapter. Remedy. And any person disobeying such prohibition, or violating such regulations and restrictions, shall forfeit and pay three hundred dollars. SEC. 9. The owners, consignees, master, and person in charge of vessels, &c, for any such vessel, and the owner and driver of any carriage, or horse, used for conveying passengers or goods, as well as such vessel, carriage and horse, violating, or used in the violation of this chapter, shall be liable for any penalty it imposes; and such vessel, carriage, or horse may be seized by the sheriff by virtue of process issued to him by any prothonotary of the Superior Court in any suit brought for such penalty, and may be kept until sufficient special bail shall be entered to such action; and if bail be not so entered within one month from such seizure, and notice thereof to such master, owner or consignee, the property so seized may, by order of said court, or any judge thereof, be sold by the sheriff, in the same manner, and upon like notice, as property seized and sold on execution process; and the proceeds of sale shall be brought into the Superior Court, to abide the event of any action there commenced for any of the said penalties. Penalty on foot com from infected SEC. 10. If any person, traveling on foot from any infected place, passengers core shall, after proclamation issued, enter any place in this State conplaces, $40. trary to such proclamation, or shall violate the regulations and restrictions thereby imposed, he shall forfeit and pay forty dollars. SEC. 11. All civil officers of the State are required, on request officers to enforce made, to aid and assist in the execution of the provisions of this chapter; and if it be deemed necessary by the officers charged with its execution, they may command and require the aid of the posse comitatus for the purpose. Duty of civil this law. POSSE COMI TATUS. Penalties. How recovered. SEC. 12, All forfeitures and penalties incurred under this chapter, shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the State, which suit shall be brought by the attorney-general, at the request of any Appropriation, health officer; and one-fourth of the amount recovered shall belong to such health officer, and the balance to the trustees of the poor of the county where suit is brought. Limitation of suits. SEC. 13. All suits for such penalties or forfeitures, shall be commenced within six months next after forfeiture or penalty incurred, and not after. SECTION 1. The physicians, associated as "The President and Medical society Fellows of the Medical Society of Delaware," have been and are re-incorporated. incorporated; aud by that name, shall continue to be a corporation in fact and in law, with perpetual succession, and with all the fran chises, powers and incidents of a corporation aggregate. Board of examiners. SEC. 2. They may hold an annual stated meeting, at such Annual meeting. place, within this State, and at such time, as they may choose; and may choose by ballot and by a majority of votes, from among the fellows, a president of said society, a medical board of examiners Officers. for the State, and such other officers as they shall deem necessary, to serve until the next annual stated meeting, and until others are chosen. And at this, or any other meeting of said society, duly convened according to its by-laws, they may choose and admit other fellows proposed, according to such by-laws, for admission into the Fellows, society. * * * Chap. 38, vol. 18 medical board. SEC. 3. SEC. 4. The medical society shall have power to appoint the Meetings of the times and places of meeting of the medical board of examiners; to determine how many of such board, less than a majority, shall be a quorum to do business; and to make rules for the government of said board, as well as of their own body; provided, that these, Proviso. and all acts of the society, shall be done by a majority of the fellows present at a meeting regularly held; and that a majority of the medical board shall always be a quorum. SEC. 5. SEC. 6. * * * * SEC. 7. Repealed by Chap. 70, Vol. 17. * CHAPTER 35, VOL. 18, LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN THIS STATE. Unlawful to SECTION 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person to practice medicine or surgery practice medi cine or surgery without license, Clerk of the license. in this State without having obtained a license therefor as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The clerk of the peace of any of the counties of this State shall, upon the presentation to him by any person of a license as provided for by Section 3. Chapter Peace to issue 47, of the Revised Statutes of the State. [A license issued by board of examiners of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Delaware State and Peninsula, under its corporate seal, signed by the president of said society and countersigned by the secretary thereof; Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or Chap. 548, vol. 18. any other school of medicine. OF PHYSICIANS. CHAP. 47. ADDITIONAL ACTS. Nothing to effect taken to apply or effect any other school of medicine other than homeopathic, and applicants who are graduate and hold diplomas from some reputable homeopathic college,] or upon the affidavit of any person that he or she has practiced medicine or surgery for eight years continuously in this State, and upon such person registering his or her name, date of graduation, and college from which he or she graduated (if a graduate), and the place of his or her intended residence, issue to such person a license signed by the Governor and countersigned by the Secretary of State, and sealed with the seal of his office, certifying that such person is authorized to practice medicine and surgery in this State conformably to the laws thereof. Duty of the Secretary of State. Fee for license. Proviso. Special license icene or surgery by opening transient office. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to prepare forms of such licenes, blank as to date and name of licenser, signed, countersigned and sealed as provided in the foregoing section, and furnish the same to the clerks of the peace of the several counties in sufficient quantities to supply the demand therefor, and for his so doing he shall be paid the same compensation as is now by law provided in the case of other licenses. SEC. 4. Upon the issuing of every such license the clerk of the peace issuing the same shall demand and receive the sum of ten dollars for the use of the State, and a fee of fifty cents for his own use. Provided, that the foregoing provisions shall not apply to persons who have complied with the provisions of Section 5 of the act hereby supplied to-wit: “An Act Regulating the Practice of Medicine and Surgery in this State," passed at Dover, April 19, 1883. SEC. 5. It shall not be lawful for any person to practice, or attempt to practice, medto practice medicine or surgery by opening a transient office within this State, or by hand bills or other form of printed or written advertisement, assign such transient office or place to meet persons seeking medical or surgical advice or prescription without having, in addition to complying with the provisions hereinbefore mentioned, also paid to the clerk of the peace of the county wherein the office or place aforesaid is located, a special license fee of one hundred dollars, and the license so granted shall be good for only one year from its date. SEC. 6. The provisions of this act shall not apply to physicians who are regular practitioners of any other State coming into this State in consultation with any lawful practitioner of medicine and surgery of this State. SEC. 7. Any person practicing, or attempting to practice, medicine or surgery within this State contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars. SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, but nothing herein contained shall in any way interfere with the operation of Chapter 117, of Volume 13, of the Laws of this State, or relieve any person practicing the profession of medicine from his or her obligation to obtain a license under the provisions of said chapter. Passed at Dover, March 22, 1887. CHAPTER, 496 VOL. 17, LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY IN THE SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person who is not, at the time of the passage of this act a recognized practitioner of dentistry in this State, and so recog |