Document Citation: 53 P.S. § 24668

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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 53. MUNICIPAL AND QUASI-MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
PART III. CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
CHAPTER 60. HEALTH AND SAFETY
ARTICLE IV. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

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08/31/2009

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§ 24668. Visitation and removal of persons having infectious or contagious diseases

It shall be the duty of the officer or officers appointed for such purpose by the director aforesaid to visit and examine all sick persons who shall be reported as laboring or supposed to be laboring under yellow or ship fever, smallpox, cholera, or any infectious or pestilential disease, and under the advice of the physician to said bureau of health, and with the consent of the attending physician, cause all such persons to be removed to the cholera, smallpox, or other hospitals, or to such other safe and proper place as said bureau of health may direct, and cause them to be provided with suitable nurses and medical attendance, at the expense of such city.