AN ACT 
' / / 
£e> \ / FOR ESTABLISHING 
A HEALTH OFFICE, 
AND TO SECURE 
THE CITY AND PORT OF PHILADELPHIA 
FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF 
PESTILENTIAL AND CONTAGIOUS 
DISEASES, 
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; 
Passed January 29, 1818: 
WITH ITS SUPPLEMENTS, 
Passed from 1821 to 1832.. f - 
PHILADELPHIA: 
PRINTED BY LYDIA R. BAILEY, 
No. 26, North Fifth Street. 
1832. AN ACT, &c. 
AN ACTfor establishing a Health Office, and to secure 
the City and Port of Philadelphia from the introduc- 
tion of Pestilential and Contagious Diseases, and for 
other purposes. 
Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, That from and after the first Mon- 
day in March next, a Board of Health shall be established | 
in the manner hereinafter directed, which shall be and here- 
by is erected into a body corporate, in deed and in law, by 
the name, style, and title of, “The Board of Health,” who 
shall have perpetual succession, and enjoy all and every the 
rights, liberties, and privileges, powers, authorities, and , 
immunities, incident or belonging to a corporation or body i 
politic; and by that name may take and hold all the estate ( 
real and personal now vested in the present Board of Health, 1 
and shall moreover have and exercise the powers and au-, 
thorities hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: The mem-1 
bers of the Board of Health shall be eleven, who shall serve j 
without compensation or emolument, and shall be appoint-' 
ed in the manner following, to wit: The Select and Com-: 
mon Councils of the city of Philadelphia, in a joint meet- j 
ing to be held on the afternoon of the second Monday in : 
March, annually, between the hours of two and six o’clock, ! 
shall elect by ballot, six citizens, who shall be taxable in-( 
habitants of the said city; and the commissioners of the in-, 
corporated part of the Northern Liberties shall annually, on i 
the same day, and between the same hours, elect by ballot l 
two citizens, who shall be taxable inhabitants of the said | 
district; and the commissioners of Penn township shall an-1 
nually, on the same day, and between the same hours, elect 
by ballot one citizen, who shall be a taxable inhabitant of 
Board of 
Health esta- 
blished. 
To be a body 
corporate. 
To consist of 
eleven mem- 
bers, to be 
chosen annu- 
ally on the 
second Mon- 
day of March, 
and to serve 
without com- 
pensation. 
Six members 
to be elected 
by the corpo- 
ration of Phi- 
ladelphia. 
Two by the 
commission- 
ers of the in- 
corporated 
part of the 
Northern Li- 
berties. 
One by the 
commission- 
ers of Penn 
township. One by the 
commission- 
ers of South- 
wark. 
the said district; and the commissioners of the district of 
Southwark shall annually, on the same day, and between 
the same hours, elect by ballot one citizen, who shall be a 
taxable inhabitant of the said district; and the commission- 
ers of Moyamensing shall annually, on the same day, and 
between the same hours, elect by ballot one citizen, who 
shall be a taxable inhabitant of the said township, who shall 
constitute the Board of Health, of which a majority shall 
be a quorum. And in case the appointments hereby direct- 
ed should not take place on the day specified, they may be 
made on any other subsequent day prior to the third Mon- 
day in March, between the same hours; and the number of 
years for which any individual may be eligible as a mem- 
ber of the Board of Health, shall not be limited; and in 
case of the removal, death, sickness, resignation, inability, 
or refusal to serve, of any of the said Board, their places 
shall be supplied by other appointments to be made by the 
same authority which appointed the individuals by whose 
delinquency the vacancies shall be occasioned. And the 
said Board, out of their own body, shall choose a President, 
who shall preside at the meetings of the Board, and whose 
place shall be supplied in his absence by the appointment 
of a chairman for the time ; a Secretary, whose duty it shall 
be to keep fair minutes of all the proceedings, rules, and 
regulations of the Board ; and a Treasurer, who shall give 
bond with sureties as is required of the county treasurer, 
who shall receive all moneys belonging to the corporation, 
and pay and disburse the same upon the order of the Board, 
signed by the President and attested by the Secretary, who 
shall keep fair and just accounts of his receipts and expen- 
ditures, and make extracts thereof whenever the Board 
shall require the same; and shall once in every year, his 
accounts having been allowed by the Board, publish the 
same in one or more newspapers of the city of Philadelphia. 
And the said Board shall sit upon their own adjournment 
as they shall find necessary, but shall meet at least once in 
every day between the first day of June and first day of Oc- 
tober in every year; and also when the Board shall be spe- 
cially convened by order of the President or any two of 
One by the 
commission- 
ers of Moya- 
mensing. 
In case ap- < 
pointments , 
are not made 
on the day < 
specified, 
they may be ] 
made after- ( 
wards. 
Members of ; 
the Board al- i 
ways re-eli- 
gible. i 
In case of re- 
moval, their ' 
place to be i 
supplied. 
President, 
Secretary, 
and Treasur- 
er, to be cho- 
sen from 
their own 
body. 
Accounts to 
be settled 
and publish- 
ed annually. 
Times of 
meeting. the members. And the said Board shall have and hereby 
is vested with full power and authority to make general 
rules, orders, and regulations, for the government and ma- 
nagement of the Lazaretto, and the vessels, cargoes, and 
persons there detained, or under quarantine, and of the 
Health Office and Public Hospitals, and for the mode of vi- 
siting and examining vessels, persons, goods, and houses; 
and shall also have power to appoint such officers and ser- 
vants as may be necessary to attend the Health Office, the 
Lazaretto, and the City Hospital, and convey communica- 
tions and supplies to the said Lazaretto and Hospital, and 
such other officers and servants as may be necessary for the 
preservation of the health of the district; together with all 
temporary officers and servants that may be rendered ne- 
cessary by the existence of any dangerous contagious dis- 
ease in the city of Philadelphia, or in any other place with- 
in the United States: Provided, that such officers and ser- 
vants shall not hold any offices of profit or trust under the 
United States; and to remove any of the officers or servants 
by them appointed, and to appoint others in their places, 
and to allow and pay the said officers and servants so ap- 
pointed, such compensation for their respective services as 
the said Board shall deem just and proper. And the go- 
vernor is hereby authorized and required to appoint one 
physician, who shall reside at the Lazaretto, and be deno- 
minated the Lazaretto Physician, and one physician, who 
shall reside in the city of Philadelphia, and shall be deno- 
minated the Port Physician, one Health Officer, and one 
Quarantine Master, all of whom shall be under the direction 
and control of the Board of Health, and shall be removed 
from office by the governor at the request of the majority 
of the members of the Board of Health ; and the said La- 
, . . , 1, , -11 1 , 1 • 
zaretto physician shall be entitled to occupy the house hi- 
therto occupied by the resident physician, and shall also be 
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provided by the Board of Health with ground for a garden 
within the bounds of the Lazaretto, of such extent as the 
Board may think proper; and the Quarantine master shall 
be entitled to occupy the house hitherto occupied by the 
Quarantine master, and shall also be provided by the Board 
powers of 
the Boarcl- 
Proviso, 
M appoint 
and remove 
officers- 
Lazaretto 
physician‘ 
Port physi- 
officer 
quarantine 
appointed by 
the governor, 
who shall re- 
move all of 
t,lem at *he 
request of a 
majority of 
tlle Boalc1' of Health, with ground for a garden, within the bounds of 
the Lazaretto, of such extent as the Board shall think proper. 
Sect. 2. And be it f urther enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the Health Officer, on receiving from the 
captain or master of any ship or vessel, the certificate as di- 
rected by this act, or where no certificate is to be given on 
the arrival of the vessel, shall be entitled to receive from 
the captain or master, the following sums and no more, and 
to pay the same over from time to time as the Board may 
direct to the treasurer of the Board of Health, to wit: All 
American vessels sailing under coasting documents, arriv- 
ing at the port of Philadelphia, from any port or place in 
the United States, between the river St. Croix and the river 
St. Mary, (except ports or places between Sandy Hook and 
Cape Charles) shall pay two dollars and fifty cents for each 
arrival, during quarantine months, and the said vessels 
during that time shall (if having goods capable of contain- 
ing contagion, persons, baggage or clothing, from any fo- 
reign port or place, or any diseased person) stop at the La- 
zaretto, and there be examined by the Lazaretto physician 
and Quarantine master, under the rules, regulations and pe- 
nalties in this act contained. And all American vessels 
from any port in the United States where they may have 
touched or traded from a foreign port or place, shall pay 
the same sum as if they had arrived direct from such port 
or place. And all American vessels with coasting docu- 
ments, arriving from any port or place between Sandy 
Hook and Cape Charles, including the bay and river Dela- 
ware, during quarantine months, having on board merchan- 
dise of foreign growth or manufacture, or persons, baggage 
or clothing, from any foreign port or place, or from any 
place to the northward or eastward of Sandy Hook, or west- 
ward of Cape Charles, shall stop at the Lazaretto for exami- 
nation, under the rules, regulations and penalties in this 
act contained, and shall pay for each arrival during quaran- 
tine months two dollars and fifty cents. All ves- 
1 sels arriving from any port or place in New Brunswick, 
i Nova Scotia, Canada, or the islands or ports adjacent to the 
' river St. Mary’s, the coast of Florida, Bay of Mexico, in- 
Fees to be 
paid to the 
health officer 
on the arrival 
of vessels, 
who is to pay 
the same to 
the treasurer 
of the Board. 
American 
vessels with 
coasting doc- 
uments, to 
pay if 2 50 
during qua- 
rantine 
months. 
American 
vessels from 
a foreign 
port touch- 
ing at a port 
in the United 
States to pay 
as if from fo- 
reign port di- 
rect. Coast- 
ing vessels 
from places 
between 
Sandy Hook 
and Cape 
Charles to 
pay $ 2 50. 
American 
vessels from 
New-Bruns- 
wick, &c. to 
pay on arri- 
val $ 5. eluding New Orleans and parts adjacent, and from thence 
along the Bay of Honduras and coast of Terra Firma, as far 
as the river Amazon, including all the islands generally de- 
nominated West India, Bahamas or Bermudas, shall pay 
on arrival five dollars. All American vessels arriving from 
any place in Europe, in the Western, Madeira, Canary or 
Cape Verd Islands, the west coast of Africa as far as lati- 
tude thirty-four degrees south, and from any place in the 
Mediterranean or straits thereof, or from any place from 
the river Amazon inclusive, and round the coast of Brazil 
as far as latitude thirty-four degrees south, shall pay ten 
dollars each. And all American vessels arriving from any 
place beyond latitude thirty-four degrees south, or round 
Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope, shall pay twenty 
dollars each. And all foreign vessels arriving as aforesaid, 
(except prizes to American vessels,) shall pay twenty-five 
per cent, each, additional, unless otherwise regulated by 
any treaty. And prize vessels taken by foreign armed ves- 
sels, shall pay twenty-five per cent, each, more than is paid 
by American vessels. And prize vessels taken by Ameri- 
can vessels, shall pay on arrival ten dollars each. And pub- 
lic armed vessels and privateers, shall pay six dollars each. 
And any vessel of the burthen of one hundred and fifty 
tons and upwards, arriving at the Lazaretto, from any fo- 
reign port or coastwise, may come to in the inner channel, 
as near to the west end of the island of Little Tinicum, op- 
posite the Lazaretto, as her draft of water, wind and wea- 
ther, will permit, for the purpose of receiving the visit from 
the Lazaretto physician and Quarantine master, and if the 
said vessel does not receive her visit in the inner channel, 
she shall pay an additional sum of five dollars, of which two 
dollars shall be paid to the Lazaretto physician, and one 
dollar to the Quarantine master, as a compensation for their 
extraordinary services, and two dollars shall be paid into 
the treasury of the Board. 
Sexjt. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the building now called the Lazaretto, and 
the ground therewith reserved and occupied, and all the 
property and estate of every kind whatsoever now vested 
American 
vessels from 
Europe, &c. 
to pay $ 10. 
American 
vessels from 
beyond Cape 
Good Hope, 
&c., to pay 
$20. 
Foreign ves- 
sels to pay 25 
per cent, ad- 
ditional, un- 
less, &.C. 
American 
prize vessels 
to pay $ 10, 
and armed 
vessels $ 6. 
Vessels of 
150 tons and 
upwards may 
come to in 
the inner 
channel, 
and if not vi- 
sited in the 
inner chan- 
nel shall pay 
$5,2 to the 
Lazaretto 
physician, 1 
to the qua- 
rantine mas- 
ter, and 2 to 
the Board. 
Lazaretto 
and ground 
vested in the 
Board of 
Health. in the present Board of Health, shall become and be fully 
vested in the Board of Health constituted by this act, im- 
mediately, and as soon as the same shall be organized, for 
the uses and purposes for which the said Board is instituted 
and established, and the same shall be fully and entirely 
under the direction and management of the said Board ; and 
[ the said Board shall have power to erect such buildings, 
and to make such enclosures on the lot or tract adjoining 
the Lazaretto, as to them may seem proper and necessary. 
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, every 
ship or vessel coming from any foreign port or place bound 
to the port of Philadelphia, between the first day of June 
and the first day of October in every year, shall come to 
anchor in the river Delaware as near the Lazaretto as the 
draught of water and the weather will allow, before any 
part of the cargo or baggage be landed, or any person who 
came in such ship or vessel shall leave her, or any person 
be permitted to go on board, and shall submit to the exami- 
nation hereinafter directed; and if any master, commander, 
or pilot, shall leave his station before the said Lazaretto, 
or if any master or commander shall permit or suffer any 
part of the cargo or baggage, or any person or persons ar- 
riving in such ship or vessel from any port beyond the 
limits of the United States, to be landed on either shore of 
the Delaware bay, or river, or suffer any person, except 
the pilot, to come on board before such examination be duly 
had, and a certificate obtained as is hereinafter specified, 
the person or persons so permitting, and the person or per- 
sons so landed or going on board (unless imminent danger 
of the loss of the vessel or lives of the crew shall render 
assistance necessary,) being thereof convicted, upon indict- 
ment or prosecution under this act, by verdict, confession, 
or standing mute in any court having jurisdiction of the of- 
fence, shall pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, 
to be recovered and appropriated as is herein directed; and 
it shall be the duty of the Lazaretto physician and Quaran- 
tine master, so soon as any ship or vessel shall be anchored 
near the Lazaretto, between sun rise and sun set, immedi- 
May erect 
buildingsand 
enclosures. 
When ves- 
sels are to be 
examined at 
the Lazaret- 
to. 
Penalty for 
violating the 
law. 
Duties of the 
Lazaretto 
physician 
and quaran- 
tine master. ately, wind and weather permitting, to go on board the 
same, and there thoroughly examine, in such form and 
manner as shall be prescribed by the Board of Health, the 
said ship or vessel, the crew, passengers, cargo, and bag- 
gage on board the same, and to demand answers under oath 
or affirmation to be administered by either the said physi- 
cian or Quarantine master, who are hereby severally em- 
powered to administer the same, to all such questions as 
shall be put to any person on board such ship or vessel 
touching the health of the crew and passengers during the 
voyage, and the nature and state of the cargo, as the Board 
of Health by their rules shall from time to time direct to 
be asked ; but it shall be the duty of the person so examin- 
ing on oath or affirmation, before he shall proceed therein, 
to make known to the person interrogated the penalty im- 
posed by this act upon the person who shall give false an- 
swers under oath or affirmation to the questions proposed 
in such examination, and if upon such examination it shall 
appear to the said physician and Quarantine master that the 
said ship or vessel came from a port or place at which no 
malignant or contagious disease prevailed at the time of her 
departure, that the persons on board such ship or vessel are 
free from every pestilential or contagious disease, (the small 
pox and measles excepted,) and that the said vessel has had 
no malignant disease on board either during the homeward 
bound voyage or during her continuance in a foreign port, 
and they shall see no cause to suspect that the cargo or any 
part thereof is infected, they shall forthwith deliver to the 
master or captain of such ship or vessel a certificate of the 
facts in such form as shall be directed by the Board of 
Health, and the said captain or master may thereupon pro- 
ceed according to his destination, and shall present such 
certificate at the Health Office in Philadelphia within twenty- 
four hours after his arrival and safely mooring there; but 
if it shall appear upon such examination that the ship or 
vessel came from a port or place at which a malignant or 
contagious disease prevailed, such vessel shall be detained 
at the Lazaretto for such time as the Board of Health shall 
deem necessary, not exceeding twenty days; and the letter 
May adminis- 
ter oaths and 
affirmations. 
Persons in- 
terrogated to 
be informed 
of the penal- 
ty of giving 
false answers. 
A certificate 
of health to 
be given to 
masters of 
vessels, 
who shall 
present the 
same, &c. 
Cases where- 
in vessels are 
to be detain- 
ed. bag of the vessel when purified, and such letters as the mas- 
ter, commander, or passengers, shall think proper to write 
to their owners, consignees, or friends, shall be transmitted 
to the Health Office in Philadelphia, who shall safely depo- 
site the same in the post office. And thereupon the Board 
of Health shall determine and direct what measures shall be 
pursued to cleanse the vessel and cargo, purify the clothing 
and baggage, and restore the health of diseased persons on 
board, which direction shall be carried into execution un- 
der the inspection of the Lazaretto physician and Quaran- 
tine master, at the expense of the master, owners, or con- 
signees, of the vessel and goods respectively, in such man- 
ner as by the said orders shall be directed: Provided al- 
ways, That wine, rum, salt, sugar, spirits, molasses, ma- 
hogany, manufactured tobacco, dye woods, preserved fruits, 
and such other articles as the Board of Health shall by their 
general regulations specify and permit, may be conveyed 
immediately to the city in lighters; and at the expiration 
of the said time, if it shall appear to the said physician and 
Quarantine master, that no person has been sick with a 
malignant or contagious disease, (the small pox and mea- 
sles excepted,) on board said ship or vessel, either during 
the voyage homeward, or during her continuance in a fo- 
reign port, nor any of the crew or passengers, or other per- 
son from on board such vessel during the performance of 
quarantine, and the said physician and Quarantine master 
shall certify the said facts to the Board of Health; and that 
in their opinion the vessel, crew, cargo, and passengers, 
may be safely suffered to proceed to the city, the said cap- 
tain or master may proceed with the same according to his 
destination, unless the Board of Health shall deem it ne- 
cessary to cause a further detention of the said vessel or 
cargo, or of the crew or passengers, or of any baggage on 
board said vessel, in which case the same shall be detained 
until the Board of Health shall authorize the same to pro- 
ceed and enter the city; and upon the arrival of the said 
captain or master at Philadelphia, he shall present the said 
certificate of the physician and Quarantine master at the 
Health Office within twenty-four hours after his arrival; but 
Proviso. 
Goods ex- 
cepted from 
detention. 
In what cases 
vessels may 
proceed. 
Unless the 
Hoard shall 
deem further 
detention ne- 
cessary. 
Captains to 
present their 
certificates 
at the Health 
Office. if upon examination of any vessel by the said physician and 
Quarantine master as aforesaid, or during the performance 
of quarantine by any vessel, it shall appear to the said phy- 
sician and Quarantine master that there has been any person 
sick on hoard the said vessel with any malignant or conta- 
gious disease, either during the voyage homeward, or dur- 
ing the continuance of the vessel in a foreign port, or dur- 
ing the performance of quarantine at the Lazaretto, (or that 
any person on board such vessel has been affected with 
such disease) then in such case the vessel shall be detained 
such further time as the Board of Health may deem neces- 
sary, and the cargo and baggage, except such part thereof 
as in the opinion of the Board of Health may be supposed 
incapable of retaining infection, which said part may be 
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transported to the city in lighters, shall, unless otherwise 
ordered and directed by the Board of Health, be unladened 
and thoroughly cleansed and purified, and the crew and 
passengers which were on board the said vessel, and the 
cargo and baggage on board the same, or any part thereof, 
except as before excepted, shall not be suffered to enter the 
t 
city before the first day of October then next ensuing, with- 
out the license and permission of the Board of Health to 
that effect first had and obtained: Provided nevertheless, 
That such ship or vessel, after she shall have been thorough- 
ly cleansed and purified, if no malignant disease appear on 
board, may be allowed to take in freight at the Lazaretto 
by means of lighters and proceed to sea; and if any master 
or captain, or other person, on board any vessel which shall 
be examined agreeably to this law, shall not true answers 
make to all such questions as the Lazaretto physician and 
1 . . 
Quarantine master, or the said health officer or port physi- 
cian shall ask, agreeably to this act or the rules heretofore 
established, or which shall from time to time be established 
by the Board of Health in conformity with this act, or shall 
knowingly deceive, or attempt to deceive, the proper offi- 
cers as aforesaid in his answers to their official inquiries, 
he having been duly informed and apprized of the penalties 
imposed by this act on the person so offending previous to 
his said examination, by the person making such examina- 
y 
ness on board 
eddurfngthe 
pleasure of 
thc Boari1' 
Goods to be 
trajwported 
in lighters, 
Goods, pas- 
sengers, &c. 
not to enter 
the city be- 
fore 1st Oct. 
unless, &c. 
Proviso. 
May take in 
freight at the 
Lazaretto 
and proceed 
to sea. 
Refusal to 
answer or at- 
tempt to de- 
ceive, pun- 
ishable. tion, such person for each and every offence, being thereof 
legally convicted, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding 
five hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as 
hereinafter provided and directed, and moreover shall be 
sentenced to imprisonment at hard labour for any term not 
less than one year and not exceeding five years. And if 
any captain or master of any ship or vessel, shall neglect to 
present his certificate at the Health Office, in any case in 
which he is therein before directed so to do, within the 
time directed by this act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum 
of three hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated 
as hereinafter directed. And if any captain or master of 
any ship or vessel, or any other person on board the same, 
shall refuse or neglect to comply with the directions of the 
Lazaretto physician or Quarantine master, which shall be 
made agreeably to this act, or the regulations of the Board 
of Health, with respect to the detention of any ship or ves- 
sel, or the landing from on board the same, of any person 
or persons, or of any goods, merchandise, bedding, baggage 
or clothing, or shall refuse to carry the same into effect, 
such person for each and every such offence, shall forfeit 
and pay a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less 
than two hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated 
as is hereinafter provided and directed. 
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That any ship or vessel coming from any port 
or place within the United States, at which port or place 
the said ship or vessel had only called in or touched upon 
her arrival from a foreign port or place, shall be liable and 
subject to all the rules, regulations and restrictions of the 
preceding sections of this act, and shall be examined and 
treated, as well the vessel itself as the cargo, crew, passen- 
gers, and baggage, on board, in the same manner as if such 
ship or vessel had directly arrived at the Lazaretto from a 
foreign port or place without having first touched at a port 
or place within the United States; and all ships or vessels, 
as well vessels of war as merchant vessels, coming from 
■ any port or place within the United States, and bound to 
the port of Philadelphia, between the first day of June, and 
Penalty. 1 
Penalty on 
neglecting to 
present the 
certificate in 
24 hours af- 
ter arrival. 
Neglecting 
to execute 
the orders of 
the Lazaretto 
physician or 
Board of 
Health, pun- 
ishable. 
Penalty. 
Vessels from 
ports in the 
United 
States liable 
to detention. 
Vessels of 
war to be de- 
tained. the first day of October in every year, and having on board 
any goods or merchandise, the growth or produce of any 
foreign place or country, or any person or persons, bedding 
or clothing, from any foreign port or place, shall come to 
anchor opposite the said Lazaretto, and shall be examined 
by the said Lazaretto physician and Quarantine master, and 
if the captain or master of any such ship or vessel shall 
produce such satisfactory proof as the Board of Health shall 
in that case direct to be required, that the said goods or 
merchandise shall have been landed in the United States, 
more than twenty days, and are free from damage, and that 
the said vessel, bedding, clothing, and persons, are free 
from the infection of any dangerous contagious disease, 
(the small pox and measles excepted,) then and in that case 
the said physician and Quarantine master shall give to the 
captain or master of such ship or vessel a certificate of the 
facts, permitting such ship or vessel to proceed to the city, 
which certificate the said captain or master shall present at 
the Health Office in Philadelphia, within twenty-four hours 
after his arrival, and safely mooring there; and if he should 
neglect so to do, being thereof legally convicted under this 
act, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred dol- 
lars, to be recovered and appropriated, as is hereinafter 
directed and provided; and if the said captain or master 
shall fail to produce such satisfactory proof as aforesaid, °f 
the wholesome state of the said vessel, goods, merchandise, 
bedding, clothing, and persons, the said vessel, goods, mer- 
chandise, bedding, clothing, and persons, shall be detained 
at the Lazaretto, and shall be proceeded with in the same 
manner, and subject to the same orders and regulations as 
are herein before provided and directed in the case of ves- 
sels coming directly from a foreign port or place; and if 
the captain or master of any such ship or vessel coming 
from any port or place within the United States, and bound 
to the port of Philadelphia, having on board any goods or 
merchandise, bedding, clothing, or persons, as aforesaid, 
shall refuse or neglect to come to anchor opposite the Laza- 
° , 
retto, and shall pass the same with intent to proceed to the 
city without examination by, and certificate obtained from 
free from 
cluarantine* 
Certificate to 
Office, 
Failure of 
health of ves 
selstobe de- 
tained’ 
Vessels from 
°f the 
States hav- 
to detention, 
pas'stng the 
L?zaretto 
without exa- 
mination. the said physician and Quarantine master as aforesaid, he 
shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay the sum of five hun- 
dred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as is herein- 
after provided and directed, and the said vessel, goods, 
merchandise, bedding, clothing, and persons, shall be sent 
back to the Lazaretto, there to be proceeded with in such 
manner as the Board of Health, agreeably to this act, shall 
in that case devise and direct. 
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That every ship or vessel coming from the Me- 
diterranean, shall be subject to a strict examination, under 
similar regulations and penalties, as are provided in the 
fourth section of this act, and if it appears that the said ship 
or vessel came from any place where the plague existed at 
the time of her departure, or has spoken with any vessel 
on board of which any person was affected with the plague, 
or if any person is affected with the said disease on his ar- 
rival at the Lazaretto, or has been affected during the voy- 
age, the said vessel shall not be suffered to proceed to the 
city, the cargo and baggage shall be unloaded and thorough- 
ly cleansed and purified, and no part shall be suffered to 
enter the city without the permission of the Board of 
Health first obtained; and the crew and passengers shall 
perform a quarantine of not less than twenty days, nor 
more than forty, at the discretion of the Board of Health: 
Provided nevertheless, That such ship or vessel after she 
shall have been thoroughly cleansed and purified, may be 
allowed to take in freight at the Lazaretto by means of 
lighters and proceed to sea. 
Sect. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That any person or persons, and all goods, mer- 
chandise, bedding and clothing, arriving at any port or 
place, within the United States, from any foreign port or 
place at which any malignant or contagious disease, (the 
small pox and measles excepted,) prevailed at the time of 
their departure, or in any vessel in which any such disease 
existed while they were on board the same, are hereby pro- 
hibited from entering the city or county of Philadelphia, 
or the county of Delaware, (except the township of Tini- 
Vessels from 
the Mediter- 
ranean, sub- 
ject to exa- 
mination. 
Prevented 
from enter- 
ing the city. 
Proviso. 
May take 
freight and 
proceed to 
sea. 
Persons ar- < 
riving from 
infected fo- ' 
reign ports 1 
at any port in 
the United ] 
States, shall , 
not enter the ’ 
city. cum,) at any time between the first day of June and the 
first day of October in any year, either by land or water, 
without permission of the Board of Health first had and 
obtained, under the penalty of five hundred dollars for each 
and every offence, and the forfeiture of all such goods, 
merchandise, bedding or clothing, to be recovered and ap- 
propriated as is hereinafter directed; and that all goods, 
wares, bedding, clothing and merchandise, seamen or pas- 
sengers, landed from on board any ship or vessel belonging 
to the port of Philadelphia at any other port of the United 
States, shall be subject to perform twenty days quarantine, 
previously to entering the city or county of Philadelphia; 
under the same penalty as in the fifth section, without per- 
mission first obtained from the Board of Health. 
Sect. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That no person or persons, goods, wares, mer- 
chandise, bedding or clothing, from any port or place at 
which any malignant or contagious disease (the small pox 
or measles excepted) prevailed at the time of their depart- 
ure, or from on board any vessel in which any such disease 
existed, while they were on board, shall enter or be brought 
into the city or county of Philadelphia at any time between 
the first day of June and the first day of October in any 
year, by land or water, without the permission of the Board 
of Health first had and obtained, under the penalty of any 
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for each and every 
such offence, and the forfeiture of all such goods, wares, 
merchandise, bedding and clothing, to be recovered and 
appropriated, as directed by the twenty-ninth section of 
this act. 
Sect. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That whenever the Board of Health shall re- 
ceive information that any malignant or contagious disease 
(the small pox and measles excepted,) prevails in any port 
or place within the United States, or on the continent of 
America, they shall make diligent inquiry concerning the 
same, and if it shall appear that the disease prevails as afore- 
said, all communication with such infected port or place, 
shall be subject to such control and regulations as the Board 
Penalty. 
Goods, &c. 
landed in 
ports of the 
United 
States sub- 
ject to 20 
days quaran- 
tine. 
Persons and 
goods from 
sickly ports, 
prohibited. 
Penalty. 
. Board may 
prohibit com- 
munication 
with in- 
jected ports 
in the Unit- 
, ed States. Prohibition 
to be pub- 
lished. 
of Health may from time to time think proper to direct and 
publish in one or more newspapers published in the city of 
Philadelphia, and thereupon every person or persons, and 
all goods, wares, merchandises, bedding, and clothing, from 
such infected port or place, and having entered and brought 
into the city and county of Philadelphia, contrary to such 
regulations, sha1! be subject to the penalties and forfeitures 
provided by the next preceding section of this act; and all 
vessels from such port or place, and bound to the port of 
Philadelphia, shall stop at the Lazaretto, and be proceeded 
with in the same manner, and under the same penalties and 
forfeitures, as are provided in cases of vessels coming from 
foreign ports; and every person or persons having entered 
or been brought into the city or county of Philadelphia, 
from such infected port or place aforesaid, shall also be con- 
veyed by any person authorized by the Board, to such place 
for purification, as the said Board may appoint or direct for 
that purpose, and be there detained at the pleasure of the 
Board, any time not exceeding twenty days, and at the ex- 
pense of such person or persons ; and if the said Board shall 
have cause to suspect that any person or persons at the 
time, within the city and county of Philadelphia, have been 
at such infected port or place within fifteen days since such 
disease prevailed at such port or place next preceding, the 
said Board may lawfully require such person or persons to 
render satisfactory proof of their place or places of abode 
during the said period; and if such person or persons ne- 
glect or refuse to render such proof, or fail in proving their 
residence other than at such infected port or place, every 
such person shall be dealt with, by purification and deten- 
tion, as persons coming from such infected port or place. 
Sect. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That no Lazaretto physician, Quarantine master 
or other officer, or servant of the said Lazaretto, shall ab- 
sent himself from the place of his duty between the first 
day of June and the first day of October on any pretence 
whatsoever, for any time, without leave first obtained in 
writing from the Board of Health, under the hand of the 
president or chairman for the time, attested by the secreta- 
Penalty. 
Vessels from 
infected 
ports in the 
United 
States to stop 
at the Laza- 
retto. 
Persons from 
infected 
places to be 
conveyed to 
a place of pu- 
rification. 
Suspected 
persons to be 
interrogated. 
Lazaretto of- 
ficers not to 
absent them- 
selves with- 
out leave. ry and entered on the minutes, under the penalty of forfeit- 
ing his office and a fine of any sum not exceeding five hun- 
dred dollars. 
Sect. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Lazaretto phy- 
sician, immediately on the arrival of any ship or vessel lia- 
ble to be detained at the Lazaretto in order to be cleansed 
and purified as aforesaid, to cause the sick, if any on board, 
to be removed to the building which shall be appointed by 
the Board of Health for their reception, and diligently and 
impartially with his best skill to attend upon and adminis- 
ter medical assistance to each and every sick person that 
shall be therein lodged, and generally to superintend and 
cause to be executed such orders and regulations as the said 
Board shall from time to time ordain for the government 
and management of the Lazaretto, and of the vessels, car- 
goes and persons, under quarantine. 
Sect. 12. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Quarantine mas- 
ter, immediately after the arrival and examination as afore- 
said, of any ship or vessel liable to be detained at the Laza- 
retto for purification as aforesaid, to direct and cause such 
ship or vessel to be properly moored near the Lazaretto at 
such distance from any vessel or vessels under quarantine 
as may prevent the communication of any infectious dis- 
ease to or from the same. And the cargo, bedding and 
clothing, or any part thereof contained in such ship or ves- 
sel, to be landed, cleansed, and purified, under the direction 
of the Lazaretto physician; and it shall be the particular 
duty of the said Quarantine master to prevent any personal 
intercourse between the persons on board different vessels 
under quarantine, and for that purpose to take possession 
of and secure the boats of such vessels from sunset to sun- 
rise of the succeeding day, until their respective terms of 
quarantine shall be completed; to preserve and enforce 
order and obedience to this act, and all such orders and re- 
gulations as the Board of Health shall from time to time 
ordain for the government of the Lazaretto, and the per- 
sons, vessels, and cargoes, under quarantine. 
Duty of the 
Lazaretto 
physician. 
Duty of the 
Quarantine 
master. 
To secure 
the boats of 
vessels. Sect. 13. Jlnd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Port physician, 
upon receiving information from the Health Officer or other 
person whomsoever, that any person or persons on hoard 
of any ship or vessel in the port of Philadelphia is or are 
afflicted, or suspected to be afflicted, with any pestilential 
or contagious disease, or that there is just cause to suspect 
that the cargo or any part thereof, contained in any such 
ship or vessel, is infected with any such disease, the said 
physician, in either of the foregoing cases, shall visit and 
carefully examine such ship or vessel, and if he shall dis- 
cover any sick person or persons on board any such ship 
or vessel, he shall thereupon have and exercise the author- 
ity to direct such sick person or persons to be removed to 
the said Lazaretto, or to some other safe place which may 
be specified by the Board of Health. And the said physi- 
cian shall without delay report the state of said vessel, car- 
go, and crew, to the Board of Health, who shall direct and 
determine how the crew, passengers, vessel, and cargo, 
shall be disposed of and managed for the restoration of their 
health and purification. And on the arrival of any ship or 
vessel in the port of Philadelphia, from any foreign port or 
place, from the first day of October in any year to the first 
day of June in the next succeeding year, it shall be the 
duty of the said physician, provided such ship or vessel 
shall not have been previously visited and examined by the 
physician resident at the Lazaretto and Quarantine master, 
and before any of the passengers, crew, cargo, or baggage 
are landed, to visit and carefully examine such ship or ves- 
sel in manner and form as the said Lazaretto physician and 
Quarantine master are bound to do, and to demand answers 
under oath or affirmation to be administered by the said 
Port physician, who is hereby empowered to administer the 
same in conformity with this act. And if the crew, pas- 
sengers, vessel, and cargo, be in a healthy state, and if 
there shall be no ground to suspect that any of the crew or 
passengers have died on the voyage of any dangerous con- 
tagious disease, (the small pox and measles excepted) or that 
the cargo, bedding, or clothing, is infected, then and in 
Duty of the 
Port physi- 
cian. 
To examine 
vessels. 
To report 
the state of 
the vessels to 
the Board. 
To visit ves- 
sels arriving 
from 1st Oc- 
tober to 1st 
June in the 
succeeding 
year. such case the said physician shall give to the master or 
commander a certificate of the facts, which the said master 
or commander shall present at the Health Office within 
twenty-four hours after such examination; and if he shall 
neglect so to do, being thereof legally convicted under this 
act, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred dol- 
lars, to be recovered and appropriated as is herein provided 
and directed. And if on examination, any suspicion shall 
arise in the mind of the said physician touching the health 
of the crew or passengers, or the infectious state of the ves- 
sel, cargo, bedding, or clothing, on board, no part thereof 
shall be landed, but the said physician shall immediately 
report the same to the Hoard of Health, who shall direct 
and determine what measures shall be pursued relative 
thereto. And the said physician upon request of the Health 
Officer, or the Board of Health, shall, from time to time, 
visit and examine such houses and persons as the said Board, 
or the Health Officer, shall have reason to suspect are in- 
fected with any dangerous contagious disease, and make re- 
port thereof to the said Health Officer. And every ship or 
vessel, so as aforesaid arriving at the port of Philadelphia, 
shall be visited by the Port physician previously to her 
being hauled to any wharf within the city or district afore- 
said, or Wind Mill Island ; and every captain or other per- 
son so hauling such ship or vessel to any wharf as afore- 
said, shall for each and every offence forfeit and pay the 
sum of two hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered 
as herein provided, unless it shall be made appear by such 
captain or other person, that there was at the time immi- 
nent danger of the loss of such ship or vessel, or of the 
passengers and crew thereof. 
Sect. 14. And be it f urther enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Health Officer 
at seasonable and proper hours on each day (Sundays ex- 
cepted) to open and keep a public office at such convenient 
place in the city of Philadelphia as shall be directed by the 
Board of Health, whereat all masters or captains of ships 
or vessels shall deliver the certificates of bills of health to 
them granted by the Lazaretto physician and Quarantine 
To deliver 
the master a 
certificate 
which he is 
to present at 
the Health 
Office. 
To visit 
houses at the 
request of 
the Board 
of Health. 
Vessels ar- 
riving at Phi- 
ladelphia to 
be visited by 
Port physi- 
cian before 
hauling to 
any wharf. 
Penalty. 
Duty of the 
Health Of- 
ficer. master, or Port physician as aforesaid. And the Board of 
Health shall there assemble and meet, as often as they deem 
needful, for the purpose of executing the duties and trusts 
of their appointment. And the said Health Officer shall 
file and preserve in good order all the certificates or bills of 
health so delivered, and shall keep a register of the ships 
or vessels, and the names of the captains or masters, own- 
ers or consignees, for which the same were respectively 
granted, the port or ports from which the ship or vessel re- 
spectively sailed, or at which they touched during their 
respective voyages, and the number of persons on board 
thereof respectively at the time of their leaving their re- 
spective ports of departure, and also at the time of their 
arrival respectively at the port of Philadelphia. And the 
said Health Officer shall attend the Health Office at the 
meetings of the Board of Health, and at such other times 
as shall be required for discharging the duties of his ap- 
pointment, and generally enforce and execute the regula- 
tions and instructions of the Board of Health. And it shall 
be the duty of the said Health Officer to collect, recover, 
and receive all forfeitures and penalties imposed, and sums 
of money directed to be paid by this act. And the said 
Health Officer shall, before he enters on the duties of his 
office, give bond with sureties to the satisfaction of the 
Board of Health, conditioned for the faithful execution of 
the duties of his office, and to account for all moneys which 
may come into his hands in pursuance thereof. And the 
said bond shall be a lien on the estates of the said Health Of- 
ficer, and his securities respectively. 
Sect. 15. Jlnd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the letter mail shall during the quarantine 
season, leave the Lazaretto for the Health Office, in the 
city of Philadelphia, and return twice in each juridical day, 
at such hours as the Board of Health shall determine, and 
shall be free for the transmission of letters to and from per- 
sons who may be within the bounds of the Lazaretto, or 
on board of vessels which may be detained thete; and it 
shall be the duty of the Health Officer immediately after 
the arrival of the Lazaretto mail, to deposite in the post 
To file and 
preserve the 
bills of 
health. 
To keep a 
register. 
To attend 
the meetings 
of the Board. 
To recover 
fines and pe- 
nalties. 
The Health 
Officer to 
give security, 
which shall 
be a lien. 
Lazaretto 
mail to leave 
Lazaretto 
twice a day. 
Letters to be 
deposited in 
the post-of- 
fice. office the letters received thereby, excepting those which 
shall be addressed to the Board of Health and the officers 
connected therewith. 
Sect. 16. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That every diseased person duly landed or sent ] 
to the Lazaretto, by either of the aforesaid physicians, Qua- ] 
rantine master, or Health Officer, shall be there kept and 1 
maintained until the Lazaretto physician shall grant him or 
her a discharge in writing, and if before obtaining a dis- 
charge as aforesaid, any such person shall elope or other- 
wise absent himself or herself from the Lazaretto, it shall, 
be lawful for the Health Officer, or any constable or other 
person whom he shall call to his assistance, and they are 
hereby enjoined and required to lend such assistance, to j 
pursue and apprehend the person so escaping or absenting 
himself or herself from the Lazaretto, and there again de- 
liver him or her to be detained until he or she be duly dis- 
charged as aforesaid; and moreover, the person so eloping 
and absenting himself or herself shall for each and every 
offence suffer such temporary confinement in the Lazaretto, 
not exceeding three months, as the Board of Health shall 
ordain and award ; and if any master or captain shall know- 
ingly receive or employ on hoard of his ship or vessel, or 
if any housekeeper or other inhabitant of this common- 
wealth shall knowingly receive, harbour, or in any way en- 
tertain any person so eloping or absenting from the Laza- 
retto, each and every master and captain, and each and every 
housekeeper or inhabitant so respectively offending, shall, 
on being thereof legally convicted, forfeit and pay a sum of 
two hundred dollars; and if any person arriving in or be- 
longing to any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto as 
aforesaid, shall elope or absent himself or herself, without 
having first obtained a discharge, signed by the Lazaretto 
physician and Quarantine master, or if any person other 
than those detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, shall go 
on board or along side of any ship or vessel whilst under 
quarantine as aforesaid, or if any person not by 
the Board of Health shall go within the limits of the Laza- 
retto, such person or persons shall perform such quarantine 
Persons sick 
at the Laza- 
retto how to 
be treated. 
Sick persons 
eloping from 
the Lazaret- 
to to be ap- 
prehended 
and sent 
back. 
Fugitives 
from the La- 
zaretto not 
to be har- 
boured. 
'Penalty. 
Persons go- 
ing on board, 
or along side 
any vessel, or 
entering the 
Lazaretto, to 
perform qua- 
rantine. as the Board of Health may direct, and the person so offend- 
ing, upon legal conviction of such offence, shall forfeit and 
pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered and ap- 
propriated as hereinafter directed; and if any diseased or 
other person landed and sent to the Lazaretto by any officer 
having authority to do the same, or any person arriving in or 
belonging to any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto as 
aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to obey the directions of 
the Lazaretto physician or Quarantine master respectively, 
agreeably to this act, and the order and regulations by the 
Board of Health, which shall from time to time be ordain- 
ed and established for the government and management of 
the Lazaretto, and the persons, vessels and cargoes under 
quarantine,the person so refusing orneglecting shall for each 
and every offence, on being thereof legally convicted, forfeit 
and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered 
and appropriated as hereinafter directed; and the expense 
‘and charge of boarding, lodging, nursing, medicine, main- 
tenance, and other necessaries, which shall have been pro- 
vided for the diseased persons landed and sent to the Laza- 
retto as aforesaid, and also of burying them in case of their 
death, shall be paid and discharged by the importer, mas- 
ter, or captain, owner, or consignee, of the ships or ves- 
sels respectively in which such diseased persons were re- 
spectively imported, agreeably to the rates in that behalf 
by the Board of Health to be ordained and established: 
Provided always, nevertheless, That when the diseased 
persons are passengers and not servants, the said expense 
and charges shall be repaid by them, their executors, or ad- 
ministrators, to the captain or master, owner, or consignee, 
who shall pay and satisfy, or be bound to pay and satisfy 
the same as aforesaid. 
Sect. 17. And he it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That when any vessel shall come up to the city 
of Philadelphia, or the shores of Southwark or the North- 
ern Liberties, although the said vessel may have obtained 
a certificate of health from the Lazaretto physician and 
Quarantine master, or the Port physician, if the said vessel 
shall appear to the Board of Health to be infected with any 
Penalty. 
Refusal or 
neglect of 
the laws of 
Lazaretto 
punishable. 
Penalty. 
Expenses of 
diseased per- 
sons sent to 
the Lazaret- 
to, paid by 
the importer, 
&c. 
According to 
the rates es- 
tablished by 
the Board. 
Proviso. 
Passengers 
to repay ex- 
penses to 
captains, &c. 
Vessels com- 
ing up to the 
city may be 
remanded on 
just cause. contagious disorder, dangerous to the community, the said 
Board are hereby authorized to order the said vessel to the 
Lazaretto, there to undergo the necessary purification be- 
fore she will be permitted to return to the city or the shores 
aforesaid. And the said Board are hereby authorized and l 
and empowered to remove any vessel or vessels from any J 
part of the city or shore aforesaid, as shall be infected with * 
such disorders as aforesaid, to such convenient distance as 
they may deem proper, although such vessel may not be 
infected. 
Sect. 18. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That whenever by means aforesaid, or by the l 
report of the Port physician or any other physician appoint- ( 
ed by the Board of Health, (whom the said Board are here- \ 
by authorized to send to places or houses suspected to be in- j 
fected) it shall come to the knowledge of the said Board, that' 
any person within the city of Philadelphia, the district of 
Southwark, the townships of the Northern Liberties, Moya- 
mensing, or Penn, is afflicted with any contagious disease, 
dangerous to the community, it shall and may be lawful for 
the said Board to take orders for preventing the spreading 
of the contagion, by forbidding and preventing all commu- - 
nication with the infected house or family, except by means < 
of physicians, nurses, or messengers, to convey the necessa-j 
ry advice, medicines, and provisions, to the afflicted; and1 
shall exercise all such other powers as the circumstances of 
the case shall require, and as shall in their judgment be 
most conducive to the public good with the least private in- 
jury. 
Sect. 19. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That no pilot, bringing a ship or vessel to the j 
Lazaretto in an apparent state of good health, shall be obli-« 
ged to perform quarantine, but the Lazaretto physician shall' 
grant such pilot a certificate permitting him to proceed to 
the Capes of Delaware, in order that he may prosecute his 
profession, but such pilot shall not on any pretence come 
into the city of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties, the ! 
district of Southwark, or the townships of Moyamensing,, 
or Penn, for twenty days from the date of such certificate,' 
Board autho- 
rized to re- 
move ves- 
sels. 
Board may 
take orders 
to prevent 
the spread- 
ing of conta- 
gion in the 
city. 
To prevent 
communica- 
tion with in- 
fected 
houses. 
Pilots ex- 
empted from 
quarantine. 
Shall not en- 
ter the city, 
&c. for 20 
days, under penalty of j 
$ 100 or one 
year’s impris-1 
onment. ; 
under the penalty of one hundred dollars, or one year’s im- 
prisonment, which penalty shall be recovered and applied 
in the manner hereinafter directed. And any pilot bring- 
ing to the said Lazaretto a ship or vessel infected or sup- 
posed to be infected, with any pestilential or contagious dis- 
ease, may be permitted to go and remain on shore within 
the bounds of the Lazaretto during the time the ship or ves- 
sel brought thither shall be detained under quarantine: 
Provided always, That if the said vessel shall be infected 
with any disease as aforesaid, he shall be detained and treat- 
ed in the like manner as seamen or passengers so infected 
are herein directed to be detained and treated: And pro- 
vided further, That if he shall go without the bounds of 
the Lazaretto, he shall be liable to the same penalties as are 
by this act imposed on seamen or passengers escaping there- 
from. 
Sect. 20. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That no member of the Board of Health shall 
be permitted to go within the limits of the Lazaretto dur- 
ing the continuance of the quarantine, and any one of them 
offending against this provision shall pay a fine of one hun- 
dred dollars, to be recovered by action in any court having 
competent jurisdiction, by the guardians of the poor for the 
city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the 
township of the Northern Liberties. 
Sect. 21. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That no master or captain of any ship or ves- 
sel, bound to any port or place within this commonwealth, 
shall bring within the Capes of the bay and river Delaware, 
or in any port or place within this commonwealth, any 
greater number of passengers, servants, or other persons 
whatsoever, than can and shall be well supplied with suffi- 
cient good and wholesome drink and meat and other ne- 
cessaries, particularly vinegar, as well to wash and cleanse 
the vessel as for the use of the persons on board during the 
voyage. And every ship or vessel so arriving at any port 
or place within this commonwealth, shall be allowed to 
bring one passenger and no more for every two tons cus- 
tom-house measurement, and in such estimate two children 
J 
Pilots per- 
mittted to re-1 
main within j 
the Lazaret- 
to bounds. 1 
Proviso. 
Penalty on 
going with- 
out the 
bounds of the 
Lazaretto. 
Proviso. 
No member 
of the Board 
of Health to 
go within the 
limits of the 
Lazaretto 
during qua- 
rantine. 
Penalty. 
Of the im- i 
portation of 
passengers. 1 
Their num- 
ber not to 
exceed what 
can be well 
provided and 
accommo- 
dated. 
Every vessel 
to be allowed < 
to bring one 1 
passenger 
for two tons. 1 between the ages of five and twelve years shall be taken 
and considered as equal to one full passenger. And before 
any such ship or vessel shall obtain a certificate from the 
Health Office, the master, owner, or consignee, of such 
ship or vessel, shall pay to the Health Officer, for the use 
of the Board of Health, the sum of one dollar for each and 
every passenger not citizens of the United States, reckon- 
ing two children between the ages aforesaid as one passen- 
ger. And in case it should be made to appear satisfactorily 
to the Board of Health that such passengers are unable to 
pay the said sum of one dollar, then and in such case the 
Board of Health shall make out a list of such passengers, 
together with the names of the captain and vessel in which 
they were imported, and forward the same, under their of- 
ficial seal, to the governor, who shall draw his warrant on 
the state treasurer, in the usual manner, for the amount so 
specified. And every master or captain of any ship or ves- 
sel importing passengers, servants, or other persons whatso- 
ever, shall, whenever the said passengers, servants, or other 
persons, amount to the number of one hundred, at the 
charge of the owner or owners of his ship or vessel, pro- 
vide and employ a skilful physician of good character, and 
a chest with a competent assortment of medicines for the 
use and accommodation of all persons whatsoever on board 
his ship or vessel, and the physician so provided shall ad- 
minister medicine and medicines to all sick persons on board 
the ship or vessel according to his best skill and judgment, 
as often as occasion shall require, without asking, demand- 
ing, or receiving any pay or satisfaction therefor from such 
sick persons respectively. And the master or captain of 
any ship or vessel containing the number of passengers 
aforesaid, shall twice in every week, if the weather will 
permit, during the voyage, cause the ship or vessel to be 
well washed with vinegar, and while the means aforesaid 
shall be using to cleanse the ship or vessel, the master or 
captain thereof may require and compel all persons not in- 
capacitated by sickness or other reasonable cause, to come 
and remain on deck until such cleansing shall be performed 
and completed. And if any master, captain, or other per- 
Before certi- 
ficate is ob- 
tained, the 
master, &c. 
is to pay 
Health Offi- 
cer $ 1 for 
each passen- 
ger. 
If such pas- 
sengers are 
unable to 
pay, the go- 
vernor shall 
draw his war- 
rant. 
Where there 
are 100 pas- 
sengers, &c. 
a physician 
to be em- 
ployed. 
His duty. 
Ship to be 
cleansed 
during the 
voyage. son, whether severally or altogether, shall, during the voy- 
age, trust or credit any one passenger with more liquor or 
other articles whatsoever, than shall amount in the whole to 
the value of four dollars, or if more than one third part of 
that sum shall be for spirituous liquors, the master, captain, 
or other person so trusting or crediting, shall be disabled 
from recovering any debts for all and any such articles from 
any passenger so trusted or credited. And the Lazaretto 
physician, Port physician, and Health Officer respectively, 
on visiting any ship or vessel bound to any port or place 
within this commonwealth as aforesaid, shall diligently in- 
quire whether the directions herein given have been fully 
complied with. And on the arrival of any vessel, importing 
German passengers, opposite to the city of Philadelphia, the 
Health Officer shall moreover visit the same and take with 
him a respectable German of the city of Philadelphia, well 
versed in the English and German languages, to he his in- 
terpreter, and the said interpreter shall be appointed and 
commissioned by the governor, and shall take an oath or 
affirmation before the mayor or any alderman of the city of 
Philadelphia for the time being, that he will well and faith- 
fully interpret between the Health Officer and such German 
passengers, and in all other respects diligently and uprightly 
execute the duties of his appointment. And the Health 
Officer shall at least once in every week, taking with him 
the said interpreter, in case of a ship or vessel importing 
German passengers, go on board every ship or vessel hav- 
ing passengers, to examine whether they are and have been 
accommodated agreeably to the directions of this act. And 
the said interpreter for the first visit shall have and receive 
the sum of two dollars, and for every subsequent visit the 
sum of one dollar, to be paid by the master, captain, owner, 
or consignee of the ship or vessel so visited. And if any 
master or captain of any ship or vessel shall not have pro- 
vided a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome provi- 
sions, vinegar, and other necessaries as aforesaid, or if he 
shall not have provided a room or birth to the persons on 
board his ship or vessel, or if having the number of one 
hundred passengers as aforesaid, he shall not have provided 
Trusting pas- 
sengers with 
liquors ex- 
ceeding $4, 
the debts not 
recoverable. 
The visiting 
officer to in- 
quire whetli- ( 
ertheir direc- 
tions have < 
been compli-, 
ed with. 
Of the Ger- ' 
man interpre-, 
ter. 
Jly whom to 
be appointed 
and how to 
be qualified. 
The Health 
Officer tak- 
ing with him 
the interpre- 
ter to visit 
passenger 
ships weekly. 
Compensa- 
tion of the in- 
terpreter. 
Penalty for 
transgressing 
thedirections 
of this section a physician and chest of medicines for the use and accom- 
modation of all persons on hoard his ship or vessel, or shall 
bring more than one passenger for every two tons, custom- 
house measurement, or shall have neglected during the 
voyage to cleanse the ship or vessel in the manner herein 
before in such case directed, such master or captain shall 
for each and every of the foregoing offences forfeit and pay 
not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than fifteen 
hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as here- 
inafter provided and directed. 
Sect. 22. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the buildings and lot of ground situate to 
the north-west of Bush Hill, in the county of Philadel- 
phia, shall be and continue a public hospital for the city of 
Philadelphia, the township of the Northern Liberties, and 
the districts of Southwark, Moyamensing and Penn ; and 
all persons other than persons on board of any ship or ves- 
sel, and liable to be sent as aforesaid to the Lazaretto, resid- 
ing within the city of Philadelphia, the district of South- 
wark, the townships of the .Northern Liberties, Moyamen- 
sing and Penn, who shall be afflicted with any pestilential 
or contagious disease (the small pox and measles excepted) 
may upon the advice and order of the Port physician or 
any other physician or person authorized by the Board of 
Health to grant such order, be removed by the Health Of- 
ficer, and such assistance as he shall for that purpose employ, 
to the said public hospital or to such other place as the 
physician or Board of Health shall approve, if the person 
afflicted with any contagious or pestilential disease, cannot 
be properly and sufficiently attended at home, there be 
lodged, nursed and maintained, and kept until duly dis- 
charged by a permit in writing signed by a physician of the 
said public hospital: Provided always, nevertheless, That 
each and every patient, and his and her estate, real and 
personal, shall be liable to pay, satisfy, and reimburse all 
the charges and expenses on his or her account incurred in 
the said public hospital, unless the Board of Health award 
that he or she shall be exonerated and exempted therefrom. 
And the Board of Health is hereby directed to lease out 
Hospital for 
the city, 
Northern Li- 
'berties, &c. 
Persons af- 
flicted with 
contagious 
diseases to be 
received into 
the hospital. 
Health Offi- 
cer to remove 
infected per- 
sons, unless 
they can be 
properly at- 
tended at 
home. 
Proviso. 
Patients lia- 
ble for theii 
expenses. 
Board autho rized to lease 
hospital. 
.the said public hospital and lot of ground belonging to if, 
except when wanted for the sick, on the best terms that can 
be obtained. 
Sect. 23. J)nd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That whenever the said Board of Health shall 
receive information that any contagious disease rages in any 
port or place within the United States, or on the continent 
of America, they shall make diligent inquiry concerning 
the same; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Board 
to prohibit and to prevent all communication by land and 
water with such infected ports or places, by stopping all 
vessels coming into the port of Philadelphia, and at and 
before the Lazaretto, in the same manner and under the 
same penalties and forfeitures as are hereby provided in 
case of vessels coming from foreign ports, and by stopping 
all persons coming from said infected places, in such man- 
ner as the circumstances and exigencies of the case shall 
require. And the said Board of Health are hereby author- 
. ized and required, whenever a fever of a contagious nature 
‘ shall appear in any part of the city of Philadelphia, the 
district of Southwark, or the townships of the Northern 
Liberties, Moyamensing or Penn, to adopt without delay 
such prompt measures as will effectually prevent all com- 
munication between the part or parts so infected, and any 
other part of the city, district, or townships; and all judges, 
justices, sheriffs, constables, and other civil officers and citi- 
zens of this state, are hereby authorized and empowered, 
enjoined and required, to aid and assist the said Board and 
their officers to the utmost of their power in carrying into 
effect such rules, orders and regulations, touching the stop- 
page of such intercourse, or the removal of the infected 
when they cannot properly be attended to at home, as the 
Board shall order and publish. 
Sect. 24. %dnd be it further eriacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That every person keeping a boarding or lodging 
house in the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, 
or the townships of the Northern Liberties, Moyamensing 
or Penn, between the first day of June and the fifteenth 
day of October in any year, shall within twelve hours after 
Contagion in 
other places 
guarded 
against. 
Communica- 
tion by land 
and water 
forbid. 
Contagious 
fever appear- 
ing in the ci- 
ty or districts 
communica- 
tion to be 
stopped. 
Persons 
keeping 
boarding 
houses to re- 1 
port, &c. < any seafaring man or sojourner shall become sick in such 
boarding or lodging house, report in writing the name of 
such diseased person to the Health Officer; and no master 
of a vessel or other person from any vessel whatsoever, 
shall remove any sick person lying in the river Delaware, 
before the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark 
or the township of the Northern Liberties, before such sick 
person has been visited by the Port physician, and a writ- 
ten permit granted by him for the purpose of such removal. 
And any person neglecting or refusing to comply with the 
provisions of this section, shall on legal conviction thereof, 
be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or to im- 
prisonment for any term not exceeding three months ; and 
no person shall hereafter be subject to be punished by im- 
prisonment by virtue of this act without a previous convic- 
tion in due course of law : Provided, That nothing herein 
contained shall be construed to prevent the Board of Health 
from temporarily confining any person within the Lazaretto 
bounds, for such time as the said Board may deem neces- 
sary for the safety of the public. 
Sect. 25. dind be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid', That every person practising physic in the city, 
districts and townships aforesaid, who shall have a patient 
labouring under a pestilential or contagious disease (small 
pox and measles excepted) shall forthwith make a report in 
writing to the Health Officer, and for neglecting so to do 
he shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject 
to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 
Sect. 26. dLnd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That whenever any person shall die in the city, 
district, or townships aforesaid, the physician or surgeon 
who shall have attended such person, as a physician or sur- 
geon, during his or her last sickness, shall leave a note in 
writing signed with his name with some one of the family 
in the house where such person shall have died, specifying 
the name and apparent age of the deceased, and the disease 
of which he or she shall have died. And every physician 
or surgeon refusing or neglecting to make and deliver such 
note, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars. And that no sex- 
No sick per- 
son to be re- 
moved, &c. 
Penalty, 
Proviso. 
Not to pre- 
vent the 
Board from 
temporarily 
confining, 
&c. 
Physicians to 
report pa- 
tients at the 
Health Of- 
fice. 
Penalty. 
Physicians to 
specify the 
names, dis- 
eases, &c. of 
which their 
patients may 
die. 
Penalty. Sextons not 
to permit de- 
ceased per- 
sons to be in- 
terred, until, 
&.C. 
Ion of any church, or other person having charge of any 
cemetery, vaults or burial grounds, in the city, district, or 
townships aforesaid, shall permit any dead body to be in- 
terred therein until he has received such note in writing so 
signed as aforesaid, or in case no physician or surgeon shall 
have attended such deceased person, or the physician or 
surgeon who did attend shall have neglected or refused to 
leave such note, then a like note signed by some of the 
family in which such person shall have died. The contents 
of which note in writing shall be entered by such sexton 
on a blank schedule to be furnished by the clerk of the 
Health Office, or such other person as the Board of Health 
direct, and delivered together with the said schedule, on the 
Saturday of every week, to the Health Office for publication, 
in such form as may be designated by the Board of Health. 
And that every sexton or other person, having charge of 
any place of interment, neglecting or refusing to perform 
any of the duties required by this act, shall forfeit the sum 
of twenty-five dollars. 
Sect. 27. Jlnd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the Board of Health or a committee of 
them shall have power, having first obtained a warrant from 
. a justice of the peace in due form of law, founded on a com- 
‘ plaint of two householders under oath or affirmation, direct- 
ed to the sheriff of the county of Philadelphia, or his deputy, 
to enter and search all houses, stores, cellars, and other in- 
closures, between sunrise and sunset, where they may have 
just cause to suspect any nuisance to exist: Provided how- 
ever, That no sheriff or deputy sheriff shall execute any 
civil process either by arresting the body or attaching the 
' goods and chattels of any person or persons under colour 
of any entry made for the purposes aforesaid, unless such 
service could by law have been made without such entry ; 
and all services so made under colour of such entry shall be 
utterly void, and the officer making such service shall be 
considered a trespasser. And it shall be the duty of the 
said Board to cause all offensive or putrid substances, and 
all nuisances which may have a tendency in their opinion 
to endanger the health of the citizens, to be removed from 
Contents of 
the note to 
be entered, 
&c., weekly. 
Penalty. 
The Board 
may obtain 
upon oath or 
affirmation a 
warrant, and 
enter and 
search, &c. 
Proviso. 
No civil pro- 
cess to be 
executed un- 
der colour, 
See. 
The Board to 
remove all 
nuisances, 
&c. the streets, lanes, alleys, highways, wharves, docks, or 
any other part or parts of the city of Philadelphia, the 
district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern 
Liberties, Moyamcnsing, and Penn, and to cause such of 
the privies within the limits aforesaid, to be emptied or j 
corrected with lime or otherwise at the expense of the in- j 
dividuals who are the owners of the houses to which the 
said privies are appurtenant, as the said Board shall from 
time to time deem necessary for the health of the inhabi- 
tants thereof. And if the owners or occupiers of the pre- 
mises on which any nuisance may be found, and the owners ( 
of the houses to which the said privies are appurtenant, j 
shall, on due notice thereof, refuse or neglect to have the« 
same immediately removed, emptied, or corrected as afore-J 
said, he, she, or they, so refusing or neglecting, shall for- 
feit and pay for every such offence any sum not less than 
twenty, nor more than two hundred dollars, to be reco- 
vered and appropriated as by this act directed. And the 
expense attending the removal of such nuisance shall be, 
recovered by the Board in any court having lawful juris- 
diction, from all corporate bodies and individuals, in case 
due notice has been given to remove the same, and a refusal 
or neglect to do so within the time prescribed by the Board. 
Sect. 28. Jlnd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That if any person shall wilfully and knowingly 1 
obstruct or resist the Board of Health, or any of the mem-’ 
hers thereof, or any persons by them appointed, in the ex-1 
ecution of the powers to them given, or in performance of, 
duties enjoined on them by this act, and the rules and regu-1 
lations of the said Board, such person shall on being thereof 
legally convicted, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five 
hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as is, 
hereinafter directed. And if after the expiration of the' 
quarantine, any mariner or other person who shall have’ 
complied with the regulations hereby established, shall j 
commit any violence on the person of a member of thei 
Board of Health, or any of the officers attached to the same, j 
for any thing done in the execution of his duty, such per- < 
son shall be subject on conviction thereof to a fine of two 
And to cause 
the privies to 
be emptied, 
&c. 
And the 
owners or 
occupiers re- 
fusing to pay 
sucli ex- 
penses shall 
forfeit, &.c. 
How to be 
recovered. 
Persons ob- 
structing the 
members of 
the Board in 
, their duties 
under this act 
to forfeit, &c. 
If at expira- 
tion of the 
quarantine 
any person 
who has com- 
plied with its 
regulations, 
commits vio- 
lence on the 
members or 
officers of the 
Board, &.c. hundred dollars, and shall also be sentenced to imprison- 
ment at hard labour for any term not exceeding three years. 
Sect. 29. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That for payment and satisfaction of all forfeit- 
ures and penalties, which arc imposed by this act, and all 
sums of money directed by this act to be paid, it shall be 
the duty of the Health Officer to sue and prosecute, and the 
same to collect, recover and receive, and the same shall be 
recoverable before any alderman, justice of the peace, or 
court of justice, having lawful jurisdiction, to the amount 
of such forfeitures, penalties, and sums of money respec- 
tively, or in the case, or upon the offence upon which the 
proceeding shall be had, and the same when recovered and 
received, shall be appropriated, and shall inure to the use 
of the institution, under the management and direction of 
the Board of Health ; and no citizen or inhabitant of the 
city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, or the town- 
ship of the Northern Liberties, or Moyamensing, or Penn, 
shall be disqualified from sitting as judges or jurors, or from 
giving testimony respecting any of the offences mentioned 
in this act, by reason of his, her or their common interest 
in the appropriation of the sum or penalties imposed for 
such offence, nor shall any member of the Board of Health, 
or any officer entrusted with the execution of this act, or 
any part thereof, be disqualified from giving testimony re- 
specting any of the said offences. And the said members 
of the Board of Health shall, during their continuance in 
office, be exempted from the duties of jurors, and from mi- 
litia duty. 
Sect. 30. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the Lazaretto physician, Quarantine master, 
Port physician, and Health Officer, shall, from and after the 
passing of this act, receive annually, the following salaries, 
as a compensation for their services, that is to say : the 
Lazaretto physician, the sum of twelve hundred dollars ; 
the Quarantine master, the sum of seven hundred dollars; 
the Port physician, the sum of five hundred dollars ; and 
the Health Officer, the sum of six hundred dollars, to be 
paid quarterly, by an order drawn by the Board of Health 
Penalty. 
Penalties, 
forfeitures 
and sums of 
money, how 
to be recov- 
ered. 
And to what 
use to be ap- 
propriated. 
No inhabi- 
tant of Phila- 
delphia, or 
the districts, 
to be disqual- 
ified to act as 
jurors, &c. 
Nor mem- 
bers or offi- 
cers of the 
Board to be 
disqualified 
from giving 
testimony. 
Salaries. 
Lazaretto 
physician, 
$ 1200; Qua- 
rantine mas- 
ter, $700 ; 
Port physi- 
cian, $500 
Health Offi- 
cer, $600. on their treasurer. And the Quarantine master shall accom- 
pany the Lazaretto physician, on the arrival of vessels at 
the Lazaretto, and shall have them moored, and when ne- 
cessary, well cleansed and white washed, for which he shall 
be paid in addition to his salary, by the master, owner or 
consignee, and shall be allowed to charge for lime and 
brushes, the usual prices at which such articles are retailed 
in the city of Philadelphia, (he shall also be authorized to 
receive all letters and papers to be forwarded to Philadel- 
phia by the Lazaretto mail, and by any other conveyance 
he may think proper,) and no person shall be permitted to 
go on board any vessel under quarantine, except the Laza- 
retto physician and Quarantine master, unless at the request 
of either of them to perform some necessary service. And 
the Quarantine master shall be furnished with such boats 
and crews as the Board of Health may judge necessary, for 
having the duties of the Lazaretto physician and Quaran- 
tine master carried into complete effect, and shall also be 
furnished with a good spy-glass. 
Sect. 31. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That all actions or prosecutions to be commenc- 
ed against any master, captain, owner or consignee of any 
ship or vessel, or other person, by virtue of this act, shall 
be brought within twelve months next after the commis- 
sion of the offence wherewith he is charged, and if any action 
or suit shall be commenced against any person or persons, 
for any matter or thing committed in violation of this act, 
the defendant or defendants may plead the general issue, 
and give this act and the special matter in evidence, at any 
trial to be had thereupon. And for the payment and satis- 
faction of all forfeitures and penalties which are imposed, 
and all sums of money directed by this act to be paid by 
the masters, captains, owners or consignees, as well the 
ships or vessels respectively, as the captains, masters, owners 
or consignees thereof, shall be and are hereby declared liable. 
Sect. 32. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That for defraying the expenses to be incurred 
in erecting and supporting the said Lazaretto, and for car- 
rying into complete effect the other provisions contained in 
Duties of the 
Lazaretto 
physician 
and Quaran- 
tine master. 
No person to 
go on board 
vessels under 
quarantine 
except Laza- 
retto physi- 
cian and Qua- 
rantine mas- 
ter. 
All actions 
and prosecu- 
tions to be 
brought 
within 12 
months. 
General issue 
may be 
pleaded. 
Masters, &c. 
as well as 
ships, liable 
for all forfeit- 
ures. 
To defray ex- 
penses of the 
Lazaretto, the Board au- 
thorized to 
levy a tax. 
this act, the said Board of Health arc hereby authorized 
and empowered, by and with the consent of the mayor or 
recorder, two aldermen, and two justices, as aforesaid, to 
levy and collect by tax on the estates and inhabitants of the 
city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the 
townships of the Northern Liberties, Moyamcnsing, and 
Penn, in the same manner, at the same rates, and under the 
same regulations as the county rates and levies are, or may be 
by law, levied and collected, such sums annually, as the said 
Board, by and with the consent of the mayor or recorder, 
two aldermen, and two justices, as aforesaid, shall deem ne- 
cessary, for the use of the said institution, provided the 
same shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars. And to de- 
fray the expenses necessarily incurred during a season when 
malignant fever shall become general, or be the cause of ex- 
traordinary expense, it shall and may be lawful for the said 
Board of Health to borrow such sum or sums of money as 
shall be deemed necessary, and for discharging the debt so 
incurred, the said Board shall be and hereby are authorized 
and empowered, to increase the amount of taxes in the man- 
ner aforesaid, to such sum as may be requisite for that pur- 
pose. 
Sect. 33. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the said Board of 
' Health, and they are hereby authorized to invest all sums 
of money, which may at any time be in the hands of their 
treasurer, over and above the amount which may be neces- 
sary to meet their current expenses, in the funded debt of 
the United States, the stock of the Bank of the United 
States, or in the stock of any other incorporated bank in 
the city of Philadelphia, and to sell and transfer the same at 
such times, and in such portions as necessity may require. 
Sect. 34. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the said Board of Health shall, on the first 
Monday in January, in every year, exhibit their accounts 
.to the auditors of the county of Philadelphia, and it shall 
be the duty of the said auditors to settle and adjust the ac- 
. count of all moneys received and expended by the said 
Board of Health, and the said auditors shall have like power 
and authority in settling such accounts, as they have in 
The tax not 
to exceed 
$15,000. 
When the 
Board may 
borrow mo- 
ney. 
In case they 
do, may in- 
crease the 
taxes. 
Board may in- 
vest surplus 
moneys. 
The Board to 
exhibit annu- 
ally their ac- 
counts to the 
county audi- 
tors. other cases, and on filing a copy of such settlement in the 
prothonotary’s office, it shall be under the same laws, rules 
and regulations, and shall have the same operation and effect1 
upon every of the members of the said Board of Health, and 
in all other respects as the report of auditors against county 
treasurers. 
Sect. 35. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the act entitled, “an Act for 
“a Health Office, for otherwise securing the city and port 
“of Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and 
“contagious diseases, and for regulating the importation of 
“German and other passengers,” passed the twenty-second 
day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, be and 
the same is hereby repealed, except the 21st and 22d sec-: 
tions of the said act. And the act entitled, “a Supplement; 
to the act entitled, 1 an Act for establishing a Health Office, i 
“for otherwise securing the city and port of Philadelphia 
“from the introduction of pestilential and contagious dis- 
eases, and for regulating the importation of German and 
“ other passengers/ ” passed the twenty-third day of Sep- 
tember, seventeen hundred and ninety-four; and the act 
entitled, “ an Act supplementary to the several acts esta- 
blishing a Health Office,” passed the seventeenth day 
of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-five. And the act 
entitled, “a further Supplement to the act entitled, ‘an Act 
“for establishing a Health Office, for otherwise securing 
“the city and port of Philadelphia from the introduction of 
“pestilential and contagious diseases, and for regulating 
“the importation of German and other passengers/ ” passed 
the seventeenth day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety- 
five. And the act entitled, “ an Act to amend and repeal 
“certain provisions in the Health Laws of this common- 
“ wealth,” passed the fourth day of April, one thousand 
seven hundred and ninety-six. And the act entitled, “an 
“ Act to alter and amend the Health Laws of this common- 
“ wealth, and to incorporate a board of managers of the 
“marine and city hospitals of the port of Philadelphia, and 
“for other purposes therein mentioned,” passed the fourth 
day of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight And 
Who have 
power to set- 
tle them as in 
other cases. 
Repeal of all 
former acts. 
Except the 
21st and 22d 
sections of 
the actof22d 
April, 1794. the act entitled, “an Act for establishing a Health Office, 
“for securing the city and port of Philadelphia from the 
“introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases,” 
passed the eleventh day of April, seventeen hundred and 
ninety-nine. And the act entitled, “an Act for establish- 
ing a Health Office, and to secure the city and port of 
“Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and con- 
“tagious diseases,” passed the seventeenth day of March, 
eighteen hundred and six. And the act entitled, “an Act 
“to continue in force an act entitled, ‘an Act for establish- 
ing a Health Office, and to secure the city and port of 
“Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and con- 
“tagious diseases and supplementary thereto,’ ” passed the 
thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and twelve. 
And the act entitled, “an Act to amend and continue ‘an 
“Act for establishing a Health Office, and to secure the 
“city and port of Philadelphia from the introduction of 
“pestilential and contagious diseases, and the supplement 
“thereto,’ ” passed the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen 
hundred and thirteen. And the act entitled, “an Act to 
“amend and continue ‘an Act for establishing a Health 
“Office, and to secure the city and port of Philadelphia 
“from the introduction of pestilential and contagious dis- 
eases,’ ” and the supplement thereto, passed the thirteenth 
day of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, be and the 
same are hereby repealed : Provided nevertheless, That all 
actions, prosecutions or other proceedings begun, all rights 
.accruing, and all penalties incurred under the said acts, 
shall be carried on, prosecuted, vested in, sued for, and re- 
covered, by the Board of Health established by this act, in 
all respects as if the said acts had not been repealed and ap- 
propriated, as is directed by this act. 
WILLIAM DAVIDSON. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
ISAAC WEAVER, 
Speaker of the Senate. 
Approved, the twenty-ninth day of January, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and eighteen. 
WILLIAM FINDLAY. 
Proviso. 
All proceed- 
ings begun 
under former 
acts, to be 
carried on as 
if they had 
not been re- 
pealed. AN ACT 
To provide for registering the births of Children in the 
City of Philadelphia, and its vicinity. 
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General 
•Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority 
of the same, That it shall be the duty of all persons who 
may pursue or practise Midwifery in the city of Philadel- 
phia, in the incorporated part of the Northern Liberties, in 
the township of Penn, and the districts of Southwark and 
Moyamensing, between the first day of March and the first 
day of April, annually, hereafter, to leave their names in 
writing, and the places of their residence, at the office of 
the Board of Health, and when so left it shall be the duty 
of the Clerk to receive and enter the same alphabetically in : 
a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be open at 
all times during office hours to persons desirous to inspect 
the same. And all persons pursuing or practising Mid- 
wifery as aforesaid, shall keep a true and exact register of 
the births that take place under their care and superinten- 
dence, and shall from time to time as they may happen, 
enter the same, with the sex of the child so born, on a blank 
schedule to be furnished to them by the Clerk of the Health 
Office, which schedule shall be signed with the name of 
such person, and delivered on the last Saturday of each 
month to the Clerk of the Health Office, or other person 
calling for the same, and every person pursuing or practis- 
ing Midwifery, neglecting or refusing to leave their names 
and places of residence at the Health Office as aforesaid, or 
to perform any other of the duties required by this Act, 
shall forfeit and pay for each offence, the sum of twenty- 
five dollars, to be recovered in the manner and for the uses 
prescribed in “an Act for establishing a Health Office, and 
Persons prac- 
tising Mid- 
wifery to 
leave their 
names and 
residence at 
the Health 
Office in 
March annu- 
■ ally. 
Names to be 
entered in a 
book alpha- 
betically. 
Register of 
births to be 
kept by all 
persons prac- 
tising Mid- 
wifery. 
Schedule of 
births to be 
furnished to 
the Clerk of 
Health Office 
on the last 
Saturday of 
each month. 
Penalty, “to secure the city and port of Philadelphia from the in- 
troduction of pestilential and contagious diseases, and for 
“ other purposes.” 
REES HILL, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
ISAAC WEAVER, 
Speaker of the Senate. 
Approved, the twenty-seventh day of March, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and nineteen. 
WM. FINDLAY. 
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 
Harrisburg, April 27th, 1819. 
I certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the original 
law, remaining in this office. 
Witness my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid. 
JAMES TRIMBLE, [l.s.] 
Deputy Secretary. A SUPPLEMENT 
To an Act, entitled uAn act for establishing a Health 
Office, and to secure the City and Port of Philadelphia 
from the introduction of Pestilential and Contagious 
Diseases, and for other purposes.” 
Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, That from and after the passing of 
this act, between the first day of June and the first day of 
October, every ship or vessel coming from any port or 
place southward of Cape Fear, bound to Philadelphia, shall 
be subject to the examination directed by the fourth section 
of the act to which this is a supplement; and every ship or 
vessel coming from any foreign port or place, and the mas- 
ter, commander or pilot of every such ship or vessel, com- 
ing from any port or place southward of Cape Fear, shall 
be subject to the same restrictions, and liable to the same 
indictment, prosecution and penalties as by the said fourth 
section of the said act is prescribed for the master, com- 
mander or pilot of any ship or vessel coming from any 
foreign port or place. And the same duties shall be per- 
formed by the Lazaretto physician and Quarantine master, 
and the same oaths or affirmations shall be by them admi- 
nistered, first making known to the person interrogated the 
penalty imposed by the said act to which this is a supple- 
ment, which penalty is hereby extended to every person 
who shall give false answers, under oath or affirmation, to 
the questions proposed under the authority of this act. And 
the said physician and Quarantine master, and the master 
or captain of such ship or vessel, shall proceed in the same 
manner in all respects as is directed by the said fourth sec- 
tion of the act to which this is a supplement; and the Board 
of Health shall have the same power to determine and direct 
Vessels from 
the south- 
ward of Cape 
Fear, subject 
to examina- 
tion from first 
June to first 
October, and 
their officers 
subject to the 
same restric- 
tions and pe- 
nalties as if 
from foreign 
ports. 
Lazaretto 
Physician 
and Quaran- 
tine Master 
to perform 
their usual 
duties. 
Penalty ex- 
tended to aH 
persons giv- 
ing false an- 
swers. what measures shall be pursued, and the same shall be car- 
ried in like manner into execution. 
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, be- 
tween the first day of June and the first day of October, 
every ship or vessel coming from a port or place in the 
United States, bound to the port of Philadelphia, and from 
which ship or vessel shall have been, within thirty days 
then next preceding, unladen, the whole or a part of the 
cargo or baggage, brought in the said ship or vessel from 
some foreign port or place, every such ship or vessel shall 
be liable and subject to all the rules, regulations and restric- 
tions of the said fourth section of the said act to which this 
is a supplement, and shall be examined and treated, as well 
the vessel itself, as the cargo, crew, passengers and bag- 
gage on board, in the same manner as if such ship or vessel 
had brought the same cargo, crew, passengers or baggage, 
directly from such foreign port or place, and had the same 
then on board at the Lazaretto. 
Sect 3. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, be- 
tween the first day of June and the first day of October, no 
ship or vessel which shall be laden with, or have on board, 
any vegetables, fish, or hides, shall be unladen at the port of 
Philadelphia, until a permit shall be applied for and obtain- 
ed from the Board of Health. And if any master, captain, 
owner or owners, consignee or consignees, or other per- 
sons, shall presume to unlade from on board of any such 
ship or vessel, any vegetables, fish, or hides, without first 
having applied for and obtained a permit from the Board 
of Health, every such master, captain, owner or owners, 
consignee or consignees, or other person, so offending, shall 
pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be reco- 
vered and appropriated as is directed in the act to which 
this is a supplement. 
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, be- 
tween the first day of J une and the first day of October, 
within forty-eight hours after the discharge of the cargo of 
Vessels from 
any port in 
the United 
States, hav- 
ing within 
thirty days 
arrived from 
a foreign 
port, subject 
to the same 
restrictions 
as if directly 
from such 
foreign port. 
Vessels with 
vegetables, 
fish, or hides, 
prohibited 
from unload- 
ing without a 
permit from 
the Board 
of Health. 
Penalty. 
Notice to be 
given Board 
of Health every ship or vessel at the port of Philadelphia, it shall be 
the duty of the captain or master, owner or owners, con- 
signee or consignees, and other person, having the direc- 
tion of the discharge of the same, under the penalty of one 
hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as by 
the act to which this is a supplement is directed, to give, 
or cause to be given, to the Board of Health, notice that 
the same cargo is discharged, and to permit and suffer the 
Board of Health, by themselves or by their lawful agent 
by them for that purpose appointed, to examine the condi- 
tion of the hold, ballast, and limbers of such ship or vessel. 
And if the Board of Health shall deem it for the safety and 
health of the city of Philadelphia, they are hereby author- 
ized and empowered to designate a proper place to which 
the said ship or vessel shall be taken, and that her hold, 
ballast and limbers shall there be cleansed and purified, or 
at the expense of such captain or master, owner or owners, 
consignee or consignees, or other person, having the direc- 
tion of the discharge of the cargo, to send, or cause to be 
sent, such ship or vessel to a proper place, and have her 
hold, ballast and limbers properly cleansed and purified. 
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, be- 
tween the first day of June and the first day of October, 
no person or persons shall, under the penalty of fifty dol- 
lars, to be recovered and appropriated as is directed by the 
act to which this is a supplement, be permitted to store, or 
keep in any one house, store, cellar, or other enclosure, a 
greater quantity than one hundred bushels of vegetables 
which are in themselves of a perishable nature, without a 
permit from the Board of Health, which permit shall be 
granted for a limited time therein expressed, and may be 
renewed from time to time by the Board of Health. 
JOHN GILMORE, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
PHILIP S. MARKLEY, 
Speaker of the Senate. 
Approved, April 2d, 1821. 
JOSEPH HIESTER. 
within forty- 
eight hours 
after dis- 
charge of 
cargo. 
Penalty. 
Board em- 
powered to 
remove ves- 
sels and have 
them cleans- 
ed. 
Not more 
than 100 
bushels of 
vegetables, 
of a perisha- 
ble nature, to 
be kept by 
any person 
without a 
permit. A SUPPLEMENT 
To an Act entitled u an Act for establishing a Health 
Office and to secure the City and Port of Philadel- 
phia from the introduction of pestilential and conta- 
gious diseases and for other purposes.” 
Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, That from and after the passing of 
this act, all ships and vessels arriving at the port of Phila- 
delphia, with small pox on board, shall be subject to the 
same rules, restrictions and regulations, as are provided and 
directed in the act to which this is a supplement, in relation 
to ships or vessels arriving with other malignant or conta- 
gious diseases. 
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That no practising physician, or other person or 
persons, shall be allowed to communicate the infection of 
small pox, by inoculation or otherwise, within the jurisdic- 
tion of the Board of Health, unless by special permission 
of said Board, and any practising physician, or other per- 
son or persons so transgressing, shall be liable to a penalty 
not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than seventy, 
for each person so inoculated or infected as aforesaid, to be 
recovered and appropriated as directed by the act to which 
this is a supplement. 
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the 
Board of Health shall be invested with the same authority 
to make such general rules, orders, or regulations, for the 
preservation of the district from the contagion of small pox 
Vessels hav- * 
ing small pox 1 
on board sub- 
ject to same 1 
regulations as 
those having 
other malig- 1 
nantor conta-. 
gious disease. 
Physicians or 
otherpersons 
forbid to 
communicate 
small pox by 
inoculation or 
otherwise, 
without per- 
mission. 
Penalty. 
Authority of 
the Board of 
Health to 
make rules, 
&c. as they already possess in relation to other contagious dis- 
eases, dangerous to the health of the community. 
JOSEPH LAWRENCE, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
WILLIAM MARKS, Jr. 
Speaker of the Senate. 
Approved the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand 
eight hundred and twenty-four. 
J. ANDREW SHULZE. 
SECRETARY’S OFFICE. 
Harrisburg, April 3d, 1824. 
I Certify the above to be a true copy of the original Law, 
remaining filed, and on record in this Office. 
Witness my hand and seal, the day and year aforesaid. 
JAMES TRIMBLE, [L. A.] 
Deputy Secretary. 
AN ACT 
To empower the Board of Health to purchase and hold 
certain Real Estate, and for other purposes. 
Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House oj 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, That from and after the passage of 
this act, it shall and may be lawful for the Board of Health 
to purchase and hold in fee simple, or for any lesser estate 
or term of years, one or more lot or lots of ground, not ex- 
ceeding four in number, and each lot not to contain more 
than four acres in extent, and therein to receive and deposite, 
or cause to be deposited, the contents of all privies within 
the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the 
incorporated districts of the Northern Liberties and Spring 
Board to pur- 
chase four 4 
acre lots, to 
deposite 
therein the 
contents of 
all privies 
and other of- 
fensive sub - 
stances, and 
convert it in- 
to manure, 
sell the same and dispose 
of the pro- 
ceeds. 
Garden, that part of the township of Moyamensing north 
of Federal street, and between the Passyunk road and Broad 
street, and that part of the incorporated district of Kensing- 
ton lying south of a line running due west from the mouth 
of Palmer’s creek, as they shall from time to time be 
cleansed and emptied, and all other offensive substances 
found upon the public streets and highways, and by the 
proper process to convert the same into a state fitted to be 
applied as manure, and the manure thus prepared to sell 
and dispose of, the proceeds thereof to be applied to the 
general objects and purposes of the institution, as now au- 
thorized by law, and to employ, at such compensation as 
they may think proper, the agents, servants, and workmen 
necessary to the prosecution and conducting of such pro- 
cess. Provided, That no such deposite as aforesaid shall be 
made in any such lot, unless the same shall have been pre- 
viously enclosed. 
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That so soon as the said Board of Health have 
taken upon lease, or purchased as aforesaid, a lot or lots for 
the purposes aforesaid, and are prepared to receive therein 
the contents of privies and other offensive substances, it 
shall be lawful for them to make proclamation thereof, by 
advertisement in the daily newspapers of the city of Phi- 
ladelphia, to he continued at least thirty days, and from and 
after the expiration of the said thirty days, during which 
said advertisement has been made, it shall not he lawful for 
" any person or persons, employed in cleansing any privy or 
I privies within the hounds aforesaid, to deposite, or cause to 
be deposited, the contents, or any part of the contents 
thereof, in any other place or places than such as shall he 
designated by the said Board of Health in their said pro- 
clamation, and if any person or persons shall deposite, or 
cause to be deposited, such contents, or any part thereof, 
in any other place or places than as aforesaid, without the 
consent of the said Board of Health, such person or persons 
shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, a sum not ex- 
ceeding fifty dollars, one half to the use of the informer, 
and the other half to the use of the said Board of Health, 
Proviso. 
Lots to be 
enclosed. 
Board to 
make procla- 
mation by ad- 
vertisement 1 
for 30 days in , 
the daily pa- 
pers when 
they are pre- 
pared to re- 
ceive the 
contents of 
privies, &c. 
After expira- 
tion of thirty 
days unlawful 
to deposite 
in any other 
place than 
that designa- 
ted by the 
Board. 
Penalty. and said penalty may be recovered by action of debt, as 
sums of like amount are by law recoverable, or the offender 
may be proceeded against by indictment in the Mayor’s 
court of the city of Philadelphia, or court of Quarter Ses - 
sions of the county, as the case may be, and in case of con- 
viction, the court shall sentence and adjudge the person so 
convicted to pay the said penalty of fifty dollars (determin- 
ing at the same time who is to be considered the informer) 
and to remain in custody until the same be paid. 
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of all persons employ- 
ed in cleansing privies within the bounds aforesaid, to con-. 
vey the contents thereof from the said privies to the said 
places of deposite as aforesaid, in carts or other vehicles, the 
bodies of which shall be so constructed as to be capable off 
holding water, and to be closed on the top, and not other- < 
wise, which carts or other vehicles shall be submitted to ( 
the inspection of the Health Officer or some other person 
to be appointed by the Board of Health, and approved of,. 
previous to their being used for the purposes as aforesaid, 
and any person or persons offending against the provisions 
of this section, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, 
the sum of twenty dollars, one half to the use of the in- 
former, the other half to the use of the Board of Health, 
the mode of recovering said penalty and prosecuting said 
offender to be the same as in the preceding section. 
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the first day of May next,; 
it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to follow or J 
be engaged or concerned in the business of cleansing privies,' 
within the bounds aforesaid, unless such person or persons ] 
shall have previously had their names and residences regis- < 
tered in a book to be kept for that purpose at the office of J 
the said Board of Health, in which book it shall be the duty 1 
of the Health Officer to insert forthwith, without fee or re- 
ward, the name and residence of every person who shall 
apply to be so registered, and if any person or persons shall, 
after the said first day of May next, cleanse or be concern- 
ed or engaged in cleansing any privy within the bounds 
aforesaid, or in hauling away the contents thereof, whose 
Carts or other 
vehicles to be 
water tight 
and closed on 
the top, and 
to be inspect- 
ed & approv- 
ed by the 
Health Offi- 
cer or other 
person ap- 
pointed by 
the Board. 
Penalty. 
Persons en- 
gaged in 
cleansing pri- 
vies to have 
their names 
and residen- 
ces register- 
ed at the 
Health Of- 
fice. names shall not have been so as aforesaid registered, and 
whose carts or other vehicles shall not have been so as afore- 
said approved, or if any person shall, when applying to be 
so registered, give a false name or place of residence to the 
Health Officer, such person or persons shall, upon convic- 
tion of any or either of said offences, forfeit and pay a sum 
not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than twenty, one half 
to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of 
the said Board of Health, the mode of recovering said pe- 
nalty and prosecuting said offence to be the same as herein 
before provided. 
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That all the right, title, and interest, which this 
commonwealth may have or claim, or be supposed to have 
. or claim, by virtue of any forfeiture or supposed forfeiture 
in a certain undivided third part of four messuages or tene- 
ments and lots of ground, situate at the south-west corner 
[ of Front street and Norris’s alley, in the city of Philadel- 
[phia, containing on Front street twenty-nine feet or there- 
abouts, and on Norris’s alley seventy-two feet six inches or 
thereabouts, be and the same is hereby released to the said 
Board of Health, to whom the said estate has been lately 
struck off at Sheriff’s sale, and that the deed to be made by 
the Sheriff to the said Board of Health shall convey as good 
and perfect a title to the said Board as it would do if made 
to any natural person. Provided, That nothing in this act 
contained shall in any wise prejudice the rights of indivi- 
duals, or impair any other title to the said real estate than 
that which the commonwealth might have or claim, by rea- 
son of the sale thereof, to the said Board of Health. 
I certify that the foregoing is a copy of an Act 
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth qf 
Pennsylvania, passed at the present session by both 
branches of the Legislature, and returned by the 
Governor approved and signed. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand at Harrisburg, the 5th day of April, 1826. 
FR’S. R. SHUNK, 
Clerk of the House of Representatives 
Penalty. 
Common- 
wealth’s in- 
terest in four 
messuages 
corner of 
Front street 
and Norris’s 
alley released 
to the Board 
of Health. 
Proviso. A SUPPLEMENT 
To an Act, entitled “an Act, for establishing a Health 
Office, and to secure the City and Port of Philadelphia 
from the introduction of pestilential and contagious 
diseases, and for other purposes.” 
Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, That a free and unrestricted com- 
munication be, and the same is hereby permitted, between 
the officers and crews of national vessels which may be de- 
tained at quarantine at the Lazaretto, in the port of Phila- 
delphia, and the Naval Asylum on the river Schuylkill, 
any provision in the act to which this is a supplement to 
the contrary notwithstanding. Provided, That nothing 
herein contained shall prohibit the Board of Health from 
interdicting communication between the said Asylum and 
citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia whenever in 
their opinion such interdiction may be necessary. 
Officers and 
crews of na- 
tional vessels 
detained at 
Quarantine 
to have free 
communica- 
tion with the 
Naval Asy- 
lum on the 
Schuylkill. 
Board to in- 
terdict inter- 
course be- 
tween Asy- 
lum and citi- 
zens of city 
and county 
when neces- 
sary. 
I certify that the foregoing is a copy of an Act 
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, passed at the present session by 
both branches of the Legislature, and returned by 
the Governor approved and signed. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand at Harrisburg, the thirtieth day of Janua- 
ry, A.D. 1827. 
FR’S. R. SHUNK, 
Clerk of the House of Representatives. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT 
To an Act, entitled “an diet for establishing a Health 
Office, and to relieve the city and fort of Philadelphia 
from the introduction of pestilential and contagious 
diseases, and for other purposes.” 
Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Rej)resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by 
the authority of the same, That it shall be the duty of the 
: Board of Health, in all cases where the owner or owners of 
1 unoccupied property, upon which a nuisance, in the opinion 
of the said Board, exists, reside out of the city, districts, 
and townships subjected to the operation of the act to which 
this is a supplement, or cannot be found by the messenger 
of the said Board, after diligent search made, to cause the 
said nuisance to be at once removed, and the expense at- 
tending the removal of the same shall be recovered by the 
said Board in any court, or before any court, alderman, or 
justice of the peace, having lawful jurisdiction as in and by 
the said act is provided. 
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the expenses attending the removal of any 
nuisance shall be and remain a lien upon the premises from 
which such nuisance has been removed, and it shall be the 
duty of the said Board of Health to file the claim therefor 
against the owner or reputed owner in the office of the 
Clerk of the District Court for the City and County of Phi- 
ladelphia, which said court shall in all cases have jurisdic- 
tion of the same, and the said claims may be filed, recorded 
and proceeded on by scire facias to recover the same, in 
like manner as mechanics’ liens are recoverable, upon the 
trial of which, the fact of the nuisance shall not be inquired 
into, and the defendant or defendants shall only be per- 
mitted to give evidence of payment, or that unnecessary 
Board requir- 
ed to remove 
nuisances on 
unoccupied 
property 
where the 
owner re- 
sides out of 
the city or 
districts. 
The expense 
of removing 
nuisances to 
be a lien on 
the property. 
Lien to be 
filed in the 
office of the 
Clerk of the 
District 
Court of the 
City and 
County of 
Philadelphia. expenses were incurred by the Board in the removal of the 
nuisance. 
Sect. 3. Jlnd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the twentieth section of the act to which 
this is a further supplement, and so much of the first sec- 
tion of the act to which this is a supplement as requires the 
request of a majority of the members of said Board before 
the Governor can remove certain officers; and also such 
parts of said act as may be inconsistent with the provisions 
of this supplement, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
Repeal of 
parts of 
former acts. 
Office of the Clerk of the Senate,, 
Harrisburg, April 17th, 1830. ' 
/ do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of 
an diet passed by both branches of the Legislature, 
and signed by the Governor, at their last session. 
Witness my hand the day and year above ivrit- 
ten. 
W. 8. FRANKLIN, 
Clerk of the .Senate. A SUPPLEMENT 
To an act entitled “an diet to empower the Board of 
Health to purchase and hold certain real estate, and 
for other purposes.” 
Section. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by 
the authority of the same, That from and after the pas- 
sage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the said Board 
of Health to purchase and hold in fee simple, or for any 
less estate or term of years, one or more lot or lots of ground 
not exceeding three in number, and each lot not to contain 
more than ten acres in extent, for the purposes mentioned 
in the first section of the act to which this is a supplement. 
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the said 
Board of Health to sell, let upon ground rent, or lease the 
whole or any part or portion of the lot or lots heretofore 
purchased and now held by them under the first section of 
the act to which this is a supplement, as also the whole or 
any part or portion of any lot or lots which the said Board 
may hereafter purchase in pursuance of the provisions of 
this act, and upon such sale, letting upon ground rent, or 
otherwise, to make good and sufficient deeds of conveyance 
and assurance in the law to the purchaser or purchasers, 
lessee or lessees thereof. 
Sect. 3. And be it f urther enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That all and every purchase heretofore made by 
the said Board of Health of a lot or lots of ground for the 
: purposes aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken, and are here- 
by declared to be good and available in law, any thing in 
the act herein referred to, to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That so much of the first section of the said act 
Board of f 
Health may 
purchase and ( 
hold one or j 
more lot or 
lots of 1 
ground. 
Permission 
to sell, let on 
ground rent, 
or lease, the 
whole or any 
portion of 
their ground. 
Purchases 
heretofore 
made, good 
and available 
in law. of Assembly, entitled “an act to empower the Board of 
Health to purchase and hold certain real estate, and for 
other purposes,” as is hereby altered and supplied, be and 
the same is hereby repealed. 
Sect. 5. %fl.nd be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That if the fees paid into the Office are inade- 
quate to defray the expenses of carrying into complete ef- 
fect the provisions of the different acts for establishing a 
Health Office, that the said Board of Health are hereby au- 
thorized, by and with the consent of the Mayor’s Court of 
the city of Philadelphia, and the Court of Quarter Sessions 
of the county of Philadelphia, to draw a warrant on the 
commissioners of the county of Philadelphia for the amount 
required; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners of 
the said county to pay over to the said Board the amount 
of said warrant, and they are hereby authorized and re- 
quired to raise the money in any mode or manner in which 
money for the ordinary purposes and expenses of said county 
may by law be raised or obtained. 
Repeal of the 
first section 
of a former 
act. 
Provision for 
expenses of 
the Board. 
Office of the Clerk of the Senate, 
Harrisburg, February 11th, 1832. 
I do certify the above and foregoing to be a true 
copy of an act passed by both branches of the Le- 
gislature, and signed by the Governor. 
Witness my hand. 
W. S. FRANKLIN, 
Clerk of the Senate. AN ACT 
Relating to the Board of Health of the Port of Phila- 
delphia, and for other purposes. 
Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by 
the authority of the same, That under the provisions of 
the fifteenth section of the act, entitled “an Act to esta- 
blish a Health Office, and to secure the city and port of 
’ “Philadelphia from the introduction of pestilential and con- 
“tagious diseases, and for other purposes,” passed the 
. twenty-ninth day of January, eighteen hundred and eigh- 
teen, the Board of Health of Philadelphia are hereby author- 
ized to send letters and other packages to the Lazaretto 
and to Fort Mifflin, and to receive letters and packages sent 
from either of said places, to the Health Office of the said 
city, once or twice a day, as they may deem expedient. 
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority 
• aforesaid, That from and after the first day of July next, 
no health fee or half pilotage shall be charged on any Ame- 
rican vessel engaged in the Pennsylvania coal trade. 
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, the 
: Health Officer shall receive annually as compensation for 
his services, the sum of eight hundred dollars, to be paid 
quarterly, by an order drawn by the Board of Health on 
their Treasurer, any thing in the thirtieth section of the 
act, entitled “an Act for establishing a Health Office, and 
“to secure the city and port of Philadelphia from the in- 
troduction of pestilential and contagious diseases, and for 
“other purposes,” passed the twenty-ninth day of January, 
eighteen hundred and eighteen, to the contrary notwith- 
standing ; and so much of said act as fixes the salary of the 
Health Officer, be and the same is hereby repealed. 
Letters and 
packages 
allowed to 
pass to and 
from the La- 
zaretto, Fort. 
Mifflin, and 
the Health 
Office of the 
city. 
American 
vessels en- 
gaged in 
Pennsylvania 
coal trade ex- 
empt from 
health fees 
and half 
pilotage. 
Salary of the 
Health Of- 
ficer to be 
$800 a year. Sect. 4. %find be it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid, That the constables of the county of Philadel-, 
phia may serve process, issued by justices of the peace or1 
aldermen, in any part thereof, though not residing in the j 
same district with the said justice, any law to the contrary 
notwithstanding. 
Constables of 
the county 
may serve 
process. 
Office of the Clerk of the Senate, 
Harrisburg, June 12, 1832. 
/ do certify the above and foregoing to be a 
true copy of an act, passed by both branches of 
the Legislature and signed by the Governor. 
Witness my hand the day and year above writ- 
ten. 
W. S. FRANKLIN, 
Clerk of the Senate. INDEX. 
PAGE. 
SECTION 1. Board of Health and Officers, how to be appointed. Pow- 
ers of the Board, &c. - 3 
2. Fees to be paid by vessels, 6 
3. Estate vested in the Board, ------ 7 
4. Vessels to be examined at the Lazaretto, &c. - 8 
5. Respecting vessels arriving indirectly from foreign ports 
and vessels with foreign goods on board, 12 
6. Vessels from the Mediterranean, ..... 14 
7. and 8. Persons, goods, &c., from infected places, prohi- 
bited, he. .---..---15 
9. Contagious diseases in other places in the United States, 15 
10. Lazaretto officers not to absent themselves, - - - 16 
11. Duty of the Lazaretto physician in respect to the sick, - 17 
12. Duty of the Quarantine master, ..... 17 
13. Duty of the Port physician, 18 
14. Duty of the Health Officer, 19 
15. Respecting the letter mail, 20 
16. Patients at the Lazaretto, penalty for eloping, expenses 
how defrayed, he 21 
17. Vessels may be remanded from the wharves in certain 
cases, -22 
18. Persons in the city affected with contagious diseases, &c. 23 
19. Respecting pilots arriving at the Lazaretto, &c. - - 23 
20. MemLers of the Board of Health prohibited going within 
the during Quarantine season, 24 
21. Concerning passenger vessels, 24 
22. the city hospital, 27 
23. contagion in other places, - ... 28 
24. Respecting sick persons at boarding houses, or on board 
vessels at the wharves, 28 
25. Cases of malignant diseases to be reported, 29 
26. Certificates of death to be given, 29 
27. Concerning nuisances, 30 
28. Resisting the Board, 31 
29. Forfeitures, and how to be recovered, 32 
30. Salaries of the officers, .......32 
31. Time of bringing actions for forfeitures, .... 33 
32. Power of the Board to levy a tax, 33 
33. Funds, how to be invested, 34 
34. Accounts to be audited, * - 34 
35. Repealing former acts, 35 
Act of 1819. 
1. Persons practising Midwifery to register the births of chil- 
dren at the Health Office, &c., 37 PAGE. 
Supplement of 1821. 
SECTION 1. Vessels from southward of Cape Fear subject to examina- 
tion, ----------39 
2. Vessels from any port in the United States, having within 
thirty days arrived from a foreign port, subject to re- 
strictions, 40 
3. Relating to vegetables, fish, and hides, .... 40 
4. When cargo is discharged, notice to be given to the Board 
within forty-eight hours, ------ 4C 
5. Not more than one hundred bushels of vegetables of a pe- 
rishable nature to be kept without permit, 41 
Supplement of 1824. 
1. Relating to small Pox, - - 42 
2. Prohibits inoculation without permission, 42 
3. Board authorized to make regulations against small pox, 42 
Act of 1826. 
1. Board authorized to purchase lots, 43 
2. Proclamation to be made relative to the contents of privies, 44 
3. Relative to carts and other vehicles, - - - - 45 
4. Relative to persons cleansing privies, 45 
5. Vesting commonwealth’s interest in real estate in the 
Board, 46 
Supplement of 1S27. 
1. Relating to officers and crews of national vessels subject 
to quarantine, 47 
Supplement of 1830. 
1. Unoccupied property, Board required to remove nuisances 
from, 4f 
2. Expense of removing nuisances, how collected, 
3. Repeal of parts of former acts, 4 
Supplement of 1832. 
1. The Board may purchase and hold certain ground, - - 50 
2. Permission to dispose of their ground, - - - - 50 
3. Previous purchases confirmed, - ‘ - - - - 50 
4. First section of former act repealed, 50 
5. Expenses of the Board provided for, - - - - 1 
Act of 1832. 
1. Transmission of letters and packages to and from Quaran- 
tine stations and the Health Office of the city, - - 52 
2. Privileges of American vessels carrying Pennsylvania coal, 52 
3. Salary of the Health Officer, ------ 52 
4. Constables of the county to serve process, 53