J CHAPTER XIV. 
* 
OF 
THE REVISED STATUTES. 
OF THE 
PUBLIC HEALTH 
RELATING TO THE 
PORT, HARBOUR, AND STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE 
Hoard of Health, of the City of New-York. 
NEW-YORK: 
GEORGE P. SCOTT & CO. PRINTERS. 
1836. HEALTH COMMISSIONERS. 
WILLIAM ROCKWELL, M. D. Health Officer, 
No. 57 East Broadway. 
JAMES R. MANLEY, M. D. Resident Physician, 
No. 19 White street. 
SMITH CUTTER, M. D. Health Commissioner, 
No. 59 Barclay street. 3 
CHAJP. XIV. 
OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 
[This chapter takes effect on the first day of January, 1828.J 
ANALYSIS. 
TITLE I. 
Of the Officers of Health in the City of New-York. 
TITLE II. 
Of Quarantine, and Regulations in the nature of Quaran- 
tine, at the Port of New- York. 
Art. 1. Of the place of quarantine, and of the vessels and persons subject 
thereto. 
Art. 2. Of the duties of pilots in relation to vessels subject to quarantine. 
Art. 3. Regulations concerning the treatment, conduct, and duties of ves- 
sels, articles, and persons under quarantine. 
Art. 4. Regulations concerning the treatment and conduct of vessels, arti- 
cles, and persons released from quarantine, or exempt therefrom. 
Art. 5. Of the regulation of intercourse with infected places. 
Art. 6. Penalties for violating the provisions of this title. 
TITLE III. 
Internal Regulations for the Preservation of the Public 
Health in the City of New- York. 
Art. 1. Of certain duties and powers of the board of health, the mayor, 
and commissioners of health. 
Art. 2. Of the duties of physicians and other persons. 
Art. 3. Prohibitions and penalties. 
TITLE IV. 
Of the Marine Hospital, and its Funds. 
TITLE V. 
General Provisions applicable to the City of New- York. 
TITLE VI. 
Regulations for the Preservation of Public Health in other 
Ports and pdaccs of the State. 
TITLE VII. 
General Regulations concerning the Practice of Physic and 
Surgery in this State. 4 
TITLE I. 
OF THE OFFICERS OF HEALTH IN THE CITY 
OF NEW-YOR K. 
§ 1. Board of health continued-who president and members. 
2 Power of board to choose temporary president. 
3. Who commissioners of health, 
4 Duties of health officer. 
5. His power to appoint an assistant. 
6. Duties of resident physician. 
7. Duties of health commissioner. 
8. The same-to give bond, &c. 
9. To account monthly, and deposit monies. 
10. Monies, how drawn. 
11. Resident physician and health commissioner to meet daily, &e^ 
12. Salaries of each of the commissioners of health. 
13. Health officer's fees. 
14. Consulting physician, how appointed, and duties. 
15. Inspectors of vessels-fees. 
16. To report to board of health. 
Section 1, There shall continue to be a Board of Health 
in the city of New-York, of which the mayor shall by 
right of office be president, and the members of which 
shall, from time to time, be appointed by the common 
council of the city. 
§ 2. In case the mayor shall, from any cause, be 'unable 
to attend to the discharge of his duties as a health officer, 
the board of health may choose one of their own number 
as president, who shall possess all the powers and perform 
all the duties of mayor under this chapter. 
§ 3. The health officer, resident physician, and health com- 
missioner of the city, shall be the commissioners of health. 
§ 4. The health officer shall perform all the duties here- 
after specified in this chapter, and such other duties as the 
board or commissioners of health shall lawfully require. 
§ 5. The health officer may appoint an assistant, for 
whose conduct he shall be responsible, and who may per- 
form all the duties required of the health officer. Such as- 
Board of health 
Ib. 
Commission- 
ers of health. 
Health officer. 
His assistant. 5 
distant, before he shall enter on the duties of his office, shall 
take the oath prescribed in the constitution of this state. 
§ 6. The resident physician shall visit all sick persons 
reported to the mayor, or to the board of commissioners of 
health, and shall perform such other duties as the board of 
health shall enjoin. 
§ 7. The health commissioner, under the direction of the 
board of health, shall assist the resident physician in the dis- 
charge of his official duties. 
§ 8. He shall also receive all monies appropriated to the 
use of the marine hospital, and shall pay all demands against 
the hospital that shall be approved by a majority of the com- 
missioners of health ; and before he shall enter on the du- 
ties of his office, shall execute a bond in the penal sum of 
five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful perform- 
ance of his trust, and with such sureties as the mayor or re- 
corder of the city shall approve. The bond shall be given 
to the people of this state, and be filed by the officer taking 
it, in the office of the clerk of the city and county. 
§ 9. He shall render to the board of health, a monthly 
account of his receipts and disbursements on account of 
the marine hospital, and shall deposit the balance that shall 
appear to be in his hands, in such bank in the city of New- 
York as the board shall designate, to the credit of the com- 
missioners of health. 
§ 10. The monies so deposited shall not be drawn out, 
except on the check of the health commissioner, counter- 
signed by the president of the board of health. 
§ 11. In the"discharge of their duties, the resident phy- 
sician and health commissioner shall meet daily at the 
office of the board of health, during such part of the year 
and at such hours of the day as the board shall designate. 
Resident phy- 
sician. 
Health com- 
missioner. 
Ib. to give 
bona. 
To account 
and deposit 
monies. 
Monies how 
drawn. 
Meeting of 
physician and 
commissioner. 6 
Their salaries. 
§ 12. The resident physician and health commissioner, 
shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; 
and the health officer, as physician of the marine hospital, 
a like salary of four hundred and fifty dollars; and such 
salaries shall be paid out of the monies appropriated for 
the use of the marine hospital. 
§ 13. The health officer shall be entitled to receive the 
following fees for visiting and examining vessels in the 
discharge of his official duties: 
1. For each vessel from a foreign port, six dollars and 
fifty cents. 
2. For each vessel from a place in the United States 
south of cape Henlopen, if above one hundred and sixty 
tons, three dollars; if not exceeding one hundred and sixty,, 
and above one hundred tons, two dollars; if below one 
hundred tons, one dollar. 
And such fees shall be paid by the respective masters of 
the vessels so visited and examined. 
§ 14. The board of health may, from time to time, ap- 
point so many consulting physicians as they may deem ne- 
cessary, designate their duties, and fix their compensation.. 
§ 15. The board of health shall appoint an inspector of 
vessels, who shall perform the duties required of him in this 
chapter, and shall be entitled to receive the following fees: 
For each cargo inspected by him under the direction of 
the board of health, three dollars. 
For each vessel cleansed and purified by him under the 
like direction, five dollars. 
Which fees shall be paid by the owner or consginee of 
the cargo inspected oi* vessel purified. 
§ 16. It shall be the duty of such inspector, after he shall 
have performed any service required of him, to make an 
immediate report of his proceedings and their result, to the 
board of health, or the mayor and commissioners of health. 
Fees of health 
officer. 
Consulting 
physician. 
Inspector of 
vessels. 
His fees. 
His duty. 7 
TITLE IL 
OF QUARANTINE, AND REGULATIONS IN THE 
NATURE OF QUARANTINE AT THE PORT OF 
NEW-YORK. 
ARTICLE FIRST. 
Of the place, of Quarantine, and the Vessels and Persons 
subject thereto. 
§ 1. Anchorage place of quarantine. 
2. How designated. 
3. Vessels subject to quarantine to proceed immediately thereto. 
4. What vessels subject to quarantine, and how classed. 
5. Quarantine of classes 1 and 2. 
6. Regular quarantine of certain vessels in class 3. 
7. Of class 5, and of certain vessels in class 4. 
8. Steam vessels excepted from regular quarantine. 
9. Where no regular quarantine, at discretion of health officer. 
10. Certain vessels first arriving in other ports, subject to same qua- 
rantine as if arriving direct. 
11. Vessels, when to be removed from wharves-by whom-how. 
12. Not to return without permit. 
13. Certain vessels permitted to pass through the Sound. 
§ 1. The anchorage place for vessels at quarantine, shall 
be as near as may be to the marine hospital on Staten 
Island. 
§ 2. The quarantine anchorage shall be designated by 
buoys, to be fixed under the direction of the health officer, 
and every vessel subject to quarantine shall anchor within 
them. 
§ 3. Every vessel, in this article declared to be subject to 
quarantine, shall, immediately on her arrival, proceed to 
and be anchored at the place then assigned for quarantine ; 
and shall remain there with her officers, passengers, and 
crew, during her quarantine, subject to the examination of 
the health officer, to the provisions of this title, and to such 
regulations as the health officer or board of health shall 
lawfully impose. 
Anchorage 
ground. 
How desig* 
nated. 
Certain vessels 
to be anchored 
there. 8 
Vessels subject 
to quarantine. 
§ 4. Vessels arriving in the port of New-York are de- 
clared to be subject to quarantine, and shall be classed as 
follows: 
1. All vessels from a foreign port, having forty or more 
passengers, or on board of which, during the voyage, or 
whilst at the port of departure, any person shall have been 
sick, arriving between the first day of April and the first 
day of November in any year. 
2. All vessels arriving between the thirty-first day of 
May and the sixteenth day of October, in any year, from 
any place, in the ordinary passage from which they must 
pass to the south of Cape Henlopen. 
3. All vessels from any place (including islands) in Asia, 
Africa, or the Mediterranean, or from either of the West 
India, Bahama, Bermuda, or Western Islands, or from any 
place in America, in the ordinary passage from which they 
must pass south of Georgia, arriving between the first day 
of April, and the first day of November in any year. 
4. All vessels fom any place, where yellow, bilious ma- 
lignant, or other pestilential or infectious fever existed at 
the time of their departure, or on board of which, during 
the voyage, any case of any such fever shall have occurred, 
arriving between the first day of April and first day of No- 
vember, in any year. 
5. All vessels, which, if they had arrived direct from 
their foreign port of departure, would have been included 
in the fourth class, that shall arrive at any place in the 
United States, or British North America, and proceed 
thence to the port of New-York, between the first day of 
June and the first day of October, in any year. 
§ 5. Every vessel included in the first two classes of the 
preceding section, shall be subject to such length of qua- 
rantine, and other regulations, as the health officer shall de- 
signate and enjoin. 
§ 6. Every vessel included in the third class, which shall 
arrive between the thirty-first day of May and the first day 
of October, in any year, shall remain at quarantine for two 
lb. 
Ib. 9 
days, and for such further period as the health officer shall 
deem expedient; but from the provisions of this section, 
vessels from Canton and Calcutta are excepted, unless they 
shall have been at some place in the West Indies, or in 
America south of St. Mary's in Georgia; and north of the 
Equator, or on the continent or islands near the continent 
of Africa, after the fifteenth day of May, in the year of their 
arrival; 
§ 7. Every vessel in the fourth class, which shall arrive 
within the days mentioned in the last section, and every 
vessel in the 5th class, shall remain at quarantine for at 
least thirty days after her arrival, and in all cases, at least 
twenty days after her whole cargo shall have been dis- 
charged and landed, and shall perform such further quaran- 
tine as the health officer shall prescribe. 
§ 8. All vessels subject to a regular quarantine, shall, if 
navigated by steam, be subject only to such length of quaran- 
tine, and other regulations, as the health officer shall enjoin. 
§ 9. The quarantine of vessels subject thereto, where no 
period of regular quarantine is prescribed, shall be limited 
by the discretion of the health officer; but, unless under 
special circumstances and with the sanction of the board or 
commissioners of health, it shall not exceed the time requi- 
site for a due examination of the vessel and cargo, and a 
compliance with the regulations of this chapter. 
§ 10. Every vessel arriving in the port of New-Yotk 
coastwise, after the first day of June, which has been to the 
West Indies, or America south of Georgia, shall be subject 
to the same regulations as are imposed on such vessels un- 
der similar circumstances, that have arrived direct at the 
port of New-York. 
§ 11. The mayor of the city of New-York, or the board, 
or the commissioners of health, whenever in their judgment 
the public health shall require it, may order any vessel at 
the wharves of the city, or in its vicinity, to the quarantine 
2 
Vessels subject 
to quarantine. 
Ib; 
lb; 
Ib. 
Ib; 
Vessels how 
removed froiri 
wharves. 10 
ground, or other place of safety, and may require all persoiis, 
articles or things, landed or introduced into the city from 
such vessel, to be seized and returned on board, or remov- 
ed to the quarantine ground. In case the master, owner, 
or consignee of the vessel cannot be found, or shall refuse 
or neglect to obey the order of removal, the mayor, or the 
board of health, shall have power so to remove the vessel, 
at the expense of such master, owner, or consignee, 
§ 12. No vessel, nor person so ordered out, shall return 
to the city, without the written permit of the board of 
health, the mayor, or the commissioners of health. 
§ 13. If any vessel arriving at the quarantine ground, shall 
be bound to some port eastward of the city of New-York, 
and beyond this state, the health officer, after having duly 
visited and examined her, may permit her to pass on her 
voyage through the Sound ; but no such vessel shall, in that 
case, be brought to anchor off the city, nor shall any of het- 
crew or passengers land in, or hold any intercourse or com- 
rpunication with the city, or with any person therefrom. 
ARTICLE SECOND. 
Of the Duties of Pilots in relation to Vessels subject to 
Quarantine. 
. § 14. To hail vessels. 
15. When to direct them to proceed to quarantine. 
16. Duties in conducting vessels into port. 
§ 14. It shall be the duty of each blanch and deputy pilot 
belonging to the port, to use his utmost endeavours to hail 
every vessel which he shall discover to be entering the port, 
and to demand of the master of every such vessel, whether 
any person has died or been sick on board, during the pas- 
sage,and whether any pestilential fever existed, at the time 
of her sailing, at the port whence she sailed. 
§ 15. If any of the above questions shall be answered in 
the affirmative, the pilot shall immediately give notice to 
Not to return. 
When vessels 
may pass 
through the 
Sound. 
To hail vessels. 
Further duty. 11 
the master of the vessel, that he, his vessel, crew, passen- 
gers and cargo, are subject to the examination of the health 
officer; and shall direct him to proceed and anchor his ves- 
sel at the quarantine anchorage, there to await the further 
directions of the health officer. 
§ 16. It shall be the duty of every pilot who shall con- 
duct into port a vessel subject to quarantine-- 
1. To bring such vessel to anchor within the buoys 
marking the quarantine anchorage. 
2. To prevent any vessel or boat from coming alongside 
of the vessel under his charge, and to prevent any thing on 
board from being thrown into any other vessel or boat. 
3. To present to the master of the vessel a printed copy 
of this chapter, when such copy shall have been delivered 
to him for that purpose. 
4. To take care that no violations of this chapter be com- 
mitted by any person on board, and to report such as may 
be committed, as soon as may be, to the health officer. 
ARTICLE THIRD. 
Regulations concerning the Treatment, Conduct, and Du- 
ties of Vessels, Articles and Persons under Quarantine. 
§ 17. Health officer to visit vessels. 
18. May question persons on board-administer oaths. 
19. To report to board of health. 
20. Certain vessels to be ventilated, &c. 
21. Who may be permitted to come to the city. 
22. Certain vessels to be unladen, &c. 
23. To be whitewashed. 
24. Health officer to report to board of health when vessel free from 
infection, and she to be released. 
25. Cargoes of such vessels to be landed and cleansed. 
26. Certain articles may be excepted. 
27. When cargo admitted into the city. 
28. When crew and passengers admitted. 
29. Power of health officer to destroy bedding and clothipg. 
30. West India produce to be landed. 
31. Excepted in certain cases. 
32. Rags, hides, and skins, when landed-how removed. 
33. Cotton, and other articles, when to be landed. 
34. When to be shipped-how-where. 
35. When cotton may be sent to the city. 
36. Vessels to be designated by colours. 
37. Boats prohibited from landing at quarantine, or passing through 
the range of vessels. 
38. Lighters to be used by permission and under restrictions of health 
officer. 
39. Vessels not fo approach the city without permit. 
Ib. In bring- 
ing vessels into 
port. 12 
40. Bonds by persons under quarantine, when given-to whom. 
41. Their penalty and condition. 
42. When assignable-for what purpose, 
43. Poor passengers how supported. 
44. Expense chargeable on vessel. 
45. Power ofhealtn officer to confine sailors-when-how maintained. 
46. Quarantine of vessel remaining at quarantine on 1st October. 
§ 17. It shall be the duty of the health officer, to, enter 
on board of every vessel subject to quarantine, immediately 
on her arrival, and to make strict search and inquiry into 
the health of the officers, crew and passengers, and into the 
state and condition of the vessel and her cargo. 
§18. In the discharge of this duty, he may put all such 
questions to the persons on board, as he shall judge neces- 
sary and proper, to enable him to ascertain the condition of 
the vessel, and the length of quarantine to which she ought 
to be subject; and the persons to whom such questions 
may be put, shall, if required, answer the same under 
oath, which the health officer is authorised to administer. 
§ 19. It shall be the duty of the health officer to make to 
the board of health a report respecting every vessel that he 
shall visit, and containing all such information as may ena- 
ble the board to determine what measures, in respect to 
such vessel, ought to be adopted. 
§ 20. Every vessel subject to a regular quarantine of 
two days, shall, during its quarantine, be thoroughly venti- 
lated and cleansed, and the clothing and bedding of the 
crew and passengers be well washed and aired. 
§ 21. Captains and passengers, arriving from healthy 
ports, and in healthy vessels subject to a quarantine of two. 
days, may on their arrival be permitted to come into the 
city, without any baggage. 
§ 22. The master, owner, or consignee, of every vessel 
subject to a regular quarantine of thirty days, shall forth- 
with, upon the requisition and under the direction of the 
health officer, cause such vessel to be unladen, cleansed, 
and purified. 
Health offiaar 
to visit vessels. 
His powers. 
To report. 
Purifying ves- 
sels, £c. 
Who may 
come 
to the city. 
Vessels to be 
unladen, &c, 13 
§ 23. Every vessel mentioned in the last preceding sec- 
tion, shall, during her quarantine, be at least three times 
thoroughly whitewashed in every part of the inside, except 
such parts as have been painted or varnished, which shall 
be purified as the health officer shall direct; and such ves- 
sel shall be fumigated with mineral acid gas, when required 
by the health officer. There shall be an interval of at least 
four days between each white-washing, and when the wea- 
ther permits, wind-sajls shall be kept in each hatchway of 
the vessel. 
§ 24. When the requisitions of the preceding section 
shall have been complied with, and the regular period of 
quarantine shall have expired, if the health officer shall 
judge the vessel clean and free from infection, he shall 
make a full report of all the circumstances affecting the 
health of the vessel, and of her actual condition, to the 
board of health, who may then release the vessel from qua- 
rantine. 
§ 25. It shall be the duty of the health officer to cause 
the cargo of every such vessel to be landed at the quaran- 
tine ground, or at some other suitable place out of the city, 
and there to be properly ventilated and cleansed, for at 
least twenty days. 
§ 26. From such ventilation and cleansing, alum, chalk, 
coals, distilled, expressed, and fermented liquors, drugs and 
medicines, dye-woods, glass, stone and earthenware, fruit 
in a sound state, honey, ivory, lignum-vitre, mahogany, 
metallic substances, marble, oils, paints, resin, salts, spices, 
syrups, tar, turpentine, turtle-shell, wax, and such other 
articles of the cargo as may be sufficiently purified by wash- 
ing with water or are not liable to retain infection, shall be 
excepted, if the authority to make such exception shall 
have been given to the health officer by the board of health, 
or the mayor and commissioners of health. 
§ 27. No portion of such cargo, other than articles ex- 
cepted under the preceding section, shall be conveyed to 
To be white* 
washed, 
Vessel when 
to be released. 
Cargo to be 
landed, etc. 
Certain arti-. 
dps excepted. 
Cargo when 
admitted to the 
city. 14 
the city, without the permit of die board of health, which 
shall not be given until the health officer, or some special 
agent approved of by the board of health, shall have re- 
ported to the board, that such cargo has been properly ven- 
tilated and cleansed, and is in a sound condition and free 
from infection. 
§ 28. None of the officers, passengers, or crew of any 
such vessel, shall proceed to or enter the city, until fifteen 
days after the sailing of the vessel from her foreign port of 
departure, nor until fifteen days after the last case of pesti- 
lential or infectious fever that shall have occurred on 
board, nor until ten days after landing at quarantine. 
§ 29. The health officer, if he shall judge it necessary to 
prevent infection or contagion, may cause any bedding or 
clothing on board a vessel subject to quarantine, or any 
portion of her cargo that he may deem infected, to be de- 
stroyed. 
§ 30. If there shall be any West-India produce or mer- 
chandise, other than such articles as are enumerated in the 
twenty-sixth section of this title, or that may be excepted 
under that section, on board of any coasting vessel subject 
to quarantine, it shall be the duty of the health officer, ex- 
cept in the cases mentioned in the next succeeding section, 
to order such produce or merchandise to be landed for pu- 
rification, at the quarantine ground, or at some suitable 
place out of the city, subject to his orders and regulations, 
or, if not landed at the quarantine ground, to those of the 
mayor and commissioners of health. 
§ 31. The landing of such produce or merchandise from 
any such vessel, shall not be required, if the master shall ex- 
hibit satisfactory proof that it is free from damage, and has 
been landed in the United States or some British port of 
North America more than twenty days; or that the port 
in the West-Indies where it was shipped, was healthy at 
the time of such shipment, and that the vessel in which it 
Crew, passen- 
gers, etc. when 
admitted. 
Certain arti- 
cles to be de- 
stroyed. 
West India 
produce to be 
purified. 
Except in cer- 
tain cases. 15 
Was imported, was also healthy, from the time of her de- 
parture from the United States^ or British port of North 
America until her return. 
§ 32. All rags, hides, and skins, arriving in vessels sub- 
ject to the examination of the health officer, between the 
thirty-first day of May and the first day of October in any 
year, shall be discharged at the quarantine ground : if the 
health officer, on examination, shall find the articles so dis- 
charged to be sound, he may grant a permit for their re- 
moval to those parts of the city, where their entry is per- 
mitted, unless they shall have arrived under the circum- 
stances mentioned in the next succeeding section. If, in 
his opinion, such removal would be dangerous to the pub- 
lic health, the health officer shall detain such articles until 
they shall have been cleansed or purified, or until, in his 
judgment, they may be removed with safety. 
§ 33. All cotton, all the articles enumerated in the last 
preceding section, and all other articles in the opinion of 
the health officer likely to imbibe and retain infection, shall 
be detained at the quarantine ground, or at some other suit- 
able place without the limits of the city, until the first day 
of November, if they shall arrive between the thirty-first 
day of May and the first day of November, in any vessel 
on board of which any person is, or shall have been sick; 
of any pestilential or infectious fever during the time the 
cargo was on board, or which shall have brought such ar- 
ticles from a port where such fever existed at the time of", 
or shortly previous to their shipment. 
§ 34, If in their opinion it shall not be dangerous to the 
public health, the health officer, the board of health, or the 
mayor and commissioners of health, may permit such arti- 
cles to be shipped for exportation by sea, or transportation 
up the North or East river, in any vessel which shall not 
approach, whilst loading or when loaded nearer than three 
hundred yards to the wharves of the city : and if any ves- 
sel so loaded, shall approach nearer to the city, the articles 
Rags, hides 
and skins, 
When landed. 
Cotton and 
' other articles 
to be detained: 
When to, be 
shipped. 16 
sb loaded may be seized and sold by the commissioners of 
health, for the use of the marine hospital. 
s § 35. If any vessel, subject to quarantine for less than 
thirty days, and laden in whole or in part with cotton of 
the United States or their territories, shall have on board 
any sick person, the character of whose disease cannot be 
immediately ascertained, the health officer may detain such 
vessel and cargo at quarantine, for a term not exceeding 
ten days; and if m his opinion the disease of such sick per- 
son is not of a malignant or pestilential nature, he may 
eitner release the vessel and cargo from quarantine, or de- 
taining the vessel, may permit the cotton to be sent directly 
to the city of New-York, or to be put on bbard of any ves- 
sel, at the wharves of the city, for exportation.- 
§ 36. Every vessel subject to quarantine, shall be desig- 
nated by colours, to be fixed in a conspicuous part of the 
main shrouds of the vessel, and to remain there until the 
expiration oj her quarantine; 
§ 37. No boat front any outward or inward bound ves- 
selj shall land at the quarantine ground after sunset; nor 
shall boats of any description, at any time, pass through 
the range of vessels lying at quarantine, without the per- 
mission of the health officer. 
§ 38. No lighters shall be employed to load or unload 
vessels at quarantine, but by the permission of the health 
officer, and subject to such restrictions as he shall impose. 
§ 39; No vessel subject to quarantine, shall approach 
the city of New-York beyond the place assigned for qua- 
rantine; without a written permit from the health officer ; 
nor shall any such permit be granted to any vessel or any 
portion of her cargo, until the requisitions of this chapter in re-1 
lation to such vessel or cargo shall have been complied with. 
§ 40. The health officer, whenever he shall deem it expe- 
dient, may require any person placed under quarantine tb 
When may be 
sent to the 
city. 
Vessels to have 
colours. 
Boats not to 
land, etc. 
Lighters. 
Vessels not to 
approach 
tne city. 
Certain bond 
may be 
required. 17 
execute a bond with such sureties as he shall approve, to 
the commissioners of health, and their successors in office. 
§ 41. The penalty of such bond shall not be less than 
five hundred, nor more than two thousand dollars, and its 
condition shall be, that the person executing it, shall not, 
during his period of quarantine, approach nearer the city- 
hall in the city of New-York, than the distance of three 
miles, except in passing the city by water, and that he shall 
not go into any city or town of the United States, in viola- 
tion of the quarantine laws thereof. 
§ 42. If the person executing such bond shall break its 
condition by visiting any city or town of the United States, 
other than the. city of New-York, the board of health, on 
the application of the proper authority, may direct such an 
assignment of the bond to be made, as shall enable the as- 
signee to prosecute thereon, and to apply the penalty there- 
of, when recovered, to such uses as may be directed by 
the quarantine laws of the state to which such city or town 
may belong. 
§ 43. All passengers placed under quarantine who shall 
be unable to maintain themselves, shall be provided for by 
the master of the vessel in which they shall have arrived. 
§ 44. If -the master shall omit so to provide for them, 
they shall be maintained on shore, and the expense of their 
maintenance be charged to their vessel; nor shall such ves- 
sel be permitted to leave the quarantine, until the monies 
so expended shall have been repaid. 
§ 45. The health officer, upon the application of the mas- 
ter of any vessel under quarantine, and his consenting to 
pay for the maintenance of the offender whilst in custody, 
may direct to be confined in some suitable place on shore, 
any mate, sailor, or mariner on board of such vessel, who 
shall have committed an offence, punishable by the laws of 
this state or of the United States, and who cannot be pro- 
3 
Its penalty 
and condition. 
When assigned 
Poor passen- 
gers. 
Ib. 
Sailors, when 
and how con- 
fined. 18 
perly secured for punishment on board of his vessel. Such 
confinement shall continue during the residue of the qua- 
rantine of the offender, or until he shall be proceeded 
against in due course of law; and the expenses of main- 
taining the offender shall be charged and paid in the same 
manner as the expenses of maintaining poor passengers. 
§ 46. All vessels and persons remaining at quarantine on, 
the first day of October, shall thereafter be subject only to 
such quarantine and restrictions as vessels and persons ar- 
riving on or after that day. 
ARTICLE FOURTH. 
Regulations concerning the Treatment and Conduct of Ves- 
sels, Articles and Persons released from Quarantine, or 
exempt therefrom. 
§ 47. Master to deliver permit-to whom. 
48. Certain vessels not to come within certain bounds. 
49. When permits may be granted-cargo may first be unloaded. 
50. Inspector's duties in such case. 
51. Mayor and commissioners of health to direct the vessel to a wharf 
when and how vessel may leave the same. 
52. Cargoes of certain other vessels, under what restrictions introduced 
into city. 
53, 54, 55. The same. 
56. Cargoes of certain vessels not to be brought into city without permit. 
57. Permit, when granted. 
58. Certain other vessels not to approach within certain bounds in pe- 
riod fixed. 
59 Where case of fever, cargo not to be introduced within certain period. 
60. Certain vessels not to come within certain bounds. 
61. When permit may be granted-bj' whom. 
62. No person from vessel where there has been a case of fever, to en- 
ter city until fifteen days after last case. 
63. No clothing or merchandise of such vessels to be brought into city 
until purified. 
§ 47. The master of every vessel released from quaran- 
tine, and arriving at the city of New-York, shall, within 
twenty-four hours after such arrival, deliver the permit of 
the health officer, at the office of the mayor and commis- 
sioners of health, or to such person as they shall direct. 
§ 48. No vessel subject to a regular quarantine of two 
days, unless she shall have sailed from some port in the 
West Indies, or in America south of Louisiana and north 
of the equator, before the sixteenth day of May ; or from 
Quarantine of 
certain vessels. 
Master to de- 
liver permit. 
Certain vessels 
restricted to 
certain bounds. 19 
some port in the United States south of Georgia, before the 
first day of June in the year of her arrival, shall, when re- 
leased from quarantine, approach within three hundred 
yards of that part of the island of New-York which lies 
southward of Bank-streebon the North river, and of Eighth- 
street on the East river, until after the first day of October, 
in the year of her arrival; unless by virtue of a special per- 
mission to be granted under the circumstances mentioned 
in the three next following sections. 
§ 49. If any such vessel shall have arrived from anyplace 
in the Mediterranean, in Asia, in America south of the 
equator, or from the Madeira, Canary, Cape de Verd, 
Western, Bermuda, or Bahama islands, the mayor and 
commissioners of health may, by a special permission in 
writing, direct her to be hauled to a wharf south of the 
bounds so prescribed; and in their discretion may first order 
her cargo, or any portion thereof, to be unloaded, subject 
to their orders and regulations. 
§ 50. Where such order for unloading the cargo shall 
have been made, the inspector of vessels, after such vessel 
shall have been unloaded, shall see that the vessel and bal- 
last are properly cleansed, and when the same are duly 
cleansed and purified, shall make his report to the mayor 
and commissioners of health. 
§ 51. The mayor and commissioners of health may then 
direct the vessel to such wharf as they may deem proper; 
and no vessel being at a wharf pursuant to such direction, 
shall, without their permission in writing, depart thence, or 
change her birth untd the first day of the ensuing October. 
§ 52. If any coasting vessel, subject to a regular quaran- 
tine of two days, shall be wholly laden with lumber or tim- 
ber, the mayor and commissioners of health may permit 
her cargo to be discharged at any wharf they shall desig- 
nate ; but after such discharge, such vessel shall be subject 
to all restrictions in the preceding sections in this article 
contained. 
When ex- 
cepted. 
Inspector's 
duty. 
Vessel to bo 
located. 
Certain car- 
goes may be 20 
Certain ves- 
sels may come 
to the wharves. 
§ 53. Any vessel which has been regularly employed in 
trading to one port or island in the West Indies, or America 
south of Georgia and north of the equator, for the period 
of twelve months, immediately preceding her arrival at the 
port of New-York, and the port or island being free from 
any yellow, bilious-malignant, or any pestilential or infec- 
tious fever, as well as the crew and passengers, and having 
performed her regular quarantine of two days, and been 
properly ventilated, and permitted by the health officer to 
proceed to the stream three hundred yards from the city, 
may be permitted by the mayor and commissioners of health, 
to come to the wharf with her cargo on board, on and after 
the first day of October, provided the cargo in their opinion 
is of a harmless character. 
§ 54. Any new vessel, or any other vessel not employed 
before in the West India or southern trade, south of 
Georgia, shall be subject to the same regulations as men- 
tioned in the last preceding section, if employed in such 
regular trade, although she may be so employed for a less 
period than one year, provided she is in all other respects 
similarly circumstanced. 
§ 55. All vessels from the West India islands, and Ame- 
rica south of Georgia and north of the equator, being healthy 
and from healthy ports, after performing two days quaran- 
tine, and being properly ventilated, and being permitted by 
the health officer to come to the stream, three hundred 
yards from the city, may, after their cargoes shall have been 
discharged and the vessel well cleaned and purified, be 
permitted by the mayor and commissioners of health, to 
come to such wharf as they may designate, to receive their 
outward cargoes, at any time after the first of October. 
§ 56. If any vessel subject to a regular quarantine of two 
days shall have arrived from any place in the West Indies, 
or in America south of Georgia and north of the equator, 
or from any place on the continent or the islands near the 
continent of Africa; or shall have been at any of the places 
so enumerated, after the fifteenth day of May, in the year 
Ib. 
Ib. 
Cargoes of cer- 
tain vessels not 
to be brought 
into city, with- 
out permit. 21 
of her arrival, no portion of her cargo shall be brought into 
the city before the first day of October, in the year of her 
arrival, until it shall have been inspected by an inspector 
of vessels, unless by a special permission, in writing, of the 
mayor and commissioners of health. 
§ 57. When such inspector shall have made his report 
to the mayor and commissioners of health, they may direct 
such cargo, or any part thereof, to be brought into the city, 
subject to such regulations as they shall prescribe, or may 
order it to be landed at some suitable place out of the city, 
there to be detained at least twenty days and properly ven- 
tilated, and then to be brought into the city, subject to their 
regulations. 
§ 58. No vessel subject to a regular quarantine of thirty 
days, when permitted to proceed, shall approach within 
three hundred yards of the city of New-York, between 
the first day of June and the first day of October, in the 
year of her arrival. 
§ 59. No cargo or part of the cargo of any vessel, on 
board of which, during her voyage, a case of any pestilen- 
tial fever shall have occurred, shall be brought into the city 
of New-York between the first day of June and the first 
day of November, except by the permission, in writing, of 
the board of health. 
§60. No vessel arriving from any place in the United 
States north of Cape Henlopen, or in British North Ame- 
rica, between the thirty-first day of May and the first day 
of October in any year, having on board West India pro- 
duce or merchandise, shall approach within three hundred 
yards of the island of New-York, southward of the bounds 
before in this article prescribed, until permitted by the 
mayor and commissioners of health, and health officer. 
§61. If the master of any such vessel shall exhibit to the 
mayor and commissioners of health, such satisfactory proof 
as is required in the thirty-first section of this title, they 
Permit when 
granted. 
Certain vessels 
not to ap- 
proach the city. 
Cargo not to 
be brought to 
city. 
Certain ves- 
sels not to ap- 
proach the city. 
When may be 
permitted. 22 
may permit the vessel to be hauled to any wharf of th© 
city, and such produce or merchandise may be there land- 
ed ; otherwise it shall be sent to some suitable place out 
of the city for purification, subject to their regulations. 
§ 62. No person who shall have been one of the crew, 
or a passenger, in any vessel, at whatever place arriving, 
on board of which any person shall have been sick of any 
pestilential fever, shall enter the city of New-York, until 
fifteen days after the last case of such fever that shall have 
occurred on board such vessel. 
§ 63. No person shall bring into the city of New-York 
any clothing, bedding, or merchandise, that shall have been 
on board of any such vessel as is referred to in the last 
preceding section, until such article shall have been cleans- 
ed and purified ; and all such articles brought into the city 
contrary to this section, may be seized and sold by the com- 
missioners of health, for the use of the marine hospital. 
ARTICLE FIFTH. 
Of the Regulation of Intercourse with Infected Places. 
§ 64. Proclamation of Mayor, &c. of infected places. 
65. Period for its ceasing to be fixed-may be extended. • 
66. Vessels arriving after proclamation, subject to quarantine of at least 
thirty days. 
67. Board of Health may regulate internal intercourse with infected 
places. 
§ 64. The mayor of the city of New-York, or the presi- 
dent, at the time, of the board of health, may issue his pro- 
clamation, declaring any place where there shall be reason 
to believe a pestilential or infectious fever actually exists, to 
be an infected place within the meaning of the health laws 
of this state. 
§ 65. Such proclamation shall fix the period when it 
shall cease to have effect; but such period, if they shall 
judge the public health to require it, may from time to time 
be extended by the board of health, and notice of such ex- 
Crews, etc. not 
to enter the 
city. 
Clothing, etc. 
not to be 
brought into 
city. 
Proclamation 
of infected 
places. 
Ib. 23 
tension shall be published in one or more of the newspa- 
pers of the city. 
§ 66. After such proclamation shall have been issued, all 
vessels arriving in the port of New-York from such infect- 
ed place, shall be subject to a quarantine of at least thirty 
days, and, together with their officers, crews, passengers 
and cargoes, to all the provisions, regulations and penalties 
of this chapter, in relation to vessels subject to a similar 
quarantine. 
§ 67. The board of health may, in their discretion, pro- 
hibit or regulate the internal intercourse by land or water, 
between the city of New-York and such infected place; 
and may direct, that all persons who shall come into the 
city of New-York, contrary to their prohibitions or regu- 
lations, shall be apprehended and conveyed to the vessel 
or place whence they last came ; or, if sick, that they be 
conveyed to the marine hospital, or such other place as the 
board of health shall direct. 
ARTICLE SIXTH. 
Penalties for violating the Provisions of this Title. 
§ 68. Master who shall not proceed to quarantine, submit to examination 
of health officer, furnish information, remain at quarantine, and 
comply with regulations, etc. punishable for misdemeanor-fine 
or imprisonment. 
69,70. Violating certain provisions, the same. 
71. Giving false information to pilot, landing goods or persons, proceed- 
ing beyond quarantine ground, the same. 
72. Every person violating certain provisions, the same. 
73. Opposing or obstructing health officer in the performance of his du- 
ties, the same. 
74. Entering quarantine ground, the same. 
75. Violating § 37, the same, fine only. 
76. Holding intercourse with vessel, the same, fine or imprisonment. 
77. May be detained at quarantine. 
78. Health officer to give information of such transgression. 
79. Master violating § 36, to forfeit certain sum. 
80. Every person violating certain provision, the same. 
81. Person leaving quarantine, same-duty of magistrates in such case. 
82. Pilot violating article 2d, punishable for misdemeanor-fine. 
83. Suspension of pilot. 
84. Violation of article 5, misdemeanor-punishable by fine or impri- 
sonment. 
§ 68. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine, ar- 
riving in the port of New-York, who shall refuse or neglect 
either. 
Consequence 
of. 
Powers of 
board of health 
Penalties on 
masters 24 
§ 1. To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place 
assigned for quarantine, at the time of his arrival: 
2. To submit his vessel, cargo, and passengers, to the 
examination of the health officer, and to furnish all neces- 
sary information to enable that officer to determine to what 
length of quarantine and other regulations they ought re- 
spectively to be subject: 
3. To remain with his vessel at quarantine during the 
period assigned for her quarantine : and whilst at quaran- 
tine, to comply with the directions and regulations of this 
chapter, and with such as any of the officers of health, by 
virtue of the authority given to them in this chapter, shall 
prescribe in relation to his vessel, his cargo, himself, or his 
crew : 
Shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable 
by fine or imprisonment; the fine for each offence not to 
exceed two thousand dollars, nor the imprisonment twelve 
months. 
§ 69. Every such master who shall violate the provisions 
of the thirty-ninth and forty-seventh sections of this title, 
by refusing or neglecting to comply with any of the direc- 
tions in those sections respectively contained, shall be con- 
sidered guilty of the like offence, and be subject for each 
offence to the like punishment. 
§ 70. Every master of a vessel who shall violate the 
provisions of the thirtieth, thirty-first, sixtieth, and sixty- 
first sections of this title, by refusing or neglecting to com- 
ply with the directions therein contained, or with the or- 
ders and regulations of the mayor and commissioners of 
health by virtue of the authority therein given, shall be 
considered guilty of the like offence ; the fine not to exceed 
five hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment six months. 
§ 71. Every master of a vessel hailed by a pilot, who 
shall either- 
1. Give false information to such pilot relative to the 
condition of his vessel, crew, passengers, or cargo, or the 
Penalties on 
masters. 
Ib. 
Ib. 25 
health of the place or places whence he came, or refuse to 
give such information as shall be lawfully required : 
2. Or land any person from his vessel, or unlade or trans- 
ship any portion of his cargo before his vessel shall have 
been visited and examined by the health officer: 
3. Or shall approach with his vessel nearer the city of 
New-York than the place of quarantine to which he shall 
be directed: 
Shall be considered guilty of the like offence, and for 
each offence shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five 
hundred dollars. And every person who shall land from 
any such vessel, or unlade or transship any portion of her 
cargo, undei' the like circumstances, shall be considered 
guilty of the like offence, and be subject to the like penalty; 
§ 72. Every person upon whom any duty is or shall be 
enjoined, or prohibition laid under the following sections, 
namely, the fourth, sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twen- 
tieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty- 
fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, forty- 
eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, 
fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, 
and fifty-ninth sections of this title, who shall violate any 
provisions in the sections so enumerated, by refusing or 
neglecting to obey the directions, regulations or prohibi- 
tions therein contained, or such orders and regulations as 
shall be made by the officers of health therein named under 
the authority there given, shall be considered guilty of the 
like offence, and for each offence be fined in a sum not 
exceeding two thousand dollars, or imprisoned for a term 
not exceeding twelve months. 
§ 73. Every person who shall oppose or obstruct the 
health officer in performing the duties required of him in 
this title, shall be considered guilty of the like offence; 
the fine for each offence not to exceed five hundred dollars, 
nor the imprisonment three months. 
§ 74. Every person who, without the authority of the 
health officer or board of health, shall go within the enclo- 1 
4 
Penalties for 
violating cer- 
tain provisions; 
Obstructing 
health officer; 
Entering qua- 
rantineground. 26 
sure of the quarantine ground, shall be considered guilty 
of the like offence; the fine for each offence not to exceed 
one hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment thirty days.. 
§ 75. Every person who shall violate the prohibition of 
the thirty-seventh section of this title, shall be considered 
guilty of the like offence, and be fined for each offence in a 
sum not exceeding fifty dollars. 
§ 76. Every person who shall go on board of, or have 
any communication, intercourse or dealing with any vessel 
at quarantine, without the permission of the health officer, 
shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by 
fine or imprisonment. 
§ 77. Such offender shall also be detained at quarantine 
so long as the board of health shall direct, not to exceed 
twenty days, unless he shall be taken sick of some pesti- 
lential or infectious disease. 
§ 78. It shall be the duty of the health officer to give 
immediate information to the board of health, of every such 
transgression, the circumstances attending it, and the con- 
dition of the vessel with which a communication shall have 
been had, that the board may determine how long the 
offender ought to be detained at quarantine. 
§ 79. Every master of a vessel who shall not comply 
with the directions of the thirty-sixth section of this title, 
shall forfeit for each offence the sum of fifty dollars, and the 
further sum of three dollars for every hour he shall so offend. 
§ 80. Every person who shall violate the prohibitions of 
the sixty-second and sixty-third sections of this title, shall 
for each offence forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars. 
§ 81. Every person under quarantine, shall be subject to 
the same penalty, who shall elope from or go beyond the 
bounds assigned to him for his quarantine ; and it shall be 
the duty of every justice of the peace or other magistrate 
Violating § 37. 
Intercourse 
with vessels. 
When offend- 
ers detained. 
Notice of offen- 
ces. 
Violating § 36. 
Do. §62 and 63. 
Eloping from 
quarantine. 27 
before whom any such offendei' shall be brought, to order 
him by warrant to be re-conveyed to the quarantine ground, 
there to remain for the residue of his term of quarantine. 
§ 82. Every pilot who shall refuse or neglect to perform 
the duties enjoined on him in any of the provisions con- 
tained in the second article of this title, shall be considered 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined for each offence 
in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. 
§ 83. Whenever the commissioners of health, or either 
of them, shall charge in writing any pilot with any viola- 
lation of neglect of duty, the warden of the port shall sus- 
pend such pilot from his office, until he shall have entered 
into a recognizance before some magistrate in the city of 
New-York, in the sum of two hundred dollars, and with 
sufficient sureties, to appear and answer to the offence 
charged, at the next court of general sessions for the city 
and county of New-York. 
§ 84. Every person who shall violate the provisions of 
the fifth article of this title, by refusing or neglecting to 
obey or comply with any order, prohibition or regulation 
made by the board of health in the exercise of the powers 
therein conferred, shall be considered guilty of a misde- 
meanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, in the discre- 
tion of .the court by which the offender shall be tried. 
Penalties on 
pilots. 
Proceedings 
against pilots. 
Violation of 
article 5. 
TITLE III. 
INTERNAL REGULATIONS FOR THE PRE- 
SERVATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN 
THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. 
ARTICLE FIRST. 
Of certain Duties and Powers of the Board of Health, the 
Mayor and Commissioners of Health. 28 
1. Board of health may appoint health wardens, direct examination of 
buildings and lots, and enclose streets. 
2. How to act in prevention of diseases. 
3. Board of health or commissioners may remove or destroy any thing 
injurious to public health. 
4. May send non-residents to marine hospital. 
5. Commissioners must communicate to board of health all reports and 
information. 
§ 1, The board of health shall have power, 
1. To appoint from time to time so many health wardens 
and other officers, to carry into effect the provisions of this 
title, and the rules and regulations of the board, as they 
may deem necessary : 
2. To authorise such officers, at such times as the board 
shall think fit, to enter into and examine in the day-time, all 
buildings, lots and places of every description, within the 
city, and to ascertain and report to the board the condition 
thereof, so far as the public health may be affected thereby : 
3. To give all such directions and adopt all such mea- 
sures, as in their judgment may be necessary, for cleansing 
and purifying all such buildings, lots and other places; and 
to do .or cause to be done every thing in relation thereto, 
which in their opinion may be proper to preserve the health 
of the city: 
4. To cause any avenue, street, alley or other passage 
whatever, to be fenced up, or otherwise enclosed, if they 
shall think the public safety to require it, and to adopt suit- 
able measures for preventing all persons from going to any 
part of the city so enclosed. 
§ 2. It shall be the duty of the board of health, 
1. To adopt prompt measures to prevent the spreading 
of a contagious disease, when it shall appear to them by a 
report of the resident physician or health commissioner, or 
of a consulting physician, that any person within the city 
is afflicted with a disease of that character : 
2. To forbid and prevent all communications with the 
house or family so infected, except by means of physicians, 
nurses or messengers, to carry the necessary advice, medi- 
cines and provisions to the afflicted : 
3. To adopt such measures for preventing all communi- 
cation, between any part of the city infected with a fever of 
Power of the 
board of health 
Its duties. 29 
a malignant or contagious character, and all other parts of 
the city, as shall be prompt and effectual; and, 
4. To exercise all such other powers, whenever a conta- 
gious disease shall appear in the city, as in their judgment 
the circumstances of the case and the public good shall 
require. 
§ 3. The board of health, or the mayor and commission- 
ers of health, when they shall judge it necessary, may cause 
any cargo or part of a cargo, or any matter or thing, within 
the city, that may be putrid or otherwise dangerous to the 
public health, to be destroyed or removed; such removal, 
when ordered, shall be to the quarantine ground, or such 
other place as the board of health shall direct. 
§ 4, The board of health, the mayor or either of the 
commissioners of health, may send to the marine hospital, 
or such other place as the board of health shall direct, all 
persons in the city, not residents thereof, who shall be sick 
of any malignant or contagious fever. 
§ 5. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of health, 
from time to time, to communicate to the president of the 
board of health, all reports that shall be made to them, or 
either of them, under the provisions of this chapter; and it 
shall be the further duty of the commissioners, and of each 
of them, so to communicate all information in their power 
that may better enable the board of health to preserve the 
health of the city. 
ARTICLE SECOND. 
Of the Duties of Physicians and other persons. 
5. 6. Certain duties of practising physicians; to report patients. 
7. Do. of keepers of boarding houses. 
8. Do. of masters, &c. of vessels. 
9. Do. of commissioners of health and consulting physicians; to report 
practising physicians. 
§ 6. It shall be the duty of each practising physician in 
the city of New-York, 
Putrid articles, 
&c. to be de- 
stroyed. 
Persons to be 
sent to the ma- 
rine hospital. 
Report to 
board of health 30 
1. To make a report it writing to the mayor, the board 
of health, or either of the commissioners of health, of every 
patient he shall have labouring under yellow, bilious-malig- 
nant or other pestilential or infectious fever, between the 
thirty-first day of May and the first day of November in 
any year, and within twenty-four hours after he shall ascer- 
tain or suspect the nature of the disease: 
2. To report, if so directed by the board of health, every 
patient he shall have between the same days, labouring 
under fever of any description, and to state in his report, 
the specific name and type of such fever : 
3. To report, when required by the board of health, the 
death of any of his patients who shall have died of fever, 
within forty-eight hours after such death shall have occur- 
red, and to state in such report, the specific name and type 
of such fever. 
§ 7. Every person keeping a boarding or lodging house 
in the city of New York, between the days mentioned in the 
preceding section, shall report in writing to the mayor, the 
board of health, or either of the health commissioners, the 
name of every seafaring man, boarder, or passenger, by sea, 
who shall be sick in his house with fever, within twelve 
hours after each case of sickness shall have occurred. 
§ 8. Every master, owner or consignee of a vessel lying 
at a wharf, or in the harbour of the city of New-York, shall 
make a like report, and within the same period, of the name 
of every sick person on board such vessel; and no such 
person shall be removed therefrom, without a written 
permit for that purpose from the mayor, the board, or one 
of the commissioners of health. 
§ 9. It shall be the duty of each commissioner of health 
and of each consulting physician, to make an immediate 
report to the board of health of the name of every practis- 
ing physician by whom he shall have reason to believe the 
provisions of the sixth section of this title have been vio- 
lated; and if any such commissioner or consulting physi 
cian shall neglect or refuse to perform this duty, the board 
of health shall suspend him from his office. 
Keepers of 
boarding - hou- 
ses. 
Masters, &c. 
of vessels. 
Proceedings 
for neglect. 31 
ARTICLE THIRD. 
Prohibitions and Penalties. 
§. 10. Respecting salted provisions. 
11. Relative to pickled beef, &c. 
12. Not to apply to small dealers, &c. 
13. All salted provisions, &c. to be reported to mayor. 
14. Board of health may cause such articles to be removed. 
15. Expense of removal to be paid by owner. 
16. Butchers and heads of families excepted. 
17. Violation of these provisions, misdemeanor, &c. 
18. Rags, hides and skins, not to be taken within certain bounds. 
19. Exception as to small quantities. 
20. Master or owner to report damaged cotton. 
21. Under penalty of $500. 
22. Persons violating sections 1 and 2, guilty of misdemeanor, &c. 
23. Practising physician violating duties imposed, guilty of misde- 
meanor, &c. 
24. Do. as to keepers of boarding-houses. 
§ 10. No salted provisions shall be packed or repacked 
at any season of the year, in that part of the city of New- 
York, lying south of a line drawn from the Hudson river 
through the centre of Canal-street to Sullivan-street, 
through Sullivan-street to Grand-street, through Grand- 
street to Walnut-street, and through Walnut-street to the 
East river. 
§11. From the first day of May to the first day of Octo- 
ber in any year, no salted or pickled beef, pork or fish, 
except smoked beef, and fish, shall be deposited in the city 
south of the line above described. 
§ 12. The last preceding section shall not be construed 
to prevent retail grocers or other small dealers from keep- 
ing on hand, for the use of their customers, small quantities, 
not exceeding five barrels of each kind of the provisions 
therein mentioned, if the provisions so kept be sound and 
in good order. 
§ 13. All salted or pickled provisions, and all hides, skins 
and cotton, that shall remain deposited in the city, south of 
the line described in the tenth section of this title, on the first 
day of June in any year, shall be reported by the owner or 
person having charge thereof, to the mayor, the board, or 
one of the commissioners of health, that the same may be 
examined and if necessary, destroyed or removed. 
Salted provi- 
sions. 
Ib. 
Exceptions. 
To be reported. 32 
How removed. 
§ 14. If such articles, when ordered to be removed by 
the board of health, shall not be forthwith removed by the 
owner or person having charge thereof, the board of health 
shall cause them to be removed to some safe place, there 
to remain, at the risk of the owner. 
§ 5. The expense of the removal and subsequent storage 
of such articles, shall be borne by the owner or person hav- 
ing charge thereof when removed, and if paid in the first 
instance by the board of health, may be recovered by them 
in an action against such owner or bailee, or if payment of 
such expenses be refused by the owner or bailee, the board 
may cause such articles to be sold, and account for the pro- 
ceeds, deducting such expenses and the costs of sale.- 
§ 16. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed 
to extend to provisions exposed for sale by butchers in the 
public markets, or kept by the heads of families for family 
use. 
§ 17. Every person who shall refuse or neglect to obey 
the directions of this article, or of the board of health, pur- 
suant thereto, in relation to the provisions and other articles 
above mentioned, shall be considered guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and on conviction, shall be fined for each offence 
in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be impri- 
soned for a term not exceeding six months. 
§ 18. No rags, hides or skins, arriving in the port of New 
York, between the thirty-first day of May and the first day 
of October in any year, shall be taken to any place in the 
city, south of a line beginning at Spring-street on the North 
river; thence along that street to the Bowery; thence 
down the Bowery to Grand-street; and thence through 
Grand-street to Walnut-street; and thence through W alnut- 
street to the East river; and all such articles brought into 
the city contrary to the above provision, maybe seized and 
sold by the commissioners of health, for the use of the 
marine hospital. 
Expenses. 
Exceptions. 
Penalties. 
Rags, hides 
and skins, to be 
kept within 
certain bounds. 33 
§ 1^; The board of health or the mayor and commis- 
sioners of health, may however permit sound hides and 
skins to be brought into the city, south of the line last de- 
scribed, in small quantities, and for the purpose of imme- 
diate manufacture, but not otherwise. 
§ 20. It shall be the duty of the master and owner of 
every vessel that shall have brought cotton into the city; 
between the first day of May. and the first day of November 
in any year, and of the owner and consignee of such cotton, 
if upon examination, it shall appear damaged or otherwise 
unsound, to make an immediate report thereof to the 
mayor and commissioners of health. 
§ 21. Every master or owner or consignee, refusing or 
neglecting to perform the duties so enjoined, shall, for each 
offence, forfeit to the commissioners of health, the sum of 
five hundred dollars. 
§ 22. Every person who shall violate any order or direc- 
tion of the board of health, made or given in the exercise 
of the powers vested in them by the first and second sec- 
tions of this title, shall be considered guilty of a misde-' 
meanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment.- 
§ 23. Every practising physician, who shall refuse Or 
neglect to perform the duties enjoined on him in the sixth 
section of this title, shall be considered guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and shall forfeit for each offence the sum of two 
hundred and fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered by 
the board of health. 
§ 24. Every keeper of a boarding or lodginghouse, and 
every master, owner or consignee of a vessel, who shall ] 
refuse or neglect to obey the directions of the seventh and ' 
eighth sections of this title, shall be considered guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined for each 
offence in a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six 
months. 
5 
Exception. 
Damaged 
cotton to be re- 
ported. 
Penalty for 
neglect; 
Disobeying or- 
der of board of 
health; 
Penalty on 
physicians. 
Penalty on 
keepers of 
boarding- 
houses. 34 
TITLE IV. 
OF THE MARINE HOSPITAL AND ITS 
FUNDS. 
1. The marine hospital held by commissioners of health. 
2. Commissioners nave the superintendence-health officer, physician. 
3. Commissioners to Danish boat for health officer. 
4. Care of sick persons-not to be removed without permit. 
5. Persons eloping may be apprehended. • 
6. Expenses to be paid, by whom, and who not liable therefore. 
7. Sums payable as hospital money, from whom. 
8. Hospital money how applied-commission for health commissioner. 
9. From whom master may recover monies. 
10. How monies payable by masters of coasting vessels-when-where 
-penalty. 
11. Commissioners must account to comptroller-use of surplus. 
12. Sums necessary to keep buildings in repair, part of annual expenses 
-appropriation of present balance. 
§ 1. The hospital erected on the easterly shore of Staten 
Island and the land adjoining thereto, belonging to the 
state, shall continue to be denominated "the Marine Hos- 
pital," and shall, together with all buildings and improve- 
ments, made or to be made thereon, be held by the com- 
missioners of health, in trust for the people of this state, 
for the purposes specified in this chapter. 
§ 2. The health officer shall, by right of office, be phy- 
sician of such hospital, and the commissioners of health 
shall in all other respects have the superintendence thereof; 
make rules and orders for its government and manage- 
ment, employ mates, nurses and attendants therefor, and 
provide bedding, clothing, fuel, provisions, medicine, and 
such other articles as shall be requisite therein. 
§ 3. The commissioners of health shall, at all times, 
furnish a convenient boat with sufficient boatmen, for the 
use of the health officer, the expense of which shall be 
charged to the funds of the hospital. 
§ 4. Every sick person sent to the marine hospital, shall 
be there kept and attended to, with all necessary and 
proper care; and no such person shall leave the hospital 
until the health officer shall grant a discharge in writing. 
§ 5. The health officer may direct, in writing, any con- 
stable or other citizen to pursue and apprehend any person, 
not discharged, who shall elope from the hospital, and to 
deliver such person at the hospital, to be there detained un- 
til regularly discharged. It shall be the duty of the consta- 
Hospital by 
whom held. 
Control there- 
of 
Boat. 
Sick persons 
how kept, &c. 
Proceedings 
against those 
eloping. 35 
able, or citizen so directed, to obey such directions; and 
every person who shall so elope, shall be considered guilty 
of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment. 
§ 6. All persons sent to the marine hospital, or any other 
hospital provided by the board of health, other than those 
who shall have paid hospital money, and such poor persons 
as the board of health shall exempt, shall pay a reasonable 
sum for their board, medicine and attendance ; and for the 
recovery of such sum the commissioners of health may sue 
in their name of office. 
§ 7. The health commissioner shall demand, and be en- 
titled to receive, and in case of neglect or refusal to pay, 
shall sue for and recover, in his name of office, the follow- 
ing sums, from the master of every vessel that shall arrive 
in the port of New-York, namely: 
1. From the master of every vessel from a foreign port, 
for himself and each cabin passenger, one dollar and fifty 
cents; for each steerage passenger, mate, sailor, or mariner, 
one dollar. 
2. From the master of each coasting vessel, for each 
person on board, twenty-five cents; but no coasting 
vessel from the states of New-Jersey, Connecticut and 
Rhode-Island, shall pay for more than one voyage in each 
month, computing from the first voyage in each year. 
§ 8. The monies so received, shall be denominated " hos- 
pital monies," and shall be appropriated to the use of the 
marine hospital, deducting a commission to the health com- 
missioner of two and one half per cent, for collection. 
§ 9, Each master paying hospital monies, shall be entitled 
to demand and recover, from each person for whom they 
shall be paid, the sum paid oh his account, 
§ 10. Every master of a coasting vessel shall pay to the 
health commissioner, at his office, in the city of New-York, 
within twenty-four hours after the arrival of his vessel in 
the port, such hospital monies as shall then be demandable 
from him, under the provisions of this title; and every 
master, for each omission of such duty, shall forfeit the 
sum of one hundred dollars. 
Expenses by 
whom to ba 
paid. 
Hospital mo- 
ney who to 
pay. 
How applied. 
How recovered 
by masters. 
Coasting ves- 
sels when to 
pay. 36 
Accounts, sur- 
plus. 
§ 11. The commissioners of health shall account annually 
to the comptroller, for all monies received by them, or 
either of them, for the use of the marine hospital; and if 
such monies shall, in any one year, exceed the sum neces- 
sary to defray the expenses of their trust, including their 
own salaries, and exclusive of such expenses as are to be 
borne and paid as a part of the contingent charges of the 
city of New-York, they shall pay over such surplus to the 
treasurer of the society, for the reformation of juvenile de- 
linquents in the city of New-York, for the use of that society, 
§ 12. The sums necessary to keep the buildings and im- 
provements of the marine hospital in good repair, shall be 
charged as a part of its annual expenses; and the balance 
of hospital monies, now or hereafter in the hands of the com* 
missioners of health, whether invested in stock,or otherwise, 
shall remain appropriated to supply any deficiency that may 
occur, of the annual funds, to meet the annual expenses of 
the hospital, and to defray the expenses of erecting such 
other hospitals, or buildings, as the governor shall from 
time to time direct; and no sale of stock shall be made by 
the commissioners, except by the order of the governor. 
Charges on 
fund, balances 
on hand. 
TITLE V. 
(GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE 
CITY OF NEW-YORK. 
L Limited provisions may be extended by proclamation. 
2. Proclamation may be revoked. 
3. To whom fines, &c. payable, and how to be applied, 
4. Commissioners to give information to district attorney, of offences. 
5. Suits not to abate on death of officers. 
6. Provisions of Chapter, how far to extend-not to interfere with corm 
mon law respecting nuisances. 
7. Board of health may cause copies of this chapter to be printed-to 
whom to be delivered. 
8. Magistrates to aid board of health. 
§ 1. Whenever it shall appear to the board of health, 
that any provisions of this chapter, limited in their opera- 
tion to a certain period of the year, ought to be extended, 
the mayor of the city shall issue his proclamation, extending 
such provisions to such time as shall be mentioned in the 
proclamation; and such provisions shall thereupon be ex* 
Certain provi- 
sions how ex- 
tended. 37 
tended accordingly, and with the like effect, as if the period* 
mentioned in the proclamation, had been enacted in thia 
chapter. 
§ 2. If it shall appear to the board of health, whilst such f 
proclamation is still in force, that the necessity of extending 
the period therein named has ceased, the mayor, by a new 
proclamation declaring that fact, shall revoke the procla- 
mation first issued, which, from that time, shall cease to 
have effect. 
§ 3. All fines, forfeitures and penalties, imposed in this 
chapter, or under the powers delegated therein, shall be i 
paid to the commissioners of health, as a part of the funds 1 
of the marine hospital; and such as are recoverable by suit, 
including the penalties of bonds taken from persons under 
quarantine, and excepting such as are, or shall be, imposed 
on physicians, shall be sued for by the commissioners of 
health, in their name of office. 
§ 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of health 
and of each of them, to give information to the district 
attorney of the city and county of New-York, of all offences 
against the provisions of this chapter, that shall come to 
their knowledge, that he may prosecute the offenders 
without delay, in the court of sessions of the city. 
§ 5. No suit that shall be brought by the board or the 
commissioners of health, or the health officer, in their re- 
spective names of office, in pursuance of the authority given 
in this chapter, shall abate on account of the death of the 
officer, or officers, by whom the same shall be commenced. 
§ 6. The provisions of the previous titles of this chapter, 
shall extend to all diseases, which, in the opinion of the 
board of health, shall be deemed dangerous to the public 
health ; and nothing in this chapter contained, shall be con- 
strued to interfere with the remedies against nuisances, 
provided by the common law. 
§ 7. The board of health shall, from time to time, cause 
such parts as they shall deem necessary, of this chapter, to 
be printed, and shall deliver the same to the respective 
pilots of the port, for distribution to the masters of vessels 
How revoked. 
Penalties how 
collected, to 
whom to be 
paid. 
Information, 
Suits not to 
abate. 
Extent of thia 
chapter. 
Parts of this 
chapter to be 
printed and cir- 
culated. 38 
All officers,&c. 
'to aid. 
subject to quarantine ; the expenses of printing shall be 
defrayed out of the monies appropriated for the use of the 
marine hospital. 
§ 8. It shall be the special duty of all magistrates and 
civil officers, and of all citizens of the state, to aid to the 
utmost of their power the board of health, and all the health 
officers mentioned in this chapter, in the performance of 
their respective duties. 
TITLE VI. 
REGULATIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF 
PUBLIC HEALTH IN OTHER PORTS AND 
PLACES OF THE STATE. 
§ 1. How vessels to perform quarantine in Albany, Troy and Hudson 
2. Persons violating provisions, guilty of misdemeanor. 
3. Powers of persons authorized to execute this title. 
4. Health officers in Albany and Hudson, duties-fees. 
5. Board of health in Brooklyn-who president and clerk. 
6. May appoint a health physician. 
7. Duty of health physician. 
8. How vessels subject to quarantine at New-York, permitted to enter 
Brooklyn. 
9. Master to deliver permit, to whom. 
1 8. Master violating preceding provisions, guilty of misdemeanor. 
11. Board may order vessels to be removed, 
12. Order to be in writing-by whom signed-how served. 
13. Penalty on persons violating order. 
14. Practising physicians to report patients, 
15. Penalty for not reporting. 
16. Duties of keepers of boarding-houses in certain periods. 
17, In same period, sick persons not to enter village. 
18. Violation of two last sections, misdemeanor. 
19. Certain powers of board of heal th. 
20. Persons violating orders of board, guilty of misdemeanor. 
21. Fines-to whom paid-how applied. 
22. Two justices of any town may remove sick strangers. 
§ 1. No vessel having on board any person infected with 
any pestilential or infectious disease, or coming from a place 
so infected, shall enter any other of the ports or harbours 
of this state, until such quarantine as the persons hereinafter 
mentioned shall direct, shall have been performed, namely : 
for the cities of Albany, Troy and Hudson, and upon the 
Hudson river opposite to those cities, and within one mile 
above and below the same, the mayor, or, in his absence, 
the recorder of those cities respectively. 
§ 2. Every person so subject to quarantine, who shall 
violate any of the regulations to be prescribed respecting 
Quarantine at 
Albany, Troy 
and Hudson. 
Penalties. 39 
the same, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. 
§ 3. The persons authorised to execute this title in the 
cities of Albany, Troy and Hudson, shall respectively have 
power, 
1. To take such measures as they shall deem effectual to 
prevent the spreading of any infectious disease: 
2. To stop, detain and examine, for that purpose, every 
person coming from any place infected, or believed to be 
infected, with such a disease : 
3. To cause every such person, whom they shall sus- 
pect of being infected with such disease, and who shall 
not be an inhabitant of this state, to be sent out of the state, 
or to be kept therein, in such manner as not to endanger 
the public health : and, 
4. To appoint such and so many persons to aid them in 
the execution of their powers, as they shall deem proper. 
§ 4. The health officer in each of the cities of Albany 
and Hudson, shall assist in carrying into effect the provisions 
of this title; and from the master of each vessel from a 
foreign port, that he shall visit and examine, shall be enti- 
tled to receive the sum of seven dollars and fifty cents. 
§ 5. The board of trustees of the village of Brooklyn, 
shall continue to be a board of health for that village. The 
president, or the president' for the time, of the village, shall 
be the president of the board of health; and the clerk of 
the board of trustees, shall be the clerk of the board of 
health, and as such, shall keep regular minutes of all their 
proceedings. 
§ 6. The board of health shall annually appoint, by 
warrant, under the common seal of the village, a physician, 
then being an inhabitant of the village, to be the health 
physician in and for the village of Brooklyn. 
§ 7. It shall be the duty of such health physician, 
1. To visit all sick persons who shall be reported to the 
board of health of the village, and to report, without delay, 
his opinion of the sickness of such persons, to the president 
of that board : 
Powers of cer- 
tain officers. 
Board of health 
in Brooklyn. 
Physician. 
His duty. 40 
2. To visit and inspect all vessels coming to the wharves, 
landing places, or shores in the village of Brooklyn, and 
suspected to have on board any pestilential disease, and all 
stores or warehouses, suspected to contain putrid or un- 
sound provisions, and damaged hides, cotton, or other 
articles; and to make report of the condition of such ves- 
sels, previsions, or articles, without delay, to the president 
of the board of health : and, 
3. To meet daily, from the first day of June to the first 
day of October in each year, at the office of the board of 
health in the village, with one or more members of the' 
board for the transaction of business. 
§ 8. No vessel subject to quarantine in the port of New- 
York, shall proceed beyond the place of quarantine on 
Staten Island, to the village of Brooklyn, without a petmit 
from the health officer of the city of New-York. 
§ 9. The master of every such vessel arriving in the 
village of Brooklyn, shall, within six hours after such 
arrival, deliver the permit of the health officer to the pre- 
sident of the board of health of the village, or to such 
person as he shall direct. 
§ 10. Every master who shall violate the provisions of 
either of the two last preceding sections, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprison- 
ment, or both, in the discretion of the court by which he 
shall be tried; the fine for each offence not to exceed 
two hundred and fifty dollars, nor the imprisonment six 
months. 
§ 11. The board of health of the village, whenever in 
their judgment the public health shall require it, may order 
any vessel at any wharf, landing place or shore of the vil- 
lage, to be removed at least five hundred yards from the 
shores of the village, within six hours from the service of 
such order. 
§ 12. Every such order shall be in writing, and be signed 
by the president of the board of health of the village, or, in 
his absence, by a majority of the members of the board ; 
and may be served by a delivery thereof to the person having 
Certain vessels 
not to enter 
village. 
Duty of mas- 
ters. 
Penalties. 
Vessels when 
to be removed. 
Order how 
signed and ser- 
ved. 41 
mg, at the time, the care or command of the vessel to be 
removed, or to the master, owner or consignee thereof 
§ 13. Every person upon whom such order shall have 
been duly served, who shall omit to comply with its requi- 
sitions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punish- 
able by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of 
the court by which he shall be tried; the imprisonment 
not to exceed six months, nor the fine, for each day the 
vessel to be removed shall have remained at or near the 
shores of the village, in violation of the terms of the order, 
two hundred and fifty dollars. 
§ 14. Every practising physician in the village of Brook- 
lyn, shall forthwith make a report in writing, signed by him- 
self, to some one of the board of health of the village, of 
every patient he shall have, labouring under malignant or 
yellow fever, or any other pestilential or infectious disease. 
§ 15. Every physician who shall omit to make such 
report, shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars, and be consi* 
dered guilty of a misdemeanor. 
§ 16. Every keeper of a boarding or lodging-house, in 
the village of Brooklyn, between the first day of June and 
the fifteenth day of November in each year, shall report 
in writing, to some one of the board of health of the vil- 
lage, the name of every seafaring man or traveller who 
shall be sick in his house, within six hours after each case 
of sickness shall have occurred. 
§ 17. No sick person, between the days mentioned in 
the last preceding section, shall be removed from any 
vessel lying at or near the shores of the village of Brook- 
lyn, or from any other place, into the village, until the 
name of such person shall have been reported in writing, 
to some one of the board of health of the village, and a 
written permit for such removal have been granted by the 
board. 
§ 18. Every person who shall violate the provisions of 
either of the two last preceding sections, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprison- 
6 
Penalties for 
disobeying. 
Sick to be re- 
ported. 
Penalty. 
Keepers of 
boarding hou- 
ses to report. 
Sick not td 
enter village; 
Penalties. 42 
ment; the fine for each offence not to exceed one hundred 
dollars, nor the imprisonment six months. 
§ 19. The board of health of the village of Brooklyn 
shall have power, 
1. To issue their proclamation, prohibiting or regulating* 
the internal intercourse by land or water, between that 
village, and any other place where they shall have reason to 
believe that a pestilential or infectious disease then prevails: 
2. In case of the prevalence of any such disease in any 
part of the village, to enclose and shut up such infected 
part, so as to prevent all intercourse therewith: 
3. To remove to the public hospital of the village, or 
such other place as they may deem fit, all persons within 
the village, not being residents thereof, who shall be sick 
of any pestilential or infectious disease, and all articles and 
things infected by, or tainted with pestilential disease: and, 
4. To cause any bedding or clothing, or any unsound 
or putrid articles found within the village, to be destroyed, 
whenever in their judgment such destruction shall be ne- 
cessary to prevent infection. 
§ 20. Every person who shall violate any order, rule, 
or regulation of the board of health of the village, made' in 
pursuance of the powers granted in the last preceding' 
section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punish- 
able by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of 
the court by whom the offender shall be tried. 
§ 21. All fines and forfeitures imposed in any of the pre- 
ceding sections of this title, from the fifth section inclusive, 
shall, when collected, be paid to the board of health of the 
village of Brooklyn, to be applied by them to the purchase, 
building, or hire, support and maintenance of a public 
hospital for the village: and such forfeitures as are reco- 
verable by civil suit, shall be sued for by the president of 
the board of health, in his name of office. 
§ 22. Any two justices of the peace, in any town of this 
state, may cause all persons who shall be sick of any infec- 
tious or pestilential disease, and not being residents of such 
town, by an order in writing, to be removed to such place of 
safety within the town, as they shall deem necessary for 
the preservation of the public health. 
Powers of 
board of health 
Penalty for 
violating or- 
ders. 
Fines how 
collected and 
paid. 
Powers of jus- 
tices in towns. 43 
TITLE VIL 
GENERAL REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE 
PRACTICE OF PHYSIC AND SURGERY IN 
THIS STATE. 
§ 1. Presidents of county medical societies to give notice to, and require 
physicians and surgeons to apply for certificates of admission. 
2. If persons notified do not apply, license to be forfeited. 
3. Charges may be preferred to society against members for misconduct, 
. &c. 
4. If two thirds of members think charges well founded, president to 
deliver a copy to district attorney. 
5. District attorney to serve copy on accused, and give notice of hearing. 
6. He shall conduct prosecution and issue subpoenas for both parties. 
7. County judges to hear and determine charges-their judgment. 
8. and 9. Qualifications for admission to an examination-term of 
study, &c. 
10. Certificates of commencing of studies by students to be filed with 
president of the society. 
11.- If deduction from term of study be made, order of president specify- 
ing period to be annexed to certificate. 
12. When regents to grant degrees of doctor of medicine. 
13. In what counties students to be examined. 
14. Candidates for admission rejected by censors of one county, not to 
be examinOd by another-but may appeal . 
■15. Persons rejected by state censors not to be examined by county 
censors. 
16. No person to practise physic, &c. without licence, &c. from this or 
some other state. 
17. Persons coming from another state, &c. to file copy of diploma with 
county clerk. 
18. Diplomas granted out of this state to students in schools in this 
state, not incorporated, not to confer right of practising physic, &c. 
in this state. 
19. Persons licensed, to deposit copy of license in county clerk's office. 
20. Persons under 21, not entitled to practise. 
21. Degrees of doctor of medicine conferred by colleges not to be a 
licence; when colleges may have a faculty to teach medicine. 
22. Penalty for practising without authority. 
§ 1. The president of every county medical society shall 
give notice in writing to every physician and surgeon, not * 
already admitted into such society, within the county in £ 
which the society of which he is president is situated, re- 
quiring such physician dr surgeon, within sixty days after 
the service of such notice, to apply for and receive, a cer- 
tificate of admission, as a member of such society. 
§ 2. The service of every such notice shall be made per- 
sonally, on the physician or surgeon to whom it shall be di- ] 
rected: and if such physician and surgeon shall not, within 1 
the time specified in the notice, or within such further time 
as may be allowed by the president, under the regulations 
of the society, apply for a certificate of membership in such 
society, his licence shall be deemed forfeited, and he shall 
Notice to be 
given to every 
physician and 
surgeon. 
How served- 
persons noti- 
fied to forfeit 
their licenses if 
they not apply- 44 
be subject thereafter, to all the provisions and penalties of 
the laws of this state, in relation to unlicensed physicians, 
until upon a special application, he shall be admitted a 
member of the medical society, in the county in which he 
shall reside. 
§ 3. If there shall be preferred to any county medical 
society, specific charges against any member thereof, of 
gross ignorance or misconduct in his profession, or of im- 
moral conduct of habits, a special meeting of the society to 
consider the charges shall be called, of which at least ten 
days previous notice shall be given, in one or more of the 
newspapers printed in the county. 
§ 4. If two thirds of the members present at such meet- 
ing shall be of opinion, that the charges preferred are well 
founded, the president of the society, shall, without delay, 
deliver a certified copy of the charges and the vote of the 
society thereon, to the district attorney of the county, and 
shall give notice of such delivery to the member accused, 
who from that time shall be suspended from the practise 
of physic and surgery, until the determination of such 
charges, in the manner hereinafter provided. 
§ 5, The district attorney to whom the charges shall be 
delivered, shall serve a copy thereof without delay, on the 
jnember accused, and at the same time shall give him 
notice of the time and place at which the judges of the 
court of common pleas of the county will meet, for the 
purpose of hearing and determining the same : such notice 
shall be served at least fourteen days before the time of 
hearing appointed. 
§ 6. The district attorney shall conduct the prosecution 
of the charges, and shall issue process to compel the 
attendance of such witnesses as the president of the society 
and members accused shall severally require. 
§ 7. The judges of the county court, at the time and 
place of hearing appointed, or at such other time and place 
as they shall fix, shall proceed to hear and determine the 
charges, and shall examine, on path, the witnesses produced: 
if they, or a majority of them, shall be satisfied, from the 
Charges for 
misconduct. 
Proceedings 
thereon. 
Charges to be 
served and no- 
tice of hearing, 
District attorn 
ney to prose- 
cute. 
Judges to de- 
termine. 45 
evidence, that the charges are true, they shall make an 
order, which shall be valid in law, expelling the member 
accused from the society, and declaring him for ever there- 
after incapable of practising physic and surgery within 
this state, or suspending him from such practice, for a 
limited period: if they shall be of opinion, that the charges 
are not established, the suspension of the member accused 
shall cease, and he shall be restored to all his rights and 
privileges, as a practising physician and surgeon. 
§ 8. No student shall be admitted to an examination by 
any medical society, until he shall have completed, with 
some physician and surgeon duly authorised by law 
to practise his profession, the term of medical study pre- 
scribed in the following sections of this title. 
§ 9. The regular term of the study of medical science 
shall be four years, but a deduction from such term, in no 
case to exceed one year, shall be made in either of the 
following cases : 
1. If the student, after the age of sixteen, shall have 
pursued any of the studies usual in the colleges of this 
state, the period, during which he shall have pursued such 
studies, shall be deducted. 
2. If the student, after the age of sixteen, shall have 
attended a complete course of all the lectures delivered in 
an incorporated medical college m this state, or elsewhere, 
one year shall be deducted. 
§ 10. The physician and surgeon with whom a student 
shall commence his studies, shall file a certificate with the 
president of the county medical society to which he be- 
longs, certifying that such person has so commenced his 
studies ; and the term of study shall be considered as com- 
mencing, from the day on which such certificate is filed. 
§ 11. If the term of study shall be intended to be for less 
than four years, upon either of the grounds mentioned in 
the ninth section of this title, the president with whom the 
certificate shall be filed, upon satisfactory proof that a de- 
duction ought to be allowed, shall annex to such certificate, 
an order specifying the period, not exceeding one year, 
which, according to the proof exhibited to him, ought to be 
to expel, 
or suspend, 
or acquit. 
Qualifications 
of students. 
Ib. 
Ib. 46 
deducted from the term of four years, and directing that 
the term of study of the student shall be for the period 
that shall remain. 
§ 12. No person shall receive from the regents of the 
university a diploma, conferring the degree of doctor of 
medicine, unless he shall have pursued the study of medical 
science for at least three years, after the age of sixteen, 
with some physician and surgeon, duly authorised, by law, 
to practise his profession, and shall also, after the same 
age, have attended two complete courses of all the lectures 
delivered in an incorporated medical college, and have 
attended the last of such courses, in the college by which 
he shall be recommended for his degree. 
§ 13. No student shall be admitted to an examination by 
any county medical society, except of the county in which 
he shall have pursued his medical studies for four months 
immediately preceding his examination; but if the student 
during that period, shall have attended the lectures in 
either of the incorporated medical colleges of this state, 
he may be examined and licensed, either by the medical 
society of the county in which such college is situated, or 
by that of the county, in which he shall have resided, pre- 
vious to such attendance. 
§ 14. No person, who shall have been examined by the 
censors of any county medical society, as a candidate for the 
practise of physic and surgery, or either of them, and shall 
have been rejected on such examination, shall be admitted 
to an examination, before the censors of any other county 
medical society ; but such person may appeal, from the 
decision of the censors by whom he shall have been exa- 
mined, to the medical society of the state. 
§ 15. No person, who, either upon an original examina- 
tion or upon an appeal, shall have been rejected by the 
censors of the state medical society, shall thereafter be ad- 
mitted to an examination, before the censors of any county 
medical society. 
§ 16. No person shall practise physic or surgery, unless 
he shall have received a license or diploma for that purpose, 
Requisites for 
diplomas from 
regents. 
In what coun- 
ties students to 
be examined. 
If rejected to 
appeal. 
Persons reject- 
ed by state so- 
ciety. 
Who to prac- 
tise physic. 47 
from one of the incorporated medical societies in this stated 
or the degree of doctor of medicine from the regents of the 
university : or shall have been duly authorised in practise 
by the laws of some other state or country, and have a dipo- 
ma from some incorporated college of medicine, or legally 
incorporated medical society, in such state or country. 
§ 17. No person coming from another state or country, 
shall practise physic or surgery in this state until he shall < 
have filed a copy of his diploma, with the clerk of the county 
where he resides, and until he shall have exhibited to the 
medical society of that county, satisfactory evidence that he 
has regularly studied physic and surgery, according to the 
requisitions of the ninth section of this title. 
§ 18. No diploma, granted by any authority out of this 
state, to an individual who shall have pursued his studies 
in any medical school within this state, not incorporated 
and organized under its laws, shall confer on such indivi- 
dual, the right of practising physic or surgery, within this 
state. 
§ 19. Every person licensed to practise physic or sur- 
gery, or both, shall deposit a copy of such license with the 
clerk of the county where he resides, who shall file the 
same in his office ; and until such license is so deposited, 
such person shall be liable to all the penalties provided by 
law, in the same manner as if he had no license. 
§ 20. No person under the age of twenty-one years shall 
be entitled to practise physic or surgery in this state. 
21. The degree of doctor of medicine conferred by any 
college in this state, shall not be a license to practise physic 
or surgery; nor shall any college have, or institute, a me- 
dical faculty, to teach the science of medicine, in any other 
place than where the charter locates the college. 
§ 22. Every person, not authorised bylaw, who, for any 
fee or reward, shall practise physic or surgery within this 
state, shall be incapable of recovering, by suit, any debt 
arising from such practise, and shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, or both, 
in the discretion of the court by which he shall be convicted. 
Persons from 
another state 
or country. 
Diplomas to 
students in cer- 
tain schools, 
not valid. 
Licence in all 
cases to be 
filed. 
Persons under 
21. 
Degrees con- 
ferred by col- 
leges. 
Penalty for 
practising 
without autho- 
rity. 48 
CHAP. V. 
Of the Public Officers of this State, their 
Election, Appointment, &^c. 
TITLE V. 
Section 15. The health officer, resident physician, and 
health commissioner of the city of New-York, are men- 
tioned in this section. 
§ 16. The officers above enumerated, shall hold their 
respective offices for two years. 
§ 17. No person but a licensed physician shall be ap- 
pointed to the office of resident physician, health commis- 
sioner, or health officer of the city of New-York. Either 
of them may be removed by the governor during the recess 
of the senate. 
§ 18. The board of health may supply any vacancy that 
may occur in the office of either of the commissioners of 
health of the city of New-York, whether arising from the 
temporary inability of the officer to discharge his duties, 
or otherwise; but the person so appointed shall hold his 
office only until such inability be removed, or the sense of 
the governor, or the governor and senate, be declared. AN ACT to amend Title Second, Chapter Fourteen, Part First of 
the Revised Statutes, relating to the Quarantine Regulations of the 
Port of New York. Passed May 2, 1836. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows :- 
§ 1. All articles arriving in vessels subject to Quarantine, whose 
exportation by sea, or transportation up the North or East rivers, and 
which may, without danger to the public health, be shipped from the 
wharves of the city of New York, may, by permission of the Board of 
Health, or the Mayor and Commissioners of Health, be brought to 
the city of New York for the above object. 
§ 2. No vessel subject to a regular quarantine of two days, unless 
she shall have sailed from some port in the West Indies, or in America 
south of Louisiana and north of the Equator, or from some port or 
place in the United States south of Georgia, before the first day of 
June in the year of her arrival, shall, when released from quarantine, 
approach within three hundred yards of that part of the island of New 
York which lies southward of Bank street on the North river, and of 
Eighth street, on the East river, until after the first day of October in 
the year of her arrival, unless by virtue of a special permission to be 
granted by the Board of Health, or the Mayor and Commissioners of 
Health ; which permission shall not extend to embrace any time be- 
tween the first day of June and first day of September in the year of 
her arrival, unless under the circumstances mentioned in the following 
section. 
§ 3. If such vessel shall have arrived from any place in the Medi- 
terranean in Asia, in America south of the Equator, or from the Ma- 
deira, Canary, Cape de Verd, Western, Bermuda oreBahama Islands, 
the Mayor and Commissioners of Health may, by special permission 
in writing, direct her to be hauled to a wharf south of the bounds so 
prescribed, and in their discretion, may first order her cargo, or any 
portion thereof, to be unloaded, subject to their orders and regulations. 
§ 4. No vessel subject to a regular quarantine of thirty days, when 
permitted to leave the quarantine ground, shall approach within three 
hundred yards of the city of New York, between the first day of June 
and the first day of October in the year of her arrival, unless permitted 
by the Board of Health, or the Mayor and Commissioners of Health; 
which permission shall not be granted except as prescribed in the se- 
cond section of this act. 
§ 5. All vessels wholly loaded with salt, being healthy and from 
healthy ports, may be permitted to discharge their cargoes at any 
wharf to be designated by the Board of Health, or by the Mayor and 
Commissioners of Health; but immediately upon being discharged, 
such vessels shall be subject to all the restrictions imposed by title se- 
cond, chapter fourteenth, part first of the revised statutes; and all the 
provisions of said title and chapter inconsistent with the provisions of 
this act, are hereby repealed. 
State of New York, Secretary's Office. 
I have compared the preceding with an original act of the Legislature of this 
state, on file in this office, and do certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, 
and of the whole of said original. ARCH'D CAMPBELL, Dep. Sec. 
Albany, May 3, 1836.