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tioner or the application of three persons living in the neighborhood,
order the body to be removed and buried at the cost of the city, town
or county within a time to be limited by such order, and unless the
friends or relatives of the deceased undertake to bury the body within
the time so limited, and do bury the same, it shall be the duty of
the said health officer or justice of the peace to have such body buried
at the expense of the city, town or county, and any person or persons

obstructing the execution of any order made by any health officer or
justice of the peace under this section shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding two hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six
months.

1904, art. 43, sec. 38. 1888, art. 43, sec. 23. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 9.

49. The municipal and county authorities may provide for the use

of the inhabitants of their respective city, town or county hospitals or
temporary places for the reception of the sick, and for that purpose
may themselves build such hospitals or places of reception or contract
for the use of any such hospital or part of a hospital or place of
reception, or enter into any agreement with any person having the
management of any hospital for the reception of the sick inhabitants of
their city, town or county on payment of such sum as may be agreed on,
or two or more local authorities may combine in providing a common
hospital.

Ibid. sec. 39. 1888, art. 43, sec. 24. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 10.

50. Any expenses incurred by the authorities of any city, town or
county in maintaining in a hospital, or in a temporary place for the
reception of the sick, a patient who is not a pauper shall be deemed
to be a debt due from such patient to the authorities aforesaid, and
may be recovered from him at any time within twelve months after
the discharge from such hospital or place of reception, or from his
estate, in the event of his dying in such hospital.

Manufacture of Infected Articles.

1906, ch. 358.

51. No person, firm or company or corporation shall be permitted
to manufacture in part or in whole, any mattress, bed, cot, lounge or
sofa, wool, shoddies, or shoddies manufactured from cast-off clothing
or other fabric which has previously been in the use of or worn by any
other person or persons. And all such manufacturers or dealers in
mattresses are hereby prohibited from making or offering for sale any
such mattress, bed, cot, lounge or sofa, where wool, shoddies, or shoddies
manufactured from cast-off clothing are used for filling or topping in
stuffing the said mattresses, beds, cots, lounges and sofas.

1906, ch. 358.

52. Manufacturers of mattresses, and the other articles mentioned
in the foregoing section of this article are hereby required to sew a