1210 HEALTH. [ART. 43

ing from any dangerous infectious disorder, without having
such house, room or part of a house and all articles therein
liable to retain infection disinfected to the satisfaction of a
qualified medical practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed
by him, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars; and any person letting for hire or showing,
for the purpose of letting for hire, any house or part of a house
or room, who, being questioned by any person negotiating for
the hire of such house or port of a house or room as to the
fact of their being, or within six weeks previously having been
therein any person suffering from any dangerous infectious
disorder, knowingly makes a false answer to such questions
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars
or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months.

1888, art. 43, sec. 22. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 8.

37. When the body of any one who has died of any infectious
disease is retained in a room' in which persons live or sleep, or
any dead body which is in such a state as to endanger the
health of the inmates of the same house or room, any health
officer or justice of the peace may, on a certificate signed by a
qualified medical practitioner or the application of three per-
sons 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 impris-
onment not exceeding six months.

Ibid, sec 23. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 9.

38. 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