1222 HEALTH. [ART. 43

color of the deceased, and such other information in connection
with the existence and spread of the disease, as may be deemed
important for the protection of the public health; and if no
physician has been in attendance during the last illness, or at
the time of the death of such person, then it shall be the duty
of the householder, in whose house or upon whose premises
the death occurred, to transmit to the secretary of the State
board of health the facts in accordance with the requirements
of this section.

1890, ch. 622, sec. 2.

67. Whenever any hotel keeper, keeper of a boarding or
lodging-house, superintendent, manager or director of a private
or public institution of any kind shall know, or be informed
by a physician, or shall have reason to believe that any guest,
inmate or other person in the hotel, boarding-house, lodging-
house or institution over which he or she may have control or
supervision, or on the premises thereof, is sick with or conva-
lescing from small-pox, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or typhoid
fever, scarlet fever, leprosy or any other contagious or infec-
tious disease, the said owner, proprietor, manager or other
person having charge shall immediately give notice thereof in
writing to the health officer of the city or town in which the
infected house or premises is located or to the secretary of the
State board of health, if there is no local health¹ officer who can
efficiently deal with the case; said notice shall state the name
and place of residence of the person sick, the name of the
disease, the name of the owner, proprietor or manager of the
house and the locality of said house, and it shall be the duty
of the local or State health officer, as the case may be, to take
such steps and do such things as may be necessary to render
effective the provisions of sections 30 to 39, both inclusive.

Ibid. sec. 3.

68. Any person or persons who shall neglect or refuse to
comply with the provisions of the two foregoing sections shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction
thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction be fined not more
than fifty dollars for every such offense.

Ibid. sec. 4

69. In any town, village or other place in this State, where
no special health department has been established or con-
stituted by the character or other act of incorporation of any