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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 383. 1897. 639 . the immediate family of the deceased, his nearest friends, not exceeding two, and other persons whose attendance is actually necessary. Sec. 15. That no person shall, in said District, without a written mfffi  *°*' permit from said health officer, and then only in accordance with the porsoni ¤¥;¤¤·:1.° M terms of said permit, carry or remove, or cause to be carried or ` removed, from place to place, any person suffering from any contagious disease, or who has been recently exposed to infection by such disease, and is liable soon to develop the same, or to carry the infection of such disease. N o person shall, in said District, expose himself or any other person, or permit his minor child or ward to expose himself, while suffering from any contagious disease or when, having been exposed to sinch dg-sease, liable soon to develop the same or to carry the infection t ereo. Sec. 16. That no person shall, in said District, without a written _,x;f,{;"g‘wfg;¤g*‘$; permit from said health officer, and then only in accordance with the mss, g terms of said permit, carry or remove, or cause to be carried or removed, from place to place, any thing or things which have been exposed to any case of contagious disease and which have not been properly disinfected since such exposure as certified by said health officer. _ Sec. 17. That the principal, teacher, or other person or persons in ,,l,£1“§f1§,§f£,°§“°2h?" charge of any school, seminary, college, or Sunday school in said District shall not permit any person to attend such school, seminary, college, or Sunday school who is or has been suffering from or exposed to any contagious disease and whose exclusion from such school, seminary, college, or Sunday school has been certified to by said health officer as in his opinion necessary to prevent the spread of such contagious disease; persons so excluded may be permitted to return to such school, seminary, college, or Sunday school upon the presentation of a certificate from said health officer that they may do so without danger of spreading such contagious disease. E f h_ Sec. 18. That no parent, master, or custodian of any child or minor, n¤i§i°$°.K°° ° Mm having power or authority to prevent, shall, in said District, permit such child or minor to be unnecessarily exposed or to needlessly expose any other person to the infection of any contagious disease. U _ Sec. 19. That no person suffering from any contagious disease shall, .,,,y:§’,,,YQ*,,,?j,‘{,‘§{ff,,,f,‘f“` in said district, enter any public conveyance, nor shall any person in charge of anyone so suffering permit such an one to enter such convey- ance without previously making it known to the owner or driver thereof that he, or the person in charge, as the case may be, is suffering from such contagious disease; any person sufiering from such disease and any person in charge of one so suffering having entered any public conveyance shall forthwith report in writing to said health officer the time of such use, the number and kind of conveyance used, and, if known, the name of the driver. The owner or driver of any public conveyance, either or both of them, in which has been conveyed any person suffering from a contagious disease shall immediately have such conveyance properly disinfected, and said conveyance shall not again be used until it has been disinfected to the satisfaction of said health officer, as certified by him. _ _ Sec. 20. That no person shall, in said District, knowingly let, or cause fnigziiwbzgsbiieii; to be let to any person, or put any other person in possession of, any 1¤f· house, room, or part of a house or room, in which any person has been confined by reason of any contagious disease, until such house or room or part of a house or room has been disinfected to the satisfaction of said health officer, as certified by him. R I h _ Sec. 21. That whenever any person in said District is an inmate of as f;:i;n;¤tim(§rgltdi any premises occupied by three or more families, or of any tenement •=¤*>*·>· house, boarding house, lodging house, hotel, or apartment house, and is suffering from any contagious disease, and can not, in the opinion of said health officer, be properly isolated in such.premises, tenement house, lodging house, hotel, or apartment house, said person shall be