1891_private laws_308_77
CHAPTER 307 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That they may take such measures as they may deem effectual to prevent the entrance into the city or the spreading therein of any contagious or infectious disease; may stop, detain and examine for that purpose every person coming from places believed to-be infected with such disease; may establish and regulate hospitals within the city or within three miles thereof; may cause any person in the city suspected to be infected with such disease and whose stay may endanger its health to be removed to the hospital if the city have one, if not, where the mayor may direct; may remove from the city or destroy any furniture or other article which shall be suspected of being tainted or infected with contagious or infectious diseases, or of which there shall be reasonable cause to apprehend that they may pass into such a state as to generate and propagate disease; may abate by any reasonable means all nuisances which may be injurious to the public health.