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2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 3. LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH
§ 315. Temporary structures for isolation purposes; disinfection of property.
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§ 315. Temporary structures for isolation purposes; disinfection of property.
The State Board of Health or any local board of health may erect any temporary wooden buildings or field hospitals necessary for the isolation or protection of persons or freight supposed to be infected and may employ nurses, physicians and laborers sufficient to operate the same properly and sufficient police to guard the same. The board of health may cause the disinfection, renovation or complete destruction of bedding, clothing or other property belonging to corporations or individuals, when such action seems to the board necessary or a reasonable precaution against the spread of contagious or infectious diseases.
16 Del. Laws, c. 345, § 20; 22 Del. Laws, c. 328, § 6; Code 1915, § 759; 33 Del. Laws, c. 57, § 4; 34 Del. Laws, c. 69, § 1; Code 1935, § 765; 16 Del. C. 1953, § 315;
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