The Board of Health shall have power to cause any house or any premises to be cleaned, disinfected, or closed to visitors, and prevent persons from resorting thereto while any person is laboring under any pestilential or infectious disease; it may by an order in writing, direct any nuisance to be abated, or unwholesome matter or substance, dirt or filth to be removed from any house or premises, and may prescribe the time and mode of doing so, and take any measure it may deem necessary and proper to prevent the spread of any infectious pestilential or epidemic disease.
(Ord. 557, passed 8-25-1942)