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.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 3. LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH
§ 301. Appointment and membership outside Wilmington; vacancies and removal.
§ 302. Officers; meetings; quorum; secretary.
§ 303. General powers; quarantine regulations.
§ 305. Cleansing or closing unfit dwellings; recovery of expenses.
§ 306. Cleansing diseased places; recovery of expenses.
§ 307. Neglected privy well; penalty.
§ 308. Slaughterhouse; use as nuisance; penalty.
§ 309. Placing or maintaining offensive matters in public places; penalty.
§ 310. Abatement of nuisances.
§ 311. Entry for destruction or removal of nuisances.
§ 312. Removal of infected persons; taking possession of condemned premises.
§ 313. Care of persons having infectious or contagious disease.
§ 315. Temporary structures for isolation purposes; disinfection of property.