53 Pa. Stat. § 24672
Whenever the bureau of health shall receive information that any malignant or contagious disease (measles excepted) prevails within any port or place within the United States, it shall make diligent inquiry concerning the same and if it shall appear that the disease prevails as aforesaid, all communications with such infected port or places shall be subject to such control and regulations as the director of the department of public safety may from time to time prescribe and publish in one or more newspapers published in the said cities, and all goods, wares and merchandise, bedding and clothing from such infected port or place having been brought or entered into any of said cities contrary to such regulations, shall be seized, held, disinfected, or destroyed as to the said bureau of health may seem necessary and proper, and any person or persons having been brought or entered into any of the said cities from such infected port or place aforesaid, may be conveyed by any person authorized by said bureau of health to such place of detention within or without the limits of such city, as the said bureau may appoint or direct for that purpose, and there be detained at the expense of such city, until duly discharged by order in writing from the said bureau of health.
53 P.S. § 24672