In Re Clemente

Petitioner is before this court upon a writ of habeas corpus. The petition therefor sets forth that she is illegally detained and restrained of her liberty by the chief of police of the city of Los Angeles, acting under instructions from the health department of the city of Los Angeles not to release her until she had submitted to an examination ordered to be made by said health department for the purpose of determining whether she was affected with a contagious or infectious disease.

Upon the hearing the testimony showed that the petitioner had been arrested and charged with conducting a…