The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-06-07

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An Ordinance
Creating Board of Health and Defining
its Duties.
SEC. l. Be Il ordained 6y The City Council
ofthe city Of Fremont, That there is hereby
established Board of Health. That said
Board shall consist of seven. members.
That the Mayor of this city shall be pres
ideDt ex-officio of said Board. That the
members constituting said Board shall be
appointed by the City Council on and after
the passage of this ordinance, and shall each
hold his Office for the term of three years, ex-
cept that those first appointed shall be CLASH
fed as follows: Two to serve for three years !;
two 10 serve for two years, and two to serve
for one year. That the members of said
Board shall serve without compensation.
That all appointments to be made by the
City Council, on or before the second Tues
day of May of each year.
SEC. 2. That the Board of Health shall
have power to appoint one health officer and
clerk, and as many physicians as they may
deem necessary for the proper care of the
sick and needy. All such appointments
made by the Board shall serve during the
pleasure of the Board, and receive such COM
pensation for their services as the City Oouu-
Gil may det. rhine. on the certificate of the
said Board of Health.
SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of any
member of the Board of Health, whenever
he may deem it necessary in order to secure
the public health, to enter upon the prem
ises and into the house of any person or per-
sons within the limits of this city, to ascer-
tain every nuisance which may exist, and
to examine into the condition and inspect
the vaults, cellars, privies. cesspools and
drains of such premises, and to cause the
dispersion or removal Of families or persons
from buildings or apartments so much crowd
ed as to be suspected of being infected or
liable to be infected with any pestilential or
dangerous disease and TO cause the abate-
ment and removal of all nuisances in any
such house or on such premises.
SEC 4. That il shall be the duty of the
Marshal of this city, when deemed neces-
sary by said Board of Health, for the protec-
ton of the citizens of said city against the
spreading of epidemic or other disease, up
on the order OF said Board of Health, to raze
to the ground any dwelling house, out house
stable, barn or other tenement which they,
the said Board of Health, believe to be the
source or cause of disease which from its To-
cation, construction and condition cannot be
removed by the usual means employed for
| that purpose, and that said Marshal shall in
like manner, fill up any cellar, vault, or pool
within said city which may be considered
by said Board of Health productive of dis
ease and beyond the reach of the usual
means of renovation.
SEC. 5. That the Board of Health shall
meet from time to time as often as they shall
deem necessary, and shall have power,
whenever they may deem it necessary fol
the security of the city, to take the mos
prompt and efficient measures 10 prevent the
introduction of contagious, malignant dam
gerous and infective disease into said city
and for the immediate and safe removal o
any person or persons who may be founC
therein infected with any such disease, anC
it is hereby made the duty of the police anc
other officers of the city TO be vigilant ant
attentive in assisting the Board of Health il
the execution of their duties.
SEC. 6. The acting Health officer is au
thorized to remove or cause to be removed an,
person who is supposed to be infected will
any pestilential or dangerous disease to tn
city hospital, pest house or such place as th'
City Council shall provide for such purpose
when such removal can be made withou
danger to the life of such person, or he ma,
order any funiture, clothing or other pro
perty eitEer to be destroyed removed or dis
Infected, whenever he may deem it necessar,
for the health of the city.
Sec T. 1t shall be unlawful for any per
son or persons to modest or resist any mem
Der of the Board of Health in the discharg
of his duties, and every person so offending
on conviction thereof before the Mayor, sha
be fined in any sum not exceeding fift,
dollars and the costs of prosecution, and b
committed to the Jail of Sandusky count
until such fine and costs are paid or unit
otherwise discharged by due course of law
SEC. 8. Whenever any member ofthe Boar
of Health shall ascertain that nuisanc
affecting or endaugering in his opinion th
: pubic health exists on any premises or
any building within the city, he shall motif.
in writing the person or persons having po:
session of such premises or building, to abat
and remove such nuisance within a reason
! able time to be stated in such notice, and
shall be unlawful for any person, on recei'
ing such notice, TO refuse or neglect
comply with the same for longer perio
than the time therein named, and upon sue
, neglect or refusal the Marshal may aba
such NUISANCE, and the occupant of the prem
ises, in addition TO the penalty provided b
this ordinance, shall be liable to the city, Fl
the costs of such abatement to be recovere
in civil action before the Mayor or an
n other court of competent jurisdiction.
Sec 9. That all claims for services ar
materials furnished TO the Board of Heal
shall be presented and certified to by Il
!, Board of Health. before the same shall
entertained or allowed by the city council
SEQ 10. That in case any such nuisan'
shall be found upon any lot or parcel of Ian
f and no occupant of the same can be four
resident within thelimits of this city, it shs
, be lawful and it is hereby made the duty
3 the members of said Board of Health
). either of them upon view to post up
written or printed notice in a eonspicio
: part of such LOT, declaring such nuisance, al
the same shall be deemed and taken as
notice to the owner thereof TO remove sa
c nuisance.
SEC. IL. 1t shall be unlawful for any pc
son or persons using a drain or sewer
convey slops or filthy water from his or h
:. premises along or under any public sire
r or alley, to suffer or allow such drain
sewer to expose filth 10 the air in SUI
!. manner as to be offensive or liable TO crea
/. disease.
SEC IL. 1t shall be unlawful for any pc
!. son to introduce or aid or assist in introdu
IS ing in said city the smallpox or any 9th
>. contagious or infectious disease.
SIC. I3. That an account of all charg
!. and expenses incurred in cleansing sa
i. places and removing such nuisances shall
# kept by each member of the board perforI
II ing the same and by him reported to t
city council at the next meeting there
: and the same shall be and is hereby levi
and assessed as special tax upon the lot
of parcel of lands from which the same is
; poved, or upon which such expenses
incurred, and the same shall be entered u
es on the tax duplicate and collected as ott
ic special taxes levied by the city council.
SIC. IA. Any person violating any ProvIsl
n of this ordinance shall, on conviction there
$. be fined in any sum not exceeding I'll
n dollars and the costs of prosecution.
e- This ordinance to be in force and ia
effect from and after it's passage.
n. Passed Nav 18th, 1867.