Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-12
CITY ADVERTISEMENT.
a RESOLUTION.
A Resolution to Establish Certain San
itary Laws for the city OF Los AM
geles, and for other Purposes:

| follows:
SECTION |. Every person living within the
| limits of the city of Los Angeles, who has
| not been vaccinated or has not had smallpox
or varioloid, is hereby required to be vaccin-
| ated forthwith, and it shall be the duty of the
| Health officer to receive and vaccinate at his
office, free of charge, all persons who may
apply.
| Section willfully negleeting to be vaccnated
shall be arrested by any police officer, and IL
| unable to procure the services of some Iother
| physician, shall be brought before the Health
Officer and be yaccinated by him.
SEC. 2. The Health Officer who shall be
| graduate of some medical college, in good
| standing, and reside within the city limits;
| shall keep an office in some convenient loca-
| tous vaccination during certain hours of each
| day, of which he shall give public notice by
| advertisement from time to time in two daily
| newspapers, the one English, the other Span
| ish. He shall give his personal attention and
| services to the work of gTatuitouS vaccination,
selecting and preserving the vaccine virus
| perform his duties as to promote the phys-
cal well-being of all who shall apply at his of
| flee.
SEC. g. Every police officer shall be and is
hereby constituted an Ex-officio Health In
| spector, and it shall be his duty at all times
| to make a report to the Health Officer, when
| he shall observe that any building, street,
alley, court, lot or premises in said city is in
a condition offensive to the. public health,
| and it shall be the duty of the Health Officer
| to report to the City Marshal any neglect on
the part of any, policeman to discharge this
| duty.
| SEC. T. 1t shall be the duty of each phys-
clan in this city to report to the Health officer
in writing, every patient heshall have within
| Cholera, Smallpox or other contagious dis
ease, Immediately after he shall become sat
| isfied of the nature of such disease, and shall
| report to said Health Officer every death
| from such diseases Immediately after the
| currence of such death.
| SEC. s. 1t shall be the duty OF every house.
| holder in this city or other person not em-
| ploying a physician, to report in writing to
| the Health Officer Immediately, the name of
every person boarding or lodging at his or her
| house, whom he or she shall have reason to
| believe to be sick of cholera, smallpox or
| other contagious disease, and the death of
| any such person occurring at his or her house
| from any of such diseases.
SEC. 6. No person shall drive or use any
| vehicle, or permit any vehicle belonging o
| him or her or under his or her control
| to be driven or used for the conveyance or
SMALLPOX @ or other Contagious % disease, % or the
| body of any person who may have died of
| any such disease, without the written consent
| SEC. 7, No person attending upon or ot..er-
| wise coming in contact with any contagious
| disease in such manner or to such an eX-
| tent as to render him or her liable to commu-
| ncate the disease shall during the continu-
ance of the disease go upon any PUBLIC street
| wearing any infected clothing, or whilst thus
| attired mingle with others not affected with
| such disease.
SEC s. Whenever a case of smallpox is re-
ported to the Health Officer 1t shall be his
| duty on proving the existence of the disease
| to Immediately cause to be erected q yellow
| or quarantine flag in a conspicous place on
| said premises, or to have posted upon the
| door way of houses infected with the small
pox, placard setting forth the fact the same
| TO remain during the continuance of the dis
| ease on said premises.
SEC. 9. Noperson shall remove small
| pox patient from any house or place within
| the limits of the city to any other house or
place in said limits, except to the smallpox
hospital, without permit from the Health
Officer
| SEC. 10. No person shall without permit
| from the Health Officer carry remove from
| one building to another or from any railroad
| depot to any house or through the public
| streets, any person sick of any contagious
| disease; and all persons having any conta-
| gious disease in their house or on or about
| their premises, shall Immediately after their
! convalesence or removal, of the persons af-
| fecied Herewith, disinfect, cleanse and purify
| their said houses and premises and rid them
| of every danger of propagating commune
| eating the said disease to Others
| SEC. IL. Every owner, lessee, tenant
cupant of any stable, stall or other apart
| ment in which any animal shall be kept orc
| any place in which any manure or liquid
| discharge of such animal, shall collect or ac-
cumulate shall cause such liquid or manure
| to be removed to some proper place, and shall
at all times keep or cause to be kept, such
| drainage, yards and appurtenan ces thereof, in
a clean and wholesome condition.
SEC r. No person shall sell, offer or
| have for sale in this city, any unwholesome,
| watered or adulterated milk, or milk from
| cows or other animals which at the time are
being fed on unwholesome food d,swill garbage.
! or other like substances nor any butter or
| cheese made from such milk.
SEC. l3 1t shall be the duty of the Health
| Officer to keep record of all births, deaths,
and interments occurring i'll the city of Los
Angeles, in books duly prepared for that pur-
pose. Said records when filled shall be de-
posted in the office of the Clerk of the Com
| mon Council, and produced when required
| for public inspection.
| SEC. IT, Every sexton, undertaken, super
| intendent of a cemetery, or other person who
| shall inter or cause to be inferred any human
| body, without having first obtained and fileo
| with the Health Officer a PHYSICIANS certiti-
cate or the Coroner's certificate, setting forth
| as nearly as possible the name, age, color sex,
and date and place of birth, date and locality
| shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
| on conviction shall be punished provided
| in. section nineteen of this resolution.
SEC. Is. IL shall be the duty of the physi-
| clans when deaths occur in their practice, to
give a certificate to that effect, with the name
| age, color, nativity. date of death, place of
| death and occupation of deceased, For this
purpose blank certificates shall be kept at the
| Health office.
| or before the fourth day of each month make
| a return to the Health Officer, of all births,
| deaths, and the number of still-born children
| occurring in their practice during the preced-
| ing month. In the absence of such attend
ants it shall be the duty of the parent to
make such report within thirty after the
SEC. II, Superintendents of cemeteries
| within the boundaries of the city .of Los An
| Ger on each Monday, of all permits for inter-
ment received by them during the preceding
week.
SEC. Is. No superintendent of q cemetery
| shall remove or cause to be removed, disinter
| or cause to be disinterred, any corpse that
| shall have been deposited in said cemetery,
without permit from the Health Officer or
| by order of the Coroner.
SEC. 49, Any person who shall violate, neg
| lect or refuse to comply with any of the pro-
visions of this resolution, shall be deemed
| guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
| thereof shall be punished by q fine of not
more than two hundred dollars, or by imprs-
| onment in the County Jail not exceeding
| ninety days, OF by both such fine and impris-
onment.
| SEC. 20. All resolutions or ordinances, or
parts of resolutions or ordinances, in conflict
| with this resolution or any of its provisions,
| are hereby repealed.
SEC. q. The Clerk of the Common Council
| shall certify to the adoption of this Resolu-
ton and cause the same to be published one
| time each in English and Spanish in the Los
| AngelessDAILY HERALD and La CFonica res
| pectively, and thereupon and thereafter this
resolution shall take effect and be in force.
| hereby certify that the foregoing resolu-
| ton was adopted by the Common Council at
| its session of August 6, 1874.
| NJ. KREMER, City Clerk.