Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-11
CITY ADVERTISEMENT.
a ESOLUTlON.
A Resolutions 20 Establish Certain San.
itary Laws for the city OF Los An-
geies, and for other Purposes.

u
ID Council Oi the City of Los Angeles as
IOilows:
SECTION l. Every person living within the
limits OF the city of Los Angeles, VINO has
not been vacclnuted or has nUt had SMALLPOX
or variOlUld Is hereby required to bV Vaccln-
ated forthwith, and IL Sh iii be the DUTY of the
Health Officer to receive and vaccinnte ut his
office, free Of charge, all persons vino may
apply.
Section willuily neg lecting to be vaccinated
shall be arrested by any police officer, and II
unable to procure the services OF some tother
physician, shall be brought before the heath
Onicer anu be vaccInated by him.
SEC. 2. The Health officer VINO shall be q
graduate of some medical college, IN good
Standing, and reside within the city limits; !;
shall keep an office in some Convenient lUca-
ton, and shall Keep the same open for Eratui-
tuus vaccination du. Ing certain hours of each
day, OF which ne hall give public notice by
advertisement from TIME TO time In two daily
newspapers, the one English, the o. her Span
Isn. he shall give his personal attention and
services to the work of gratul. Gus vaccination
selecting and preserving the vaccine VII US
with his utmost careand skill. and shall SO
perform Ills duties az TO promote the phYsl-
Il well-beins of all who shall apply ut his of
IL ;r.
SEC. 8. Every police officer shall be and Is
hereby constituted an EX-oi1ico Health In
,pector, and II sh Ill be his du.y ut all times
| to make a IepOrL To the Health Officer, when
he shall observe that amy building, street,
all y, court, lot or premises in sud city il in
a condition offensive 10 the publlc health,
and 1t shall be the duty o. the Health Officer
| to report to the City Malsh any neglect OH
| the part of any, policeman TO discharge TINS
SEC T. It shall be the duty OF each physi-
clan in this city TO report TO the Health OFFICER
IN writing, every patient heshall have within
| the lnlts of The city affected with AsIatic
Choler smallpox or otLer contag GUS dis
| ease, Immediately after he shall become sat
lsfed of he nature of such disease, aud shall
,epurt to SAID Health Officer every death
| from such diseases Immediately after the oc-
| currence of such death.
SEC. 5. 1t shall be the duty OF every house
! holder in this city or other person not em-
| ploying physician, to report in writing TO
he 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. g. No person shall drive or use any
| vehicle, or permit any vehicle belonging %
| him or her or under his or her control
20 be driven or used for the conveyance or re-
moVal Of any person infected with cholera,
smallpox or o h-r contagious disease, or the
boly of any person who may have died OF
any such disease, wi. hout the written consent
| the Health Officer.
SEC. 7, No person attending upon or OF t.aer-
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 eoinmu-
nicate the disease, shall during the continu-
| ance of the disc Sc go pom any public street
| wearing any infected clothing, or whist thus
attired mingle with Others not affected with
SEC. s. Whenever ease OF smallpox is re-
ported 10 the Health Officer, IL shall he his
uuty on proving the existence OF the disease
to Immediately cause 10 be erected yellow
or quarantine flag in c0nsplcous place on
said premises, or to have posted upon the
door way of houses infected with the small
pJx, placard setting forth the fact, the same
To remain during the continuance of the dis
eHse ON SAID premises.
SEC. y. No person shall remove q small
pox patient from any house pace within
the limits OF the city TO any other house or
place in said limits, except to the smallpox
hospital without q permit from the Health
Officer.
sic. 10. No person shall without n permit
from the Health officer carry or 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 III ,ease in their house or ON or about
their premises, shall Immediately after their
convalesence or removal, OF the persons af
lecird Herewith, dlsinftct, cleanse and purity
their said houses and premises and rid them
of every danger of propagating or conmuni-
eating the said disease to others.
SEC Ii. Every owner, lessee, tenant or oc-
cupant of any stable, stall or other apart
ment in which any animal shall be kept or o
any place in which any manure or liquid
discharge OF such animal, snail c,llect or ac-
culnu ate shal cause such liquid or manure
to be removed to some prop + place, and shall
at all times keep or cause to be kept, such
stable, stall, or other apartment, and the
drainage, yards and appurtenanccs thereof in
clean and wholesome Condition.
SEC. IL. NO person shall sell, or offer or
have for sale In this city, any unwho esOrnt, +,
watered or arul teIated milk, or milk from
cows or other animals which of the time ale
being feI on unwholesome food ,swii garbage
Or othef like substances, nor any butter or
cheese maze from such milk.
SEC. IL. 1t shall be the duty of the Eealth
Officer to keep a record of all births, deaths
and interments occurring in the city of Los
AngeIes, IN books duty prepared for that pur-
pose. sand records when iilled shall b. de-
posted IN the Oft! c of the Clerk Of the Com
produced v4H
for public inspection
SEC ~. Every sexton, undertaken, super
fntendent OF C, netery, or other person who
shall inter or cause To be inferred any human
body, without having first obtained and flet.
with the Health Officer u physicians certIfl-
cate or the Coroner's certificate, setting for h
as nearly as possible the name, age, color, sex,
and date and place of birth, date and locality
of death. and cause of death of the deceased,
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor ANA
on conviction shall be punished as provided
In. section nineteen of this resolution.
SEC. l5 l. Snail be the duty OF the physl-
clans when deaths occur in their practice, to
give certificate to that effect, with the name
age, color, nativity. date of death, place of
death and occupation of deceased, For thi.
purpose bank certificates shall be kept at the
Health office.
SEC. I6. Physicians and nidwives shall on
or before the fourth day Of each month make
q return to the Health officer, Of all births,
deaths, and the number of S ill-born children
occurring In their practice during the preced-
ants it shall be the duty of the parent To
make such report within thirty after the
birth of said child.
SEC. II. Superlntendents OF cemeteries
within the boundaries of the city of Los An
geles, shall make returns To the Health Off
Ger on each Monday, of all permits for inter-
ment received by them during the preceding
week.
SIC. Is. No superintendent of n cemetery
shall remove or Gauge 10 be removed, dlsinter
or cause TO be dsinterred, any corpse that
shall have been depost ed in said cemetery.
without q permit from the Health Officer or
by order of the Coroner.
SEC. 10. Any person who shall violate, neg
lect or refuse to comply with any of the pro-
visions of th.s resolution, shall be deemed
guilty OF a inIsdemeanur, and on convection
thereof shall be punished by fine OF not
more than Two hundred dUllais, or by impris-
onment In the County Jail not exceeding
ninety days, o. by both such fine and impris-
onnent.
SEC. 20. an resolutions or ordinances, or
parts of resolutions or ordinances, in conflict
with this resolution or any OF its provisions,
are hereby rep aled.
SEC. q. The Clerk OF the Common Council
shall certify to the adoption of this Resulu-
tlon and cause the same to be publis shed one
lime each in English and Spanish IN the Los
Angeles. DAILY HERALD and La Cronica res
pectively, anu thr reupUn and thereafter this
resolution shall tnke effect and be in force.
hereby certify that the foregoing resOlu
tlon was adopted by the Common Council at
its session Ot August Q, 1874
NJ. KkEMER, City Clerk.