The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-03

sons violating said regulations or committing an.
fore any TT hsvn s Tor trial and
arrest and hold for trial all persons dsobeying %
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| tine site, place or station.
SECTION 10. In any boat, vessel, car, Oh
| ton, place OF boundary, without permit afore
said shall fail TO stop at the same, when so,
he in q sad
any under his command shall fail refuse
missioner OF Health, physician or person in charge
of any quarantine station or place, OF any provis
ion or requirement. of this ordinance, the said Com
missioner shall have the power, and it is hereby
made his duty, If in his opinion the health of the
city requires it, TO send sufficient police force tc
such boat, vessel, car or public conveyance, and
cause the same, with the crew and passengers on
board, to be landed stopped, or conveyed to the
quarantine station or place, and there to remain
until properly discharged by the permit aforesaid
and the owner, master, or the person in charge OF
shah be liable 10 the city for ali expenses and costs
incurred by reason thereof II any emigrant, tray
eler person, placed in quarantine aforesaid,
shall leave the same without permission, as afore-
| said, he may be arrested and taken back to said
sion shall be given.
SECTION 20. The said Commissioner shall make
snch rules and regulations for the government OF
| to time, he shall deem necessary; and the physi-
clans or health officers in charge of any quarantine
station or place shall have power to make and en-
force such regulations may be necessary for the
proper conducting and management thereof; and il
all agents, oicers, policemen, or others employed
bythe city IN and about said quarantine stations OF
places, to carry out and obey the same.
SECTION 21. The said Commissioner, by and
with the approval of the city council may appoint
one or more competent physicians quarantine
physicians, who shall be present at such quarantine
stations the Commissioner of Health shall de-
signafe, and attend 10 all the duties imposed by
| this ordinance or by the regulations of said Com
missioner; also the said Commissioner may employ
such agents, servants, nurses temporary medi-
cal assistants for the purpose of carrying into eff
objects q or al
any regulation, as In his Judgment shall from time
thereof by physicians health officers In charge
OF any quarantine place or station
SECTION a. All the salaries, wages and ex-
eept the salary Of the Commissioner Of
Health, are to be audited by said
of the Health fund OF the city; Provided that when
practicable, the persons taken in such quarantine
$500 b afa re anu na Sa[s N
expenses, labor and care Incurred in his behalf,
and accounted for by the physician, health officer,
or other person in charge of said quarantine sta
tion to the said Commissioner.
SECTION %. No person, master, captain con-
dnctor in charge of any boat, vessel railroad car
public conveyance, shall knowingly bring into this
smallpox, yellow fever, or contagious or commu,
Hicable disease whatsoever; and vessel boat,
ed by said proclamation. shall pass bv any onaran
tine station or place without stopping nor shall
no person stopping in said quarantine, or So as
aforesaid, received therein, shall leave the same
without first obtaining permission as aforesaid; nor
shall person aid or abet any master, conductor
or person in charge Of any boat, vessel, railroad
car or public conveyance, in violating, neglecting
or eyading any provision or requirement of this
ordinance; nor shall any person interfere with,
sist, neglect refuse to obey the orders of any
Physician, health officer, policeman other person
in authority at any quarantine, station place of
quarantine, So as aforesaid established do any
of the provisions, clauses sections of this
dinance; shall commit any breach of the peace,
terfere with the provisions or requirements of this
ordinance. or of any regulation of the said Commits
sioner, physician or officer in charge of any quar-
antine.
SECTION ID. Any master of vessel, conductor,
captain or person who shall violate any clause,
provision requirement. duty or regulation of this
ordinance, or of any rule or regulation of the said
commissioner, physician or health officer In charge
comply with any such Clause. provision. Teoure9
ment, duty orders, who shall interfere with
in any manner resist any officer or agent of the city
in the discharge of his duty, as herein contem-
plated, or who shall commit any breach of the
defeat interrupt the carrying into effect any part
OF this ordinance any regulation OF the said Com
m.ssionsr shall n Gases wnere mo oSner ta
twenty five dollars nor more than two hundred dol
lars.
SEXTON 25 1t shall be the duty If the Commits
sioner of Health TO make circuit of observation
in every week. every part of the city and its
environs which, from its location from any col
lateral circumstances, may be deemed the cause of
disease; and in all cases, where he may discover
the existence of any agent, the presence OF which
will prove dangerous to the city, and there Is no or
dnance competent to the correction of the evil, he
shall Immediately report the same to the City Coun-
Gil accompanied with his opinion of the necessity
OF extraordinary or particular action.
SECTION 26. The Commissioner of Health, by
and with the approval of the City Council, may Sc
lect, purchase, lease and establish such sites,
places and boundaries for quarantine stations and
purposes, and for the care of persons laboring or
small pox, cholera, any infectious pestilentiaI
disease, and, with the approvalof said council may
erect, from time to time, such buildings and hos
pitfalls upon such sites and places, and so keep
the same in repair, as in his Judgment shall be
deemed necessary.
SECTION ~. 1t shall be the duty of the Commits
of Health provide the necessary books for
keeping record of all his transactions including the
other statistical information may be necessary
and he shall also keep on hand all necessary blanks
TO be used by physicians and midwfves and furnish
them with the same on application.
SECTION %. Said Commissioner of Health shall
always have on hand as far as practicable sufficient
quantity OF vaccine virus; and he shall vaccinate
and Fe-vaccinate, without charge all persons who
may apply to him for that purpose, and are unable
to pay for the same; and shall give certificates of
vaccination TO children who have been yaccinated,
and require certificates from physicians for admis-
sion to the public schools.
SECTION 20. The said Commissioner of Health
shall have the control of all the expenditures,
connf.of the collection and removal OF ashes oLsi
for the purposes aforesaid, shall not exceed the
amount previously appropriated therefor by the city
council.
SECTION 80 Said Commissioner of Health shall
annually, or before the first day of December,
send to the city clerk, q full and comprehensive
statement of all matters pertaining to his office during
the year. and of all expenditures from appropria-
tons for the health department, together with an
estimate in detail of the appropriations required
by the department during the next municipal year.
SECTION 81. The said Commissioner of Health is
hereby given full power and authority the same as
any police officer of said city to arrest any person
who may have violated any ordinance OF the
city of Rock Island.
SECTION a. The said Commissioner of Health
shall fx upon time and place, not less than one
hour in zach day. except Sundays and legal holidays,
when he be found at his office for the purpose
Of hearing complaints and discharging any ana all
duties that his office may impose upon him.
SECTION 49, As full compensation for the dis
charge of the duties of his office, the or
may be defined by law or by any ordinance OF the
city Of Rock Island, hereafter in force, the
said Commissioner OF Health shall receive the sum
OF fifty dollars $50 per month.
SECTION a. 1t shall be unlawful for any person
persons within the corporate limits of said city,
TO deposit such body bodies in any vault with
in the limits of said city.
SECTION s. No dead body of any person shall
be taken from said city for fnterment by any under
taker other person, until permit there
for from the Commissioner of Health shall have been
granted, shall any sexton other person hay
ing the charge of any cemetery place for the bur
iai of the dead within mile of the limits of said
city receive any such body for burial unless such
permit shall have been granted
GENERAL SANITARY REGULATION.
l. That no owner. lessee keeper of any ten
smeuf- house, lodging-house, boarding house or
manufactory shall allow the same TO be