The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-08-08

Section ~. No person shall remove small
pox patient without consent Of City Physician.
lie may with the approval OF the Board,
cause removal to The smallpox hospital.
Section 49, The Chief Of Police may, upon
application Of this Board detail not to exceed
four Of the regular police force to act as health
and market inspectors, one for each ward. 1t
shall be their duly to report all violations Of
city ordinances detrimental to public health,
all cutters or sewers that may not be in good
order, or have become foul. Also all priyies,
standing water or staguant pools, to cause the
removal Of oil dead animals, garbage and
filth, to report any locality that may be in
| fected with low fevers or any kind Of epidemic,
report all persons who are using the streets as
sewers, empying slops and refuse therein, and
to see that they are brought before the
Recorder, and made to understand,
through penalties imposed, that they
cannot persist in such acts. II this board
find the city ordinances do not reach all such
cases, they will ask the Council to make rules
tina, will have the desired effect.
Section "a. The board shall cause to be
/ kept in their office a record Of all births,
deaths and interments in said city, which
shall be open for the inspection Of any person
during office hours. Physicians failing TO
make said report shall be fined by ordinance
Section IS. No person shall inter any human
body in this city without having first obtained
and filed at the Health office a certificate
s;orod h, n phve;c;an or cnroner eeitino forth
as near as possible name, age, sex, color,
| place Of birth, occupation, date, locality and
cause Of death, and obtain thereupon a burial
permit. Nor shall anybody be disinerred
without permit from this office The Health
board shall see that no dead body be allowed
in any receiving vault for a longer period than
90 hours, at the expiration Of said time it
must be buried. They shall also see to it that
all bodies Of all persons nine (o) and over be
inferred in grave not less than six (6) feet
deep, or if under that age, the grave to be not
less than FIVE (5) feet deep.
Section 10. City Sections and Superinten-
dents Of cemeteries must once week leach
Monday make returns to the health office,
names Of all persons deposited in their re-
spective cemeteries during the preceding
week.
Section ". The Board of Health shall be
entitled to collect $40, before granting
perm, to disinter or exhume any body for
transportation beyond State limits, the same
to be paid into the City Treasury for the bene-
| fit Of the health fund.
Section IS, A railroad or any other COM
pany Transporting dead body without a per-
nit from the city, or bringing one into the
city who may have died of contagion, is guilty
Of serious misdemeanor, and shall be
prosecuted.
Section Io. In case Of a serious epidemic,
the Board may meet and adjourn from day TO
day, the number increased by an Alderman
/ from each ward, and for actual service rendered
during said period, the City Council will
award additional pay in proportion to amount
oi.services performed.
Section 2o The Board shall cause to be
erected and shall have entire charge of a suit
able vault or morgue, for reception Of all
bodies whom it may be necessary to hold n
coroner's inquest or a post norton examina-
ton upon, as to cause Of DEATH
Section 81. The City Physician in his
routine Of duties shall follow out all directions
of this Board, consult with them when neces-
sary upon all difficult questions, ask their aid
and assistance whenever suffering humanity
may demand it.
Section ~. The Bard of Health are to
make monthly or semi-monthly reports to the
City Council on all matters OF importance
concerning the public health, with such sug-
gestions as may be consistent and proper.
They are entrusted entirely with the enforce
ment Of all ordinances and parts Of ordinances
fines collected from said infraction through
the Recorders court shall revert to the health
fund for the support of this department.
Section %. Salaries shall be as follows !:
City Physician, Secretary of Board, Superin-
tendent Of cemeteries, or City Sexton, 5 !;
each Of the appointed members OF this Board
shall be entitled to a compensation of $40 for
each monthly or semi-monthly sitting of the
Board when a quorum is present with the bus
mess of the city properly attended to.
The matter was then referred to the proper
committee.
Alderman Lockwood submitted resolution
requiring sidewalks, class c, on avenue ID
also on St. Mary's, Ytuni, Navarro and Casino
streets, class A on Acequia street, from Rod
riedez to Romano streets. Adopted. Also OF
Houston street, from Soedad to ST. Mary,
street, on the north side, which was adopted.
1t was also resolved that San Pedro avenue b,
graded and macadamized. A by.discussior
took place as to the San Pedro avenue sewer
age work, in which it was plain that the majo
part OF the Council were not satisfied with the
plans of operation. Colonel Belknap thought
the Council had made big mistake, but tn,