Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-23
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.


At meeting of the Board of Health
during last June, a committee, consisting
Of the President of the Board, the City En-
gineer and the City Attorney, was ap-
pointed for the purpose of revising the
health and sanitary code, ETC., of the city
of st. Paul. AS the result of their labor
the following ordinance of sanitary rules,
ETC., was submitted to the Board at recent
meeting, accepted and referred to the
Common Council for official action.
An ordinance creating a Board of
Health and defining their powers and
duties.
The Common Council of the City of
Saint Paul do ordain as follows:
Sec. 1. That there Is hereby established
a Board of Health as follows: The Presi-
dent of the Council shall at the first meet
ing of the Council in June in each year
appoint four aldermen who together with
the City Engineer and Health Officer as
hereinafter provided shall constitute a
Board of Health.
Sec. 2. On the first meeting of the
Common Council in the month of June of
each alternate year, shall be appointed one
Health Officer, who shall hold his Office for
two years, and until his successor shall be
appointed and qualified. Before entering
upon the duties of his Office he shall take
the usual oath of office and give bond with
security to the satisfaction of the Com
mon Council in the sum of one thousand
dollars for the faithful performance of his
duties, and shall receive such
may determine, not TO exceed one thousand
dollars.
Sec. 8. A majority of the members of
the Board shall constitute a quorum for
business. The Board of Health shall
meet at 5 o'clock p. IN. on the Monday
preceding the first Council meeting of
each month, in the Council chamber at the
City Hall, at which meeting the Health
Officer shall preside.
Sec. 4. Special meetings may be called
by the President of the Board of Health
when he may deem it necessary.
Sec. 5. The City Clerk shall be secre-
tary of the Board of Health.
Sec. 6. The Board of Health shall exer-
else a general supervision over the health
of the city, with full power to take all
steps and use all measures necessary to
promote the cleanliness and salubrity
thereof; to prevent the introduction into
the city of malignant, contagious or in
fictitious diseases, and to remove or other
wise take care of any person attacked by
any such disease, and to adopt in
reference to such persons any
regulations, restrictions or measures deem
ed advisable and to establish rules for
the government of the city pest house and
quarantine hospital.
Sec. z. The Health Officer shall have
and exercise a general supervision over
the sanitary condition of the city.
Sec. s. He shall give the Mayor, the
Common Council and the Board of Health
all such professional advice and informa-
ton as they may require, with a view to
the preservation of the public health, and
whenever he shall hear of the existence of
any malignant, contagious, or pestilen-
tial disease, he shall investigate the same
and adopt measures to arrest its progress.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the further duty of
the Health Officer to enforce all the laws of
the state and ordinances of the city in rela-
ton TO the sanitary regulations Of the city,
and Gauss all nuisanCes to be abated with
all reasonable promptness. And for the pur
pose of carrying out the foregoing re-
quirements he shall be permitted at all
times, from the rising to the setting of the
sun, to entsr into any house, store, stable
or other building, and to cause the floors
to be raised, if he shall deem it necessary.
In order to a thorough examination of eel
lars, vaults, sinks or drains, and to cause
all privieS to be cleansed and kept in good
condition, and to cause all dead animals or
other nauseous or unwholesome things or
substances to be buried or removed or
disposed of as the Health Officer may
direct.
Sec. 10. In order to the carrying out of
the provisions of the foregoing section, it
shall be the duty of the Health Officer to
serve or cause to be served notice, in
writing, upon the owner, occupant or agent
of any lot, OUildiag or promises in or upon
which any nuisance may be found
or who may be the owner or cause of any
such nuisance requiring them to abate the
same in such manner as he shall prescribe
and within the time named in said notice.
provided that It shall nos be necessary in
any case for the Health Officer to specify
In his notice the manner in which any
nuisance shall be abated, unless he shall
deem it advisable so to do; and such notice
may be given or served by any officer or
person who may be directed or deputed to
give or make the same; and if such owner
occupant or agent shall neglect or refuse
to comply with the requirements of such
order within the time specified, they shall
be subject 10 the penalty hereinafter de-
scrihed, and 1t shall be the duty OF said
officer to proceed at once, upon the Ok
pirati0n of the time specified in said
notice, to cause sucn nuisance to be abat-
ed; and provided, further, that whenever
the owner, occupant or agent of premises,
in or upon whieh any nuisance may be
found, is unknown or cannot be found, the
said Health Officer shall proceed to abates
the same without notice; and in either
case the expense of such abatement shall
be collected from the person or persons
who may have created, continued and suf-
fered such nuisance to exist.
Sec. IL. The Health Officer shall have
the power to appoint with the consent of
she Board OF dsalth and approval of Com
mon Council such assistance as may be
necessary to enforce the sanitary laws and
ordinances of the City of st. Paul. Said
assistants shall be known as Assistant
Health Inspectors.
They shall be commissioned and qualify
as special policemen and shall have the
power to arrest, when necessary, any per-
son violating any of the sanitary laws or
regulations of said city.