The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-09-10
AN ORDINANCE
To Promote the Health Of the city, 20
Create and Establish q Board of
Health, and to Define the
Powers and Duties of

Powers and Duties OF
tho same.
Section /. BE II ordained by the City Council
of the city OF San Antonio, that there be, and
is hereby, created and established, In and for
the city, a department to be known US The
tn-ssit l,bc Navor ami Citv phvsisja,, 10 Ia,
ex-offcio members OF the said Board, and three
citizens, who shall be physicians in good stand
college, to be appointed by the Mayor and con-
hrmed by the Council. They shall elect one of
their own members to- preside at their meet
Jugs who shall be styled the President Of the
Board OF Health"
section 2. The appointed members of the
Board shall hold Office for one wear or until
their SUCCESSORS have been appointed and quail
flied, unless removed by the city Council for
cause provided, that the members first APP
pointed under this ordinance shall hold Office
until March l, 1885, and all vacancies shall be
filled for the uneN prcd term only. They shall
qualify by taking the constitutional oath of
ohce. Any failing TO qualify within 10 days
after the appointment shall be deemed have
declined the office, and new appointment
shall be made. Three members will constitute
n quorum for transaction of business, pro-
vided all members ART notified OF the meeting.
section ., The Board shall he provided by
the Council with n suitable Office which shall
be known rs the health oncc, In which they
shall hold their meetings at least once month.
or as often us the public health may require,
or when called together by the President or
any four ~ members Of the Board. The meet
ings shall be public, and their records open
section 4 The Board Of Health are subject
to general ordinances of the Council. They
shall have general supervision of all matters
appertaning to the sanitary condition of the
city, including the city hospital jail, aims
house, schools and all health Institutions, and
shHll see that all the sanitary ordinances of the
city are strictly enforced.
Section .. The Board shall on or before the
first day of March of each year make an annual
report OF the affairs of the health department
10 the Council. and shall include therein the
report of the City Physician, and all other
matters under their charge, at the same time
furnish u detailed statement OF the amount
of money that will be required for the depart
ment during the ensuing fiscal year; and the
Council may provide for the raising of such
amount, or so much thereof rs In their judy
ment may be necessary. This money shall
constitute the health fund. All expenditures
shall he subject to approval 10y the Council In
the same manner rs all other branches OF the
city government.
Section q. The assistant clerk of the city
shall perform the duties of the Secretary of the
Board, and shall keep all It's records, books ANA
papers, and perform such other duties rs may
be prescribed by said Board
Section 7. Whenever notice shall have been
given to the Board that any public building Is
unfit for habltatlon by reason of being infected
with disease liable TO be contagious, they may
shall issue an order TO be served upon the
owner, agent or lessee, requiring all persons
% vacate, and within "A hours, or sooner, the
building must be vacated.
section 8. Every physician In the city shall
report to this Board, In writing, Immediately
after his first professional visit, every patient
he shalt have laboring under the following
diseases: Typhoid, typhus, yellow fever,
Asatic cholera, smallpox or other contagious
or infectious diseases, and every death from
such disease Immediately after II shall have
occurred.
Sections. Every householder shall also report,
in person or III writing, TO this Board the names
of all the inmates of his or her house whom
he shall have reason TO believe sick OF typhoid,
typhus yellow FEVER, cholera smallpox Orany
other contagious disease he might consider
dangerous TO the public health. The Supern-
tendent of Public Schools shall In like manner
be notified oil locations oil contagious diseases,
ana should ne nnd any attendant IN the schools
who reside In said houses he Will refuse them
admittance TO the public schools. only readmit-
ting them again upon presenting certificate
from the Health Board that there was no lon-
ger danger from contagion.
Section ~. NO person shall use, or hire or
permit any others 10 use without consent OF
cue bOaru Oh Iieaitn, any pubic Vehlcle whlch
mas been driven or ueed Tor the conveyance or
removal OF any person alficted or dead with
smallpox. 49,
Section ii. When case of smallpox Asiatic
choleia or yeliow leyer Is reported TO the
Board OF heauIn' the Clty PHYSICIAN snail lmme-
ulhieiy Nisit tnc premises where tne person IL,
ann, upon personhl inspection, shhll cause a
yellow nag 70 De erected III conspicuous
P,aSe UPON i,V nS .e same TO remain
section Y. NO person shall remove smallpox
patient Wltnout CONSENT Ol Tue Clty PHYSICIAN
He may with the approval of the Board, cause
removal 10 tne snall-pOA hospital, or such
otner place Us tne i1,hru may designate
sectlon 10. ing Cnlei OF Ponce may, upon
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tOur oil the regular ponce force TO act as health
and sanitary inspectors, one for each ward. II
shhli De thelr uuty 70 report all Nioiatlons Of
Guy orulnhnces uelrlnenthl 10 puDllc bealth,
an gutters OF sewers thht may not De IN good
OrueIi OF nay t Aiso an DRIVES,
Summing wafer OF stdgnant pools 10 cause the
removal OF All dead animals, garbage aud filth,
W tSPOrt any lochllty tnat may De injected
WIN 10" leYers OF any klnd OF epldemlc, re-
port an persons VINO are using the streets us
sewers vlnptying STOPS anu rvIuse therein, anu
70 sec tnht lhey are Drought before the he-
coruer, anu IhauS 10 nnuersiahu, through pen
altes lnpVseu, tnhi they 9ahhot persist IN sueh
hcls. II thls bohiu nnu tue Guy ordinances 40
not IvhV u aii such caseh, thvS WIN ASK tht
Soupci w, 10 mike ruies lhaI VIII nave tue uc'
sit u 9icI " MI, -, -, -,
Seot i a., inc board snail cause TO be kept
in tnelI o,nVe ISooru Oh ~ Dlrths' deaths anu
nlteIIhenls il sdl9 Guy, Whlch shnil Ds open Tor
inc Inspection OF any person during oihce
houTs. hnysielahs ialllhg 10 make said report
sliall De llieu py orulnahce.
SSot,oH ~, ~ 10 PeIaon snull inter any human
pOdS ~ Lhls uit{ Wi,hout having hrst obtained
anu hi 80 a. .ne ilealth Once cerlncat.
signed ny physician or coroner, setting fortl
as near US possible name, age sex, color, place
OF Dlfth, Occupation, uhtc, locality ana cause 81