The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-09-12
AN ORDINANCE


EoMeFs anu Duties OF
the same.
Section l. BE Il ordained By the City Council
of the city OF San Antonio, that there be- and
Is hereby, created and established, IN aud for
the city, department TO be known rs The
Board OF Health" to consist OF 1--WE mcmhers,
to-wit The Mayor and city Physician to be
eN-oftclo members Of the said board and three
citizens, who shall be ply clans in good stand.
college, TO be appointed by the Mayo and con-
nrmed 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 year. or until
their suocessors have been annninied ana mai
flied, unless removed by the City Council for
cause; provided, that the members first APP
pointed under this ordinance shall hold Office
until March |, 1885, and all vacancies shall be
hled for the unexpired term only. They shall
qualify by taking the constitutional oath OF
after the appointment shall be deemed o have
declined the office, and new appointment
shall be made. Three members will constitute
quorum for transaction OF business pro-
vided all members are notified OF the meeting.
Section ., The Board shall be provided by
the Council with ilsuitable Office, which shall
be known us the "health Office" In which they
shall hold their meetings at least once month,
or rs often as the pubic health may require,
or when called together by the President or
any four az members of the Board. The meet
ings shall be public, and their records open
TO all.
IHt bOuIu VI lttaltn arc kuDlttI
10 general ordinances of the Council. They
shat have general supervision of ali matters
appertaininR 10 the sanitary condition of the
city, including the city hospital, Jail, aims
house, schools and all health Institutions and
shall 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
TO the Council, and shall include therein the
report of the city Physician, and all other
matters under their charge, at the same time
furnish a 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 Tor the raising OF such
amount, or 50 much thereof Ms In their judy
ment may be necessary. This money shall
constitute the health fund. All expenditures
shall be subject TO approval by the Council Ia
the same manner Us all other branches OF the
city government.
Section D. The assistant clerk of the city
shall perform the duties of the Secretary of the
Board, and shall keep all It's records, books and
papers, and perform such other duties rs may
be prescribed by said Board.
Section I. Whenever notice shall have been
given 10 the Board that any public building Is
unit for habitation by reason OF being infected
with disease liable to be contagious, they may
communicate such fact to the Mayor, who
shall issue AN order to be served upon the
owner, agent or lessee, requiring ali persons
to vacate and within - hotirs, 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,
AsiatiC cholera, smallpox or other contagious
or infectious diseases, ana every death from
such disease Immediately after II shall have
occurred.
seotionO. Every householder shall also report.
In person or In 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,
yphus, yellow fever cholera, smallpox or any
other contagious disease he might consider
dangerous to the public health. The Superin-
tenuent of Public Schools shall In like manner
be notified of locations of contagious diseases,
and should he Nod any attendant In the schools
who reside In said houses, he Will refuse them
admttance 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 10. No person shall use, or hire or
permit any Others to use without consent OF
the Board of Health, any public vehicle which
has been driven or uged Tor the conveyance or
removal OF any person afflicted or dead with
smallpox.
Section IL. When a case of smallpox, Asiatic
cholera or yellow fever Is reported to the
Board of Health, the City Physician shall imme-
diately visit the premises where the person is,
and, upon personal inspection, shall cause u
yellow flag TO be erected in conspicuous
place upon the premises, the same to remain
during continuance OF disease.
Section IL. No person shall remove smallpox
patient without consent of the City Physician.
lie may, with the approval of the Board, cause
removal TO the smallpox hospital, or such
other place as the Board may designate.
GttIlOn 10. Inc NnltI OF POlIHe may. upOn
application of this Board, detail not TO exceed
four of the regular police force 10 act as health
and sanitary inspectors, one for each ward. IL
shall be their duty 10 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 privies
standing water or stagnant pools 10 cause the
removal OF all dead animals, garbage and filth
to report any locality that may be infected
with low feYers or any kind OF epidemic, re-
port all persons who are using the streets as
sewers, eInDtNlDU HlODs and refuse ilprnin. md
to see that they are brought before the Re
corder, and made to understand, through PEN
alties imposed, that they cannot persist In such
acts. IL this Board lind the city ordinances do
not reach all such cases, they will ask the
Council to make rules that will have the de-
Section II. The board shall cause to be kept
In their Office a record of ali births, deaths and
interments in said city, which shall be open for
the inspection OF auy person during Office
hours. Physicians failing 10 make said report
shall be iined by ordinance.
Section 10. No person shall inter any human
body in this city without having first obtained
and filed at the Health Office a certificate
signed by physician or coroner, setting forth
US near us possible name, age, sex, color, place
OF birth, occupation, date, locality and cause of
DEATH and obtain thereupon burial permit.
Nor shall anybody be dlainterred without a
permit from this office. The Board Of Health
shall see that no dead body be allowed IN any
receiving vault for a longer period than 80
hours; at the expiration OF said time 1t must be
buried. They shall also see to Il that all bodies
a grave not less than six feet deep, or II under
that age the grave be not less than iive 90 feet
deep.
§ion ID. City Sections aud superintendent
OF Cemeteries must, once week, leach Mon
day make returns 10 the Office OF the Board OF
Health names OF all persons deposited in their
respective cemeteries during the preceding
week.
Section II. railroad or any other company
transporting dead body without a permit
from the CITY, or bringing one into the city
who may have died of contagion, is guilty OF
a serious misdemeauor, and shall be prOsecu
ted, unless the said body died while In transit
to this city, when immediate notice must be
given TO the Board of Health, otherwise the
penalty wild be incurred.
Section Is. In case of u serious epidemic, the
Board may meet and adjourn from day q
day, the number increased by an Alderman
from each ward, and for actual service rem
dered during said period, the City Council viii
award additional pay in proportion u amount
| of services performed.
Section H.. The Board shall cause to b,
erected and shall have entire charge of a suit
able vault or morgue, for reception OF al
| bodies whom IL may be necessary to hold
post mortem examination upon, US to caus'
of death.