The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-05-22
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GREESyILLE.
PUBLIC HEALTH.


Sec. l. Be it ordained, That Health Officer
and Sanitary Inspector shall be elected by SAID City
Council who shall hold Office at the pleasure of the
Council 1t shall be the duty of SAID officers to attend
to the general sanitary condition of said city, to in
spect the premises, houses snks stables sc. there
in, and to require persons to cleanse, dsinfec and
put same in such condition such health officer may
deem proper and necessary for the health and safety
of the community. Said health officer shall attend
to sick persons in the city who may be unable to pay
for the services of physician 1t shall further be his
duty, in time of epidemcs to inspect persons freight
and steamboats, landing within said city, and to COM
pei such persons, freight steamboats, to undergo
such quarantine as he may deem proper And there
shall be Board of Health to consist of five
members to be elected by the City Council, two
of whom shall be practcing physicians, the Health
Officer and Mayor of said city to be oflice mem.
bers, and the Health Officer the President thereof
Said Board shall have power aud authority to estab
ish such rules and regulations as they may deem
necessary to preserve the pUblc health and the po
lice force of said city shall, under the direction Of
the Marshal enforce all orders and regulations oil
said Board; and any person violating any order OF
regulation of said Board or who shall fail to comply
with any order of said Health Officer, Sanitary Iu.
spector or Board of HEALTH shall upon conviction
thereof be punished as provided in the following
section.
Section 2. Be it ordained by the City Council
of Greenvle, That it shall be deemed misdemeanoI
to do or cause to be done any of the following acts
and any person convicted thereof before the Mayor
of Greenvie shall be fined not less than twenty five
nor more than five hundred dollars; to be impris
oned in the county Jail for nor more than three
months, or by both such fue and Imprisonment:
LIST. For the captain, master or owner of any
steamboat or water craft or any railroad company
or corporation or its agents. having on board of same
any case or cases of yellow fever, cholera or small
pox, or having had within two weeks of the time o
landing any cases Of said diseases, to land OF
touch within five miles of said city.
I'd. For the captain, master, or owner of any
steamboat or other water craft, or any railroad com
pauy corporation or its agents, to discharge, OF
for the superintendent agent owner of any wharf
boat or railroad company to receive, within five
miles of said city, any WOODEN goods, old beds OF
bedding old clothes, baggng, cotton-seed sacks, OF
any infected goods, wares or merchandise the same
being shipped or taken on board at any town place
city or port, having within or about the same an!
case cases of yellow fever, cholera, or small pox
5d. For any person or persons TO enter or g
upon any wharf boat while or during the time an.
steamboat or other water craft shall be moored at
near in front of said wharfboat or any person o
persons to enter or go upon any steamboat or waite
craft moored or landing within the corporate limit
of said city, during the existence of quarantine.
4th. For the captain, master or owner of an.
steamboat or other water craft, or any railroad CON
pany or corporation Its agents. to put off, land,
bring within the corporate limits of said city, any sic
or manned person, or any vagrant, or any pauper, o
other person liable to become charge upon sal
city,