The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01


to diseases affecting animals and the methods of
prevention; they shall appoint president, who
shall call meetings as often as once In three
members of the board; they shall, in the month
of December in each year, make report to the
governor of their investigations and opinions Tor
the year, with such suggestions as they may deem
necessary.
8. And be it enacted, That the said board shall
elect secretary to serve for term OF I'VE years.
who shall be physician of at least five years
practice in this state and who shall also be medi-
cal superintendent of vital statistics; the said
secretary shall superintend the performance OF
the duties prescribed by law in. relation TO the
state board of health and the registry and returns
of marriages. births and deaths, as the said board
may require; the compensation OF the SAID secre-
tary shall be the sum of twenty-five hundred dol
lars per annum which sum the treasurer of this
state is hereby authorized to pay from any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon
warrant drawn by the said board signed by the
president and attested by its secretary.
4. And be it enacted That TO secure such tabu-
lar classification and deduction from the registry
of marriages, births and deaths, as bear upon
and epidenics. as will be useful to the SAID
board of health and the superintendent Of vital
statistics there SHALL in connection with the index
now prepared. be made full transcription OF
such vital facts as may be required for this pur.
pose. under the direction of the said board OF
health and the said board of health shall NIX and
determine the amounts necessary TO be paid Tor
such index and transcription, but the amount so
fixed shall not exceed the sum of four cents for
each certificate filed and 1ndexed
s. And be it enacted, That the expense of tabu-
lating classifying and indexing the record of
vital facts and statistics, heretofore paid by
moneys drawn from 2le treasurer of this state on
board of health, be paid after the close of the
present fiscal year by the said board of health
from the appropriation made for the said board
annually, as herein provided.
6. And be it enacted, That the annual appyo-
priation of the state board of health for the pur
pose of making sanitary investigations and
inquiries in respect to the people, the causes
of disease, epidernics, and the source of sickness
and mortality, the effect of locality, employ
ments, conditions and circumstances on the pub
lie health and for the purpose Of making inquiry
and investigation into the sanitary condition of
any state, county, city or township aimshouse,
asylum prison, penitentiary, Jail or reform school,
shall be the sum of six thousand dollars, in addi-
ton to such appropriations as are authorized by
law to be made for the purpose OF preventing
contagious and infectious diseases among animals
and the adulteration of foods and drugs al
moneys appropriated for the use of said board
shall be paid by the treasurer of the st4e on the
order of the comptroller upon requisition made
by the board, signed by the president and secre-
tary thereof and approved by the governor
z. And be it enacted, That where, in any town
ship in this state, local board of health has
been or may be organized, and no office of town
ship physician exists, the state board of health
may name some graduated physician of such
township, Tor, if there be none residing in the
township. of an adjacent township) who shall be
appointed q member of the township board of
health and shall serve as such until such office is
created in such township and an appointment
made thereto by the township authorities; when
the appOintee is named by the state board of
health rs herein provided, the officer so appoint
ed shall hold his office for term of three years
and until his successor is in like manner appoint
ed, until the township authorities shall create
and fill the said Office of township physician.
&. And be it enacted, That where, in any town.
ship. sufficient sanitary inspection is not secured,
the State board Of health may, on notice to Che
local board, require the appointment by the local
board of a health inspector for such township,
who shall be paid by the local board of the town.
ship, sum not less than fifty dollars year for
his services as inspector
8. And be it enacted, That the state board Of
health shall have a right to cause sanitary in
spection to be made of all chattels and persons in
transportation through the state and on the cars,
boats and other vehicles in which such chattles
or persons may be transported, and the said board
shall have the same right of inspection procedure
and control in this respect is may be conferred
by law upon the local board of health or local
authorities in any county, township or city, or
other local municipal government in this state
and when in the Judgment of the said board 1t
may be necessary, the said board may require or
cause an examination of vessels, cars, boats or
other vehicles, and of all baggage and persons to
be made, and may enforce such detention or dis
infection as they may deem necessary for the
public safety.
10. And be it enacted, That the said board may
appoint inspectors and assign them to such duties
as the interests of the public health in any part
of the state may require. and to aid in the execu-
ton of the laws relating thereto and they may
REQUIRE the slQ 1QSpel1orz investigate the local
epfdemics, nuisances, needs for drainage, neglect
of sanitary law and as 20 the condition of school
houses, tenements manufactures and workshops
of public buildings belonging to the state or to
any county or city therein, and as to those en-
ployed therein; and the state board, its agents
and appointees, shall have the same right of in
spection in this respect as has been or may be
conferred upon local boards of health the in
spectors appointed by the state board of health
shall be paid by the board out of the moneys ap-
propriated therefor such SUM as may be fixed and
IL. And be it enacted, That every local board
of health of any township, county, city, borough
town or other municipality shall, on or before the
first day of October in each year, in addition to
other reports required, prepare an annual report
of the condition of the public health in their sew
eral districts, stating therein any special for
deterioration of health or Of hazard thereto and
shall therein answer any inquiries which may
have been addressed to them by the state board
of health, and such boards shall forward copy
of such reports to the state board of health on or
before the fifteenth day OF October in each year
u. And be it enacted That every physician in
this state making official reports to the state board
OF health through the bureau of vital statistics
shall be entitled to receive by mail from the
treasurer of the state, copy of the annual report
of the stat, board Of health and of the bureau of
vital statistics.
1S. And be it enacted, That in case any emery
ency of epidemic or Of peril 10 the public health
shall in the Judgment of the state board Of health
require the expenditure of a larger amount of
money than is herein appropriated the facts that
warrant such expenditure, in the Judgment of the
board, shall be presented by it to the governor
comptroller and treasurer Of the state, and IT, in
their Judgment additional expenditure is needed
to enable the state board of health to meet such
emergency, they are hereby authorized to add to
the appropriation made by virtue of the authority
hereby given, such sum as in their judgment may
be necessary therefor
IA. And be it enacted, That the state board of
health heretofore appointed and now acting shall
be deemed and taken to be board appointed
under this act rs fully in all respects as if the same
had been appointed after the passage of this act;
the members of such board shall respectively hold
then oinces for the terms for which they have
heretofore been appointed
LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH.
Is. And be it enacted, That every city, borough,
town, or other local municipal government il,
this state shall have board of health consisting
Of not less than five. nor more than seven mem
beers, who shall be appointed and constituted in
such manner and hold .heir, offices for such term
not exceeding four years, as the board Of alder,
men, common council or other governing body
may by ordinance provide; provided however
that in cities containing population of over one
hundred thousand inhabitants. such boards NAV