The record-union., 1892-04-04
ARTICLE XII.
Health Department.

SEC. 169. There shall be Health Depart
ment under the management of Board of
Health. Said boar shall consist of five men,
bers, who shall be appointed by the Mayor by
and with the consent of the Board of Trustees
The President of the Board of Trustees Shall
be ex officio the President of the Board of
Health, but without the right to vote, except
In case of tie, when he shall have the right
10 vote. Each member shall be a duly licensed
physician in accordance with the laws of the
state and qualified elector of the city for not
less than two years. Those first appointed
shall so classify themselves by lot that one
shall go out OF Office at the end of one year.
one at the end of two years, one at the end of
three years. and two at the end of four years.
They shall receive no compensation for their
services, and their term of office shall be four
years.
SEC. 40. Regular meetings of the Board of
Health shall be held once month and special
meetings when called by the President or any
three members, and all meetings shall be pub
lie. Three members shall constitute a quo
rum for the transaction of any business.
SEC. III. Said Board of Health shall have
supervision of all matters appertaining to the
sanitary condition of the city and public in
situations thereof and full powers are hereby
given to said board over all questions of foul
or defective drainage, and of the disinfection
and sanitary cleaning of streets, alleys Gel
lars, cesspools, sewers or nufSances OF any de-
scription, and of low places within the city
limits calculated TO receive and retain I'M
healthy deposits.
SEC. 172. The Board of Health shall exer-
else general supervision over and be the
custodian of all the death and cemetery rec
ords now belonging to the city, and they shall
cause to be kept in books, prepared for the
purpose, complete records of all deaths in
terments In all the city cemeteries, and births
occurring in said city. They shall adopt such
forms and regulations for the use of physi-
clans, undertakers and Superintendent of
Cemeteries as in their judgment may be best
calculated TO secure reliable, vital and NOR
tally statistics in said city, and prevent the
spread of contagious and infectious diseases
They shall have power to prevent or forbid
communication with infected families or
houses, and by the consent of the Mayor NAV
establish a pesthouse and provide the neces-
sayy attendants and supplies therefor
SEC. 173. The Board of Trustees of the City
OF sacramento Shall, by ordinance or other
wise, provide for enforcing such orders and
regulations as the Board of Health NAV from
time TO time adopt, and all expenses neces-
sarily incurred by the Board of Health In
carrying out the provisions OF law and of this
Charter shall be provided for by the Board of
Trustees, who are hereby authorized and di-
rected to make an appropriation therefor out
of the General Fund
SEC. ia. The Board of Health. within two
weeks from the time of its organization, shall
elect City Physician, who shall also act as
Health Officer and Secretary of the Board of
Health. Said City Physician shall not be a
member OF the Board of Health, and shall be
an elector of the city, not less than thirty
years of age,a licensed physician of not less
than two years, and actually engaged in the
practice OF his profession therein He shall
hold his Office during the pleasure of the Board
of Health, and must see that the laws and or
dinances OF the city in relation to the public
health, anu the regulations ana orders OF the
Board of Health, are properly enforced. He
snail keep full record of all the transactions
OF the Board of Health. well as all records
appertafn1ng thereto: and by himself or his
deputy issue all permits for burals or re-
nlovals in any of the cemeteries belonging to
the city, and no interments shall be made
therein unless said Health Officer is satisfied
OF the correctness and reliability of the certifi-
cate of death presented for his Inspection He
shall have the powers of police officer, and
shall make an extended amt a. report to the
Board of Health of tie affairs pertaining to
his Office, including mortaary and other Sta
tisties, with such observations and recon-
mendations in relation to the sanitary eondi-
ton of the city as he may deem proper.
SEC. 195. The City Physician shall attend,
when called upon, the INDECENT sick or
NO nded in the city, and shall have charge of
any receiving hospital or dispensary estab-
lished for the benefit of the sick poor. and.
when deemed necessary by the Board OF
Health, he may employ nurse to assist him
in the care OF the INDECENT sick or wounded.
SEC. 116. The City PhEsic an, as Health
Officer, shall visit once in each quarter all
public buildings and schoolhouses in said
city. During such visits he shall examine the
manner in which they are lighted, ventilated
and heated, and particularly as TO their sani-
SIC. III. The City Physician, as Health
Officer, shall promptly report in writing to
the City Superintendent of Common Schools
the name and residence OF every person sick
with cholera, smallpox. scarIatina, diph-
fheria or any contagious disease. Said City
SUPERINTENDENT, when so notified must refuse
admittance 10 the common schools of any
meTnI err OF a household, one or more of whose
inmates are sic from any o. the aforesaid dis
eases The person excluded shall be admitted
upon presenting certificate from his or her
attending physician, or from the Health
Officer, that there is 10 longer any danger
from eontagion.
SEc 17S. When a case Of contagious disease
Is reported TO the Health officer he may visit
The premises where the person is, and when
safisfied that said disease exists, he shall
:, ace a yellow flag or conspicuous notice on
cid premises, which shall remain during the
continuance of the disease on said premises
SEC. 179. The Health Officer may cause to
Ia removed to a smallpox hospital any per-
Son in said city affected with smallpox
Syben a case of smallpox exists in any house
and the person SO effected is not moved to
said hospital or pest mouse, the Health Officer