The record-union., 1892-04-09
ARTICLE XII.
Health Department..


SEC. 769 There shall be Health Depart
ment under the management of q Board OF
Health. Said beard shall consist of five mem
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 ofticio the President of the Board OF
Health, but without the right to vote, except
IN case of a tie when he shall have the right
TO vote. Each member shall be q duly licensed
physician in accordance with the laws of the
state and a qualified elector of the city for not
less than two years. Those first appointed
shall 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.
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
StitutionS thereof, and full powers are hereby
given to said board over all questions of foul
or defective drainage, and of the distinction
and sanitary cleaning OF streets, alleys, cell
lars, cesspools, sewers or nuisances OF any de-
Ecription, 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
terlnents in all the city cemeteries, and births
occurring ia said city. They shall adopt such
forms and regulations for the use Of physi-
clans, undertakes and Superintendent of
Cemeteries as in their Judgment may be best
calculated TO secure reliable, vital and NOR
tality statistics in said city, and prevent the
spread of contagious and infectious diseases
They shall have power to prevent or forbid
saf,f ~ IN ia infa
houses and by the consent OF the Mayor NAV
establish a pesthouSe and provide the neces-
sary 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 may from
time TO time adopt, and all expenses neces-
sarily incurred by the Board OF Health in
carrying out the pro visions of law and of this
Charter shall be provided for by the Board of
Trustees, who are hereby authorized and di-
Tected 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 q City Physician, who shall also act as
Health Otfo3r and Secretary OF the Board of
Health. said City Physician shall not be a
memGer OF the Board OF Health, and shall be
an elector of the city, not less than thirty
wears 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, ana the regulations and orders Of the
Board of Health, are properly enforced. He
snail keep q null record of all the transactions
OF the Board OF Health. as well as all records
appertainIng thereto; aad by himself or his
deputy issue all permits for burials or re-
JnoYals 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 he cartff.
cate OF death presented for his Inspection He
snail have the powers OF a police officer. and
sft.aIF tassra
Board of Health of the affairs pertaining o
his Office. Including mortuary and other sta
fistics. With such observations and recon-
1aendations in relation 10 the sanitary condi-
ton OF the city as ne may deem proper.
SIC. L 5. The City Physician shall attend,
when called upon, the INDECENT sick or
wounded ia the city, and shall have charge OF
any receiving hospital or dispensary esiab-
lished for the benefit of the sick poor, and
when deemed necessary by the Board OF
Health, he may employ q nurse TO assist him
in the care OF the INDECENT sick or wounded.
SEC. ] rs. The City Physic an, as Health
Cflcer, shall visit once in each quarter all
public buildings and schoohouses 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-
fary condition.
SIC. III. The City Physician, as Health
Officer, shall promptly report in writing TO
the City superintendent OF Common Schools
shp name and residence of every person sick
with cholera, smallpox, scarlatina,. diph-
.beria or any contagious disease. Said City
ClIperinfendgnt, when SO notified, must refuse
offnfttance 10 the common schools OF any
,nenli er OF a household, one or more OF whose
INMATES are sick from any OF the aforesaid dis
roses the person excluded shall be admitted
s-,,o, presenting 3 certificate from lis or her
atfending physician, or from the Health
SAFER fhat there is no longer any danger
Ssrr les. When case of contagious disease
rsoorte5 to the Health Officer, he may visit
= ,11ref,1ises where the person Is, and when
az that said disease exists, ne shall
sils,i - xeilow llag or conspicuous notice on
PLY i;q,SS nrerajses. which shall remain during the
s aa,tinnancs of the disease on said premises.
con III % qhe Health Officer may cause to
of.e ..,-at.-ed to a small ox hospital any per-
he TIM ~ said city affected with smallpox.
when case Of sap9 s,e eTi s n amy hopse
am or pest house the Health Officer