The record-union., 1892-04-02
ARTICLE XII.
Health Department.


SEC 169. There shall be a Health Depart
menI under the management of q Board of
Health Said boat shall consist of five men,
bers, who shall be appointed by the Mayor, by
and with the consent of tue Board of Trustees
The President of the Board of Trustees shall
be eX officio the President of the Polrd 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 ~ duly lie ease
physician in accordance with the laws of the
state and a qualified elector of the city for not
hess than two years. Those first apr ointed
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, ana Two at the end OF four years.
They shall receive no comp enSation 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
JIG. 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 appertainfng 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, Gel
lars, cesSpools, sewers or nuisances OF any de-
scription, and of low places within the CITY
limits calculated to receive and retain un-
healthy deposits.
SEC. 172. The Board of Health shall exer-
else a general supervision over and be the
CUSTODIAN Oh all the QSdtn ana cemetery
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
ferInentS in AL 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
1ality statistics in said city, and prevent the
spread of contagious and infections 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-
sary attendants and supplies therefor
SEC. l73. The Beard of Trustees of the Citv
of Sacramento shall, by ordinance or obEeT-
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 provisions of law and of this
Charter shall be provided for by the Board OF
Trustees, who are hereby authorized and df-
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 a City Physician, who shall also act AS
Health Offeer and Secretary OF the Board of
Health. Said CITY Physician shall not he - y
member 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 mus see that the laws and or
GinanceS OF the citl in relation TO the public
health, and the regulations and orders of the
Board of Health, are properly enforced. He
snail keep a full r cord of all the transactions
OF the Board of Health, as well as all records
appertaining thereto; and b. himself or his
deputy issue all permits for burials or re-
lnoVals in any of the cemeteries belonging to
the city and no INTERVIEWS shall he made
therein unless said Health Oficer is satisfied
OF the correctness and reliability of he riff
cate of death presented for his inspection. He
shall have the powers of a police ohicer, and
shall make an extended ann a. rel ort TO the
Board of Health of the affairs pertaining to
his office, including mortualy and other sta
xistics, with such obserS atoms and recom-
mendations in relation 10 the sanitary condi-
lion OF the city as ne may deem proper
SEC. 175. The City Physician shall attend,
when called upon, the INDECENT sick or
wo Inded in the city, and shall have charge of
any receiving hospital or disp ensary estab-
Jished 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. 176 The City Physic 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 GIFTED, ventilated
and heated, and particularly as to their sani-
fary condition.
SEC. IL. The City Physician, as Health
Offieer, shall promptly report IN writing TO
the City Superintendent of Common schools
fhe name ana reside ice of every person sick
with cholera, smallpox, scarlatina, diph-
sheria or any contagious disease said City
Superintendent, when so notified must refuse
admfttance TO the common schools o. any
1nelnter of a household, one or more of whose
inmates are sic k from any OF the AZORES aid dis
cases The person excluded stall be admitted
T1no, presenting a certificate from his or her
attending physician, or from the Health
0fiicer. mat there is 10 longer any danger
from contagion-
SEC. IT'S. When case of contagious disease
IS reported to the Health Officer, he may visit
the premises where the person is, and when
s.afisfjed that said disease exists. lie shall
1siaes, a yellow flag or conspicuous notice ON
"a ,,rs,,,ises which shall remain during the
ss,nt {nuauc of the disease on said premises.
sc I-o The Health Officer may cause TO
=. removed TO a smallpox hospital any psr-
De IN said city affected with smallpox
sol SOL - a case of smallpox exists in any house
WI " len me person so effected is not moved to
a anu IL t al or pest hoIs,, the Eealth Officer