The record-union., 1892-04-12
ARTICLE XII.
Health Department.

SEQ. Ice. There shall be Health Depart
ment under the management of Board of
Health. Said board 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
he ex ofIicio the President of the Board of
Health, but without the right to vote, except
N case Oft tie, when he ghal have the right
10 vote. Each member shall be duly licensed
physician in accordance with the laws of the
state ard qualified elector of the city for not
less than two years Those first Amounted
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.
SEQ. 170. 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. IA said Board Of Health shall have
supervision of all matters appertaining to the
sanitary condition OF the city and public in
sututions thereof, and full powers are hereby
given to said board over all questions of foul
or defective drainage, and of the disnfection
and sanitary cleaning of streets, alleys eel
lars, cesSpools, sewers or nuisances 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 a 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
terinentS IN all the city cemeteries, and births
occurring In said city They shall adopt such
1OrIns and regulations for the use of physi-
clans, undertakes and Supefintenaents of
Cemeteries as in their Judgment may be best
calculated to secure reliable, vital and NOR
Iality 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 may
establish 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 Tor enforcing such orders aud
regulations as the Board of Health may from
time TO time adopt, and all expenses neces-
Eartly 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-
Iected To make an appropriation therefor out
SEC. III. The Board OF Health. within two
weeks from the time OF its organization, shall
elect a City Physician, who shall also act as
Health Oflcer and Secretary OF the Board of
Health. Said City Physician shall not be q
laeniber 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 mus see that the laws and or
chances OF the city in relation TO the public
Health, and the regulations and orders OF the
board OF Heath, are properly enforced. He
t1aIi keep a iull record OF all the transactions
Cf the Board OF Health, as we'll as all records
appcItntntng thereto; aud by himself or his
Geputy issue all permits for burials or re-
llONaiS IN any OF the cemeteries belonging 10
The city, and no iuterinentS shall be made
therein unless said Health Officer is satisfied
OF the correctness and reliability of the certi1i-
cate OF death presented FOR his inspeciinn He
fhsil have the powers OF n police officer and
htlalt make al extended annual report 10 the
Board OF Health Of the affairs pertaining 10
us Office, lnciuding nortuary and other sta
ttSIics, with such Observations and recon-
1i3endatioHs II relation TO the sanitary eondi-
ton OF the city as he may deem proper.
SIC. Us. The City Physician shall attend,
when called upon, the INDECENT sick or
No1naed IL the ely, and shall have charge of
2ished Tor the benefit OF the sick poor, and
when deemed necessary by the Board of
Health he may employ nurse 10 assist him
"a the care of the INDECENT sick or wounded
SEC. 176. The City Physic. an, rs Health
Officer, shall visit once in each quarter all
public buildings and schooihouses ia 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.
SEC. III. The City Physician, as Health
Officer, snail promptly report in writing 10
fne City superintendent OF Common Schools
the name and residence OF every person sick
with cholera, smallpox. sfarlatina diph-
iberia or any contagious disease said City
fuperintendcnt when so notified must refuse
Ambulance 10 the common schools OF any
member OF household. one or more of whose
Snrlates are sick rom any OF the aforesaid dis
cases Tie person excluded shall be admitted
lInon presenting certificate from bis or her
attending physician, or from the Health
officer, that there is 10 longer any danger
from contagion.
Srf, US. When a case of contagious disease
* reported TO the Health Oficer, he may visit
1he premises where the person is and when
satisfied that said disease exists, he shall
place yellow flag or conspicuous notice on
as,f ri rrsrs ~
.eor,tfnuance OF the disease on said premises
SIC. I79. The Health Officer may cause to
lie removed to a smallpox hospital any per-
son in said city affected with smallpox
when a case OF smallpox exists in any house
aud The person SO effected is Tot moved TO
said hospital or pest house, the Health Officer