The record-union., 1892-03-26
ARTICLE XII.
Health Department.

SEC. 169. There shall be Health Depart
ment under the management of a Board of
Health. Said boar 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 Board of
Health, but without the right to vote, except
IN case OF a tie, when he Shall have the right
10 vote. Each member shall be duly licensed
physician IN accordance with the laws of the
State aud q 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. / Il. said Board of Health shall have
supervision OF ali 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 eel
lars, ceSspoolS, sewers or nuisances of any de-
scription, and OF low places within the city
limits calculated 10 receive and retain I'M
healthy deposits,
Sac. 172. The Board of Health shall exer-
else general supervision over and be the
ordS nOW belonging to the city, and thew shall
cause To- be kept in books prepared for the
purpose, complete records of all Deaths in
termentS in al the city cemeteries, and births
occurring in said city. They shall adopt such
forms and regulations for the use OF phVsi-
clans, undertakes and superintendent OF
Cemeteries as in their Judgment may be best
calculated to secure reliable, vital and NOR
tally statistics i'll 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 pecps-
sary attendants ana 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 provisions OF law and of this
Charter shall be provided for by the Board az
Trustees, who are hereby authorized and di-
Tected to make an appropriation therefor out
OF the General Fund.
SEC. ~. The Board Of Health. within two
weeks from the time OF its organization shall
elect City Physician, who shall also act as
Health Ofieer and Secretary OF the Board OF
Health. SAID City Physician shall not be n
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, aud actually engaged in the
practice of his profession therein. He shall
hold his Office during the pleasure of the Board
of Health, aud must see That the laws and or
dinances of the city in relation to the public
health, and the regulations and orders OF the
Board Of Health, are properly enforced. He
shall keep a full record of all the transactions
OF the Board of Health, as well as all records
appertaining thereto; and by himself or his
dep1ty issue all permits for burials or re-
InOValS in any of the cemeteries belonging to
the city and no intennents shall be made
therein unless said Health Officer is satisfied
of the correctness and reliability of the certif-
cate of death presented for mis- inspection. He
shall have the powers of police officer, and
shall make an extended amt a. report 10 the
Board of Health of tie affairs pertaining 10
his office, including mortuary and other sta
tistics, with such observations ana recon-
mendaiions in relation 10 the sanitary condi-
ton OF the city as he may deem proper.
SEC. 175. The City Physician shall attend,
when called upon, the INDECENT sick or
wounded in the city, and shall have charge OF
any receiving hospital or dispensary estab-
1ished for the benefit OF the sick poor, and,
when deemed necessary by the Board OF
Health, he may employ nurse 10 assist him
IN the care OF the INDECENT sick or wounded.
SEC. 176. The City Physician, as Health
Officer, shall visit once IN each quarter all
public buildings and schooihouses in said
city. During such visits he shall examine the
manner in which they are ghted, ventilated
and heated, and particularly vas to their sani-
tary condition.
SEC. ~. The City Physician, as Health
officer, shall promptly report in writing to
the City superintendent of Common Schools
the name and reside Ice of every person sick
with cholera, smallpox, scarlatina, diph-
iberia. or any contagious disease, said City
Superintendent, when so notified must refuse
adnittance 10 the common schools OF any
member of household, one or more of whose
inmates are SID nom any OF tine AZORES hid dis
cases The person excluded shall be admitted
nDon presenting Il certificate from Ills or her
attending physician, or from the Health
officer, lnaL there Is no longer any danger
rom contagon.
SIC. us. When a case Of contagious disease
., venorted to the Health Officer, ne may visit
ia PREMISES where Lie person is and when
snntrt5fied that said disease exists, he shall
sii.ea . yellow flag or conspicuous notice on
said Which sha a 5eR sad e dqrlng the
COZ Gsn %. The Health Officer may cause to
,e enjoyed to a smallpox hospital any per-
il said s sgapoS exists Esh in ans hpos
" Iet 10, !, nersop so effected is not moved TO
anu am ~. Il al or pest hoEse. the Health Officer