The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-03-30
ARTICLE XII.
Health Department.

SEC. 169. There shall be a Health Depart
meut under the management of a Board of
Health. Said board 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 eN otficio the President of the Board of
Health, but without the right to vote, except
in ease OF q tie, when he shall have the right
10 vote. Each member shall be a duly licensed
physician III accordance with the laws OF the
state ana a quallled electOr of the city for not
less than two years. Those first appointed
shall so classify themselves by lot that one
shall 90 out of Office at the end of one wear.
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. 10. 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 Rppertaining to the
sanitary condition of the city and public in
stituLionS thereof, and full powers are hereby
given to said board over all questions of foui
or detective drainage, and of the disinfection
aud 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 I'M
healthy deposits.
SEC. l72. The Board OF Health shall exer-
else general supervision over and be the
custodian OF all the death and cemetery rec
Ores now belonging TO the city, and theV shall
cause 10 be kept in books, prepared for the
purpose, complete records of all deaths in
terluents in All the city cemeteries and births
occurring in said city. They shall adopt such
forms and regulations for the use OF physi-
clans. underLakers and SupcIintendents 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 may
esiaDlsn a peslhouSe and provide the neces-
sary attendants and supplies therefor
SEC. 173. The Board of Trustees the Citv
of Sacramento shall, by ordinance or other
wise, provide for enforcing such orders and
regulations as the Board of Health NAV from
time 10 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 d.
rected To make an appropriation therefor ont
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 Ofiieer 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, aud must see that the laws and or
dinances of tho city ia relation 20 the public
health, and the regulations and orders Of the
Board OF Health, are properly enforced. he
shall keep q full record of all the transactions
Of the Board of II alth, as well as all records
appertaining thereto; aud By himself or his
deputy issue all permits for burialS or re-
moNals in any OF the cemeteries belonging TO
che city and no interInentS shall be made
therein unless said Health Officer is satisfied
OF the correctness and reliability OF he csrtifi-
cate OF death presented for his inspection. He
shall have the powers of police officer, anu
shall make an extended amt 81 report to the
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ans Office, including mortuary and other sta
tistics, with such obSery atoms and recon-
lnendations in relation TO the sanitary condi-
lion OF the city as he may deem proper.
SEC 116. The City Physician shall attend
when called upon, the INDECENT sick or
Wo lnded Ia the city, and shall have charge of
any receiving hospital or dispenS3ry estab-
lshed for the benefit of the sick poor, and
when deemed necessary by the Board Of
Hcalth, ne may employ nurse 10 assist him
IN the care OF the INDECENT sick or wounded
SEC. rs. The City Physician, 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 lghted, ventilated
and heated, and particularly as to their sani-
tary condition.
SEC. ~. The City Physician, as Health
officer, Snail promptly report ia writing 10
the City Superintendent OF Common Schools
the name ana reside ace OF every person sick
with cholera, smallpox. scarlatfna. dfph-
iberia, or any contagious disease. said City
Superintend mt when SO notified, must refuse
admittance TO tie Common schools OF any
member OF household, one or more Of whose
inmates are sick 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 no longer any danger
from contagion.
SEC. I7S. When n case of CONTAGIOUS disease
e reported TO the Health Officer, he NAV visit
The premises where the person is. and when
SATISFIED that said disease exists. lie shall
Tiace q yellow flag or conspicuous notice on
"a ,.rosaiSeS which shall remain during tho
cont{nuanca of the disease on said premises.
SEC lT9 The Health Officer may cause TO
he removed to a smallpox hospital any per-
-, in said city affected with srnall-pox
when a case OF smallpox exists in any house
and the person so effected is not moved to
said hospital or pest house, the Health Officer