The record-union., 1892-04-08
ARTICLE XII.
Health Department.

SEC. 169. There shall be Health DEPART
inent under the management of Board of
Health. Said board shall consist of i've 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 of1icio the President of the Board of
Health, but without the right to vote, except
IN ease OF a tie, when he shall have the right
10 vote. Each member shall be 8 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 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. 40. Regular meetings of the Board of
Health snail be held once month, ana 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 tuli powers are hereby
given to said board over all questions of foul
CT detective drainage, and of the diSinfection
and sanitary cleaning of streets, alleys, Gel
lars, cesspoois, sewers or lulSanceS OF any de-
scription, and OF low places within the cty
limits calculated TO receive and retain I'M
healthy deposits.
SEC. 172. The Board of Health shall exer-
else q general supervision over and be the
custodian OF all the death and cemetery rec
shall
cause 70 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 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 infectious 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. 173. The Beard 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-
sariIy 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-
rected TO make an appropriation therefor out
Of the General Find
SEC. ia. The Board of Health, within two
weeks from the time OF its organization, shall
elect City Physician, who shall also act as
Health Officer and Secretary OF the Board of
Health. said City Physician shall not be q
member of the Board OF Health and shall be
stn 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 tine Board
Of Health, and must see that the laws and or
enhances of the city IN relation 10 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
appertaiuing thereto; and by himself or his
deputy issue all permits for bUrials or re-
lnovals 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 the certifi-
cate OF death presented for his inspection. He
shall have the powers of a police officer, and
shall make an extended annual report to the
Board of Health of the affairs pertaining 10
nus once including Inortuaiy ana other sta
tisties, with such observations ana recon-
lnendations ia relation TO the sanitary condi-
ton OF the city as he may deem proper.
SEC. 10. 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 esta6-
lished 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
Dfficer, 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 lighted, ventilated
and heated. and particularly as 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 residence OF every person sick
with cholera, smallpox, scarlatina, diph-
iberia or any contagious disease. Said City
SUPERINTENDENT, when so notified. must refuse
adinittance 10 the common schools of any
1nerrber of q household, one or more of whose
iannsras are sick from any OF the aforesaid dis
eaSes. The person excluded shall be admitted
1rnon presenting a certificate from his or her
attending physician, or from the Health
9tiieer that there is no longer any danger
from contaglon.
SErs us. When a case of contagious disease
IS renorted to the Health Officer, he may visit
III - PREMISES where the person is, and when
sattsstied that said disease exists, ne shall
mace yellow flag or conspicuous notice on
Ia ,,rer,1iSes which shall remain during the
,.,,t nca Of the disease said premises
SEC I79. The Health Officer may cause to
be removed to a smallpox hospital any per-
I'm - oseid city affected with smallpox
Vbe1 q case of smallpox exists in any house
and the person 50. effected is not moved to
said hospital or pest house, the Health Officer