The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-04-08
LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
The BIN which WIN soon Become a Law
In thls state.

INC UllA Nh AFNNAh' % A'NfNA /
man Finney caused to be read in the Borough
Council ON Thursday evening and this OPP
portunity is taken to give it publication,
which is important in view Of the fact that
the reading Council decided to take
preliminary steps for carrying out the pro-
visions of the bill when it becomes a law.
As previously reported, the bill will I'M
doubtedly be passed and signed within a few
days.
The bill is intended to enable Borough
Councils to establish Boards Of Health. 10
provides that it shall be the duty Of the
president of the Town Council of every
borough in this Commonwealth WITHIN SIX
months after the passage Of this act TO noml-
nate and by and with the consent OF the
Council to appoint a Board Of Health OF such
borough to consist of five persons not members
of the Council, one Of whom shall be a
reputable physician Of not less than W
years standing in the practice of his pro-
fession. At the first appointment the pTesl-
dent Of the Town Council shall designate one
of the members to serve for one year, one to
serve for two years, one for three years, one
for four and one for five; and thereafter one
member of the board shall be appointed
annually to serve for five years. The board
shall be appointed in districts to be fixed by
the Town Council representing as equally as
may be all portions Of the borough. The
members shall serve without compensation.
The duties, responsibilities, powers and
prerogatives of said board shall be identical
with those assigned to Boards Of Health of
cities of the third class.
The members of the board shall sevorally
take and subscribe the oath prescribed for
borough officers and shall annually organize
by the choice of one Of their number as
president. They shall elect a secretary not of
their body who shall keep the minutes of
their proceedings and perform such other
duties as may be directed by the board and a
health officer who shall execute the orders of
the board and for that purpose the said health
o ticer who shall have and exercise the
powers and authority Of a policeman Of the
borough. All fees which shall be collected or
received by the board or by any officer
thereof in his official capacity shall be paid
over into the borough treasury monthly
together with all penalties which
shall be recovered for the violation Of any
regulation Of the board. The president and
secretary shall have full power to administer
oaths or afirmations in any proceedings or
investigations touching the regulations Of
the board, but shall not be entitled to receive
any fee thereof.
The Board of Health shall have power and
it shall be their duty to make and enforce all
needful rules and regulations to prevent the
| introduction and spread of infectious or
| contagious diseases by the regulation of in
tercourse with infected places, by the arrest,
! separation and treatment of infected per
sons and persons who shall have been ex-
posed to any infections or contagious disease
and by abating and removing all nuisances
which they shall deem prejudiclal to the
public health, to enforce vaccination, &c
mark infected houses or places, to prescribe
rules for the construction and maintenance OF
house drains, waste pipes, soil pipes and cess
pools. and to make all such other regulations
! as JutN Snail uttll utGtoohIJ " LlO IANoNA'
walton Of the public health. They shall also
have power, with the consent Of Councils, in
case Of the prevalence Of m contagious OF
infectious disease within the borough tC
establish one or more hospitals and to make
provisions and regulations for the manage
ment Of the same. The board may in sucf
cases appoint as many ward or district ply
| sicians and other sanitary agents as they may
deem necessary whose salaries shall be fixed
by the board before their appointment. L
shall be the duty of all physicians practicinl
with the borough to report to the secretary o
the Board Of Health the names and resi-
dences OF all persons coming under thei
protest. onal care afflicted with such con
tagious or infectious diseases in the name.
directed by the board.
The said Board of Health shall have powe
as a body or by committee, as well as tn,
health officer, together with his subordinates
assistants and workmen under and by orde
Of the said board to enter at any time upol
any premises in the borough upon whicl
there is suspected to be any infectious o
contagious disease or nuisance detrimental I
the public health for the purpose of exam
ming and abating the same and all write
orders for the removal of nuisances issued {
said health officer by order of said boar
attested by the secretary shall be execute
by him and his su~bordinates and woTkme
and the costs and expenses thereof shall b
recoverable from the owner or owners of tn
premises from which the nuisance shall b
removed or from any person or person
causing or maintaining the same in the sam
manner as debts Of like amount are now b
law collected.
The Board of Health shall nave power
create and maintain a complete and accura.
system Of the registration of all marriage
births and deaths which may occur With
the borough and to compel obedience to Il
same upon the part Of all physicians an
other medical practitioners, %clergymeI
magistrates, undertakes, sections and a
other persons from whom information f
such purposes may properly be requires
The board shall make and cause to |
published all necessary rules and regulation
for carrying into effect the powers and fun