The herald., 1898-10-27
ARTICLE XIV.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

DEPARTMENT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
Sec. 267. There shall be Board of
Health consisting of five members, four
OF whom shall be appointed by the May
or. and shall be licensed physicians of tn !.
state and must have been such and resi-
years next preceding their appointment,
The Chief Of Police shall be a member
of the Board of Health by virtue OF his
office
The members of the Board of Health
shall serve without compensation. They
shall annually elect one of their number
President and shall elect secretary and
define his duties.
Sec. 26s. The appointed members of the
board shall serve for four years, and
those first appointed under this charter
shall SO classify themselves by lot that
one one shall go out Of office at the end of
one at the end Of three years and ono at
the end of four years.
Sec. 269. Three members of the board
shall constitute quorum, and the board
shall hold regular meetings once month
and special meetings as required. al the
call of the President. The Council shall
provide a suitable place for the meetings
of the board and an Office for the Health
Officer. The board shall adopt rules and
regulations for its government and have
supervision over all matters pertaining to
puullc HedltI, lHCluulNS the sanitary con-
dtions Of schools. jails, city hospitals
and all public buildings.
Sec. 270 The Board of Health shall ap-
point Health Officer who shall have
been a legal practitioner of medicine for
dent of the city five years next preced-
ing his appointment, and shall have the
power of removing such officer. He shall
be the executive officer of the board and
Iva -
Of his office. He shall see that all ortli-
nances in respect to public health and the
rules and regulations of the Board of
Health ore enforced, and shall receive all
complaints of violations of such ordi-
nances, rules and regula tions and inyesti-
gate the same and act thereon. He shall
make to the board an annual renort ~
the affairs of his office. including vital,
general observations as in his Judgment
will improve the sanitary condition Of the
city. He shall visit once in each ouar-
ter all the public institutions in the city
under the charge of the Department ~
Public Health, and twice in each year he
shall visit every public school building in
said city. and shall examine the schools
IN regard to the manner in which they
uarly in regard to their sanitary conIi-
ton, and report the results of his exam
nations to the Board of Health in .Jann-
ary, April, July and October Of each year-
Sec. 2n. Every physician in the citv
shall report to the Health Officer in writ.
ing every patient he shall have sick of tv-
phus; ship or yellow yellow fever, Asiatic chol-
let fever, and every death from such dis
ease, imme diately after it shall have oc-
CURED. Every householder in said citv
shall forthwith report to the Health Off
her house whom ne or she shall have rea-
son to believe Is sick of typhus, shin or
yellow fever leprosy. cholera, smallpox.
dlpntnerla or scarlet Lever, and any deaths
disease.
Sec. 272. The Health Officer shall 1enort
10 the City School Superin ntendent the
names and residences Of every person sick
cholera, smallpox, ieprosy, diphthe1iaa or
scarlet fever; and 1t shall be the dutv of
the City School Superintendent when so
notified of the residence of any person
sick of any Of the diseases enumerated. to
refuse admittance 10 the public schools Of
ony member of family. one or more of
whose inmates are sick of any of the
aIoresaid diseases: provided that the par
nraso ries excluded lu shall be readmitted upon
presenting certificate from the Health
Officer that there is no longer any danger
from contagion.
Sec. N3' Whenever case Of smallpox.
ShOAeAo' ycliOW lever, typnuS,
diphtneria or scarlet fever is reported to
the Health Officer he shall Immediately
VISIT the premises. and the said Health
Officer, upon personal inspection, shall in
cases OF smallpox, Asiatic cholera. yellow
iever, typhus, diphtheria or scarlet fever,
Immediately caused to be displayed a yell
low, or quarantine, flag in a conspicuous
place on said premises. or put upon the
doorway Of houses infected suitable pla-
card setting forth the fact, the Same to
remain during. the continuance OF the
disease on said premises.
Sec. 274. The Board of Health shan ap-
point City Physician who shall act as
Police Surgeon. and may appoint physi-
cian and nurses for the hospital or hos
pita.s OF the city when It may be neces-
Shry.
Sec. 275. No person shall remove
sn,n'lpox patient from any house or place
within the limits OF the city to any house
or place without the permission Of the
Health Officer
The said officer with the approval OF the
Board OF Health, may cause to be re-
moved to the hnSnfta1 80 tba citxy r.o,,;<y