The herald., 1898-10-25
ARTICLE XIV.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
Sec. 267. There shall be a Board of
Health consisting of five members four
of whom shall be appointed by the Nav
or, and shall be licensed physicians of tn .
state ana must have been such and resi-
dents OF the City. of Los Angeles for five
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
shai! 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
shall SO classify themselves by lot tina t
one shall go out of office ct the end of
one year. one at the end OF two years,
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 a month
and special meetings as required, al the
call Of the President. The Council shnll
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
public health including the sanitary con-
ditions of schools jails, city hospitals
and all public buildings.
Sec. 80. The Board Of Health shall an.
point Health Officer who shall have
been a legal practitioner of medicine for
seven years and shall have been a resi-
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
shall devote his entire time to the duties
Of his office. He shall see that all ordi-
nances In respect to public health and the
rules and regulations of the Board Of
Health are enforced. and shall receive ali
complaints of violations of such ordi-
nances. rules and regula tions and inyesti-
gate the same and act thereon. He shall
make 20 .he ooafd en- annual report Of
mortuary and other statistics, with such
general observations as in his iudrmenf
will improve the sanitary condition of the
CITY. re snaIi visit once in each quar-
ter all the public institutions in the CITY
under the charge of the Department or
Public Health. and twice in each wear he
shall visit every public school building in
said city, and shall examine the schools
IN regard TO the manner in which thew
are lighted. ventilated. heated and partic-
ularly In regard to their sanitary condi.
ton. and report the results of his eynm
nations to the Board of Health in Janu.
nry' April July and october OF each year.
Sec. 271. Every physician in the civ
shall report to the Health Officer in writ.
ing every patient he shall have sick of tv
era, leprosy, smallpox. diphtheria or scar
let fever, and every death from such die.
ease. Immediately after it shall have oc-
CURED. Every. householder in said citv
shall forthwith report to the Health on.
Ger the name of every inmate of his nr
her house whom he or she shall have rea-
son to believe is sick of typhus. shin or
yellow fever, leprosy cholera, smallpox.
diphtheria or scarlet fever, and any deaths
occurring at his Or her house from such
disease.
Sec. 272 The Health Officer shall ,enoyt
10 the City School Superintendent the
names and residences of every person sick
cholera. smallpox, leprosy, diphtheria or
scarlet fever; and 1t shall be the duty of
the City School Superintendent when Sd
notified of the residence of any person
sick of any of the diseases enumerated, to
refuse admittance 10 the public schools of
any member of family, one or more OF
whose inmates are sick of any of tho
aforesaid diseases: provided that the par
Ties excluded shall be readmitted upon
presenting certificate from the Health
from contagion,
sec. N3. Whenever a case of smallpox,
Asiatic cholera. yellow fever, typhus,
diphtheria or scarlet fever is reported to
tne Health Officer, he shall Immediately
VISIT the premises. and the said Health
OHcer, upon personal inspection. shall. in
cases of smallpox, Asiatic cholera. yellow
iever, typhus. dlphtheria or scarlet fever.
Immediately caused to be displayed yell
low. or quarantine. flag in conspicuous
place on said premises, or put upon the
doorway of houses infected a suitable pla-
card setting forth the fact, the same to
remain during the continuance OF the
disease on said premises.
Sec. ga. The Board of Health shan ap-
point CITY Physician who shall act as
policc Surgeon. and may appoint physi-
clan and nurses for the hospital or hos
pitals of the city when 1t may be neces-
Sary.
Sec. 275 No person shall remove a
smallpox 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-
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