The herald., 1898-10-18
THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER

ed for that purpose any and all persons
aHected with smallpox from WITHIN sucn
tined
Sec. N6. The Board of Health. when
ever and at such time as by them 1t shall
be deemed necessary. may, by proclama-
tion, require all railroad cars or other
puDlic conveyances bound for this CITY,
before the same shall land or stop at any
to stop or touch at any or either Of the
sites, places or boundaries selected ana
established for quarantine purposes, and
leave all such immigrants; travellers or
persons and all such sick, diseased or un-
clean persons with their stores and bag
gage. as In the opinion of the officers sta
TONED at such quarantine sites, places or
boundaries shall be deemed proper on &C.
cholera, smallpox, or any contagious dis
ease or diseases apprehended to endanger
the health Of the city.
Sec. 277. The said board shall make
such rules and regulat tions for the govern
ment OF the quarantine or health Oh the
city as from time to time 1t shall deem
necessary, and the physicians or health
officers In charge Of any quarantine STA
tio' or place shall have power to mako
an enforce such regulations as may oe
necessary for the proper management and
conducting thereof; and 1t shall be the
duty of all persons In quarantine, and all
agents. officers, policemen or others em-
ployed by the city about said quarantine
stations or places. to carry out and obey
the same.
Sec. 27S. The Board of Health shall
cause to be kept a record of all births.
deaths. interments and crema tions occur
mo- In eatI lii
kept in the Health Ofiice. and shall be
open for the inspection OF any person
during office hours. All physicians and
midwives In said city shall report to the
month, all births occurring in his or her
practice during the previous month. ANY
physician or midwife falling to make such
report shall be guilty OF a misdemeanor.
Sec. 279. No person shall deposit In
any cemetery or inter in said city any
human body without first having obtained
signed by licensed physician or Coroner,
setting forth as near as possible the
name, age, sex. color, place of birth, oc-
cupation. date, locality and cause Of
death Of the deceased. and obtained
from the Health Oh1cer a burial permit.
Physicians, when deaths occur in their
practice, must give the certificate herein
mentioned. unless the physician believes
such death to be a proper case for inves-
body ss be os
without the permit of the Board OF
Health or Health officer or by order Of
the Coroner.
Sec. 2S0. Superintendents of cemeteries
within the boundaries of the city must
Monday the names of all persons in
TERED, cremated or deposited within
their respective cemeteries for the pre-
ceding week.
Sec. 281. 1t shall be unlawful to disin-
ter or exhume from a grave, vault or
other burial place within the limits II
the city the body or remains Of any de-
ceased person, unless permit for SO do
the Health Oficer Nor shall any body
or remains disinterred, exhumed or taken
from the grave, vault or other place Of
burial or deposit be transported In or
through the streets or highways of said
porting such bodies or remains shall first
obtain from the Health Officer a permit
in writing therefor. When an applicant
for a permit to disinter a body shall de-
its Of said city, and shall So 50 state on
making application. the permit, II the
same be issued. shall include the right to
disinter and remove. Said permit shall
accompany the body or remains.
Sec. 49, The permits in the last section
may be granted. in the discretion of the
Board Of Health. under such general re-
strictions and conditions as the board
may prescribe. The Health Oficer shall
prepare a book Of blank permits. in
proper form and consecutively numbered,
containing stubs on which, as well as in
the transaction, giving the name. age.
sex. nativity, place OF burial and destina-
ton Of remains to be transported and re-
moved.
Sec. 9ss Nothing in this charter shall
be taken to apply to the removal OF the
remains of a deceased person from one
place Of interment to another place
within the same cemetery.
Sec. 2S4 No person shall receive for
transportation or shall transport upon
any boat, veesel or railroad car or public
or private conveyance. the body OF any
person who has died within the limits of
said city, unless said body Is accompa-
MED by a permit for such transportation
from the Health ofcer: Any person Vi
tion shall be guilty Of misdemeanor.
Sec. 2S5. Any member of the Board of
Health or the Health Ohhcer may admin
lister oaths on business connected with
the Health Department.
Sec. 2se. All police officers shall be ex-
officio sanitary inspectors.
Sec. 2S7. Under the supervision and d.
rection Of the Board OF Health, all mar
kets and dairies doing business within
the city, and all products offered for sale
for food, including milk, meat. fish.
fruits. vegetables ice and water, shall
be inspected; and, whenever necessary,
all such articles offered for sale for food
or drink may be condemned and de-
stroyed: and the Board Of Health shall
appoint some suitable and proper person
who shall be an experienced chemist and
bacteriologist and whose duty 1t shall be.
under the direction of said board. to
make examinations and analyses of all
such food products. and make all bacte-
tious and contagious diseases, and per-
form such other duties as said board
may prescribe.
point such inspectors, subordinates and
employees, subject to the civil service
rules of this charter, as may be neces-
sarv to carry out the provisions Of this
article.
ARTICLE xxvI.
RJJILDING DEPARTMENT..
Soc css. There is hereby created a
rnilding Department in the City of Los
Angeles which shall be furnished by the
f.oiincil with office rooms and necessary
supplies for the transaction of business.