The herald., 1898-10-20
THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER

THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER
ed Tor that purpose any and all persons
aHected with smallpox from within such
tined.
Sec. 27C. 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
public conveyances bound for this city.
before the same shall land or stop at any
depot or landing or stopping place therein.
10 stop or touch al any or either OF me
sites, places or boundaries selected and
established for quarantine purposes, anu
leave all such immigrants. travellers or
persons. and all such sick, diseased or un-
| clean persons with their stores ana Dag
gage, as In the opinion OF the officers sta
toned at such quarantine sites. places or
boundaries shall be deemed proper on ac
count of existing or general report a., OK
cholera, smallpox, or any contagious DIS
case or diseases apprehended to endanger
the health OF the city.
Sec. 2T. The said board shall make
such rules and regulations for the govern
ment Of the quarantine or health ot the
city as from time to time 1t shall deem
necessary, and the physicians or health
officers In charge of any quarantine sta-
ton or place shall have power to MAKO
and enforce such regulations as may os
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. 2s. The Board OF Health shall
cause to be kept record of all births.
deaths, interments and cremation occur
ring In said city: such record must be
kept In the Health ONCE. and shall be
open for the inspection OF any person
during Office hours. All physicians and
midwives In said city shall report to the
Health Omcer, on or before the 9TH of each
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.
See. 279. No person shall deposit In
any cemetery or inter in said city any
human body without first having obtained
and filed at the Health Office certificate
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 tho deceased, and obtained
from the Health Oficer burial permit.
Physicians, when deaths occur in their
practice, must give the certificate herein
mentioned, unless the physician believes
such death to be proper case for inves-
tigation by the Coroner; nor shall any
human body be removed or disint terred
without the permit of the Board of
Health or Health officer or by order of
the Coroner.
Sec. 2So. Superintendents Of cemeteries
within the boundaries Of the city must
return to the Health Officer on each
Monday the names of all persons in
TERED, cremated or deposited within
their respective cemeteries for the pre-
cedlng week.
Sec. PSI. 1t shall be unlawful to disin-
ter or exhume from grave, vault or
other burial place within the limits If
the city the body or remains of any de-
ceased person, unless permit for SO do
Ing shall have been first obtained from
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
city unless the person or persons trans
porting such bodies or remains shall first
obtain from the Health Officer a permit
in writing therefor. When an applicant
for permit to disinter a body shall de-
sire to remove said body beyond the linn
It's of said city, and shall SO state on
making application. the permit. If the
same be issued, shall include the right to
disinter and remove. Said permit shall
accompany the body or remains.
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 Officer 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-
tion Of remains to be transported and re-
moved.
Sec. 2s3. Nothing in this charter shall
be taken to apply to the removal Of the
remains of a deceased person from one
place Of tnterment to another place
within the same cemetery.
transportation or shall transport upon
any boat, vessel 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-
from the Health Omcer. Any person vi
olating any Of the provisions of this Sec
tion shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 2s5. Any member of the Board of
Health or the Health Oficer may admin
lister oaths on business connected with
the Health Department.
Sec. 2ss. All police officers shall be ex-
onlcio 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, Ash,
poultry, bread, butter, lard, cheese.
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
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-
biological examinations in cases of infec-
ticus and contagious diseases, and per-
form such other duties as said board
may prescribe.
Sec. 2sS. The Board Of Health shall ap-
point such inspectors. subordinates and
employees, subject to the civil service
rules OF this charter, as may be neces-
sary to carry out the provisions Of this
| article.
ARTICLE XXVI.
BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
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