The herald., 1898-10-17
THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER

THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER
ed Tor that purpose any and all persons
anected with smallpox from witnln suSn
tined.
Sec. 276. The Board of Health. when
ever and at such time as by them 1t snail
be deemed necessary, may. by prociama-
tion, require all railroad cars or other
public conveyances bound for this CITY.
before the same shall land or stop at any
oepot or landing or stopping piace tneiei,, ~
sites. places or boundaries selected ana
established for quarantine purposes, anu
leave all such immigrants: travellers OF
persons. and all such sick, diseased or un-
clean persons with their stores ana bag
gage. as in the opinion Of the officers sta
TONED at such quarantine sites, places OF
boundaries shall be deemed proper on ac,
count of existing or general report OF
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 regulations for the govern
ment of the quarantine or health or the
necessary. and the physicians or health
officers In charge Of any quarantine sta
ton or place shall have power to make
and enforce such regulations as may oe
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
ftations or places, to carry out and obey
the same.
Sec. 27s. The Board of Health shall
cause to be kept record of all births,
deaths. interments and crema tions occur
ring In SAID city: such record must be
open for the inspection of any person
during Office hours. All physicians and
midwives In said city shall report to the
Health Officer. on or before the 5th of each
practice during the previous month. Any
physician or midwife falling to make such
report shall be guilty Of q misdemeanor.
Sec. 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 a 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 the deceased. and obtained
from the Health Officer a burial permit.
Physicians. when deaths occur In their
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 disinterred
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
return to the Health Officer on each
Monday the names of all persons in
tered, cremated or deposited within
ceding week.
Sec. 2s1. It shall be unlawful to disin-
ter or exhume from grave, vault or
other burial place within the limits II
the city the body or remains of any de-
ceased person, unless a permit for so do
ing shall have been first obtained from
the Health Offlcer. Nor shall any body
or remains disinterred: exhumed or taken
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
in writing therefor. When an applicant
for permit to disinter a body shall de-
sire to remove said body beyond the lin
its 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.
Sec. 2S2. 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 Officer shall
prepare a book of blank permits, in
proper form and consecutively numbered,
containing stubs on which. as we'll as in
the permit, shall be entered a record Of
the transaction, giving the name, age,
SEX nativity, place Of burial and destina-
ton Of remains to be transported and re-
moved.
Sec. 3S3. 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. ot
Sec. 2S4. No person shall receive for
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 Officer. Any person vi
olating any OF the provisions of this Sec
tion shall be guilty Of misdemeanor.
Sec. 2S5. Any member of the Board of
Health or the Health Officer may admin
lister oaths on business connected with
the Health Department.
Sec. 2S6 All police officers shall be ex-
offlcio sanitary inspectors.
Sec. 2S7. Under the supervision and di-
rection of the Board OF Health, all mar
kets and dairies doing business within
for food, including milk meat. fish,
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 DO condemned and de-
stroyed; and the Board Of Health shall
appoint some suitable and proper person
who shall be an experienced chemist and
and whose duty 1t shall be,
under the direction Of, said board, to
such food products. and make all bacte-
biological examinations in cases of iufec-
tious 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.
Sec cS9 There Is hereby created a
r,,ildinr Department in the CITY of Los