The herald., 1898-10-22
THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER


ca for that purpose any and all persons
anected with smallpox from within such
tined.
Sec. 27G The Board of Health, when
ever and at such time as by them 1t snail
be deemed necessary. may, by proclama-
tlon, require all railroad cars or other
pubic conveyances bound for this CITY,
before the same shall land or stop at any
depot or landing or stopping place therein.
TO stop or touch at any or either OF the
sites, places or boundaries selected end
established for quarantine purposes, and
leave all such immigrants. travellers or
persons. and all such sick, diseased or un-
clean persons with their stores ana bag
gage. as in the opinion OF the offcers sta
TONED at such quarantine sites. places or
boundaries shall be deemed proper on &C.
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. 27. The said board shall make
such rules and regulations for the govern
ment Of the quarantine or health OF tho
city as from time to time 1t shall deem
necessary, and the physicians or ncalth
officers in charge of ony quarantine STA
tion or place shall have power TO MAKO
and enforce such regulations as may be
necessary for the proper management ana
conducting thereof; and 1t shall be the
duty Of all persons in quarantine. and all
agents. officers. policemen or others en-
ployed by the city about said quarantine
s ia tions or places, to carry out and obey
the same.
Sec. 27s. The Board OF Health shall
cause to be kept q record of all births.
deaths. interments and emations occur
ring In said city: such record must be
open for the inspection OF any person
during office hours. All physicians anu
midwives In said city shall report to the
Health Officer on or before the 5th of each
month, all births occurring In his or her
practice during the previous month. Any
physician or midwife failing 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
and filed at the Health Office a certificate
signed by licensed physician or Coroner,
setting forth as near as possible the
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
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 disinterred
without the permit of the Board of
Health or Health officer or by order OF
the Coroner.
Sec. $780, 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 a 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 a permit to disinter u body shall de-
sire to remove said body beyond the lim-
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 Oficer shall
prepare a book Of blank permits, In
proper form and consecutively numbered,
containing stubs on which, as well as in
the permit, shall be entered a record of
the transaction, giving the name, age,
sex. nativity. place OF burial and destlna-
tion Of remains to be transported and re-
moved.
Sec. 383. 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.
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-
MED by a permit for such transportation
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 Ofiicer may admin
lister oaths on business connected with
the Health Department.
Sec. 2ss. All police officers shall be ex-
ofilcio 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 tho 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
make examinations and analyses Of all
such food products, and make all bacte-
biological examinations IN cases of infec-
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
ruildipg Department in the City Of Los
which shall be furnished by the
supplies for the transaction of business.