The herald., 1898-10-31
THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER

THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER
ed for that purpose any and all persons
aHected with smallpox from WITHIN such
tined.
Sec. 276 Tho Board of Health. when
ever and at such time as by them 1t SHAH
be deemed necessary. may, by proclama-
tlon,. require all railroad cars or other
public conveyances bound for this cry.
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 tne
sites. places or boundaries selected ana
established for quarantine purposes, and
Ieave 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 or
boundaries shall be deemed proper on &C.
count OF existing or general report OF
cholera, smallpox, or any contagious dls-
ease or diseases 'apprehended to endanger
the health OF tho city.
Sec. 2T. The said board shall make
such rules and regulations for the govern
ment OF the quarantine or health OF inc
city as from time to time 1t shall deem
necessary, and the physicians or health
officers In charge of any 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, ana all
agents, officers policemen or others en-
ployed by the city about said quarantine
: ia tons or places, to carry out and obey
the same.
Sec. 2S. Tho Board Of Health shall
cause to be kept q record of all births,
deaths, interments and cremations occur
ring in said city; such record must be
kept in the Health Office, and shall be
open for the inspection OF any person
midwlves 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 falling to make such
report shall be guilty of a mlsdemeanor.
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 certificate
signed by licensed physician or Coroner.
settling forth as near as possible the
name, age, sex, color, place of birth, oc-
cupaton: date, locality and cause Of
from the Health Officer 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-
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. $50. 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-
eedlng week.
Sec. PSI. 1t shall be unlawful to disin-
ter or exhume from a grave, vault or
other burial place within the limits of
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 Officer. Nor shall any body
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
obtain from the Health Officer a permit
In writing therefor. When an applicant
for permit to disinter 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 tho
and remove. Said permit shall
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 book of blank permits, in
proper form and consecutively numbered,
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 destina-
tion of remains to be transported and re-
Sec. 2S3. Nothing in this charter shall
be taken to apply to the removal of tho
remains of a deceased person from ono
place of interment to another place
within the same cemetery.
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 permit for such transportation
plating any Of the provisions of this sec
ton shall be guilty Of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 2s5 Arv member OF the Board of
Health or tn Health Officer may admin
lister oaths on business connected with
the Health Department.
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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
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
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-
biological examinations In cases OF infec-
Lious 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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