The herald., 1898-10-27
TEE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER

cd for that purpose any and all persons
anected with smallpox from within such
houses as cannot be properly quara"-
tined.
Sec. 27G. 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 cors or othei
public conveyances bound for this citv
before the same shall land or stop at any
depot or landing or stopping place tnerein,
TO stop or touch at any or either OF tHe
sites, places or boundaries selected ana
established for quarantine purposes, ana
leave all such immigrants, travellers OF
persons, and all such sick, diseased or un-
clean persons with their stores ana Dag
gage, IS in the opinion OF the ofncers sta
toned at such quarantine sites. places or
boundaries shall be deemed proper on hc,
count of existing or general report OF
cholera, smallpox. or any contagious us
ease or diseases apprehcnded to endaneer
the health of the city.
Sec. 277. The sold board shall make
such rules and regulations for the govern
ment of the quara antine or health or tne
city as from time to time it shall deem
necessary, and the physicians or hcalth
officers in charge of any quarantine STA
and enforce such regulations as may oc
necessary for the proper management anu
conducting thereof; and 1t snail De the
duty of all persons in quarantine, and all
agents, officers, policemen or others en-
poyed 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 crematons occur
ring In said city: such record must be
kept in the Health Office. 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 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. 2I9. 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 tho
name, age sex, color; place Of birth, oc, 1
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
tHe lHyslCldH peiloNcS
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
their respective cemeteries for the pre-
ceding week.
Sec. 2s1. 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 officer. Nor shall any body
or remains dsinterred, 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 permit
in writing therefor. When an applicant
for a permit to disinter body shall de-
sire to remove said body beyond the lin
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.
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,
obtaining 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-
ton Of remains to be transported and re-
moved
Sec. 7S3. 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, 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 Officer may admin
lister oaths on business connected with
the Health Department.
Sec. 2s6 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
poultry, bread, butter. lard, cheese,
fruits. vegetables, ice and water shall
be inspected and whenever necessary,
all such articles offered for sale for food
stroyed; and the Board Of Health shall
appoint some suitable and proper person
who shall be an experienced chemist and
bacteriologist and whose duty it shall be,
under the direction of said board. to
make examinations and analyses of all
such food products, and make all bacte-
riological examinations in cases of infec-
tious and contagious diseases, and per-
form such other duties as said board
may prescribe.
Sec. 2SS. The Board of Health shall ap-
no,nt 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.
RIJII.,oING DEPARTMENT.
Sec. $50. There is hereby created a
ruilding Department In the City of Los
Angeles which shall be furnished hy the
I,o,lncll with Office rooms and necessary
supplies for the transaction of business.