The herald., 1898-10-21
THE PROPOSED CITY CHAPTER

TIE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER
cd for that purpose any and all persons
aHected with smallpox from wthin SUI"
houses as cannot be properly quaran-
tined.
Sec. 276. The Board of Health, when-
ever ana at such time as by them 1t snan
be deemed necessary, may, by prociama-
tion, require all railroad cars or otnei
pubic 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 tne
sites. places or boundaries selected ana
established for quarantine purposes, ana
all such immigrantsd ar os uo
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 ac,
count of existing or general report OF
cholera, smallpox, or any contagious dis-
ease or diseases apprehended to endaneer
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 OF the
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 make
and enforce such regulations as may be
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 en-
ployed by the city about said quarantine
sta tions 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 atoms 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 ofiicer. 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 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 ONCE 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
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-
human body be removed or dislnterred
without the permit OF the Board of
Health or Health officer or by order of
the Coroner.
Sec. $780, superlntendents 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. PSI. 1t shall be unlawful to disin-
ter or exhume from a grave. vault or
other burial place within the limits II
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 disnterred. 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
porting such bodies or remains shall first
obtain from the Health Officer a permit
in writing therefor. When an applicant
for permit to dislnter a body shall de-
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 Ofncer 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 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. 1885, Nothing In this charter shall
remains of a deceased person from one
place Of interment to another place
within the same cemetery.
Sec. 2S4. No person shall receive for
or shall transport upon
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 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. 2se. All police officers shall be ex-
off1cio sanitary inspectors.
Sec. PSI. 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
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 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-
tious and contagious diseases, and per-
form such other duties as said board
may prescribe.
Sec. ass, The Board of Health shall ap-
point such inspectors. subordinates and
empioyess, 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.