The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-09-17
BOARD OF HEALTH
by the City Council
The New Law an Improve.
nent.

The City Council met last We'd
nesday and appointed Drs. J. D.
Traban, F. r. Tolson, P. M.
G;rard, N. P. Moss and Mr.. VIM.
| Clegg members of the municipal
board of health, created by act No.
| 1o2 of the last session of the Cen
eral Assembly. Under this act the
City Councils and Police Juries of
! the different towns and parishes are
authorized 10 form local boards
which are intended to operate with
the State board of health and to
carry out a uniform system Of quar-
antine throughout this State. The
law provides that the board shall
| meet on the Tuesday following its
appointment. The members are
appointed for four years without
pay, excepting the chairman. who
may receive a salary fixed by the
Council. The board is empowered
to appoint a health officer to en-
force the requirements of the board
| in matters of sanitation, and to act
as secretary.
The board shall have authority
to pass health and sanitary ordi-
nances for defining and abating
nuisances dangerous to the public
health, to regulate drainage and
| ventilation with reference to human
habitation and places of business
and public resort; to regulate the
carving on of trade and business
injurious to public health; for the
| disposition of focal matte and
garbage, to regulate the erection of
building with due regard to the fill
ing of lots and the grading thereof,
and the arrangements of said build
| ings; for the vacation of, demolish-
ings of buildings for the protection
of public health; for the regstra-
ton of births, deaths and marriages
and the keeping of vital statistics to
be reported to the State board of
health.
The purpose of the law is to en-
trust full power to the local boards
to establish, control and admins
| ter all matters Of strictly and purely
local sanitation, not affecting other
| portions of the State.
| In the event that case of con-
| tagious or infectious disease is re-
| ported to the local board it shall
be Immediately isolated aud the
fact communicated to the State
board. On receipt Of such infor-
nation, the president Of the State
! board shall, if he deem the emer-
gency sufficient and necessary, send
| disease and if it is declared to be of
| a contagious or infectious nature,
| liable to spread, the State board
! shall instruct the health officer of
the local board as to what steps are
| to be taken. In the event that the
local authorities fail or neglect to
so act, the State board shall take
| charge and manage the case through
| its own officers and employees at
| the expense of the municipality.
In case that any parish, town or
city becomes infected with any con-
tagious or infectious disease, tie
State board is empowered to issue a
proclamation, declaring the facts
and ordering it in quarantine, or
de ring also the local boards of 9th
er towns and parishes to quarantine
against the infected locality. The
State board will establish the rules
and regulations, terms and condi-
tons on which interco urse will be
Permitted. The State board will
render to the municipal boards all
the financial assistance in its power.
The act is rather long and we
are unable 10 print it all. Suffice
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