The leader., 1900-02-07
CITY COUNCIL.

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Special Meeting, Monday, Jan. 80. 1900
At special meeting Of the Mayor
and Board Of Aldermen of the City OF
Brookhaven. Miss, held at the Mayors
office on Monday, the 10Th day Of Jan
uary, A. ID. 1900, at IL o'clock A. NJ,
there were present His Honor J. II.
Daughtry, Mayor; Aldermen WilIouuh-
by, Seavey, Abrams and Schnorren
berg: absent, Alderman A. n. Moretou.
His Honor, the Mayor, explained the
object Of the meeting was to make
rules and regulations to prevent the
spread OF smallpox within the iuris
diction of the municipality and to
adopt quarantine laws for that purpose
and to enforce tn same within ) miles
OF the corporate limits and to establish
a Pest House either within or without
the corporate limits and to provide for
the support and government of the
same, and it appearing to the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the City of
BrOokhaven, that there are severa!
cases of smallpox, contagious and in
fictitious disease within said limits, and
that there is great danger of its spread
ing and becoming epidemic
1t is ordained by the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the City of
Brookhaven that Board of Health be
and the the same is herenow establish
ed and created for said city as proyid-
ed under Chapters 60 and 80 of the
Code of 1892, consisting of the follow
ing named persons: DR.. J. H. johnson,
DR.. Ira Parsons. Chas. Schnorrenberp.
|. Abrams and j. III. Willoughby, whose
duty it shall be to pass all needful or
dinances, rules and regulations, to
prevent the introduction and spread
of smallpox and to establish and main
tain quarantine, and to have the same
enforced, and any violations of the
rules and regulations adopted by said
Board by any person or persons, whom
soever shall be guilty of misdemean-
or and on conviction shall be fined in
the sum of twenty-five dollars or be
imprisoned in the county Jail for 20
days or both.
And all rules and regulations adopt
ed and passed by said Board of Health
not in conflict with the rules and regu-
lations of the State Board of Health
shall be ordinances of the City of
Brookhaven, and it shall be the duty
of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of said city to enforce them as such.
1t is further ordained by the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the City of
Brookhaven that city physician or
physicians be employed whose duty it
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cases or suspicious cases reported to
him or them by the city marshal and
his assistants or any credible person:
to have control and care and charge of
the pest house or pest houses The
salary of said city physicians or physi-
clans is herenow fixed at $500 per day
or part of day whilst in the actual
attendance of the patient or patients
in quarantine or in the pest house,
which salary shall be paid out of the
the city treasury, until the meeting of
the Board of Supervisors. DR.. J. III.
Johnson and DR.. Ira Parsons are here
by elected city physicians by the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the City of
Brookhaven in accordance with this
ordinance.
1T IS FURTHER ORDAINED that the
Board of Health, as such, shall have
the power to employ guards and Off
GERS and make all necessary provisions
for the enforcement of such quaran-
tine as they may establish.
BE 1T FURTHER ORDAINED by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
City of Brookhaven that all orders,
rules and regulations passed and
adopted by the Board of Health shall
be reported to the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen, which shall be spread upon
the minutes and become ordinances of
the city of Brookhaven.
The above and foregoing ordinances,
because of their Importance, are to
take effect and be in force at once.
Said ordinances having been first
reduced to writing, we're read by the
clerk and vote taken thereon, which
resulted as follows Ayes, Schnorren-
berg, Abrams, Willoughby and Seavey.
Nays, none. Moreton absent and not
voting.
There being no further business the
meeting then adjourned.
J. B. DAUGHTRY, Mayor.
w. H. SEAvEy, City Clerk.