The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-23

to the prisoners, also, the ventilation, ar space, bathing and heating facilities closets and drainage, etcetera, ana when he finds any of said supplies inadequate in quantity or bad in quality, or any or said conditions unsanitary, 1t shall be his duty to make in writing a circumstantial report thereof to the Judge of Probate and County Commissioners, or Board Of Revenue. and to send a copy of said re- port to the county board of health and to the State Health officer. (G)s To dis charge such other health functions as are. or may be, required of him by law. GID To make to the County Board of Health such reports of his official transactions as said Board may require. CD To make to the State Health officer whenever a contagious, infectious, or pestilential disease appears, or prevails, in the coun- ty. reports thereof, furnishing such in- formation and at such intervals as said State Health Officer may require.
 Sec. 8. The salary of the County Health Officer shall be fixed by the court of conn- ty commissioners, or board of revenue, provided that in counties of fifty thou sand inhabitants, or less. the annual salary shall be at the rate of $500 per thousand of population. or fractions there- of: in counties of more than fifty theu- sand and less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, the annual salary shall be at the rate of $500 per thousand of popu- iation for the first fifty thousand and St. .OO for each thousand in excess thereof to one hundred thousand of population; in counties of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants the annual salary shall be at the rate of 5000 for the first fifty thousand, $500 for the next fifty thousand and g. 90 for each thousand in ofo hnn fhN,Icor nf lation; the population in each instance to be computed from the last United States census. Said salary shall be paid quarterly from the county treasury through warrants drawn on said treasury by the officer legally authorized to draw warrants on said county treasury. The county health officer shall enter, into bond, with sufficient sureties, payable to the judge of probate of the county in a sum equal to twice the amount of his salary with condition for the faithful per- formance of all such duties as are or may be, required of him by law; provided that nothing in this section shall be so con- strued as to prohibit the commis- sioner's courts or boards of revenue of the several counties of the State from paying the health officer of their res- pective counties a larger sum as a salary if in their judgment they deem wise.
 Sec. g. The county health officer shall, subject to the approval of the county board of health, appoint assistant county health officers, and so distribute them throughout the county, as public con- venience may require and said county health officer may, on like approval, re-N move such assistant health officers at pleasure. Said assistant county health of- fcers shall keep registers of births. of deaths, and of infectious diseases, of the same character as those required to be kept by the county health officer. Phy- sicians. midwives. and other citizens, may report births and deaths to such assistant county health officers, instead of to the county health officer, whenever conven- fence clearly justifes such reports. As sistant county health officers shall be required to make to the county health officer such reports of births. deaths, and cases of pestflential or infectious diseases registered by them as the county board of health may from time to time pre- scribe.
 Sec. 10. It shall be within the first five days of each calendar month be the duty of every physician and every person act ing as midwife to report to the county health officer all cases of midwifery or childbirth attended during the preceding month, or if no such case has been at tended, during the preceding month, to report that fact. In each such case at tended. said reports shall specify, as near as can be ascertained, the names places of birth, color and race of the parents; the sex, color, race and date of birth of child together with such other details as may be required by the State Board of Health.
 Sec. Il. It shall within the first five days of each calendar month be the duty of every physician and midwife to report to the county health officer, or if con- venience clearly justif1es to one of the assistant county health officers the names of such person treated or attended by such physician or midwife who died with in the last preceding month, giving the date place, sex, color and race of the deceased, and so far as can be ascer- tained the age, and cause of said death, together with such other details as may be required by the county board of health and approved by the State Board of Health.
 Sec. F. Every physician who Is called to case of infectious, contagious, or presidential disease, shall as soon there after as can be done, make a report thereof to the county city, or town health officer, according to whether the case is located in the jurisdiction of one or
  ing the name of the patient, the locality at which the patient may be found, the character of the disease together with such other details as will furnish adequate information of the situation.
 Sec. 13.. Whenever a disease appears in county, incorporated city or town, sus- pected by any physician or midwife or by any person on whose premises such disease appears, of being infectious, con tagtous. or pestilental in character it shall be the duty of such physician, or midwife, or of such person to report his or her suspicion to the health officer having jurisdiction over the locality where such case appears, whereupon 1t shall be the outy or such health officer to thoroughly investigate and decide upon the character oL such disease. in making which investi- gation ne shall call to his aid such mem pers or the Committee of Public Health oI the county Board of Health as may oe aVdiiaole Should doubt or difference oi opIilloi arise as to the nature of the olsease the State Health Officer shall be summoned to assist in the investigation and shall respond to such call as nrornnt ly as circumstances will admit. Should the disease prove to be leprosv cholera typhus fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis or spotted fever, yellow fever, scarlet fever bubonc plague, glanders, smallpox diph therfa, or of other nature believed to he gravely contagious, infectious or nestI- lential, or if the disease be known to he either one of those just enumerated and be so reported, il shall be the duty of tbe health officer of the County, city or town to promptly notify in writing the proha+a judge and commissioners, or board of rev enue, of the County. the Mayor or inten-