The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23


 9E1 To visit the county jail once each month and to make careful investigation thereof as respects the drinking water. the food. clothing and bedding, supplied to the prisoners. also, the ventilation ar space, bathing and heating facilities closets and drainage, etcetera, and when he finds any of said supplies inadequate in quantity or bad In quality. or any of said conditions unsanitary, 1t shall be his duty to make in writing cireumstantial 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) 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- tv' reports thereof, furnishing such in- formation and at such intervals as said State Health Officer may require. 1 Sec. 8. The salary of the County Health | Officer shall be fixed by the court of coun- | ty commissioners, or board of revenue, provided that Tn counties of fifty thou sand inhabitants, or less. the annual
 
 thousand of population. or fractions there of: in counties of more than fifty thou
 sand and less than one hundred thousand | inhabitants, the annual salary shall be
 at the rate of $500 per thousand of popu-
 lation for the first fifty thousand and
 $500 for each thousand in excess thereof | to one hundred thousand of population:
 In counties of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants the annual salary | 10 at ha raj 10 af fba 3ry fifty thousand, $500 for the next fifty thousand and g. 50 for each thousand in
 excess of one hundred thousand of popu-
 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 l 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
 
 pective counties a larger sum as a salary
 if in their judgment they deem wise. 1 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-
 move such assistant health officers at
 pleasure Said assistant county health of- hcers 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 lcounty health officers, instead of to the county health officer whenever conven-
 fence clearly justifies 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 presidential 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 l days of each calendar month be the duty
 of every physician and every person act 1 ing as midwife to report to the county
 health officer all cases of midwifery or
 child-birth 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. II. 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 justifies to one of the | assistant county health officers the names l of such person treated or attended by such physician or midwife who died with l 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.
 l Sec. 12. 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 another of said health officers, specify 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. l3 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- tagious. or pestilential in character. 1t 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 he inc duty or such health officer to thorouehlv investigate and decide upon the character or such disease, In making which inyestI- gation ne shall call to his aid such mem- bers of the Committee of Public Health of the County Board of Health as may be available. Should doubt or difference of opinion arise as to the nature of the disease the State Health Officer shall be summoned to assist in the investigation and shall respond to such call as prompt ly as circumstances will admit. Should the disease prove to be leprosy. cholera, typhus fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis or spotted fever, yellow fever, scarlet fever, bubonic plague. glanders, smallpox, diph- | theria. or of other nature believed to be gravely contagious. infectious or pesti- lential, or If the disease be known to be either one of those just enumerated and l be so reported it shall be the duty of the