Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-11-16
Ordinance No. IS.

SA0A40n&N kvOH We
An ordinance relating TO health and quarantine,
establishing Board of Health, prescribing
penalties for certain violations, and repeating
Ordinance No. % and Sec 81 of Ordinance No. 6
Be 1t Ordained by the Mayor and City Council
of the City of Montpelier, Idaho.
Sec 1. A Board of Health is hereby estab
lished In the City OF Montpelier, Idaho, consist
ing Of the Mayor, one member OF the Council
from each ward who shall be named and selected
by the Mayor with consent of the Council, the
City Physician and the Chief OF Police. The
above named city officials shall constitute said
Board of Health, and, as such Board shall
exercise supervision OF the general health Of the
city and shall have power to take all measures
necessary to protect and promote the health and
cleanliness thereof.
Sec. 2, The City OF Montpelier and all coun-
try embraced within limit OF five miles there
of is hereby declared subject to quarantine re-
gulations. and the City Physician is hereby de-
cared to be the quarantine physician.
Sec. g. The City Physician is hereby declar.
ed to be ex-officio the City Health oficer. AS
such officer it shall be his duty to advise tn
Board OF Health in all matters relating to the
public health OF the city. superintendent the
and perform all such duties as are now or may
hereafter be prescribed.
Sec. 4. The Board Of Health may at any
time when in its Judgment the public good de-
mands it, prohibit all public meetings or as
semblages OF any kind, or the keeping open OF
schools within any infected district; and may
also prescribe the time within which any person
dying from any contagious or infectious dis,
ease shall be inferred.
Sec. s. 1t any person shall be found in an
unhealthy condition from any contagious and
infections disease within the said quarantine
limits, he shall, II in the judgment OF said
Board 1t is advisable or necessary be required
to remove forthwith in manner prescribed by
the health officer to such place as the said
Board may direct and provide, and II such per-
son shall neglect or fail to comply Herewith, it
shall be the duty of the Board to remove such
person and such removal must be at his own
expense II in the Judgment of the Board it
shall be deemed advisable for any person so
affected to remain in his usual place of abode
for care and treatment. 1t shall compel a strict
quarantine of said place of abode by causing to
be kept displayed conspicuously on said prem
Uses during the period of danger suitable card,
to be provided by the Board of Health for such
purpose and by establishing guard at or near
said premises, IL deemed necessary, and by
regulating or prohibiting ingress and egress to
and from such premises, until all danger from
infection therein shall have ceased, and thor
ough measures for disinfecting said premises
shall have been taken.
Sec. 9. IL at any time the effects of any per
son be found in condition liable TO engender
any contagious or infectious disease, the same
may, at the discretion of the Board of Health
be removed and disinfected or destroyed at the
expense of the owner thereof. In the event OF
the removal of any person infected with any
contagious or infectious disease, the premises
from which he is removed and the household
thus exposed shall be strictly quarantined until
the danger of infection shall have passed and
such measures for the publication, disinfection
or destruction OF said premises shall be taken
as In the judgment of the Board shall be deemed
necessary; provided that before any property
real or personal, shall be destroyed by order of
the said Board the same shall be appraised by
three suitable and disinterested persons to be
selected by said Board.
Sec. z. Itshall be the duty OF every physician
in the City OF Montpelier and every physician
residing out OF said city who may practi ce
his profession therein to report to the CITY
Physician in writing as soon as he shall become
aware OF the fact, every patient who is infected
with any contagious or infectious disease such
as cholera, diphtheria, yellow fever. scarlet
fever, typhoid fever, measles mumps whoop-
ing cough, small pox, varioloid, or any of the
grades OF such diseases, and report to the same
officer every case of death from any OF said
diseases Immediately after 1t occurs.
Sec. 8. No person shall remove patient af.
fected with any of such diseases in any public
vehicle or from any house or place within said
city, or remove from any building or premises
any bed or bedding or any clothing worn by such
patient affected with any of such diseases with.
out the permission OF said Board OF Health
Sec. 9. The Board of Health shall have
power during the prevalence or any epidemic of
contagious disease 10 fumigate and disinfect any
premises which in its Judgment require disin.
fecting. The expense of all fumigating and dis. |
injecting In this or finance provided for shall be
Mt the expense OF the occupant of the premises |
SO fumigated and disinfected; provided, that If |
such occupant is IN INDECENT or in needy cir. |
cumstances said Board of Health may, upon |
proper showing to that effect order same done |
at the expense OF said city.
Sec. 10. Ne person shall tear down or re
move any card or other notice put IN by the |
Board of Health, nor in any manner hinder, In |
tCiACfC Win VI uCiuS bouiu III Ine PERFORM
ance OF it's duty.
Sec. IL. The parents, guardians or other |
persons having charge OF children who are af- |
fiicted with scarlet fever, diphtheria, small pox
or other contagious or infectious diseases, shall
not permit such child or children to attend |
school, or any other children In said household |
to attend school, after 1t becomes known TO
such parents or guardians that any of said
are afhicted with such disease with
o 1t permission OF the City Physician.
Sec H. The bodies of persons who have
died OF scarlet fever, diphtheria, small pox, or
other contagious infectious disease, shall not
be removed from the sick room until wrapped
In cloth saturated with solution Of corrosive |
(6o grains to one gallon OF water), and
laid body shall be buried Immediately.
Sec. 10. No person having any contagious or |
Infectious disease mentioned in this ordinance
hail go out in public or leave the quarantine