The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
NO. 133.

An ordinance to create a board of health
define its powers and duties, establish a
quarantine hospital and pest house, employ a
physician; prevent the spread of contagious
disease in the city of McCook, and provide
penalties for the violation hereof; and to repeal
ordinance No. 81, passed and approved August
IA, 1891, on the same subject.
Be it ordained by the mayor and city council of
McCook, Nebraska:
Sec. /. The board of health of the city of
McCoOk shall consist of the mayor, who shall
be chairman; the city physician, who shall be
secretary the chief of police, who shall be
health officer and the president of the city
council.
A majority of said board shall constitute a
quorum to enact ordinances for the enforce
ment of all rules, regulations and orders of said
b ard, and provide fines and punishment for a
violation thereof.
Said board of health shall have power to
make all needful rules and regulations relating
to matters of health and sanitation of said city.
including the removal of dead animals, the
sanitary condition of the streets and alleys and
vacant grounds, of stock yards, cattle and hog
cess pools, stables and all buildings and places
not specified where filth nuisances or offensive
matter is kept or is Liable to or does accumu-
late.
TO regulate, suppress and prevent the occur
ance of nuisances and enforce all laws of the
state and ordinances of the city relating to the
same as to the matter of health and sanitation
of the city.
Said board shall also have control of all con-
tagiouS and infectious diseases and the care
and treatment, regulation and prevention there
of, of hospitals, dlspensaries and places of
treatment of the sick and of matters relating to
the same under such restrictions and provisions
as may be provided by ordinances of said city.
Sec. 2. The mayor, with the consent of the
city council. shall appoint a city physician, who
shall be a resident practicing physician. He
shall hold said office during the pleasure of the
mayor who appointed him.
In case of vacancy, the office shall be filled by
the mayor, in the manner aforesaid.
He shall receive as compensation for his
services the sum of 81, for each visit necessarily
made in and about the treatment Uf any patti nts
that may be necessary Co be treated for any
contagious disease aforesaid, and as secretary
of said board of health he shall keep a record of
all its transactions which he shall record in a
book, and do whatever other duty that may be
necessary to perform by order of said board.
The chief of police shall be the health officer,
who shall execute all orders of the board of
health, with authority to arr st and confine any
person or persons who violates any of the
ordinances, rules and regulations of the board,
and perform such other duties as may be reQuir-
ed OF him by said board.
Sec. 3. The mayor shall call a meeting of
said board whenever IN his opinion the public
safety requires to prevent the suread of infec-
tious, contagious and dangerous diseases and
to take action that may be necessary for the
health and sanitation of the city, and the
D overs and duties herein enumerated shall
extend within a limit offTe miles of the city
of McCook, and authority to enforce those
provisions shall be co-extensive Herewith.
Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate any of
the provisions of this ordinance, or the ordi-
nances, rules and regulations of the board of
health shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any
sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, ESQ. CO., and
shall be committed until such fine and costs of
prosecution are paid.
That ordinance no. 81, of the city of McCook.
passed and approved August II, 1894, be. and
the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. .. This ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage, approval
and publication.
ISEALl
Attest: W. A. MIDDLETON, II. P. WAITE.
City Clerk. Mayor.