The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-07
BY AUTHORITY
ORDINANCE NO. 9.

ORDINANCE NO. 8.
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR
THE CARE OF THE INDECENT
AND OTHER SICK OF THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU,
PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINT
MENT OF A CITY AND COUNTY
PHYSICIAN AND PRESCRIBING
HIS DUTIES, AND PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR ANY VIOLA
TON OF THE ORDINANCE.
Be 1t Ordained by the People of the
City and County of Honolulu
SECTION /. The Board of Supervi-
sors of the City and County of Homo
lulu shall appoint a suitable person as
City and County Physician for said !
City and County whose salary shall be
fixed by the Board of Supervisors. Said |
City and County Physician shall have !
all of the powers, and, shall perform
all of the duties prescribed by this Or |
dinance, and shall have such other |
powers and perform such other duties |
as may be prescribed by the Board of
Supervisors The City and County
Physician shall have general supervl-
sion over all sanitary and health mat
ters in the City and County of Homo
lulu, and shall supervise all of the acts
and doings of all sanitary, health, food
and other Inspectors in said City and
County. 1t shall be the duty of the
City and County Physician to enforce
all sanitary and health Ordinances OF
the City and County, and he shall have
all necessary and proper powers for
such purpose.
SECTION 2. Any INDECENT sick per-
son desiring care and medical treat
ment at the expense of the City and
County shall make application therefor
to the City and County Physician. 1t
shall be the duty of the City and Coun-
w Physician to investigate all such
applications, and in proper cases in his
discretion, or when so directed by the
Board of Supervisors, shall care for and
medically treat such person at the ex-
pense of the City and County of Homo
lulu. The City and County Physician
may in proper cases, in his discretion
or when directed by the Board of Sup
ervisors, issue a permit to any such
applicant to enter any hospital or 9TH
er similar institution designated by
the Board of Supervisors for that pur-
pose The City and County Physician
shall have the right to visit at any
time, any hospital or other similar in
stitution in which any such INDECENT
sick person has been placed for the
purpose of ascertaining the condition
of such person. When in the opinion
of the City and County Physician such
INDECENT person no longer needs hospi-
tai service, he shall forthwith notify
such hospital or other similar institu-
tion to discharge said INDECENT person.
The City and County of Honolulu shall
not be liable to any hospital or other
similar institution for the expenses of
hospital service for such patient after
such notice has been so given by the
City and County Physician.
SECTION g. The City and County
Physician shall attend and medically
treat any sick or injured prisoner in
the Honolulu Jail. or when necessary
in any police station in the City and
County, and shall examine all appli-
cants for employment in the Police OF
Fire Departments and all policemen
firemen and bandsmen who may apply
for sick leave permits.
SECTION 4. No person or thing LA
BILE to propagate cholera, typhoid fever
scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox OF
other contagious or infectious disease
shall be brought within the limits o
the City and County of Honolulu
Whenever it shall come to the knowl
edge of any person that any one is sicl
with any contagious or infectious dis
ease he shall Immediately give notice
thereof to the City and County Physi
clan. No person without a permi
from the City and County Physician
shall carry or remove from one build
ing to another any person sick witt
any contagious or infectious disease
nor shall any person so sick be shippeu
or removed from the City and Count
of Honolulu to any other place, excep
under the direction and by permission
of the City and County Physician.
SECTION 5. In case of pestilenc
or epidemic disease or danger there
from, if the sanitary condition of tn
city requires, it shall be the duty O
the City and County Physician to adop
all such precautions as in his judgmen
the public health requires, in order t
prevent the introduction or spread @
any contagious or infectious disease.
SECTION 6. Any person who shal
violate any of the provisions Of thi
Ordinance shall be deemed guilty OF
misdemeanor, and upon convidtio
thereof shall be punished by fine no
exceeding Five Hundred ($5OO.O0) Dol