The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-26
ORDINANCE NO. 9.


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 L The Board of Supervf-
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 he
nxed 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
dlnance, 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 supervi-
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 ?. Any INDECENT sick per-
son desiring care and medical treat
ment at the expense of the City and
County shall maze application therefor
TO the City and County Physician. II
snail be the duty os the City and Coun-
" 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
OF When directed by the Board of Sun
5 ervisors, issue a permit to any such
| applicant, to enter any hospital or ON
er similar institution designated BY
J the Board of Supervisors for that pur-
= pose. The City and County Physician
5 shall have the right to visit at any
| time ANY hospital or other similar in
S stitution in which any such INDECENT
sick person has been placed for the
q purpose of ascertaining the condition
e or such person When in the opinion
Y OF the City and County Physician such
r INDECENT person no longer needs hospi-
S tai service, he shall forthwith notify
n such hospital or other similar institu-
: ton to discharge said INDECENT person.
e The City and County of Honolulu shall
not be liable to any hospital or other
g similar institution for the expenses OF
Z hospital service for such patient after
i such notice has been so given by the
u City and County Physician.
IL SECTION 3. The City and County
Physician shall attend and medically
III treat any SIGH or injured prisoner in
u the Honolulu Jail, or when necessary
u 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
y firemen and bandsmen who may apply
. for sick leave permits.
&c SECTION 4, No person or thing liza.
II Bile to propagate cholera, typhoid fever
scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox OF
~ other contagious or infectious disease
ie shall be brought within the limits o.
' the City and County of Honolulu
pr Whenever it shall come to the knowl
of edge OF any person that any one is sicl
Nv with any contagious or infectious dis
ne ease, he shall Immediately give notice
or thereof to the City and County Physi
s. clan. No person without a permi
u from the City and County Physician
m shall carry or remove from one build
in ing to another any person sick will
be any contagious or infectious disease
to nor shall any person so sick be shipped
mt or removed from the City and Count!
ay of Honolulu to any other place, excep
ty under the direction and by permission
~ of the City and County Physician.
SECTION 3. In case of pestilenc
ty or epidemic disease or danger there
I'm from, if the sanitary condition Of tn
Tx city requires. it shall be the duty o
CHI the City and County Physician to adop
CHI all such precautions as in his judgmen
IT. the public health requires, in order t
he prevent the introduction or spread G
his any contagious or infectious disease.
SECTION c. Any person who sha
all violate any of the provisions Of thi
MS Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and upon cOnvictio
on thereof shall be punished by a fine ne
me exceeding Five Hundred $500 O0l Do
JO) lars, or by Imprisonment not exceed
rm inc a term of six months or nv hot
'Ih such fine and Imprisonment.