The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-07-24

/ were issued, the records to be upon sep
arate books furnished for that purpose.
To enable the Health officer to keep
the record mentioned, II shall be the
dtuy of the physician who was last in
attendance upon such deceased person
or If no physician was In attendance,
( then it shall he the duty of the person
at whose house or in whose presence
the person died, to report the death to
the health officer within twelve hours
after the death occurs, upon one Of the
blanks furnished by the Board of
Health for that purpose, filling in the
blank spaces so as to give all the In
formation required by the blank so
furnished. 1t shall also be the duty of the
physician, midwife or other person in
confinement, within thirty days there
after, to report the birth of any child
borr, on a blank to be furnished by the
Board of Health for that purpose, fill
ing the banks so as to give all the in
formation therein required. In case of
still birth it shall be the duty of the
physician. midwife or other person in
charge during the confinement, to re-
port the same within twelve hours, as
in other case of death, on one of the
blanks above mentioned, furnished for
that purpose, giving the details as re-
quired in other cases of death. The
physician or other person In charge OF
a person, sick from contagious or in
fectioEs disease, shall report the same
on a blank to be furnished by the
| Board of Health, properly filled in to
give all the information required by
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part of any physician, midwife or other
person mentioned, to file the certifi-
cate hereby required, and within the
time required, shall subject the person
guilty of such negligence to fine Of
Section 8. No burial shall be lawful
nor shall any dead body be removed
from the city, until permit for such
burial or removal shall have first
been obtained from the Board of Health
or the Health Officer. The permit
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cate of death. such as is required in
section s, and signed by the attending
physician, If any, and If not, then by
the person in charge of the house where
the death occurred, or in case of the
death not occurring in any house, by
any person cogniZant of the facts and
| circumstances of the death. : If the de-
ceased person is the subject of an in
quest, the coroner of other officer hold
I ing the inquest shall sign the certifi-
cate.
Section 10. No person shall transport
or remove the body of any dead person,
who died of smallpox, cholera, diph-
iberia, or other contagious disease,
without permit from the Board Of
| Health or Health officer to remove the
same. And no burial or elimination OF
| any body shall be permitted in the
night time unless it shall be done for
good reasons, which shall be entered on
| the record book and kept by the Board
| of Health or Health Officer. Any IN
dertaker, sexton or other person, who
shall bury or exhume, or assist in the
! burial or exhumation of any dead per-
| son, or in the removal of a dead body
in violation of this ordinance shall upon
conviction pay fine of not less than
! fifty dollars.
Section IL. Every householder in the
| City of Caldwell in which a death shall
occur from cholera, or in which case
of cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
shall Immediately notify the Board of
Health thereof, and without permit SO
to, do, no clothing or other property,
| which has been exposed to contagiOn
or infection, shall be removed from the
house, nor shall any occupant leave the
same, and go to dwell elsewhere in the
city, without permit so to do from the
| Board of Health or Health Officer un-
til such dwelling has been thoroughly
disinfected Every physician or other
sick with any of the contagious dis
eases mentioned, shall, as soon as 1t is
known to them, report the same to the
location of the house.
Section IL. No person or thing liable
to propagate any of the diseases men
within the limits of the city of Cald-
well without the permission of the
Board of Health or Health Officer.
Whenever 1t shall come to the knowl-
edge of any person that any one is sick
with any of the contagious diseases
| mentioned in section IL, he sail imme-
diately give notice thereof to the Board
| any person without permit from the
Board of Health carry or remove from
one building to another any person sick
from any contagious disease; nor shall
any person so sick, be shipped or re-
moved from the city of Caldwell to any
other place, except under the direction
and permission OF the Board OF Health
Section 49, The Health officer shall
visit and examine, or cause to be visited
and examined, every sick person, who
shall be reported as sick with any of
the contagious or infectious diseases
mentioned in section II, and cause sucn
the pest house or other place provided
for persons sick with contagious DIS
ease, and when so removed to provide
them with suitable nurses, medical at
tendance and medicine. If the person
so treated is unable to bear the expense
thereof 1T shall be borne Vy the city or
county as the case may he.
Section IA. In case of pestilen"a or
epidemic disease, or danger therefrom,
IL the sanitary condition Of the city re-
quires, i shall be the duty of Tie
Health Officer to ado3t al such lre-
cautions as, in his judgment, the pub
lie health requires to prevent the spread
or introduction of any contagious dis
ease.
Health Officer shall have power to
cause any house or premises to be
cleaned, disinfected and closed to visi-
tors, while any person is sick therein,
ease; and may order any unwholesome
matter or substance, dirt or filth to be
removed and take any other measures
deemed necessary to prevent the spread
of any contagious or infectious disease.
Section 16. The Health officer shall
cause notice to be placed upon, or
near, any house in which any person
is sick with any contagious or infect
ious disease mentioned in section II,
upon which notice shall be printed the
name of the disease.
Section II. No domestic animal in
fected with any contagious or infect
ious disease shall be allowed to run at
large within the City of Caldwell, nor
shall any diseased animal be shipped
or removed from the premises of the
owner except under the supervision of
the Health Officer or the state veterin-
arian; and IL is hereby made the duty of
the Board of Health to make such dis
position Of any diseased animal, so as
to prevent a spread of the contagion
or infection. In all cases the Board of
Health or Health officer shall cooper
ate with the state veterinarian to Sc
cure the ends mentioned in this sec
ton.
Section is. Every owner or person in
charge of any animal which dies, shall
remove or cause to be removed the
body Of such animal, within six hours
! after death, to a place DESIGNATED nv