The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-10
BY AUTHORITY
ORDINANCE NO. 9

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
TTON OF THE ORDINANCE.
BE 1t Ordained by the People of the
City and County of Honolulu.
SECTION l. The Board of Superv1-
sors of the City and County OF Homo
lulu shall appoint 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 supervi-
sion overall 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
ain 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-
SOM 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-
Wy 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 mis- discretion
or when directed by the Board of Sup
ervisors, issue 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-
ton 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 3. 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 or
Fire Departments and all policemen,
firemen and bandsmen who may apply
for sick leave permits.
SECTION 4. No person or thing liza
BILE to propagate cholera, typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, diphtheria smallpox or
other contagious or infectious disease
shall be brought within the limits OF
the City and County of Honolulu
Whenever it shall come to the knowl
edge of any person that any one is sick
with any contagious or infectious dis
ease, he shall Immediately give notice
thereof to the City and County Physi-
clan. No person without permit
from the City and County Physician
shall carry or remove from one build
ing to another any person sick with
any contagious or infectious disease,
nor shall any person so sick be shipped
or removed from the City and County
of Honolulu to any other place, except
under the direction and by permission
of the City and County Physician.
SECTION 5. In case of pestilence
or epidemic disease or danger there
from, if the sanitary condition of the
city requires, it shall be the duty OF
the City and County Physician to adopt
all such precautions as in his judgment
the public health requires, in order to
prevent the introduction or spread OF
any contagious or infectious disease.
SECTION 6. Any person who shall
violate any of the provisions of this
Ordinance shall be deemed guilty Of
misdemeanoT, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine not
exceeding Five Hundred $500 ,00) Dol
lars, or by Imprisonment not exceed
ing a term of six months or by both
such fine and imDrisOnment