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<br />CHAPTER XX.
<br />CITY PHYSICIAN.
<br />Sec. 333. Election, term and compensation.
<br />The Council shall elect one of the practicing physicians of Ilse
<br />city to the office of City Physician, and such officer shall hold his
<br />position for the term of two years, except when elected to fill the
<br />vacancy when it shall be for the unexpired term. He shall receive
<br />such compensation for his services as may be fixed by the Council.
<br />See. 334. Same—duties.
<br />He shall visit and attend all charity patients reported to him
<br />whether infectious, contagious, medical or surgical, and when, in
<br />his discretion, he may deem it necessary, may send such patients
<br />to one of _the hospitals designated by the ordinances for the care
<br />of charity patients.
<br />He shall, upon the request of the Mayor or any policeman, in-
<br />spect any tramp or person under arrest who may be suspected of
<br />being the victim of any contagious or infectious disease.
<br />He shall inspect the public schools of the city and see that they
<br />are kept in good sanitary condition, and that the laws of health
<br />are observed in their management.
<br />He shall inspect all slaughter houses within one mile of the
<br />city limits and report to the Board of Health any neglect of san-
<br />itary laws.
<br />He shall examine specimens of milk taken by himself from the
<br />distributing carts at least every two months and report same to
<br />the Board of Health when below standard. ( Standard ; 11 per
<br />cent. total solids -1028. to 1035. Sp. Gr.)
<br />He shall visit all dairies supplying milk to the city once every
<br />quarter and oftener if he shall deem it necessary, and report to
<br />the Board of Health any failure to comply with necessary clean-
<br />liness and sanitation.
<br />He shall examine ail claims against the city for medicines or
<br />druggists' supplies made on prescriptions given by him, and, he -
<br />CHAPTER XXI.
<br />BOARD OF I19AI.TH.
<br />Sec. 336. Oomposition, organization, etc.
<br />The Board of Health shall be composed of the City Physician,
<br />who shall be the President of the Board, and one member of the
<br />Council from each ward, one of whom shall be the Chairman of
<br />the Committee on Streets and Sanitation.
<br />Seo. 387. President of the board—his duties.
<br />The President of the Board may convene it as often as he may
<br />think proper; he shall preside at all meetings of the Board; sign
<br />the minutes; make reports to the Council; correspond with other
<br />boards of health, and do all other things necessary to facilitate
<br />the Board in the proper and efficient exercise of its functions.
<br />He shall keep a record of all births and deaths, issue burial
<br />permits, keep records of all sickness reported to him by the phy-
<br />sicians of the city, and shall make a summary of all reports sub-
<br />mitted to him by the practicing physicians, as required of them
<br />by section 348, and submit the same to the Council at each reg-
<br />ular monthly meeting. He shall also report to the Council any
<br />physician who may fail to make his monthly report, as required
<br />by section 348 of these ordinances.
<br />Sec. 338. Monthly and annual reports.
<br />The Board of Health shall report to the Council monthly the
<br />sanitary condition of the city, and shall further consider and re-
<br />port upon such matters as may be referred to them by the Coun-
<br />cil, or upon which they may deem it expedient to report. An-
<br />nually, on or before the 15th day of August, the Board of Health
<br />shall report to the Council the amount of all expenditures and
<br />for what purpose made during the previous fiscal year, also an es-
<br />timate of the appropriation necessary for the ensuing year, to-
<br />gether with such other matters and suggestions as they may deelll
<br />appropriate.
<br />fore such accounts are paid, they shall be approved by him. He
<br />shall also examine all bills of hospitals for patients remanded
<br />thereto by him and, before such bills are paid, they shall be ap.
<br />proved by him.
<br />Sec. $36. Books and records --custody of.
<br />The City Physician shall be the custodian of all N)oks, records
<br />and papers belonging to the Health Department, and when such
<br />records are not in actual use, they shall be placed in the vault in
<br />the City Hall.
<br />Sec. 839. Injurious fruit, fish, etc.
<br />The Board of Health shall have power, whenever they dela
<br />it necessary for the preservation of the health of the citizens, to
<br />prohibit the sale of fruits, fish and other articles which they MY
<br />consider injurious; and they may, from time to time, ream'
<br />mend to the Council the adoption of such regulations as they
<br />may think necessary for the public health.
<br />Sec. W. Removal of the sick.
<br />The Board of Health is hereby empowered to order the re*
<br />movai of all persons afflicted with any contagious disease, pro,
<br />vided proper isolation cannot be maintained at place of sickness
<br />to some safe and proper place within the jurisdictio„ of the cor
<br />poration, when in their opinion, the public safety and the health
<br />of the city require the same; to rent a suitable place for their
<br />comfort and accommodation; to hire nurses and pron,ide the pec,
<br />essaries for such as are in indigent circumstances.
<br />Any person, either parent, guardian, master, mistress, or owner
<br />of the house, where such disease may be (or the disease them'
<br />selves, when responsible persons) refusing to comply with 0
<br />order of the Board of Health, through its president or oth6
<br />authorized agent, shall be fined $2 per hour during the time of
<br />such refusal to comply with the order aforesaid, to I)e recovered
<br />by warrant before the Police Justice, as other fines of the city,
<br />Provided, nothing in the foregoing shall be construed to preVe"t
<br />the friends and relatives of the diseased aforesaid from remov
<br />inl; them to places prepared by themselves when such places are
<br />approved by the Board of Health, nor to authorize them to re'
<br />move any subject, at a period of the disease, when the life would
<br />be endangered thereby.
<br />Sec. 341. Quarantine.
<br />Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Mayorthat
<br />a malignant or contagious epidemic disease prevails, it shall
<br />be
<br />his dirty, with the advice of the Board of Health, to quarantiee
<br />against the introduction of said disease in the city, and make
<br />such regulations for the preservation of the health of the i"
<br />habitants of the city not inconsistent with existing; la%vs, as they
<br />deem necessary or expedient to carry into effect the object of this
<br />section.
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