Compensation of

officers of Health Department.

Expenses of Health Officer.

General
powers of
Board of
Health.

Ship

masters to report infected

vessels.

3010. The following annual salaries are allowed to the officers of the Health Department: Health Officer, twenty-four hundred dollars; Deputy Health Officer, eighteen hundred dollars; Secretary, two thousand one hundred dollars; Health Inspectors, one thousand two hundred dollars each; Market Inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; and Messenger, nine hundred dollars. All salaries must be paid monthly in equal installments, out of the General Fund of the City and County of San Francisco, in the same manner as the salaries of the other officers of the city and county are paid.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 7.

3011. The Health Officer, in addition to his salary, receives such sums for the necessary expenses of his office as the Board of Health may direct, and the Auditor must audit and the Treasurer pay such sums out of the General Fund. The Board of Supervisors must provide proper offices for the Health Department. NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 8.

3012. The Board of Health have general supervision of all matters appertaining to the sanitary condition of the city and county, including the City and County Hospital, the County Jail, Almshouse, Industrial School, and all public health institutions provided by the City and County of San Francisco; and may adopt such orders and regulations, and appoint or discharge such medical attendants and employés, as to them seems best to promote the public welfare; and may appoint as many Health Inspectors as they deem necessary in time of epidemics.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 9.

3013. Shipmasters bringing vessels into the harbor of San Francisco, and masters, owners, or consignees having vessels in the harbor which have on board any cases of Asiatic cholera, smallpox, yellow, typhus, or

ship fever, must report the same, in writing, to the Health Officer before landing any passengers, casting anchor, or coming to any wharf, or as soon thereafter

they, or either of them, become aware of the exist ence of either of these diseases on board of their vessel.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 10.

and freight

not to be

landed without

permit.

3014. No captain or other officer in command of Passengers any vessel sailing under a register arriving at the port of San Francisco, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having charge of such vessel, must, under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, land or permit to be landed any freight, passengers, or other persons from such vessel until he has reported to the Health Officer, presented his bill of health, and received a permit from that officer to land freight, passengers, or other persons.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 11.

pilots.

3015. Every pilot who conducts into the port of Duties of San Francisco any vessel subject to quarantine or examination by the Health Officer, must:

1. Bring the vessel no nearer the city than is allowed by law;

2. Prevent any person from leaving and any communication being made with the vessel under his charge until the Health Officer has boarded her and given the necessary orders and directions;

3. Be vigilant in preventing any violation of the quarantine laws, and report without delay all such violations that come to his knowledge to the Health Officer;

4. Present the master of the vessel with a printed copy of the quarantine laws, unless he has one;

5. If the vessel is subject to quarantine by reason of infection, place at the masthead a small yellow flag.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec 12.

Penalty for

neglect of

3016. Every master of a vessel, subject to quaran

masters of tine or visitation by the Health Officer, arriving in the

vessels to

comply

with sanitary regulations.

Vessels from

infected

ports, etc., subject to quarantine.

port of San Francisco, who refuses or neglects either: 1. To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, when legally directed so to do; or,

2. To submit his vessel, cargo, and passengers to the Health Officer, and furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine what quarantine or other regulations they ought, respectively, to be subject; or,

3. To report all cases of disease, and of deaths occurring on his vessel, and to comply with all the sanitary regulations of the bay and harbor;

-Is liable in the sum of five hundred dollars for every such neglect or refusal.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec. 13. See Penal Code Cal., Sec. 376, for punishment of violations of quarantine laws by masters of vessels.

3017. All vessels arriving off the port of San Francisco from ports which have been legally declared infected ports, and all vessels arriving from ports where there is prevailing, at the time of their departure, any contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases, or vessels with decaying cargoes, or which have unusually foul or offensive holds, are subject to quarMasters to antine, and must be by the master, owner, pilot, or consignee reported to the Health Officer without delay. No such vessel must cross a right line drawn from Meiggs wharf to Alcatraz Island until the Health Officer has boarded her and given the order required by law.

report such vessels.

Such

vessels not to cross certain line.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec. 14.

Examina

tion and

of vessels

3018. The Health Officer must board

every

vessel

inspection subject to quarantine or visitation by him, immediately on her arrival, make such examination and inspection of vessel, books, papers, or cargo, or of persons on

by Health Officer.

board, under oath, as he may judge expedient, and determine whether the vessel should be ordered to quarantine, and if so, the period of quarantine.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec. 15.

not to be

without

permit.

3019. No Captain or other officer in command of Passengers any passenger-carrying vessel of more than one hun- landed dred and fifty tons burden, nor of any vessel of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden having passengers on board, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having charge of such vessel or vessels, must, under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, land, or permit to be landed, any passenger from the vessel until he has presented his bill of health to the Health Officer, and received a permit from that officer to land such passenger, except in such cases as the Health Officer deems it safe to give the permit before seeing the bill of health.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 719, Sec. 16.

Fees of

Health

3020. The following fees may be collected by the Health Officer: For giving a permit to land freight Olicer. or passengers, or both, from any vessel of less than one thousand tons burden, from any port out of this State, two and a half dollars; from any port in this State, one dollar and a quarter; from any passengercarrying vessel of more than one thousand tons burden, three dollars and seventy-five cents; for vessels of more than one thousand tons burden, carrying no passengers, two dollars and fifty cents; for vaccination, from each person, one dollar.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 719, Sec. 17.

sory

3021. The Board of Health may enforce compul- Compulsory vaccination on passengers in infected ships or vaccination coming from infected ports.

Hospitals to be provided.

Records of births,

interments

to be kept.

3022. The Board of Health may provide suitable hospitals, to be situated at or near Saucelito, and furnish and supply the same with nurses and attachés, and remove thereto all persons afflicted with cholera, smallpox, yellow, typhus, or ship fever.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869–70, p. 720, Sec. 22.

3023. The Health Officer must keep a record of deaths, and all births, deaths, and interments occurring in the City and County of San Francisco. Such records, when filled, must be deposited in the office of the County Recorder, and produced when required for public inspection.

Returns of

births, deaths, and

stillborn

children.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869–70, p. 720, Sec. 23. See Sec. 176, Penal Code Cal.; also, id, Sec. 378.

3024. Physicians and midwives must, on or before the fourth day of each month, make a return to the number of Health Officer of all births, deaths, and the number of stillborn children occurring in their practice during the preceding month. In the absence of such attendants, the parent must make such report within thirty days after the birth of the child. Such returns must be made in accordance with rules adopted and upon blanks furnished by the Board of Health.

No bodies to be

interred without permit.

Return of interments

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 26. See Secs. 376-378, Penal Code Cal.

3025. No person must inter in the City and County of San Francisco any human body without having first obtained a physician's or Coroner's certificate, setting forth as near as possible the name, age, color, sex, place of birth, date, locality, and cause of death of the deceased; and physicians, when deaths occur in their practice, must give such certificates.

Note.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 24.

3026. Superintendents of cemeteries within the to be made boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco must return to the Health Officer on each Monday the

to Health

Officer.