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names of all persons interred within their respective cemeteries for the preceding week, together with the certificates mentioned in the preceding section.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 27.

to be

without

3027. No Superintendent of a cemetery can re- Bodies not move or cause to be removed, disinter or cause to be removed disinterred, any corpse that has been deposited in the permit. cemetery, without a permit from the Health Officer, or by order of the Coroner.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 28.

on premises

residents,

abated.

3028. Whenever a nuisance exists on property of Nuisances any non-resident of the city and county, the Board of of nonSupervisors may, on the recommendation of the Board how of Health, cause the nuisance to be abated, and may allow and order paid out of the General Fund all proper charges and expenses incurred in abating such nuisance; and all sums so allowed and paid become a charge upon the property on which the nuisance existed, and may be recovered by an action against such property.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 30. Punishment for maintaining a nuisance.-See Penal Code Cal., Sec. 372; see Civil Code Cal., Vol. II, Secs. 3470-3503, and notes.

3029. The Health Officer must keep in his office a book in which he must make an entry of all fees collected by him. He must pay all fees collected to the City and County Treasurer weekly, to the credit of the General Fund.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 721, Sec. 32.

Health

Officer to

keep fee

book.

Bond of

3030. The Health Officer must execute an official bond, to be approved by the Board of Health, in the Officer.

sum of ten thousand dollars.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 721, Sec. 33. See Secs.

947 to 957, inclusive, ante.

Health

72-VOL. I.

Health

Officer may

oaths.

3031. Any member of the Board of Health,

administer Deputy Health Officer, or Secretary of the Health Department, is empowered to administer oaths on business connected with that Department.

Actions,

in whose name

maintained

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 721, Sec. 34.

3032. Whenever any cause of action arises under any of the provisions of this Chapter, suit may be maintained therein, in the name of the Health Officer, in any District Court of this State.

ARTICLE IV.

Board of Health, who and how

HEALTH REGULATIONS FOR THE CITY OF SACRAMENTO.

SECTION 3042. Board of Health, who and how appointed.

3043. Term and vacancies.

3044. Powers of the Board of Health.

3045. Pest houses, how located and conducted.

3046. Death records.

3047. Enforcement of regulations. Health Officer.
3048. Expenses, how paid.

3049. Compensation, how fixed.

3042. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sacra

mento may establish by ordinance a Board of Health appointed. therefor, to consist of five practicing physicians, graduates of a medical college of recognized respectability; and the President of the Board of Trustees is ex officio President of the Board.

Term and vacancies.

Powers of the Board of Health.

NOTE.-Stats. 1867-8, p. 403, Sec. 1; 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 1.

3043. The members of the Board hold their offices at the pleasure of the appointing power.

3044. The Board of Health of the City of Sacramento has a general supervision of all the matters appertaining to the sanitary condition of the city, and may make such rules and regulations in relation thereto as are not inconsistent with law.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 2.

houses, how

located and

conducted.

3045. The Board of Health may locate and estab- Pest lish pest houses, and cause to be removed thereto and kept any person having a contagious or infectious disease; may discontinue or remove the same, and make such rules and regulations regarding the conduct of the same as are needful.

NOTE.-Stats. 1853, p. 35, Sec. 1.

records.

3046. The Board of Health must exercise a gen- Death eral supervision over the death records of the City of Sacramento, and may adopt such forms and regulations for the use and government of physicians, undertakers, and superintendents of cemeteries as in their judgment may be best calculated to secure reliable statistics of the mortality in the city and prevent the spread of disease.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 3.

ment of

tions.

Officer.

3047. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sac- Enforceramento must, by ordinance or otherwise, provide for regulaenforcing such orders and regulations as the Board of Health may from time to time adopt; and in times of Health epidemics, or when deemed necessary by the Board of Health, a Health Officer must be employed to enforce the laws in relation to the sanitary condition of the city.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 4.

how paid.

3048. All expenses necessarily incurred in carry- Expenses, ing out the provisions of this Article must be provided for by the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento, who may make appropriation therefor out of the Special Street Fund, if the same is sufficient; if not, they may by taxation provide a Fund therefor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 5, extended.

3049. The Board of Trustees must fix the com- Compensation, how pensation of the Board of Health and the Health fixed. Officer.

NOTE.-Stats. 1871-2, p. 531.

An Act to establish and maintain a Dispensary in the City of Sacramento.

[Approved March 23, 1872.]

[Enacting clause.]

SECTION 1. The Board of Health of the City of Sacramento, consisting of Ira E. Oatman, T. M. Logan, F. W. Hatch, W. R. Cluness, and G. L. Simmons, are hereby empowered and required to establish a Dispensary for the accommodation of the sick poor of the City and County of Sacramento, on the lot belonging to the County of Sacramento, on the northwest corner of Seventh and I streets, in said city; and all bills approved by said Board of Health for this purpose shall be allowed and ordered paid, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Sacramento, out of the General Fund; provided, that all expense for the establishment of such Dispensary and furnishing of the same shall not exceed two thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Sacramento shall require the County Physician, or a regularly educated assistant, to take charge of said Dispensary, and to keep an office open therein for at least two hours in each day of the year, at which time he shall give advice and medicines to poor out patients and applicants from the Howard Benevolent Society, and receive orders for visits to the sick poor at their homes, and said assistant shall receive a compensation not to exceed fifty dollars per month.

SEC. 3. During the absence of the medical attendant the Dispensary shall be accessible, at all times of the day or night, to any member of the police of the City of Sacramento, to any practicing physician, or to any officer of the Howard Benevolent Society who may desire to obtain accommodations for patients in cases of accident or sudden sickness, where an immediate removal to the County Hospital is impracticable, or where such an attempt would endanger life.

SEC. 4. No person possessed of property of any description shall receive assistance, as an out patient, from the Dispensary, and no cases of venereal disease in any form shall be treated at the expense of the county in this institution.

SEC. 5. After the establishment of the Dispensary by the Board of Health of the City of Sacramento the said Board shall exercise a general supervision over its concerns, adopting such improvements in its management as from time to time may be required. They shall require from the attending physician stated re

ports in regard to cases treated by him, and certify to
the Board of Supervisors of the county as to the cor-
rectness of all bills for medicines or incidental expenses;
provided, that in no case shall any bills for medicines
and incidental expenses be allowed which exceed in the
aggregate the sum of one hundred dollars per month.
No compensation shall be allowed to any member of
the Board of Health for services rendered in carrying
out the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors of Sacrament
County are hereby required to allow and order paid
out of the Hospital Fund all bills for the maintenance
of this Dispensary which may be approved by the
Board of Health of the City of Sacramento, in com-
pliance with the preceding sections.

SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ARTICLE V.

HEALTH AND QUARANTINE OF OTHER CITIES, TOWNS, AND HARBors.

SECTION 3059. Boards of Supervisors may adopt Article III.

3060. Boards of Supervisors may adopt Article IV.

3061. Incorporated cities or towns may adopt Articles III

and IV.

3062. May appoint Health Officer in lieu of Board.

3063. Per capita or property tax, how levied.

3059. The Board of Supervisors of any county in

which there is a port of entry or harbor, for which there is not otherwise provided health and quarantine regulations, may by an ordinance adopt the whole or any part of the provisions of Article III of this Chapter, appoint a Board of Health, or Health Officer, locate quarantine grounds when necessary, and provide for the enforcement of health and quarantine regulations.

NOTE.-See Sec. 4046, Subd. 20, post. Public notice of such ordinance should be given.

3060. In like manner the Board of Supervisors of any county in which there is an unincorporated city or town, for which there is not otherwise provided a Board of Health or health regulations in time of epi

Boards of may adopt

Supervisors

Article III.

Boards of may adopt

Supervisors

Article IV.

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