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OHDINANCE NO. 204. ,
Concerning the Health Officer and Beard of Health of the City of
San Bernardino, and Providing Gertain Sanitary Hegulations.
Section I. The board of health ghall nominate a suitable person as
heal th ot'ficer and 'the board of city t..'Y11stee:3 may in itM dincretion ,
either reject Buch nomination or declare such person duly elected as
health officer of the city of San Bernardino.
Sec. 2. The healtl1 officer shall be the execu'tive officer of the
board 0 f health.
It 8hall be tho duty of the leal th officer, under the
direction of and contrel of the board of health, to enforce all laws,
ordinances, and regulations relath1ts to caUl.lea ot sickneiis, nuisances
and sourcesof filth existing within :.laid city.
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The heal'th officer shall receive $35.00 per month as full
compensation for all his services as such officer9
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'rhe health officer shall keep a record of all birth:;,
deaths and interments eccuring in the city.
He must keop in hi- office
a book in which he must make an entry 0 f' all fosa c.llected by him, the
amount thereof, by whom, for what paid, paid all :eees collected by
him inte the city treasury te the credit 0 r the r;eneral fund.
Sec. o. The health atficer shall, on or before the first Monday in
each month, file with the city clerk a monthly s'ta'tement of all
services performed by him in his official capacity during the preceding
month 01' time; all fees collected by him , the amount thtreef, l)y whom
and for what purpose pand, and an account af all money paid out by him
in h:ts official capacity. Said report shall be accompanied by a re-
ceipt of the treasuror of all fee~ collected by him.
Sec. 6. Whenevor it shall be ccrltified to the board of health by
the health 0 fficer that any building or part there. f il unfit for hu-
man habitation by reallon of its being so infected with disease us likely
to caUlSe sickness among the occupants, and by reason of its want er re-
pair has become dangerou:3 to life, said health officer may issue an 01'-
Ei4HElRe@ der, with the approval 0 f the board 0 f health, and cause the
same to be fixed or posted oonspieuously upon the building or part there-
of, and to be served personally on the owner, a.gent, lessee or 0ccupant,
if he can be found in this State, requiring all persens therein te vacate
such building within ten day~ from th~ posting of Buch notice or ::ser-
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vie" thereof. ~)uBh building or part thereof within ten days thereafter
shall be vacated, or within such ahorter time not leas than twenty-feur
hours as in said netice may be specified.
Sec. 7. TI1e health officer may under tl1e direction of tile Board or
Health, remove any person who is not a resident ot the city, and whe il
known te be infected with any dangerous, contaigoue or infectious di-
sease, to the peat heuse, when shall action 6hall be deJlmed necessary
t& prevent the spread of ffilCh disease, and when such removal can be made
without danger to the life of suoh persen.
Sec. 8. Whenever a nuisance endangering, in the opiniel1 of the
health officer, the public kealth may l)e ascertained to exist an any
premisee, or in any h@use, or other place, in said oity, he ahall llojify
in writing any person or persons owning or having c6ntrol of or a.cting
or agent 0 f such premises h0110e or other place, te abate or remove suoh
nuisances wi thin a reasonable time, to be stated in such native.
Upon the neglect 0 f any owner or occupant or any agent e1'
other persona having control of such houae, 01'" orther place witoihin said
city, te c,mply with such notive, the health officer may abate such
rruisance , and the owner agent or occupan) or other person having con-
trel of such house or place, in addition to the penalty provided by thia
ordinance, shall be liable to said city for 'the oeBts of such abatement
to be recovered in a civil action in any court of compet811t jurisdiction
in said city.
Seo. H. It shall be tbj duty of the health 0ffioer whell neoessary
te Beaure the public health, to enter upon the premises or in the house
or other place of any person wi thinsaid oity.. 1..6 ascertain any nuisanoe
that may there exist; t~ inspect drains, vaults, cellars, cesspeols,
water closets~ privies, or the sewers or the yards of such premises;
to examine into their conditioh, and when satisfied that apartments used
for lodging or other purposes are improperly constructed, or liable from
overcrowding or filth to become dangeJ"QU3 to the public health, or difJ-
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seminate contagious or infectious diseases, or are not properly' with
privies , water cillosets, or sewer, drains or cesspools properly tapped,
~e shall serve a written notice upon the owner, or ether persen in
charge f,f :3uch premises, to remove the nuisance therein naaed, and if
such owner or ether person in charge neglect t. obey such netioe , said
ofricer may put the same in preper order at the expense of the Gwnvr or
other person in charge thl~reof.
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Sec. ro. lihenevor a case of smallpox or cholera or other infe-
CitOU8 disease shall exist in the house or tenement, and it ahal! be",
deemed ~;f inexpedient ta remoye the person or persons se affected;t,o the
proper hOHpi tal, it ;:;hall be the duty of the hGal th officer te require
· shall persons to be kept closely conr'ined to their respective dwelling.
or places of abode, and shall immediately cause to be ereuted in a COR
spicuous place in front of such dwelling or place of a bode, a yellow
flag ~r other ;3uitable notice ~3etting forth the fac't~ and it shall be
unlawful foT' the occupants thereof, or any otl1l3r per~30n to remove such
flag or notioe dO long as in the opinion of the health otficer the Bame
ought to remain on said premises.
Sec. II. No person or persons, except the physician, cler€,.,ymSJl or
undertaker, and those having a written pnrmit from the health efficer
shall enter or depart !'rem any houae where smallpex or cholera exists,
or while the corpse of any person who shall have died af Huch disease
remains within the house 1'l1rr within ten days thereafter, or until said
building and its contents shall have been disinfected or otherwiBe dil-
posed of to the satisfaction of the health t)fficer.
Sec. I2. 1!vben the cause of death of any decaased person iu of a
contagiOlw, infec't,i0us or pestilential diaease , the body 0 r' such de-
ceased person ~ll be placed in charee of an undertaker, or other com-
petent per13on, who f3ha11 thoroughly disinfect the same before it shall
be placed in the ceffin, casket or other receptacle for burial, and the
:Jame shall not be taken to any church or other public place for any pur-
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pose be fore burial. nor shall said hCO t'fin or receptacle be opened at aJJy
time or for any purpose prIor to such burial, nor shall any person under
the age of twenty years act a8 a pall-bearer at the runeral ef such de-
ceased peraon.
Sec. I3. ~Vhenever the death of any person shall be caused by small-
pox, varioloid, cholera, or other disease cevered by seotion IO of this
ordinance, the undertaker, 01" persen acting al slich shall net allowed
the body 0 f GUch deceased persen to be taken to any building, public or
private . other than that upon the premises where such death eccured, but
shall privately convey the same the tile place of burial in some proper
cemetery, between the hours of five o'clock in the evenil~ and Gaven
o' clock in the ft>llowinr; morning, and bury the sarne therein wi theut any
public funeral services whatever, unless it shall be otherwise directed
by the haalth officers.
Sec. I4. No privy, vault, cesspool or water closet shall be allowed
by the owner or other person in charge 0 f the premises upon which the
same may be situated, to become foul or offensive, and when, in the epin-
ion of the health offioer, any $ueh privy, vault or closot or cesspool
shall need cleaning or disinfecting, it shall be his duty t. notify eriloh
twnsr or aUler person having control, to abate the same, by disinfecting
or cleaning, a.s in the judgement of said officer may be prudent.
Sec. I5. Ho butcher'13 offal or garbage nor any dead animal, 0r eny
putrid or offHm,ive animal or veget,able mat.,ter shall be allowed to re-
main up&n the premise:3 of ony person, or be deposited on any street,
alley or vacant lot or into any ~)tanding or running water 0I' excavation:
but shall be promptly buried in scme sui tahle place where it will net be
offensive or dangerous to the health of persans passing by or living in
the immediate vicinity.
Sec. I6. It shall be the duty of every physician in the city to re-
PQrt to ti1e health 0 fficer overy patient he may have laboring under
Asia"tic cholera, dytheria, scarlet fever, smallpox or other dangerous
contagious or infecitous di3ease, as 800n ala he shall become satisfied
of the m ture at the disease, and to report to the 9atle orr-icer every
case of death from $heb disease immediately after it shall have 6cGurred.
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It shall be the duty of overy physician in this city te 1"0-
port in wri1.ing to the propc)r health officer, the name at eV0r'1J person
boarding at hi6 or her house whom he or Ahe shall have reason to believe
'to be sick with scarlet, fever, Jyphtheria, cholera, smallpox or ethor
contagious or inf'eetiow~ diseases, and any death occurring at his or her
house from l;3Uch disease.
Sec. I8. In cases of contagious or infectious disHase8 the fol1n-
flags i3hall he hung in some conspicuous place on the residence;- Yel10w
t~ag - Smallpox, cholera and yellow fever. Hed flag- Dyphberia and
scarlet fever.
Blue flag - Measles, wllooping cough, ~~tc., FlagllJ
Imlst not be 10B8 than I2 X I4 incho8.
Sec. I9. The board of health are hereby ulltherized by and with the
cenaent of the board of trustees, to establish a pest house or hospital
whenever such action shall be deemed necessary, and previde the necessat
3Upplies 'therefor.
Sec. 20. Any physician or other person neglecting or failing te COlI
ply with the prQvhdonn 0r requirements of this ordianoe, and fmy phy-
aician, undertaker, or other person, interferring with or ob3tructing
the board 0f health or health officer in the discharge of the duties im-
posed herein, or any persen whe shall violate any of the previBions of'
this ordinance shall be punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred and
eighty d()11ars, a.'1d costs of pDesecution, or by imprisonment in the city
jail of San Bernardino city fer a period of net less than ten daYB nor
mere than ninety days, or by both such fine and impriaonmont in the dis-
cretion of the cGurt,
Sec. 2I. This ordinance aha1l take effect and be in force on and
aft,or the 29th. day 0 r October. 188?
Adppted this 19th. day o.e October, 1897.
.T. B. Frith.
PreBident of the Board of Trustees of' the City of San Bernardine.
A.ttest;
Ler;are Allen,
City Clerk.
Recemmended by the Board of HeUth of tho City or San Bernardino
at a meeting of said Board held en 1be 4th. day ef October, 1897.
C. D. Dickey,
Secretary,
Dr. G. ~. Hene,
PreGident.