Show AN ORDINANCE to create a board of health and define their and provide for the and protection of the public health and to repeal certain sections of the revised ordinances of provo city SECTION 1 be it ordained by the city council of provo city that there is hereby created a board of health for pavo city which bhail be known by the namo and style of the provo city board of health SEC 2 said board shall consist of the mayor city quarantine physician tho standing committee on quarantine said committed commit teo to consist of four members one from each municipal ward SEC 3 tho corporate limits of the city and all that portion of country embraced within three miles next beyond tha eastern and western boundaries thereof including provo liver and its tributaries tributa ries for a distance of three miles next beyond the corporate boundaries shall baand the same are hereby declared to be subject to quarantine or sanitary regulations SEC 4 the said board shall have and it is hereby made their uty ast 1st to make all such regulations and orders as shall bo necessary for tho operation of this ordinance ad to make diligent enquiry with respect to all nuisances and all unsanitary conditions in this city which are or may be injurious to the public health and cause the same to be abated ad to guard against the introduction and spread of contagious diseases by the ex erciso of proper and vigilant inspection and control of all persons and things arriving within the quarantine or limits of this city from infected places or chich from any cause are liable to communicate contagion ath to cause any person not a resident of this city who is infected with any contagious disease to be sent back to the place from chenco he came or to tha house or li provided for the treatment of infected persons ath to cause any person a resident of this city who is infected with any contagious disease to be removed to the emergency hospital hereinafter provided for if in the opinion of tho board the removal of such person is necessary for the preservation of the public health and can be effected with safety to the patient ath to require tho isolation and domestic quarantine of all persons and things infected with or exposed to any contagious disease ath to prohibit and prevent all communication with infected persons or use of promises places and things until tho same shall be thoroughly infected disinfected dis and cleansed ath to disinfect or destroy as may be necessary any furniture wearing apparel goods wares or merchandise or articles or property of any kind which may bo infected with or ex cosad to any contagion provided however that such property shall first be appraised by two disinterested persons in order that remuneration may be made by the city council ath to provide proper houses to bo used for the reception and regular treatment of infected persons to bo known as emergency hospitals of which the board shall have control and direction and to employ such attendants servants or assistants and provide such articles and necessaries for the use 0 the persons therein confined as may be deemed necessary when authorized by the city council to require the occupant of aay dwelling house store shop or other building or promises in which there shall be any person sick of any contagious disease to put up and maintain in a conspicuous place in front of said dwelling house store shop or other building or premises a hag also a card or sign to be furnished by the board on which shall be written or printed in largo letters the name of any such disease and in case of the neglect or refusal of any boerson to comply with such requirement to remove the patient to the emergency hospital alth the said board shau provide and keep on hand a supply of also cards marked with the name of the contagious disease to bo put upon any house in which there is a person sick of any such disease and such flags and cards upon application shall bo furnished without charge whenever it shall be necessary for the public health the said board may at once take sion of any building factory hotel dwelling house out housa premises or grounds upon which there exists any nuisance prejudicial to tho public health and if the owner or occupant shall refuge or neglect to forthwith abate said nuisance in the manner directed by said beard said board may cause thes ameto be abated forthwith and all expenses incurred shall be a legal claim against the owner and a lieu on the premises said board may also when upon probable cause they deem it requisite for the public health at once close up any such building factory hotel dwelling house out housa premises or grounds and exclude all occupants until such nuisance shall bo fully abated any person adio shall resist the action of the board under this subdivision shall bo liable to penalties as hereinafter provided to prescribe sanitary regulations for the burial and transportation of bodies of persons dead of contagious diseases to exercise a general supervision over the health of the city and to make quarterly or oftener it required such recommendations to the chiy council as chev deem proper to promote the cleall ness and salubrity of tho city SEC 5 every in charge of any house or emergency hospital within the corporate limits of the cita of pro 70 or any other house under tha control of said city to which any person being a city charge may be brought sick of any contagious disease shall at once on the arrival of every such person give notice thereof m writing to said board provided that if tho person thus brought to such house is a county charge alie notice leorein required ahall bo given to tho county antina physician csc 6 every hotel lodging house tenement house workshop factory and building where several persons are employed schoolhouse church theatre and every public building shall bo open to general inspection of the officers of the board every owner lessee tenant occupant or person in charge or having any care or responsibility of any such building or of any public building alio shall have any knowledge or information of anything prejudicial to life or detrimental to or of any nuisance or any thing likely to become such in or about such buildings or premises thereof shall promptly give notice of the same to the board the remedy in respect to such building or its premises or the repairs and improvements thereof or the abatement of any nuisance which the board may ut any time order or direct shall be at once provided by the person or per who shall own or have in charge or be responsible for the premises described in the order or direction of the board SEC 7 if it shall come to the knowledge of tho board of health that any building erected or m course of erection is overcrowded or not provided with adequate means of ingress and egress or is not sufficiently supported ventilated drained cleaned or lighted or that anything renders the air water or drink unwholesome the board shall have power to require such changes alterations or as shall bo necessary for tho abatement or remedy thereof and in caso of noncom non com aliance with such request the board may order such necessary changes alterations or improvements ab tho es penso of the party upon whom such requisition is made and said expense shall bo a lieu upon tho property thereof SEC whenever the board may deem it necessary for the health or protection of the people they shall cause to be inspected any flour meat fish vegetables or other provisions offered for sale as food in this city end in tho event that any such provision is found to bo stale tainted or unwholesome for food they shall seize and hold the sane and cause the offender to bo arrested and dealt with according to law SEC 9 no person r company shall erect or maintain within the limits of this city adv manufactory or of business dangerous to lifo or detrimental to health or where unwholesome offensive or deleterious odors gas seeke deposits or exhava 1 eions are generated without tho permission or direction of the board of health and every such establishment shall bo kept clean and wholesome in every particular so as not to be offensive or prejudicial to lifo and health SEC 10 no cattle in large numbers shall bo yarded within or adja cent to the built up portion of provo city without permission of tho board of health or otherwise than according to its regulations and no person shall maintain or establish an enclosure for the purpose of growing or fattening same or sheep within the above prohibition of this section shall not be deemed to apply to persons feeding said cattle for domestic use SEC 11 no person or article liable to propagate a dangerous disease shall be brought within the quarantine limits of the city without the written permit and direction of tho board of health and whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any erson that such person or article has been brought within such limits he shall immediately give gotico thereof to the said board together with the location thereof no person shall within the limits of this city without a permit from the board of health carry or remove from one building to another any person sick of any contagious disease nor shall any person by any exposure of am individual sick of any contagious disease or of the body of such person or by negligent act connected therewith causo or to or promote the spread of such disease and it shall be the duty of tho board to order such separation and isolation or domestic quarantine of the sick from other persons not necessary as attendants and also such special caro and as shall be needed in order to prevent the spreading of such disease to others SEC 12 tho keeper of any hote tavern boarding lodging or other public house or the owner or mccu auant of any private bousu housu or residence in which any person may be sick of any contagious disease or who shall ba informed by a physician or shall have reason to believe that any person in his family or premises aforesaid is attacked with any disease dangerous to the public health shall forthwith report the same to tho board of health or to the marshal and shall not permit any clothing or other property that may havo been exposed to contagion or infection to bo removed from tho house until instructions are received from the board and the keeper or keepers of said hotel tavern lodging boarding or public house or the owner or occupant of said private house or residence as aforesaid shall immediately procure put up and maintain in a conspicuous place on the front of said premises a flag and a card or sign with the name of any such disease printed letters which hag and card shall not be removed injured or defaced by any person and shall remain posted on tho premises during all the time any person afflicted with any contagious disease shall remain therein or during the period of isolation or danger and until permission in writing be obtained from the board of health for the removal of the pame nor shall any occupant change his residence elsewhere without alio consent of said board during tho prevalence of any public danger from any such disease SEC 13 all persons infected with any contagious disease are hereby required to be kept closely confined within their respective dwellings or places of abode or the emergency hospital and no person who has been confined with such disease shall leave his place of abode or confinement and go about the city until written mission 10 obtained from the oard of health swu it shall bo the duty of the keeper of any public house or the owner or occupant of nay public house or dwelling wherein any person may bo sick of any contagious disease to close said public or private hoo seand against all other lodgers cub tomera and persons desiring to visit alie same that the provisions of this section shall not apply to physicians authorized attendants tend ants or clergymen in atton danco upon such sick parson nor to policemen on duty in and about the premises SEC 15 no ownus driver or person in charge of auy public hack carriage or conveyance shall use or permit the same to be used for tho purpose of convoying tho bo dy of any person who has died cantagi ous disease or any person from any house building or in which any person is tick or has within two weeks died of auy such disease SEC ag physicians treating and all persons responsible for the management of any case of contagious dis shall before visiting another ps tient or person except those affected with the sam disease dis easo employ such measures of as shall bc necessary to prevent their communicating such disease to others and all undertakers or other persona having chaido oatha body of any who has died of any such disease immediately after the interment thereof and all persons nursing or taking caro of any sick of any baich disease shall before going upon the streets change their cloth ing and disinfect themselves SEC 17 whenever any person confined in any jail within this city shall be attacked with any disease which in the opinion of the board of health or any physician they may consult shall be considered dangerous to the safety and health of any other prisoner or of the inhabitants of the city the board of health shall cause the removal of such person to some emergency hospital or other place of safety there to be provided for and securely kept until the further orders of said board and if such prisoner recover from the disease he shall be returned to the jail from which he was taken SEC 18 no animal infected with any contagious contagions conta gions disease shall be brought or kept within the limits of this city except by the permission of tho board of health kb animal having tho glanders or farcy shall bo kept used or retained or bs permitted within the said limits and if any animal so affected bo found within the said limits the board may order the owner thereof to destroy said animal and if said owner shall fail to destroy said animal as ordered by the board they may cause said animal to be destroyed at tho expense of the owner thereof SEC 19 it shall bs the duty of the physician in attendance on any person sick of any contagious disease or in case no regular physician has been in attendance then of the person responsible for the management of the case to give all necessary instructions regarding the thorough ventilation dis infecting and cleansing of the public or private house and premises where such person shall be sick and it shall be the duty of the keeper of such house or the owner or occupant of such private house to follow such instructions under the penalty hereinafter provided csc 20 immediately after tho nation of a case of contagious disease whether by the or death of the person afflicted it shall be the duty of the attending physician or in case no regular physician has been in attendance then of the city quarantine physician to order all articles of bedding clothing furniture furni turo or ether effects of the convalescent or deceased person as the caso maybe to bo properly infected disinfected dis by the use of such disinfectants disinfect ants as may be necessary or ordered by tho board of health and to order the destruction of such articles as in his opinion cannot be dis to report the case if fatal within twenty four hours aad if by recovery wit hinten days to the Board of health in such form as may bo provided by said board in case no regular medical attendant has had charge then the person responsible for tho management of the caso shall furnish the aforesaid report SEC 21 in case of the death of any person from any contagious disease the body of such deceased person shall be properly cared for by tho undertaker or person acting as such in such manner as may be prescribed in tho regulations of the board of health the said body shall not bo taken to or inside of any church public building or other public place nor to any private residence or building othor than that upon the premises where |