Type | issue |
Date | 1889-01-25 |
Paper | Utah Enquirer |
Rights | No Copyright - United States (NoC-US) |
Publisher | Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
ARK | ark:/87278/s64x6bw4 |
Reference URL | https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64x6bw4 |
Article Title | An Ordinance |
Type | article |
Date | 1889-01-25 |
Paper | Utah Enquirer |
Page | 4 |
Creator | Dusenberry, Wilson H. (Wilson Howard), 1841-1925; Dusenberry, Wilson H. (Wilson Howard), 1841-1925; Fuller, J. J. |
OCR Text | Show A to create a board of health and define their doties and provide for the and protection of the public health and to repeal certain sections ofilio eynaud 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 provo city which shall be known by the name and style of the provo city board of health SEC 2 said board shall consist of tho flavor city quarantine physician and the standing committee on quarantine said committee to consist of four members one from each municipal ward SEC 3 the corporate limits of tho city and all that portion of country embraced within three miles nest beyond the eastern and western boundaries thereof including provo river and its tributaries tributa ries for a distance of three miles next beyond the corporate boundaries beun daries shall baand the same are hereby declared to be subject to quarantine or sanitary regulations SEC 4 the said board shall have I 1 power and it is hereby made choir duly ast 1st to make all such regulations and orders as shall be necessary for the successful success sul 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 bo abated ad to guard against the i introduction and spread of contagious diseases by the exercise of proper bad vigilant inspection and control of all persons and things arriving within the quarantine or sanitary limits of thia city from infected places or which from any cause are liable to communicate contagion ath to causo any person not a resident of this city who is infected with any contagious disease to be sent back to the place from whence he came or to the house or hospital 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 taa emergency hospital hereinafter provided for if nj the opinion of the board alip 1 of such person ns for the axes y evlion tv lion of the public health and can be effected with safety to the patient ath to require the isolation and domestic quarantine of all persons and things infected with or exposed to any contagious conta giors disease ath to prohibit and prevent all communication with infected per sons or use of premises places and things until the same shall be thoroughly dis infected and cleansed sach to disinfect or destroy as may bo necessary any furniture wearing apparel goods ware or merchandise or articles or property of any kind which may bo infected with or exposed to any contagion provided however that such property shall firt be appraised by two disinterested persons in order that remuneration may ba made by the city council ath to proper houses to be used for the reception and regular treatment of infected parsons to be 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 of the the persons therein confined as may be deemed necessary when authorized by the city council to require the occupant of any dwelling house store shop or ether building or premises in which there shall be any person sick of any contagious disease to put up and main 1 tain in a conspicuous place in front of said dwelling house store shop or other building or premises a flag also a card or sign to bo furnished by the board on which shall be written or printed in large letters the camp of any such disease and in case of the neglect or refusal of any person to comply with such requirement to ri move ehg patient to the emergency hospital alth the said board shall provide and keep oa band a supply of hags also cards marked with tho name of the contagious disease to be 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 bo necessary for the public health the said board may at once take possession of any building factory hotel dwelling bouso out aliouse premises or grounds upon which thero exists any nuisance nui sanca prejudicial to tho public health and if the owner or occupant shall refuse or neglect to forthwith abate sueh nuisance in the manner d noted by said board said board may cause the same to ba abated forthwith and all expenses incurred shall bo a legal claim against the owner and a lien on the premises said board may also when upon probable cause they i deem it requisite for the public health at close up any building factory hotel dwelling house out hauae premises or grounds and exclude all occupants until such nuisance shall bo fully abated any person who shall resist the action of tho 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 contag ia diseases to exercise a supervision over the health x tho city and to make quarterly or oftener if required such recommendations to the chiy council as they deem proper to promote the cleanliness and salubrity of tho city SEC 6 every person in charge of any house or emergency hospital within the corporate limits of the city of pro Q or any other bousu housu under the control of said city to which any being a city charge may bo any contagious disease shall at once on the arrival of every such person give notice thereof in writing to said board provided that if tha person thus brought to such house is a county charge the notice herein required shall be given also to the county quarantine physician SEC 6 every hotel lodging house tenement house workshop factory and building where several persons are employed schoolhouse church theatre and every public balding shall be open to general inspection of the officers of tho board every owner lessee tenant occupant or person in charge or having any care or ro of any such building or of any public building who shall hava any knowledge or information of anything prejudicial to lifo or detrimental to health or ot any nuisance or any thing likely to become such in or about such buildings or premises thereof shall promptly give notice of tha same to the the remedy in respect to such buildings or premises or the rosaira and improvements thereof or the abatement of aay board bayat any time order or direct shall be at once provided by the person or who shall own or have in charge or be responsible for the premises described in the order or direction of the board tiec 7 if it shall come to the knowledge of the board of health that any building erected or in 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 improvements as shall be necessary for the abatement or remedy shereaf the reaf and in case of noncom non com aliance with such request the board may order such necessary changes alterations or improvements at the expense of the party upon whom such requisition is made and said expense shall be a lien upon the property thereof SEC 8 whenever the board may deem it necessary for the health or protection of the people they shall cause to bo inspected any flour moat fish vegetables er other provisions offered far sale as food in this city and in the event that any such provision is found to bo stale tainted or unwholesome for food they shall seize and hold the same and cause the offender to be arrested and dealt with according to law SEC 9 no person er company shall erect or maintain within ake limits of this city any manufactory or place of business dangerous to life or detrimental to health or where unwholesome offensive or deleterious odors gas smoke deposits or exhava eions are without the permission or direction of the board of health and every such establishment shall be kept clean and wholesome in every particular so as not to be offen bave or prejudicial to life and health SEC 10 no cattle in largo numbers shall be yarded within or adjacent to the built up portion of provo city without permission of the board of health or otherwise than according to its regulations aad no person shall maintain or e n fw i i tt fin closure fo corp rp growing or asing swine or within the above named the prohibition of this section shall not be deemed to apply to persons feeding said cuttle tor domestic aae csc 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 tha knowledge knowl edgo of any person that such person or article has been brought within such limits he shall immediately give notice 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 sick of any contagious disease nor shall any person by any exposure of any individual sick of any contagious disease or of the body of such person or by any negligent act connected therewith cause or i to or promote the spread of such disease and it shall be tha duty of the board to order such separation and isolation or domestic quarantine of the sick from other persons not necessary as attendants and also such special care and as shall be needed in order to prevent the spreading of such disease to others SEC 12 tha keeper of an hotel tavern boarding lodging or other public house or the owner or occupant of auy private house or residence in which any person may be sick of any contagious disease or who shall bo 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 the board of health or to the marshal and shall not permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed to contagion or infection to be removed from the house until instructions are received from the board aad 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 an fn a conspicuous place on the front of said premises a flag and a card or sign with the name of any such printed thereca in large letters which flag and card mchall not bo removed injured or defaced by any person and shall remain posted on the 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 same nor shall any occupant change his residence elsewhere without the con enec of said board during iho 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 with such disease shall leavo his place of abode or confinement and go about tho city until written be obtained from tho board of health SEC 14 it shall bo the duty of the keeper of any public house or the owner or occupant of aay private house or dwelling wherein any berbon may be sick of any contagious disease to close said public or private hou seand keep it closed against all other lodgers customers and pennons desiring to visit tho feame provided that tin provisions of this section shull no apply to physicians authorized authorised attendants tend ants or clergymen in attendance upon such sick person nor to policemen on duty in and about the premises SEC IS no owner driver or person in charge of any public hack carriage or conveyance shall use or permit tho same to be ased for the purpose of conveying the body of any person who has died of anny cantagi ons disease or any person fraai an house building or pi ace in chich an person is sick or haa within two weeks died of any such disease SEC 16 physicians treating and all persons responsible for the management of any case of contagious disease shall before visiting another patient or person except those affected with the same disease employ such precautionary beai ures of BK shall be necessary to prevent their communicating buch disease to others and all undertakers or other persons having charge ot the body of any person ako has died of any such immediately after the inter meat thereof and all persons nursing or taking care of any person sick of any such disease shall before goin upon the street change their cloth ing and disinfect themselves SEO 17 whenever aay person confined in any jail within this city shall be attacked with isy 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 sach 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 shall recover from the disease he shall be returned to the jail from which he was taken SEC 18 no animal infected with any contagious disessa shall be brought er kept within tho limits of this city except by the permission of the board of health no animal having the glanders or farcy shall bo kept used or retained or be permitted within the said limits aud if any animal so affected be 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 bo destroyed at the expense of the owner thereof SEC 19 it shall be the duty of the physician in attendance on any person sick of any contagious contagions conta gions disease or in case no regular physician has been in attendance then of tho person responsible for the management of the case to give all necessary instructions regarding the thorough ventilation infecting disinfecting dis and cleansing of the public or private house and premises where such person shall be sick and it shall be the duty of tho keeper of i such bublie house or tho owner or occupant of such private house to follow such instructions under the penalty hereinafter provided immediately after the nation of a case of contagious disease whether by the convalescence or death of the person afflicted it awl be the duty of the attending physician orjin caso no regular physician attendance thon afe y JSnr to order all articles of deciding clothing furniture or ether effects of the convalescent or deceased person as the case may be to bo properly infected disinfected dis by the use of such disinfectants disinfect ants as may be necessary or ordered by the 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 and if by recovery within tn daya to the board of health in such form as may be pro vidad by said board in case no regular medical attendant has had charge then the person for the management of the case 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 the undertaker or person acting as such in such manner as may be prescribed in the 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 aay |
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