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Show UTAH COUNTY ; HEALTH BOARD IS CREATED ! r County Commission Passes Ordinance Providing Formation Forma-tion of, Health Board. A county board of health has been created by an ordinance passed by the board of county commissioners commission-ers which will go into effect immediately. imme-diately. The board of health will consist of the county commissioners, the county physician and two assistants assis-tants and nurses as may be appointed appoint-ed from time to time by the commission. com-mission. The county medical staff will hold office from the passage of the ordinance ordin-ance until the first Monday of January Jan-uary 1925 after which the staff will be appointed for a period of two years. The ordinance provides for ; the creation of three sanitary dis- L tricts over each one of which one of , the members of the county medical staff will have charge. The tcrri- tory lying north of the south boundary boun-dary of Pleasant Grove will be known as sanitary district number one. District number two will be the section from the south boundary of Pleasant Grove to the south ' boundary of Springville but will ' also take in Maplcton precinct and the Spanish Fork canyon. All of the territory in the county south of the south bondary of Springville will be nown as sanitary district number throe. . The ordinance provides that the county physician shall always re- I ! side in the county scat and shall : have charge of the work in sanitary district number two. The assistants I must reside in the district over j which they will have charge. - It will be the duty of Hie county J physician to render medical and surgical sur-gical aid and assistance to the in- ' mates of the county jnil nnd tho coWhty Aj.ifinnnrv jvud ta1fu "TiT-digents "TiT-digents wiiliTn the county. The county physician and his assistants must also render medical aid nnd attention to all county employes in all cases where the county shall be liable for medical or surgical ser-i ser-i vices, except, where the employment of other physicians and surgeons is specially authorized by the board of j I county commissioners. I Th" ordinance also 4icj y duty of the county physician to ex-j ex-j amine all persons residnnt within i the county or persons that may be sent here from other counties for examination ex-amination for commitment to the state mental hospital, when so required re-quired by law or requested by the judge of the district court or the chjiinnnu of the county commission-. ! In all such rases he must turn in to , the county treasurer for the use and benefit of Hie county all fees collect-! collect-! ed bv him for making such examina-j examina-j Hons. Tim jned'enl staff must also en-I en-I force all quarantine -nd sanitary re- gul-tions prescribed by law. ' The salary for the county physician physi-cian as ovovidi'd in (lie new ordinance ordin-ance will be Ml'l per month .while each one of his assistants will be paid such salary as nrty be fixed by , the eo'intv commission but must not , 'exceed per month. The county phvsician must file bonds for $1000. " , wh"r Hi'' assistants bonds are set lit $r00 each. |
