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PHOENIX - Insurance Company, HARTFORD, HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, NEW YORK, TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY HARTFORD CASH ASSETS, $6,172,857 65 $4,694,855 18 INCOME, '67 - - - ? THE PHENIX Has the largest actual net Cash Surplus of any of the Hartford Companies, and is the leading Connecticut Fire Company. THE HOME Hus the largest actual net Cash. Surplus of any of the Yer york Companies, and is the Trading Company of that rent metropolis. THE TRAVELERS to the Pioneer in the business of Accident Insurance, and has he Largest paid -up capital, the Juryest rash ussets, and Eurgest SAnnual Income of any of the Simerican Accident Companies. AWARDED TO THE PACIFIC TANNERY & BOOT & SHOE CO., 1868. WAREHOUSE OF PACIFIC TANNERY & BOOT & SHOE CO., 306 CALIFORNIA ST., S. F. Losses paid ou the Pacific Coast by these leading American Companies are OVER HALF-MILLION DOLLARS. LE Resident A mts in all prominent places, who will give prom; : attention to the wants of the insuring bio, da d'un . Policies direct AT RATES AS LOW AS IS CONSISTENT WITH SOLVENCY AND FAIR PROFIT. R. H. MAGILL, Manager, E. T. CARRIQUE, Resident Agent, Office, S. C. Corner Broadway and Seventh St ... OAKLAND, Y'AAL .. INSTITUTE SIEDAL
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
JUL 5 1962
DIRECTORY
OF THE TOWNSHIP AND
CITY OF OAKLAND,
Together with the Townships of
BROOKLYN AND ALAMEDA, FOR THE YEAR 1869. CONTAINING A
COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THEIR INHABITANTS,
With their places of residence and business; also, its
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND THEIR OFFICES.
Also, a Complete List of all Public Societies and Organizations, with their Officers ; also a comprehensive statement of all State and Municipal Legislation, affecting the City, in detail ; also, a review of the
HISTORY OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND,
With a detailed statement of the present and proposed operations of the " Water Front Company," and the Pacific Rail- road Company, with an account of the rela- tions of those Companies to the City in the past. Also a variety of other useful in- formation.
COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY
B. F. STILWELL. 1869.
*917.94 01214 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Eight,
By B. F. STILWELL,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of California.
PRINTED AT THE OAKLAND NEWS OFFICE.
Reference Dept. SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
PREFACE.
In presenting this, the first edition of the OAKLAND DIRECTORY, to the public, the publisher would ask of the people a generous allowance for any and all errors which may have escaped his no- tice in compiling the work.
To carry to a successful termination a publication of this kind requires a thorough knowledge of the work to be performed. Although our experience as an advertising agent and canvasser extends back a number of years, both in the East as well as on this coast, which has brought us continually in contact with the mercantile and manufacturing community, yet it was with a degree of caution that we began the compilation of the present work. In making our canvass, several impediments were pre- sented to us. Among the most prominent was the difficulty we experienced in getting competent men to canvass for the names proper, and the incorrect manner in which the information was given at the dwellings. This will, we trust, in a manner explain away this portion of the errors, as the canvassers claim that the names are spelled as given to them. Another very great embar- rassment under which we have labored was the tardiness of our patrons in furnishing the subject matter for their advertisements. This last mentioned circumstance has delayed the issue of the work a number of weeks, besides giving us much additional trouble and expense, and although we have done all that perse- verance could accomplish under the circumstances, yet there will probably be some who will without reflection feel disposed to find fault with our apparently inexcusable delay, when at the same time they may have been themselves in part the cause of our hindrance by not furnishing their copy in time, and agreea- ble to their oft-repeated promises. Therefore, this explanation
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will be our apology and may serve to govern them in the future.
Although in the foregoing we have spoken only of matters disadvantageous to ourselves, yet we claim that the work pre- sented possesses more than ordinary merit as regards its syste- matie classification and arrangement throughout. In this re- spect we are willing to compare it with any Directory of similar size that has ever made its appearance on this coast.
The compilation of the statistical matter presented in this volume has been attended with more difficulties than might be anticipated. The city officers are in few or no cases required to present annual or semi-annual reports giving the details of the business of their offices, and it was necessary to examine a mass of documents to ascertain but few facts. In some cases there has been a neglect on the part of persons connected with insti- tutions or business enterprises to furnish us information as re- quested. The various matters treated of in that portion of the work which precedes the tables of names, has been under the supervision of Mr. Wm. D. Harwood.
In conclusion we would tender our thanks to those who have kindly furnished us with statistics from our Institutions of Learn- ing, the Churches, the Municipal Officers, and all other sources from which we have obtained information, that has assisted us in compiling the work, and with the knowledge and experience de- rived from our past labors and with the confidence that our ef- forts have not been thrown away, we shall very soon commence the compilation of the second DIRECTORY OF OAKLAND for the year 1870, with such alterations, additions and improvements as present themselves. B. F. STILWELL.
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INDEX.
Alameda, Town of.
PAGE. 267
Bonds .
68, 69,70
Brooklyn
254
Churches .
116
City Charter
23
City Property, value of
97
College of California
98
College School
101
Convent. .
104
Corporate Officers
21
Durant Rhetorical Society.
107
Female College of the Pacific
102
Finances of the City.
67
Gas Company, Oakland
112
Grades, table of.
82
Hebrew Benevolent Society
108
House Carpenter's Eight-Hour League.
108
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
106
Industrial Enterprises
109
Lincoln Lyceum
108
Masonic.
105
Military .
121
Municipal affairs since. 1854
17
Municipal Licenses 11
Oakland Cotton Mills 119
Oakland, Town of.
57
Oakland R. R. Co. 112
Oakland Seminary.
103
Preface.
3
Police Court.
83
Real Estate.
92
Sabbath Schools
Schools, Public. 119
74
S. F. & O. R. R. Receipts
95
S. F. & A. R. R. Receipts . 96
Streets. 77
Titles, origin of in Oakland. 53
University of California. 10
Water Front. S4
Botanical Gardens 115
GENERAL INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
PAGE
Architects.
Commission Merchants.
S. C. Bugbee & Son, (S. F.) 144|P. C. Dart (S. F.) ..
..
158
E. L. Wetmore, .
246
Auction Houses.
Bankhead & Co.
144
Cigars & Tobacco.
Smith & Starr.
246
George H. Smith.
232
Clothing.
E. D. Block .
138
J. Lobenstein.
194
Charles Susengut. .
248
T. R. Church, (S. F.)
172
Contractors & Builders.
C. L. Lucas.
208
E. L. Wetmore.
246
Cotton Mills.
Oakland Cotton Manufactur-
ing Company . .
196
Dentists.
A. Lefevre.
194
N. T. Whitcomb, (S. F.).
226
J. W. Winter (S. F.).
248
Doors, Sash and Blinds.
U. Hemphill.
174 H. W. Barnes & Co.
.126
J. Gordon (Branch Bakery) 156 Blethen & Terry.
136
Burnham, Standeford & Co .. 250
Dry Goods.
E. Fitzgerald .
154 E. D. Block.
138
Lessman & Co.
204|Reinach & Co.
240
Hesse, Winterton & Co.
172
S. Mosgrove, (S. F.)
176
S. Langstadter
188
C. E. Zwisler
234
Blacksmiths.
Martin Ryan.
234
Druggists.
Bell Hangers.
E. P. Sanford.
214
C. Rode. .
234 M. Webber.
228
Coal and Wood.
Dr. D. M. Baldwin
148
L. G. Bruguiere. .
148 R. Turney
216
PAGE
Cutlery.
Will & Fink, (S. F.)
.238
Olney & Co ..... Back of Cover
Artist's Materials.
Wm. A. Kollmyer, (S. F.) .. 224
Attorneys.
Sextus Shearer.
248
Lewis Shearer, (S. F.)
248
Wm. Van Voorhies.
234
Banks of Saving.
Oakland Bank of Savings . . 124
S. F. Savings Union (S. F.).146
Books and Stationers.
W. B. Hardy
.150
S. E. Abels.
140
Chilion Beach, (S. F.).
.222|
J. Tyrrel.
218
Blank Books. George B. Hitchcock, (S. F.)190
Bakeries.
W. HI. Brown
238
Boots and Shoes.
D. Stuart.
.222
Book Binders.
Bartling & Kimball, (S. F.)
Back of Book.
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PAGE
PAGE
Dress Making.
Mrs. S. G. Fox .. . 154
Pacific.
128
Mrs. E. Humbert.
266
Educational.
Universal Life.
142
Oakland Academy.
184
Jewelers.
Oakland College School .
.132
Mueller & Reimers
198
Oakland Seminary.
134
Female College of Pacific, . . 230
Lumber Dealers.
F. S. Page & Co., (Point,) .. 202
Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Dr. Fonda (at the Point). .. 212
Flouring Mills.
Oakland Mills
216
N. Stoel.
232
Furniture and Bedding.
Irwin & Co ..
.252
Kaiser and Craib.
.172
George O. Whitney, (S. F.) . 240 J. W. Myrick.
A. Schultz.
238
W. F. Sullivan.
232
Bradley & Seymour
144
Ghirardelli's Branch.
252
Meat Markets.
W. T. Hurll.
252 George HI. Carley.
160
Humbert & Bassett.
152 Julius Zabel .
244
Jolın Rackliffe.
214
N. H. Wunnenburg & Co. . 228'S. G. Crawford.
Silvanus White.
246
Hardware.
Cain & Brown. .
140
News Agents.
Goodrich & Reed.
174 W. B. Hardy
150
J. Tyrrel ..
218
Eureka Hotel.
.216
Mechanies' Exchange Hotel . 166 William Hoskins.
Railroad Exchange (Point) . 212
Washington Hotel.
202
Insurance.
Etna Insurance (S. F.). . .. 166
J. Hutchinson .
166
Imperal Fire Insurance ...
164
North British Mercantile ... 162
B. E. Farwell.
. 244
Union .
192 Painters, Paints and Oils.
Manhattan
186 M. Doody.
126
Phenix .
186|Sheehan & Finnigan.
208
Occidental .
182 Charles B. Rutherford.
220
Fireman's Fund
1SO D. W. Pratt.
204
Livery and Sale Stables.
Eureka Livery Stable (Point)224
Fashion Livery Stable. .
.218
Shattuck & Hillegass'
.210
Venus Mills .
236
Lung Institute.
Dr. Nestell's (S. F.).
236
Marble Workers.
206
Grocers.
Music Dealers --- Pianos.
.160
Woodworth, Schell & Co.
(S. F.)
196
Hotel.s.
Notary Public.
168
Nurseries.
S. Nolan.
200
Omnibusses.
Phoenix
Front Cover
Louis Rerat. .
210
Engineer and Surveyor.
Win. F. Boardman. .
148
Home Mutual
178
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PAGE
PAGE
Photographers.
Sewing Machines.
Wm. B. Ingersoll.
170 Grover & Baker. . . Front Cover
A. K. Kipps. 242 Florence (S. F.). .198
Picture Frames.
Stoves and Tinware.
Wm. A. Kollmyer, (S. F.). . 224 James Dalziel.
158
Plumbing and Gas Fitting.
Frank M. Fonda & Co.
212
Robert Dalziel
158| Mrs. R. Heyman
168
James Dalziel.
158 J. J. Porter. .
198
Frank M. Fonda & Co.
212 Caleb M. Sickler, (S. F.)
Top Margin of Pages.
Planing Mills.
Blethen & Terry
136
Burnham, Standeford & Co.250
Real Estate Dealers.
Gardiner & Hunt
156
McLean & Hardy
150
Edward J. Kelley
190!
Wm. K. Rowell.
240|
J. Green. .
156
Olney & Co ..... Back of Cover C. H. Scott.
238
Dam & Gladding, inside of
Front Cover.
J. G. Hannaford.
190
E. C. Sessions, inside front cover P. Hays. .
206
Restaurants.
Becht's Saloon .
206
Louis Gnarini.
202
Wood and Willow Ware.
Saddle and Harness.
Armes & Dallam (S. F.) ... 130
James Lentell.
188
Water Works.
T. A. Kelsey
142 Contra Costa Water Co .. ... 174
Upholsters.
Carl Dederky
158
Irwin & Co.
152
Kaiser & Craib.
172
Geo. O. Whitney (S. F.).
240
Undertakers.
!W. W. Mckenzie.
.
210
Vegetables.
Andrew J. Coffee & Son . .. 166
Wines and Liquors.
Mrs. R. Heyman
168
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Brooklyn Advertisers.
PAGE
Webster & Co., Grocers.
256
A. W. Swett, Livery and Sale Stable.
256
Wm C. and Isaac Wallace, Sale Stable.
Clinton Mills. 256
258
Elias J. Marson, Carriage and Wagon Maker
258
Asa Howard, General Insurance Agent. 258
Henry Hampel, General Blacksmith .
260
Charles Elm, House and Carriage Painter . 260
260
A. Ford, Dry Goods and Groceries. 260
Brooklyn Manufacturing Company Back of Cover
Heilner Bros., Dry Goods, etc. Margin of Book
Brooklyn Drug Store. Margin of Book
Alameda Advertisers.
Smith's Store, general variety, etc. 268
Loyal Oak Hotel. . 268
Arthur S. Barber, Choice Family Groceries 270
270
Postal Money Orders.
During the year 1868 Postal Money Orders were sold at the Oakland Post Office, by Dr. George M. Yard, Post Master, as follows :
$ 252 95
January .
516 35
February
802 55
March
469 20
April
933 45
May
2707 45
June
1102 85
July .
1313 30
August.
1374 75
September
1131 55
October
1682 45
November
22S3 25
December.
Total for 1868.
$14,568 10
Lamotte & Roney, Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron
Fr. Boehmer, Alameda Store
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
EX-OFFICIO REGENTS.
HIS EXCELLENCY, HENRY H. HAIGHT, Governor and President of the Board. HIS HONOR, WILLIAM HOLDEN, Lieutenant-Governor.
HON. C. T. RYLAND. Speaker of the Assembly.
How. and REV. O. P. FITZGERALD, D. D .. State Superintendent of Public Instruction. HON. CHARLES F. REED, President of the State Agricultural Society.
A. S. HALLIDIE, EsQ., President of the Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco.
APPOINTED REGENTS.
HON. SAMUEL MERRITT, M. D., Oakland.
JOHN T. DOYLE, EsQ , Menlo Park.
Hox. RICHARD P. HAMMOND, San Francisco.
HON. JOHN W. DWINELLE, Oakland.
REV. HORATIO STEBBINS, San Francisco.
HON. LAWRENCE ARCHER, San Jose.
WILLIAM WATT, EsQ., Grass Valley.
Hox. SAMUEL B. McKEE, Oakland.
HONORARY REGENTS .*
ISAAC FRIEDLANDER, EsQ., San Francisco.
HON. EDWARD TOMPKINS, Oakland.
J. MORA MOSS, EsQ., Temescal.
S. F. BUTTERWORTH, EsQ., New Almaden Mine.
ANDREW. J. MOULDER, EsQ., San Francisco. A. J. BOWIE, M. D., San Francisco.
HON. FREDERICK F. LOW, San Francisco.
JOHN B. FELTON, EsQ., Oakland.
The endowment of the University consists of the following property and funds :
The site of one hundred and sixty acres of land, valued at.
$ 80,000
The Seminary and Public Building Funds 100,000
The prospective receipt from Tide Lands. . 200,000
Other property coming from the College of California .. 40,000
$420,000
Besides this, are the 150,000 acres of Agricultural College Lands, which if speedily located, and hield for a few years, will, it is believed, readily sell for from five dollars to ten dollars per acre. An appeal will be soon made to the friends of education and of California to contribute to the endowment of the University, so that it may be placed at once on a permanent basis of prosperity.
The enterprise is in its infancy as yet, but the Regents are managing their trust in an efficient manner, and before the end of the present year it is expected that temporary arrangements will be completed in Oakland, and that students will be received by the professors, who may by that time be appointed.
*The term HONORARY applied to these Regents indicates only the mode of their election, which is made by the Ex-Officio and Appointed Regents. Every Regent, however appointed, is a voting, legislative, and executive member of the Board.
MUNICIPAL LICENSES.
The municipal licenses are collected under an ordinance of the City Council, passed November 24th, 1865. The important sec- tions of this ordinance are appended :
SECTION 9. Every person or firm within the limits of the City of Oakland, who shall vend any goods, wares or merchandise, wines or distilled or fermented liquors, drugs or medicines, jew- elry or wares of precious metals, and every person or firm who shall keep horses or carriages for rent or hire (except mules, horses or animals used for the transportation of goods,) and every person or firm engaged in the business of manufacturing by steam or horse power, wood, iron or other materials, or in carrying on and maintaining a laundry, flour mill, or other establishment for the transaction of business, that is to say, all persons dealing in the aforesaid business in said city, and whose average monthly sales, rents or receipts are one thousand dollars or upwards, shall constitute the first class, and those, also, whose average monthly sales, rents or receipts are under one thousand dollars shall con- stitute the second class. The licenses for the first class shall be given on the payment of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month ; and for the second class on the payment of two dollars and fifty cents per month ; provided, that the sales of liquors and wines by persons under this section shall not be in less quan- tities than one quart measure.
SECTION 10. All tavern-keepers, inn-keepers, and all persons who may sell and dispose of any spiritous, malt or fermented liquors or wines in less quantities than one quart, shall, before the transaction of any such business, take out a license or licenses from the city, as prescribed in this Ordinance, and make therefor the following payments, to-wit : Those making sales to the amount of five thousand dollars and less than ten thousand dol- lars as a monthly average, shall constitute the first class ; and all
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sales less than five thousand dollars, as a monthly average, shall constitute the second class ; the licenses to be paid by the vend- ors of the first class, twenty dollars per month, and of the second class five dollars per month.
SECTION 12. Every manager or lessee of every theatre which may be opened within the limits of the city of Oakland, before opening the same, shall pay for and obtain a tax license from the city, and shall pay for the same the sum of three dollars per day, if granted for a less term than one month; if granted for one month, the sum of fifty dollars; if for three months, one hun- dred dollars; if for one year, three hundred dollars ; and for each exhibition of serenaders, or opera, or concert singers, (ex- cept for charitable purposes) the same payment for licenses as is required for theatrical performances. For each exhibition of caravan or menagerie, the exhibition for gain of any collection of animals for public amusement, and for each exhibition of circus, the sum of fifteen dollars ; and for each show of any fig- ures, rope or wire dancing, or sleight of hand, for reward, and any other show or exhibition for reward or gain, and not enumer- ated above, the sum of five dollars for each show or exhibition.
SECTION 14. Each person engaged in the business of hawking or peddling, or in the itinerant vending of dry goods, or any other wares or commodities, shall pay for a license to do the same the sum of seven and one-half dollars per quarter. The selling or offering to sell, at any place other than a fixed and permanent place of business, shall be deemed hawking, peddling or itinerant vending, within the meaning of this Ordinance; provided, that the furnishing to licensed retail dealers of articles manufactured in this city or county, from hand or licensed vehicles, belonging to the manufacturers of suchi articles, shall not be deemed ped- dling, within the meaning of this section. Each person required by this section to take out a license, shall carry the same upon his person while occupied in such business, and exhibit such license when requested by any person. Licenses issued under the provisions of this section shall be termed merchandise peddler's license.
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SECTION 15. Each person, house or firm engaged in the busi- ness of keeping a restaurant, or bakery, or in the sale of meat, fish, poultry, game, butter, cheese, eggs, fruit, vegetables, bread, confectionery, cakes, or any fruit of any kind or either, in any any other place than in a stall in a public market rented for such purposes, shall pay for a quarterly license to carry on any or all kinds of business in this section named, as specified in the fol- lowing schedule : Those whose gross sales amount to five thou- sand dollars and upwards per quarter shall pay for a license ten dollars per quarter. Those whose gross sales are under five thou- sand dollars and over one thousand dollars per quarter, shall pay for a license seven and a half dollars per quarter. Those whose quarterly sales are less than one thousand dollars, shall pay for a license six dollars per quarter. Licenses issued under the provi- sions of this section shall be termed meat and produce peddler's licenses ; provided, that a person selling the products of his own ranch or farm shall not be deemed a peddler within the meaning of this section.
SECTION 16. Eaeli and every person engaged in the business of draying, and every proprietor or driver of a cab, and every proprietor or driver of an omnibus, the same being a business carried on in the city of Oakland, each and every proprietor or driver of a truck, hack or express wagon, or any other vehicle used in the business of common carrier in said city, in part or in whole, shall, for each and every dray, cab, omnibus, truck, hack, express wagon, or other vehicle so used, before using the same, first obtain a municipal license therefor, by paying into the city treasury the sum of ten dollars as a yearly license therefor, to- gether with the costs hereafter mentioned, which license money shall be set aside for street repairs in the city ; and it shall be the duty of each proprietor or driver of any vehicle mentioned or intended in this Ordinance, to have each and all of his or her vehicles, so used or intended to be used, to be registered with the City Clerk, and to be plainly numbered in some conspicuous place upon said vehicle, as the same may be registered, and in
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the order of their registry, as shall appear by the records of the said Clerk.
SECTION 20. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to see that all licenses herein required are promptly collected, and should any person fail or negleet to take out his license as required by this Ordinance for the term of five days, he shall proceed to de- mand the same and shall then be entitled to receive from the delinquent ten per cent. upon the amount of license then due as his fee for collecting the same, to be collected with the said lieense from the one so delinquent, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk, if said delinquent should fail to pay the said amount for which he or she is then liable, immediately to place the same in the hands of the City Attorney for collection, and when by him collected the per centage due the Clerk shall be collected with the amount due for license, together with other costs mentioned and by law allowed.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
The powers of the Board of Health are enumerated in the fol- lowing sections :
SECTION 2. The Board of Health shall have power, when- ever, in their judgment, public health shall require it :
First, To require the removal of all persons landed into the city, from any vessel, or railroad, or in the vicinity of the city.
Second, To direct the cleansing and fumigation of any vessel or its cargo, within the limits of the city, and the destruction of any bedding, clothing, or portion of a cargo that they may deem infected and likely to spread disease.
Third, To give such directions and adopt such measures as in their judgment may be necessary for cleansing and purifying any building or premises, and to cause to be done, in relation thereto, everything which in their opinion may be proper to preserve the health of the city.
Fourth, To prevent the spreading of contagious disease, by forbidding all communication with a house, vessel or person in- fected with such a disease, except such as they may deem neces- sary for any purpose ; and by causing to be removed to a place provided therefor, any indigent person who shall be homeless and infected with such a disease; and by doing, and causing to be done, any other act that they may deem necessary to effect such object.
Fifth, To provide (with the consent of the Council) a suitable hospitable building, and furnish the same with such physicians, nurses, attendants and supplies as they may deem necessary or advisable.
Sixth, To abate in a summary manner any nuisance which they may deem prejudicial to the health of the community ; and in any case of apparent emergency, when prompt sanitary mea-
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sures may be deemed necessary by said Board, and the orders of said Board appear to be disregarded, then said Board shall have power to enforce said orders by calling into requisition the aid o the Police of the city.
The provisions in the following sections should be thoroughly understood by the people :
SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of each physician in this city to report to the Board of Health, in writing, every patient he shall have laboring under the small-pox, or any other contagious or infections disease or epidemic, within twelve hours after he shall be satisfied of the nature of the disease, and to report to the same Board every case of death from such disease as soon as possible, in no case to exceed 24 hours after occurrence of death.
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