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SEC. 22. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed.
SEC. 23. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force on and after its approval; provided, this ordinance shall in no wise affect any person now holding a license by the City of Oakland until the same is fully expired and ended.
PUBLIC HEALTH.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING PUBLIC HEALTH, APPROVED JULY, 31, 1868; AND THE AMENDMENTS THERETO, APPROVED DECEMBER 24, 1868, AND MAY 16 AND 30, 1870.
The Council of the City of Oakland do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. There shall be elected by the Council of the City of Oak- land, at their first meeting in the month of June, 1870, and regularly at their first meeting in the month of June in every second year thereafter, a Board of Health, consisting of three members and a Health Officer, all of whom shall be practicing physicians of this city, and regular grad- uates of some respectable medical college; but the Council hereby retain the power to declare vacant the office of any elected member of the Board on good and sufficient cause being shown .- [ Amendment, May 24, 1870.] - A special election shall be held by the Council to fill any vacancy or vacancies that may occur in the interval between the regular elections .- [Ordinance, May 24, 1870, Sec. 2.]
- The Mayor and Health Officer shall be ex officio members of the Board of Health .- [Ordinance, May 24, 1870, Sec. 3.]
- The Mayor shall act as chairman of said Board, and in case the Mayor, from any cause, shall be unable to attend to the discharge of his duties as chairman of the Board, the Board may choose any other mem- ber of said Board as chairman thereof, and the member so chosen shall possess the powers and perform the duties of the Mayor in that respect. -[Ordinance, May 24, 1870, Sec. 4.]
- The regular meetings of the Board shall be held once in three months, upon the call of the Health Officer, who shall also be empow- ered to call the members of the Board together when, in his opinion, an emergency requires it .- [Ordinance, May 24, 1870, Sec. 5.]
O I C U R going to purchase Stationery-try STRICKLAND & CO.
TUBBS' HOTEL, East Oakland. John M. Lawlor & Co., proprietors.
E. W. WOODWARD & CO., 958 Bdwy, houses rented-rents collected.
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SEC. 2. The Board of Health shall have power, whenever 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 infected with such a disease, except such as they may deem necessary 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 hos- pital 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 measures may be deemed necessary by said Board, and the orders of said Board appear to be dis- regarded, then said Board shall have power to enforce said orders by calling into requisition the aid of the police of the city.
-* To district the city for purposes of vaccination and general health, and assign to each district a physician, whose duty it shall be to imme- diately visit every house and residence in his district, and to vaccinate every person who cannot show satisfactory evidence of recent successful vaccination, and to visit every school in his district, and by a careful examination of every pupil in such school, to learn if each and every one of such pupils have been recently vaccinated; and if it be found that any such pupil has not been vaccinated, to immediately vaccinate such pupil. Every adult person who shall fail to produce the evidence above required of vaccination, and shall refuse to be immediately vaccinated ; and every parent or guardian who shall prevent or obstruct the examina- tion and vaccination of any pupil or child, as heretofore required, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than ten or more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned one day for every two dollars of such fine .- [Ordinance, December 24, 1868, Sec. 1.]
SEC. 3. The expense incurred in carrying out the provisions of section two of this ordinance, shall be paid by the persons and property removed, or by the property subjected to sanitary regulations in other respects, or by the city, as in the judgment of the Board of Health may in each case be deemed just.
SEC. 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 infectious disease or epi-
*The Health Districts are as follows: First-Embraces all west of Adeline Street. Second- Embraces all south of Seventh Street, east of Adeline Street, and all west of Oak Street, south of Twelfth Street. Third-Embraces all between Seventh and Twelfth streets, Oak and Adeline streets. Fourth-Embraces all north of Twelfth Street, and east of Broadway to city limits. Fifth-Embraces all north of Twelfth Street, between Broadway and Adeline streets, to city limits.
Try GORDON'S ice cream, it is the best and cheapest. 469 Ninth St.
E. J. KELLY & CO.'S is the leading Real Estate house of Oakland.
O. F. S .- Oil-cake meal and ground barl'y, 416 Ninth nr Bdwy-O. F. S.
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demic, 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 twenty-four hours after the occurrence of death.
- It shall be the duty of every district physician to watch the general health and cleanliness of his district, and to report the same, weekly, to the Board of Health .- [Ordinance, December 24, 1868, Sec. 1.]
- It shall be the duty of every attending physician, while attending upon any sick person suffering from any injury, complaint, or disease, to ascertain, if possible, their age, when and where born, previous residence, whether single or married, occupation, and cause of death; to report the same immediately to the Health Officer of the City of Oakland, with time of death and cause of death, which report shall be signed by such attend- ing physician .- [Ordinance, December 24, 1868, Sec. 2.]
SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of every person who is a house-keeper, keeper of a boarding-house or lodging house of this city, to report to the Board of Health, immediately after the discovery of the presence of any eruptive disease, the name of every person living, boarding, or lodging at his or her house, whom he or she shall have reason to believe to be sick with such disease; and every master, or owner, or consignee of a vessel lying at a wharf, or in any creek, or anywhere in the harbor, within the city, shall make a like report, and within the time specified.
SEC. 6. It shall be optional with any house-keeper, keeper of a board- ing-house, or lodging-house, to retain within his or her premises any per- sons having the small-pox, duly providing them with a physician, nurses, and supplies : provided, that in that case said house-keeper, keeper of a boarding-house, or lodging-house, shall, immediately after the knowledge of the presence of the disease, place, or cause to be placed, in a conspicu- ous place in front of the building containing such patient, a yellow flag, not less than eighteen inches long and twelve inches wide, and fully spread open to public view.
SEC. 7. No person shall knowingly transport or convey, or cause to be transported or conveyed, within the limits of this city in any hack, car- riage, railroad car, or steamboat, or other vehicle or public conveyance, any person afflicted with small-pox, or the body of any person who may have died of small-pox, except by written permission from the Health Officer .- [Amendment, May 30, 1870.]
- Every person who shall rent any house, or building, or land, know- ing that the same is to be used and occupied by any person or persons affected with any contagious disease, or any person affected with a conta- gious disease, to come into and remain in any house occupied or controlled by him or her, except such person be a member of the family, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned one day for every two dollars of such fine. Every day such person so affected is allowed to remain in any such house or building, or land, shall be deemed a new offense. And it shall be the duty of every officer of this municipal government to immediately report to the City Attorney every violation of this ordinance that comes to his knowledge, and every viola- tion of "An ordinance concerning the Public Health," approved July 31, 1868; and it shall be the duty of the City Attorney to immediately pros- ecute every such violation. The same fees shall be allowed for vaccina- tion as provided in section ten of said ordinance .- [Ordinance, December 24, 1868, Sec. 3.]
- Every sexton, undertaker, superintendent of a cemetery or burial place or ground, or other persons who shall inter or cause to be interred any human body, or who shall remove or cause to be removed from the City of Oakland any human body, without first having obtained a permit,
All goods are sold at Eastern prices at STRICKLAND & CO.'S store.
TUBBS' HOTEL, East Oakland. Most healthy location in the State.
E. W. WOODWARD & CO., houses and lots in all parts of the city.
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in writing, for the same, from the Health Officer, or who, having interred or caused to be interred any human body under said permit, shall neglect to report on or before the succeeding Saturday, the place of interment, number of lot or grave to the Health Officer, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in this ordinance .- [Ordinance, May 16, 1870, Sec. 3.]
- In each and every case of death within the corporation limits of the City of Oakland, reported to or coming to the knowledge of the Health Officer, where there shall be any suspicious circumstances relating to or connected with such death, he shall cause to be had a post mortem exam- ination of such person, before being permitted to be buried ; at which post mortem examination it shall be the duty of one or more of the physi- cians composing the Board of Health of said city to be present and assist in said post mortem examination .- [Ordinance, May 16, 1870, Sec. 4.]
- No person attending upon or otherwise coming in contact with any person affected with small-pox in such manner or to such an extent as to render him or her liable to communicate the disease shall go upon any public street or in any way mingle with people not affected with the dis- ease : provided, that nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to apply to physicians, or annul any existing health regulation or order. -[Ordinance, May 30, 1870, Sec. 7.]
SEC. 8. [Repealed .- Ordinance, May 30, 1870, Sec. 9.]
SEC. 9. The Health Officer shall visit and examine all cases of small- pox that may be brought to his notice, and shall report to the Board of Health thereupon, in writing.
SEC. 10. The Health Officer shall keep an office and shall keep the same open for gratuitous vaccination, during certain hours of certain days, of which he shall give public notice, by advertisement from time to time, in two daily newspapers. He shall give his personal attention and services to the work of gratuitous vaccination, selecting and preserving the vaccine virus with his utmost care and skill. He shall keep a correct list of such persons as receive gratuitous vaccination, and shall be allowed not more than fifty cents for each such gratuitous vaccination, to be paid out of the city treasury .- [Amendment, May 30, 1870, Sec. 8.]
- It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to keep a record of all deaths occurring within the City of Oakland, in books duly prepared for that purpose, which shall be deposited when filled, and duly preserved in the office of the City Clerk for public inspection. Said record shall con- tain, as nearly as possible, the names of all persons who shall die in said city, the date of their death, when born, their age, previous residence, single or married, their sex, color, occupation, cause of death, the name of the attending physician, in what cemetery or burial ground interred, date of burial, and such other remarks as said Health Officer shall see fit to make; and it shall be his duty to make and deliver, to any person requesting the same, a certificate of such record, in detail, signed by him officially, for which certificate he shall be entitled to demand and receive from the person requesting the same, as compensation for the services of said Health Officer for making such certificate, the sum of two dollars .- [Ordinance, May 16, 1870, Sec. 1.]
SEC. 11. [Repealed-Ordinance, May 30, 1870, Sec. 8.]
SEC. 12. [Repealed-Ordinance, May 30, 1870, Sec. 8.]
SEC. 13. Every person having been vaccinated by the Health Officer, shall present himself or herself to said officer for examination or revaccin- ation on the sixth day after being vaccinated.
- Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, or any person who shall neglect or refuse to obey any order or regulation of the Board of Health, made in the exercise of the power conferred by law, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
Drink Napa Soda and enjoy life and health. Agency, 469 Ninth St.
Save your money and buy your Real Estate from KELLY & CO., 414 Seventh Street, Oakland.
O. F. S .- Hay, ground feed, and grain, 416 Ninth near Bdwy-O. F. S.
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shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and in default of payment thereof, by imprisonment in the City Jail one day for every two dollars of such fine .- [Ordinance, May 16, 1870, Sec. 5.]
HEALTH OFFICER.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE HEALTH OFFICER AND BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND, APPROVED APRIL 21, 1873.
The Council of the City of Oakland do ordain as follows :
SECTION 1. All nuisances in the first instance shall be reported to the Health Officer of the City of Oakland, in writing, stating the precise locality of the same and what it consists of, who and what causes the same, and the Health Officer shall lay the same before the Board of Health at the next meeting of the said Board, who shall investigate the same, the' effect upon the public health, and if, in the judgment of said Board, the same is deleterious to the public Health and ought to be sup- pressed and abated as a sanitary measure, they shall make an order such as in the judgment of said Board will best conduce to the general health and welfare and cleanliness of the city in relation to the nuisance reported: provided, however, that such order does not conflict with any law or ordin- ance pertaining to the rights of property.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of all policemen to serve all orders of the Board of Health (which order shall be served by copy), and a return of service upon the original, which shall be filed with the Board of Health.
SEC. 3. If any nuisance is not abated or regulated in accordance with the order of the Board of Health, within three days after the service of such order as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer to enter a complaint before the Police Court against all persons creating, causing, and maintaining such nuisance.
SEC. 4. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, so far as they conflict therewith, are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force on and after its approval.
AN ORDINANCE SUPPLEMENTARY TO "AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE HEALTH OFFICER AND BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND, APPROVED APRIL 21, 1873," APPROVED APRIL 28, 1875.
The Council of the City of Oakland do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. It is hereby declared unlawful for any person to have or maintain any privy-vault, or cesspool, or filthy water, or any substance whatever, upon his premises in such manner as shall, in the opinion of the Health Officer of the City of Oakland, be injurious to public health of said city.
SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of fifteen dollars, and in default of payment of any fine so imposed, shall be imprisoned in the city prison until the same is paid, at the rate of one day for each two dollars of said fine.
SEC. 3. For each prosecution and conviction under the provisions of this ordinance, the Health Officer shall be entitled to receive from the City of Oakland a fee of five dollars as a compensation for all his services in the premises.
STRICKLAND & CO., Books and Stationery, 1061 Broadway, Oakland.
TUBBS' HOTEL, East Oakland. Apartments single or en suite.
E. W. WOODWARD & CO., 958 Broadway, Oakland Real Estate.
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SEC. 4. Allordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and form after its approval.
AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE OFFICE OF CITY PHYSICIAN, AND PRE- SCRIBING THE DUTIES AND COMPENSATION THEREOF, APPROVED JUNE 30, 1874.
The Council of the City of Oakland do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The office of City Physician is hereby created. The Health Officer shall be ex officio City Physician, and shall perform the duties and receive the compensation hereinafter specified.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the City Physician to have charge of the Small-pox Hospital, and he shall be the medical attendant of such patients as may be there. He shall be the medical attendant of all per- sons who are confined in the city prison, and shall make such rules for the regimen of the prisoners as may be deemed necessary. He shall inspect as Health Officer said prison not less than three times a week, and oftener if necessary. He shall keep a record of the number sick in said prison, and shall collect such other statistics as may be usual and necessary in such cases. He shall examine all supplies furnished for the feeding of the city prisoners, and see that the same are wholesome and sufficient. He shall perform such other and further duties as may be required by the City Council or by a written order from the Committee on City Hall and Police.
SEC. 3. The City Physician shall receive as compensation the fees which are usual for the medical services which he may render.
SEC. 4. This ordinance shall take effect immediately.
You have not seen Oakland unless you have seen KELLY & CO., 414 Seventh Street.
NUISANCES.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING NUISANCES IN THE CITY OF OAKLAND, APPROVED OCTOBER 7, 1872.
The Council of the City of Oakland do ordain as follows :
SECTION 1. From and after the approval of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to keep cows, horses, cattle, goats, swine, or other animal or animals within the City of Oakland in a way and manner that will produce a public nuisance, or in any manner which shall or may affect the health or peace and quietude of any person or persons; but all stables, yards, pens, or places where such animals shall be kept, stabled, or yarded, shall be kept clean by the owner or possessor thereof, and in a manner which shall be approved by the Healthi Officer or Board of Health of said city.
SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- viction thereof shall be fined in the sum of twenty-five dollars, and in default of payment thereof shall be imprisoned in the City Prison one day for every two dollars of such fine.
SEC.3. Any person making complaint that a public nuisance exists under this ordinance, and is being maintained and continued, shall obtain the certificate of the Health Officer, or the Board of Health of said city, that a public nuisance exists under this ordinance, which certificate shall state at what particular point in said city the same is located, who and what causes the nuisance, and that the said Health Officer or Board of Health has given the party or parties causing or maintaining the same, three days' verbal notice to abate said nuisance and comply with the pro-
GORDON'S Ice Cream Manufactory, 469 Ninth Street, Oakland.
TUBBS' HOTEL, East Oakland. Patronized by all Eastern visitors.
O. F. S .- Oregon oats and ground barley, 416 Ninth Street-O. F. S.
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visions of this ordinance, and that said notice has not been complied with. Then, and in that case, a violation of this ordinance shall be deemed to have accrued, and a complaint may then be made by any per- son or persons aggrieved and affected by said nuisance, in the proper Court, and a certificate of said Health Officer or Board of Health shall be attached thereto and form a part thereof.
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer or Board of Health of said city, at the request of any party or person, to examine all yards, stables, pens, or other places where cows, horses, cattle, goats, swine, or other animals are kept in said city, and if, in his or their judgment, a public nuisance exists, shall immediately verbally notify the person or persons causing said nuisance to forthwith abate the same and comply with the provisions of this ordinance ; and if the same is not so abated within three days thereafter, the said Health Officer or Board of Health shall make the required certificate named in this ordinance to the person so requesting such examination and certificate; and said Health Officer or Board of Health shall be entitled to a fee of three dollars for such exam- ination and certificate made and delivered under this ordinance, to be paid out of the fines collected and paid for violating the same.
SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force on and after its approval.
AN ORDINANCE TO SUPPRESS, PROHIBIT, AND ABATE NUISANCES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND, IN PURSUANCE OF THE POWER GIVEN TO THE CITY COUNCIL, BY STATUTE, FOR THAT PURPOSE, APPROVED OCTO- BER 28, 1872.
The Council of the City of Oakland do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. All owners or possessors of land and premises within the corporate limits of the City of Oakland upon which there is any natural or artificial cavity, slough, hole, or low spot in the same, sufficient to contain stagnant water or other nauseous and offensive substances, and the same shall, from natural or artificial causes become filled, or contain stagnant water, or other nauseous and offensive substances, which shall be dele- terions and dangerous to the public health, such owners and possessors of such land and premises shall be deemed guilty of having, permitting, maintaining, and continuing a public nuisance; and if not abated as provided by this ordinance, or otherwise, so that the same shall cease to be offensive and deleterious and dangerous to the public health, then the said nuisance shall be abated by public authority, and the person or per- sons permitting, having, causing, maintaining, and continuing the said nuisance shall be proceeded against as provided in this ordinance. And any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in the sum of one hundred dollars, and in default of pay- ment shall be imprisoned in the City Prison one day for every two dollars of such fine.
SEC. 2. Upon complaint being made by any person that a public nuis- ance exists, as set forth in section one of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the City of Oakland to immediately examine the same; and if in his judgment a public nuisance exists, and the same is deleterious and dangerous to the public health, he shall forthwith make his certificate as Health Officer, stating the nuisance, where located, upon whose premises, and what and who causes the same, and that the same is a public nuisance and is deleterious and dangerous to the public health ; which certificate he shall forthwith deliver to the City Marshal, who shall forthwith serve a written notice upon the person or persons owning or possessing the land and premises upon which the said nuisance is located, or the person or persons causing said nuisance, stating therein that the
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