city and county, and four physicians in good standing residing in the City and County of San Francisco, appointed by the Governor, and holding their offices for the term of five years. Stats. 1870, p. 716, Sec. 2. Board of Health of San Franconstituted. cisco, how Term of office. ex officio Time of meeting. SEC. 3006. The Mayor is ex officio President of the Mayor Board. The Board must meet monthly, and at such President. other times as the President may direct. In the absence of the President, the Board may elect a Chairman, who is clothed with the same powers as the President. Stats. 1870, p. 716, Sec. 3. Health Officer, his SEC. 3007. The Health Officer for the City and County and port of San Francisco is elected by the Board of election. Health, and holds office at its pleasure. He must be a graduate of some medical college, in good standing, and must reside within the city limits of San Francisco. Stats. 1870, p. 716, Sec. 4. SEC. 3008. The Health Officer may perform all acts Powers of. which quarantine officers are usually authorized to perform, and he is the executive officer of the Board of Health. Stats. 1870, p. 717, Sec. 5. Health etc., to be SEC. 3009. The Board of Health must appoint a Deputy Deputy Health Officer, who is a physician in good standing; a Officers, Secretary, two Health Inspectors, one Market Inspector, appointed. and one Messenger, whose duties must be fixed by the Health Officer. Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 6. sation of Health De SEC. 3010. The following annual salaries are allowed Compento the officers of the Health Department: Health Officer, officers of twenty-four hundred dollars; Deputy Health Officer, partment. eighteen hundred dollars; Secretary, two thousand one hundred dollars; Health Inspectors, one thousand two hundred dollars each; Market Inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; and Messenger, nine hundred dollars. All salaries must be paid monthly in equal instalments, out of the General Fund of the City and County Expenses of General powers of Board of Health. Ship masters to report infected vessels. Passengers and freight not to be landed without permit. of San Francisco, in the same manner as the salaries of the other officers of the city and county are paid. Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 7. SEC. 3011. The Health Officer, in addition to his salary, receives such sums for the necessary expenses of his office as the Board of Health may direct, and the Auditor must audit and the Treasurer pay such sums out of the General Fund. The Board of Supervisors must provide proper offices for the Health Department. Stats. 1879-70, p. 717, Sec. 8. SEC. 3012. The Board of Health have general supervision of all matters appertaining to the sanitary condition of the city and county, including the City and County Hospital, the County Jail, Almshouse, Industrial School, and all public health institutions provided by the City and County of San Francisco; and may adopt such orders and regulations and appoint or discharge such medical attendants and employés as to them seems best to promote the public welfare; and may appoint as many Health Inspectors as they deem necessary in time of epidemics. Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 9. SEC. 3013. Shipmasters bringing vessels into the harbor of San Francisco, and masters, owners, or consignees having vessels in the harbor which have on board any cases of Asiatic cholera, smallpox, yellow, typhus, or ship fever, must report the same, in writing, to the Health Officer before landing any passengers, casting anchor, or coming to any wharf, or as soon thereafter as they or either of them become aware of the existence of either of these diseases on board of their vessel. Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 10. SEC. 3014. No captain or other officer in command of any vessel sailing under a register arriving at the port of San Francisco, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having charge of such vessel, must, under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, land or permit to be landed any freight, passengers or other persons from such vessel until he has reported to the Health Officer, presented his bill of health, and received a permit from that officer to land freight, passengers or other persons. Stats. 1869-70, p. 717, Sec. 11. SEC. 3015. Every pilot who conducts into the port of Duties of pilots. San Francisco any vessel subject to quarantine or examination by the Health Officer, must: 1. Bring the vessel no nearer the city than is allowed by law; 2. Prevent any person from leaving and any communication being made with the vessel under his charge until the Health Officer has boarded her and given the necessary orders and directions; 3. Be vigilant in preventing any violation of the quarantine laws, and report without delay all such violations that come to his knowledge to the Health Officer; 4. Present the master of the vessel with a printed copy of the quarantine laws, unless he has one; 5. If the vessel is subject to quarantine by reason of infection, place at the masthead a small yellow flag. Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec. 12. SEC. 3016. Every master of a vessel, subject to quarantine or visitation by the Health Officer, arriving in the port of San Francisco, who refuses or neglects either: 1. To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, when legally directed so to do; or, 2. To submit his vessel, cargo, and passengers to the Health Officer, and furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine what quarantine or other regulations they ought, respectively, to be subject; or, 3. To report all cases of disease, and of deaths occurring on his vessel, and to comply with all the sanitary regulations of the bay and harbor; -Is liable in the sum of five hundred dollars for every such neglect or refusal. Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec. 13. Penalty for masters of neglect of Vessels to comply with sanitary tions. regula Vessels from infected ports, etc., subject to quarantine. SEC. 3017. All vessels arriving off the port of San Francisco from ports which have been legally declared infected ports, and all vessels arriving from ports where there is prevailing, at the time of their departure, any contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases, or vessels with decaying cargoes, or which have unusually foul or Masters to offensive holds, are subject to quarantine, and must be by the master, owner, pilot, or consignee reported to the Health Officer without delay. No such vessel must cross a right line drawn from Meiggs' wharf to Alcatraz Island until the Health Officer has boarded her and given the order required by law. report such vessels. Such ves sels not to cross cortain line. Examination and of vessels by Health Officer. Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec. 14. SEC. 3018. The Health Officer must board every vessel inspection subject to quarantine or visitation by him, immediately on her arrival, make such examination and inspection of vessel, books, papers, or cargo, or of persons on board, under oath, as he may judge expedient, and determine whether the vessel should be ordered to quarantine, and if so, the period of quarantine. Passengers not to be landed without permit. Fees of Stats. 1869-70, p. 718, Sec. 15. SEC. 3019. No Captain or other officer in command of any passenger-carrying vessel of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden, nor of any vessel of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden having passengers on board, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having charge of such vessel or vessels, can, under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, land or permit to be landed any passenger from the vessel until he has presented his bill of health to the Health Officer, and received a permit from that officer to land such passenger, except in such cases as the Health Officer deems it safe to give the permit before seeing the bill of health. Stats. 1869-70, p. 719, Sec. 16. SEC. 3020. The following fees may be collected by the Health Officer: For giving a permit to land freight or passengers, or both, from any vessel of less than one thousand tons burden, from any port out of this State, two and a half dollars; from any port in this State, one dollar and a quarter; from any passenger-carrying vessel of more than one thousand tons burden, three dollars and seventy-five cents; for vessels of more than one thousand tons burden, carrying no passengers, two dollars and fifty cents; for vaccination, from each person, one dollar. Stats. 1869-70, p. 719, Sec. 17. sory vac SEC. 3021. The Board of Health may enforce compul- Compulsory vaccination on passengers in infected ships or cination. coming from infected ports. to be SEC. 3022. The Board of Health may provide suitable Hospitals hospitals, to be situated at or near Saucelito, and furnish provided. and supply the same with nurses and attachés, and remove thereto all persons afflicted with cholera, small pox, yellow, typhus, or ship fever. Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 22. SEC. 3023. The Health Officer must keep a record of all births, deaths, and interments occurring in the City and County of San Francisco. Such records, when filled, must be deposited in the office of the County Recorder, and produced when required for public inspection. Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 23. Returns deaths, and of births, number of children. SEC. 3024. Physicians and midwives must, on or before the fourth day of each month, make a return to the Health Officer of all births, deaths, and the number of stillborn stillborn children occurring in their practice during the preceding month. In the absence of such attendants, the parent must make such report within thirty days after the birth of the child. Such returns must be made in accordance with rules adopted and upon blanks furnished by the Board of Health. Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 26. to be SEC. 3025. No person must inter in the City and No bodies County of San Francisco any human body without hav- interred ing first obtained a physician's or Coroner's certificate, permit. without |