Board of Health or Health Officer, to remove and cremate or to cremate without removal, a body at any time.

Sec. 7. When death results from contagious disease (within the meaning of the words "contagious diseases"), as defined by said Board of Health or by law the body shall not be publicly exposed, and said remains shall be cremated without being taken from the case enclosing them, and said Board of Health may adopt regulations prescribing the manner and shape in which the remains referred to in this section shall be prepared for cremation.

Sec. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Order is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

REGULATING THE REPORTING OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

ORDER NO. 3042.

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of each physician in this City and County to report to the Health Office, in writing, every patient he shall have laboring under smallpox, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, measles, tuberculosis, chicken-pox, or other contagious disease immediately after he shall be satisfied of the nature of the disease. He shall also report to the same office every case of death from such disease immediately after it shall have occurred.

Any person who shall violate any of the pro

visions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

ORDINANCE NO. 87.

(Approved June 6, 1900.)

Empowering the Board of Health to Quarantine Persons, Houses, Places and Districts, when in Its Judgment it is Deemed Necessary to Prevent the Spreading of Contagious or Infectious Diseases.

Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. The Board of Health of this City and County is hereby authorized and empowered to quarantine persons, houses, places and districts within this City and County, when in its judgment it is deemed necessary to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious diseases.

Sec. 2. All Orders and Ordinances and parts of Orders and Ordinances in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage.

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-d June 6, 1900.)

ORDINANCE NO. 1034.

(Approved October 27, 1903.)

Regulations to Prevent the Spread of Disease.

Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. The term "contagious disease" shall include every disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature, particularly cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, varicella, pulmonary tuberculosis,

d of Health to Quarant diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, tyPlaces and Districts, wh phus fever, measles and every other disease pub

Et is Deemed Necessary ding of Contagious or

› People of the City a as follows:

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ized and empowered es, places and district y, when in its judgmer prevent the spreading &

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1 Ordinances and parts in so far as they connis Ordinance are here

licly declared by the Board of Health to be dangerous to the public health.

Sec. 2. Every physician must report in writing to the Board of Health, within twenty-four hours after he has been called to attend any person affected with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, except pulmonary tuberculosis, the name and place of residence of such person and In the event

the name and state of the disease.
of the death of any person afflicted with any such
disease, the attending physician must report in
Writing to the Board of Health, within twenty-

four hours thereafter, the name and place of resi-
dence of the deceased, and the specific name and
type of such disease.

Sec. 3. Every physician, and every person having the control or management of any public or private institution or dispensary, shall report in shall take effect from writing to the Board of Health the name, age, sex occupation and place of residence of every person

afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis who shall have come under his care, within one week thereafter.

Sec. 4. Every person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis, and every person in attendance upon any person so afflicted, and every person in charge of any private or public hospital or dispensary, shall observe and enforce all sanitary rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Health to prevent the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with or obstruct the officers or inspectors of the Board of Health in the examination of any building or premises wherein a person is reported to be afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease.

Sec. 6. The Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to post in a conspicuous place upon any building or premises wherein any person is afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, a notice specifying the name of such disease. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with the posting of such notice or to tear down or mutilate any notice so posted by the Board of Health in or upon any building or premises.

Sec. 7. The master or chief officer of any vessel within one-fourth of a mile of any wharf, dock, pier or any building in this City and County, and not in quarantine or within the quarantine limits, shall report daily, in writing, to the Board of Health the name of any person on such vessel afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, the name and particulars of such disease and the condition of the person afflicted therewith.

Sec. 8. The master or chief officer of any vessel which shall arrive in this port, and every physician who practiced on such vessel, shall, immediately upon arrival, report in writing to the Board of Health all facts concerning any person who may have been afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease during the voyage to this port, and also all the facts concerning any person or thing carried on such vessel during such voyage which, in his opinion, may endanger the public health of this City and County.

Sec. 9. Whenever the Board of Health shall have reason to suspect the presence of an infectious, contagious or pestilential disease within any building or premises, and the physician in attendance or the head of the family refuses to permit the representative of the Board of Health to examine the person suspected of being afflicted with such disease, the Board of Health shall quarantine the premises and prevent egress and ingress from and to the same until such examination is permitted or until said Board has practiced disinfection and detention to its satisfaction.

Sec. 10. Whenever any person residing in a hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or tenementhouse is afflicted with any infectious, contagious or pestilential disease, the owner, lessee, keeper or manager of such place must immediately give notice thereof to the Board of Health. Immediately upon the receipt of such notice the Board of Health must cause an examination of the person SO afflicted, and, if in its judgment it be necessary, it shall cause such hotel, boarding-house, lodginghouse or tenement-house, or any part thereof, to be immediately cleansed and disinfected in effective manner; and the Board of Health may

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