to keep a registry of the several births at which they have assisted professionally, which registry shall contain the time of such birth, sex, and color of the child, and the names and residence of the parents; clergymen and other persons authorized to solemnize marriages, shall keep a registry of all marriages solemnized by them; physicians who have attended deceased persons in their last illness, and undertakers and sextons who have buried deceased persons, shall keep a registry of the name and age of such persons, and their residence at the time of their death; and all such physicians, professional midwives, clergymen, and all persons authorized to solemnize marriages, undertakers, and sextons, shall report to the board of health all births, marriages, and deaths occurring within the limits of such city, as registered by them, which reports shall be made as often as the board of health may require. [71 v. 159, § 306.]

SEC. 6. The owner, or agent of the owner, of a house, in which a person resides, who has the small-pox, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, and the physician called to attend the person so affected, shall, within twenty four hours after becoming cognizant of the fact, give notice thereof to the board of health; and when a person, so af fected, is removed to a pest house. or hospital, the board of health is empowered to use all necessary means to restrain him of his liberty, until the danger of infection, or contagion, from such disease, ceases. [71 v. 159, § 307.]

SEC. 7. No person shall convey a corpse to or from any city, without a permit from the board of health. [71 v. 159, § 307.]

SEC. 8. Any person, other than an officer, who fails to faithfully comply with any of the provisions of the four preceding sections, shall pay, for each offense, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, to be recovered in a civil action, in the police court of such city, in the name of the state. [71 v. 159, 306-7.]

SEC. 9. A person removed to a pest-house, or hospital, who willfully leaves or escapes therefrom, before the physician thereof issues a certificate of restored health, shall be fined not less than five, nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not less than one, nor more than ten days. [66 v. 201, 308.]

SEC. 10. The council may grant power to the board of health, to make such orders and regulations as it may deem necessary for the public health, and for the prevention of diseases; and such orders and regulations shall have all the force and effect of ordinances of the corporation. [66 v. 201, § 309.]

SEC. 11. The board of health, in cities of the first class, and, when empowered by resolution of the council, in cities of the second class, are authorized and directed to enter brothels, and houses of assignation, and make enumerations,

Div. 6.

Disposition of minor prostitute.

When female shall be treated as a vagrant.

Treatment of diseased female; expense thereof.

Sait for recovery of such expense.

Nuisances to be abated.

as often as they may deem necessary, of the name, age, and color of the inmates therein, and make a record thereof, in a book to be kept in the office of the board of health, open to the inspection of the members of the board, the police, and others. [66 v. 201, § 310.]

SEC. 12. When a female, under the age of eighteen years, or believed to be under that age, is found in such brothel, or house of assignation, it shall be the duty of the board of health to return her to her home, if she has a home; and if such female has no home, then she shall be consigned to the house of refuge and correction of the corporation, or such benevolent institution, established for the reformation of abandoned females, as the board of health may elect. [66 v. 202, § 311.]

SEC. 13. No such female shall be consigned to a house of refuge and correction, or benevolent institution, against her will; but in case she declines the care and protection tendered her, it shall be the duty of the board to report her to the mayor, or police court, forthwith, to be tried as a vagrant. [66 v. 202, § 312]

SEC. 14. When a female is found in a house of ill fame, or assignation, affected with contagious or infectious disease, and is removed to, or if such person apply for admission to, any hospital, or pest-house, for treatment, the costs of such removal, and the expense of boarding and washing, while in such hospital, or pest-house, shall be paid by the proprietor of the house of ill fame, or assignation, from which such patient is removed, or in which she was last an inmate; such payment shall be made before the patient is discharged from such hospital, or pest-house; and the expense of boarding, washing, and medical attendance, shall be a lien upon the house and premises in which such female shall have been so found, which lien may be enforced as other liens for the security of money. [66 v. 202, § 313.]

SEC. 15. If the proprietor of such house of ill fame, or assignation, fails or refuses to pay such expense, legal proceedings shall be immediately instituted against him, and such patient shall be held as a witness in the case. [66 v. 202, § 314.J

SEC. 16. When any building, erection, excavation, premises, business, pursuit, matter, or thing, or the sewerage, drainage, or ventilation thereof, is, in the opinion of the board of health, in a condition dangerous to life or health, the board shall declare the same, to the extent it may specify, a public nuisance, or dangerous to life and health; and the board may order the same to be removed, abated, sus pended, altered, or otherwise improved or purified, as in the order shall be specified, and shall cause the order, before its execution, to be served on the agent, owner, occupant, or tenant, or such of them as are in the corporation, and can be found. [66 v. 202, § 315.]

SEC. 17. If a party so served, before the execution of the order is commenced, apply to the board to have the order or its execution stayed or modified, it shall be the duty of the board to temporarily suspend or modify it, and to give the party, as the case, in the opinion of the board, may require, a reasonable and fair opportunity to be heard before the board, and to present proofs and facts against the declaration and the execution of the order, or in favor of its modification. [66 v. 202, § 316.]

SEC. 18. The board shall enter upon its minutes such facts and proofs as it may receive, and its proceedings on the hearing, and thereafter may rescind, modify, or reaffirm its former declaration and order, and require execution of the original or of a new or modified order, in such form as it may finally determine. [66 v. 203, $317.]

SEC. 19. The board of health shall have power to appoint as many persons for sanitary duty as in its opinion the public health and sanitary condition of the corporation may require; and such persons shall have general police powers, be known as the sanitary police, perform such duties for the promotion of the public health, and such other duties as the board of health may direct, and shall serve during the pleasure of the board. [71 v. 160, § 318.]

SEC. 20. When, in the opinion of the board of health, the services of a member of the sanitary police is no longer required, he shall, on recommendation of the board of health, be returned to duty as a regular policeman, or be dismissed, as the mayor, or, in cities of the first and second grades of the first class, and cities of the first grade of the second class, the police commissioners may direct. [66 v. 203, § 319.] SEC. 21. The board of health may appoint such number of inspectors of milk and meat, and as many market-masters and such other persons as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, define their duties, and fix their compensation; and such inspectors of milk shall keep, for public inspection, a record of the names and places of business of all persons engaged in the sale of milk. [71 v. 160, $318.]

SEC. 22. All dairies, including the cows, cow-stables, milkhouses, and milk-vessels, the owners of which offer milk for sale within the corporate limits of the city, shall be subject to inspection by the inspector; that officer may enter any place where milk is sold or kept for sale, and all carriages used in the conveyance of milk within the corporate limits; and whenever he has any reason to believe milk found therein is impure or adulterated, he shall take specimens thereof and subject them to satisfactory tests, or, if the board of health so direct, to chemical analysis, the result of which he shall record and preserve as evidence, and a certificate of such result, sworn to by the analyst, shall be admissable in evidence in all prosecutions under this chapter. [71 v. 160, $318.]

Ch. 1.

Temporary suspension of

order or abatement.

Modification

or reaffirmation of order.

Appointment of sanitary police by health.

board of

When such

police shall

be dismissed.

Milk and

meat inspectors, etc.

Analysis of

milk, etc.

Div. 6.

Vaccination
to be en-
couraged
and provided

for.

Sanitary report, its contents, etc.

Penalty for violating erder of board of health.

Violation by a corporation.

Prosecu

tions, how instituted.

Provision for expenses of board of health.

Police commissioners in certain cities to act as board of

health.

SEC. 23. The board of health may take measures and supply agents, and afford inducements and facilities for gratuitous vaccination and disinfection; may afford medical relief to and among the poor of the corporation, as, in its opinion, the protection of the public health may require; and during the prevalence of any epidemic, may provide temporary hospitals for such purposes. [66 v. 203, § 320.]

SEC. 24. It shall be the duty of the board of health, on or before the first Monday of March in each year, to make a report, in writing, to the council of the corporation, upon the sanitary condition and prospects of such city or village, which report shall contain the statistics of deaths, the action of the board and its officers and agents, and the names thereof for the past year; and it may contain other useful information, and the board shall suggest therein any further legislative action deemed proper for the better protection of life and health. [66 v. 203, § 321.]

SEC. 25. Whoever violates any provision of this chapter, or any order of the board of health made in pursuance thereof, or obstructs or interferes with the execution of any such order, or willfully and illegally omits to obey any such order, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned for any time not exceeding ninety days, or both; but no person shall be imprisoned under this section for the first offense. [66 v. 203, § 322.]

SEC. 26. If such violation, obstruction, interference, or omission be by a corporation, it shall forfeit and pay to the proper city or village, any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court, to be collected in a civil action brought in the name of such city or village; and any officer of such corporation consenting to such violation, shall be subject to imprisonment as above provided. [66 v. 204, § 323.]

SEC. 27. Prosecutions under this chapter, and the civil action provided for in the preceding section, shall be instituted before any tribunal within the municipal corporation having jurisdiction thereof. [66 v. 204, § 324]

SEC. 28. Where expenses are incurred by the board of health, under the provisions of this chapter, it shall be the duty of the council, upon application and certificate from the board of health, to pass the necessary appropriation ordinances to pay the expenses so incurred and certified; and the council is hereby empowered to levy, subject to the restrictions contained in the ninth division of this title, and set apart, the necessary sum to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter. [71 v. 160, § 325 ]

SEC. 29. In cities of the first and second grades of the first class, and cities of the first grade of the second class, there shall be no board of health, but the boards of police commissioners shall exercise all the powers and perform all the

duties required of the boards of health and mayors in this chapter. [73 v. 74, § 18; 73 v. 57, § 36; 74 v. 163.]

CHAPTER 2.

NUISANCES.

Ch. 2.

SECTION

1. Power to fill lots, remove nuisances, etc.

2. Duty of owner.

3. Nuisance to be abated at owner's expense, etc.

SECTION

4. Duty of health officers to en-
force provisions of this chap-
ter.

SECTION 1. All municipal corporations shall have power to cause any lot of land within their limits, on which water at any time becomes stagnant, to be filled up or drained, and to cause all putrid substances to be removed from any lot; and the council or trustees may direct, by resolution, the owner to fill up or drain such lot, or remove such putrid substance. [66 v. 225, § 452.]

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of such owner, or his agent or attorney, after service of a copy of such resolution, or after a publication of the same in some newspaper of general circulation in such corporation for two consecutive weeks, to comply with the directions of the resolution within the time there n specified. [6 v. 225, § 453.]

To be done at owner's ex

pense, in case of refusal or neg

SEC. 3 In case of failure or refusal to comply with the resolution, the work required thereby may be done at the expense of the corporation, and the amount of money so expended shall be recovered from the owner before a justice of the peace, or other court of competent jurisdiction; and such lect, eto. expense shall, from the time of the adoption of the resolution, be a lien on such lot, which may be enforced by suit in the court of common pleas of the proper county; and like proceedings may be had as directed in relation to the improvement of streets. [66 v. 225, § 451.]

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the officers connected with the health department of every such municipal corporation, to see that the provisions of this chapter are strictly and promptly enforced.

Duty of health officers to en

force provisions of this chapter.