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AN ACT

To establish a Board of Health for the City of Detroit.

Board of

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact: That the board of health of the city of Detroit, from and after Health. the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfive, shall consist of four members who shall be electors and freeholders in the city of Detroit, and who shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. They shall take and file with the secretary of state, the oath of office prescribed for state officers; and their commission shall be issued by the secretary of state and be signed by the governor, the same as in the case of state officers. Two of them and no more, shall be graduates in medicine of at least five years' practice in the city of Detroit. On or before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, or as soon thereafter as may be, one member of the said board shall be appointed to hold office one year, one member to hold office for two years, one member to hold office for three years and one member to hold office for four years and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

The term of office of each member of the board, after the termination of the aforesaid terms, shall be four years, and on Term of office. the expiration of any term a new appointment shall be made

in the same manner above prescribed.

Any vacancy occurring

by reason of the expiration of any term, when the senate is not

President of
Board.

Salary of

in session and any vacancy occurring during the term of any member, shall be filled by appointment of the governor and the member so appointed shall hold office until his successor shall be appointed in manner aforesaid. Any or all members of this board may be removed at any time by the governor.

Sec. 2. The said board shall appoint one of its own number president, and it shall appoint a secretary and a health officer, who shall be a graduate in medicine of at least ten years' practice.

The health officer shall receive a salary of not exceeding Health Officer. five thousand dollars a year. The health officer shall hold office during the pleasure of the board. The health officer shall have authority to appoint and dismiss all subordinates and employes. He shall devote his whole time to the sanitary condition of the city and the performance of such duties as may be required by the board or by law.

Estimate to te filed.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the said board on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and on or before the fifteenth day of February in each following year to file with the city controller an estimate of the amount of money which, in the opinion of said board, will be required for all purposes of expenditures by said board, during the next fiscal year and such sums so estimated, when raised as provided by this act, shall be appropriated by said board for the prevention of danger to the public health or other purposes contemplated by this act. In the presence of a great and imminent peril to the public health by reason of impending pestilence, the said board may report to the common council that in its judgment the security of the public health requires the expenditure of moneys in the then fiscal year in excess of the annual appropriation for the purposes of said

board as above provided, and the common council may thereupon cause to be placed to the credit of said board such sum of money as may be required in the judgment of the council, such sum to be taken either from the contingent fund or the same may be raised by temporary loan, payable within such time as the council may determine, not exceeding three years, and not exceeding in all the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The money so raised or borrowed shall be paid into the city treasury and shall constitute a fund to be known as the "Public health fund," and the same shall be paid out on vouchers approved by the board of health and checks signed by the president and secretary of the board, drawn upon the city controller, who shall draw his warrant upon the city treasurer in favor of the person named as drawee in said check.

Sec. 4. The acts entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of a board of health for the city of Detroit," approved May twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and "An act to provide for and confirm the board of health for the city of Detroit, and describe its powers and duties," approved May twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ninetythree, are hereby repealed, and all officers provided for by said acts are hereby abolished, and the terms of office of the present officers, clerks and appointees of said board shall expire and their offices be declared vacant, upon the passage of this act.

Act repealed.

Old Board to

property.

Sec. 5. Immediately upon the appointment of the board of health provided for by this act, the present board of health turn over shall turn over to it all the property, records and offices, hospitals and assets of every name or nature now in its possession or -control. And the board hereby constituted shall assume and pay ail lawful claims and liabilities existing at the time of the

Health Officer may call for assistance.

Powers and duties.

Complaints.

passage of this act against the existing board of health of said city.

Sec. 6. The health officer shall have the power to call upon the city attorney, police department or any of the city officials to enforce the orders of the health department, whenever the regular forces of that department are inadequate.

Sec. 7. The board of health shall have power to make orders and regulations concerning intercourse with infected places, the apprehension, separation and treatment of persons who shall have been exposed to any infectious or contagious disease; the suppression or removal of nuisances and all such other orders and regulations as they shall think necessary and proper for the preservation of public health, also to enter upon or within any place or premises, where conditions dangerous to the public health are known, or believed to exist, and by appointed members or persons to inspect and examine the same for the protection of life and health and for no other purposes; and all owners, agents and occupants shall permit and facilitate such sanitary examinations, and it shall be the duty of said board of health to furnish such owners or occupants a written statement of results or conclusions of such examination. To regulate and prohibit or prevent all communications or intercourse with all houses, tenements and places and the persons occupying the same, in which there shall be any person who shall have been exposed to any infecticus or contagious disease, and to give public notice and warning of infected places to travelers and other persons by placards or by displaying colored flags at proper distances and by all other means which in their judgment shall be most effcctual for the common safety.

Sec. 8. It shall have power and it shall be its duty to receive and examine into the nature of complaints, made by any

of the inhabitants of said city concerning causes of danger or injury to the public health, within the limits of its jurisdiction; to report to the state board of health promptly, facts which relate to infectious and epidemic diseases within their jurisdiction; to require such isolation and quarantining of persons, vessels and sources of infection as shall be in its judgment necessary; to release after an examination from such isolation or quarantine such person, vessels and things as they shall deem it safe so to release, but upon ordering such quarantine or isolation or such release from the same, said board and health officers shall make a record of the facts in the case and of the reasons for the action taken.

diseases.

Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of said board of health, to pro- Contagious cure suitable places for the reception of persons and things infected with malignant, contagious or infectious diseases, and in all cases where sick persons cannot otherwise be provided for to procure for them medical and other attendance and necessaries, and it shall be the duty of said board to take cognizance of and report every case of small-pox or varioloid occurring within said board's jurisdiction. Said board may take measures and supply agents and afford inducements and facilities for general and gratuitous vaccination and disinfection, as in its opinion the protection of the public health may require. It may forbid and prevent all communication with the house or family infected with any contagious infectious or pestilential disease except by means of physicians, nurses or messengers to carry the necessary advice, medicines and provisions to the afflicted, and to adopt such means for preventing all communication between any part of the city, infected with a disease of a pestilential, infectious or contagious character and all other parts of the city as shall be prompt and effectual.

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