THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1901

LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

1899.

President,

EDMOND SOUCHON, M. D.,

of New Orleans, La.

Vice President,

J. C. EGAN, M. D.,
of Shreveport, La.

MEMBERS.

P. B. MCCUTCHON, M. D., of New Orleans.
A. NOLTE, M. D., of New Orleans.
W. G. OWEN, M. D., of Whitecastle, La.
R. L. RANDOLPH, M. D., of Alexandria, La.
T. T. TARLTON, M. D., of Grand Coteau, La.

ON RESOLUTIONS AND REGULATIONS.......Drs. Owen, Nolte, Tarlton

LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

THE SANITARY CODE.

PREFACE.

The Laws and Regulations of the United States Treasury included in the Code are obligatory.

Also the Laws of the State of Louisiana.

Also the Regulations of the State Board based upon them, specially those based upon Section 3, which orders and empowers the State Board to prepare a Sanitary Code for the State of Louisiana, which shall contain and provide rules and regulations of a general nature for the improvement and amelioration of the hygienic and sanitary conditions of the State, etc. (Act 192 of 1898, Section 3, Page 5, line 5 and following.) These are marked by a Star opposite each number in the text.

All Local Boards must obey them.

The other Regulations herein contained are recommendatory, and optional and educational.

Each Local Board will adopt what parts it thinks best suited for its local conditions.

Local Boards must be guided in their selections by an Attorney at law, who will specially instruct them as to what is obligatory and what is optional and recommendatory.

They will then enact penalties for the violation of the regulations adopted by them.

When necessary they shall have the Municipal and Parish Civil Authorities pass whatever special ordinances may be necessary.

It is not necessary that the Local Municipal Authorities should concur in, and pass ordinary local sanitary ordinances, which may have been already adopted by the Local Boards of Health, but it would be better for them so to do, as the public have been accustomed to look to Police Juries and City Councils as the local law-making power, and their approval would tend to secure a more prompt compliance with health ordinances.

The Local Boards shall have to be guided by their Local Attorneys on all matters local.

But on matters general or doubtful, an application to the President of the State Board shall be made, and it shall be submitted to the Attorney of the State Board for advice.

A number of the regulations inserted were taken from ordinances of the city of New Orleans and of Shreveport, and codes of Northern and Western cities, where they have given satisfaction.

Penalties for violations of Quarantine Regulations enacted by Local Boards must be enacted by the Police Jury of each parish, or municipal authorities (Sec. 7, Act 192 of 1898).