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ORDINANCE CREATING AND SETTING THE DUTIES FOR THE BOARD OF HEALTH
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A Board of Health, with jurisdiction for one mile beyond the City Limits, and for quarantine purposes in case of epidemic, for five miles beyond the City Limits, is hereby created and established, and said Board of Health is hereby empowered, and it is made its duty, to make and publish such by-laws, rules and regulations as shall be required for enforcing the prom[t and efficient performance of its duties and the lawful exercise of its authority and powers.
Said Board of Health shall consist of three members, at least one of whom shall be a regular practicing physician, and whose terms of office shall expire with those of the elective officers of said City, and it shall be the duty of said Board of Health to elect one of their number President and another Secretary.
It shall be the duty of sad Board of Health, and each member thereof, to report to the Mayor, or in case of his absence from the City, to the City Clerk not later than 9 o’clock A.M. of each day, all new cases of smallpox, and of the eruptive diseases now prevailing in the City of Jonesboro, commonly called smallpox, which shall come to the knowledge of said Board of Health or any member thereof, or of which any member of said Board may receive information.
It is hereby made the duty of all physicians and all other persons within the City of Jonesboro, or within the limits of the jurisdiction of said Board of Health, who shall have knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that any person is afflicted with smallpox, scarlet fever, roseola, black measles, German measles, diphtheria, chicken-ox, yellow fever, scarletina, and all other malignant and contagious diseases, to report the same to the Board of Health, or some member thereof, or to the Mayor, and in case of his absence from the City, to the City Clerk, before 9 o’clock A.M. of the first day after such knowledge or information shall have been acquired or received.
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