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LAWS AND ORDINANCES 
 
 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OP THE 
 
 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 City of St. Louis. 
 
 1879. 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH: 
 
 Hon. henry OVEllSTOLZ, Maj^or and Presiding Officer. 
 
 CHAKLES W. FRANCIS, ■ LESLIE A. MOFFETT, 
 
 Health Commissioner. From Board of Police Commissioners . 
 
 W. B. CONERY, M. D. JOS. SPIEGELHALTER, M. D. 
 
 JOHN H. LIGHTNER, *" 
 
 From City Council. 
 
 CLERK OF HEALTH COMMISSIONER AND BOARD OF HEALTH: 
 
 ROBERT LUEDEIQNG, M. D. 
 
 DISPENSARY PHYSICIAN: ASSISTANT DISPENSARY PHYSICIAN: 
 
 A. C. ROBINSON, M. D. G. W. CARSON, M. D. 
 
 ASSISTANT CLERK: RECORD CLERK: 
 
 JNO. J. FITZWILLL\M. MORRIS JACKS. 
 
 SANITARY OFFICERS: 
 
 FIRST SANITARY OFFICER: 
 GEORGE HOMAN, M. D. 
 
 ASSISTANT SANITARY OFFICERS: 
 
 R. H. O'BRIEN, M. D. J. H. MOORE, M. D. 
 
 HENRY REMNITZ. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT CITY HOSPITAL:^ ^ SUPERINTENDENT FEMALE HOSPITAL. 
 
 D. V. DEAN. M. D. // , , ^, ^^^Jl'' '- JP. V. SCHENCK, M. D. 
 
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 SUPERINTENDENT INSANE ASYLUM :>^C^ j^ SUPERINTENDENT POOR HOUSE: 
 
 N. DEV. HOWARD, M. D. ^-^i;i_>^ — ^ g tAYON. 
 
 Times Printing House. 
 

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ARTICLE XII 
 
 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS RELAT- 
 ING TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
 
 HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SKCTION. 
 
 1. Health Commissioner; his official 
 
 term and bond. 
 
 2. Board of Health; meetings, quo- 
 
 rum, etc. 
 
 3. Duties of Commissioner ; appoint- 
 
 ment of employes ; may examine 
 premises; shall obey orders of 
 Board, and report annually to 
 Mayor. 
 
 4. Nuisances to be reported to Com- 
 
 missioner ; births, marriages and 
 deaths to be registered; Com- 
 missioner to have charge of 
 hospitals, asylums, etc. 
 
 5. Superintendents of hospitals and 
 
 employes, how appointed. 
 
 6. Abatement or removal of nuisances ; 
 
 notification to owners: cost of 
 
 SECTION. 
 
 abatement to be assessed as a 
 special tax. 
 
 7. Contracts for the abatement of 
 
 nuisances. 
 
 8. Proclamation by Mayor in time of 
 
 epidemics; authority of Com- 
 missioner and Board of Health 
 in such cases, etc. 
 
 9. Commissioner's record and ac- 
 
 counts. 
 
 10. Duties of physicians in reference 
 
 to burial certificates. 
 
 11. Weekly report of interments to be 
 
 made to Health Commissioner. 
 
 12. Penalty in case of burial without 
 
 certificate. 
 
 13. Penalty for failure to make weekly 
 
 report of interments. 
 
 14. Record of proceedings of Board. 
 
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 Section 1. There is hereby created a Health Department of 
 the City of St. Louis, which shall be managed, directed and con- 
 trolled as provided by this Charter and by ordinances of the City 
 of St.. Louis, by a Board of Health as hereinafter provided, and 
 by an officer who shall be denominated the Health Commissioner. 
 He shall be appointed by the Mayor, by and with the approval of 
 the Council, and shall perform such duties as may be provided by 
 this Charter and by ordinance. He shall hold his office for the 
 the term of four years, and until his successor is duly qualified, 
 be subject to removal by the Mayor as other officers, and shall 
 possess the same qualifications as the Mayor, and shall give bond 
 in such sum as shall be ordained by the Assembly, with at least 
 two sufficient sureties, for the faithful performance of his duties. 
 
 Sec. 2. There is also hereby created a Board of Health, which 
 shall consist of the Mayor (who shall be its presiding officer), the 
 presiding officer of the Council, a Commissioner of Police, to be 
 designated by the Mayor, and two regular practicing physicians, 
 who shall possess the same qualifications as the Mayor. The 
 
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 Health Commissioner shall be a member of said Board, and, m 
 the absence of the Mayor, the presiding officer. The Board shall 
 meet twice in each week during the year. They may be convened 
 in special session at any time by the Mayor, Health Commissioner, 
 or by any two members of the Board, upon written iiotitication 
 served iwelve hours before the date of said meeting. Three 
 members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transac- 
 tion of business, and it shall have power to adopt rules and regu- 
 lations for its government. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Health Commissioner shall have general super- 
 vision over the public health of said city, and see that its regula- 
 tions, and the laws and ordinances of said city in relation thereto, 
 are enforced and observed, and for that purpose he is authorized 
 and empowered to make such rules and regulations, with the 
 approval of the Board, not inconsistent with this Charter or any 
 city ordinance or law of this State, as will tend to preserve and 
 promote the health of said city ; to appoint such employes, with 
 the approval of the Board of Health, as may be necessary for the 
 execution of his orders ; to enter into or authorize and require 
 any employe or police officer to enter into and examine, in the 
 day time, all buildings, lots and places of every description 
 within the city, and to ascertain and report to him the condition 
 thereof, so far as the public health may be affected by it; to 
 declare and abate nuisances in such manner as may be provided 
 herein, or by ordinance; but all condemnations must first be 
 approved by the Board of Health, whose action thereon shall be 
 final. He shall obey all orders not inconsistent with this Charter 
 and city ordinances, emanating from the Board of Health, and 
 shall annually report to the Mayor the general operations of his 
 department during the year then ended, with such suggestions 
 for the improvement of the same as he shall consider expedient. 
 Sec. 4. It is made the duty of all police officers to observe 
 the sanitary condition of their districts, and through the Chief of 
 Police to" report to the Health Commissioner promptly any nuis- 
 ance or accumulated filth found to exist in any portion of .the 
 city. The Health Commissioner shall provide for the registration 
 of all births, deaths and marriages occurring within the city ; 
 shall have charge of all city hospitals, quarantine, insane asylums, 
 morgue and city dispensary, and with the advice and counsel of 
 said Board of Health make all necessary rules for the government 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. There shall be a Superintendent of the City Hospital, 
 a Superintendent of the Female Hospital, a Superintendent of 
 the Insane Asylum, and a Superintendent of Quarantine when 
 necessary, who shall perform their duties under the general super- 
 visiou of the Health Commissioner, and shall be appointed by the 
 
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 Mayor, with the approval of the Board of Health; but all other 
 employes shall be appointed by the Health Commissioner, and 
 approved \yy the Board of Health, except such as may be tempo- 
 rarily in the employ of the Health Commissioner, 
 
 Sec. 6. In order to effect the abatement of nuisances or 
 removal of accumulated filth, the Health Commissioner shall have 
 power, whenever in his opinion such nuisance or tilth exists, and 
 after officially so declared of record by the Board of Health, to 
 notify the owner or owners thereof, or his or their agents, to abate 
 or remove the same, either by filling up, draining, cleaning, puri- 
 fying or removing same, as the case may be, which notice shall 
 be served upon the owner or agent having charge of said property, 
 in the same manner as writs of summons are required to be served 
 in civil cases. If the owner, who shall have been so served 
 with such notice, shall fail within the time indicated in such 
 notice, which shall be discretionary with said Health Commis- 
 sioner, to comply with such order, or fail to show good cause 
 to said Health Commissioner why he cannot or ought not to 
 comply with such order, for which purpose he shall be entitled 
 to be heard before said Health Commissioner and Board of Health, 
 if he so request it, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred 
 dollars ; and the nuisance shall be abated, and special tax bills 
 rendered against the property in same manner as against non- 
 residents, except that notice by advertisement shall not be nec- 
 essary. If such service cannot be made for the reason that the 
 owner, agents, or other persons having charge of the property 
 upon which the nuisance may exist, cannot be found in the city, 
 of which fact the return upon such notice of the officer serving 
 the same shall be conclusive evidence, then the Health Com- 
 missioner shall cause such notice to be published in the newspapers 
 doing the city printing, for two consecutive days (Sundays 
 excepted). And if within two days after the service of such 
 notice, or after its publication as aforesaid, such nuisance shall 
 not be abated, or the order observed by the owner, then the 
 Health Commissioner may order the same to be done as hereinafter 
 directed; and the cost of the same, when fully completed^ shall 
 be ascertained under the direction of the President of the Board 
 of Public Improvements, in the same manner as special tax bills 
 for street improvements : and the amount thereof shall be assessed 
 as a special tax against the property so improved, or upon which 
 such work has been done, in the name of the owners thereof, of 
 which the books of the Assessor shall be proof, and the certified 
 bills of such assessment shall describe therein the property upon 
 which the work was done. Said bills shall be recorded and shall 
 be collected and paid as provided in this Charter in relation to 
 
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 the collection of other special tax bills, and shall be a lien on said 
 property, and the Heath Commissioner shall keep a record of his 
 proceedings in all cases of abatements ordered by him. 
 
 Sec. 7. All contracts for work contemplated by this section 
 on which special tax bills are to be issued, shall be entered into 
 by the President of the Board of Public Improvements, in the 
 name of the city, based on the estimates of the cost by the Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Public Improvements, accompanied by 
 reports of surveys and profiles, in cases requiring the same in the 
 judgment of such President, and shall be approved by the Mayor 
 and registered in the office of the Comptroller. 
 
 Sec. 8. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the 
 Mayor that any malignant, infectious or contagious disease or 
 epidemic is prevalent in the city, or will probably become so, he 
 may make proclamation of such fact to the inhabitants ; and after 
 such proclamation the Health Commissioner, with the approval 
 of the Board of Health, may have power, by order, to take all 
 steps and use all measures necessary to avoid, suppress or miti- 
 gate such disease, without the intervention of the Assembly, in 
 the same manner and as effectually as the Assembly could itself 
 do by ordinance ; and may employ such officers, agents, servants 
 and assistants, establish temporary hospitals, provide necessary 
 furniture, medical attendance and nurses, as in the opinion of the 
 said Commissioner, with the advice and counsel of said Board of 
 Health, may be necessary and advisable; Pr^ovided, That the 
 amount expended shall not exceed the appropriation for Health 
 Department. The Health Commissioner shall have and exercise 
 such power until he shall declare, or until the Mayor shall pro- 
 claim, that the epidemic or disease, in view of which the procla- 
 mation was made, is no longer imminent or prevalent, whereupon 
 the said power shall cease. 
 
 Sec. 9. Said Health Commissioner shall keep a record of his 
 acts and orders ; shall file all petitions, documents and papers be- 
 longing to the office, and shall keep a correct account in full of 
 all receipts and expenditures, and shall make rules and regula- 
 tions for the government of his subordinates, copies of such 
 records, documents, rules and regulations, when authenticated by 
 his clerk, shall be presumptive evidence in any court of justice 
 of the facts therein contained ; Provided, such rules and regula- 
 tions are not inconsistent with this Charter or ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 10. For the purpose of carrying the provisions of this 
 article into effect, every physician who may practice medicine in 
 the City of St. Louis shall, when a patient dies under his care, 
 make out two certificates, stating the name, age, sex, color and 
 place of birth, and place and date of death, together with the 
 name of the disease of which said person died, one of which he 
 
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 shall, without delay, deposit in the office of said Health Commis- 
 sioner, and the other he shall give to the undertaker of the 
 funeral, to be delivered by him to the person who has control of the 
 graveyard in which the body is buried. And if any physician or 
 undertaker refuse or omit to do as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and 
 pay five dollars to the use of the City of St. Louis, to be re- 
 covered as provided for in section twelve of this article. 
 
 Sec. 11. All overseers, sextons, or other persons who may 
 have control over public graveyards in the City of St. Louis, 
 shall make a weekly report to the Health Commissioner of all 
 interments during the week in the graveyard whereof they are 
 such overseer or sexton respectively. Said report shall specify 
 the names and ages of the persons interred, sex, color and place 
 of birth, and place and date of death, and also the disease of 
 which said persons died. 
 
 Sec. 12. If any overseer, sexton, or other person having 
 control of a graveyard, shall permit any person to be interred in 
 said graveyard without a certificate stating the name, age, sex, 
 color, place of birth, place and date of death, together with the 
 disease of which said person died, signed by the physician who 
 attended said person, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not less 
 than five nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered as in 
 other cases of misdemeanor, before any court or officer having 
 competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 13. If any overseer, sexton, or other person charged 
 with the performance of such duty, fail or neglect to make to the 
 Health Commissioner such report of weekly interments, he shall 
 forfeit and pay not less than twenty dollars for every such failure, 
 to be recovered in like manner as provided in the last preceding 
 section. 
 
 Sec. 14. The Board of Health shall keep a full and correct 
 record of its proceedings and acts, and the clerk of said Health 
 Commissioner shall act as the clerk of the said Board. 
 
 [10,311.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE establishing and regulating the office of 
 Health Commissioner, defining his duties and powers, and fixing 
 his salary and bond. 
 
 Whereas, an emergency has arisen, there being, no ordinance 
 in existence establishing and regulating the office of Health Com- 
 missioner, defining his duties and powers, and fixing his salary 
 and bond, and. 
 
 Whereas, the Charter of the City of St. Louis provides that 
 the Municipal Assembly shall prescribe the duties and fix the 
 bonds of all officers ; therefore this ordinance shall take efiect and 
 be in full force from and after its approval by the Mayor.' 
 
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 Be it ordained hy the Municipal Assembly of the City of St, Louis, 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. There is hereby created the office of Health Com- 
 missioner. Said Health Commissioner shall be appointed b}^ the 
 Mayor, with the approval of the Council ; he shall perform such 
 duties as may be provided by the Charter and ordinances of the 
 City of St. Louis. He shall hold his office for the term of four 
 years, and until his successor is duly qualified, and be subject to 
 removal by the Mayor or Council, as other city officers, and shall 
 possess the same qualifications as the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Health Commissioner shall have general super- 
 vision over the public health of the city, and see that its regula- 
 tions, and the laws and ordinances of said city in relation thereto 
 are enforced and observed, and for that purpose is authorized and 
 empowered to make such rules and regulations, with the approval 
 of the Board of Health, not inconsistent with the Charter, or any 
 city ordinance or law of the state, as will tend to preserve and 
 promote the health of said city, and to appoint such employes, 
 with the approval of the Board of Health, as may be necessary^ 
 for the execution of his orders ; to enter into or authorize and 
 require any employe or police officer to enter into and examine, in 
 the day-time, all buildings, lots, and places of every description, 
 within the city, and to ascertain and report to him the condition 
 thereof, so far as the public health may be afiected by it ; to de- 
 clare and abate nuisances in such manner as may be provided by 
 the Charter, or by the ordinances of the city ; but all such con- 
 demnation must first be approved by the Board of Health, whose 
 action theron shall be final, and shall provide for the registration 
 of all births, deaths and marriages within the city, shall have 
 charge of all City Hospitals, Quarantine, Insane Asylum, Morgue, 
 and City Dispensary, and with the advice and counsel of the Board 
 of Health, make all necessary rules for the government thereof. 
 He shall obey all orders not inconsistent with the Charter and 
 city ordinances emanating from the Board of Health, and shall 
 annually report to the Mayor the general operations of his de- 
 partment during the year then ended, with such suggestions for 
 the improvement of the same, as he shall consider expedient. 
 
 Sec. 3 The Health Commissioner shall keep a record of all his 
 acts and orders, and shall file all petitions, documents and papers 
 belonging to his office, and shall keep a correct account in full of 
 all receipts and expenditures, and shall make rules and regula- 
 tions for the government of his subordinates. Copies of such 
 records, documents, rules and regulations, when authenticated by 
 his clerk, shall be presumptive evidence before any court of 
 justice of the facts therein contained ; Provided, such rules and 
 
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 regulations are not inconsistent with the Charter or ordinances of 
 the city. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Health Commissioner shall receive a salary of 
 three thousand dollars a year, payable monthly, and shall, before 
 entering upon the duties of his office give a good and suf- 
 ficient bond in the sum often thousand dollars, conditioned as the 
 bonds of other city officers, and to be approved by the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Health Commissioner shall devote his entire time 
 to the duties of his office. 
 
 Sec. 6. All employes appointed by said Health Commissioner 
 shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have been resi- 
 dents of the City of St. Louis for at least two years next pre- 
 ceding their appointment. 
 
 Approved May 29, 1877. 
 
 [10,330.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE creating and establishing the Health De- 
 partment and Board of Health of the City of St. Louis, defining 
 the powers and duties of the Board and their compensation, pro- 
 viding for the clerk of the Health Commissioner and Board of 
 Health, prescribing his duties, fixing his bond and salary, provid- 
 ing for the fixing of the wages of employes, to establish a Dispen- 
 sary, providing for the appointment of Dispensary physician, 
 and an apothecary, and to repeal article 1, chapter 12 of the Re- 
 vised Ordinances of the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 
 1871. 
 
 Whereas, An emergency has arisen, there being no ordinance 
 in existance establishing and regulating the Health Department of 
 the City of St. Louis, and defining its powers and duties, and 
 
 Whereas, the Charter of the City of St. Louis prescribes that 
 such a department shall be created, and that the Municipal Assem- 
 bly shall by ordinance prescribe the powers and duties ; therefore, 
 this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force from and after 
 its passage. 
 
 Be it ordained hy the Municipal Assembly of the City of 8t, Louis, 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. There is hereby created a Health Department for 
 the City of St. Louis, which shall be managed, directed and con- 
 trolled as provided for by the Charter and ordinances of the City 
 of St. Louis by a Board of Health and by a Health Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Health, as hereby constituted, shall 
 consist of the Mayor, who shall be its presiding officer, the pre- 
 siding officer of the Council, a Commissioner of Police, to be 
 
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 designated by the Mayor, and two regular practicing physicians, 
 who shall possess the same qualifications as the Mayor, and who 
 shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council. 
 The Health Commissioner shall be a member of the Board, and, 
 in the absence of the Mayor, the presiding officer. The Board 
 shall meet twice in each week during the year. They may be 
 convened in special session at any time by the Mayor, Health 
 Commissioner, or by any two members of the Board, upon a 
 written notification, served twelve hours before the date of said 
 meeting. Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum 
 for the transaction of business. The Board shall have power to 
 adopt rules and regulations for its government. In case of the 
 absence of both the presiding officers of the Board, as established 
 by this ordinance, and also the Health Commissioner, from any 
 regular or special meeting, the other members are hereby empow- 
 ered and authorized to organize the Board, and conduct their 
 business by electing a presiding officer ^?'o tempore. 
 
 Sec. 3. The members of the Board of Health shall hold their 
 office for the term of four years and until their successors are duly 
 elected or appointed and qualified ; Provided, however, that the 
 first appointments under this ordinance shall hold their office until 
 the first Tuesday in April, 1879, only. They shall, except the 
 Mayor, Health Commissioner, President of the Council and Police 
 Commissioner, receive a salary of five hundred dollars each, per 
 annum, payable monthly. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Board of Health shall cause to be kept in suitable 
 books, a full and correct record of its proceedings and acts. They 
 shall also cause to be kept a full and correct account of all 
 expenses incurred by their authority, specifying the amounts, 
 why, and when, and how incurred, for what purpose applied, and 
 also a correct account of moneys received by them from whatever 
 source. They shall also cause to be kept a book for the registra- 
 tion of all physicians who have complied with all ordinances 
 governing physicians and shall furnish a copy of the same to any 
 druggist or apothecary applying therefor. Before any money is 
 paid out, the accounts therefor shall be examined and approved by 
 a majority of the Board, and signed and approved by the Presi- 
 dent or Health Commissioner, and attested by the clerk, and such 
 accounts if so certified, shall be audited by the Auditor in the same 
 way other accounts are audited and he shall draw his warrants on 
 the Treasurer for such amounts according to law ; but all articles 
 of every kind and description that may be required in any and 
 all of the institutions and departments under the charge of the 
 Board of Health shall be purchased as may be provided for by 
 the Charter and ordinances. 
 
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 Sec. 5. The Health Commissioner shall appoint some fit and 
 competent person, who shall possess the qualifications as pre- 
 scribed by section 10, article 4 of the Charter, as clerk of the 
 Health Commissioner, and such appointment shall be subject to 
 the approval of the Board of Health. The Clerk of the Health 
 Commissioner shall act as the clerk of the Board of Health. Said 
 clerk shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per year, 
 I payable monthly, and shall, before entering upon the duties of his 
 office, give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of five thousand 
 dollars, conditioned as the bond of other city officers, and be* ap- 
 proved by the Mayor and Council. It shall be the duty of the 
 Clerk to attend at the office of the Board of Health and of the 
 Health Commissioner, attend all meetings of the Board, record 
 its proceedings in suitable books, issue its orders, sign all notices 
 and attest all copies of papers and proceedings, and to do and 
 perform all such duties iis may be required of him by the Board 
 of Health and the Health Commissioner. He shall also keep a 
 record of all acts and orders of the Health Commissioner, shall 
 file all petitions, documents and papers belonging to the office of 
 Health Conynissioner and Board of Health, and shall keep a cor- 
 rect account in full of all receipts and expenditures in said offices 
 and a strict account of all moneys and effects that may come into 
 his possession, and he shall devote his time to the duties of his 
 office. 
 
 Sec. 8. Article 1, chapter 12, of the Eevised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871, is hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 Approved July 17, 1877. 
 
 [11,061.] 
 
 AN OKDINACE providing for the government and manage- 
 ment of the Hospitals and Dispensary and Insane Asylum, and 
 to repeal ordinance No. 10,366, entitled <«An ordinance providing 
 for the government and management of the Hospitals and Morgue 
 of the City of St. Louis, the appointment of the Superintendents 
 and assistants, fixing their salaries and prescribing their duties, and 
 to repeal article five, chapter twelve, of the Revised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March thirty-tirst, eighteen hun- 
 dred and seventy-one, and to repeal ordinance number eight 
 thousand nine hundred and ten, entitled "An ordinance to authorize 
 the establishment of a City Hospital for Females," approved June 
 seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-four." Also to repeal 
 ordinance number ten thousand three hundred and twenty-eight, 
 entitled "An ordinance establishing and regulating the office of 
 Superintendent of the Insane Asylum," approved July seventeenth, 
 
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 eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and to repeal sections six and 
 seven of ordinance number ten thousand three hundred and thirty, 
 entitled "An ordinance creating the Health Department and Board 
 of Health," approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-seven, and to repeal ordinance number ten thousand three 
 hundred and thirty-four, entitled and '*An ordinance establishing 
 and regulating the management of the Insane Asylum," approved 
 July thirty-first, eighteen hundred seventy-seven, and to repeal 
 article five, chapter twelve of the Revised Ordinances of the City 
 of St. Louis, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-one, and to repeal ordinance eight thousand nine hundred 
 and ten, entitled "An ordinance to authorize the establishment of 
 a City Hospital for Females," approved June seventeenth, eighteen 
 hundred and seventy-four. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St, Louis, 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The Health Commissioner shall have general super- 
 intendence and management over all the City Hospitals, Dispen- 
 saries and Insane Asylum that now are, or hereafter may be, 
 established. 
 
 Sec. 2. All requisitions for supplies or repairs for the Hospi- 
 tals, Dispensary and Insane Asylum shall be approved by the 
 Health Commissioner, and all accounts against said Hospitals, 
 Dispensary and Insane Asylum, when signed by the Health Com- 
 missioner, shall be examined, approved and signed by a majority 
 of the Board of Health, and certified to by the president or Health 
 Commissioner and attested by the clerk, whereupon the Auditor 
 shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer therefor. If the Board 
 of Health find any articles have been purchased (or repairs made) 
 on requisitions signed by the Health Commissioner which thej^ do 
 not deem necessary, they shall, if a majority of the Board so 
 decide, refer the whole matter to the Mayor, who shall take such 
 action as he shall think proper. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Health Commissioner, with the advice and approval 
 of the Board of Health, shall prescribe the condition of admission 
 to, and make all necessary rules for the government of, the 
 Hospitals, Dispensaries and Insane Asylum. 
 
 Sec. 4. There shall be a Superintendent of the City Hospital, 
 a Superintendent of the Female Hospital, a Superintendent of the 
 Insane Asylum, and, when necessary, a Superintendent of Quar- 
 antine ; said superintendents shall be appointed by the Mayor, 
 with the approval of the Board of Health, and subject to con- 
 firmation by the Council, and shall perform their duties under the 
 general supervision of the Health Commissioner, and shall hold 
 
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 their offices for the term of four years, from the first Tuesday of 
 April, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and until their succes- 
 sors are appointed and qualified. Said superintendents shall each 
 give a bond to the city in the sum of five thousand dollars, con- 
 ditioned upon the faithful discharge of their duties and accounting 
 for all property to the city which comes into their possession or 
 under their control. Said bond shall be secured by two or more 
 securities, who shall beholders of unincumbered real estate in the 
 City of St. Louis, and shall be approved by the Mayor and 
 Council. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Superintendents shall be physicians in good 
 standing, and of recognized professional knowledge and ^kill, and 
 graduates of some reputable medical school. The Superintend- 
 ents shall have supervision of the management of the institutions 
 under their respective charge, and shall have control of the officers 
 and employes in said institutions, and shall have power to dis- 
 charge any of said employes, or to suspend any of the assistant 
 physicians or other officers engaged at said institutions for neglect 
 of dnty or gross violation of the rules. When the Superintend- 
 ents shall find it necessary to discharge any employe, or suspend 
 any assistant physician or other officer, they shall report the fact 
 of such discharge or suspension, and the cause of such action to 
 the Health Commissioner. If the Health Commissioner does not 
 approve of the action of the Superintendents in the discharge or 
 suspension of any officer or employe, he shall refer the whole 
 matter to the Board of Health, which shall take such action as it 
 shall deem proper. The Superintendents shall have entire con- 
 trol of the patients in their respective institutions, and shall be 
 responsible for their welfare and the care taken of them, subject 
 to the rules prescribed by the Health Commissioner. The Super- 
 intendents shall live in the institutions and shall devote the whole 
 of their time to the services of the institutions. The Superin- 
 tendents and their wives and children shall receive boarding and 
 washing at the institutions, and may, with the approval of the 
 Health Commissioner, keep a horse of their own, and the Super- 
 intendents are alone authorized to discharge patients from the 
 institutions. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Health Commissioner, with the approval of the 
 Board of Health, may appoint one or more assistants to the 
 Superintendents of the hospitals and Insane Asylum to serve for 
 one year, unless sooner removed by the Health Commissioner ; 
 said assistants shall be graduates of some regular medical school, 
 and shall perform such duties as may be required of them; they 
 shall receive boarding and washing at the hospital, but no salary 
 shall be allowed said assistants. One of said assistants shall 
 speak the German and English languages fluently. 
 
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 Sec. 7. Students of medicine, when accompanied by a pro- 
 fessor of any of the medical colieires in this city, all of whose 
 faculty are registered physicians, as provided by ordinance num- 
 ber ten thousand three hundred and eighty-six, may be admitted 
 to the wards and lecture rooms in the hospital at such hours and 
 days of the week as may be designated by the Health Commis- 
 sioner ; but no lecture shall be held in the presence of the 
 patients in said hospitals. The Health Commissioner shall desig- 
 nate to the respective medical schools visiting said hospital, the 
 days and hours they will be respectively allowed to visit said 
 hospital. The Health Commissioner shall have power to suspend 
 the exercise of the privilege herein granted to medical schools, 
 for any violation of established rules, or for any failure to comply 
 with the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. No surgical operation shall be performed in any of 
 the hospitals belonging to the City of St. Louis without the con- 
 sent and indorsement of the Superintendent thereof, nor shall 
 any capital operation be performed in such hospital without the con- 
 sent and indorsement of the Superintendent, and upon consulta- 
 tion with one of the consulting physicians or one of the medical 
 members of the Board of Health, except in cases of emergencies. 
 
 Sec. 9. No clinical lectures shall be delivered at the bedside 
 of the patients, or in any ward set apart for and occupied by them. 
 
 Sec. 10. Convalescent patients may be required to perform 
 such labor about the hospitals as may be demanded of them ; pro- 
 vided the Superintendent is satisfied that such labor will not 
 retard recovery. 
 
 Sec. 11. No male patient shall be received in the Female 
 Hospital under any circumstances. 
 
 Sec. 12. The Female Hospital shall be used exclusively for 
 the reception of females, and all the inmates committed to said 
 hospital may be employed at such needle work or other useful 
 industry as they may be able to perform, and any convalescent 
 inmate so desiring may, with the permission of the Health Com- 
 missioner, remain a sufficient length of time to enable her to pro- 
 cure employment, or until she can be placed in communication 
 with her friends. 
 
 Sec. 13. The institution heretofore known as the *« Social 
 Evil Hospital and House of Industry," shall be hereafter known 
 and designated as the Female Hospital. 
 
 Sec. 14. Whenever it shall be necessary to send to any of 
 the hospitals any child under ten years of age, the Health Com- 
 missioner shall have the power, if he thinks proper, to allow the 
 parent to go to the hospital and remain and nurse said child. 
 
 Sec. 15. The Superintendent of the City Hospital shall have 
 charge and care of the convicts iu the Workhouse, and shall re- 
 
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 ceive a salary of twenty -two hundred dollars per annum, payable 
 monthly. The Superintendent of the Female Hospital shall have 
 medical charge of the health of the inmates of the City Poor 
 House, and shall receive a salary of twenty-two hundred dollars 
 per annum, payable monthly. Should the Board of Health at 
 any time find it necessary to appoint a Superintendent of Quar- 
 antine, they shall report their action to the Municipal Assembly, 
 who thereupon shall fix his compensation. The Superintendent 
 of the Insane Asylum shall receive a salary of two thousand dol- 
 lars per annum, payable monthly. 
 
 Sec. 16. The Health Commissioner may, with the approval of 
 the Board of Health, establish a dispensary at his office and else- 
 where, for the purpose of dispensing medical advice and medicines 
 to such applicants as are sick and indigent. The Health Com- 
 missioner shall appoint two competent persons as dispensary physi- 
 cians and two competent persons to serve as apothecaries. Said 
 appointments shall be subject to the approval of the Board of 
 Health. The salary of the dispensary physician shall be twelve 
 hundred dollars per annum, and that of his assistant nine hundred 
 dollars per annum, payable monthly. The salaries of the apothe- 
 caries shall be eight hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. 
 The Dispensary physician shall have charge and care of the health 
 of the inmates of the Jail, and the medicine for such patients 
 shall be furnished from the Dispensary. 
 
 Sec. 17. The building on Arsenal street heretofore know as 
 the *' County Insane Asylum," and acquired by the City of St. 
 Louis by the ratification of the Scheme and Charter, is hereby 
 established and shall be known as the Insane Asylum of the City 
 of St. Louis. / 
 
 Sec. 18. All insane persons who may be found within the 
 City of St. Louis, and who may become a charge upon the city 
 for care and support, shall not be kept or confined in any of the 
 city hospitals, but shall be sent to the Insane Asylum, and be kept 
 there until it can be determined by the Board of Health what dis- 
 position to make of said person, but no person shall be admitted 
 to the Insane Asylum under the provisions of this section unless 
 they have been first examined by a physician of the Health De- 
 partment and found fit subjects for treatment in the Insane 
 Asylum. 
 
 Sec. 19. Before any citizen or other person shall secure the 
 admission of any indigent insane person to the Insane Asylum, 
 they shall first make oath before the Board of Health, which oath 
 shall be duly attested by the presiding officer and clerk of the 
 Board, and made of record in the proceedings of said Board. 
 Said oath shall specifically set forth that the person for whom ad- 
 mission is sought to the asylum is entirely destitute of any 
 
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 financial means to compensate the city for his or her keeping in 
 the Insane Asylum, and if a minor, that his or her parents or 
 guardians are unable and destitute of the financial means to com- 
 pensate the city for his or her keeping in the Insane Asylum of 
 the City of St. Louis. 
 
 Sec. 20. Ordinance number 10,366, entitled <'An ordinance 
 providing for the government and management of the hospitals 
 and Morgue of the City of St. Louis, the appointment of the 
 superintendents and assistants, fixing their salaries and prescrib- 
 ing their duties, and to repeal article 5, chapter 12, of the Kevised 
 Ordinances of the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871 ; 
 and to repeal ordinance number 8,910, entitled *«An ordinance to 
 authorize the establishment of a City Hospital for Females," 
 approved June 17, 1874; ordinance number 10,328, entitled '*An 
 ordinance establishing and regulating the office of Superintendent 
 of the Insane Asylum, approved July 17, 1877 ; ordinance num- 
 ber 10,334, entitled "An ordinance regulating the management 
 of the Insane Asylum of the City of St. Louis," approved July 
 31, 1877 ; and sections six and seven of ordinance number 
 10,330, entitled **An ordinance creating and establishing the 
 Health Department and Board of Health, defining the powers 
 and duties of the Board and their compensation, providing" for 
 the clerk of the Health Commissioner and Board of Health, pre- 
 scribing his duties, fixing his bond and salary, providing for the 
 fixing of the wages of employes, to establish a dispensary, pro- 
 viding for the appointment of dispensary physicians and apothe- 
 cary, and to repeal article one, chapter 12, of the Revised Ordi- 
 nances of the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871, are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved April 5, 1879. 
 
 [10,978.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE establishing quarantine station and author- 
 izing and defining quarantine regulations for the City of St. Louis, 
 and to repeal article six of chaptei twelve of the Revised Ordin- 
 ances of the City of St. Louis, approved March thirty-first, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 
 
 Whereas, clause six of section twenty-six of article three of 
 the Charter of the City of St. Louis empowers the Municipal 
 Assembly to establish and enforce quarantine laws and regulations 
 to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious diseases ; 
 therefore, 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis, 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The Health Commissioner, by and with the appro- 
 val of the Board of Health, is hereby authorized and empowered 
 
Governing the Health Department. 17 
 
 to establish and enforce special or general quarantine regulations 
 within the limits of the City of St. Louis, whenever in his judg- 
 ment the sanitary interest of the city demand the same. 
 
 Sec. 2. Quarantine regulations are hereby defined to apply as 
 follows : First, to all passengers and their baggage. Second, to 
 passengers or baggage respectively. Third, to freight of any one 
 kind or character, or different varieties of freight differing in 
 kind, (character, substance or material ; the extent of the inhibi- 
 tion or prohibition upon passengers or freight coming from any 
 part of the United States into the City of St. Louis, shall be de- 
 termined by the Health Commissioner and approved by the Board 
 of Health, and when so determined and approved it shall be made 
 of record in the proceedings of the Board. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever the Health Commissioner shall be in pos- 
 session of reliable and satisfactory information that any malignant, 
 infectious or contagious disease is epidemic in any portion of the 
 country with which the City of St. Louis has communication, he 
 may estjiblish and enforce quarantine regulations against such 
 portion of the country, and he may determine and regulate to 
 what extent, in what manner and by whom any communication or 
 business transactions may be had with such portion, either by the 
 citizens of such portion of the country or of the City of St. 
 Louis, and he shall establish such stringent and necessary rules 
 and regulations as may be required to prevent the introduction or 
 spread of such disease ; and to that end he is hereby authorized 
 to employ such person as he may deem necessary and all the ac- 
 tions of the Health Commissioner under the provisions of this 
 section must be approved by and recorded in the proceedings of 
 the Board of Health, otherwise the Health Commissioner shall 
 have no power to act in the premises. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever the Health Commissioner shall declare 
 that any malignant, infectious or contagious disease is prevalent 
 in an epidemical form in any portion of the country, and the same 
 is approved by the Board of Health, he shall immediately, or as 
 soon thereafter as possible, notify in writing every express com- 
 pany, transfer company, teamster, steamboat company, or water 
 craft and railroad coippany doing business at the wharf, or in the 
 City of St. Louis, and engaged in the transportation of freight 
 and passengers to or from the City of St. Louis to any portion of 
 such country through their representatives or principal officers, or 
 masters, owners, managers, conductors, teamsters, or directors, 
 that quarantine regulations have been established and will be 
 rigidly enforced against such portion of the country, stating the 
 method and the conditions by and upon which they may transmit 
 or carry passengers or freight to or from the City of St. Louis ; 
 and also the kind or character of freight that is prohibited from 
 
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 entering the city, and all other regulations that may have been 
 established by the Health Commissioner and approved by the 
 Board of Health in relation to the subject matter. Every officer, 
 master, manager, owner, director, conductor or teamster of any 
 express company, transfer company, team, steamboat company or 
 other water craft and railroad company after having received such 
 notice, failing or refusing in whole or in part to comply with the 
 restrictions and conditions of the quarantine regulations as estab- 
 lished by the Health Commissioner and approved by the Board of 
 Health, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
 viction thereof before either of the Police Justices of the City of 
 St. Louis, shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than 
 ^\e hundred dollars, to be collected and paid as other fines and 
 penalties for misdemeanors are now provided for by law. 
 
 Sec, 5. No steamboat or other water-craft, or railroad train, 
 consisting of locomotive and one car or more, coming from any 
 portion of the country infected with any malignant, infectious or 
 contagious disease in an epidemical form, and bound for the City 
 of St. Louis, shall land at the wharf or discharge its freight or 
 passengers within the limits of the City of St. Louis without first 
 having obtained a permit to do so from the Health Commissioner, 
 or some other officer designated by him ; and any captain, owner 
 or master or conductor of any steamboat or other water-craft or 
 railroad train landing at the wharf or discharging freight or pas- 
 sengers within the City of St. Louis without first having obtained 
 a permit as heretofore designated, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before either of the 
 Police Justices of the City of St. Louis, shall be fined in a sum 
 not less than fifty nor more than ^yq hundred dollars, to be col- 
 lected and paid as all other fines for misdemeanors are now pro- 
 vided for by law. 
 
 Sec. 6. All emigrants, passengers or others recently from 
 shipboard or elsewhere, and all sick, diseased or unclean persons, 
 with their baggage and stores, may, on their arrival in the City 
 of St. Louis, be sent to the quarantine station provided by the 
 city for such purposes, whenever in the opinion of the Health 
 Commissioner the same is deemed necessaij^by him, and approved 
 by the Board of Health. 
 
 Sec. 7. Whenever an order of the Health Commissioner in 
 relation to the quarantine regulations of the City of St. Louis is 
 approved by the Board of Health, a cojjy of the same shall be 
 made out and attested by the clerk and presiding officer thereof, 
 and transmitted to the Board of Police Commissioners, who shall 
 enter the same of record upon the minutes of the Board, and shall 
 cause a copy of the same to be transmitted to the commanding 
 officer of each police district and sub-district, and such command- 
 
Governing the Health JDej^artmeni, 19 
 
 ing officer shall cause said order to be read at least twice to the 
 officers and patrolmen of the force at each district , and the 
 Board of Police Commissioners are further directed to instruct the 
 officers of the force to aid and assist the Health Commissioner, or 
 any officer or employe designated by him in the enforcement of 
 the quarantine regulations whenever requested to do so. 
 
 Sec. 8. Any person or persons failing or refusing to comply 
 with the quarantine regulations of the City of St. Louis, as 
 established by the Health Commissioner and approved by the 
 Board of Health, or any person or persons resisting by force or 
 otherwise the enforcement of the quarantine regulations in the 
 City of St. Louis, established and approved as aforesaid, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 
 before either of the Police Justices of the City of St. Louis, shall 
 be fined in a sum not less than ten nor more than ^nq hundred 
 dollars for each oifense. 
 
 Sec. 9. The grounds purchased by the City of St. Louis from 
 Augustus Langkopt by deed bearing date July seventh, eighteen 
 hundred and fifty-four, are hereby established as a permanent 
 quarantine station for the City of St. Louis, and there shall be 
 established and maintained at said station a permanent hospital 
 for the reception and accommodation of such persons, emigrants 
 or others as may be placed therein by proper authority. 
 
 Sec. 10. Article six of chap tar twelve of the lievised Ordin- 
 ances of the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871, is 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved January 30, 1879. 
 
 [10,998.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE in relation to the Health Department, 
 authorizing the Health Commissioner to remove all malignant, in- 
 fectious or contagious cases of disease from all hotels, boarding- 
 houses, tenement houses, and in certain cases from private resi- 
 dences. 
 
 Whereas^ clause six of section twenty-six of article three of the 
 Charter provides that the Mayor and Assembly shall have power 
 to establish and enforce quarantine law and regulations to prevent 
 the introduction and spread of contagious diseases, to establish 
 and regulate hospitals, and to secure the general health of the in- 
 habitants by any measures necessary; therefore. 
 
 Be it ordained hy^ the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. 
 Louis, as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Whenever the Health Commissioner shall become 
 apprised or" informed that any person or persons residing in any 
 
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 hotel, boarding-house, or tenement house within the limits of the 
 City of St. Louis are suffering from any malignant, infectious or 
 contagious disease which in his opinion or the opinion of any med- 
 ical officer of the Health Department may endanger the lives of the 
 citizens, it shall be his duty to make or cause to be made an ex- 
 amination of the said person or persons, and the disease they are 
 suffering from or afflicted with, and from and after such examina- 
 tion, if he shall deem the same necessary, he shall cause said per- 
 son or persons to be removed from the said hotel, boarding-house, 
 or tenement house to the hospital provided by the city for the 
 treatment of all such diseases. 
 
 Sec. 2. Whenever the Health Commissioner shall become ap- 
 prised or informed that any person or persons residing in any 
 private residence, house or dwelling within the limits of the City 
 of St, Louis are suffering from any malignant, infectious or con- 
 tageous disease, which in his opinion, or the opinion of any medi- 
 cal officer of the Health Department may endanger the lives of 
 citizens, and which from the surroundings of the premises, the size 
 of the house, and the number of persons residing therein, would 
 make it impossible to isolate the said person or persons so afflicted 
 from all connection or contact with other persons residing in the 
 same house (except the nurses) it shall be his duty to make or 
 cause to be made, an examination of the premises and the surround- 
 ings, and also an examination by a medical officer of the Health 
 Department of the said person or persons, and the disease they 
 are suffering from or afflicted with, and from and after such 
 examination o^ the premises and the person or persons, if he shall 
 deem the same necessary, he shall cause said person or persons to be 
 removed from said private residence, house or dwelling, to the hos- 
 pital provided by the city for the treatment of all such diseases, pro- 
 vided that the Health Commissioner shall permit one member of 
 the family of the sick person to accompany the sick person to the 
 hospital, there to remain as a nurse until such sick person is dis- 
 charged from the hospital. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever an}^ residence or portion of the city to the 
 extent of one residence, or one or more blocks or squares of ground 
 shall in the opinion of the Health Commissioner be infected, with 
 any malignant or infectious or contageous disease he shall have 
 the power, by and with the approval of the Board of Health, to 
 cause the said residence, block or blocks or squares of ground to 
 be vacated by the residents or inhabitants thereof, for the purpose 
 of disinfecting and fumigating the same, or if this is not deemed 
 expedient or judicious by the Health Commissioner he shall have 
 the power and authority to close up the street or streets in front of 
 and surrounding the said residence, block or blocks or squares of 
 ground, and to prohibit the residents and inhabitants of the said 
 
Governing the Health Department. 21 
 
 residence, block or blocks or squares of ground from passing in 
 or out, to or from said premises, except under such rules and regu- \ 
 lations as may be prescribed by the Health Commissioner and ap- 
 proved by the Board of Health, and to continue and remain so 
 until the Health Commissioner or the Board of Health shall order 
 the restrictions removed. 
 
 Sec. 4. The keepers of all hotels and boarding-houses, and 
 the agents and owners of all tenement-houses, or private resi- 
 dences or dwelling-houses, having any person or persons in their 
 hotels, boarding-houses, tenement-houses, or private residence or 
 dwelling-houses suffering from or afflicted with any malignant, 
 infectious or contagious disease, after they shall have become 
 acquainted with the fact, or are apprised of the same, shall imme- 
 diately notify the Health Commissioner at his office, in the City 
 Hall, stating the name of the person or persons so afflicted, their 
 age and residence or location, and such other facts or information 
 as they may be in possession of. Any such keeper, owner or 
 clerk of any hotel or boarding-house, or any such agent or owner 
 of any tenement-house, private residence or dwelling-house, fail- 
 ing to notify the Health Commissioner of any person or persons 
 being afflicted with any malignant, contagious or infectious dis- 
 ease, after having become aware, apprised or informed of the 
 same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
 viction thereof, before either of the Police Justices of the City of 
 St. Louis, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, to be collected and paid as other fines 
 for misdemeanors now provided for by law. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Police Department of the 
 City of St. Louis to notify the Health Commissioner of the exist- 
 ence of any malignant, infectious or contagious disease, whenever 
 or wherever they, in their judgment, consider or believe the same 
 to exist, and also to assist the Health Commissioner or his officers 
 or employes, whenever called upon to do so, while in the dis- 
 charge of their duties by virtue of the provisions of this ordinance. 
 Sec. 6. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions 
 of this ordinance, or interfering with, or hindering, or obstructing 
 the Health Commissioner or his officers or employes, in the exer- 
 cise of their authority or duties as provided by this ordinance, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
 before either of the Police Justices of the City of St. Louis, shall 
 be fined in a sum not less than twenty nor more than one hun- 
 dred dollars, to be collected and paid as other fines for misde- 
 meanors are now provided for by law. 
 Approved March 3, 1879. 
 
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 [10,H15.] 
 
 AN ORDIiVACE in relation to the Health Department in rela- 
 tion to physicians practicing in the City of St. Louis giving notice 
 of contagious diseases. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St, 
 Louis, as follows : 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of each and every practicing 
 physician of the City of St. Louis : First, To report to. the Health 
 Commissioner, or nearest police station, every case of small-pox 
 or contagious disease he may be called on to attend within limits 
 of the city or within ten miles thereof, within twelve hours after 
 he shall have examined the patient, with the number of the house, 
 the name of the occupant and the street. Second, Whenever re- 
 quired by the Health Commissioner to report to him at such 
 times and in such forms as he may prescribe the number of per- 
 sons attacked with any pestilential, contagious or infectious 
 disease, attended by such physicians, within twelve hours next 
 preceding, and the number of persons attended by such physician 
 who shall have died within twelve hours next preceding such re- 
 port of any pestilential, contagious or infectious disease. 
 
 Sec. 2. Whenever any physician shall report to the Health 
 Commissioner any case of small-pox or contagious disease in any 
 dwelling or building in the City of St. Louis, the Health Com- 
 missioner shall have the power, whenever in his opinion it is 
 necessary, to cause to be placed on the outside of any building or 
 dwelling or door of any room a printed placard giving notice of 
 the existence of such contagious disease. Any person who shall 
 remove such placard placed by order of the Health Commission- 
 er shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 be fined not less than five nor more than' twenty-five dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any practicing physician who shall neglect or refuse 
 to perform the duties required of him by this ordinance shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 
 fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 4. The parents or guardians *of children attending any 
 private or public school who shall permit them to attend school 
 after it becomes known to the said parents or guardians that any 
 of their family are infected with any infectious or contagious 
 disease shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
 viction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than three nor 
 more than ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any principal or teacher of any private or public 
 school in the City of St. Louis, having official or authentic infor- 
 mation of the existence of any infectious or contagious disease in 
 
Governing the Health Department. 23 
 
 the family of any pupil attending said school shall immediately 
 cause the removal of said pupil from said school, and until he (or 
 she) shall have undoubted proof of the premises where the family 
 reside being disinfected and the disease eradicated. Any failure 
 on the part of any principal or teacher complying with the pro- 
 visions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum not less than three 
 nor more than ten dollars. 
 
 Approved February 19, 187^. 
 
 [10,321.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE in relation to the sale of poisons and to 
 repeal article three, chapter twelve, of the Revised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hun- 
 dred and seventy-one, and also to repeal ordinance numbered 
 eight thousand and seventy-seven, entitled ** an ordinance in rela- 
 tion to the sale of poisons," approved July eleventh, eighteen 
 hundred and seventy-two. 
 
 Be it ordained hy the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. 
 Louis, as follows : 
 
 Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to sell any 
 drugs, medicines, chemicals or any other article which may prove 
 fatal or injurious when taken internally or used externally by 
 any person if taken in such quantities that it is possible for any 
 person to take such medicine, drug or other article by mistake 
 without discovering such rnistake unless the same shall be plainly 
 labeled *' poison," and with the name of the article in addition to 
 the word " poison," such label shall contain a skull and cross- 
 bones, so as to indicate to any person handling such article that it 
 is poisonous, and in no case shall any poisonous article be sold to 
 a minor or other irresponsible person. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall be permitted to sell any drug, medi- 
 cine or other article which is known by the medical profession to 
 produce abortions or that may have a tendency to destroy the 
 human foetus. 
 
 Sec. 3. The befor^ named sections shall not apply to pre- 
 scriptions of graduates of any medical school that have registered 
 at the office of the Board of Health ; a list of the names of the 
 resident physicians of the city shall be furnished any druggist or 
 apothecary within the city limits, on application to the Board of 
 Health. 
 
 Sec. 4. No apothecary, druggist or other person within this 
 city shall sell or permit to be sold at retail or wholesale, except 
 to dealers in such articles, any poisonous drug or substance. 
 
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 except the same shall have been prescribed or ordered by a phy- 
 sician for the use of the sick, or the person desiring to obtain the 
 same shall have first been furnished with a written permit from 
 the Board of Health. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall. be the duty of every physician within the 
 city, prescribing or ordering for external use any poisonous drug 
 or substance, to state in his prescriptions or orders in plain writ- 
 ing '' for e?:ternal use," and no apothecary or druggist shall de- 
 liver any article thus ordered without the same being properly 
 labeled with the words *' for external use." 
 
 Sec. 6. Any apothecary, druggist or other person violating 
 the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than fifty nor more than $300 for each and every off'ense, to 
 be recovered for the use of the city of St. Louis before any court 
 or oflicer having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 7. Article 3, chapter 13, of the Revised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hun- 
 dred and seventy-one, and ordinance numbered eight thousand 
 and seventy-seven, entitled "An ordinance in relation to the sale, 
 of poisons," approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-two are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved July 7, 1877. 
 
 [10,326.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE in relation to vital statistics, and to repeal 
 article 4, chapter 12, of the Revised Ordinances of the City of St. 
 Louis, approved March 31, 1871. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St, Louis, 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The Health Commissioner shall provide for the 
 registration of all births, deaths and marriages occurring within 
 the city of St. Louis, and for that purpose it shall be the duty of 
 every physician and midwife to report weekly to the Health Com- 
 missioner, at or before the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon 
 of Saturday of each and every week, in accordance with printed 
 forms to be furnished by said Health Commissioner, a statement 
 of the sex and date of birth of every child born in this city where 
 they have attended the birth of such child ; and in case no physi- 
 cian or midwife attended the birth of any child born in this city, 
 then, and in that case, it is hereby made the duty of the father or 
 mother to make such report to the Health Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 2. All persons authorized by law to solemnize marriages 
 shall report every marriage solemnized by them within the limits 
 
Governing the Health Dejpartrnent. 25 
 
 of the City of St. Louis to the Health Commissioner, within ten 
 days from the time said marriage has been solemnized. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of every physician and person 
 engaged in the practice of medicine in the City of St. Louis to 
 report to the Health Commissioner the death of any person under 
 their care or treatment, when the person died, and with such par- 
 ticulars as the Health Commissioner may prescribe ; and it shall 
 also be the duty of the Coroner of the City of St. Louis to make 
 a weekly report to the Health Commissioner of all inquests and 
 all deaths within the City of St. Louis, coming within his official 
 knowledge. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every person whose duty it is to make any of the 
 reports prescribed by this ordinance shall make the same within 
 the time as prescribed, and any person who shall fliil to make such 
 report, or to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hun- 
 dred dollars, to be recovered as in other cases of misdemeanor 
 before any court having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Health Commissioner shall weekly transmit to the 
 Kecorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis a transcript copy of 
 all births and marriages on file in his office, having occurred during 
 the week last past, and the same shall be recorded in the office of 
 the Recorder of Deeds at the expense of the City of St. Louis, 
 and it shall be the duty of the Recorder of Deeds to compare the 
 same with the reports as provided by the act of the Legislature 
 relating thereto. 
 
 Sbc. 6. Article four, chapter twelve of the Revised Ordinances 
 of the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871, is hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 Approved July 9, 1877. 
 
 [10,S29.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE to provide for the keeping of mprtuary 
 records, establishing rules and regulations governing Sextons and 
 Cemeteries, and to carry out the provisions of sections 10, 11, 12 
 and 13 of article 12 of the Charter of St. Louis, relating to the 
 Health Department, and to repeal article 7, chapter 12 of the 
 Revised Ordinances of the City of St. Louis. Approved March 
 31, 1871. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly oj the City of 8t. Louis, 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Every physician who may practice medicine in 
 the City of St. Louis shall, when a patient dies under his care, 
 
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 make two certificates, stating the name, age, sex, color and 
 place of birth, and exact locality and date of death, together 
 with the name of the disease of which said person died, one of 
 which he shall, without delay, deposit in the office of the Health 
 Commissioner, who shall register and file the same in his office, 
 and the other he shall give to the undertaker of the funeral, to be 
 delivered by him to the person who has control of the graveyard 
 in which the body is buried. And it shall not be lawful for any 
 person who may have charge or control of any graveyard or 
 cemetery in the City of St. Louis, to receive said certificates or 
 allow any person to be buried in any graveyard or cemetery under 
 their control unless said certificates have first been countersigned 
 by the Health Commissioner or his clerk. Aud if any physician 
 or undertaker refuse or omit to do as aforesaid, he shall forfeit 
 and pay five dollars to the use of the City of St. Louis, to be 
 recovered as provided for in section 3 of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. All overseers, sextons or other persons who may 
 have control over public graveyards in the City of St. Louis, shall 
 make a weekly report to the Health Commissioner of all inter- 
 ments during the week in the graveyard whereof they are such 
 overseer or sexton, respectively. Said report shall specify the 
 names and ages of the persons interred, sex, color and place of 
 birth, and exact lacality and date of death, and also the diseases 
 of which said persons died, and the name and residence of phy- 
 sician who signed the' certificate. 
 
 Sec. 3. If any overseer, sexton, or other person having con- 
 trol of a graveyard, shall permit any person to be interred in said 
 graveyard without a certificate, stating the name, age, sex, color, 
 place of birth, place and date of death, together with the disease 
 of which said person died, signed by the physician who attended 
 such person and countersigned by the Health Commissioner or his 
 clerk, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five no more 
 than twenty dollars, to be recorered as in other cases of misde- 
 meanor before any court or officer having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 4. If any overseer, sexton, or other person, charged 
 with the performance of such duty, fail or neglect to make to the 
 Health Commissioner such report of weekly interments, he shall 
 forfeit and pay not less than twenty dollars for every such failure, 
 to be recovered in like manner as provided in the last preceding 
 section. 
 
 Sec. 5. The sextons of the several cemeteries shall deliver to 
 the Health Commissioner at his office, their weekly reports as 
 provided for in section 2 of this ordinance, at or before the hour 
 of 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday of each and every week, 
 and any sexton failing or refusing so to do shall forfeit and pay a 
 
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 fine ot ten dollars for each such failure or refusal, to be recovered 
 as provided for in section 3 of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Health Commissioner shall furnish each overseer 
 or sexton of any graveyard with a blank book, with appropriate 
 columns to enter the facts and records required by this ordinance 
 to be recorded ; and such overseer or sexton shall enter in such 
 books all the certificates received from any undertaker or physi- 
 cian ; such books shall be, and always remain, the property of the 
 city of St. Louis. 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of all overseers, sextons, or 
 other persons who may have control over the public graveyards 
 of the City of St. Louis, to include in their weekly report to the 
 Health Commissioner, as provided for in section two of this ordi- 
 nance, the name and place of residence of each physician from 
 whom has been received a cer4;ificate on which any person has 
 been interred in the graveyards under their charge, and the num- 
 ber of certificates given by each and every physician, and for 
 whom given, and any overseer, sexton or other person having 
 charge of a public graveyard, failing or refusing to comply with 
 the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay a fine of ten 
 dollars for every such failure or refusal, to be recovered as pro- 
 vided for in section three of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Health Commissioner shall cause to be printed a 
 sufficient number of blank certificates, setting forth in suitable 
 columns the facts required, as prescribed in section one of this 
 ordinance, which certificates shall be kept in the office of Health 
 Commissioner, and shall be delivered to registered physicians in 
 person only, and said physicians' names shall be inscribed on the 
 back of each certificate so delivered, and it shall not be lawful 
 for any physician to issue or use any other form of certificate for 
 interment except such form as shall be prescribed and issued by 
 the Health Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 9. When the removal of any dead person beyond the 
 city limits is desired, a permit therefor shall first be obtained from 
 the Health Commissioner, who shall issue said permit upon the 
 certificate of the physician under whose care the person died. 
 
 Sec. 10. Article 7, chapter 12, of the Revised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871, is hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 Approved July 17, 1877. 
 
 [10,386.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE in relation to the Health Department, and to 
 regulate the practice of medicine and surgery and midwifery in the 
 City of St. Louis, and to regulate the issue of burial certificates. 
 
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 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis, 
 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to 
 practice medicine or surgery in the City of St. Louis who shall not 
 first have received the degree of doctor of medicine from some 
 medical college or university duly established under and by virtue 
 of the laws of the state or country in which the same is situated ; 
 Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any person 
 who may now be authorized to practice medicine or surgery by 
 virtue of existing laws of the state in relation thereto. 
 
 Sec. 2. Every person who shall hereafter engage in the practice 
 of medicine or surgery in the City of St. Louis, shall before en- 
 tering upon such practice file a copy of his or her diploma in the 
 oflSce of the Health Commissioner, which shall be subscribed and 
 sworn to by the person filing the sa;me, and thereupon, the Health 
 Commissioner, or his clerk, shall enter the name of such person, 
 the date of filing the said copy, the date of his or her diploma and 
 the name and location of the school or university granting such 
 diploma, in a book to be kept by the Health Commissioner for 
 that purpose, and shall require the person filing such copy to sub- 
 scribe his or her name in said book. 
 
 Sec. 3. Ever}^ person now practicing medicine or surgery in 
 this city, or who shall commence the practice of medicine or 
 surgery in this city before the passage of this ordinance, shall 
 register his or her name in the book described in the preceding 
 section in the office of the Health Commissioner, and shall exhibit 
 his or her diploma to the Health Commissioner for inspection at 
 the time of such registration, but shall not be required to file any 
 copy of the same, and thereupon the Health Commissioner shall 
 enter in said book all the facts as required in the preceding sec- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever the Health Commissioner has reason to be- 
 lieve that the diploma shown, or claimed to be in the possession of 
 the person presenting the same, or the copy thereof has been pur- 
 chased, or has not been issued to the person presenting the same, 
 or that the medical school or university purporting to have issued 
 the same, is not a medical school or university in good standing, he 
 shall refuse to allow the person presenting the diploma or the 
 copy thereof to register, but shall forthwith refer the matter with 
 all the facts in the case, to the Board of Health, who, after a 
 hearing, shall decide whether said person shall be allowed to 
 register, and if the Board of Health shall so decide, it shall 
 direct the Health Commissioner to allow said person to register, 
 but if in the opinion of the Board of Health said person should 
 not 1)0 allowed to register, the Health Commissioner shall not 
 permit said person to register. 
 
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 Sec. 5. Every person who shall practice or attetapt to prac- 
 tice medicine or surgery in this city without first having complied 
 with the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than 
 twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall not be lawful for the Health Commissioner or 
 his clerk to sign any burial certificate signed by any other than a 
 registered physician. 
 
 Sec. 7. If any overseer, sexton or other person having control 
 of a graveyard, shall permit any person to be interred in said 
 graveyard without a certificate signed by a registered physician 
 and countersigned by the Health Commissioner, or his clerk, he 
 shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall 
 be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hun- 
 dred dollars, to be recovered as in other cases of misdemeanor, 
 before any court or oflicer having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 8. Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to 
 practice midwifery, unless such person shall first register her 
 name and place of abode, in a book in the office of the 
 Health Commissioner, kept for that purpose, but no person 
 shall be allowed to register as a midwife, who .shall not first 
 either file a diploma from some school of midwifery in good 
 standing, or a certificate signed by at least two registered phy- 
 sicians, which certificate shall state that the party named in 
 the certificate, is in their opinion qualified to practice midwifery, 
 and any person who shall practice or attempt to practice mid- 
 wifery without first having complied with the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon con- 
 viction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 9. Nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as 
 to permit any druggist to engage in the practice of medicine or 
 surgery, without having first filed with the Health Commissioner a 
 diploma, or a certified copy thereof, in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of the first three sections of this ordinance. 
 
 Approved October 20, 1877. 
 
 [10,990.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE regulating cemeteries and the interment of 
 the dead within the limits of the City of St. Louis. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of /St. Louis, 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The following named cemeteries, as now estab- 
 lished within the limits of the city, are hereby recognized and 
 
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 authorized as legal and proper places for the interment of persons 
 who may die in the City of St. Louis, or who may be brought to 
 the city for burial, namely : First, Bellefontaine Cemetery ; 
 second, Old Picker's, or Holy Ghost Cemetery; third, Rock 
 Spring Cemetery ; fourth, Wesleyan Cemetery ; fifth. The Western 
 alias Western Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery; sixth ( Bremen- 
 Saxon Cemetery; seventh. Calvary Cemetery; eighth, Holy 
 Trinity Cemetery; ninth, St. Paul's Evangelical Cemetery; tenth, 
 St. Peter's and Paul's Cemetery; eleventh, Episcopal Ceme- 
 tery ; twelfth. Public Cemetery at City Poor House ; thirteenth, 
 St. Matthews's Cemetery ; and all other cemeteries established 
 and now in use within the present city limits, of not less than two 
 acres in extent. 
 
 Sec. 2. None of the above named cemeteries, or any other 
 that may hereafter be established bylaw, shall extend their limits, 
 unless permission to do so has been authorized by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 3. From and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall 
 not be lawful for any person or persons to lay out or establish a 
 public or private burying ground within the limits of the City of 
 St. Louis, unless the authority to do so shall have first been 
 granted by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to 
 bury the body of any deceased person anywhere within the limits 
 of the City of St. Louis, except in a cemetery duly authorized 
 and recognized as a public or private burying ground, and within 
 the meaning of and as provided for by this ordinance, except by 
 special permission granted by the Health Commissioner. Any 
 person violating the provisions of this section shall upon convic- 
 tion be fined not less than one hundred dollars, to be recovered 
 for the use of the City of St. Louis, as in other cases of misde- 
 meanor, before any court or officer having competent jurisdiction. 
 Sec. 5. Any owner or owners, or his, or their agents, or any 
 tenant, or any other person who shall bury, or permit to be 
 buried, the body of any deceased person on any lot of ground 
 within the limits of the city, except the same be authorized 
 as a cemetery, except by special permission of the Health 
 Commissioner, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than 
 two hundred and fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars, 
 to be recovered for the use of the City of St. Louis, as in other 
 cases of misdemeanor, before any court or officer having com- 
 petent jurisdiction, and such persons shall be subject to a like 
 tine for each and every day the body of any deceased person shall 
 remain interred in said lot. 
 
 Sec. 6. If the body of any deceased person or persons be 
 found buried on any lot of ground in the City of St. Louis, the 
 owner or agent of which cannot be found, it shall be lawful, and 
 
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 it is hereby made the duty of the Health Commissioner to cause 
 said body or bodies to be disinterred and buried in the public 
 burying ground. Provided, however, the provisions of this sec- 
 tion shall have no application to the remains of deceased persons 
 which have been interred prior to the passage of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 7. All cemeteries shall be in charge of a sexton or over- 
 seer, and the name of such sexton or overseer shall be certified to 
 and recorded in the oflSce of the Health Commissioner by the 
 person or persons owning or controlling such cemetery. 
 
 Sec. 8. No body of any deceased person shall be buried in any 
 cemetery within the limits of the City of St. Louis at a less depth 
 than six feet below the surface of the ground. Provided, that 
 the provisions of this section shall not be applied to cases where 
 burial vaults or tombs have been, or may be, erected for the 
 reception of deceased persons. 
 
 Sec. 9. Every person who shall convey or remove or assist in 
 conveying or removing the body of any deceased person (whether 
 such person shall have died in the city or shall have been brought 
 to the city after death) outside of the limits of the city without 
 first having obtained from the oflice of the Health (yommissioner 
 permission so to do, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than 
 two hundred and fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, to be 
 recovered for the use of the City of St. Louis, as in other cases 
 of misdemeanors, before any court or officer having competent 
 jurisdiction. Provided, that the provisions of this section shall 
 have no application where bodies in course of transportation pass 
 through St. Louis on their way from one point to another. 
 
 Sec. 10. Every person who shall willfully destroy, disfigure 
 or injure any wall, fence, hedge, monument, tomb-stone, tree or 
 shrubbery, around or within any cemetery, graveyard or burial 
 ground, or shall use such a cemetery, graveyard, or burial ground 
 for any other purpose than a burying ground, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not 
 less than twenty nor more than five hundred dollars, to be re- 
 covered for the use of the City of St. Louis, before any court or 
 officer having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 11. The Health Commissioner shall not issue a permit to 
 bury the body of a person elsewhere, except upon the certificate 
 of a physician given at the place of death, or the certificate of the 
 Coroner of St. Louis. 
 
 Sec. 12. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry the 
 body of any deceased person to any of the cemeteries or burying 
 grounds within the limits of the City of St. Louis, or for any 
 sexton or other person in charge of said cemetery or burying ground 
 to receive the body of any deceased person, unless accompanied 
 
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 by a burial certificate, properly signed and certified to by the 
 Health Commissioner, or his clerk. 
 
 Sec. 13. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions 
 of this ordinance, for which no penalty has been provided, shall, 
 upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor^more than five 
 hundred dollars, to be recovered for the use of the City of St. 
 Louis before any court or officer having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 14. Nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed or 
 understood as repealing or alterins: any of the provisions or por- 
 tions of ordinance ten thousand three hundred and twenty-nine, 
 entitled, **An ordinance to provide for keeping mortuary records 
 and establishing rules and regulations governing sextons and 
 cemeteries," approved July the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-seven. 
 
 Approved February 12, 1879. 
 
 [10,358.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE providing for the abatement of nuisances, 
 defining the manner how, and by whom, said nuisances shall be 
 abated and removed, and how the expense of same shall be paid 
 for, and also providing for the destruction of property which shall 
 have been declared by the Board of Health dangerous to the 
 Health of the inhabitants of the city, and also providing what 
 steps and measures shall be taken in case any malignant or conta- 
 gious disease is prevalent in the city, and repealing all ordinances, 
 and parts of ordinances, conflicting herewith. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis^ 
 asfolloios : 
 
 Section 1. In order to effect the abatement of nuisances or 
 removal of accumulated filth, the Health Commissioner shall have 
 power, whenever in his opinion such nuisance or filth exists, and 
 after officially so declared of record by the Board of Health, to 
 notify the owner or owners thereof, or his or their agents, to 
 abate or remove the same, either by filling up,, draining, clean- 
 ing, purifying or removing same, as the case may be, which notice 
 shall be served upon the owner or agent having charge of such 
 property, in the same manner as writs of summons are required 
 to be served in civil cases. If the owner, who shall have. been so 
 served with such notice, shall fail, within the time indicated in such 
 notice, which shall be discretionary with said Health Commis- 
 sioner, to comply with such order, or fail to show good cause to 
 said Health Commissioner why he cannot, or ought not to, com- 
 ply with such order, for which purpose he shall be entitled to be 
 
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 heard before said Health Commissioner and Board of Health, if he 
 so requests it, he shall be deemed guilt}^ of a misdemeanor, and, 
 on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ; 
 and the nuisance shall be abated, and special tax bills rendered 
 against the property in same manner as against non-residents, ex- 
 cept that notice by advertisement shall not be necessary. If such 
 service cannot be made for the reason that the owner, agents or 
 other persons having charge of the property upon which the nuis- 
 ance may exist, cannot be found in the city, of which fact the re- 
 turn upon such notice of the officer serving the same shall be con- 
 clusive evidence, then the Health Commissioner shall cause such 
 notice to be published in the newspapers doing the city printing, 
 for two consecutive days (Sundays excepted). And if within 
 two days after the service of such notice, or after its publication 
 as aforesaid, such nuisance shall not be abated, or the order ob- 
 served by the owner, then the Health Commissioner may order 
 the same to be done as hereinafter directed ; and the cost of the 
 same, when fully completed, shall be ascertained under the direc- 
 tion of the President of the Board of Public Improvements, in 
 the same manner as special tax bills for street improvements, and 
 the amount thereof shall be assessed as a special tax against the 
 property so improved, or upon which" such work has been done, 
 in the name of the owners thereof, of which the books of the As- 
 sessor shall be proof, and the certified bills of such assessment 
 shall describe therein the property upon which the work was done. 
 Said bills shall be recorded and shall be collected and paid as pro- 
 vided in the Charter in relation to the collection of other special 
 tax bills, and shall be a lien on said property, and the Health 
 Commissioner shall keep a record of his proceedings in all cases 
 of abatements ordered by him. 
 
 Sec. 2. All contracts for work contemplated by this ordinance 
 on which special tax bills are to be issued, shall be entered into 
 by the President of the Board of Public Improvements, in the 
 name of the city, based on the estimates of the cost by the Presi- 
 dents of the Board of Public Improvements, accompanied by. 
 reports of surveys and profiles, in cases requiring the same in the 
 judgment of such President, and shall be approved by the Mayor 
 and registered in the office of the Comptroller. 
 
 Sec. 3. It is made the duty of all police officers to observe the 
 sanitary condition of their districts, and through the Chief of 
 Police to report to the Health Commissioner promptly, any 
 nuisance or accumulated filth found to exist in any portion of the 
 city. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever any bedding, clothing, putrid or unsound 
 meat, beef, pork, fish, hides or skins of any kind, decayed or 
 unsound vegetables, oriruit, or any other article found within the 
 
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 City of St. Louis, which in the opinion of the Health Commission- 
 er, shall be dangerous to the health of the inhabitants thereof, and 
 which shall be officially so declared of record by the Board of 
 Health, the Health Commissioner shall have the power and 
 authority to cause to be destroyed any and all such articles above 
 named, in such manner as he may direct, and he may employ such 
 persons as he may deem proper to remove or destroy such articles, 
 and every person who shall in any manner resist or hinder any 
 person so employed, shall be deemed guilty of a misdeuieanor, 
 and on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ^yq, nor 
 more than one hundred dollars, and all such fines when collected 
 shall be paid into the City Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Board of Health, whenever 
 the Health Commissioner has officially notified said Board, or 
 when any complaint has been made to said Board by any citizen, 
 that any business, trade or profession carried on by any person 
 or persons or corporations in the City of St. Louis, is detrimental 
 to public health, or wherever any nuisance or filth exists on the 
 property of any person or corporation, to notify such person or 
 persons or corporations to show cause before said Board of Health, 
 at a time and place to be specified in such notice, why the same 
 should not be abated, discontinued or removed ; which notice 
 shall not be valid unless served at least five days before the time 
 specified in such notice (except in case of epidemic or pestilence, 
 when the Health Commissioner, with the approval of the Board of 
 Health, may by general order direct a shorter time), and may be 
 served by 1 aving the same at the place of business or residence 
 of the parties to be aifected thereby, or their agents, by some 
 officer or person duly qualified to certify to such notice ; and all 
 notices of this kind issued by the Board of Health shall be signed 
 and certified to by the person or officer delegated to make such 
 service. If such notice cannot be given for the reason that the 
 owner, agents or other persons named in such notice cannot be 
 found in the city, of which fact the return upon such notice of the 
 officer or person serving the same shall be conclusive evidence, 
 then the Board of Health shall cause such notice to be published 
 in the newspapers doing the city printing for two consecutive 
 days, Sundays excepted. At the time fixed in said notice the 
 parties may appear in person, by attorney, or cause may be shown 
 by affidavit, and if in the opinion of the Board of Health and 
 Health Commissioner, no good and sufficient cause be shown why 
 the said nuisance, business, trade or profession should not be 
 abated, discontinued or removed, the Health Commissioner shall 
 order the said parties to abate, discontinue or remove the same 
 within such time as the Health Commissioner may deem reasona- 
 
Governing the Health Department. 35 
 
 ble and necessary. If, upon the hearing of the affidavits, and the 
 evidence adduced in the case, tho Board shall find the facts to be 
 in favor of the parties before them, and so decide, the case shall 
 be dismissed. 
 
 Sec. H. Any person or persons failing or refusing to obey such 
 order of said Health Commissioner shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less 
 than twenty nor more than five hundred dollars ; and such person 
 or persons shall be subject to like fines, for each and every day 
 he, she or they, shall continue such nuisance, business, trade or 
 profession after the expiration of the time specified in the order 
 of the Health Commissioner for the abatement, removal or dis- 
 continuance of the same. . The fines mentioned in this ordinance 
 shall be collected as other fines, and paid into the City Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 7. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the 
 Mayor that any malignant, infectious or contageous disease or 
 epidemic is prevalent in the city, or will probably become so, he 
 may make proclamation of such fact to the inhabitants ; and after 
 such proclamation, the Health Commissioner, with the approval of 
 the Board of Health, may have power by order, to take all steps 
 and use all measures necessary to avoid, suppress or mitigate such 
 disease, without the intervention of the Assembly, iu the same man- 
 ner and as effectually as the Assembly could itself do by ordin- 
 ance, and may employ such officers, agents, servant and assistants, 
 establish temporary hospitals, provide necessary furniture, medi- 
 cal attendance and nurses, as in the opinion of the said Commis- 
 sioner, with the advice and counsel of said Board of Health may 
 be necessary and advisable ; provided, that the amount expended 
 shall not exceed the appropriation for the Health Department. 
 The Health Commissioner shall have and exercise such power un- 
 til he shall declare, or until the Mayor shall proclaim that the epi- 
 demic or disease, iu view of which the proclamation was made, is 
 no longer imminent or prevalent, whereupon the said power shall 
 cease. 
 
 Sec. 8. Whenever one or more resident tax-payers, living in 
 the immediate vicinity of any pond or ponds of putrid or stagnant 
 water, shall notify the Health Commissioner that said pond or 
 ponds are a nuisance by being dangerous to life, detrimental to the 
 health of the neighborhood in which they are situated, it shall be 
 the duty of the Health Commissioner to examine or cause to be 
 examined the same, and report the result of such examination and 
 all the facts connected therewith to the Board of Health within a 
 reasonable length of time after such examination is made. If, 
 after a careful inquiry into the same, the said Board of Health 
 shall decide that said pond or ponds are a nuisance, and dangerous 
 to life, detrimental or injurious to the health of the neighborhood ; 
 
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 due notice having been given to the owner or owners, agents, 
 representatives of the property whereon said ponds are situated, 
 as provided for by section 5 of this ordinance, the Board of Health 
 shall officially declare the same a nuisance, and the Health Com- 
 missioner shall order the abatement of the same. The Health 
 Commissioner thereupon shall notify the owner, owners, agents or 
 representatives, as provided for in section 5 of this ordinance, of 
 the action of the Board of Health in the premises, and it shall be 
 the duty of the Health Commissioner to see that said nuisance or 
 nuisances are abated, either by filling or draining. If the owner, 
 owners, their agents or legal representatives refuse or neglect to 
 comply with the order of the Health Commissioner, or fail in any 
 manner to abate the said nuisances within a given time, the Health 
 Commissioner shall report the same to the President of the Board 
 of Public Improvements, who shall at once proceed to abate the 
 same as provided for by sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent 
 herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved August 14, 1877. 
 
 [10,805.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE concerning the construction of privies, 
 sinks, basins and stationary tubs and their connection with sewers, 
 and prescribing the duties of the Health Commissioner, in rela- 
 tion thereto and repealing ordinance number ten thousand three 
 hundred and sixty -one, entitled '* An ordinance concerning the 
 construction of privies and their connection with sewers, and pre- 
 scribing the duties of the Health Commissioner in relation there- 
 to, and repealing sections one, two, three, four, five and six, of 
 article two of chapter twelve of the Revised Ordinances of the 
 City of St. Louis, approved March thirty -first, eighteen hundred 
 and seventy-one," and repealing sections one, two, three, four, 
 five and six, of article two of chapter twelve of the Revised 
 Ordinances of the City of St. Louis, approved March thirty-first, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of jSt. 
 Louis f as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Each and every tenement within this city, except 
 such parts which are not laid out in blocks, or where streets have 
 not been opened, used as a dwelling house or factory shall be fur- 
 nished with a suitable privy, the vault of which shall be sunk 
 under ground at least ten feet deep and walled up with brick or 
 stone, except in cases where said privies are connected with dis- 
 trict or public sewers, and shall be so constructed that the iuside 
 
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 of the same shall be at least two feet distance from the line of 
 every adjoining lot, unless the owner of the adjoining lot shall 
 otherwise agree, and also the same distance from every street, 
 lane or avenue, and no privy shall be constructed at vjiriance with 
 these regulations, except by special permission of the Health 
 Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Health Commissioner being satisfied that any 
 tenement is not provided with a suitable privy, and that such 
 l)rivy is a nuisance, and after it shall have been officially declared 
 a nuisance by the Board of Health, shall serve a written or 
 printed notice of such action thereon and shall direct and order 
 that a proper and lawful privy shall be constructed or that such 
 privy vault shall be cleaned and put into good sanitary condition 
 for such tenement within a time to be designated by the Health 
 Commissioner, not less than five days from the date of service of 
 •such notice to the owner thereof or his agent or the tenant occu- 
 pying said premises, which notice shall be served upon the owner, 
 tenant or agent having charge of such property in the same man- 
 ner as writs of summons are required to be served in civil cases. 
 If the owner, agent or tenant, who shall have been so served with 
 such notice, shall fail within the time indicated in such notice, 
 which shall be discretionary with said Health Commissioner, to 
 comply with such order, or fail to show good cause to said Health 
 Commissioner why he can not or ought not to comply with such 
 order, for which purpose he shall be entitled to be heard before 
 said Health Commissioner and Board of Health, if he so requests 
 it, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction 
 shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than five hundred 
 dollars, to be recovered for the use of the City of St. Louis, before 
 any court or officer having competent jurisdiction. The owner, 
 tenant or agent shall be subject to like fine, for each and every day 
 he, she or they shall continue to refuse to obey said order of said 
 Health Commissioner after the expiration of the time specified in 
 the order of the Health Commissioner for the abatement of the 
 same. 
 
 Sec. 3. The vaults or privies in or belonging to all residences, 
 factories, mills and warehouses located on a line of any street or 
 alley through which there is a public, private or district sewer, 
 shall be connected by the owners, tenants or lessees of said prop- 
 erty with such public, district or private sewer, when possible, 
 whenever required to do so by order of the Health Commissioner, 
 approved by the Board of Health, and so declared of record, which 
 notice or order shall be served upon the owner, tenant or agent 
 having charge of such property, in the same manner as writs of 
 summons are required to be served in civil cases, and if the owner, 
 tenant or agent, who shall have been served with such notice, shall 
 
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 fail within the time indicated in such notice, which shall be discre- 
 tionary with said Health Commissioner, to comply with such order, 
 or fail to show good cause to said Health Commissioner, why he 
 cannot or ought not to comply with such order, for which pur- 
 pose he shall be entitled to be heard before said Health Commis- 
 sioner and Board of Health, if he so request it, he shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined not less 
 than twenty nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered 
 for the use of the City of St. Louis before any court or officer 
 having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 4. No privy within the limits of the City of St. Louis, 
 as they existed in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, 
 shall be emptied between the fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth 
 day of October, unless the Health Commissioner shall be satisfied 
 that the same is absolutely necessary for the health and comfort of 
 the inhabitants, and in such case they shall be thoroughly cleaned 
 by vault cleaners only, upon a permit obtained from the Health 
 Commissioner, for which the party applying shall pay the sum of 
 twenty-five cents, and the Clerk of the Health Commissioner shall 
 keep a full record of all permits thus issued, and report the same 
 to the Comptroller and pay the same into the City Treasury once 
 every week. No privy shall be emptied at any other time than 
 between the hours of twelve p. m. and four a. m., unless by 
 special permission or order from the Health Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 5. The owner or occupant of any premises where tubs or 
 other vessels are used in a privy, shall not permit such tubs or 
 other vessels to remain more than one day without being emptied. 
 
 Sec. 6. All sinks, basins and stationary tubs in every hotel, 
 lodging, tenement, boarding house, or other dwelling, in the City 
 of St. Louis, shall be provided with proper stench traps, directly 
 under each sink, basin, or stationary tub, so connected with waste 
 or soil pipe, and so constructed as directed by the Health Com- 
 missioner, approved by the Board of Health, and with the traps 
 so adjusted as to prevent the escape therefrom of foul odors and 
 gases. 
 
 Sec. 7. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions 
 of this ordinance, for which no special penalty has been provided, 
 shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty nor more than 
 five hundred dollars, to be recovered for the use of the City of St. 
 Louis, before any court or officer having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 8. Ordinance 10,361, entitled ** An ordinance concern- 
 ing the construction of privies and their connection with sewers, 
 and prescribing the duties of the Health Commissioner in relation 
 thereto, and repealing sections one, two, three, four, five and six, 
 of article two of chapter twelve of the Revised Ordinances of the 
 City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871, and sections one, two. 
 
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 three, four, five and six of article two of chapter twelve of the 
 Revised Ordinances of the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 
 1871," are hereby repealed. 
 Approved July 5, 1878. 
 
 [10,617.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE in relation to streets, sidewalks, gutters and 
 private alleys, and to repeal article eleven of chapter twelve of 
 the Revised Ordinances of the City of St. Louis. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis, 
 asfolloivs: 
 
 Section 1. The owners, or agents, or occupiers of tenements 
 and vacant lots, owned by them, under their charge or occupied 
 by them, shall keep the sidewalks and gutters in front of and 
 adjoining their property clean, and also all the private alleys in 
 the rear of or adjoining the property owned by them, clean to the 
 center of such alley, and after any fall of snow to cause the snow 
 to be immediately removed from the sidewalk, fronting their 
 respective lots, into the carriage way of the street. Any person 
 failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be 
 'fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall deposit any dead animal, or excre- 
 ments, or filth from privies, or any hay or straw, or refuse vege- 
 tables, or dirt, or rubbish of any kind or description, or any 
 kitchen slops, or manure, upon any streets, alleys or public or 
 private property in this city. Any person found guilty of vio- 
 lating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined not less 
 than five nor more than fifty dollars. Provided, that nothing in 
 this section shall be so construed as to include manure deposited 
 upon any private property for the purpose of cultivating the same. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the police within their respec- 
 tive districts, to watch for and arrest persons throwing or permit- 
 ting to be thrown from their premises into any street, alley, market 
 place, sidewalk or gutter any filth or other matter prohibited by 
 section two of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 4. The police shall examine the condition of the streets 
 and alleys within their respective districts from time to time, and 
 report to the Street Commissioner, through the Police Commis- 
 sioners, such as need repairing, they shall also observe within 
 their respective districts the cleaning of the streets, alleys, ave- 
 nues, market places and public squares of the city, and report to 
 the Street Commissioner, through the Police Commissioners, such 
 as need cleaning. 
 
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 Sec. 5. Article eleven, chapter twelve, of the Kevised Ordi- 
 nances of the City of St. Louis, approved March thirty-first, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy-one, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved February 19, 1878. 
 
 [10,750.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE to secure the general health of the inhabit- 
 ants of the City of St. Louis, and to provide for the abatement 
 of nuisances on the public streets and alleys of the City of St. 
 Louis and to provide for the carrying out of necessary sanitary 
 measures. 
 
 Whereas, It is provided in clause 6, of section 26, of article 3, 
 of the Charter of the City of St. Louis, that the Municipal As- 
 sembly shall have power by any measure necessary to secure the 
 health of the inhabitants of said city and to prevent and abate 
 nuisances on public property, and 
 
 Whereas, There is no ordinance now in existence in relation to 
 the above, and in the judgment of the Municipal Assembly an 
 emergency exists, therefore this ordinance shall take effect and be 
 in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the Oily of St. Louis, 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Whenever, in the opinion of the Health Commis- 
 sioner, preservation of the health of the inhabitants of the City 
 of St. Louis, or any portion thereof, requires steps to be taken to 
 remove any causes that in his opinion are dangerous to the lives 
 of the citizens of St. Louis, or* where, in his opinion, certain 
 public work is necessary to be done in a sanitary point of view, 
 or where there exists any ponds on the dedicated streets or alleys 
 of the City of St. Louis, which ponds, in the opinion of the 
 Health Commissioner, are nuisances and detrimental to the public 
 health, it shall be his duty to make a report to the Board of 
 Health, setting forth all the facts in the case, which facts shall 
 specify what matters, in his opinion, are deleterious to the public 
 health, in what locality of the city they are situated, their char- 
 acter and cause and the manner, in his opinion, in which they 
 should be removed, and, when possible, the estimated cost of the 
 work proposed to be done. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Health, whenever the Health Commis- 
 sioner shall make any report to them, as provided for in section 
 1 of this ordinance, shall make a careful inquiry into the same, 
 and if, in the opinion of the Board of Health, the sanitary meas- 
 ures recommended by the Health Commissioner are necessary and 
 proper to be carried out, they shall so officially declare the same 
 
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 of record, and shall direct the work to be done in the manner as 
 provided for hereafter in this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever any sanitary measures are to be carried out 
 or work to be done as provided for in this ordinance, the Board 
 of Health shall by order direct the President of the Board of 
 Public Improvements to cause said work to be done in the man- 
 ner and by means as shall be indicated by the Board of Health, 
 and the cost of said work, when fully completed, shall be certi- 
 lied to by the President of the Board of Public Improvements, 
 and shall be approved and signed by a majority of the Board of 
 Health, and when so signed and approved shall be paid out 
 of the fund set apart for the abatement of nuisances on public 
 property, and for specific sanitary measures. 
 
 Sec. 4. If, in the opinion of the President of the Board of 
 Public Improvements, the work to be done, or the method pro- 
 posed by the Board of Health for such work, are not judicious or 
 practicable, he shall so notify the Board of Plealth, giving his 
 reasons therefor and his recommendations in the premises, and if, in 
 the opinion of the Board of Health, such reasons and opinions of 
 the President of the Board of Public Improvements are reasonable 
 and proper, they may order the work to be done in the manner 
 indicated by the President of the Board of Public Improvements. 
 
 Approved May 18, 1878. 
 
 [10,375.] 
 
 AN OliDINANCE to prohibit the sale of any kind of diseased, 
 corrupted, adulterated or unwholesome provisions and the sale of 
 adulterated drugs or medicines. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis^ 
 asfolloivs : 
 
 Section 1 . Whoever shall sell any kind of diseased, corrupted, 
 adulterated or unwholesome provisions, or meat to be used for 
 food or drink, without making the same known at the time of sale 
 to the purchaser, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 Sec. 2. Whoever shall adulterate, for the purpose of sale, 
 any bread, milk or other article of food or drink whatever, with 
 any substance injurious to health, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whoever shall adulterate, for the purpose of sale, any 
 liquor or fluid used or intended for drink, with substances poison- 
 ous or injurious to health, and whoever, in this city, shall sell any 
 such liquor or fluid so adulterated, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
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 Sec. 4. Whoever shall adulterate, for the purpose of sale, any 
 drugs or medicines, or sell any adulterated drugs or medicines, 
 without making the same known at the time of sale to the pur- 
 chaser, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 Sec. 5. Whoever shall sell or offer for sale any milk adulter- 
 ated with water or other substance, or any milk produced from 
 diseased cows, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 Sec. 6. All persons violating any of the provisions of the fore- 
 going sections of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, 
 be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hun- 
 dred dollars, to be recovered for the use of the City of St. Louis 
 before any court or officer having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Approved September 25, 1877. 
 
 [10,383.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE authorizing and empowering the Board of 
 Health of the city of St. Louis to do all acts and perform all 
 functions which have heretofore been done and performed by the 
 County Court of the County of St. Louis, in relation to the admis- 
 sion of deaf and dumb persons to the Missouri Institution for the 
 Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the admission of blind per- 
 sons to the Missouri Institution for the Education of the Blind. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Mum,cipal Assembly of the City of 8t. Louis, 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The Board of Health of the City of St. Louis is 
 hereby authorized and empowered to do all acts and perform all 
 functions which have heretofore been done and performed by the 
 County Court of the County of St. Louis prior to the adoption of 
 the Scheme for the separation and reorganization of the govern- 
 ment of the City and County of St. Louis, and the adjustment of 
 their relations in reference to the admission of deaf and dumb 
 persons to the Missouri Institution for the Education of the Deaf 
 and Dumb, and the admission of blind persons to the Missouri 
 Institution for the Education of the Blind. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Health is hereby authorized and em- 
 powered to execute and carry out all existing laws, and such laws 
 as may hereafter be passed by the General Assembly of the State 
 of Missouri which confer any power or require the performance of 
 any duty by County Courts in reference to the admission of deaf 
 and dumb and blind persons to the institutions provided by the 
 State for their education. 
 
 Sec. 3. There being no ordinance in existence in relation to 
 the subject matter referred to in sections one and two of this 
 ordinance, in the opinion of the Municipal Assembly it is deemed 
 
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 that an emergency exists, therefore this ordinance shall take eiFect 
 and be in full force from and after its passage. 
 Approved October 11, 1877. 
 
 / [10,062.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE to repeal ordinance number six thousand 
 seven hundred and forty-five, entitled "An ordinance to repeal 
 ordinance six thousand and sixteen, entitled *An ordinance to 
 amend ordinance number five thousand four hundred and thirty- 
 three,'" and to provide for the removal of the carcasses of dead 
 animals from the streets of the City of St. Louis. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of St. Louis: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the exclusive privilege and duty of 
 the River Rendering Company of St. Louis, for a period of eight 
 years from and after the passage of this ordinance, to remove out 
 of the city and beyond the jurisdiction of the Board of Health 
 as now or as may be hereafter established, the remains and car- 
 casses of every dead horse, mare, mule, ox, steer, cow, ass, hog, 
 goat, dog or other animals within ten hours after a report shall 
 be made to the said River Rendering Company by the Chief of 
 Police, or any authorized agent of the Board of Health ; and 
 appropriate them to their own use, observing every care, and 
 using the utmost precaution that the carcasses of said animals be 
 conveyed away in the most unoffensive manner possible, causing 
 them to be covered with tarpaulins or otherwise. The drivers of 
 the teams conveying away said carcasses shall not stop on the 
 way unless detained by some unforeseen accident under a penalty 
 of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each 
 offence, which fine shall, upon the conviction of any driver or 
 drivers of such teams be recovered and enforced as other fines 
 before the Police Justice. 
 
 Sec. 2. The River Rendering Company shall cause to be re- 
 moved and placed upon a receiving boat or boats of suitable size, 
 strength and dimensions, all carcasses and remains of dead 
 animals mentioned in section one of this ordinance, within six 
 hours after a report shall be made to said River Rendering Com- 
 pany, in conformity with the provisions of said section one ; and 
 no rendering or manufacturing upon such receiving boat or boats 
 shall be done inside the city limits, and only in such manner and 
 in such place as may be designated by the Board of Health, and 
 so that no nuisance may be created thereby ; provided, however, 
 that during the winter months, when the river is blocked with 
 ice, such steam rendering or manufacturins: may be done in such 
 
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 manner, in such place and at such hours as may be designated by 
 the Board of Health. 
 
 Sec. 3. The River Rendering Company shall, before being 
 authorized to perform the duties and enjoy the privileges granted 
 by this ordinance, execute to the city of St. Louis a bond, 
 with good and sufficient securities, in the sum of five thousand 
 dollars, to be approved by the Mayor and filed and preserved in 
 the office of the City Register, conditioned for the faithful and 
 punctual performance of the duties imposed by the provisions of 
 this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Police Department to 
 notify the River Rendering Company, their officers or agents, of 
 the whereabouts of every animal carcass which they may find or 
 of the existence of which within the city limits they may be 
 informed, as soon as possible, and within six hours of their being 
 so notified it shall be the duty of said River Rendering Company 
 to remove the same in the manner specified in section one of this 
 ordinance ; and, upon the faihire of said company to so remove the 
 carcass of any dead animal within the time so specified, the Manager 
 or Chief Officer thereof shall be subject to a fine of ten dolhirs 
 for the first offence, and for every subsequent offence twenty dol- 
 lars, to be recovered as other fines before the Police Justice. 
 
 Sec. 5. The River Rendering Company, or any person, co- 
 partnership of persons or corporation who shall remove the car- 
 cass or carcasses of any dead animalor animals not slain for the 
 purposes of human food, shall give a bond of five thousand dol- 
 lars as a guarantee that none of the product of any carcass speci- 
 fied in section one of this ordinance shall be employed or utilized 
 for purposes of human food, and that all grease and other pro- 
 ducts rendered or manufactured or packed for use or transporta- 
 tion, to or from market in the city of St. Louis or elscAvhere, 
 shall be branded with a burning brand as follows : "Product of 
 dead animals, St. Louis." 
 
 Sec. 6. Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person, co- 
 partnership of persons or corporation, except the River Render- 
 ing company, to remove the carcasses of any dead animals as 
 specified in this ordinance, without first having oi)tained a permit 
 so to do from the Clerk of the Board of Health, said permit specify- 
 ing date, when, and person to whom issued, the kind of carcass or 
 animal to be removed, the place to and from which the same is to 
 be taken, and the character of the products to be derived from 
 the same. 
 
 Sec. 7. The River Rendering Company shall have free use of 
 the levee for the receiving boats provided for in section 2 of this 
 ordinance, at not less than two suitable places, one of which shall 
 be near the northern and one near the southern portion of the city, 
 
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 such places to be designated by the City Engineer, with the ap- 
 proval of the Board of Health. 
 
 Sec. 8. Any failure of the River Rendering Company to com- 
 ply with or fulfill any of the provisions of this ordinance, or when 
 so reported to the City Council by the Board of Health, and upon 
 the recommendation of said Board of Health, this ordinance may 
 be amended, altered or repealed. 
 
 Sec. 9. The River Rendering Company, at the time of filing 
 the bonds provided for in sections 3 and 5 of this ordinance, shall 
 also file their written acceptance of the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any person or persons violating any of the provis- 
 ions of this ordinance, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdmeanor, 
 and on conviction thereof before the Police Justice, shall be fined 
 in a sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each of- 
 fence. 
 
 Sec. 11. Ordinance No. 6,745, entitled <'An ordinance to re- 
 peal ordinance No. 6,016, entitled 'An ordinance to amend ordi- 
 nance luunber five thousand four hundred and thirty-three, and to 
 provide for the removal of the carcasses of dead animals from the 
 streets of the City of St. Louis," is hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved July 7, 1876. 
 
 [10,325.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE to provide for the removal of slops and to 
 repeal article ten 'of chapter twelve of the Revised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. 
 Louis, as foUoivs: 
 
 Section 1. The Board of Health is hereby authorized and 
 instructed to contract for the removal of slops from the streets, 
 alleys and roads within the City of St. Louis, in such manner and 
 under such conditions as said Board of Health may deem expe- 
 dient, to be specified in the contract, and the said contract shall 
 be awarded to the lowest and best bidder, after advertising for 
 proposals in the papers doing the city printing for not less than 
 five days ; said advertisement shall be made by and under the 
 supervision of the Register. 
 
 Sec. 2. The word slops is intended to mean all refuse matter 
 and articles, whether vegetable or animal, thrown out or rejected 
 from the kitchens of the inhabitants of the city. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Board of Health shall order and direct to what 
 point and in what manner the slops shall be removed. 
 
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 Sec. 4. If the contractor refuses or neglects to remove the 
 slops in the manner as provided by contract and nnder the regu- 
 lations as prescribed by the Board, he shall forfeit and pay not 
 less than ten per cent of the amount due him. Should the amount 
 then due be insufficient to cover all expense caused by reason of 
 such failure to comply with his contract, then, in that event, the 
 bondfsmen shall be responsible for any deficiency and the Board 
 of Health shall have the right to annul said contract. 
 
 Sec. 5. Whenever the contractor fails or neglects to perform 
 his work or whenever the Board of Health shall have annulled 
 said contract, the Board of Health it hereby authorized to pro- 
 vide by private contract for the removal of slops. All contracts 
 for such removal shall be temporary, and only until a public 
 letting can be had. Such private contract shall contain clauses 
 that one months' pay be always kept in arrears until its termin- 
 ation ; that for neglect of removal it may be annulled by the 
 Board of Health, and if so annulled, whatever pay then in arrears 
 and due shall be forfeited by the contractor and the city shall not 
 be liable therefor. 
 
 Sec. 6. The contract for the removal of slops shall be for not 
 more than the term of three years, and the contractor is required 
 to enter into a bond with the city in the penal sum of five thou- 
 sand dollars, with not less than two good securities, owners of 
 unincumbered real estate in the City of St. Louis, to be approved 
 by the Mayor, for the faithful performance of his contract. The 
 Board of Health is directed to deduct ten per cent, from the 
 amount due said contractor on his monthly payment until the 
 same shall amount to one thousand dollars, which sum shall be 
 retained until the full completion of the contract. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Board of Health is authorized to certify to the 
 Auditor, on or before the tenth of each month, the amount due 
 said contractor, and the Auditor is instructed to draw his warrant 
 on the Treasurer in favor of said contractor for the same, payable 
 out of the appropriation for the removal of slops. 
 
 Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the police to see that all slops 
 are removed from the premises of private citizens, and any failure 
 on the part of the slop contractor to do this under the terms of 
 the contract, shall at once be reported to the Health Commis- 
 sioner. 
 
 Sec. 9. Article 10, chapter 12, of the Revised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871, is hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 [10,830.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE amendatory of ordinance number ten thou- 
 sand seven hundred and fifty-seven. 
 
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 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis, 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Section one of ordinance nnmber ten thousand 
 seven hundred and fifty-seven is hereby amended to read as 
 follows : I On the first Monday of April and October of each 
 year the several elected and appointed ofiicers, clerks, employes, 
 and all persons holding office in the corporation of the City of St. 
 Louis, shall make a full and accurate return list of all property of 
 whatever kind or nature in their said office, or that may come into 
 their possession during their term of office, or that comes to them 
 in any way after they have become qualified and taken charge of 
 their said office ; and which return list shall embrace, in tabular 
 form, the name, number, kind of article, for what purpose used, 
 C(jndition and full description and general remarks attached to each 
 entry in order to render full satisfaction as regards the same. 
 
 Approved August 20, 1878. 
 
 [11,063.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE to transfer the control of the Morgue from 
 the charge of the Health Commissioner to the Coroner, providing 
 for its management, the appointment of its officers and fixing their 
 salaries. 
 
 WJiei'eas, by section four of article twelve of the Charter of the 
 City of St. Louis, it is provided that the charge of the Morgue 
 shall be under the Health Commissioner ; and. 
 
 Whereas, it is provided in section thirty-two of article three of 
 the Charter of the City of St. Louis, that the Assembly shall have 
 the^power, by a vote of three-fourths of the members of each 
 House, to transfer and distribute the powers and duties, in part 
 or in whole, of any office provided for in the Charter to another; 
 and it being the opinion of the Municipal Assembly that the 
 charge and control of the Morgue should more properly belong 
 to the office of Coroner; therefore, 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. 
 Louis, as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The. control and management of the Morgue is 
 hereby transferred from the charge of the Health Commissioner to 
 the Coroner, and after the passage of this ordinance the Health 
 Commissioner shall relinquish, and the Coroner shall assume, the 
 control of the Morgue. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Coroner, by and with the approval of the Mayor, 
 shall make all necessary rules for the government of the Morgue. 
 
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 Sec. 3. The Morgue shall be in charge of the Superintendent, 
 appointed by the Coroner and approved by the Mayor, and shall 
 be open at all hours of the day and night for the reception of 
 bodies. The exhibition hall shall be open daily from sunrise to 
 sunset, when a body is in the Morgue that has not been recognized. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Superintendent shall have full charge and control 
 of the Morgue building and all property therein contained, and 
 shall keep a record-book in the office of the Morgue in which citi- 
 zens may record the names of missing friends and describe their 
 person and clothing, and give the address to which information 
 respecting them may be sent. 
 
 Sec. 5. All bodies brought to the Morgue shall remain, if 
 they are not recognized, in the hall of exhibition seventy-two 
 hours, or longer if deemed necessary by the Coroner. The 
 clothing shall also be exhibited near the body, and shall remain 
 exposed twenty days longer if the body has not been recognized, 
 Bodies when identified shall be immediately withdrawn from ex- 
 hibition and placed in a private room subject to the act of the 
 Coroner. 
 
 Sec. 6. On the first day of each month the Coroner shall 
 make a report to the Health Commissioner, who shall present the 
 same to the Board of Health at its next session, giving the follow- 
 ing details : First — Date of reception of identified bodies. 
 Second — Name, age, profession and residence of deceased. Third 
 — Cause of death. Fourth — Mode of death. Fifth— Hour of 
 death. Sixth — Place of death. Seventh — By whom removed. 
 Eighth — Name of undertaker. Ninth — When it can be learned, 
 the place where the body has been buried. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Coroner shall also furnish a statement of bodies 
 not identified, as follows : First — A succinct description of the 
 body and whether male or female. Second — Probable age, and 
 whether white or colored. Third — Mode of death. Fourth — 
 Place where found. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Coroner shall make requisitions on the Commis- 
 sioner of Supplies for all articles needed for the Morgue, but said 
 requisitions must in all cases be first approved by the Mayor. 
 Whenever any repairs are needed the Coroner shall make a repair 
 requisition on the President of the Board of Public Improve- 
 ments ; said requisition shall first be approved by the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Coronor shall cause to be kept in suitable books 
 a full and correct account of all the expenses of the Morgue. 
 Before any money is paid the accounts shall be examined and ap- 
 proved by the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 10. The Coroner may, by and with the approval of the 
 Mayor, appoint one assistant to the Superintendent. 
 
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 Sec. U. The salary of the Superintendent shall be nine hun- 
 dred dollars per annum, payable monthly. The salary of the 
 assistant shall be six hundred dollars, payable monthly. 
 
 Approved April 5, 1879. 
 
 [10,320.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE in relation to insane persons and paupers, 
 and to repeal article 8, chapter 12, of the Revised Ordinances of 
 the City of St. Louis, approved March 31, 1871. 
 
 Be it ordained hy the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis, 
 asfolloiDs: 
 
 Section 1. The president, directors or owners of any rail- 
 road, and the conductor in charge of any railroad car, or train of 
 railroad cars, or the master or person in charge of any steamboat 
 or other vessel, or the owner or driver of any wagon or vehicle, 
 who shall bring into the city of St. Louis a person or persons 
 who are insane or paupers, who are likely to become a charge to 
 the city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic- 
 tion thereof be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than three 
 hundred dollars for each and every oifense, in addition to which 
 penalty the person so ofl:ending shall be required to enter into 
 bonds before the Police Justice of not less than ^yq hundred nor 
 more than one thousand dollars, to defriay the expenses of the 
 insane or paupers thus brought, so long as they remain in the city. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of Police Commis- 
 sioners to instruct the police to report to the Chief of Police any 
 violation of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Marshal or policemen, 
 whenever complaint is made before the Police Justice of a viola- 
 tion of any of the provisions of this ordinance, to arrest the 
 offender forthwith, and bring such oflTender without delay .before 
 the Police Justice for trial. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Marshal and police if any 
 lunatic, idiot or persons of unsound mind be found by them with- 
 in the City of St. Louis, unprotected by guardian or friend, to 
 take such person in custody and give notice thereof forthwith to 
 the Board of Police Commissioners and the President thereof shall 
 immediately notify the Health Commissioner, whose duty it shall 
 be to take charge of such idiot, lunatic or insane person and place 
 such person in the Insane Asylum of the City of St. Louis and to 
 report to the Board of Health his action thereon and all facts and 
 information regarding such idiot, lunatic or insane person that 
 may come to his knowledge. 
 
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 Sec. 5. Article 8, chapter 12 of the Kevised Ordinance of the 
 City of St. Louis, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred 
 and seventy-one, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved July 7, 1877. 
 
 [10,348.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE establishing and regulating the Poor House 
 of the City of St. Louis, and providing for the management 
 thereof. 
 
 Be it ordained hy the Municipal Assembly of the City of bt. Louis, 
 as follows ; 
 
 Section 1 . The building known as the County Poor House, 
 situated on Arsenal street, and acquired by the City of St. Louis 
 by the ratification of the Scheme and Charter, is hereby establish- 
 ed, and shall be known as the Poor House of the City of St. Louis, 
 and shall be kept for the reception and accommodation of the 
 indigent and decrepit persons who from physical inability or from 
 any other cause are incapacitated from supporting themselves, and 
 such only shall be placed therein by competent authority. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Health Commissioner shall have the general 
 supervision and management of the Poor House, and shall exer- 
 cise a general control over all the officers and employes connected 
 with or employed at the same. He shall make all necessary 
 rules and regulations for the government and management of the 
 Poor House, subject to the approval of the Board of Health. He 
 shall appoint all assistants, except the Superintendent, determine 
 the number to be employed, whether male or female, and shall fix 
 their daily compensation, subject to the approval of the Mayor. 
 He shall examine all accounts against the Poor House, and if he 
 finds them correct, shall certify and state upon them specifically 
 by what authority the account was incurred. All such accounts, 
 when so certified, shall be presented to the Comptroller, and if he 
 finds them correct and properly authorized, he shall so certify up- 
 on them, and the Auditor shall audit the same and draw his war- 
 rant therefor upon the Treasurer, and charge the same to the fund 
 appropriated for the maintenance of the Poor House. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Health Commissioner shall prescribe the condi- 
 tions for admission to and discharge from the Poor House, subject 
 to the approval of the Board of Health, but no person shall be 
 admitted to the Poor House as an inmate who shall not have re- 
 sided in the City of St. Louis at least one year next preceding the 
 date of application for admission. 
 
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 Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Health Commissioner to 
 make such rules and regulations as shall be approved by the 
 Board of Health as will establish a system whereby the persons 
 admitted to the Poor House shall respectively earn what they re- 
 ceive to the extent of their ability ; Provided, that this section 
 shall not be so construed as to exclude from the Poor House such 
 indigent persons entitled to admission asnnay be unable to work ; 
 Provided y also, that no minor in good health, over eight years of 
 age shall be maintained at the Poor House ; but it shall be the 
 duty of the Health Commissioner and Board of Health to make 
 suitable provisions for such minors whereby they shall be placed 
 in some family until they ai-rive at the age of eighteen years. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Health Commissioner to re- 
 port to the Municipal Assemby, at its first session in each year, a 
 particular and detailed account of the affairs of the Poor House, 
 together with such suggestions or recommendations as may to him 
 seem proper. 
 
 Approved August 10, 1877. 
 
 [10,359.] 
 
 AN OEDINANCE establishing and regulating the office of 
 Superintendent of the Poor House, prescribing his duties and 
 fixing his bond and salary. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Asse7nbly of the City of /St. 
 Louis, as follows : 
 
 Section 1. There is hereby created and established the office 
 of Superintendent of the Poor House. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Superintendent of the Poor House shall be ap- 
 pointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council, and shall 
 hold his office for four years, and until his successor is appointed 
 and qualified. Provided, that the first appointment, under this 
 ordinance, shall be for two years only. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Superintendent of the Poor House shall have the 
 general management of the Poor House, and control of all em- 
 ployes thereat. He shall have power to suspend or discharge any 
 employe for neglect of duty or gross violation of the rules and 
 regulations. When he shall so suspend or discharge any one, he 
 shall immediately report the fact of such suspension or discharge, 
 and the cause thereof, to the Board of Health, which shall take 
 such action on the matter as shall to it seem proper. He shall 
 execute and carry out all rules and regulations which may be made 
 by the Health Commissioner, approved by the Board of Health, 
 and shall be responsible for the care and welfare of the inmates 
 of the Poor House. 
 
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 Sec. 4, The Superintendent of the Poor House shall give 
 bond to the City of St. Louis in the sum of ten thousand dollars, 
 conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties and account- 
 ing for all property of the city which may come into his possession 
 or under his control. Said bond shall l)e secured by two or more 
 sureties, who shall be owners of unincumbered real estate in the 
 City of St. Louis, and shall be approved by the Mayor and 
 Council. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Superintendent shall possess all the qualifications 
 prescribed in section ten, article four, of the Charter. He shall 
 reside at the Poor House, and shall receive his board and washing 
 at the Poor House. He shall devote all his time to the discharge 
 of the duties of his office. 
 
 Sec. 6. The salary of the Superintendent of the Poor House 
 shall be at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, payable 
 monthly, whi(^h sum shall be in full for all services of an official 
 nature. 
 
 Approved August 14, 1877. 
 
 [10,420.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE amendatory of ordinance number ten thou- 
 sand three hundred and forty-eight, entitled '*An ordinance 
 establishing and regulating the Poor House of the City of St. 
 Louis, and providing for the management thereof." 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. 
 Louis, as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Amend section two to read as follows : 
 Sec. 2. The Health Commissioner shall have the general 
 supervision and management of the Poor House, and shall exerr 
 cise a general control over all the officers and employes connected 
 with or employed at the same. He shall make all necessary rules 
 and regulations for the government and management of the Poor 
 House subject to the approval of the Board of Health. He shall 
 appoint all assistants except the Superintendent, determining the 
 number to be employed, whether male or fi^male, and shall fix 
 their daily (U)mi)ensation, subject to the a})pr()val of the Mayor. 
 He shall examine all accounts against the Poor House, and if lie 
 finds them correct shall so certif}'. All such accounts, when so 
 certified, shall be audited and paid as provided by charter. 
 Approved November 24, 1877. 
 
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 [10,538.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE regulating the cutting of ice from the 
 ponds, sink-holes and sloughs within the limits of the city. 
 
 Whereas, an emergency has arisen, there being no ordinance in 
 existence regulating the cutting of ice within the limits of the 
 city, therefore this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the Cit^ of St, 
 Louis, as follows: 
 
 Section 1. No person, tirm or corporation shall cut or take 
 any ice from any pond, sink-hole or slough within the limits of 
 city without first having obtained a permit from the Health Com- 
 missioner so to do. 
 
 Sec. 2. Except where it may otherwise be provided for in 
 this ordinance, the Health Commissioner shall only grant permits 
 to cut or take ice from the ponds, sink-holes or sloughs within the 
 limits of the city, when he is satisfied that said ice cut from said 
 ponds, sink-holes or sloughs is not to be used, sold or given away 
 for drinking purposes, but that the ice taken from such ponds, 
 sink-holes or sloughs is to be only used for the cooling of articles, 
 and for no other purpose whatever. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any person desiring to cut ice from any pond, sink- 
 hole or slough within the limits of the city, shall make an appli- 
 cation to the Health Commissioner for a permit to do so, stating 
 the locality of the pond, sink-hole or slough from which the ice 
 is proposed to be cut, and the purpose for which the ice is to be 
 used and the locality within the city where the ice is to be stored. 
 
 Sec. 4. Before the Health Commissioner shall issue any such 
 permit he shall require the parties to file a good and sufiicient 
 bond in the sum of two thousand dollars, with two or more good 
 securities, to be approved by the Mayor; said bond shall provide 
 that the ice cut from the pond, sink-h6le or slough, for which a 
 permit has been granted by the Health Commissioner, shall not 
 be sold or used by him or them for drinking purposes, and that 
 it is to be stored in the locality mentioned in the permit, and that 
 any violation of the provisions and stipulations as provided for in 
 the permit shall work a forfeiture of the bond and the same shall 
 be collected and paid into the Treasury of the city for the benefit 
 of the City of St. Louis. 
 
 Sec. 5. All permits to cut ice as provided for by the ordi- 
 nance shall be signed by the Health Commissioner, attested by 
 the Clerk of the Board of Health and countersigned by the City 
 Register and Comptroller, and for all such permits the Health 
 
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 Commissioner shall charge a fee of one dollar, which he shall 
 account for and pay into the City Treasury. 
 
 Sec. 6. No permit shall he issued to cover more than one 
 block in the old city limits, nor more than one acre in the new or 
 extended limits. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Health Commissioner may at any time, by and 
 with the approval of the Board of Health, recall such permit if 
 any of the rules or orders of the Health Commissioner are vio- 
 lated. 
 
 Sec. 8. It is hereby made the duty of the police officers to 
 arrest any person found cutting or removing imy ice from any 
 pond, sink-hole or slough, within the limits of the city, who have 
 not first obtained a permit from the Health Commissioner as pro- 
 vided for in this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. Whenever any person, firm or corporation desire to 
 cut ice or to grant or sell the privilege of cutting ice from any 
 pond or sink-hole situated on their own property, and when they 
 believe that the ice from said pond or sink-hole is clean and pure, 
 and fit and proper to be used for other purposes than the cooling 
 of articles, they shall make application to the Health Commis- 
 sioner for a permit to do so, and if upon examination by the 
 Health Commissioner, or by a proper officer authorized by the 
 Health Commissioner, to make the examination, the Health Com- 
 missioner is satisfied that the ice proposed to be cut is clean, and 
 fit and proper to be used for other purposes besides the cooling of 
 articles, he shall grant a permit to the parties applying to cut said 
 ice ; but said permit shall state where the ice is to be stored, but 
 when the permits are granted as provided for in this section no 
 bond shall be required of the parties, but a fee for the permit 
 shall be charged as provided for in section five of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 10. All parties bringing ice into the City of St. Louis 
 from a less distance than ten miles from this city shall file a state- 
 ment with the Health Commissioner, which statement shall be 
 sworn to ; said statement shall specify the locality from which the 
 ice has been brought and when cut, and if in the opinion of the 
 Health Commissioner said ice is only fit for the cooling of articles 
 he shall require said parties to give a bond and comply with all 
 the provisions as provided for in section four of this ordinance. 
 If in the opinion of the Health Conmiissioner said ice is clean and 
 fit and proper to be used for any purpose whatever, he shall grant 
 a permit to such parties in the same manner as provided for in 
 section nine of this ordinance. Any person bringing or storing 
 ice within the limits of the city without having obtained a permit 
 so to do, as provided for in this section, shall he deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not 
 less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, to be 
 
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 recovered as in all the cases of misdemeanor, before any court 
 having competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 11.. Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of 
 violating this orclinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and upon conviction shall be lined not less than fifty nor more 
 than two hundred and fifty dollars for each and every violation of 
 this ordinance, to be recovered as in all other cases of misde- 
 meanor before any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Approved February 1, 1878. 
 
 [10,377.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE establishing ancT fixing the salaries of the 
 officers and employes of the Health Department not heretofore 
 fixed by ordinance. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St, 
 8t, Louis, as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The several officers and employes of the Health 
 Department, hereinafter named, shall receive the following com- 
 pensation per annum, payable monthly, for their services, to-wit : 
 Steward, Insane Asylum, one thousand dollars; clerk at the City 
 Hospital, six hundred dollars; clerk at the Insane Asylum, five 
 hundred dollars; steward of the Female Hospital, who shall also 
 /l)erform the duties of clerk and storekeeper, eight hundred dol- 
 lars ; eiis^ineer of the City Hospital, nine hundred dollars ; en- 
 gineer of the Insane Asylum, nine hundred dollars ; engineer of 
 the Poor House, nine hundred dollars ; engineer of the Female 
 Hospital, seven hundred dollars; all of whom shall be licensed 
 and practical engineers; firemen at the City Hospital, Insane 
 Asylum, Poor House, and Female Hospital, four hundred and 
 twenty dollars each ; assistant engineers at the City Hospital, 
 Insane As3'lum, Poor House, and Female Hospital at the rate of 
 six hundred dollars each for the time for which they are employed, 
 all of whom shall be licensed and practical engineers; carpenters 
 at the City Hospital, Insane Asylum, Poor House, and Female 
 Hospital, live hundred and forty dollars each; druggist at the 
 City Hospital, six hundred dollars ; druggist at the Insane Asylum, 
 four hundred and twenty dollars ; druggist at the Female Hospital, 
 four hundred and twenty dollars ; an assistant physician at the 
 Poor House, who shall act as the druggist, five hundred dollars ; 
 ward-master at the City Hospital, four hundred and twenty dol- 
 lars ; whitener and plasterer at the City Hospital, four hundred 
 and eighty dollars ; dining-room master and storekeeper at the 
 City Hospital, four hundred and twenty dollars ; hall-master at 
 the City Hospital, four hundred and twenty dollars ; nurses in the 
 
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 male department at the Insane Asylum, three hundred and thirty- 
 six dollars each ; nurses in the female department at the Insane 
 Asylum, three hundred dollars each ; nurses at the City Hospital, 
 Female Hospital and Poor House, two hundred and forty dollars 
 each ; clerk at the Poor House, who shall also perform the duties 
 of storekeeper, six hundred dollars ; one chief cook at the City 
 Hos.pital, Insane Asylum and Poor House, six hundred dollars each ; 
 cooks at the Female Hospital, three hundred dollars each ; one 
 chief seamstress at the City Hospital, Insane Asylum, Poor House 
 and Female Hospital, three hundred dollars each; male watch- 
 men at the Insane Asylum, four hundred and forty dollars each ; 
 female watch at the Insane Asylum, three l)undred and sixty dollars 
 each ; watchman at the Female Hospital, four hundred and twenty 
 dollars ; female night nurse at the Female Hospital, three hundred 
 dollars ; night watchman and nurse at the Poor House, five hundred 
 and forty dollars ; one chief laundress at the City Hospital, Female 
 Hospital and Poor House, two hundred and forty dollars each ; one 
 chief laundress at the Insane Asylum, three hundred dollars ; 
 assistant laundresses at the Insane Asylum, two hundred and forty 
 dollars each; and at the City and Female Hospitals, one hundred 
 and eighty dollars each ; one hostler at the Insane Asylum and at 
 the Female Hospital, three hundred dollars each ; male attendants 
 in the insane wards at the Poor House, three hundred and thirty 
 dollars each ; female attendants in the insane wards at the Poor 
 House, three hundred dollars each ; driver of the dead wagon and 
 small-pox ambulance, five hundred and forty dollars ; ambulance 
 driver of the wngon for the Female Hospital, Insane Asylum and 
 Poor House, the duty to be performed by the one person, five 
 hundred and forty dollars ; driver of the provision wagon from the 
 Poor House to or from any public institution, four hundred and 
 twenty dollars ; and all drivers of ambulances and all other wagons 
 shall be required to assist in taking care of their horses, and 
 vehicles, if necessary ; male hall-masters in the Insane Asylum 
 four hundred and twenty dollars each ; hall superintendents in the 
 female department at the Insane Asylum throe hundred and sixty 
 dollars each ; matrons at the Insane Asylum and Poor House, three 
 hundred dollars each ; assistant cook at the City Hospital, two 
 hundred and forty dollars, and the chief cook at the City Hospital 
 shall superintend the cooking for the officers thereof; male and 
 female help at the City Hospital, Insane Asylum, Poor House and 
 Female Hospital, one hundred and eighty dollars each ; gardeners 
 at the Insane Asylum, Poor House and Female Hospital three 
 hundred dollars each ; steward of the Quarantine and Small-pox 
 Hospital, the duty to be perforriied l)y one man, six hundred 
 dollars ; male nurse at the Small-pox Hospital three hundred 
 and sixty dollars ; female nurse at the Small-pox Hospital three 
 
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 Imi.uitid dollars ; watchman at Quaiautiiie, three hundred and 
 sixty dollars ; bakers at Poor House, fiye hundred and forty dollars 
 each ; two assistant physicians at the Insane Asylum, three hun- 
 dred dollars each. All the above named officers and employes 
 shall receive, in addition to their salaries as mentioned in section 
 one of this ordinance, their board and washing in the institutions 
 in which they are employed. 
 
 Sec. 2. The following officers and employes of the Health 
 Department hereinafter named shall receive the following com- 
 j)ensation per annum, payable monthly, for their services, to-wit : 
 One assistant clerk in the office of the Board of Health and Health 
 Commissioner, one thousand dollars ; one record clerk in the 
 Health Commissioner's Office, nine hundred dollars; sanitary 
 officers, in the Health Commissioner's Office, one at twelve 
 hundred dollars and three at nine hundred dollars each, one 
 ambulance driver for the City Dispeysary, seven hundred and 
 twenty dollars ; one Superintendent' of the Morgue, nine hundred 
 dolfJtrs ; one assistant at the Morgue, shall also be the driver of the 
 ambulance for the Morgue, six hundred dollars ; night watchman 
 and nurse at- the City Hospital, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; 
 but none of the officers or employes mentioned in this section of 
 this ordinance shall receive board or washing in any o*f the city 
 institutions. 
 
 Approved October 3, 1877. 
 
 [10,314.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE establishing the office of Commissioner of 
 Supplies, regulating its management and the manner of purchasing 
 all articles needed by the several departments of the City of St. 
 Louis ; defining the duties of the Commissioner, and fixing his 
 salary and bond. 
 
 Whereas^ An emergency exists, there being no ordinance now 
 in existence establishing the office of Commissioner of Supplies, 
 defining the duties of said Commissioner, or fixing his salary and 
 bond ; and 
 
 Whereas^ The Charter of the City of St. Louis, in section 
 twenty-nine, article four, provides that all articles needed by the 
 city in its several departments shall be purchased by the Commis- 
 sioner of Supplies, therefore this ordinance shall take effect and 
 be in full force from and after its passage. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. 
 Louis ^ as folloivs: 
 
 Section 1. There is hereby created and established the office 
 of Commissioner of Supplies, who shall hold his office for the 
 
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 term of two years, by virtue of his first appointment under this 
 ordinance, and for four years by virtue of subsequent appoint- 
 ments thereafter and until his successor is duly appointed and 
 qualified. The Commissioner of Supplies shall be appointed by 
 the Mayor with the approval of the Council ; he shall be a citizen 
 of the United States ; he shall have been a resident of the City 
 of St. Louis at least three years next preceding his appointment ; 
 he shall receive a salary of thirty -five hundred dollars a year, 
 payable monthly, and shall give a bond of fifty thousand dollars, 
 with not less than three good securities who shall be holders of 
 unincumbered real estate within the City of St. Louis ; said bond 
 to be approved by the Mayor and Council. The condition of said 
 bond shall be that said Commissioner shall honestly and faithfully 
 execute and perform the duties of his office as prescribed by law 
 and ordinances; that he will not, directly or indirectly, be in 
 an}'^ manner interested in the sale of any article to the City of St. 
 Louis ; that he will not directly or indirectly, receive any bribe, 
 gift or consideration of any kind from any person or persons who 
 have been, are now, or likely to be, engaged through his depart- 
 ment in furnishing any supplies or selling any article to the City 
 of St. Louis. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Commissioner of Supplies shall purchase all arti- 
 cles needed by the city in its several departments, in such manner 
 and under such regulations as may be provided by ordinance. He 
 shall purchase all articles, so far as practicable, by advertising for 
 proposals. All i)urchases made by him without advertising for 
 proposals shall be approved by the Comptroller before the same 
 shall become binding on the city. In advertising for proposals to 
 furnish supplies, quantity and quality of all articles shall be fully 
 stated, and any bidder may bid for any one article named. The 
 award for each article shall in all cases be made to the lowest 
 bidder therefor. The Commissioner of Supplies shall furnish to 
 the bidders printed blanks, which shall be filled up by the bidders 
 with the price of the article to be furnished, and shall, in specify- 
 ing the quantity and quality of any article, recite the advertise- 
 ment. AH bids shall be sealed and opened at an hour and place 
 to be stated in the advertisement for proposals, in the presence of 
 as many of the bidders as may desire to be present, and shall 
 be subject to the inspection of bidders. All bids having any 
 alteration or erasure upon them shall be rejected. The Commis- 
 sioner of Supplies shall reserve the right to reject any and all 
 bids. All contracts shall be approved by the Mayo? before they 
 shall become binding on the city. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Commissioner of Supplies shall, in the month of 
 June of each year, advertise for proposals and enter into contract 
 on the part of the City of St. Louis, for furnishing, for Che period 
 
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 of oue year, all fuel, milk and ice that may be required for the 
 use of the City Hospital, Insane Asylum, Poor House, Female 
 Hospital, Workl^use, Jail, House of Refuge, City Hall, Court 
 House, Fire Engine Houses and other city offices ; the articles to 
 be delivered as required, from time to time, at the different insti- 
 tutions and departments of the city, and he shall require a good 
 and sufficient bond for the faithful performance of said contracts, 
 which shall be approved by the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Commissioner of Supples shall, in the month of 
 June of each 3^ear and every three months thereafter, advertise 
 for proposals and enter into contract on the part of the City of 
 St. Louis for furnishing for the period of three months all meat, 
 butter, lard, fish, eggs, poultry, bread, gasoline, flour, corn meal, 
 hay, corn, oats and ground feed required for the use of the Health 
 Department, Workhouse, House of Refuge, Jail, Fire Depart- 
 ment, and all other departments ; the articles to be delivered as 
 required from time to time at the different institutions and depart- 
 ments of the city, and he shall require a good and sufficient bond 
 for the faithful performance of said contracts subject to the 
 approval of the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 5. All perishable articles, such as fruit and vegetables, 
 that may be required for the use of the Hospitals, Insane 
 Asylum, Poor House, Workhouse, and House of Refuge, shall 
 be purchased by the Commissioner of Supplies at the best possible 
 rates on the requisition signed by the proper officer in charge of 
 the above named city departments ; all of which purchases shall 
 be approved by the Comptroller before they shall be binding on 
 the city. 
 
 Sec. 6. Whenever any institution or department of the city 
 through the officer in charge thereof shall make a requisition on 
 the (Commissioner of Supplies for any bedding, household goods, 
 furniture, dry goods, clothing, tinware, hardware, harness, ma- 
 chinery, tools, stoves, carpets, building material, surgical instru- 
 ments, surveying instruments, stationery and books ; when the 
 amount to be purchased will exceed the sum of one hundred 
 dollars for any one article, the Commissioner of Supplies will 
 advertise for proposals and enter into contract on the part of the 
 City of St. Louis for the furnishing of such articles ; but other- 
 wise the Commissioner of Supplies shall purchase such articles at 
 the best possible market rates, on the requisition signed by the 
 officer in charge of the department where such articles are needed. 
 
 Sec. 7. In the months of January, ApriH July and October 
 the Commissioner of Supplies shall give public notice in the news- 
 papers doing the city printing, that on the fifth day from the date 
 of the notice he will receive proposals for furnishing the City 
 Hospital, Female Hospital, Insane Asylum, Small-Pox Hospital, 
 
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 Poor House, Workhouse, House of Refuge and Jail with such 
 groceries and drugs, not otherwise contracted for, as may be 
 needed for the use of said institutions duringfcthe next three 
 months ; and for the information of bidders he shall have prepared 
 printed lists of the articles, and quantity required for each insti- 
 tution. The requisitions for groceries and drugs for each institu- 
 tion shall each be separate. ^ 
 
 Sec. 8. The Commissioner of Supplies shall purchase the 
 engines and other apparatus for the suppression or extinguishment 
 of fire and protection of life and property, that may be needed by 
 the Fire Department, when the purchase of such articles are 
 recommended by the Chief of the Fire Department and approved 
 by the Mayor ; Pi^ovided, however, that the Municipal Assembly 
 shall have by ordinance provided for and appropriated the funds 
 to meet said purchase. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Commissioner of Supplies shall purchase all 
 horses, mules, wagons, carts, ambulances and buggies, that mixj 
 be needed for the several Institutions on Departments Of the city ; 
 Provided i that before making said purchases, that the requisitions 
 for same shall be signed by the officer in charge of the depart- 
 ment where such articles are needed, and approved by the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Supplies 
 to personally examine the articles that have been purchas d. by 
 him and delivered to the several Institutions or Departments of 
 the city, and see if the said articles are of the standard kind and 
 quality as required by the terms of sale ; where he shall find in- 
 ferior articles have been delivered he shall at once reject all such 
 articles, and shall not certify the bill for the same for payment, 
 and report all the facts to the Mayor. It shall be the duty of the 
 Commissioner of Supplies, whenever supplies of an^^ sort are 
 furnished to any Institution or Department of the City Govern- 
 ment to send with such supplies a memorandum stating the quan 
 tity, quality, weight or measure and price of each article sent, 
 which memorandum shall be returned to the Commissioner of 
 Supplies with the indorsement thereon of the Superintendent or 
 other person in charge of the Department or Institution as to its 
 correctness, ex(;ept in respect to the price thereof. The Com- 
 missioner of Supplies shall keep all such memorandums or re- 
 ceipts as vouchers for any payments he may make, either for 
 goods purchased in the open market or under advertisement. 
 
 Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Supplies 
 to approve, if corrgct, all bills for supplies furnished the city, 
 whether purchased under any contract with the city or otherwise. 
 If a bill is made under any contract, the Commissioner of Sup- 
 plies shall state on the bill the date of the contract and the date 
 of the approval by the Mayor. If the bill is not made under 
 
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 any contract it shall be approved by the Comptroller and a certi- 
 fied copy of the requisition for the articles mentioned in said bill 
 shall be attached to the same. The Auditor shall not audit and 
 allow any bills for supplies unless the foregoing provisions are 
 complied with. 
 
 ^EC. 12. The Commissioner of supplies, by and with the con- 
 sent and approval of the Mayor, shall employ such clerks and 
 assistants that may be needed for the proper management of his 
 department. 
 
 Sec. 13. The Commissioner of Supplies shall require all par- 
 ties contracting through his department to give good and suffi- 
 cient bond for the faithful performance of said contracts, to be 
 approved by the Mayor, and all contracts shall contain a clause 
 that the articles to be furnished are to be delivered to the various 
 city institutions or departments free of charge for transportation, 
 and that the city shall allow no charge for packages. 
 
 Sec. 14. When the Commissioner of Supplies tinds any party 
 engaged in selling or delivering any article to the city, who has 
 failed or refuses to comply with the terras of his contract or 
 agreement, or when a party fails to make restitution to the City 
 of St. Louis for any loss the city has met by failure or neglect on 
 his part to comply with the terms of this agreement, then the 
 Commissioner of Supplies, with the consent and approval of the 
 Mayor, shall decline to receive any further bids from said party 
 for any articles to be furnished to the city. 
 
 Sec. 15. The Commissioner of Supplies shall, every three 
 months, or oftener, if deemed necessary, advertise in the news- 
 papers doing the city printing, for at least three days, for pro- 
 posals for the purchase of all surplus, condemned or other refuse 
 property under his control. Said advertisement shall state speci- 
 fically the character and quality of the article or articles to be 
 disposed of, the time and place, when and where the bids shall be 
 opened, with the right reserved to the Commissioner to reject any 
 or all bids ; Provided, that any rejection or award of bids be done 
 by and with the consent and approval of the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 16. The money received from the sale of all surplus, 
 condemned or other refuse property, shall, within one week from 
 the day of sale, be paid by the Commissioner into the City Treas- 
 ury, taking the Treasurer's receipt in triplicate therefor, and filing 
 one of those receipts with the Comptroller and one with the Audi- 
 tor. 
 
 Sec. 17. The Commissioner of Supplies shall have his office 
 in the City Hall, or some building belonging to thje city, to be 
 designated by the Mayor, and devote his entire time to the duties 
 of his office during business hours. 
 
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 Sec. 18. As soon as the Commissioner of Supplies shall be 
 appointed and qualified, the Register shall turn over to said Com- 
 missioner all goods, stationery and property in his possession and 
 belonging to the city, which in contemplation of law is to be in 
 custody of said Commissioner, and take his receipt therefor. 
 
 Approved June 14, 1877. 
 
 [10,934.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE establishing and regulating the office of Com- 
 missioners on Charitable Institutions and defining the powers and 
 duties thereof. 
 
 JSe it ordained by the Munioipal Assembly of the City of /St. Louis ^ 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Within thirty days after the first Tuesday in 
 April, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the Mayor shall ap- 
 point five Commissioners on Charitable Institutions, subject to 
 confirmation by the Council. They shall hold the office for a 
 term of four years, and until their successors are duly appointed 
 and qualified. On the first Tuesday of April, eighteen hundred 
 and eighty-three, and every four years thereafter, the Mayor sl^all 
 make appointments as herein provided. The Commissioners shall 
 possess the qualifications required by section 10, article 4, of the 
 Charter, and the appointments shall be made in such a manner 
 that, as far as practicable, there shall not be a majority belonging 
 to any one relijrious'sect or i)olitical party. 
 
 Sec. 2. Before entering upon their duties, the said Commis- 
 sioners shall respectively take and subscribe to an oath before 
 some Judge or Justice of the Peace or the Register, that he pos- 
 sesses all the qualifications prescribed for his office by the Charter, 
 that he will support the Constitution of the United States and of 
 the State of Missouri, and the Charter and ordinances of the Cit}^ 
 of St. Louis, and that he will faithfully demean himself in office. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Mayor shall assign a suitable room in the City 
 Hall for the use of the Commissioners, in which they shall hold a 
 meeting at least once in each month. They shall elect from their 
 number a President, who shall hold his office during the time for 
 which the Commissioners are appointed and until his successor is 
 elected and qualified. They may make such rules and regulations 
 for the transaction of their business as they may deem expedient, 
 not inconsistent with the Charter and ordinances of the city. 
 The Assistant •Secretary of the Council shall act as Secretary of 
 the Commissioners, and shall perform all clerical duties necessary 
 for the transaction of their business. 
 
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 Governing the Health Department. 63 
 
 Sec. 4. The Commissioners on Charitable Institutions shall 
 have a general visitatorial supervision over all penal and charit- 
 able institutions, supported wholly or in part b}^ the city, and 
 shall have full authority at all times to inspect and examine the 
 condition of such institutions, financially and otherwise ; to inquire 
 and examine into their methods of instruction and the ofovern- 
 meut, treatment and management of their inmates ; the official 
 conduct of managers, superintendents and all other officers and 
 employes of the same ; the receipts and expenditures of money ; 
 the condition of the buildings, grounds and other property 
 comiected therewith, and into all other matters pertaining to 
 their usefulness 'and good management; and for these pur- 
 ])()ses they shall have free access to the grounds, buildings and 
 all books and papers relating to said institutions, and all per- 
 sons, now or hereafter in any manner connected with the same, 
 are hereby directed and required to give snch information and 
 afford such facilities for inspection as the said Commissioners may 
 require, and any neglect or refusal on the part of any officer or 
 ])ersoii connected with such institution to comply with the require- 
 ments of this section, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and npon 
 conviction thereof, before either of the Police Justices of the City 
 of St. Louis, shall subject the offender to a penalty for each and 
 cvely refusal, of a sum equal to one-tenth of the amount annnally 
 paid such person as wages or salary. They shall have power, by 
 a unanimous vote, to remove any appointed officer or employe of 
 such iistitutions, and shall in case of such removal notify the 
 Mayor and request him to fill the vacancy ; but he shall have no 
 power to reappoint any person so removed by the Commissioners. 
 Prcvlded^ however, that before any such removal shall be made 
 the person accused shall have a full, open and impartial hearing 
 l)efore the Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 5. The said Commissioners are hereby authorized and 
 required at least once in each month, and as much oftener as they 
 may deem necessary, to visit all the charitable, penal, reformatory 
 and correctional institutions supported wholly or in part by the 
 city, and ascertain whether the moneys appropriated for their use 
 are, or have been, judiciously and economically expended; 
 whether the objects of the several institutions are being accom- 
 plished and the inmates humanely and properly treated, whether 
 the laws and ordinances in relation to them are fully complied 
 with, and the various other matters referred to in the fourth 
 section of this ordinance. Such visitations shall be made at 
 irregular intervals and without previous notice or information 
 to any of the officials or employes of the institutions visited. 
 They shall report in writing through the Mayor to the Municipal 
 Assembly at the opening of each annual session of the same, or 
 
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 oftener if they deem it necessary, the result of their investiga- 
 tions, together with such other information and recommendations 
 as they may deem proper, and they shall recommend to the As- 
 sembly such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the wel- 
 fiire of the persons under their supervision and in the interest of 
 the city. 
 
 Sec. 6. Until an appropriation is made for this purpose the 
 Comptroller shall furnish to the said Commissioners necessary ac- 
 count books, blanks and stationery. 
 
 Sec. 7. The said Commissioners or any one of them shall 
 appear before any committee of either House of the Municipal 
 Assembly that may require their attendance. 
 
 Sec. 8. Whenever any of the institutions under the super- 
 vision of the Commissioners desire an appropriation for any 
 purpose, other than their usual expenses, they shall inquire care- 
 fully and fully into the ground of such want, the purpose or pur- 
 poses for which it proposes to use the same, the amount which 
 will be required to accomplish the desired object, and into any 
 other matters conne<!ted therewith, and shall report to the Mu- 
 nicipal Assembly the result of such inquiries together with their 
 own opinions and conclusions relating to the whole subject. 
 
 Sec. 9. No one of said Commissioners shall be directly or 
 indirectly interested in any contract for building, repairing or 
 furnishing any of the institutions under their supervision, nor 
 shall any officers of such institutions be eligible to the office of 
 Commissioner herein created. No money shall be paid by any 
 city officer, nor shall the city be in any manner liable upon any 
 contract made in violation of this section, or in which either of 
 said Commissioners shall after the inaking thereof become directly 
 or indirectly interested, and any Commissioner violating the pro- 
 visions of this section shall thereby vacate his office. 
 
 Sec. 10. The failure on the part of any Commissioner ap- 
 pointed under this ordinance to attend any three successive regular 
 meetings during any calendar year, except in case of sickness or 
 absence from the city, may be treated by the Mayor as a resigna- 
 tion of such non-attending Commissioner, and the vacancy be filled. 
 The annual reports of the Commissioners shall give the names 
 of each Commissioner present at each of the regular meetings. 
 
 Sec. 11. The Commissioners shall receive no compensation 
 for their time or services, but the actual expenses of each while 
 engaged in the performance of the duties of their office, and any 
 actual outlay required in examinations or investigations, on being 
 made out and certified to by a majority of the Commissioners at a 
 regular meeting, if approved by the Mayor, shall be paid out of a 
 fund appropriated for that purpose. 
 
 Approved December 28, 1878. 
 
Governing the Health Department. 65 
 
 [10,390.] 
 
 AN ORDINANCE to prohibit the opening and working of stoiie 
 quarries, location and operation of brick kilns, and the erection 
 and carrying on of soap factories, slaughter-houses, bone or 
 rendering factories and establishments where articles are pro- 
 duced and manufactured, the manufacturing of which is injurious 
 to the public health, or which emit offensive odors to the extent 
 of creating a nuisance to the surrounding inhabitants, within three 
 hundred feet of any dwelling-house, built and inhabited before 
 such opening, location or erection, without the consent in writing 
 of the owner and of the occupant of every such house. 
 
 Be it ordained by the Municipal Assembly of the City of St. Louis, 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Hereafter no stone quarry shall be opened, or 
 brick kiln located, or soap factory, slaughter-house, bone or ren- 
 dering factory, erected within the distance of three hundred 
 feet of any dwelling-house, built and inhabited, before such 
 opening, location or erection, without the consent in writing 
 of the owner and of the occupant of every such house. Any per- 
 son, company of persons, firm or corporation violating any or 
 either of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, be fined not less 
 than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person, company of per- 
 sons, firm or corporation, to work a stone quarry or operate a 
 brick kiln, or carry on a soap factory, slaughter-house, bone or 
 rendering factory, opened, located or erected after the passage of 
 this ordinance, within the distance of three hundred feet of any 
 dwelling house, built and inhabited before such opening, location 
 or erection, without the consent in writing of the owner and oc- 
 cupant or occupants of every such house. Any person, company 
 of persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of 
 this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars 
 for each and every day such stone quarry, brick kiln, soap factory, 
 slaughter-house, bone or rendering factory is worked, operated or 
 carried on without such consent. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person, corporation or 
 firm to erect any building for the purpose of manufacturing or 
 producing any article, or to manufacture or produce any article, 
 the manufacturing of which is injurious to the public health, or 
 which in the manufacture thereof emits an ofiensive odor to the 
 extent of creating a nuisance to the surrounding inhabitants, with- 
 
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 out first having obtained the consent of all the owners and resi- 
 dents within the distance of three hundred feet from such contem 
 plated building. 
 
 Approved October 20, 1877. 
 
 PORTIONS OF THE CHARTER APPLICABLE TO THE 
 HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
 
 CLAUSE 6, SECTION 26 OF ARTICLE 3 OF THE CHARTER DEFINING 
 POWERS OF MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Sixth — To establish and enfoi'ce quarantine laws and regula- 
 tions ; to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious dis- 
 eases ; to establish and regulate hospitals, and to secure the 
 general health of the inhabitants by any measure necessary ; to 
 regulate stone quarries and quarrying of stone, and the slaughter- 
 ing of animals ; provide for the erection, management and regu- 
 lation of slaughter-houses ; prevent the driving of stock through 
 the city : prohilut the erection of soap factories, stock yards, and 
 slaughter-houses, pig pens, cow stables and dairies, coal oil and 
 vitrol factories within prescribed limits, and to remove and regu- 
 late the same ; and to regulate or prevent the carrying on of any 
 business which may be dangerous or detrimental to the public 
 health, or the mamifactiire or vending of articles obnoxious to the 
 health of the inhabitants ; and to declare, prevent and abate nuis- 
 ances on public or private property and the causes thereof; and 
 the Mayor, whenever in his opinion a nuisance exists, on public 
 or private property, or whenever a nuisance has been so declared 
 by ordinance or resolution of the Board of Health, is authorized 
 to abate and remove such nuisances, and the cause thereof in a 
 summary manner, at the cost of the o\Vner or occupant of the 
 premises where the nuisance, or the cause thereof may be, and 
 for that purpose may enter upon and take possession of any 
 premises or property where such nuisance may exist or be 
 produced. 
 
 SECTION 44, ARTICLE 4 OF THE CHARTER. 
 
 Sec. 44. All questions of difference between the officers of 
 the city att'ecting their relative powers and duties may be referred 
 by either of them to the Mayor, who shall examine and determine 
 such questions, and his decision shall be final as between such 
 officers. 
 
 SECTION 14, ARTICLE 4 OF THE CHARTER. 
 
 Sec. 14. The Sheriff*, Coroner and Marshal may have such 
 deputies as may be provided by ordinance. The assistants of any 
 
Governing ike Health Department, 6*? 
 
 officer shall hold their position during good behavior, unless 
 otherwise provided by ordinance, but may be removed for cause 
 by the Mayor, or by the officer under whom they work, at his 
 pleasure. All offices of the several departments of the city shall 
 be in the City Hall or some other building owned by the city, 
 unless otherwise specially provided by the Assembly. 
 
 SECTION 11, ARTICLE 16 OF THE CHARTER. 
 
 Sec. 11. Any member or officer of either house of the Assem- 
 bly, and any officer of the city, and any member or officer of any 
 board organized under or in connection with the city government 
 pursuant to any law of this State, who shall in his official capacity, 
 or under color of his office, knowingly or willfully, or corruptly 
 vote for, assent to, or report in favor of, or allow or certify for 
 allowance, any claim or demand against the city or any depart- 
 ment thereof, or against any such board as above mentioned, 
 which claim or demand shall be on account or under color of any 
 contract or agreement not authorized by or in pursuance of the 
 provisions of this charter, or any claim or demand against the city 
 or any department thereof, or any such board as aforesaid, which 
 claim or demand, or any part thereof, shall be for work not in fact 
 performed for and by authority of said city or such board, or for 
 supplies or materials not actually furnished thereto, pursuant to 
 law or ordinance, and every such member or officer as aforsaid, 
 who shall knowingly vote for, assent to, assist or otherwise permit 
 or aid in the disbursement or disposition of any money or property 
 belonging to the city or any department thereof, or held by or in 
 charge of any such board as aforesaid, to any other than the spec- 
 ific use or purpose for which such money or property shall be, or 
 shall have been received or appropriated, or collected or authorized 
 by law to be collected, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished 
 by imprisonment in the city jail for not more than one year, or 
 by fine not less than two thousand, nor more than ten thousand 
 dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment, or by imprison- 
 ment in the city jail for not less than six months, and by fine of 
 not less than five hundred, nor more than five thousand dollars. 
 
 SECTION 6 ARTICLE 7 OF THE CHARTER. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Water Commissioner may require owners or 
 lessees, or their agents, of houses, stores and other buildings in the 
 city, or in such parts thereof as he is ready to supply, to take out 
 license for the use of water for such house, store or building, ac- 
 cording to the rates and assessment as fixed by ordinances of 
 the city for the use of water, whenever the Board of Health of 
 the City of St. Louis shall, by order duly made, declare that the 
 use of water from the Waterworks of the city in any such 
 
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 house, store or building, is demanded as a sanitary measure for 
 the preservation of the health of the inmates or inhabitants of 
 such house, store or building ; and the said rate and assessment 
 shall be paid by all such proprietors, owners or lessees, or their 
 agents, as well by those who consent as by those who refuse to 
 place in their houses, stores and buildings the water pipe to con- 
 vey the same, and shall be payable whenever the Assessor of 
 Water Rates shall have notified the proprietor, owner, lessee, or 
 his or her agent, of the readiness of said Water Commissioner to 
 supply such house, store or building with water as aforesaid. 
 The parties who fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of 
 this section, shall be subject to penalties as may be provided by 
 ordinance. 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Article XII of the Charter of the City of St. Louis relating to the Health 
 Department . . • ^ 
 
 An ordinance (10311) establishing and regulating the office of the Health 
 . Commissioner 7 
 
 An ordinance (10330) creating and establishing the Health Department 
 
 and Board of Health 9 
 
 An ordinance (11061) providing for the government and management of 
 the Hospitals, Dispensary and Insane Asylum 11 
 
 An ordinance (10978) establishing Quarantine Station and authorizing 
 and defining quarantine regulations 16 
 
 An ordinance (10998) in relation to the Health Department, authorizing 
 the Health Commissioner to remove malignant, infectious or conta- 
 gious disease 19 
 
 An ordinance (10615) in relation to the Health Department in relation to 
 physicians practicing in the City of St. Louis giving notice of con- 
 tagious diseases 22 
 
 An ordinance (10321) in relation to the sale of poision 23 
 
 An ordinance (10326) in relation to vital statistics 24 
 
 An ordinance (10329) to provide for keeping of mortuary records, estab- 
 lishing rules and regulations governing sextons of cemeteries 25 
 
 An ordinance (10386) in relation to the Health Department and to regu- 
 late the practice of medicine and surgery and midwifery, and to 
 regulate the issue of burial certificates 27 
 
 An ordinance (10990) regulating cemeteries and the interment of the 
 dead 29 
 
 An ordinance (10358) providing for the abatement of nuisances 32 
 
 An ordinance (10805) concerning the construction of privies, sinks, basins, 
 stationary tubs and their connection with sewers 36 
 
 An ordinance (10617) in relation to streets, sidewalks, gutters and private 
 alleys 39 
 
 An ordinance (10750) to secure the general health of the inhabitants of the 
 city and to provide for abatement of nuisances on streets and alleys. . 40 
 
 An ordinance (10375) to prohibit the sale of any kind of diseased, cor- 
 rupted, adulterated or unwholesome provisions and the sale of adul- 
 terated drugs or medicines 41 
 
 An ordinance (10383) authorizing and empowering the Board of Health 
 to do all acts and perform all functions heretofore performed by the 
 County Court, in relation to admission of deaf and dumb persons and 
 blind persons into Missouri institutions for their education 42 
 
 An ordinance (10062) to provide for the removal of dead animals 43 
 
Index — Continued . 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 An ordinance (10325) to provide for the removal of slops 45 
 
 An ordinance (10830) elected and appointed officers, clerks and employes 
 to make property list returns 46 
 
 An ordinance (11063) to transfer control of the Morgue from the Health 
 Commissioner to the Coronor and providing for its management, etc. 47 
 
 An ordinance (10320) in relation to insane persons and paupers 49 
 
 An ordinance (10348 and 10420) establishing and regulating the Poor 
 House and providing for its management 50-52 
 
 An ordinance (10359) establishing and regulating the office of Superinten- 
 dent of Poor Hoj^e, prescribing duties and fixing bond and salary. . . 51 
 
 An ordinance (10538) regulating the cutting of ice from ponds, sink-holes 
 and sloughs 53 
 
 An ordinance (10377) establishing and fixing salaries of officers and em- 
 ployes of the Health Department not heretofore fixed by ordinance. . 55 
 
 An ordinance (10314) establishing Commissioner of Supplies regulating 
 the manner of purchasing articles, etc 57 
 
 An ordinance (10934) establishing and regulating the office of Commis- 
 sioner of Charitable Institutions 62 
 
 An ordinance (10390) to prohibit the opening and work of stone quarries, 
 etc., carrying on soap factories, slaughter-houses, bone and rendering 
 factories, etc 65 
 
 Clause 6, section 26, article 3 of Charter defining powers of Municipal 
 Assembly 66 
 
 Questions of difference between officers to be refer red to Mayor 66 
 
 Assistants of any officer to hold position during good behavior unless 
 otherwise provided, etc 60 
 
 Any officer or person connected with the city who shall corruptly certify 
 to an account or bill shall be fined and imprisoned 67 
 
 Water Commissioner may require owners, agents or occupants of houses, 
 etc., to take out water license whenever Board of Health declare the 
 use of water in said premises a sanitary measure 67 
 
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