Sec. 5.

This ordinance shall take effect on the fourth day of March, A. D. 1882.

Made and passed in common council, this twentieth day of February, A. D. 1882.

The Common Council of the City of Ypsilanti ordain :

Section 1. The aldermen of each ward whose term of office will soonest expire, together with the health physician, shall be and are hereby constituted a board of health in and for the city of Ypsilanti, and any four of them shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Sec. 2. At their first meeting, which shall be on the second Monday in May of each year, they shall select from their number a president and clerk, who shall hold their offices for the term of one year; and in case of vacancy or temporary absence his place shall be supplied by the election of a president or clerk pro tempore, as the case may be.

Sec. 3. The board of health shall meet at the city hall, and, after their first meeting, at such time as they may deem proper.

Sec. 4. The clerk of the board of health shall keep regular minutes of their proceedings in books to be provided for that purpose.

Sec. 5. The board of health shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty:

Ist. To make, and direct to be made, diligent inquiry with respects to all nuisances, of every description, in said city, which are, or may be, injurious to the public health, and abate the same.

2d. To stop, detain and examine, or direct to be stopped, detained and examined, every person coming from a place infected with a pestilential or infectious disease, in order to prevent the introduction of the same into this city.

3d. To cause any person, not a resident of this city, who is infected with any infectious or pestilential disease, to be sent back to the place whence he or she came, or to the pesthouse or hospital.

4th. To cause any person, a resident of this city, who is infected with any pestilential or infectious disease, to be removed to the pest-house or hospital, if in the opinion of the board of health, the removal of such person is necessary for the preservation of the public health; Provided, however, that such removal can be effected with safety [to] the patient.

5th. To destroy any furniture, wearing apparel, goods, wares, or merchandise, or articles or property of any kind which shall be exposed to or infected with a contagious or infectious disease; Provided, however, that such property before being destroyed shall be appraised by two disinterested persons to be selected by the board of health.

6th. To rent or erect proper houses to be used as pesthouses or hospitals.

7th. To employ such nurses, officers, agents, servants or assistants, and provide the necessary furniture, medicines, articles and necessaries, for the use of the pest-house or hospitals, and the persons therein confined as may be deemed necessary.

8th. To require the occupant of any dwelling house, store, shop or other building in which there shall be any person sick

with small-pox, or varioloid, to put up and maintain in a conspicuous place, on the front of such dwelling-house, store, shop or other building, a card or sign to be furnished by the board, on which shall be written or printed in large letters, the words "small-pox," and in case of the neglect or refusal of any person to comply with such requirement, to remove the patient therein to the pest-house or hospital.

9th. To exercise a general supervision over the health of the city, and to make, from time to time, such recommendations to the common council as they deem proper, to promote the cleanliness and salubrity of the city.

Ioth. To make and determine the rules of its own proceedings.

11th. The board of health shall provide and keep on hand a supply of cards marked "smail-pox," to be put upon any house in which there may be a person sick of that disease or the varioloid, and such card, upon application, shall be furnished without charge.

12th. Whenever, in their judgment, it shall be necessary for the public health, to at once take possession of any building, factory, hotel, dwelling-house, out-house, premises or grounds, upon which, in their judgment, there exists any nuisance prejudicial to the public health; and if the owner or Occupant shall refuse or neglect to forthwith abate such nuisance, in the manner directed by said board, said board may cause the same to be abated forthwith in such manner as they may deem proper. The said board may also, when they deem it requisite for the public health, at once, and by force, if necessary, close up such houses, buildings, hotels and premises, and exclude all occupants therefrom until such nuisance shall be fully abated and the air of such building or premises is thoroughly purified. Any person who shall resist the action of the board, or their agents under this subdivision, shall be liable to the penalties provided for in section fifteen of this chapter.

Sec. 6. Every physician, or person acting as such, who shall have a patient sick of the small-pox, varioloid, diphtheria,

scarlet fever or other infectious or pestilential disease, shall forthwith report the fact in writing to the president of the board of health, together with the name of the street and number of the house, if any, where such patient is treated ; and the president shall report the same at the next meeting of the board, and every keeper, superintendent or person in charge of any pest-house within the corporate limits of the city of Ypsilanti, or any other pest-house under the control of the authorities of said city, to which any person, being a city charge, may be brought sick with any infectious or contagious disease, shall at once on the arrival of every such person, give a notice thereof in writing to the president of the board of health and to the health physician: Provided, That if the person thus brought to such pest-house is a county charge, the notice herein required shall be given to the county physician, and to the president of the board of health.

Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the occupants of any dwelling-house or other building in which there shall be small pox or varioloid, to put up and maintain in a conspicuous place on the front of such building a card, or sign, to be furnished by the board of health, on which shall be written or printed the words "small pox," and such sign or card shall be kept on such building during all the time any person so diseased shall remain therein, and until permission is obtained in writing from the health physician to remove the same. No person shall take down, or remove, injure or deface such card or sign at any time during the time in which the same is required to be kept up and maintained.

Sec. 8. All persons having small pox, varioloid, or other contagious or infectious disease, are hereby required to be kept closely confined within their respective dwellings, or places of abode, and no person who has been confined with such disease, shall leave his or her place of abode, and go about the city, until, in the opinion of the health physician, it can be done without danger of communicating the disease to others.

Sec. 9. No person having the small pox, varioloid or other contagious disease shall go about the city.

Sec. 10. No person shall bring, or cause to be brought, into the city of Ypsilanti, any person infected with the small pox, varioloid or other infectious or pestilential disease.

Sec. II. The pest-house and hospitals of the city shall be under the control and direction of the board of health.

Sec. 12. No owner, driver, or person in charge of any public hack, carriage or conveyance, shall use, or permit the same to be used for the purpose of conveying the body of any person who has died of the small pox or varioloid, or any person from any house, building or place, in which any person is sick with, or has within two weeks died of, either of said diseases.

Sec. 13. Every physician having a small pox or varioloid patient, immediately after each and every visit to the same, shall not visit any other patient, except those affected with the small pox or varioloid, until he has changed his clothing and otherwise disinfected himself; and every undertaker having in charge the body of any person who has died of either of said diseases, immediately after the interment thereof; and any person nursing or taking care of any person sick with either of said diseases, before going upon the streets, shall change his clothes and otherwise disinfect himself.

Sec. 14. The members of the board of health, excepting the health physician, shall be paid twenty dollars a year for all services rendered by them upon such board.

Sec. 15. Any person violating or failing to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, or failing or neglecting to comply with any of the requirements of the board of health, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and, on failing to pay forthwith such fine and costs, may be imprisoned in the Detroit house of correction, or in the county jail of Washtenaw county, for any term not to exceed three months, unless payment thereof be sooner made.

Sec. 16.

This ordinance shall take effect on the fourth day of March, A. D. 1882.