THE 
REVISED ORDINANCES 
OF THE 
CITY OF CHARLESTON 
RELATIVE TO THE 
HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
AND THE 
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
I 
i / 
RELATING THERETO. 
CHARLESTON, S. C. 
THE NEWS AND COURIER JOB PRESSES. 
1875. THE 
REVISED ORDINANCES 
OF THE 
CITY OF CHARLESTON 
RELATIVE TO THE 
HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
AND THE 
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
RELATING THERETO. 
CHARLESTON, S. C. 
THE NEWS AND COURIER JOB PRESSES. 
1875. CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
I. Board of Health 5 
II. City Hospital 8 
III. Interments and Cemeteries 10 
IV. Low Lots 15 
V. Physicians of the Poor 21 
VI. Privy Vaults / 22 
VII. Registrar 24 
VIII. Streets 26 
IX. Rules and Regulations of the Board of Health 31 
X. Directory of the Board of Health 35 HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
REVISED ORDINANCES-CHAPTER X. 
BOARD OF HEALTH. 
ORDINANCES. 
I. The Board of Health shall consist of one physician, 
one pharmaceutical chemist, two citizens, and two Ai- 
dermen, all of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor. 
The City Registrar shall be ex-officio a member of the 
Board. Within ten days after their appointment, upon 
notice from the City Registrar, they shall meet and 
organize as a Board of Health, by electing one of said 
Board to be Chairman, and by appointing a proper 
person to be Secretary. 
II. The authority, duty, and powers heretofore im- 
posed by any ordinance for the purpose of preserving 
health or preventing disease, upon any officer or person, 
are hereby exclusively conferred upon, and shall here- 
after be exclusively exercised by, the Board of Health, 
the members and officers thereof ; and the powers of 
the said Board shall be construed to include the preven- 
tion of the sale, or offering for sale of, improper articles ; 
the removal of any matter or thing in or upon the pub- 
lic streets, or places which shall be, in their opinion, de- 
trimental to the public health, and generally the abat- 
ing of all nuisances injurious to the public health. 
HI. The Board of Health shall have full power and 
authority to require the owner or occupant of any lot or 
building in the city to remove or remedy anything on 
said lot or building, which, in the opinion of the Board, 
may endanger the public health ; and on failure of the 
2 
Mar. 30,1875. 51 
Board of 
Health, how 
appointed and 
constituted. 
Ib., § 2. 
Duty and 
powers of pre- 
serving health 
to be exclusive- 
ly exercised by 
Board of Health 
Abating of 
nuisances. 
Ib., § 3. 
To remove or 
remedy any- 
thing on any 
lot or building, 
which may en- 
danger public 
health. 6 
BOARD OF HEALTH. 
owner or occupant to remove or remedy the same, the 
Board shall have the same done at the expense of said 
owner or occupant, the said amount to be recovered in 
any Court of competent jurisdiction. 
IV. The Board of Health may appoint a Sanitary In- 
spector for each Ward, whose duties and salary shall 
from time to time be prescribed by said Board. Among 
other duties it shall be incumbent upon each of said 
Inspectors to visit every lot in their district at least once 
a month from the 1st of May to the 1st of November in 
each year, and to report to the Board of Health any- 
thing they may find which tends to endanger the public 
health ; and, in the course of such inspection, it shall be 
their duty to examine the privy vaults, and to disinfect 
the same ; and also the lots, whenever necessary, during 
said period. 
V. All privy vaults shall be cleaned once a year, or 
as frequently as may be deemed necessary by the Board 
of Health, and the contents thereof shall be removed 
only in air tight vessels, to be approved by the said 
Board of Health; and no person shall engage in the 
business of emptying the said privy vaults without first 
obtaining a license from the said Board of Health. 
VI. The Board of. Health may order or cause any 
building, excavation, matter, or thing, or the sewerage, 
drainage, or ventilation thereof, which shall be regarded 
by the said Board as in a condition dangerous or detri- 
mental to health, to be removed, suspended, altered, or 
otherwise abated, as said Board shall direct. And they 
may also order any substance, matter, or thing left in 
any lot, building, street, alley, or other place which said 
Board may regard as dangerous or detrimental to life 
or health, to be speedily removed to some proper place, 
to be designated by them. 
VII. The Board of Health may enact such by-laws, 
rules, and regulations as it may deem advisable, in har- 
mony with the provisions and purposes of this Ordi- 
nance, and not inconsistent with the Constitution or laws 
of this State ; and from time to time may alter, annul, 
Ib , § 4. 
Sanitary In- 
spectors. 
Ib., § 5. 
Privy vaults. 
Ib., § 6. 
Powers in re- 
gard to build- 
i ngs, excava- 
tions, &c. 
Ib., § 7. 
By-laws, rules 
and regulations BOARD OF HEALTH. 
7 
or amend the same. They shall also have power to de- 
clare what shall be deemed nuisances injurious to health, 
and to provide for the removal thereof, and to make 
and enforce regulations to prevent the sale of unwhole- 
some food. 
VIII. It shall be the duty of the police, whenever 
called upon, to execute the orders of the Board of 
Health ; or the Board of Health may execute such orders 
through its own officers or persons; and in the execu- 
tion of said orders, such officers or persons shall have, in 
all matters relating to the exercise of their duties, all the 
powers and authority exercised by the police force. 
IX. If any person shall obstruct or resist the Board 
of Health, or any member thereof, or any person by 
them appointed, in the execution of the powers to them 
given, or in the performance of the duties enjoined on 
them by this or any other Ordinance in relation to the 
public health, such person shall forfeit and pay a sum 
not exceeding one hundred dollars, which may be sued 
for and recovered in any court of competent jurisdic- 
tion. 
X. If any person shall refuse or neglect to comply 
with any rule, regulation, order, or notice of the Board 
of Health, authorized by any of the sections of this Or- 
dinance, and no other penalty is provided for such neg- 
lect or refusal, such person or persons shall be liable to 
pay a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence, 
and five dollars for every day that such neglect or re- 
fusal shall continue, which may be sued for and recov- 
ered in any court of competent jurisdiction. 
Nuisances. 
Sale of un- 
wholesome 
food. 
Ib., §8. 
Powers of 
Board of Health 
in the execu- 
tion of orders. 
Ib., § 9. 
Penalty for 
obstructing or 
resisting Board 
of Health. 
Ib., § 10. 
Penalty for 
neglecting or 
refusing to 
comply with 
rules, ord< rs, 
&c., of Board of 
Health. REVISED ORDINANCES-CHAPTER XIX. 
CITY HOSPITAL. 
ORDINANCES. 
Jan. 9,1872, § 1 
Oct. 28,1873, § 2 
Physician and 
associate phy- 
sician annual- 
ly elected by 
Council. 
Jan. 9,1872, § 2. 
Physician of 
City Hospital 
to have the 
management of 
said institu- 
tion, &c. 
I. At every annual election of City officers, City 
Council shall elect a Physician and an associate Physi- 
cian for the City Hospital. 
IL The Physician of the City Hospital shall have the 
management of that institution, under such rules and 
regulations as may be instituted by the Board of Health, 
to be approved by Council. Medicines, instruments, 
stimulants, etc., shall be purchased by the physician in 
charge, on the best possible terms; and the bills, certified 
by himself, and audited by the Board of Health, shall 
be sent directly to Council. 
III. The Steward of the Hospital shall purchase all 
necessary supplies for the Hospital, and materials for 
carrying on the bakery (not otherwise provided for), 
under the order of the physician in charge, who shall 
certify to all the bills rendered for such supplies, which, 
after being audited by the Board of Health, shall be 
sent each month to Council, and he shall also perform 
the clerical duties of the Hospital. 
IV. The physician in charge shall keep books of debit 
and credit, of all receipts and expenditures made by him, 
which shall be open to the inspection of the Mayor, 
Board of Health, and Treasurer of the City, at all times; 
and the Hospital itself, with all its appurtenances, shall 
always be under the inspection of the Board of Health. 
V. The Hospital physician shall render a full and 
complete report to the Registrar, the first Monday of 
each month, of the entire work under his charge ; num- 
ber of patients during the month, deaths, diseases, re- 
Ib„ § 3. 
1 uties of the 
Steward. 
Ib„ §4. 
Physician in 
charge to keep 
books of debit 
and credit. 
Ib., § 5. 
Hospital phy- 
sician to render 
monthly acc'ts. CITY HOSPITAL. 
9 
ceipts of money, expenditures in detail, &c., and send a 
duplicate of same to the Mayor and Council. 
VI. The Physician of the City Hospital shall receive 
an annual salary of one thousand dollars, payable 
monthly. 
VII. The associate Physician of the City Hospital 
shall receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars, 
payable monthly. 
VIII. The duties of the associate physician shall be 
prescribed by the Board of Health, and in general, shall 
be such as are usually performed by hospital physicians. 
Oct. 28,1873, 5 1 
Salary of phy- 
sician. 
Ib., § 2. 
Salary of as- 
sociate physi- 
cian. 
Ib., § 3. 
Duties of as- 
sociate physi- 
cian. REVISED ORDINANCES-(HARTER XLVH. 
INTERMENTS AND CEMETERIES. 
STATUTES. 
Ratified 
Dec. 19, 1849. 
An Act to authorize the City Council of Charles- 
ton to Prevent Interments in the said City, with- 
out a proper Certificate of the Disease of which 
the Deceased died, and for other purposes. 
City Council 
authorized to 
prevent inter- 
ments without 
a proper certifi- 
cate, and to 
pass ordinan- 
ces to prevent 
the same. 
Section 1. lie it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assem- 
bly, and by the authority of the same, That from and 
after the passing of this Act, the City Council of 
Charleston shall be, and is hereby authorized, to pre- 
vent interments within the corporate limits of the said 
City of Charleston, without a proper certificate of the 
disease of which the deceased died, and to pass all ordi- 
nances necessary to prevent the same. 
Sec. 2. And the said City Council of Charleston are 
further authorized and empowered to require physicians 
and coroners, under a penalty, to give such certificates; 
and they are also empowered to establish a more effect- 
ual system for the registration of births, deaths, and 
marriages, within the said City. 
Empow e r e d 
to require phy- 
siciansand cor- 
oners to give 
certificates. 
ORDINANCES. 
July 2,1836, § 1. 
No new burial 
grounds to be 
established. 
I. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, or 
bodies politic and corporate, to establish or use within 
the limits of the City, any place or places for the burial 
of the dead except such as are already established for 
those purposes. And if any person or persons, or bod}' 
politic or corporate, shall presume to establish any such 
place or places for the purposes aforesaid, such person INTERMENTS AND CEMETERIES. 
11 
or persons, body politic or corporate, shall, for each 
and every offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city, 
the sum of one thousand dollars, and also forfeit and 
pay, daily, and every day that such place or places are, 
or may be kept and used for such purposes, the sum of 
one thousand dollars, to be recovered in any court hav- 
ing jurisdiction thereof. 
II. If any person or persons shall presume to bury 
any dead in any other burial ground or place within 
the limits of the City, except in such as are already set 
apart and devoted to such purposes, such person or per- 
sons shall forfeit and pay for each and every such 
offence, the sum of one thousand dollars, to be recovered 
in any court having jurisdiction one moiety of which 
penalty shall go to the informer. 
III. It shall not be lawful to open any grave, either 
in private lots or elsewhere, within the City of Charles- 
ton, which contains the remains of a previous burial, for 
the purpose of a new interment. And before any such 
grave can be opened for the purpose of removing the 
dead, a written permit shall be obtained from the Mayor 
of the City, which shall specify the name of the de- 
ceased, the grave-yard or ground from which the body 
is to be removed, and its proposed disposition; which 
permit shall be countersigned by the sexton or some 
other officer of the church or corporation, after the re- 
moval, and shall then be filed in the office of the City 
Registrar. 
IV. It shall not be lawful to inter any dead body in 
any grave within the City of Charleston, or to prepare 
any such grave for the reception of any dead body, un- 
less such grave be of the depth of at least six feet. 
V. It shall not be lawful to inter, within the limits of 
Charleston, (Potter's Field and the place or places ap- 
pointed excepted,) any person who is not a pew-holder 
or worshiper in some one of the churches that have 
now the right of burial, or who is not an owner of a 
private burial-ground within the grave-yard of some 
one of said churches, or a member of the immediate 
family of a pew-holder or owner of a lot. 
Penalty. 
_ § 
Penalty f o r 
interments i n 
any other burial 
ground than 
those already 
established. 
July 5,1859, 5 1. 
Unlawful to 
open any grave 
containing re- 
mains of a pre- 
vious burial. 
Permit for re- 
moving dead 
body. 
Ib., § 2. 
Graves to be 
at least six feet 
deep. 
Ib , § 3. 
No person to 
be interred 
within the city 
who is not a 
pew-holder o r 
worshiper i n 
some church. 12 
INTERMENTS AND CEMETERIES. 
Ib., § 4. 
Not lawful to 
c o nstruct 
vaults, above or 
below ground, 
which shall ex- 
pose to view 
the remains of 
previous inter- 
ments. 
VI. It shall not be lawful hereafter to construct, 
within the City of Charleston, any vault above or below 
ground, for the reception of the dead; and no vault now 
so constructed as to expose to view the remains of any 
body already interred, shall be opened to receive any 
additional bodies; and no vault or tomb shall be opened 
to receive, for temporary deposit, the remains of any 
stranger or person not entitled by this Ordinance to 
sepulture within the City. 
VII. Any person or persons, or body politic, that shall 
violate any of the provisions contained in Sections 3, 4, 
5, and 6, or shall be concerned in the violation thereof, 
shall be subject to a penalty of two hundred dollars for 
each offence; one moiety for the informer, and the other 
moiety for the benefit of the City Treasury. These 
penalties to be recovered in any court of competent 
jurisdiction. 
VIII. It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the 
Board of Health to appoint a committee from said 
Board, whose special duty it shall be to inspect all 
cemeteries, burial grounds, and vaults for the dead 
within the City; and the Board shall have power to 
grant licenses to hearse-keepers, sextons, and other per- 
sons in charge of any place of burial within the City, 
under such rules and regulations as said Board may, 
from time to time, deem expedient and necessary, sub- 
ject to the approval of the City Council, and not contra- 
ry to the provisions herein contained. 
IX. No hearse-keeper, or other person in charge of 
any hearse, shall receive or carry any corpse or dead 
body until he shall have first obtained a license from the 
said Board, nor unless he shall first have been supplied 
with a certificate of the kind hereinafter required to be 
furnished by the attending physician or coroner; and it 
shall be his or their duty, to deliver said certificate, with 
the dead body, to the sexton, or other person in charge 
of the burial ground in which it is proposed to inter 
such dead body, whenever such burial ground is within 
the limits of the City; and whenever such burial ground 
is without the limits of the City, the said certificate, ora 
Ib., § 6. 
Penalties for 
violations of §§ 
3, 4, 5, and 6. 
May 21,1850, § 1 
Committee of 
Board of Healt h 
on burial 
grounds, &c. 
Ib., 5 2. 
July 5,1859, § 1. 
N o hearse- 
keeper to con- 
vey a corpse 
without, a 
license,or with- 
out a certificate 
from a physi- 
cian or coroner. 
Shall deliver 
certificate t o 
the sexton. INTERMENTS AND CEMETERIES. 
13 
duplicate thereof, shall be delivered by said hearse- 
keeper, or other person in charge of the hearse, to the 
City Registrar, on the day of interment, under a penalty 
of twenty-five dollars for each and every failure or neg- 
lect so to do. 
X. No sexton of any church, or other person having 
charge of any cemetery, vault, or other burial ground, 
shall make, or permit to be made, any burial within the 
same, until he shall have first obtained his license from 
the Board of Health for that purpose; nor shall he per- 
mit any dead body to be interred therein, until he shall 
first have received from the hearse-keeper, or other per- 
son in charge of the hearse, such certificate as he is re- 
quired by this Ordinance to deliver with such dead body; 
and it shall be the duty of such sexton, or other person 
in charge of any place of burial, to enter said certificate 
or certificates in a book, to be furnished by him for that 
purpose, and to deliver the original certificate or certifi- 
cates, each day, as received, to the said City Registrar; 
and for any and every violation hereof, he shall forfeit 
and pay, for the use of the City, fifty dollars. 
XI. The said Board shall furnish to each practicing 
physician, and the Coroner of St. Philip's and St. Mi- 
chael's, blank certificates, in the form following, viz : 
Charleston, , 18-. 
I hereby certify that died on the - day of ■, 
18-, of , at No. -, street, aged years 
and months, a native of , and resided in 
Charleston years and months, and pursued 
as a profession or trade. 
, M. D., Attending Physician. 
or , Coroner. 
And when any person shall die in the City, the physi- 
cian or surgeon who shall have attended such person, as 
physician or surgeon, shall fill up the blanks in such 
certificate, to the best of his knowledge, and sign the 
same, with his name, and shall deliver the same to some 
3 
Penalty for 
neglect. 
May 21,1850, §2. 
No interments 
to be made in 
any place with- 
out a license 
from the Board 
of Health. 
Sexton to en- 
ter certificates 
in a book, and 
deliver origi- 
nals to City 
Registrar. 
May 21,1850,? 3. 
July 5, 1859, ? 2. 
Board to fur- 
nish blank cer- 
tificates to 
practicing phy- 
sicians. 
Form of certi- 
ficates. 
Duty of physi- 
cian on death of 
a patient to fill 
up certificate. 14 
INTERMENTS AND CEMETERIES. 
member of the family in the house where such person 
shall have died; in cases where the interment is to take 
place without the limits of the City, the attending physi- 
cian or surgeon shall deliver, as above, a duplicate certi- 
ficate; and in case any person shall die in the City, unat- 
tended by any physician or surgeon, it shall be the duty 
of the coroner to furnish such certificate; and for each 
and every neglect of the duty herein required, each and 
every person offending shall forfeit and pay, for the use 
of the City, twenty-five dollars. 
XII. It shall be the duty of said Committee of the 
Board of Health to see specially to the proper execution 
of this part of the duties of the said Board, and it shall 
also be the duty of such committee, at such times, aud 
as often as they may deem it expedient, to visit all ceme- 
teries, vaults, and burial grounds, and to give such direc- 
tions about the depth of graves as they may deem expe- 
dient to preserve the public health; and it shall be their 
duty to inspect the construction of all vaults now built, 
or which may hereafter be built, and to order such altera- 
tions to be made in them, or any of them, as they deem 
the public health may require; and if any person shall 
refuse or neglect to make any alteration required by 
said committee, they, or a majority of them, are hereby 
authorized to have the said alterations made, at the ex- 
pense of the owner thereof; and if any person liable to 
any expense, incurred as aforesaid, shall refuse or delay 
the payment thereof, the same shall be paid out of the 
City Treasury, and be afterwards recovered by action of 
debt from the person or persons so neglecting or refus- 
ing, together with a fine of fifty dollars for each and 
every such failure or refusal. 
XIII. No other person than the coroner, or a physi- 
cian or surgeon, who has a diploma or license to practice 
from some regular medical college, shall give the certi- 
ficate herein required to be delivered with dead bodies 
upon interment, and any person offending herein shall 
pay a fine of fifty dollars for each offence. 
In case of a 
death without 
a n attending 
physician, cor- 
oner to furnish 
certificate. 
Penalty for 
neglect. 
May 21,1850,5 4. 
The duty of 
the Committee 
of the Board of 
Health to visit 
cemeteries, in- 
spect construc- 
tion of vaults, 
and order alter- 
ations. 
May make 
alterations a t 
the expense of 
owners. 
May 5,1868, § 1. 
Burial certifi- 
cates, by whom 
given. REVISED ORDINANCES-CHAPTER El. 
LOW LOTS. 
STATUTES. 
An Act to appoint a Board of Commissioners for 
the City of Charleston, with power and au- 
thority TO DECLARE IN WHAT CASES THE STREETS, 
Lanes, and Alleys of the City shall be widen- 
ed, AND TO PROVIDE FOR CARRYING INTO EXECUTION 
THE OBJECTS OF THE SAID BOARD, AND FOR OTHER 
PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED. 
Ratified 
Dec 17, 1817. 
Section 4. That the City Council of the City of 
Charleston shall have full power and authority, with 
the concurrence and approbation of the Board appoint- 
ed by the Legislature, to compel the owners of low lots 
within the said City, to drain the same, if such draining 
be practicable, or to fill the same to the level of the 
streets on which such lots are fronting ; also to compel 
the owner or owners of cellars occasidnally filled with 
water, to cause the same to be pumped out, or otherwise 
carried off, within five days, or to fill up the same if 
deemed requisite by the Commissioners appointed by 
this Act, within two W'eeks from the notification being 
given in writing to such owner or owners ; and in case 
of neglect or default, they shall be subject to such pen- 
alty as shall be prescribed by the City Council; and in 
case the owner or owners of such lot or lots, or cellars, 
upon such notice being given, shall neglect or refuse to 
fill up such lot or lots, or cause the water in their cellars 
to be pumped out, or otherwise carried off, the same 
shall be done by the City Council, and they are hereby 
authorized and empowered to issue a warrant and col- 
lect the expenses arising from the same, or the accrued 
value of such lots. 
City Council 
authorized to 
compel owners 
of low lots to 
drain or fill the 
same. 16 
LOW LOTS. 
Ratified 
Dee. 19, 1827. 
An Act to amend an Act entitled " An Act to ap- 
point a Board of Commissioners for the City 
of Charleston, with power and authority to 
DECLARE IN WHAT CASES THE STREETS, LaNES, AND 
Alleys of the City shall be widened, and to 
PROVIDE FOR CARRYING INTO EXECUTION THE OB- 
JECTS OF THE SAID BOARD," AND FOR OTHER PURPO- 
SES THEREIN MENTIONED. 
Preamble. 
Whereas, by the fourth section of an Act of the 
General Assembly of this State, passed the seventeenth 
of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred 
and seventeen, entitled "An Act to appoint a Board of 
Commissioners for the City of Charleston, and for other 
purposes therein mentioned," it was provided that the 
said Board of Commissioners should concur in the exer- 
cise of the powers therein granted to the City Council 
of Charleston, in relation to low lots and cellars within 
the City of Charleston; and whereas, it has been fre- 
quently found impracticable to obtain a meeting and 
concurrence of the said Board when it was necessary to 
act with promptness : 
Section 1. Be it enacted, That so much of the fourth 
section of the Act aforesaid as requires the concurrence 
of the Board of Commissioners in the exercise of the 
powers therein specified, be, and the same is hereby re- 
pealed, and that all the power and authority aforesaid, 
be, and the same is hereby, vested exclusively in the 
City Council of Charleston. 
Authority for 
filling up low 
lots and cellars 
vested exclu- 
sively in the 
City Council. 
Ratified 
Dec. 18, 1830. 
An Act to authorize the City Council of Charles- 
ton to fill up Low Lots and Grounds in the 
City of Charleston, in certain cases, and for 
OTHER PURPOSES. 
Low lots in a 
state of nuis- 
ance to be filled 
up. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, That whenever the City 
Council of Charleston shall be of opinion that any lots 
or grounds within the City of Charleston, belonging to LOW LOTS. 
17 
any person or persons, body or bodies corporate, are in 
a state of nuisance, or so situated that in warm and un- 
healthy seasons a nuisance may thereby be created, and 
the health of the citizens endangered, or whenever the 
land or streets in the vicinity of said lots may become 
liable to injury therefrom, the City Council of Charles- 
ton shall have full power and authority to cause a notice 
to be served on the owner or owners of such lots or 
grounds, directing him or them to have the same f iled 
up to such extent, in such manner, with such materials, 
and within such reasonable time, as may be prescribed 
in such notice ; and in case the owner or owners of such 
lots or grounds shall neglect or refuse to fill up said lots 
or grounds in conformity with said notice, that then the 
said City Council are hereby authorized and empowered 
to have such lots and grounds filled up to such extent, 
and in such manner as they may think fit. 
Sec. 2. All expenses and charges paid or incurred by 
the said City Council, in case such lots or grounds shall 
be filled up under their authority and direction, as afore- 
said, shall and may be recovered with interest and cost 
of suit, in an action of debt, to be brought by said City 
Council in the Court of Common Pleas, against the 
owner or owners of such lots or grounds : Provided, 
The said expenses and charges do not exceed more than 
half the value of said lots or grounds. 
Notice to be 
served on own- 
ers. 
Expenses for 
filling up such 
lots to be recov- 
ered in Court of 
Common Pleas. 
ORDINANCES. 
I. Whenever it shall appear to the Board of Health 
that any low lots or vacant grounds are in a condition 
to injure or endanger the public health, it shall be the 
duty of the said Board of Health to appoint a Board of 
Inspection, to be composed of the City Registrar and 
four members of the Board of Health, any three of whom 
shall be a rpiorum, whose duty it shall be to enter upon 
and thoroughly examine such lots or vacant grounds, 
and determine by the vote of not less than three of the 
said Board, whether such lots or vacant grounds shall 
Ap'l 11,1837, 5 2 
Low lots to 
be examined by 
a Board of In- 
spection. 18 
LOW LOTS. 
be drained, filled up, levelled, or otherwise so improved, 
as to remove the nuisance and evil there complained of 
or existing. And should the said Board of Inspection 
be of opinion that such lots or vacant grounds ought to 
be filled up, levelled, or drained, they shall submit a de- 
tailed report to the City Council, setting forth the actual 
condition thereof, and suggesting the mode, materials, 
and extent to which such low lots or vacant grounds 
shall be filled up, levelled, or drained; upon which re- 
port Council shall take such order and direction thereon 
as they may deem expedient. 
II. In case Council shall order the report of said 
Board of Inspection, made as aforesaid, to be carried 
into effect, or shall direct such low lots to be filled up, 
levelled, or drained, it shall be the duty of the City 
Registrar to serve a notice in writing on the owner or 
owners of such low lots or vacant grounds, directing 
said owner or owners to have such lots or vacant grounds 
filled up, levelled, or drained, as Council may require, to 
such extent, in such manner, with such materials, and 
within such reasonable time as may be prescribed by the 
said order of the City Council. And in case of neglect 
or refusal of such owner or owners to obey said notice, 
it shall be the duty of the City Registrar to cause such 
lots or grounds to be filled up, levelled, or drained, in 
the manner prescribed in the said notice, under the order 
and direction of the said Board of Inspection. The ex- 
penses and charges paid or incurred in case such lots or 
grounds shall be filled up, levelled, or drained, under 
the order of the Board of Inspection, shall be paid in 
the first instance out of the City Treasury, and shall 
afterwards be recovered with interest and costs of suit, 
in an action of debt, to be brought by Council in the 
Court of Common Pleas or City Court, against the 
owner or owners of such lots or grounds. The City En- 
gineer shall, whenever required, attend the said Board 
of Inspection on the examination of low lots and grounds, 
and under their direction make plans for filling, level- 
ling, and draining the same. 
Report to be 
made to Coun- 
cil. 
Ib., J 3. 
Notice to be 
served upon 
owners of lots. 
City Engineer 
to attend Board 
ol Inspection. LOW LOTS. 
19 
III. The said Board of Inspection shall have power to 
order private drains leading from pumps, wells, or other 
places on private lots into the public drains of the City, 
to be built, repaired and altered in such manner and 
within such time as they may direct, notice of which 
shall be served in writing by the City Registrar upon 
the owners or occupants of said lots. The said Board 
shall, in like manner, cause all cellars to be drained or 
filled up, and houses to be cleansed, and all nuisances 
prejudicial to the health of the City, to be removed. 
And in case the owners or occupants of any lot shall 
neglect or refuse to comply with such notice, the said 
Board of Inspection shall have power to cause their 
order, as expressed therein, to be carried into effect by 
the City Registrar, at the expense of the owners or oc- 
cupants aforesaid, to be paid in the first instance out of 
the City Treasury, and afterwards to be recovered with 
interest and costs in the City Court, by an action of debt 
against such owners or occupants. 
IV. If the owner or occupant of any lot, ground, 
house, cellar, vault, or enclosure, or any other person 
found thereon, shall refuse or delay to open the same, 
and suffer it to be examined by the Board of Inspection, 
or the City Registrar, acting under their orders, or shall 
in anywise molest, interrupt, hinder, obstruct, or oppose 
any member of said Board, or the City Registrar in the 
discharge of any of the duties prescribed in this Ordi- 
nance, or any of the workmen, laborers, or agents em- 
ployed by the said Board, or the Registrar, in the per- 
formance of any work ordered by the said Board, or the 
Registrar, in execution of the duties herein required, 
such owner or occupant, or other person offending there- 
in, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hun- 
dred dollars for every such offence. 
V. The owner of any low lot or grounds, which shall 
be found by the said Board of Inspection in a state of 
nuisance, and the owner or occupant of any lot, ground, 
house, cellar, vault, or enclosure, on which any nuisance 
contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be 
Ib., § 4. 
Powers of 
Board in rela- 
tion to drains 
and cellars. 
Ib., §8. 
Penalty for dis- 
obeying Board 
of Inspectors. 
Ib . § 9. 
Penalty on 
owners of lots. 20 
LOW LOTS. 
found by the said Board, shall, notwithstanding their 
liability for the charges and expenses attending the fill- 
ing up, levelling, or draining such low lot or grounds, 
and removal of other nuisances, forfeit and pay a sum 
not exceeding twenty dollars for each low lot or ground 
found in a state of nuisance, or for each lot, ground, 
house, cellar, vault, or enclosure on which such other 
nuisance shall exist. And the owner or occupant, as 
aforesaid, shall moreover forfeit and pay a sum not ex- 
ceeding five dollars for each day said nuisance shall re- 
main on such lot, ground, house, cellar, vault, or enclo- 
sure, contrary to the notice hereinbefore directed to be 
served for the removal thereof. 
VI. The City Registrar, immediately after any lot 
shall be filled up, levelled, or drained, or any cellar filled 
up, or other nuisance removed by order of the Board of 
Inspection, under the authority of this Ordinance, shall 
furnish to the owner thereof a particular statement in 
writing of the charges and expenses incurred, and also 
make a demand in writing of said owner, for payment 
of the same, and he shall therefore return, under oath, 
to the City Treasurer, a duplicate of such statement and 
demand, with a copy of the notice originally served. 
And for default in the performance of any of the duties 
required of the City Registrar under this Ordinance, he 
shall be liable to be fined by the Mayor in a sum not 
exceeding ten dollars for each neglect, refusal, or omis- 
sion, to be deducted from the amount of his salary. And 
all notices directed by this Ordinance shall be personally 
served by the said Registrar on the party to whom they 
shall be addressed, or in case of absence from the State 
or County, upon the authorized agent or attorney of 
said party ; and where so served upon such agent or 
attorney, it shall be deemed a service upon the owner of 
such lot or premises, so as to authorize the action of the 
Board of Inspection, in executing, through the City Re- 
gistrar, their orders and directions upon the default or 
refusal to comply with said notice as herein provided. 
Ib., J 10. 
City Registrar 
after lots are 
levelled or 
drained to de- 
mand payment. 
Notices to be 
j) e r s o n a 11 y 
served. REVISED ORDINANCES-CHAPTER LIX. 
PHYSICIANS OF THE POOR. 
ORDINANCES. 
I. At every annual election of City officers, City Coun- 
cil shall elect six Physicians for the Poor, who, together 
with the physician supplied by the Trustees of Shirer's 
Dispensary, shall have charge of the indigent sick of the 
City. 
II. The City Registrar shall, from time to time, divide 
the City into seven Health Districts, and assign one of 
the aforesaid physicians to each district. 
III. The physicians aforesaid shall be required to live 
in and have offices in the districts to which they are 
assigned; to carry with them, on their professional visits, 
a pocket book of medicines for prompt use among their 
patients, and to answer calls at all hours. On changing 
their residence from the district to which they were as- 
signed, the office becomes vacant, and an election to fill 
the vacancy will be made by Council. No temporary 
substitute shall be made without the written approval of 
the Mayor. The Shirer's Dispensary Physician will be 
under the above regulations, so far as it is practicable. 
IV. Each of the said physicians, including the Shirer's 
Dispensary, shall report, in tabular form, once each 
quarter of the year, and also annually, to the Registrar, 
of all important matters connected with their duties. 
V. The salary of each of the Physicians of the Poor 
shall be at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, 
payable monthly; and to enable them to furnish the 
medicines and stimulants required by their patients, the 
sum of two hundred dollars each shall be paid them in 
addition to their salary, but in same form, to wit, month- 
ly, which sum shall also be paid in same manner and 
purpose to the physician elected by Shirer's Dispensary. 
4 
Jan. 9. 1872, § 1. 
Dec. 2.3,1873,§1. 
Physicians of 
the Poor to be 
annually elect- 
ed by Council. 
Dec. 23,1873,51. 
The Registrar 
to divide the 
City into health 
districts. 
Jan. 9, 1872, § 6. 
The physi- 
cians to live in 
their districts. 
Ib., § 7. 
The physi- 
cians to make 
q u a r t e rly re- 
ports. 
Ib , § 8. 
Salaries. REVISED ORDINANCES-CHAPTER LXHI. 
PRIVY V A U L T S. 
ORDINANCES. 
Aug. 29,1836,§ 1 
Unlawful for 
any privy to be 
construe ted 
less than ten 
feet from the 
line of street. 
I. It shall not be lawful for any vault or privy to be 
constructed at less than ten feet distant from the line of 
any street, lane, or alley; and if any of the owners, ten- 
ants, or occupants of any lot of land within the limits of 
the City shall construct or erect any vault or privy 
thereon, at the distance of less than ten feet from the line 
of any street, lane, or alley, such person or persons so 
offending shall forfeit and pay, to the use of the City, the 
sum of one thousand dollars, to be recovered in any 
court having jurisdiction. 
IT. Privies on lots within the City shall be so con- 
structed that the contents thereof cannot escape there- 
from or overflow; and whenever any vault or privy be- 
comes offensive, the same shall be cleansed; and the 
owner or occupant of the premises on which any vault or 
privy may be situated, the condition of which shall be 
in violation of this Ordinance, shall remove, cleanse, 
alter, amend, or repair the same, within a reasonable 
time, after notice in writing to that effect shall be given 
■by the Board of Health. In case of neglect or refusal, 
the same shall be performed by order of the said Board 
of Health, at the expense of the owner or occupant of 
such premises, to be first paid by the City, and then re- 
covered, with interest, from such owner or occupant, in 
the City Court, or in any other court having jurisdic- 
tion. 
III. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons 
to connect any vault, privy, or water-closet upon any 
lot, with any of the drains of the City, or to discharge 
or convey the contents thereof into any such drains; 
Penalty. 
Apr. 11,1837, § 6 
Privies to be 
constructed so 
that the con- 
tents cannot 
overflow. 
Aug. 13J851.§1 
Unlawful for 
any person to 
connect a n y 
privy or water 
closet with the 
city drains. PRIVY VAULTS. 
23 
and any person or persons offending herein, whether lie 
or they be the owners or occupants of such lots, shall 
forfeit and pay to the City the sum of one thousand dol- 
lars for each and every offence; and, also, a further addi- 
tional sum of one hundred dollars for each and every 
day that the said grievances, or any of them, shall con- 
tinue, after written notice from the Mayor or Board of 
Health to abate or discontinue the same. And any per- 
son who shall be concerned or engaged in the building or 
construction of any means or conveyance or connection 
for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, shall forfeit 
and pay to the City, for each offence, the sum of one 
hundred dollars. 
IA . All privy vaults shall be cleaned once a year, or 
as frequently as may be deemed necessary by the Board 
of Health, and the contents thereof shall be removed 
only in air-tight vessels, to be approved by the said 
Board of Health; and no person shall engage in the busi- 
ness of emptying the said privy vaults without first ob- 
taining a license from the said Board of Health. 
Penalty. 
Penalty on 
persons engag- 
edin construct- 
ing works, &c. 
Mar. 30,1875, § 5 
Privy vaults 
to be cleaned 
once a year, &c. REVISED ORDINANCES-CHAPTER LXV. 
R E G I S T R A R. 
ORDINANCES. 
Jan. 9, 1872, § 1. 
Duties of the 
City Registrar. 
I. Al every annual election of City officers, City Coun- 
cil shall elect an officer to be called the City Registrar, 
whose duty it shall be to keep his office located at the 
office of the Board of Health, in the City Hospital, Ma- 
zyek street; open from 9 o'clock A. M. until 2 o'clock 
1'. M., every day, Sundays and holidays excepted, for 
the convenience of the citizens; and keep a record 
book for complaints or notices of nuisances to be 
attended to by him. He shall prepare and publish the 
weekly bills of mortality, make out and preserve the 
meteorological and thermometrical observations; keep a 
public register of all deaths which take place in the City; 
inquire into the cause of all epidemical diseases, and re- 
port the same to the Board of Health, or to the Mayor; 
make inquiries concerning the state of public health, 
when required, and report to the Mayor or Board of 
Health. He shall submit to the Board of Health, on the 
first Monday in November, of each year, a full report, 
showing the duties performed, the state of public health 
during the past year, with such suggestions and recom- 
mendations as he may deem expedient and proper. 
II. The City Registrar shall be ex officio a member of 
the Board of Health. He shall furnish to the Board, 
when desired, such information in regard to public health 
as may be necessary, and report any improvements or 
alterations, in buildings or streets, that in anywise affect 
the general health of the City. He shall receive from 
the sextons the burial certificates, keeping a record of 
the same, and report to the Mayor all violations of the 
Ordinances concerning burials, that come under his no- 
Ib., § 2. 
Shall be ex 
officio a member 
of the Board of 
Health. REGISTRAR. 
25 
tice. lie shall attend the meetings of the Board of 
Health, and carry out all orders of the Board, or of the 
Mayor, in relation to the sanitary regulations of the City; 
and from time to time, and whenever ordered to do so, 
by the Mayor or Board of Health, make a thorough and 
systematic examination of the City, and he shall cause 
all nuisances to be abated with reasonable promptness. 
HI. The City Registrar shall keep a record of all 
reports rendered from the City Physicians, the Shirer's 
Dispensary Physician, and the City Hospital Physician; 
shall tabulate all such reports, and at the end of each 
year, including the 31st of December, shall present them 
to the City Council, with his reports concerning his own 
specific duties. 
IV. No officer or clerk in the Health Department or 
Registrar's office shall be employed without the sanction 
of the Board of Health. 
V. The salary of the Registrar shall be at the rate of 
fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. 
Shall carry 
out all orders 
of Board of 
Health. 
Ib , § 3. 
Shall keep a 
record of re- 
ports of City 
physicians, &c. 
lb., 
Ib., 5 5. 
Salary. REVISED ORDINANCES-CHAPTER LXX. 
S T R E E T S . 
ORDINANCES. 
Sept. 27,1836.5 3 
Jan. 18,1858,5 5 
Mar. 30,1875,5 2 
Garbage, &c., 
to be placed in 
the streets eve- 
ry day by oc- 
cupants of all 
premises. 
XIV. It shall be the duty of every owner of a lot, who 
may reside thereon, and of the owner of every vacant 
lot, and of every lot not having a known lessee or tenant 
residing thereon, and of every lessee, tenant, or occupant 
of every lot, to cause said lot and the stables, cow-houses, 
and out-houses thereon, to be carefully swept; and all 
the dirt, dung, soot, ashes, carrion, garbage, shreds, 
oyster shells, or other filth or rubbish, to be carried out 
every day, (Sundays excepted,) by the hour of 7 o'clock 
A. M., from the first day of May to the first day of No- 
vember in every year, and by the hour of 9 o'clock A. M., 
from the first day of November to the first day of May 
following, and placed in boxes, barrels, or in heaps, in 
the street, at the edge of the pavement, opposite their 
respective lots, but so as not to obstruct the gutter, in a 
situation from whence the same may be conveniently 
removed. And any person offending herein, or placing 
any dirt, filth, garbage, or other offal, in any street, lane, 
alley, or open court, after the hours above named, or on 
Sundays, shall be subject to a fine of not less than two, 
nor more than five dollars, for each and every offence, to 
be imposed by the Mayor or by the Board of Health, 
whenever, in their opinion, such offence may be detri- 
mental to the public health. 
XV. It shall be the duty of every corporate body, or 
person or persons owning, or having the care, control, or 
management of any public building, church yard, or 
burial ground, within the City, to cause such public 
building to be cleansed and swept, and the rank and 
offensive weeds growing on such grounds and yards to 
Sept. 27,1836,§ 4 
Mar. 30,1875, § 2 
Public build- 
ings, &c., to be 
cleansed. STREETS. 
27 
be pulled up, collected, and placed in heaps in the street, 
at the edge of the pavement, in front of such church 
yard or burial ground, and the filth or rubbish which 
may be collected in such public buildings, to be placed 
in like manner in the street, at least once in every fort- 
night, and as much oftener as may be required by the 
Mayor or Board of Health. And also to cause the grass 
which may be growing on such burial ground or church 
yard, to be removed or cut, and taken away as often as 
in the opinion of the Board of Health the growth thereof 
may be so rank or luxuriant as to endanger the health 
of the City. For every neglect or refusal to discharge 
the duties enjoined by this section, the person or persons, 
or body corporate, so offending, shall be fined in a sum 
not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars. 
XVI. The Street Inspectors shall be required to have the 
dirt, filth, garbage, and all kinds of offal, removed from 
the streets, lanes, alleys, and open courts-of the City, by 
the hour of 10 o'clock A. M., from the first day of May 
to the first day of November, in every year, and by the 
hour of 12 o'clock M.,from the first day of November to 
the first day of May following; and the said dirt, filth, 
garbage, and offal, shall be deposited by them at such 
place or places north of Line street as may be designated 
by the Mayor, with the sanction of the City Council. 
And the said Inspectors, in addition to the foregoing, 
shall be required to keep the streets, lanes, alleys, and 
open courts in their respective divisions, at all times, 
clean and free from filth; to keep clean and free from 
obstructions, the gratings of the public drains, and the 
gutters along the sidewalks, and shall also sweep daily 
the stone crossings therein; and as often and at such 
times as the Mayor or Committee on Streets may deem 
necessary, they shall have the paved streets, lanes, alleys, 
and open courts, swept or scraped, and the unpaved 
streets, lanes, alleys, and open courts, raked, and re- 
move and deposit the sweepings, scrapings, and rakings 
therefrom, at such place or places, north of Line street, 
as the Mayor shall, from time to time, designate. And 
Weeds, &c , in 
church yards to 
be removed. 
Jan. 19.1858,§ 3. 
Mar 30, 1875, § 2 
Inspectors to 
remove all gar- 
bage, &c., from 
the streets. 
To keep the 
streets clean. 28 
STREETS. 
the said Inspectors shall be liable to a fine of five dollars 
for each and every act of omission or default, to be im- 
posed by the Mayor or by the Board of Health, when- 
ever in their opinion such neglect may be detrimental to 
the public health, and to be deducted from their pay; or 
the Mayor may, in his discretion, have the work done at 
the expense and risk of the said Inspectors, and have the 
sum paid therefor deducted from their pay. 
XVII. If any filth, dirt, rubbish, or animal or vegeta- 
ble matter shall at any time be found in any street, alley, 
or lane, contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, it 
shall be deemed and taken to have been placed there 
from the lot nearest thereto, and the owner, occupant, 
lessee, or tenant of such lot shall be fined accordingly, 
unless he or she can make it appear, to the satisfaction 
of the Mayor or Board of Health, as the case may be, 
that it was placed there by some other person, in which 
case the person guilty of the offence shall be liable to a 
fine of not less than twenty dollars, nor more than fifty 
dollars: Provided, That where the owner, occupant, 
lessee, or tenant of such lot shall deny that such dirt, 
filth, or rubbish was thrown from his or her lot, and 
shall, on being notified thereof, forthwith make oath that 
he or she doth verily believe that the same was not 
taken, carried, or thrown out from his or her lot, the 
person so swearing shall be relieved from the said penal- 
ty. Provided always, That nothing in this Ordinance 
contained, shall be construed to extend to the making 
of drains, filling up low lots, or to the removal of other 
nuisances than those above specified, which shall be 
dealt with according to the laws now of force, or here- 
after to be prescribed. 
XXXI. It shall not be lawful to dig up, open, or dis- 
turb the surface of the earth, within the limits of the 
City, between the first day of June and the first day of 
October, in any year, for the purpose of paving the 
streets, of excavating for drains, of laying down gas or 
other pipes, or of carrying on any other public improve- 
ment; and any person or persons, or incorporated com- 
Sept.27,1836,§ 7 
Filth found 
on street shall 
be deemed to 
have been 
]> 1 a c e d there 
from the near- 
est lot. 
July 12, 1853, 5 1 
July 8, 1856, § 1. 
Surface of the 
earth not to be 
disturbed be- 
tween first of 
June and first 
of October. STREETS. 
29 
pany, offending herein, shall be subject to a penalty of 
five hundred dollars for each and every offence, to be 
recovered for the use of the City, in any court of com- 
petent jurisdiction: Provided, That any incorporated gas 
company, or their agent or agents, may at any time dur- 
ing the year lay down service pipes in any street, lane, 
or alley of the City, in which main pipes have been al- 
ready laid; upon the express condition and proviso, how- 
ever, that between the first day of June and the first day 
of October, in every year, each piece of service pipe shall 
be laid, and the earth and pavement restored during the 
day in which the surface of any street, lane, or alley is 
opened for the aforesaid purpose. 
Exception in 
favor o f g a s 
companies. RULES AND REGULATIONS 
OF THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH, 
Adopted 14TH April, 1875. 
MEETINGS. 
I. The Regular Meetings of the Board of Health shall be 
held on Wednesday, in each week, at 5 o'clock P. M., unless 
otherwise ordered. 
II. Four members shall constitute a quorum. 
III. Special Meetings may be called by the Chairman or 
Registrar. 
COMMITTEES. 
IV. The Standing Committees of the Board shall be seven 
in number : 
1. On Hospitals and Dispensaries, to consist of two mem- 
bers and the Registrar. 
2. On Low Lots, Drainage, and Nuisances, to consist of 
four members and the Registrar. 
3. On Burial Grounds, Sextons, and Hearses, to consist of 
two members and the Registrar. 
4. On Epidemicsand Public Hygiene, to consist of two 
members and the Registrar. 32 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
5. On Sanitary Condition of Public Institutions, to con- 
sist of three members. 
6.' On Accounts, to consist of three members. 
7. On Law and Ordinances, to consist of two members 
and the Registrar. 
V. Special Committees may be appointed on any subject 
when so ordered by the Board. 
ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
VI. The following shall be the Order of Business at all 
meetings of the Board : 
i. Reading of Minutes. 
2. Registrar's Report. 
3. Reports of Standing Committees. 
4. Reports of Special Committees. 
5. Reports of Sanitary Inspectors. 
6. Communications from all Sources. 
7. Resolutions and Orders. 
8. Unfinished Business. 
9. New Business. 
VII. All Resolutions shall be submitted in writing. 
OFFICE HOURS. 
VIII. From 9 to 3 o'clock. Registrar to be present from 
12 to 2 o'clock. 
LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 
IX. Leave of absence may be granted to any employee 
for a period not to exceed three days on written application, 
unless otherwise ordered by the Board. 
EXPENDITURES. 
X. All necessary supplies for this Department shall, when 
duly ordered, be purchased under the direction of the Reg- 
istrar and Chairman of the Committee on Accounts, and, as RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
33 
far as possible, by contract, except supplies for the City 
Hospital, which shall be purchased in accordance with an 
Ordinance to Provide Physicians, etc., for the Poor of 
Charleston, ratified January 9th, 1872. [See Chapter LIX, 
Revised Ordinances.] 
REPORTS AND COMPLAINTS. 
XI. All employees shall report to the Board through the 
Registrar. 
XII. All complaints, stating grievances, in writing, must 
be filed with the Registrar for action of the Board of Health 
at the next ensuing meeting, at which time the complain- 
ant must be present, with witnesses, if necessary, and there, 
orally and under oath, may be examined. Said complaints 
shall be then acted on at once, if possible. 
SANITARY INSPECTORS. 
XIII. The Sanitary Inspectors shall perform such duties 
as may be required of them by the Board of Health, and 
shall relinquish the demands of any other business, in order 
the better to observe the obligations imposed upon them by 
their office. 
XIV. They shall be under the immediate direction and 
control of the Registrar, from and through whom they shall 
receive all orders. 
XV. They shall present themselves at the office of the 
Registrar as often as may be required by him, to receive 
orders and make reports; nor are their duties limited to the 
Ward to which they may be assigned. 
XVI. Any delinquency on the part of a Sanitary Inspec- 
tor will justify the Registrar in suspending him until action 
is taken by the Board, to whom such suspension must be 
reported by the City Registrar at the next meeting there- 
after, or else such suspension will cease. 
XVII. Sanitary Inspectors shall make written Reports, 
weekly, to the Registrar, of the duty performed by them on 34 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
each successive day. They shall immediately, and without 
delay, report upon all special cases referred to them, or that 
may*come within their knowledge. 
XVIII. Blank Reports must be filled up legibly and 
minutely, and any valuable information be added. 
XIX. They shall hold no other office nor place of emolu- 
ment, without the express permission of the Board, and 
shall be at all times at the call of the Registrar. 
XX. Each Sanitary Inspector, while on duty, shall wear a 
proper badge, to be provided by the Board of Health. 
XXI. On entering any house or premises, they must an- 
nounce their authority, and the object of their visit, and 
while endeavoring not to give offence, they must make their 
investigations minutely, and perform their duties thoroughly. 
XXII. They shall report to the Registrar the names of 
all persons who may offer any resistance to them in the per- 
formance of their duties. 
XXIII. The salary of each Sanitary Inspector shall be 
fifty dollars ($50), payable monthly, for each month while 
actually employed. 
SECRETARY. 
XXIV. The Secretary shall be subject to the direction of 
the Board of Health, and shall keep and authenticate its 
acts, records, papers, and proceedings; preserve its books 
and papers, conduct its correspondence, and aid in accom- 
plishing the purpose of the Health Ordinances and Regula- 
tions as the Board may direct. 
XXV. He shall be under the immediate control and 
direction of the Registrar, and his office shall be in that of 
the Registrar. 
XXVI. He shall receive for his services seventy-five dol- 
lars ($75) per month, payable monthly. DIRECTORY. 
BOARD OF HEALTH. 
Andrew Simonds, Chairman. 
F. M. Robertson, M. D. 
Otto A. Moses, Ph. D. 
Edward Willis, Esq. 
E. W. M. Mackey, Esq.,) , 
S. B. Garrett, Esq., ' 
ROBT. Lebby, M. D., City Registrar. 
Secretary, 
P. B. Bacot, M. D. 
STANDING COMMITTEES. 
Hospital and Dispensaries- Lobby, Robertson, and Moses. 
Low Lots, Drainage, and Nuisances- 
Burial Grounds, Sextons, and Hearses-Garrett, Lobby, and 
Mackey. 
Epidemics and Public Hygiene-Robertson, Lobby, and 
Moses. 
Sanitary Condition of Public Institutions-Moses, Robert- 
son, and Simonds. 
Accounts- Willis, Lobby, and Moses. 
Law and Ordinances-Mackey, Willis, and Garrett. 36 
DIRECTORY. 
SANITARY INSPECTORS. 
Ward i-A. B. Cunningham. 
Ward 2-W. H. Easterby. 
Ward j-D. Ottolengui. 
Ward 4-John C. Claussen. 
Ward 5-L. F. Wall. 
Ward 6-T. E. Dalwick. 
Ward y-A. Roumillat. 
Ward 8-Alex. Artope. 
CITY HOSPITAL. 
Physician in Charge-J. Somers Buist, M. D. 
Associate Physician-F. Peyre Porcher, M. D. 
Steward-T. E. Newton. 
PHYSICIANS OF THE POOR. 
Health District No. i, embracing Wards i and 2-Dr. W. 
II. Bailey. 
Health District No. 2, embracing Ward 3-Dr. T. Reents- 
jerna. 
Health District No. j, embracing Ward 4.-Dr. Joseph 
Yates. 
Health District No. y, embracing Ward 3-Dr. J. L. 
Ancrum. 
Health District No. 5, embracing Ward 6-Dr. L. M. 
Grimball. 
Health District No. 6, embracing Ward 7-Dr. T. R. 
Aldrich. 
Health District No. 7, embracing Ward 8-Dr. T. C. 
Skrine.