LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. THE SANITARY CODE. PREFACE. The Laws and Regulations of the United States Treasury included in the Code are obligatory. Also the Laws of the State of Louisiana. Also the Regulations of the State Board based upon them, specially those based upon Section 3, which orders and empowers the State Board to prepare a Sanitary Code for the State of Louisiana, which shall contain and provide rules and regulations of a general nature for the improvement and amelioration of the hygienic and sanitary conditions of the State, etc. (Act 192 of 1898, Section 3, Page 5, line 5 and following.) These are marked by a Star opposite each number in the text. All Local Boards must obey them. The other Regulations herein contained are recommendatory, and optional and educational. Each Local Board will adopt what parts it thinks best suited for its local conditions. Local Boards must be guided in their selections by an Attorney at law, who will specially instruct them as to what is obligatory and what is optional and recommendatory. They will then enact penalties for the violation of the regulations adopted by them. When necessary they shall have the Municipal and Parish Civil Authorities pass whatever special ordinances may be necessary. It is not necessary that the Local Municipal Authorities should concur in, and pass ordinary local sanitary ordinances, which may have been already adopted by the Local Boards of Health, but it would be better for them so to do, as the public have been accustomed to look to Police Juries and City Councils as the local law-making power, and their approval would tend to secure a more prompt compliance with health ordinances. The Local Boards shall have to be guided by their Local Attorneys on all matters local. But on matters general or doubtful, an application to the President of the State Board shall be made, and it shall be submitted to the Attorney of the State Board for advice. A number of the regulations inserted were taken from ordinances of the city of New Orleans and of Shreveport, and codes of Northern and Western cities, where they have given satisfaction. Penalties for violations of Quarantine Regulations enacted by Local Boards must be enacted by the Police Jury of each parish, or municipal authorities (Sec. 7, Act 192 of 1898). * * * Section 3 of Act 192 of 1898 says: Be it further enacted, etc., That said board shall prepare or cause to be prepared a sanitary code for the State of Louisiana, which shall contain and provide rules and regulations and ordinances of a general nature for the improvement and amelioration of the hygienic and sanitary condition of the State. On the adoption of said code by the board it shall be published at length and in full in at least one newspaper in the city of New Orleans, and in the official journal of the State capital, on ten successive and consecutive days, and shall also be printedand published in pamphlet form with such number of copies as may be necessary for the distribution for information of health bodies, health and sanitary officers and the public generally. When so printed said code shall cover and provide for, especially, land and maritime quarantine regulations; the reporting, care and management of cases of infectious and contagious diseases; it shall regulate the manner of keeping and reporting and tabulating vital and mortuary statistics; it shall provide, for affording facilities for vaccination, provided the same shall not be made compulsory, except in cases of children attending the public schools; it shall regulate the carriage and transportation of persons, freight and dead bodies brought into the State or transported through or in the state in so far as the same may affect the public health; it shall provide for the carrying out of the laws of the State in regard to the adulteration of articles intended for human food or consumption; it shall provide for the inspection of meats, milk, coal oil and other articles affecting the public health and safety, where and when the same may be brought into one parish from another, or from outside of the State, leaving to the local boards hereinafter provided the regulation of the sale or offering for sale of said articles within the parish or municipality to which the same may be brought; and said code shall contain general rules in regard to such health, sanitary and hygienic subjects as can not, in the opinion of the State Board of Health, be efficiently and effectively regulated by the local boards. CONTENTS. 3, Power, Authority Jurisdiction. 6, Members of Boards of Health Maritime Quarantine Proclamation Regulations Under Which Fruit Vessels Plying between New Orleans and Infected Ports May be Permitted to Operate Without Deten- Section 3 of Act 192 of 1898 says: Be it further enacted, shall prepare or cause to be prepared a san for the State of Louisiana, which shall contain and provide rules lations and ordinances of a general nature for the improvement a oration of the hygienic and sanitary condition of the State. On the of said code by the board it shall be published at length and in least one newspaper in the city of New Orleans, and in the offici of the State capital, on ten successive and consecutive days, and be printedand published in pamphlet form with such number as may be necessary for the distribution for information of healt health and sanitary officers and the public generally. When s said code shall cover and provide for, especially, land and mariti antine regulations; the reporting, care and management of cases tious and contagious diseases; it shall regulate the manner of kee reporting and tabulating vital and mortuary statistics; it shall pro affording facilities for vaccination, provided the same shall not compulsory, except in cases of children attending the public se shall regulate the carriage and transportation of persons, freight : bodies brought into the State or transported through or in the st far as the same may affect the public health; it shall provide for rying out of the laws of the State in regard to the adulteration o intended for human food or consumption; it shall provide for the tion of meats, milk, coal oil and other articles affecting the publi and safety, where and when the same may be brought into one par another, or from outside of the State, leaving to the local boards after provided the regulation of the sale or offering for sale of said within the parish or municipality to which the same may be broug said code shall contain general rules in regard to such health, sani hygienic subjects as can not, in the opinion of the State Board of be efficiently and effectively regulated by the local boards. |