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(Captains or other Persons having Control of Vessels Arriving, or in the Harbor, having Leprosy, etc., on Board, to report the same to Quarantine Officer within twenty-four hours of the Arrival.) Sec. 3. All captains and other officers bringing vessels into the harbor of San Francisco, and all masters, owners or consignees having vessels in the harbor which have on board any cases of leprosy or elephantiasis, shall, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of said vessels, report the same in writing to the Quarantine Officer, or as soon thereafter as they or either of them become aware of the existence of said disease on board of their vessels; the said report to state the name, place of birth, last residence, age and occupation of all such persons so afflicted.

(All Persons Prohibited from Assisting in the Landing of Lepers, etc.)

Sec. 4. No person or persons shall, directly or indirectly, assist or be a party to the removal from any vessel in the harbor to the shore, or transfer from one vessel to another vessel lying in this port, any person or persons afflicted with the diseases known as leprosy or elephantiasis. (Captains or Officers of Vessels arriving who have knowingly Permitted the Embarkation of Lepers on their Vessels, Guilty of Misdemeanor.)

Sec. 5. Any captain or other officer in command of any vessel arriving at the Port of San Francisco, who shall have knowingly received on board said vessel at the port of embarkation, for transportation to this City and County, any person afflicted with the diseases known as leprosy or elephantiasis, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

(All Persons Prohibited from Harboring Lepers.) Sec. 6. No person shall keep, aid, or assist in keeping in any house, tenement, or in any place in this City and County (except in the lazaretto or

lepers' quarters designated by this Board), any per son afflicted with or having the disease known as leprosy or elephantiasis.

(Penalty.)

Sec. 7. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Order shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail not more than six months, or by both such fine and im prisonment.

ORDINANCE NO. 3141. (New Series.)

(In effect March 11, 1915.)

Authorizing and Empowering the Board of Health of the City and County of San Francisco to Re move Persons Afflicted with Certain Contagious or Infectious Diseases.

Whereas, the removal and isolation of persons af flicted with Smallpox, Cholera, Yellow Fever, Bu bonic Plague, Typhus Fever, Poliomyelitis, Diph theria and Scarlet Fever, may become necessary for the protection of the public health and public safety and for the prevention of the spread of said dis

eases,

Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. The Board of Health of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized andi empowered, whenever in its judgment it may be necessary for the protection of the public health and public safety, and for the prevention of the spread of Smallpox, Cholera, Yellow Fever, Bubonic Plague Typhus Fever, Poliomyelitis, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, to remove or cause to be removed any persor or persons afflicted with any of said diseases whe may be found residing in any hotel, lodging house. boarding house, tenement house, or any other place or places, or districts within the City and County of San Francisco, to such hospitals within the City

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and County of San Francisco as said Board of Health may designate.

Sec. 2. All orders and ordinances, or parts of orders and ordinances, in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Ordinance shall take effect. from and after its passage.

ORDINANCE NO. 87.

(In effect June 6, 1900.)

Empowering the Board of Health to Quarantine Persons, Houses, Places and Districts, when in its Judgment it is Deemed Necessary to Prevent the Spreading of Contagious or Infectious Diseases. Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. The Board of Health of this City and County is hereby authorized and empowered to quarantine persons, houses, places and districts within this City and County, when in its judgment it is deemed necessary to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious diseases.

Sec. 2. All Orders and Ordinances and parts of Orders and Ordinances in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage.

ORDINANCE NO. 369. (New Series.)
(In effect March 2, 1908.)

Providing Sanitary Regulations for the Protection
of the Public Health in the City and County of
San Francisco, and particularly to prevent the
Propagation and Spread of the Bubonic Plague
Through the Medium of Rats.

Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. This Ordinance is designed to be and is enacted as a police and sanitary regulation for

the protection of the public health, and particularly to prevent the propagation and spread of bubonic plague through the medium of rats.

Sec. 2. The Health Officer of the City and County of San Francisco, or any agent or inspector ap pointed by him or by the Board of Health for the purpose, shall have authority, after announcing the purpose of his visit, and shall be permitted to enter any building or premises, or any part thereof, in the City and County, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon of any day, for the purpose of inspecting the same, and to ascertain whether the provisions of this Ordi¦ nance have been complied with by the owner and occupant thereof.

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Sec. 3. All building and basement walls of all storerooms, warehouses, residences or other buildings within the City and County; all chicken yards or pens, chicken coops or houses, and all barns and stables, shall be so constructed or repaired as to prevent rats from being harbored underneath the same or within the walls thereof, and all food products or other products, goods, wares and mer chandise liable to attract or to become infested or infected with rats, whether kept for sale or for any other purpose, shall be so protected as to prevent rats from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith. All storerooms, warehouses, resi dences or other buildings in said City and County shall be provided by the householder or his agent with one or more traps of a pattern approved by the Health Officer, which traps shall be freshly baited at least twice each week by the householder or his agent, and shall be inspected daily by the house holder or his agent, and any rat or rats caught therein shall be killed and delivered to the Health De partment, or its duly authorized deputy, or killed and then destroyed by burning, and such trap or traps thoroughly smoked and reset and rebaited by said. householder or his agent.

Sec. 4. All public and private docks and wharves in the City and County, wherever located, shall be so protected as to prevent rats from gaining en

trance to such docks or wharves at either high or low tide from vessels anchored or moored alongside of such docks or wharves, or from other sources, and all food products stored in docks or wharves shall be so kept and stored as to prevent rats from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith. All docks and wharves shall be provided with two or more traps of a pattern approved by the Health Officer; traps shall be freshly baited at least twice each week, and shall be inspected daily, and all rats caught therein shall be killed and delivered to the Health Department, or its duly authorized deputy, or killed and then destroyed by burning, and such trap or traps shall be thoroughly smoked and reset and rebaited.

Sec. 5. All slaughterhouses of every kind and nature and wherever located in the City and County shall be so protected as to prevent rats from gaining access to the building or buildings thereof, and all holes and openings in the building or basement walls shall be thoroughly stopped with cement or other material approved by the Board of Health, and all food products stored in slaughterhouses shali be so kept as to prevent rats from coming in con tact therewith.

All slaughterhouses shall have at least two traps, or as many more traps as may be required by the Board of Health of pattern approved by said Board, which traps shall be baited with fresh bait at least twice a week, and such traps shall be inspected daily by the owners, lessees or agents thereof, and all rats caught therein shall be killed and delivered to the Health Department, or its duly authorized deputy, or killed and then destroyed by burning, and the trap or traps thoroughly smoked and reset and rebaited by said owners, lessees or their agents.

Sec. 6. All buildings, places and premises whatsoever in the City and County shall at once be placed, and shall continuously be kept, by the owner or occupant thereof in a clean and sanitary condition, and free from rats.

Sec. 7. No person, firm or corporation shall hav or permit upon any premises owned, occupied o

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