ORDINANCE NO. 22.

AN ORDINANCE IN REGARD TO THE ESTABLISHING OF A BOARD OF HEALTH IN THE CITY OF BROWNING.

Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Browning, Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. A board of health shall be established in and for the city of Browning, Mo., which shall consist of the Mayor, one member of the Board of Aldermen and two resident physicians of the city, in good standing. Said members of the Board and said physicans to be appointed by the Board of Aldermen, and hold their offices until the first meeting of the Board after the annual election succeeding such appointments, and until their successors shall have been duly appointed and qualified.

SECTION 2. The physicians acting as menbers of such board of health shall receive such compensation for their services as shall be agreed upon from time to time by the Board of Aldermen.

SECTION 3. The general duties of said Board of Health shall be to exercise a strict supervision over the sanitary conditions of the city of Browning, and to report to the Board of Aldermen, or the Marshal or Mayor from tine to time the existence and location of all nuisances prejudicial to health, the inception, prevalence and spread of any infectious or contagious disease, and to report generally and at all times necessary, any and all matters which they may deen detrimental to the public health. And they shall in such report, when made to the Board of Aldermen, suggest and recommend such measures as in their judgment is necessary to remedy, check, mitigare or prevent nuisances, disease or other sanitary evils complained of or apprehended, and to insure and promote the health and good sanitary conditions of the city.

SECTION 4. The Board of Aldermen shall, by ordinance, make such provision from time to time as may be deemed necessary to carry into effect the recommendations of the Board of Health, and shall enforce the same by appropriate fines and penalties.

SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect an be in force from an after its passage.

Passed an approved this 14th day of February, 1900.
Geo. Freeland, Mayor.
Attest:
C. A. Johnson, City Clerk.