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OROYNAuc ' ,I t. 89. AN ORDINANCE ,CONCERNING TIE BOARD OF HEALTH AND HEALTH OFFICERS. BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF LOUIS- , VILLE:' Section 1.. The Board of Trustees shall, as soon as practicable after its organization in each year appoint a duly qualified and licensed physician as physician ,to the Board of Health of the Town of Louis- ville, who shall be the Health Officer of said Town, and who shall hold his such office during the pleasure of the Board of Trustees of said town acting as the Board of Health. Section 2. That sue,h Health Officer shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of one Hundred Dollars per annum payable. in monthly installments and shall perform such duties , and exercise such, powers appertaining to his said office as may be conferred or imposed upon him by law, and, such other duties As may be required of him by the ordinances of said Town or by the Board of Health thereof.; Section 3. It shall be his duty to promptly report to the said Board of Health all infractions of the health laws within the Town of Louisville as are under the jurisdiction of such Board of Health, and also all violations of health ordinances or rules and regulations made by such Board of Health. He shall make a written monthly re- port to the Board of Trustees at its regular monthly session of all placards of contagious diseases posted by him and of all dis- infection and fumigations performed by him as such Health Officer, and shall give the particulars as to the names of the particulars as to the names of the persons quarantined or released from quar- intine, the name of the 'disease , and the physician or other person reporting the same, the date of posting, the date of removal of the placard notice of any such disease; and shall also make a state- ment of the kind and quantity of the materials used by him for disinfection or fumigation in any case where the cost of such mat- erials are charged to the Town of Louisville. Such report shall also contain the name of any person professionally attended by him as such Health Officer in emergency cases upon the call of any officer of the said ,Town, and the particulars of any such case. Such Health Officer without additional compensation than as herein provided, shall temporarily attend to such emergency cases in said Town, whether of disablement of any person of the illness of any person supported at the public expense in said Town, as, may be required of him by the said Board of Health or any member -thereof" or of any member of the Health Committee of the Board of Trustees, and shall, when required by the Board of .Trustees , without additional compensation than as herein provided, make examination of any person as to any injury claimed by any such person to be due to default or neglect of the said Town, and shall make a report thereof to the Board of Trustees at its next meeting. And such Health Officer shall in general be active in the effort to preserve and improve the healthfulness of the Town of Louisville , and shall examine into and report upon all instances of nuisance and filth observed