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          ORDINANCE
       TO ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OP A
SUPERINTENDENT OF HEALTH
     In the Board of Mayor and Aldermen,
                         April 11; 1853.
Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
  Attest:      S. F. McCleary, Jr., City Clerk. 
CITY  OF  BOSTON.
         In Board of Mayor and Aldermen,
                                March 14, 1853.
  Ordered,  That the Committee on Ordinances be and
they are hereby instructed to report to the City Coun-
cil,  an  Ordinance  establishing  the  office  of  a  Su-
perintendent of the Internal Health Department, and
denning its duties.
  Sent down for concurrence.
                  BENJAMIN  SEAVER,  Mayor.

              In Common Council, March 17, 1853.
              HENRY J. GARDNER, President.
  A true Copy.
     Attest:     Sam'l F. McCleary, Jr., City Clerk. 
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CITY  OF  BOSTON.
  The Committee on Ordinances, who were instructed
to report to the City Council an ordinance establishing
the office of a Superintendent  of the Internal Health
Department, and  defining its duties, have  attended to
that subject, and report the accompanying Ordinance.
  For the Committee.
                   SAMPSON REED, Chairman.
  April llth, 1853. 
4            INTERNAL HEALTH.        [April,
                AN ORDINANCE

 To establish the office of a Superintendent of Health.

  Be it ordained, by the Mayor,  Aldermen and  Com-
mon  Council of  the City of Boston, in City Council
assembled, as follows:

     Section 1.  There shall be  chosen, annually, in
 2 the month of  January or February, and whenever a
 3 vacancy  occurs,  by  concurrent  vote  of the two
 4 branches  of the  City Council,  a  Superintendent of
 5 the Health Department, who shall  hold his office
 6 until a successor is appointed, or he is removed.
 7 He shall  be removable at the pleasure of the City
 8 Council, and shall receive such compensation as the
 9 said Council may from time to time determine.
     Sect. 2.  The  said Superintendent is  authorized
 2 to appoint an  assistant, to act under his control and
 3 direction, who shall  be approved  by the Mayor and
 4 Aldermen, and who shall receive such compensation
 5 as the City Council may from  time to time deter-
 6 mine.  The said assistant may be  removed at any
 7 time by the said  Superintendent,  or the Mayor and
 8 Aldermen.
     Sect. 3.  The said Superintendent shall attend at
 2 his office a portion  of each  day.   He shall keep a
 3 record of all his proceedings, and a set of books, in
 4 which shall be entered, under appropriate heads,
 -") the receipts and expenditures in  his department,
 6 with the  names  of all persons who have furnished 
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 7 materials, and of all workmen, and the amount paid
 8 to each  individual;  and he  shall make a quarterly
 9 report thereof to the City Council.  On or before
10 the tenth day of January, annually, he shall make a
11 report  to the City Council, containing a general
12 statement of the expenses  of his department during
13 the preceding year, the amount expended  in  each
14 branch  thereof,  and such other information as  he
15 may consider desirable, together with an estimate in
16 detail of the property under  his charge belonging to
17 the City.
      Sect.  4.  The said  Superintendent  shall report
 2 annually, on or before the fifteenth day of February,
 3 to the Auditor  of Accounts, a detailed estimate of
 4 the wants of his department  for the next financial
 5 year; which estimate shall  contain such a subdivis-
 6 ion  of  the  amount to  be expended as shall give a
 7 good idea of the various necessities of the depart-
 8 ment.
      Sect. 5.   The said Superintendent, under the di-
 2 rection  and  control of the Mayor and Aldermen,
 3 shall have the care and superintendence of the City
 4 carts and  stables, and shall  make  all necessary
 5 arrangements for  cleaning the streets, disposing of
 6 manure, and removing  house dirt and house offal.
 7 He shall, from time to time, furnish to the  Superin-
 8 tendent of Streets such carts and horses as he may
 9 need, and they shall be charged to the  Department
 10 of Paving and Repairs of Streets.
      Sect. 6.   The execution of the laws and  ordi-
 2 nances, relating to the  subject of Internal  Health,
 3 shall be under the superintendence  of the said Su-
 4 perintendent and his deputy;  and it shall  be  their
 5 duty, and each of them shall have power, to enforce
 6 all laws, ordinances, regulations and orders, relating 
6            INTERNAL HEALTH.       [April.

 7 to causes of sickness, nuisances and sources of filth,
 8 existing within the City, except as is otherwise pro-
 9 vided in this ordinance;  subject always to the direc-
10 tion, authority and control, of the Mayor and Alder-
11 men, and of the Board of Health for the time being;
12 and he  shall perform any other services that  may
13 be required  of him by the said Boards, or either of
14 them.
     Sect. 7.   All ordinances and parts of ordinances
 2 inconsistent  herewith, are hereby repealed.