The Charter And Ordinances Of The City Of Richmond Pub By Authority Of The Council

Author : Charters Richmond Richmond.
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230185637
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Richmond, with the Amendments to the Charter written by Charters Richmond Richmond. and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...for the superintendent, two dollars for each day that he is employed; and not exceeding, for the physician, three dollars for each day that he attends at the hospital, except on such days as he may visit in the hospital more than three patients, and then not exceeding four dollars per day if there be four patients, and not exceeding five dollars per day if there be five or more. But before the superintendent shall have authority to act as such, he shall enter into bond with security to be approved-by the committee, in the penalty of five thousand dollars, with condition for the faithful discharge of his duties; which bond, with the approval of the committee endorsed thereon, shall be filed with the Auditor. 4. The committee may authorize such vehicles and horses to be purchased and kept for the removal of persons to the hospital, and such other things to be obtained for the comfort or cure of persons in the hospital, or for use and consumption therein, as they may deem proper. The compensation mentioned in the preceding section and the expenses incurred under this section shall be paid by the Auditor, upon the drafts of the chairman of said committee: provided what is so paid shall not exceed what may be appropriated by the Council for such compensation and expenses. 5. There shall be received into the said hospital all persons infected with any infectious disease dangerous to the public health. Negroes shall be in separate apartments from white persons, and females in separate apartments from males. 6. The physician to the hospital shall be the health officer of the city. He shall have all the powers and perform all the duties devolved upon health officers by the laws of the state It shall be his special duty to remove to the hospital...