1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FIFTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 27
Sec. 5.
There shall be an auxiliary Board of Health in each county in
the State. These Boards shall be composed of all registered physicians
resident in the county, the ^layor of the county town, the Chairnian of
the Board of County Commissioners and the City Surveyor, when
there is such an otiicer; otherwise the County Surveyor. From this
number one physician shall be chosen by ballot to serve two years, with
the title of Superintendent of Health. His duty shall be to gather vital
statistics upon a plan designated by the State Board of Health. He shall
always promptly advise the Secretary of the State Board of tlie unusual
prevalence of disease in his county, especially of typhoid fever, scai'let
fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, small-pox, or cholera. His reports shall
be made regularly, as advised by the State Board, through their Secretary;
and he shall receive and carry out as far as possible such
work as may be directed by the State -Board of Health. He shall
make the medico-legal posf-rnorton examinations for coroners' inquests,
and attend the prisoners in jail, home for the aged and infirm, and house
of correction, and make an examination of lunatics for commitment. He
shall be the sanitary inspector of the jail and home of his county, making
monthly reports to the Board of County Commissioners : Provided,
that if for any cause tlie County Board of Health should fail to meet as
hereinafter set forth and elect a Superintendent, the County Commissioners
shall elect from those physicians resident in the county eligible
to membership in the County Board a Superintendent of Health : Providi'd
farther, that it shall be unlawful for said County Commissioners to
elect any one not eligible to membership in the County Board to the office
of County Superintendent of Health, if any such qualified physician can
be found in the county willing to accept the office.
Sec. 6. IMonthly returns of vital statistics, upon a plan to be made by
the State Board of Health, or their Secretary acting under their instructions,
shall
be made by the County Superintendent to the Secretai-y of
the State Board, and a failure to report by the tenth of the month for
the preceding month shall subject the delinquent to a fine of one dollar
for each day of delinquency, and this amount shall be deducted from
the salary of the Superintendent by the Boardof County Commissioners
on the statement of such delinquency by the Secretary of the State Board
of Health; and the said Secretary is hereby required to notify, on the
eleventh day of each month, the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners
of such delinquency. The County Superintendent shall report
to the Secretary of the State Board the presence in his county of any case
of small-pox, yellow fever, typhus fever or cholera within twenty-four
hours after it has come to his knowledge, and upon failure to make such
report within the prescribed time the County Commissioners shall
deduct five dollars from his salary for each day of delay in reporting.
Sec. 7. The salary of the County Superintendent of Health shall be