HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances and Municipal Laws, Page 431REVISED ORDINANCES OF PADUCAH.
City Hospital and Steward.
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City Hospital and Steward.
i.—The buiding . situated on Fifth street, adjoining Mat- Hospital site
tisons Garden shall b: known as the city hospital of Padu-
cah and be used as such.
2.—The common council of the City of Paducah, shall
in the month of December, 1893, or as soon thereafter as
possible, and biennially thereafter, elect a steward of the
city hospital for the term of two years, until his successor
is duly elected and qualified, or until his removal for cause
by the council.
3.—It shall be the duty of the steward of the city hos-
pital to furnish the hospital with fuel, beds, bedding, cook-
ing utensils, tableware, furniture, and any and all other ar-
ticles except medicines necessary to carry on said hospital
for the comfort of the inmates.
4.—The steward of the city hospital shall not receive
any patient into said hospital except on the written order
of the mayor and city physician. He shall be under tht
control of the city physician in all matters touching the
control of said hospital and the comfort of the patients,
hygienically and otherwise, and shall administer or cause to
be administered properly to the patients, all medicines, ac
cording to the direction of said physician.
Steward to be
elected
Duties of
Steward
Written
orders to
receive
patients
S.—In case of the death of any patient in said hospital Death of
it shall be the duty of said steward to dress the body pro patient
perly for burial and promptly notify the mayor of the city
of such death.
6—Omitted— Repealed.
y.—Hereafter the city of Paducah by her common coon- Duty of city
cil or any of her officer:, shall not directly,or indirectly, ap- to pauper
patience
propriate or pay money belonging to the city for the care or
support of any patients of the city hospital, and for no other
time. It being the intent and meaning of the foregoing pro-
vision, that as to all paupers not actually in the City Hos-
pital the City of Paducah declines all care or jurisdiction
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City Hospital and Steward. -
over them, so far as their support is concerned, leaving
them to .be provided for by the McCracken county court
under the general laws of the State.
Time vatlents 8.—Persons shall cot be allowed to remain in said hos-
pital at the expense of the City longer than one 'month; and
in all such cases, within ten days after such persons enter the
hospital it shall be the duty of the city physician to notify
in writing the City Council of Paducah that such persons
are in the hospital, and when their time will be up, and
the nature of their disease.
City Hospital and Steward.
An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 12, of the Re-
vised Ordinance of the City of Paducah, Titled City Hos-
pital, and Steward and Defining Compensation.
Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of
Paducah.
salary axed Sectioh 1. That Sec. 5. of an ordinance Numbered 12 of
the revised ordinances of the City of Paducah, entitled City
hospital and steward be, and the same is hereby repealed,
and in lieu thereof there shall be substituted by way of
amendment the following, Viz: The steward of said hos-
pital shall receive for serv:ces as such $3.00 per week for .
all adults, and $1.50 per week for each child between the
ages of one year and twelve years of age, children over 12
shall be paid for by the City at the same price paid for
adults, but no fee will be paid for children under 12 months
of age.—Provided, however, that such infant has no mother
then in such cases the steward shall receive the same fees
for its care that is stipulated, for children over one year and
under 12 years of;agm.t ,-t
Sec. 2. That 'Al 'ordintifices and parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith are bereby'repealed and this ordinance
shall take effect from and after the expiration of the term,
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City Hospital and Steward.
Nuisances.
of office of the present incumbent.
Adopted Nov. loth, 1899.
W. H. PATTERSON. C. C. P.
Approved Nov. 25th, 1899.
JAS. M. LANG, Mayor.
Nuisances.
Section t.. It shall be unlawful for any -person toper -
mit stagnant water, excrement, carcasses of dead animals
Dead anlinals
or filth of any kind to be thrown upon or remain on any lot
or premises belonging to such person or under his control
or in his occupation, or to allow any exposed pits, or to open
any pits and let them remain exposed, so as to endanger
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the life, health, or well being of the citizeni in .any portion
of the City of Paducah.
Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
Throwing or
or deposit, or suffer to escape,. by drainage or otherwise,
drnlning
filth
upon the lot or premises of another, or upon the streets,
alleys, gutters, pavements or other rublic places in the city,
any dirt, filth, excrement, or feculant or noisome substance.
Sec. 3. It shall . be unlawful for any person within the
cossixx,ix or
limits of the city of Paducah to construct, dig or build any
wens
cesspool, privy vault or well for the purpose of receiving
slop, garbage, nigbtsoil, or other offal or filth.
Sec. 4. It shall be enlawful for any person to dig a pit
aravel pt to
anywhere in the City of Paducah for the purpose of tak-
ing gravel therefrom, or to retnove any gravel front any pit
now open in the city.
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Sec. S. Whoever violates the provisions of the first or
penalties
second section of this ordinance shall be fined not less than
$5 nor more than $loo for each offense, and whoever vio-
lates the provisions of section 3 or section 4 of this ordi-
nance shall be fined not less than $2o nor more than $5o for
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each offense. And the court shall further order such nuis-
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