and appoint a successor. The said physicians shall be known as city physicians of their respective districts. It shall be the duty of said city physicians to render medical service to indigent sick persons, as prescribed in title thirteen of this act, and to report to the Department of Health any nuisances or unsanitary places or violations of health ordinances or regulations that may come to their attention in connection with the performance of their duties. In case of epidemics or impending pestilence the city physicians shall perform such professional duties as may be required of them by the Health Commissioner.

§ 235. The Commissioner shall have power to appoint an assistant health officer, a clerk, a registrar of vital statistics, an inspector of plumbing and drainage, who must be a practical plumber, a city chemist, a cattle inspector, a keeper of the quarantine hospital, a city scavenger, and two inspectors of food supples and drugs, and such other officers and employes as may be authorized by the Common Council. The Board, with the concurrence of the Common Council, shall fix the salaries of all the city physicians and other employes, and the duration of the terms of office of all such employes shall be in the discretion of the Commissioner of Health; provided, however, that the whole expense of administering said department shall not exceed the sum appropriated therefor by the Common Council, except as provided in section seventy-three, and all expenditures so incurred, for whatever purpose, shall be made and met in such manner as is provided for in other departments of the city government, and in the following section. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of police to execute the orders of the Health Commissioner when so requested by him.

$236. In the presence of great and imminent peril to the public health of the city, by reason of impending pestilence, it shall be the duty of the Health Commis

sioner to take such measures and do, order, and cause to be done such acts, and make such expenditures (beyond those duly estimated for as herein provided) for the preservation of the public health from such impending pestilence as he may, in good faith, deem the public safety and health to demand, and the Board of Health shall, in writing, approve; and such peril shall not be deemed to exist, except when, and for such period as the Board of Health shall by proclamation declare.

$237. The Commissioner shall have full power to enforce and carry out all ordinances, rules and regulations for the preservation of the public health, and for the registration of vital statistics as have been or may be hereafter enacted by the Common Council; and in case any business or practice is dangerous or detrimental to the public health, to prohibit the same, and to declare unwholesome grounds, yards, cellars, buildings, and other places, stagnant or unwholesome waters, filth, and unwholesome matter injurious to health, to be nuisances, and upon so declaring, the Commissioner shall have power to abate the same in such manner as he may deem expedient, and the expense may be assessed upon the lands upon or in front of which said nuisances were, or upon the parcels of land benefited by the abatement of the nuisance, as the Common Council shall direct; but no established business or the rights to property of any person shall be interfered with or prohibited until the offender or offenders therewith charged shall have been duly summoned by notice of not less than one or more than five days, to appear before said Commissioner to show cause why such declaration or order of prohibition shall not be enforced against the party or parties or premises charged, nor until the said party or parties persons interested in the premises shall have an opportunity to be heard, in person or by counsel.

§ 238. Any person or persons desiring to erect a building for use as a dwelling for more than three fami

lies, or for use as a livery stable or public barn in which live stock of any kind is to ke kept, a slaughter-house or a rendering establishment, or to alter or convert an existing building to such uses, shall submit the plans for such building or alterations to the Commissioner, who shall have power, if not prohibited by ordinance or law, to permit or prohibit the erection or alteration or conversion of any building to be devoted to such uses under such rules and regulations as he may adopt; and the Commissioner shall have the power to cause the removal of persons from any building which, in his judgment, is so crowded by persons dwelling therein as to endanger the public health.

§ 239. (1.) Every master and journeyman plumber, or a person who has been engaged in the business of plumbing for five years next prior to the passage of this act, carrying on his trade in the city, shall under such rules and regulations as the Board of Health of said city may prescribe, register his name and address with the clerk of said Board of Health, and after said date it shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the trade of plumbing in said city, unless his name is registered as above provided.

(2.) A list of the registered plumbers in the city of Buffalo shall be published in the newspaper designated by the Common Council of said city to publish the official proceedings of said city at least once in each year.

(3.) The drainage and plumbing constructed or placed in and about all buildings, both public and private, in the city of Buffalo, shall be constructed, executed, and placed in accordance with plans previously approved in writing by the Board of Health or the Health Commissioner. Suitable drawings and descriptions of said drainage and plumbing shall in each case be submitted to said Board of Health or Commissioner, and shall be placed on file in the office of the Board. Said Board of Health is hereby authorized to receive and place on file drawings

and descriptions of the plumbing and drainage of buildings erected in said city prior to the passage of this act.

§ 240. The Board of Health of the city of Buffalo shall have power to make such rules and regulations for the registration of plumbers, and for drainage in said city as such Board shall deem proper, and to make all such rules and regulations as shall by it be deemed necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this title.

$241. The Commissioner shall have power to take measures to prevent the entrance of pestilential or infectious diseases into the city; to stop, detain, and examine for that purpose every person coming from any place infected, or believed to be infected with such disease; to cause any person infected or believed to be infected with such disease to be removed to such quarantine hospital as the city may maintain. And for such purpose the city shall maintain a quarantine hospital which shall be under the control and direction of, and whose necessary attendants shall be appointed by, the Commissioner. The Commissioner shall have power to cleanse infected buildings, vessels, vehicles, and places of all kinds, and to destroy furniture, clothing, and other property so infected as to be dangerous to public health.

242. Any court of record in the city, or any judge or justice thereof, shall have power, at any time after the service of notice of any violation of any provision of this title, and upon the affidavit of the Commissioner, to restrain in an action by the Commissioner, in his name of office, by injunction order, the further progress of any violations of the provisions of this title or of any work upon or about the building or premises upon which the said violation exists, and no undertaking shall be required as a condition to the granting or issuing of any injunction. Upon obtaining such injunction, the Health Commissioner shall record in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie an instrument under his hand, setting forth a description of the premises against which such injunction

is obtained, and the nature of the complaint against the same. The clerk of the county is hereby authorized and required to provide a suitable book in which to record such instruments, and the necessary and proper indexes thereto. Upon such injunction being dissolved, or upon certificate of the Health Commissioner that the cause of complaint has been removed, the said clerk of the county is authorized and required to discharge of record the instrument so recorded relating to the property affected by such injunction.

§ 243. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to visit all hospitals in which patients supported by the city are received, at least once in each month, and to inquire into the condition of any such patients whom he may find therein, and to order the discharge of any such patients whom he shall deem to be sufficiently recovered, and he shall communicate such order to the department of poor; and after the issuing of any such order the patient therein referred to shall cease to be a city charge.

§ 244. Any persons violating any of the provisions of this title or any of the ordinances adopted under the powers granted by it, shall be deemed guilty.of a misdemeanor.

TITLE IX.

DEPARTMENT OF FIRE.

CHAPTER I.

The

§ 245. There shall be a Department of Fire, of which the Board of Fire Commissioners shall be the head. Board shall consist of three members, who shall be appointed by the Mayor, who shall hold their offices for the term of six years, and until their successors are appointed. No more than two Commissioners shall be