Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask.
- Date:
- [1913]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![or over any cesspool or privy vault until the same shall have been inspected by the board of health or its agents. The minimum interior dimensions permitted for cess- pools hereafter constructed in this town shall be 6 feet deep and 6 feet in diameter. Sec. 3. No rain-water leader, soil, waste, or drain pipe shall discharge into or be connected with any privy vault, nor shall a privy vault, cesspool, or manure pit be directly or indirectly connected with any sewer. No drainage from any stable or other building shall discharge into a manure pit. Every manure pit shall be kept drv and shall be made water-tight. §ec. 4. No vault or cesspool shall be emptied by any other than.the odorless process, nor by carts not of the Odorless Excavating Co., except permission be first obtained from the board of health. It is further ordered that neither night soil nor the contents of cesspools shall be dumped within the limits of the town. [Ordinance, board of health, adopted Nov. 6, 1911.] CONNELLSVILLE, PA. PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS—TO BE CONNECTED WITH PUBLIC SEWERS. Section 1. Any person, firm, company, or corporation using, maintaining, or own- ing any privy, cesspool, or water-closet on property abutting on or adjoining any street or alley in which is located a public sewer shall connect such privy, cesspool, or water-closet with such public sewer in such manner as to carry away all refuse deposited therein. . . . . Sec. 2. If any person, firm, company, or corporation shall violate the provisions of this ordinance and shall persist in and continue to violate the same after due notice of such violation has been given by the burgess, then and in that case such violation shall be remedied by the borough making all such alterations and connections as shall be deemed necessary, the cost thereof to be collected as other debts due to a borough are collectible. [Ordinance adopted July 18, 1911.] EAST PROVIDENCE (TOWN), R. I. PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS—CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, CLEANING, AND DISPOSAL OF CONTENTS. Section 1. Every dwelling house, tenement house, or other building occupied by human beings, situated upon any street through which water is not conducted in pipes, shall have at least one suitable water-closet or privy, properly ventilated and communicating directly with the open air, for every 15 occupants of said dwelling house, tenement house, or other occupied building; occupants of two or more houses may use the same water-closet or privy, if access thereto be direct, and the above proportion of users be not exceeded. Sec. 2. No privy vault or cesspool shall hereafter be constructed without special permit in writing from the town council, except as may be provided hereinafter in section 3. No privy vault or cesspool shall hereafter be constructed where the prem- ises are situated on any lot abutting on a street or avenue having a foul water sewer. Permits for privy vaults or cesspools, if issued at all, will be issued on the condition that the structures will be for temporary use only, and that their use must cease and the structures be destroyed, or cleaned out, disinfected, and filled up with earth, sand, gravel, or ashes to the satisfaction of the health officer, upon written notice so to do from the town council, signed by the council clerk, when and as soon as connection with a public sewer can be made; provided, nevertheless, that the town council in its discretion may permit any cesspool after the premises have been connected with a public sewer, and the cesspool has been cleaned out and disinfected, to be used as a receptacle for water draining from the roofs of dwelling houses and other buildings. No privy vaults may hereafter be constructed within 3 feet of the line of an adjoin- ing lot (except by the consent of the owner of said lot) nor within 2 feet of the line of any private or public passageway, and must be so constructed that no surface water can find access to said vault. Every privy vault shall be sunk under the ground, con- tain at least 6 cubic feet, be constructed of brick, stone or Portland cement, and be made water-tight. Every such vault shall have convenient approaches for opening and cleaning, and such approaches shall be properly covered. Each outhouse or compart- ment of an outhouse built over a privy vault must have independent and efficient means of ventilation. All openings, save those of the seats, must be securely screened with copper or tinned wire netting of 16 mesh, and these screens must be maintained in effective condition. Each opening in the seat must be provided with a close- fitting hinged cover, so arranged that it will remain open so long as it is held open and will close automaticallv when the seat is vacated.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717569_0167.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
