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.
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- [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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![Sec. 7. No person shall dump any part of the contents of any privy vault, cesspool, or slaughterhouse offal, or other offensive matter, within the limits of the compact portions of the town, without the written permission of the health officer. Nor shall any person dump the same in any portion of the town within 500 feet of any dwelli g house belonging to or occupied by any other person or corporation except by the written •consent of the health officer. . .. . . , nn, ? +i. _ Sec. 8. The health officer shall have power to forbid the dumping of any part of the contents of any privy vault, cesspool, or slaughterhouse offal, or other offensive matter in any part of the town, in case he should find the same to be injurious to health or offensive to residents in the vicinity. He shall also have power, should he deem it necessary, to notify all persons holding licenses from the town council for carrying the contents of any of the foregoing, within what limits the same may be dumped., and no person shall thereafter dump the same in any part of this town except within the limits defined by the health officer. . . Sec. 9. Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into this town any Par of the contents of any privy vault, cesspool, slaughterhouse offal, or other offensive matter whatsoever, in any cart, wagon, or other vehicle and deposit the same m any place where it may impair health, or by offensive odors annoy persons within their dwellings or while traveling on any of the public streets or highways in the compact part of this town, shall be fined not more than $20 or be imprisoned for the term ot 10 days, and his license shall be revoked. Sec. 10. No person shall remove, carry, or transport over, upon, or through any street or highway of the town of East Providence any diseased or putrid meat condemned by the health officer of said town, or the dead body of any horse, ass, mule, ox, cow, bull, ho or other large animal, not slaughtered and in condition for use as food, except as may be provided by the statutes of the State, unless specially authorized so to do by the* town council; and every person violating the provisions of this section shall pay for each offense a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $20. Sec. 11. Any person violating any provision of this chapter wherein no penalty is herein otherwise prescribed, shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $20 for every violation thereof, and shall be fined not exceeding $20 for each day s continuance of the said violation after the service of the notice issued upon the first complaint. [Chap. 31 of an ordinance adopted Aug. 2, 1911.] FORT WAYNE, IND. PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS—CONSTRUCTION AND LOCATION. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Fort Wayne, Ind., that section 23 of general ordinance No. 143, entitled, “An ordinance defining• certain offenses,” be amended to read as follows: _ ... “Sec. 23. It shall be unlawful for any person to build, or cause to be built, within the limits of said city, any privy vault, or to use for such purpose any vault, unless the same is built of brick, stone, or metallic substances and made water-tight, and not less than 4 feet deep. And it shall also be unlawful to construct or maintain any such privy vault or other vault used for that purpose within a distance less than 50 feet from any dwelling place. It shall be the duty of the board of health to report all cases where the said vaults are not built as herein provided to the building inspector who shall, after due notice to the owner of said vault, proceed to condemn any said vault not constructed as herein provided.” [Ordinance, amending section 23 of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance defining certain offenses,” adopted July 25, 1911.] HOLLAND, MICH. PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS—LOCATION, CONSTRUCTION, AND REMOVAL OF CONTENTS. 0 Rule 13. No privy, vault, or cesspool shall be placed or permitted within 50 feet of any well, spring, or other source of water supply used for cooking or drinking pur- poses. It is also ordered that whenever any well, spring, or source of water supply is deemed unwholesome or unsafe by the board of health, the same shall be put in a safe and wholesome condition, or shall be removed and its use discontinued. Rule 14. All privy vaults and cesspools shall be cleaned twice a year, viz, between April 1 and June 1, and between October 1 and December 1, of each year, and the con- tents be collected and removed by a licensed scavenger in tightly covered tank wagons or in barrels approved by the board of health, and conveyed to a place at least one- fourth of 1 mile outside of the city limits, there to be disposed of by the trenching method. The scavenger shall deodorize the contents of the cesspool or vault before](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717569_0169.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
