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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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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![removing the same, by mixing with solution of copperas or other approved efficient deodorant. The expense of cleaning out such vault and cesspool shall be paid by the owner, agent, occupant, or tenant of the premises on which the same are located, but in no instance shall the fee charged be more than 50 cents per barrel of 50 gallons capacity, provided the minimum fee for each vault or cesspool shall be 75 cents. No coarse rubbish, tin cans, metal, glassware, wire, or wood shall be deposited in vaults or cesspools. Rule 15. All new privies and closets shall be constructed with a drawer so arranged that it can be readily removed and emptied of its contents. When used, sufficient dry earth, ashes, or slaked lime must be used daily to absorb all the fluid parts of the deposit. The maximum fee to be charged for the cleaning out of such drawer shall be 50 cents. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Oct. 2, 1911.] ORANGE, N. J. WATER-CLOSETS AND URINALS—CONSTRUCTION OF FLOORS. 14. The floors of the water-closet and urinal compartments of all toilet rooms in saloons, railroad stations, office buildings, and other public places, shall be water- tight, and shall be constructed of or overlaid with cement, slate, tile, or other non- absorbent material (wood not being allowed) to permit proper flushing and cleansing of such compartment floors. 15. Sections 20, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 67, 68, 84, 86, 125, and 141 of the ordinance to which this ordinance is a supplement are hereby repealed. [Ordinance, board of health, adopted Oct. 2, 1911, as a supplement to the Sanitary and Plumbing Code adopted Dec. 1, 1900.] PERU, IND. PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS. Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any privy vault to be any nearer full than within 1 foot of the ground level. Any and all such privy vaults shall be emptied, cleaned, and disinfected of sewage, excreta, human excrement, and offensive matter, and all such matter removed and conveyed away to a place or places designated by the city health officer or chief of police. When any privy vault has become filled with human excrement, excreta, sewage, or other offensive matter to within 1 foot of the ground level, said privy vault shall be emptied, cleaned, and disinfected, and the offensive matter removed and conveyed away, and all receptacles of human excrements must be properly connected with a city sewer, if one be convenient, and no receptacle for human excrement shall be erected, constructed, caused, permitted, kept, or main- tained on any premises within the city limits or within one-half mile of the city limits, except it be properly connected with said convenient city sewer. When the privy vault on any premises has become filled as stated above to within 1 foot of the ground level, when any cesspool, drain, or other similar place shall become offensive or inju- rious to health, said cesspool, drain, or other similar place must be properly connected with a convenient city sewer. It shall be unlawful for any nonfly-proof privy to exist. Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of cleaning, removing, or conveying away the contents of privy vaults, water-closets, or other receptacles of human excrements without having first obtained a license therefor, as required by this ordinance. The license required shall be issued by the city clerk upon the application of the person applying for and desiring the same; who shall at the same time deposit with the city clerk the receipt of the city treasurer for the sum of $10, and pay $1 to the city clerk for services in issuing the license, said $11 to cover all expense of said license for the period of one year. All licenses shall expire on the last day of June of each year. It shall be unlawful for any licensed person, in cleaning, removing, or conveying away of the contents of any privy vault, water-closet, or other receptacle of human excrement to use any other than an odorless machine or apparatus, which machine or apparatus shall use a vault-cleaning force pump with hose not less than 3 inches in diameter. It shall be unlawful for any licensed person to demand or receive, as compensation for cleaning any privy vault, water-closet, or other recep- tacle of human excrement a price or sum greater than 10 cents per cubic foot of such contents removed, which contents shall be measured before the same or any part thereof shall have been removed. It shall be unlawful to remove or convey away any human excrement from any privy vault, water-closet, or other receptacle by any licensed per- son except to a place or places designated by the city health officer or chief of police. Each licensed vault cleaner must exhibit on his machine or wagon the words, “Licensed vault cleaner.” [Part of Ordinance No. 18, adopted July 11, 1911.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717569_0170.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
