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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![J7J Sec. 78. No connection by overflow or otherwise shall be made, constructed, or continued with or from any refrigerator, tank or cistern to or with any cesspool, privy, vault, water-closet, sewer or house drain, except only such as shall first discharge freely into the open atmosphere. Sec. 79. No person shall draw off, or allow to run off into or upon any ground, street, or place in the city of Yonkers the contents, or any part thereof, of any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool, or sink; nor shall any owner, tenant or occupant of any building to which any vault, sink, privy, or cesspool shall appertain or be attached, permit the contents, or any part thereof to flow therefrom, or to rise within 2 feet of any part of the surface of the adjoining ground, or permit said contents to become offensive. (a) Every tenement, boarding or lodging house shall be provided with the best or most approved water-closet, and in no case shall there be less than one water-closet for every 15 occupants in a boarding or lodging house, and not less than 1 for every 2 families for dwelling houses. Sec. 80. (b) Every tenement and boarding house shall have city or other water furnished in sufficient quantity at one or more places on each floor occupied or intended to be occupied by one or more families. Sec. 80. Every person who shall be the owner, lessee, keeper or manager of any tenement house, boarding house, lodging house, hotel or manufactory, shall provide, or cause to be provided, for the accommodation thereof and for the use of the tenants, lodgers, boarders and employees thereat, adequate privies or water-closets, and the same shall be so well ventilated and shall at all times be kept in such a cleanly and wholesome condition as not to be offensive, or be dangerous or detrimental to life or health. And no offensive smell or gases from or through any outlet or sewer, or through any such privy or water-closet shall be allowed by any person aforesaid to pass into such house or any part thereof, or into any other house or building. Sec. 81. No person shall throw into or deposit in any vault, sink, privy or cesspool, any offal, ashes, meat, fish, garbage, or other substances, except that of which any such place is the appropriate receptacle. [Part of ordinance adopted Dec. 16, 1911.] GARBAGE, REFUSE, AND CONTENTS OF PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS—HANDLING AND DIS- POSAL OF. Offensive matter forbidden to run on streets, etc. Sec. 90. No offal, garbage, refuse, rubbish, dead animals, putrid animal or vegetable matter, swill, brine, manure, urine, excrement, and no part of the contents of any sink, privy, vault, or cesspool, and no filthy or offensive matter of any kind shall be thrown or allowed to run, drop, go, or remain in or upon any street, public place, dock, or pier in the city of Yonkers. Emptying of cesspools and privies. Sec. 91. No owner, tenant, or occupant of any building or premises in the city of Yonkers shall employ, cause, or permit any person, except a licensed scavenger or person authorized by the health bureau, to remove any part of the contents of any vault, privy, sink, or cesspool (being thereon and of which he has control) unless according to a permit from the said board of health; and no person shall empty or attempt to empty any vault, privy, sink, or cesspool in said city without a permit from the health bureau; and no owner, tenant, agent, or occupant of any building or premises in said city shall bury or cause or allow to be buried the contents of any privy, vault, or cesspool in the city of Yonkers without a permit in writing from the health officer. Receptacles for ashes garbage and swill. Sec. 92. It shall.be the duty of every owner, tenant, lessee, and occupant of every building in the built-up portion of the city of Yonkers forthwith to provide and at all times thereafter to keep clean and cause to be provided and kept suitable and sufficient boxes, barrels, cans, vessels, or tubs with air-tight covers for receiving and holding, without leakage, and without being filled within 4 inches of the top thereof, all the ashes, rubbish, garbage, and liquid substances of whatever kind that may accumulate during the period of three days from said building, or the portion thereof of which such person may be the owner, tenant, lessee, or occupant. A separate vessel shall be provided for ashes and rubbish, and another for garbage and liquid substances; ashes](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717569_0173.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
