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]
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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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    OFFENSIVE TRADES. YONKERS, N. Y. OFFENSIVE TRADES. Sec. 112. No person shall boil, heat, dry, keep, store, or manufacture any offal, swill, blood, bones, fat, tallow, or lard, save in ordinary cooking, or any decaying ani- mal or vegetable matter; nor shall the business of bone crushing, bone boiling, bone grinding, bone or shell burning, lime making, fat burning, gut, cleaning, skinning or making glue from any part of dead animals, heating, drying, storing, shipping any blood, scrap, fat, grease, or any offensive animal or vegetable matter, or the manufac- turer of any varnish or oil, or the distilling of any ardent or alcoholic spirits, or the conducting of any business or occupation that will or does generate any unwholsome, offensive, or deleterious gas, smoke, deposit, or exhalation, or that is or would be dan- gerous or detrimental to life or health, be carried on anywhere in the city of Yonkers without a permit from the health officer. Sec. 113. No person or persons engaged in the business of buying or selling rags shall keep, or store, or sort the same within one hundred (100) feet of any tenement or dwell- ing house, except the house occupied exclusively by the person and his immediate family engaged in such business without a permit from the health officer. [Part of ordinance adopted Dec. 26, 1911.]