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RULE 11. No person shall burn on premises occupied by him any garbage, refuse woolen, silk, leather or India rubber goods, kerosene or other substances so that the same shall envolve offensice odors and gases while burning.
RULE 12. No person shall deposit or permit to be de- posited by any one occupying his premises, any house offal, bride, bones, dead animals, old leather, decayed fruit or vegetables. or any other rubbish in any streams, ponds, catch basin, street, lane, alley or public grounds of the
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city. Further, no person shall clean or wash fish or meat upon any street, lane, alley or public grounds of the city.
RULE 13. No person or persons shall deposit ashes or rubbish in any places within the city limits except in such places as shall be designated by the Board of Health .
RULE 14. No owner or occupant of land abutting on a private passageway, and having the right to use such pas- sageway, shall suffer any filth or waste or stagnant water to remain on that part of the passageway adjoining such land.
RULE 15. No workman or other person shall commit any nuisance in the cellar of any building while the same is in process of construction .
RULE 16. The owner or lessee of any lodging or tene- ment house within the limits of the city shall, when in the opinion of the Board of Health or its duly authorized agent it is deemed necessary, whitewash, paint or otherwise clean and make wholesome the walls and ceilings of the rooms and passageways of the building.
House Offal.
RULE 17. Every house shall be provided with a suit- able water-tight covered receptacle to keep garbage and swill until the same is removed by the licensed scavengers. This receptacle shall be kept covered at all times except when de- positing or removing the garbage. It shall be kept where it shall be convenient of access.
RULE 18. No person shall deposit in the garbage to be taken by the authorized scavengers any tin cans, water (dish water not excepted), ashes, glass, sweepings, oyster and clam shells, sawdust, corkdust, old boots or shoes, dead animals, lawn clippings nor any poisonous substances. Any garbage containing foreign matter of the kind enumer- ated above must be cared for by the owners at their own expense.
RULE 19. No person shall go about, in or through the streets, squares or highways of the city collecting or remov- ing swill, offal, butcher's waste, soap grease, rough tallow or slaughter house refuse unless duly authorized and licensed by the Board of Health.
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RULE 20 All such refuse collected and carried through the streets, squares or highways as before provided shall be put and carried in a close covered vehicle, box or other tight vessel from which no odors can escape and which shall at all times, when not necessarily open for the pur- pose of depositing the material collected therein, be kept securely covered. If any of the contents thereof shall be spilled or fall upon any street, walk or premises, it shall be the duty of the keeper or driver to replace the same and im- mediately remove all traces thereof.
Stables.
Chapter 213, Acts of 1895.
An act relative to the licensing and regulating of stables in cities.
Chapter 220, Acts of 1891, Section 2. '
No person shall hereafter occupy or use in any city any building for a livery stable or a stable for taking and keep- ing horses and carriages for hire or to let, within two hun- dred feet of any church or meeting house erected and used for the public worship of God, without the consent in writ- ing, of the religious society or parish worshipping therein.
RULE 21. The conditions upon which licenses to oc- cupy buildings as livery or boarding stables shall be as fol- lows:
SECTION 1. No person, party or corporation shall erect, occupy or use any building for a stable for more than four horses within the fire limits which the City Council may from time to time establish, unless licensed so to do by. the Board of Health.
Chapter 220, Acts of 1891.
SEC. 2. Every such stable shall be lighted and venti- lated in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health and the inspector of buildings.
SEC. 3. Every such stable shall be provided with a manure pit of sufficient capacity, the same to be water tight and constructed of brick or stone laid in cement, and pro- vided with a proper ventilating shaft.
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SEC. 4. Every such stable shall have water tight floors, and its drainage, whenever practicable, shall be prop- erly conducted to a public sewer. When thereis no sewer in the street adjoining such stable its drainage shall be con- ducted to the manure pit.
SEC. 5. No manure or bedding shall be allowed to re- main outside any stable coming within these rules.
Ashes.
RULE 22. No person shall go about, in or through any of the streets of the city collecting or removing ashes, paper, excelsior, lawn clippings or any garbage of this na- ture except in a vehicle with a tight box, and said vehicle covered so that the contents cannot be scattered ou the street.
Animals.
RULE 23 No person shall keep any swine or goats within the limits prescribed by the Board of Health except the keeper thereof be licensed to keep the same by said Board, and when so licensed the animals shall be kept in a manner prescribed by the Board.
RULE 24. No person shall keep any fowl or animal in any part of a dwelling house or in any place in the city where the Board of Health may deem such keeping detri- mental to the health or comfort of the residents of the neighborhood, or to those who may pass thereby ; and said Board shall have the power to remove or cause to be re- moved therefrom any such fowl or animal so kept.
RULE 25. No animal affected with an infectious or contagious disease shall be brought within the limits of the city.
RULE 26. No diseased animal. its flesh, or its product shall be sold or offered for sale, and no decayed, diseased or unwholesome meat, fish, fruit, or other article of food shall be sold or offered for sale, and the Board may cause the seizure and destruction of all such articles so sold or offered for sale.
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RULE 27. Whoever has knowledge of or has reason to suspect the existence of a contagious disease among any do- mestic animals in this city shall forthwith give notice there- of to the Board of Health.
RULE 28. Whoever violates any provisions of regula- tions 26 and 27 shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
Chapter 491, Section 29, Acts of 1894.
RULE 29. No person shall abandon or leave in any street, alley, lot or other public place within said city any sick or injured horse or other animal. It shall be the duty of the owner of such sick or injured animal to make provis- ion for the care and shelter of the same, or if such sick or injured animal shall be adjudged past recovery, to kill or cause to be killed the same and removed under the rules and regulations of the Board of Health.
RULE 30. Any sick or injured animal found or aban- doned upon any street, alley, lot or public place within said city without an owner, which is abjudged by the Board of Health and by any veterinary surgeon summoned by said Board, to be part recovery, shall, after an interval of two hours, if unclaimed and uncared for by the owner thereof, be killed and removed by order of said Board.
RULE 31. No person shall deposit or cause to be de- posited upon any lot or in any street, alley, lake or river, or other body of water within said city, any dead animal or part thereof It shall be the duty of any owner or other person having charge of any animal at the time of its death to notify the Board of Health immediately after its death.
Contagious Disease.
RULE 32. Every person in whose dwelling there shall break out a case of cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, mem- braneous croup, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, typhus fever, small-pox, varioloid or measles, shall immediately notify the Board of Health of the same, and, until instructions are re- ceived from the Board shall not permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed to infection to be re-
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moved from the house, nor shall any occupant take up a residence elsewhere without the consent of the board. Any physician who may know of or be called to a case of either of the discases specified in the foregoing regulations, shall at once report such case to the Board of Health.
RULE 33. No person shall enter any hospital estab- lished for the care of contagious disease or the grounds sur- rounding the same without a written permit from the Board of Health.
RULE 34. All persons affected with either of the dis- eases specified in Rule 32 and all articles infected by the same, shall be immediately separated from all persous liable to contract or communicate the disease, and none but nurses and physicians shall be allowed access to persons sick with said diseases, and no person sick with any of said diseases shall be removed at any time, except by permission and un- der direction of the Board. All persons infected with either of said diseases who cannot be properly quarrantined, may be removed according to law, to such hospital or other place as ths Board of Health direct, and no person shall ob- struct. hinder or oppose such removal, and when any person dies of either of said diseases, the body shall be buried un- der direction of the Board of Health, and no person shall obstruct, hinder or oppose such burial.
RULE 35 All bedding or other personal property, liable to propagate any of the diseases mentioned in Rule 32 shall be at once properly cleansed and fumigated or de- stroyed, and the Board of Health. if they deem it expedi- ent, may cause the same to be so cleansed or destroyed.
RULE 36. No person or article liable to propagate a dangerous disease shall be brought within the limits of the city, without special consent and direction of the Board of Health, and whenever it shall appear to any person that such person or article has been brought into the city, immediate notice thereof shall be given to the Board, specifying its location.
RULE 37. No person sick with any contagious or in- fectious disease shall be transported in any public vehicle used for the carrying of passengers.
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RULE 38. In all houses where either diphtheria, mem- brancous croup, scarlet fever or measles is found to exist a placard shall be displayed in a conspicious place, informing the public of the presence of such disease, and no person shall remove such card without permission of the Board of Health under penalty of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.
RULE 39 Immediately upon recovery, death or re- moval of a person afflicted with contagious disease the room or rooms occupied by the patient must be disinfected to the satisfaction of the Board of Health. This work is performed by Inspectors of the said Board.
RULE 40. In all cases of diphtheria and membraneous croup, the patient will be held in quarantine until the at- tending physician or the Board of Health shall have re- ceived a negative culture from the State Board of Health.
School Attendance.
RULE 41. No child ill with whooping cough, measles, purulent ophthalmia, chicken-pox, mumps or any other con- tagious disease is allowed to attend school, nor is any child allowed to attend school in the city while any member of the household to which such child belongs is ill with small- pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever. measles or membraneous croup during a period of two weeks after the death, recor- ery or removal of such person. The length of time must be certified to in writing by the Board of Health.
RULE 42. No pupil who by reason of the foregoing rule, has been debarred from school attendance, shall be re admitted to any school in the city without a written permit from the Board of Health. Such permit may be issued when the attending physician has certified in writing to the Board of Health that in his opinion the child may attend school without danger of communicating any contagious disease.
EARLY SYMPTOMS OF MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER AND DIPHTHERIA.
The early symptoms of these diseases may often be recognized by teachers in the schools and in any case a
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physician's opinion should at once be demanded when sus- picion is aroused.
In the case of Measles the early symptoms would be as follows : some cough, suffusion of the eyes, running at the uose, feverishness and lassitude. Tho eruption generally occurs first about the forehead, neck and face, and is of a reddish color and of a circular or semi-circular form.
In Scarlet Fever : general lassitude, feverishness, headache, sore throat, vomiting, and a fine red eruption about the ears, neck and shoulders, are the first symp- toms.
In Diphtheria : general symptoms resembling a cold, with some rise of pulse and temperature and sore throat are first observed, and should aronse suspicion.
In fact in any case of sore throat found in the schools, a physician's examination should most properly be asked.
These general facts if borne in mind might in some cases lead to the detection of a disease which would be a source of great danger to the school at large if allowed to progress until the child was actually sick enough to be obliged to stay out of school.
If the foregoing rules and regulations are carefully ob- served the closing of the public schools for epidemic dis- eases will seldom, if ever, become necessary.
With the greatest of care it is often hard to say how soon a patient may with safety return to school after once having been sick of contagious disease, and it becomes all the more necessary that the judgment in such cases should not rest with too many, but should come from the Board of Health alone.
After any child has once been debarred from school attendance it shall not be re-admitted until it shall have first presented the teacher with a certificate. This certifi- cate will in all cases be issued by the Board of Health and should alone be recognized.
RULE 43. The Principal of any school upon the receipt of information satisfactory to him that any pupil attending school under his charge has visited a household where at the time of such visit, small-pox, diphtheria, membraneous croup, measles or scarlet fever existed, is authorized to sus-
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pend such pupil from school for a period of two weeks next following such a visit.
RULE 44. When children are absent from school on account of illness, and whenever the Principal has reason to suspect the existence of contagious disease in any house- hold, he is authorized to exclude pupils from school until the case can be properly investigated. The teachers are re- quired to exercise caution in sending pupils to the houses of absent pupils to ascertain the reason for such absence, specially forbidding them to enter the houses to which they are sent. Pupils are not permitted to be sent where con- tagious diseases are believed to exist in the household of absent pupils.
RULE 45. The body of any person dying, who has pre- viously and within twenty-four days from date of death been reported by the attending physician to the Board of Health, as having had cholera, small-pox, diphtheria mem- braneous croup or diphtheretic croup or scarlet fever, shal ! within twenty-four hours, be interred
RULE 46. Whenever quarantine has been established by the Board of Health upon or in any house within said city in which any contagious or infectious disease exists, by a placard affixed to such house, such quarantine and all the provisions thereof shall be maintained until the recovery or death of the person or persons affected with such disease has been reported to said Board, and until the said house has been thoroughly disinfected and such placard removed by said Board.
RULE 47. Two weeks after the disinfection of any such house so quarantined has been approved and such quarantine has been released by the Board of Health of said city, a written permit shall be issued by said Board author- izing the return and re-admission to school of any child or children resident in such house ; provided that no other case of contagious or infectious disease shall have appeared in such house in the meantime.
RULE 48. In excluding pupils from any house in which small-pox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and membra- neous croup exists, two or more buildings must be consid- ered as one house if there is any direct communication be-
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tween them ; or if it is possible to enter or leave the two residences by means of the same hall, stairway or door.
RULE 49. If it comes to the teacher's knowledge that any pupil visits the house intected or attends the funeral of any person dying of those diseases, such pupil must be ex- cluded at once and the case referred in writing to the Board of Health.
RULE 50. Teachers in the public schools are directed to follow the letter and intent of these rules and refer all questions that may arise to the Board of Health. Superin- tendents and officers of Sunday schools are requested to comply with these regulations as far as practicable.
Deaths, Burials, Cemeteries, Etc.
RULE 51. It shall be the duty of every Superintendent of a cemetery or other person in charge of any cemetery or burying-ground within this city, to receive the permits issued or burials in said cemetery or burying-ground; to preserve the same and to furnish to the Board of Health of said city, upon Monday of each week, a written report, upon blank forms to be furnished upon application by said Board, of all burials or caused to be made by him.
RULE 52. It shall be the duty of the undertaker, near relatives or any other person having charge of the funeral or burial of the dead body of any person within said ctty who has died of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, tyhus fever, small- pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membraneous croup, to keep such funeral strictly private and to permit no other person or persons excepting the immediate members of the deceased person's family who are resident at the place of death, and the officiating clergyman or minister, to be present thereat ; and to convey such dead body directly from the place of ‹leath to the place of burial and in no other vehicle than a hearse, and the funeral to take place within twenty-four hours after death.
RULE 53. It shall be the duty of the undertaker, near relatives and of any other person or persons within said city, who shall have charge of the burial or shipment, or of the preparations for the burial or shipment of the dead body
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of any person who has died of any contagious or infectious disease, to observe and obey the following rules and regu- lations embodied in this section :
(A.) The dead body of any person who has died of any contagious or infectious disease shall be thoroughly dis- infected, and shall not be exposed to the view of any person who is not necessarily engaged in the preparation of the same for burial.
(B.) The dead body of any person who has died of any contagious or infectious disease shall not be placed or kept in any receviing vault, in any cemetery or burying ground, unless such dead body shall be first enclosed in a hermetically sealed zinc-lined or other metallic casket
(c.) No dead body of any person who has died of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or small-pox. shall be shipped or carried into or from said city by any means or conveyance whatsoever.
(D. ) In preparing for shipment the dead body of any person who has died of scarlet fever, diphtheria or membra- neous croup, the said body shall be wrapped in a sheet satn- rated either with a solution of bichloride of mercury of a strength of one part in two thousands. or with a solution of carbolic acid of the strength of one part in forty. The said body shall then be enclosed in a tightly sealed casket. and said casket shall be placed in a zinc or tin-lined box hermet- ically sealed.
RULE 54. Every grave in which any dead body shall be buried within this city shall be dug to a depth of not less than five feet below the surface of the ground.
RULE 55. No new cemetery, burying-ground, vault or tomb for the reception and burial of dead human bodies shall be established within said city, or under the control of any organization within said city, without a permit so to do first being granted by the Board of Health of said city. No additions shall be made to those already in use without the same authority.
RULE 56. All licenses granted by the Board of Health may be revoked at the pleasure of said Board.
DR. F. D. STAFFORD, Chairman. EDWARD VADNAIS. W. B. ARNOLD, Secretary.
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Is always in a position to sup ply Business Men with desir- able office help. The advan- tage of our students over un- trained help is in ACCURACY in figures, NEATNESS in ar- Inquires Solicted.
E. J. SHAW, Prin.
MUSICAL INSTRUCTION.
MR. T. F. MURPHY,
(Graduate of New England Conservatory of Music Boston.) Teacher of Piano, Organ and Harmony. STUIDO, 13 Lincoln Street.
Bargains for Housewives BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, TEAS and COFFEES.(
In Quanties and at Prices to suit everyone. A trial will convinces you that ours is the Store for High Quality and Low Prices.
New England Butter Co., No. 7 Eagle Street., - North Adams, Mass.
L. M. HURD,
Music Rooms and Dealer in Musical Merchandise.
The latest Folios and Sheet Music. Choice Confectionery. Cut Flowers and Potted Plants. Also Jardiniers. Fine Stationery and Perfumes. Floral and Metalic De- signs a Specialty. Newspapers and Periodicals, 10 BANK STREET, Telephone Call, 243-3.
NORTH ADAMS, - MASS.
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HELEN L. JOYCE,
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC
Millinery
Parlors, 68 Main Street, Over Gatslick's Store, North Adams.
Miss KATE H. KELLEY, Fine Millinery.
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN MOURNING ORDERS.
36 Eagle Street, -
North Adams.
e. NATHAN PIKE. CONTRACTOR and BUILDER,
Takes Contracts for all kinds of Buildings. Thirty years' Experience in the business. First-class work at Lowest Prices. Estimaes cheerfully furnished. I make a specialty of making plans for Residences. Plans furnished free where I do the building. All who contemplate building should see me before Closing Contracts.
20 BRACEWELL AVE., NORTH ADAMS.
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The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of HARTFORD, CONN.
Issue all the desirable forms of Life Insur- ance Policies. If you are thinking of Insuring your Life or Increasing what you now have, Consult S. B. FAY, General Agent, Springfield, Mass. 1
WM. M BURCH, Special Agent, North Adams.
Z. PAGE, - BOOKBINDER. -
and Blank Book Manufacturer. Books made and ruled to any pattern. Pocket Books, Card Cases and Photograph Frames made to order.
We Bind the North Adams Directory. 148 E. Main, St., North Adams, Mass.
Miss B. Mulqueen,
FURNISHED ROOMS TO RENT BY DAY OR WEEK.
Every Modern Convenience with Bath. Reason- able Rates.
MEADE BLOCK, 13 CENTRE ST., NORTH ADAMS.
A. S. FARNAM & BROS.
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
Lime. Also First Quality Building
Stone in any quantity.
WORKS, 294 STATE STREET, NORTH ADAMS.
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PENROSE &
McEMIRY.
BREWERS OF THE CELEBATED
I. x L. Still Ale, P, & M. xx and xxx Ales, Stock and Porter.
COHOES, - - - N, Y.
North Adams Machine Works.
Having fitted up a Machine Shop at No. 26 Center Street with modern Machine Tools, etc., we are prepared to do all kinds af Light and Heavy Work, including Shafting, Hangers, Pullies and general Repair work, at Lowest Possible Prices.
Also Light and Heavy Forging.
I solicit a share of your patronage.
McDougall Building. P. J. CONLON.
D. W. ELMORE,
Contractor and Builder.
4 PORTER STREET,
NORTH ADAMS. MASS,
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hotel Marlborough
Broadway, 36th & 37th Sts.
New York City.
The Marlborough is a First-class Hotel in every respect, conduc- ted on European plan.
Located in the Centre of Shopping and Theatre districts. Convenient to the Grand
Central Depot. Broadway Cable Cars pass the door.
Table D'Hote Breakfast 50c. Lunch 50c. Dinner $1.00. Robb's Orchestra, 5.30 p. m. until midnight.
L. L. TODD, Prop.
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28 West Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
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