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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 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 fiesh, 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 adjudged by the Board of Health and by any veterinary surgeon summond 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 Bard of Health immediatly 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 immedately notify the Board of Health of the same, and, until insructions are re- ceived from the Boare 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 whithout the consent of the board. Any physician who may know of or be called to a case of either of the diseases 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- lisbed 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 persons liable to contract or communicte the disease, and none but nurses and physicians shall be alowed 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 quarantined, may be removed according to law. to such hospital or other place as the 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, liabl to propagate any of the diseases mentioned in Rule 32 shall be at once properly cleansed and fumigated or de- stoyed, 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 usel for the carrying of passengers .
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RULE 38. In all houses where either diphtheria. mem- braneous croup, scarlet fever or measles is found to exist a placard shall be displayed in a conspicuous 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, chiken-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, recov- 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 ro- 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 cetified in writing to the Board of Health that in his opinion the child may attend school without danger of communicating any contagious disease.
EARLY SYMTOMS 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 nose, feverishness and lassitude. The erruption generally occurs first about the forhead. 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 resembing a cold. with some rise of pulse and temperature sore throat are first oberved, and should arouse 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 forgoing 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 readmitted until it shall have first presented the teacher with a certificate. This certifi- cate will in all cases be issue.l by the Board of Health and should alone by recognized.
RULE 43. The Principal of any school upon the receipt of information satisfactory to Lim that any pupil attending school under his charge has visited a honshold where at the time of suchi visit, small-pox, diphtheria, membraneous croup, measles or scarlet fever existed, is authorized to sus-
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pend such pupil fron 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 house 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, shall within twenty-four hours, be interred.
RITLE 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 infected 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 permitsissued for burials in said cemery 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 furnised 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 city who has died of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, small* pox, scarlet fever. diphtheria, membraneos 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 death to the place of burial and in no other vehicle than a hearse, and the funeral to take place witin 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 thorouly 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 receiving 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, typhous 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 satu- 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.
EDMUND VADNAIS.
W. B. ARNOLD, Secretary.
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City Charter. 1899.
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VOTED APRIL S, 1895 ..
IN FORCE, 1896.
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North Adams City Charter.
AN ACT
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Incorporate the City of North Adams.
See an Act to Abolish the Board of Public Works of the City of North, Adams, and for Other Purposes on Page Following Charter.) Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
TITLE I. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
Section 1. The inhabitants of the town of North Adams, shall, in case of the acceptance of this act by the voters of the said town as hereinafter provided, continue to be a body politic and corporate, under the name of the city of North Adams; and as such shall have, exercise and enjoy all rights, immunities, powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obliga- tions, now pertaining to and incumbent upon the said town as a municipal corporation.
Section 2. The administration of all the fiscal, prudential and mu- nicipal affairs of said city, with the government thereof, shall, ex- cept the affairs of public schools, be vested in an executive de- partment, which shall consist of one officer, to be called the mayor, and in a legislative department which shall consist of a single body, to be called the city council, the members whereof shall be called councilmen. The executive department shall never ex- ercise any legislative power, and the legislative department shall never exercise any executive power, except as herein otherwise provided.
Section 3. The territory of said city shall first be divided into seven wards, as hereinafter provided, but said number, upon any subsequent division of said city into new wards, may be increased
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hy an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the city council, passed previous to and in the year of such division.
TITLE 2. ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS.
Section 4. The municipal election shall take place annually on the third Tuesday of December, and the municipal year shall be- gin ou the first Monday of January following. All meetings of the citizens for municipal purposes shall be called by warrants issued by order of the city council, which shall be in such form and be served and returned in such manner and at such tmes, as the city council may by ordinance direct.
Section 5. At such municipal election the qualified voters shall give in their votes by ballot in the several wards for mayor and councilmen. and for the members of the board of assessors, board of trustees of the public library, and of the school committee then to be elected, and the person receiving the highest number of votes for any office sha be deemed and declared to be elected to such office; and whenever two or more persons are to be elected to the same offire the several persons, up to the number required to be chosen, receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed and ' declared to be elected. If it shall appear that there is no choice of mayor, or if the person elected mayor shall refuse to accept the office, or shall die before qualifying, or if vacancy in said office shall occur subsequently and more than three months previous to the expiration of the municipal year, the city council shall forth- with cause warranis to be issued for a new election, and the same proceedings shall be had in all respects as hereinbefore provided for the election of mayor and shall be repeated until the election of mayor is completed. If the full number of members of the city council has not been elected, or if a vacancy in the office of coun- cilman shall occur subsequently and more than six months pre- vious to the expiration of the municipal year, the council may forthwith elect some person or persons to fill the vacancy or va- cancies until the next annual municipal election. The board of assessors shall consist of three persons, who shall be elected in a mr.anner provided in section forty-one for the election of trustees of the public library.
Section 6. All meetings for the election of national, state, county and district officers shall be called by order of the city council, in the same manner as meetings for municipal elections are called.
Section 7. The city council may, when no convenient wardroom for holding the meetings of the citizens of any ward can be had
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within the territorial limits of such ward, appoint and direct, in the warrant for calling any meeting of the citizens of such ward that the meeting be held in some convenient place within the limits of any adjacent ward of the city; and for such purpose the place so assigned shall be deemed and taken to be a part of the ward for which the election is held.
Section 8. General meetings of the citizens qualified to vote may from time to time be held according to the right secured to the people by the constitution of this Commonwealth, and all such meetings may, and upon the request in writing of fifty qualified voters setting forth the purposes thereof, shall be duly called by the city council.
TITLE :. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
Section 9. The members of the city council shall consist of twenty-one councilmen at large, who shall be elected by the inhab- itants of the city as follows: At the first muncipal election held under this act twenty-one members at large of the council shall be elected by the qualified voters of the entire city, seven to serve for the term of three years, seven for the term of two years and seven for the term of one year, beginning with the first Monday in Jan- uary then next ensuing; and thereafter seven members at large of said city council shall be elected in a like manner at each annual municipal election, to serve for the term of three years beginning with the first Monday in January next ensuing, in place of the members at large whose term then expires. At the first municipal election no voter shall vote for more than five of the councilmen to to be elected for each term, that is to say, not more than fifteen in the aggregate on one ballot, and the seven having the highest num- ber of votes for each term shall be declared elected. At all muni- cipal elections subsequent to the first election no voter shall vote for more than five of the seven councilmen to be elected at an an- nual election on one ballot, and the seven having the highest nun ?- ber of votes shall be declared elected. The councilmen shall hold office for three years, except as herein, otherwise provided, begin- ning with the first Monday in January next succeeding their elec- tion and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In case an election is held to fill a vacancy or vacan- cies in the council a voter may vote for the councilmen necessary to fill such vacancies in addition to the number above provided.
Section 10. The mayor and the councilmen elect shall annually, on the first Monday in January, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
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meet and be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties. The cath shall be administered at their first meeting after the ac- ceptance of this act, by the town clerk, and in subsequent years by the city clerk, or, in his absence, by any justice of the peace, and shall be duly certuied on the journal of the city council. In case of the absence of the mayor elect on the first Monday in January, or if a mayor shall not then have been elected, the oath of office mav In at any time thereafter be administered to him, and at any time thereafter in like manner, the oath of office may be admin- istered to any member of the council who has been previously ab- sînt or has been subsequently elected; and every such oath shall be duly certified as aforesaid.
Section 11. After the oath has been administered to the council- men present they shall be called to order, at their first organiza- tion by the town clerk, and in subsequent years by city clerk, or in case of the absence of the city clerk, by the oldest senior member present. The council shall then proceed to elect one of their own rumber president of the council by ballot. If no quorum is pres- ent an adjournment shall be taken to a later hour or to the next day, and therealter the same proceedings shall be had from day to day until a quorum is present. If any person receives the votes of a majority of all the members of the council, such person shall be declared chosen president thereof. If on the first day on which a quorum is present no person receives the votes of such majority, they shall proceed to ballot until some person receives the votes of such majority or an adjournment to the succeeding day is taken, and on such succeeding day a plurality of those voting shall be suf- ficient for an election. No other business shall be in order until a pres dent is chosen. The president shall be sworn by the town or city clerk, as the case may be, or in case of the absence of the clerk, by any justice of the peace. The council shall then proceed to the choice of a city clerk, in the same manner as above pro- v'ded for the choice of president. The president may be removed from the presidency of the council and the clerk may be removed from office by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the mem- bers of the council, taken by roll call. The president of the council shall have the same right to vote as any other member thereof.
Section 12. The mayor may at any time call a special meeting of the city council, by causing written notification thereof together with a statement of the subjects to be considered thereat, to be deposited in the postoffice, postpaid and addressed to the persons
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