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ANIMALS.
Rule 23. No person shall keep any swine or goats within the limits prescribed by the Board of Health except the keeper there- of be licensed to keep the same by said Board, and when so licensed the animals shall be kept in the 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 detrimental 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 removed therefrom any such fowl or animal so kept.
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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 unwhole- some meat, fish, fruit, or other article of food shall be sold or offered for sale, and the Board may cause the seizure and destruc- tion of all such articles so sold or offered for sale.
Rule 27. Whoever has knowledge of or has reason to suspect the existence of a contagious disease among any domestic ani- mals in this city shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Board of Health.
Rule 28. Whoever violates any provisions of regulations 26 and 27 shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonement 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 in- jured horse or other animal. It shall be the duty of the owner of such sick or injured animal to make provisions 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 abandoned upon any street, allely, lot or public place within said city without an owner, which is adjudged by the Board of Health and by any veterinary surgeon summoned by said Board, to be past recovery, shall after an interval of two hourse, 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 deposited 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.
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CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
Rule 32. Every person in whose dwelling there shall break out a case of cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, membraneous crop, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, typhus fever, small-pox, vario- roid or measles, shall immediately notify the Board of Health of the same, and, until instructions are received from the Board shall not permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed to infection to be removed 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 diseases specified in the foregoing regu- lations, shall at once report such case to the Board of Health.
Rule 33. No person shall enter any hospital establishment for the care of contagious disease or the grounds surrounding the same without a written permit from the Board of Health.
Rule 34. All persons affected with either of the diseases specified in Rule 32 and all articles infected by the same, shall be immediately separated from all persons 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 said diseases shall be removed at any time, except by permission and under direction of the Board. All persons in fected 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 may direct, and no person shall obstruct, hinder or oppose such removal, and when any person dies of either of said diseases, the body sha'l be buried under 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 destroyed, and the Board of Health, if they deem it expedient, 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 when- over 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.
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Rule 37. No person sick with any contagious or infectious disease shall be transported in any public vehicle used for the carrying of passengers.
Rule 38. In all houses where either diphtheria, membraneous 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 removal of a person afflicted with contagious disease the room or rooms oc- cupied by the patient must be disinfected to the satisfaction of the Board of Health. This work is performed by Inspectors of the raid Board.
Rule 40. In all cases of diphtheria and membraneous croup, the patient will be held in quarantine until the attending physi- cian or the Board of Health shall have received a negative cul- ture from the State Board of Health.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
Rule 41. No child ill with whooping cough, measles, puru- lent ophthalmia, chicken-pox, mumps or any other contagious 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, recovery 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 readmitted to any school in the city without a written permit from the Board of Health. Such permit may be issued when the attending physi- cian has certified in writing to the Board of Health that in his opinion the child may attend school without danger of commu- nicating any contagious disease.
Early Symptoms of Measles, Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.
The early symptoms of these disease may often be recognized by teachers in the schools and in any case a physician's opinion should at once be demanded when suspicion is aroused.
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In the case of Measles the early symptoms would be as fol- lows: some cough, suffusion of the eyes, running at the nose, feverishness and lassitude. The 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 symptoms.
In Diphtheria: general symptoms resembling a cold, with some rise of pulse and temperature, sore throat, are first ob- served, and should arouse suspicion.
In fact any case of sore throat found in the schools, a physi- cian'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 observed the closing of the public schools for epidemic diseases will sel- dom, if ever, become necessary.
With the greatest of care it is often hard to say how soon a natient 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 t shall not be readmitted until it shall have first presented the teacher with a certificate. This certificate 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 in- formation 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 suspend such pupil for a period of two weeks next following such 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 household, he is authoriz- ed to exclude pupils from school until the case may be properly investigated. The teachers are required to exercise caution in
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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 contagious diseases are believed to exist in the house- hold of absent pupils.
Rule 45. The body of any person dying, who has previously 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, membraneous croup or diph- theretic croup or scarlet fever, shall within tweny-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 released by the Board of Health of said city, a written permit shall be issued by said Board authorizing 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 sall 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 membraneous croup exists, two or more buildings must be considered as one house if there is any direct communication between 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 excluded 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. Superintendents and officers of Sunday schools are requested to comply with these regula- tions as far as practicable.
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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 permits issued for burials in said cemetery or burying-ground; to preserve the same and to furnish 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 rela- tives 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, 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 death 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 iela- tives and of any other person or persons wthin said city, who shail have charge of the burial or shipment, or of the prepara- tions for the burial or shipment of the dead body of any person Who has died of any contagious or infectious disease, to observe and obey the following rules and regulations embodied in this Section:
(a) The dead body of any person who has died of any con- tagious or infectious disease shall be thoroughly disinfected, and shall not be exposed to the view of any person who is not neces- sarily engaged in the preparation of the same for burial.
(b) The dead body of any person who has died of any con- tagious 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, typhus fever or small-pox, shall be shipped er carried into or from said city by any means or conveyance whatsoever.
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(d) In preparing for shipment the dead body of any person who has died of scarlet fever, diphtheria or membraneous croup, the said body shall be wrapped in a sheet saturated either with' # 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 hermetically sealed.
Rule 54. Every grave in which any dead body shall be buried within the 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 es- tablished 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.
The Board of Health of the City of North Adams do hereby make and establish the following regulation:
That no person shall expectorate upon the floor, seat or other part of any coach, stret car, or other public conveyance.
"Any person violating the provision of this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars."-P. S., Chapter 80, Section 18.
DR. T. J. PUTNAM, Chairman, CLARENCE P. NILES, Secretary, ALBERT A. WILLS.
Board of Health City of North Adams.
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MILK ORDINANCE.
Anordinance relating to the Sale of Milk in the City of North Adams.
Be it ordained by the City Council of North Adams as follows:
Section 1-No milk shall be sold in the city of North Adams after the first day of April, 1898, except from cows that have been subjected within one year to examination that hsall be satis- factory to the Board of Health and to the Inspector appointed by the Mayor and Council of the City of North Adams under Section 1, Chapter 491, of the Acts of Massachusetts of 1894, and pronounced free from the disease known as tuberculosis, or any other disease that may render the milk injurious to man.
In case an examination made by any person other than the Inspector for the City of North Adams, shall be unsatisfactory either to him or the Board of Health, a proper examination shall be made by said Inspector for the City of North Adams, and his decision shall be final.
Sec. 2-Any person selling or distributing milk, or keeping cows from which milk is sold or distributed in the City of North Adams, shall, upon the adddition of any cow or cows to his
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da ry, immediately give notice to the Board of Health of such addition, and the Board of Health shall thereupon order an ex- amination of such animal or animals to be made, as provided in Section 1 of this Ordinance.
Sec. 3-Each year during the months of June and December, and at such other times as it shall deeme necessary, the Board of Health shall make or cause to be made, an inspection of all dairies and other places from which milk is sold in the City of North Adams, and as soon as may be after such inspection, shall file a written report of the result of such inspection with the City Clerk, who shall safely keep the same for public examina- tion and reference.
Sec. 4-All such premises, and all vessels and vehicles used in the business of selling and distributing milk, shall be kept in a perfectly cleanly and sanitary condition, and no person who re- fuses to allow such inspection to be made in accordance with Section 3 of this Ordinance, or who fails to keep his premises, vessels and vehicles as above mentioned in such cleanly and sanitary condition as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Health. or to provide such proper light and ventilation of his stables as the Board shall deem necessary, shall be allowed to sell or dis- tribute milk in the City of North Adams.
Sec. 5-Every person keeping cows from which the milk is sold in the City of North Adams, shall have a room entirely apart from the stable, (although it may be in the same building if desired,) in which the milk shall be strained and cooled, said room to have a tight floor and the side walls and ceiling to be made of matched lumber or battened, unless lathed and plastered. No water-closet, earth-closet or privy shall be within or com- municate directly with this room. The walls and ceilings of all
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cow-stables shall be cleaned and white-washed at least twice a year, and oftener it required by the Board of Health: nothing in this section, however, shall be interpreted to prevent the cooling of milk in spring houses when the same are properly constructed,
Sec. 6-No person who is suffering, or who is suspected of having typhoid fever, diphtheria or any other contagious dis- ease, shall, while so suffering, be engaged in the care of cows or the handling of milk in places from which milk is to be sold or distributed in the city of North Adams.
Sec. 7-Every person selling milk or offering it for sale in a store, booth, or stand in the City of North Adams, shall keep such milk in a refrigerator or other perfectly tight receptacle entirely separated from any food or other contaminating product, said refrigerator or other receptacle to be provided with ice during the warm months, or at any other time when required to do so by the Board of Health.
Sec 8-Any person, party or corporation violating this Ordi- nance, shall recive notice in writing signed by the chairman of the Board of Health, or by its Agent, ordering him to at once comply with its requirements.
Any person, party or corporation after being so notified, who shall sell or distribute any milk in the City of North Adams until he receive permission in writing so to do from the Board of Health, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dol- lars for each offense, and his license to sell milk in this city shall be revoked. .
Approved January 18, 1898.
A true copy.
Attest,
CHARLES S. BROOKER,
City Clerk.
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The Board of Health of the City of North Adams de hereby determine and adjudicate, that the use of Milk Tickets more than once is a menace to health and that such articles are capable of conveying infection and creating sickness, and do therefore enact the following regulation:
That no person or persons shall on or after April 1st, 1900, issue, use or distribute within the City of North Adams, any Milk Tickets or Coupons which have been once before issued, used or distributed.
Approved February 15, 1900.
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DR. T. J. PUTNAM, ALBERT A. WILLS, CLARENCE P. NILES, Board of Health, City of North Adams.
North Adams
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City Charter.
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VOTED APRIL 8. 1895.
IN FORCE, 1896.
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North Adams City Charter
AN ACT
TO
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, sha !!. 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 thercof, 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, 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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by 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 on 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 office 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 warrants 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- Pancies until the next annual municipal election. The board of assessors shall consist of three persons, who shall be elected in a manner provided in section forty-one for the election of trustees of the public library.
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