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Rule 14. No owner or occupant of land abutting on a private passageway, and having the right to use such passageway, 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 nui- sance in the cellar of any building while the same is in process of construction.
Rule 16. The owner or lessee of any lodging or tenement 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 neces- sary, 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 suitable 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 depositing or removing the garbage. It shall be kept where it shall be convenient of access.
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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 clip- pings nor any poisonous substances. Any garbage containing foreign matter of the kind enumerated above must be cared for by the owners at their expense.
Rule 19. No person shall go about, in or through the streets, squares or highways of the city collecting or removing swill, offal, butcher's waste, soap grease, rough tallow or slaughter house refuse unless duly authorized and licensed by the Board of Health.
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 purpose of depositing the material collected therein, be kept securly covered. If any of the con- tents shall be spilled or fall upon any street, walk or prmises, it shall be the duty of the keeper ordriver to replace the same and
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 build- ing for a livery stable or a stable for taking and keeping horses and carriages for hire or to let, within two hundred feet of any church or meeting house erected and used for the worship of God, without the consent in writing, of the religious society or parish worshipping therein.
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Rule 21. The conditions upon which liceses to occupy build- ings as livery or boarding stables shall be as follows:
Section 1. No person, party or corporation shall erect, oc- cupy or use any building for astable for more than four horses within the fire limits which the City Council may from time to time establish, unless licensed so to do bv the Board of Health.
Chapter 220, Acts et 189_
Sec. 2. Every such stable shall be lighteu and ventilated in a. manner satisfactory to the Board of Health and the inspector oi buildings.
Sec. 3. Every 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 provided with a proper ven- tilating shaft.
Sec. 4. Every stable shall have water tight floors, and its drainage, whenever practicable, shall be properly conducted to a public sewer. When there is no sewer in the street adjoining such stable its drainage shall be conducted to the manure pit.
Sec. 5. No manure or bedding shall be allowed to remain 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 nature except in a vehicle with a tight box, and said vehicle covered so that the contents cannot be scattered on the street.
ANIMALS.
Rule 23. No person shall keep any swine or goats within the ยท 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 Dass 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- ioid 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 shall 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- ever 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 said 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 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 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 sl.all 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 rela- 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 or 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'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 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.
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 dairy, 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
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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 ill 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 cow-stables shall be cleaned and white-washed at least twice a year, and oftener if 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.
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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.
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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