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Rules of the
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Rules and Regulations
OF THE
BOARD of HEALTH
The Board of Health of the City of North Adams hereby makes and publish- es as required by the Revised Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachuestts, the following Rules and Regulations for the public health and safety.
"Whoever violates any such regula- tions shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00.)"-Rev. Laws, Chap. 75 Sec 65.
Rule I. Whatever is dangerous to human life or health; whatever building or part or cellar thereof is overcrowded or not provided with adequate means of ingress and egress, or is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewerea, drained, lighted or cleaned; and whatever renders soil. air water, ice or food impure or unwholesome, is declared co be a nuis- ance and to be illegal ; and every person, or firm, or corporation having aided in creating or contributing to the same, or that may support, continue or retain any of them,shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this regulation and liable to the penalties provided by the Revised Laws of the Commonwealth for violation of such regulations as the board of health judges necessary to make for the preservation of the public health and safety, and shall.also be-liable for the expense of the abatement or remedy re- quired.
DRAINING, ET CETERA.
Rule 2. Every building in said city shall when deemed necessary by the board of health, be furnished with a sufficient drain, underground, into a common sewer or reservoir; and also
with suitable water closets or with a privy, the vault of which shall be so constructed that the inside of the same shall be at least three feet from the line of every adjoining lot, unless the owner of such lot shall consent or agree other- wise, and also thrce feet from every street, lane, passageway, or public place; and every such vault or privy shall be built of brick or stone laid in cement and in such manner that its contents may be readily removed.
Rule 3. No privy, cesspool or vault shall be opened in any manner or at any time other than at such time and in such manner as the board of health may di- rect; and no person shall remove or carry through any public street, high- way or square of the city, contents of any privy or vault, unless the person removing same, and the cart, wagon, or other conveyance in which the same is carried, shall be licensed for such per- son by the board of health. All such vaults shall be thoroughly cleaned out and the contents thereof removed once each year, and oftener if the board of health so directs.
Rule 4. No drain not water tight, which carries or contains sewage, shall be allowed to pass within twenty feet of any well or other source of water used for domestic purposes, and no person shall allow any pool of stagnant water to be and remain upon his premises after notice to remove the same by the Board of Health.
Sewage shall be construed to mean liquid waste from whatever source, which contains offensive or injurious matters.
Rule 5. No person shall permit the drainage of any building to enter any pond or stream within the limits of the City of North Adams, the water of which is used for domestic purposes.
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CLEANLINESS OF PREMISES.
Rule 6. No dwelling or any part thereof within the city, shall be used for the sale, storage sorting or handling of rags, with out a written permit from the board of health.
Rule 7. No putrid, decayed or decay- ing animal or vegetable matter shall be allowed to remain in cellars or outbuild- ings. No fish, slaughter-house offal or other decaying and offensive animal or vegetable matter shall be left or per- mitted to remain upon the land for pur- poses of fertilization without being plow- ed in or otherwise being rendered inof- fensive.
Rule 8. Every owner or occupant of every building in this city, shall keep such building and the yard belonging thereto free from all filth and substances liable to produce offensive odors.
Rule 9. No owner or occupant of land abutting upon a private passageway, or having the right to use such passageway, shall suffer any filth or waste or stag- nant water to remain on such passage- wav.
Rule 10. The owner or lessee of any building 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, ceiling and passageways of the building.
Rule 11 (a) Every house shall be provided by its owners or occupants with a suitable watertight, covered met- al receptacle to keep garbage and swill until the same is removed by the licensed scavengers.
The receptacle shall be kept cover- ed at all times, except when , depositing or removing the garbage. It shall be
kept where it shall be convenient of ac- cess on the ground floor.
'Every block or building of four or more tenements shall be provided with a water tight covered metal receptacle or receptacles. of sufficient size for the garbage requirements of said tenements.
Rule 12. No person shall go about, în or through the streets, squares or highways of the city, collecting or re- moving swill, offal, butchers' waste or slaughter-house, refuse, unless duly au- thorized and licensed by the board of health.
All such refuse collected and carried through the streets, squares and high- ways as before provided, shall be put and carted in a close covered vehicle box or other tight vessel, which when not necessarily opened for the purpose of depositing the material collected there in, shall 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 remove all traces thereof.
SPITTING.
Rule 13. Spitting on the floor, plat- form or any part of any street car or other public conveyance is prohibited.
Spitting upon the floor or other part of any room, hallway, entrance or lobby to any church, theatre or publie hall is prohibited.
Spitting upon the sidewalk of any street, court or passageway is prohibited.
STABLES.
Rule 14. The conditions governing the granting of licenses to occupy buildings
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as livery or boarding stables shall be as follows:
The stable must be erccted and com- plete in all its compartments before license to occupy is granted.
A manure pit shall be constructed of brick or stone, laid in cement, and water- tight.
Such pit shall be ventilated by a shaft not less than twelve inches square, car- ried two feet above the roof of the main building.
The storage of manure, except in said pit, is prohibited. No bedding shall be deposited outside of the stables.
The drainage of every stable shall be properly conducted to a public sewer whenever practicable.
In every case ventilation and drainage shall be made satisfactoryto the board of health.
The said building shall neither be en- larged or altered without special permit having first been obtained from the board of health.
Rule 15 (a). Owners and occupants of livery and other stables within the city, shall not wash or clean their car- riages or horses or cause them to be washed or cleaned in the streets or pub- lie ways. They shall keep their stables and yards clean, and not allow large quantities of manure to accumulate in or near the same at any time.
Rule 15 (b) Every barn within the city limits wherein a milch cow is kept shall contain at least one thousand cubic feet of space and shall be ventilated, lighted and cleaned to the satisfaction of the board of health.
MANURE, ASHES, ETC.
Rule 16. No person shall go about, in or through any of the streets of the city collecting manure or removing ashes, pa- per, or other refuse, except in a vehicle with a tight box, and said vehicle cov- ered so that the contents cannot be scat- tered on the streets.
The deposit by any person of any stable manure,night soil, or other fertil- izer of like nature on the sur- face of his lawn or yard within the City of North Adams, where the same is liable to become spread or scattered upon any street or sidewalk, or is offen- sive to the sight or smell of persons traveling upon such street or sidewalk, is a nuisance, and the same is hereby prohibited.
ANIMALS.
Rule 17. 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 keep- ing detrimental 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 re- move or cause to be removed therefrom any such fowl or animal so kept.
Rule 18. No animal affected with a contagious disease shall be bought with- in the limits of the city.
Rule 19. No diseased animal, its flesh or its product, shall be sold or offered for sale, and no decayed, diseased or un- wholesome meat, fish, fruit or other articles of food, shall be sold or offered for sale, and the board shall cause the seizure and destruction of all such arti- cles so sold or offered for sale.
Rule 20. Whoever has knowledge of, or has reason to suspect the existence of, a contagious disease among domestic animals in this city, shall forthwith give notice thereto to the board of health.
Rule 21. No person shall abandon or leave in any street, alley or other pub- lic place within said city, any sick or injured horse or other animal. Any animal so found which is adjudged by the board of health, or by any veterin- ary surgeon summoned by said board. to be past recovery, shall after an interval of two hours, if unclaimed and uncared by the owner thereof, be
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killed and "removed by order of said board.
Rule 22. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited upon any lot or in any street, alley or other body of water within said city, any dead animal or part thereof.
MILK RECEPTACLES, TICKETS AND COUPONS.
Rule 23. No person or corporation shall issue or distribute within the City of North Adams any milk tickets or cou- pous which have been once before issued, used or distributed.
Every bottle, can or other receptacle used in the distribution of milk, or other liquid article of food, shall immediately after such use and before refilling be thoroughly cleansed and sterilized.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
Rule 24. Every person in whose dwel- ling there shall break out a case of chol- era, yellow fever diphtheria, mebranous croup, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, ty- phus fever, small pox, varioloid, measles, or other contagious disease dangerous to the public health, shall immediately notify the board of health of the same. Any physician who may know or be call- ed to any case of the diseases specified herein shall at once report such case to the board of health.
Rule 25. Immediately upon recovery, death or removal of a person afflicted with a contagious disease all bedding or other personal property liable to com- municate any of the diseases mentioned in Rule 24 shall be at once properly cleans- ed and fumigated, or destroyed at the discretion of the Board of Health. The room or rooms occupied by the patient must be disinfected. This work will be done by the inspectors of said board.
Rule 26. No person sick with an acute contagious disease shall be transported in any public vehicle used for the carry- ing of passengers.
Rule 27. Wherever any of the diseases mentioned in Rule 24 are found to exist, a placard shall be displayed in a con- spicuous place, informing the public of the presence of such disease, and no per- son shall remove such card without the permission of the board of health.
Rule 28. In all cases of diphtheria or membranous croup, the patient shall be held in quarantine until a negative culture shall have been received from the state board of health.
Rule 29. Pulmonary tuberculosis is a contagious disease and must be reported as is provided in Rule 24.
RULES AND CAUTIONS TO BE OB- SERVED DURING QUARANTINE.
' Rule 30. No person or persons, except physicians, nurses, clergymen and under- takers in the performance of their du- ties, and members of the household who at the time may be living in any house or building which is under quarintine, shall for any purpose whatever enter such home or building without permis- sion from the board of health.
The sick person is to be kept in a room by himself. No one but the nurse and doctor will be allowed in the room with him.
Your own children must be kept at home. They may play in their own yard but MUST be kept off the street. All children in the house are to be kept from school until a certificate to return is granted by the Board of Health. This applies to Sunday School and public en- tertainments, etc. Other people's chil- dren must not be allowed to enter your house, nor play with your children dur- ing quarantine.
Adult members of the family will not be allowed to work or to attend any public entertainments, clubs, lodges, church services, etc., without permission of the Board of Health. They must keep out of the sick room at all times.
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Neighbors must not come into the house. You may talk to them through a CLOSED window. Grocers, butchers, milkmen, etc., may receive orders and de- liver goods at the outside door. No milk can or glass jars to be taken out of the house during quarantine.
The sick person will not be allowed to leave the house until the card is removed from the door.
Public library books, Day School and Sunday School books MUST NOT be used by the patient, nor any attendant on the patient, nor left in the sick room. All such books must be given to the Agent of the Board of Health for fumigation, af- ter which they will be returned.
Rule 31 .- No person or persons who may be visiting upon premises which are under quarantine, shall leave such prem- ises without permission from the Board of Health.
Rule 32. Wherever two or more fam- ilies residing in the same buildings, use the entrances, halls, or stairways of such building in common, or where there is other direct communication, such build- ing shall for the purpose of quarantine be considered one house. If only a part of any house or building shall be under quarantine, these rules shall apply only to such part.
CAUTIONS
Toys that the patients play with should be burned after quarantine is re- moved, unless thoroughly fumigated by the Agent of Board of Health.
Do not use handkerchiefs for the pa- tient. Use old, soft linen or cotton, and burn it as soon as used.
The patient should not use the same eating utensils (knives, forks, plates, spoons, etc.,) that are used by the fam- ily. Give the patient separate ones dur- ing the illness.
A sheet should be hung from top of door casing of the sick room door and kept moistened with a disinfecting solu-
tion which will be furnished by the Board of Health.
"Whoever violates any such regulation shall forfeit not more than one hun- dred dollars ($100.00.)" -- Rev. Laws, Chap. 75. Sec. 65.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
Rule 33. No child ill with whooping cough, measles, purulent aphthalmia, chicken pox, mumps or any other contagious disease, shall attend school, nor shall any child attend school in this city while any member of the household to which such child belongs is ill
with small pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measies or membranous croup, or during a period of two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such person.
No pupil, who by reason of this rule has been debarred from school attend- ance, shall be admitted to any school in this city without a written permit from the board of health, signed by its chair- 12 am, its physician, or its agent.
Rule 34. The principal of any school, upon the receipt of information that a pupil under his charge has visited a household where at the time of such visit any of the diseases enumerated in Rule 33 existed, shall immediately noti- fy the board of health.
Rule 35. Whenever any child is ab- sent from school on account of illness, the principal, if he has reason to sus- pect that the child is suffering from a contagious disease, shall exclude from school all pupils from such house- hold and notify the board of health. Any teacher when sending a pupil to the home of another pupil, shall forbid him to enter the house to which he is sent. (This is to prevent him from inadvert- ently exposing himself to a contagious disease.)
Extraet from Section 6, Chapter 44, Revised Laws: "A child who has not been vaccinated shall not be admitted to a public school except upon presenta-
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tion of a certificate signed by a regular practicing physician that he is not a fit subject for vaccination."
GENERAL VACCINATION.
Chapter 75, Section 136, Revised Laws: "A parent or guardian who neglects to cause his child or ward to be vaccinated before the child or ward attains the age of two years, * * shall for- feit five dollars for every year during which such neglect continues."
Chap. 75., Section 137, Revised Laws: "The board of health of a city or town if, in its opinion it is necessary for the pub- lic health or safety, shall require and en- force the vaccination and revaccination of all the inhabitants thereof, and shall provide them with the means of free vaccination. Whoever, being over twen- ty-one years of age and not under guar- dianship, refuses or neglects to comply with such requirements shall forfeit five dollars."
CARE OF THE DEALL
Rule 36. It shall be the duty of the undertaker, or other person having charge of the funeral or burial of the dead body of a person within said city, who has died of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or mebranous croup, to keep such funeral strictly private and to permit no person other than mem- bers of the family of the deceased who are at the time residents at the place of death, and the officiating clergyman 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 hearet, and the funeral to take place within twenty- four hours after death.
Rule 37 (a) It shall be the duty of the undertaker, or of any other person or persons within said city who shall have charge of the burial or shipment, or of the preparation for the burial or the shipment of the dead body of any person
who has died of any contagious disease, to observe and obey the following rules and regulations embodied in this section :
The dead body of any person who has died of any contagious or infectious dis- ease shall be thoroughly disinfected, and shall not be exposed to the view of any person who is not necessarily engaged in the preparation of the same for burial.
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.
No dead body of any person who has died of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or small pox, shall be ship- per or carried into or from said city by any means of conveyance whatsoever.
In preparing for shipment the dead body of any person who has died of scar- let fever, diphtheria, or membranous croup, the said body shall be wrapped in a sheet saturated either with a solu- tion of bichloride of mercury of a strength of one part in two thousands, or with a solution or carbolic acid of the strength of one part in forty. The said body shall then be enclosed in a tightly sealed eas- ket, and said casket shall be placed in a zinc-lined or a tin-lined box hermeti- cally sealed.
Rule 37 (b) The body of any person who has died of any contagious diseases. except asiatic, yellow fever, typhus fever or small pox, when taken directly from the place of death to the grave; must be completely wrapped in absorbent cotton and then wrapped in a sheet saturated with a solution of bi-chloride of mercury 1: 2000; all enclosed in a tightly sealed casket.
Rule 38. It shall be the duty of every superintendent of a cemetery, or other person in cange of any cemetery or bury- ing-ground within the city, to receive the permits issued for burials in saio
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cemetery or burying-ground; to pre- serve the same and to furnish to the · board of health of said city, upon Mon- day of each week, a written report, upon blank forms to be furnished upon appli- cation by said board, of all burials made or caused to be made by him.
Rule 39. Any grave in which any dead body shall be buried within this city shall be dug to a depth of less than five feet below the surface of the ground.
Rule 40. No new cemetery, burying- ground, vault or tomb for the reception and burial of human bodies, shall be es- tablished within this city, or under the control of any organization within said city, without a permit so to do first be- ing granted by the board of health of said city. No additions shall be made to those already in use without the same authority.
NOXIOUS TRADES.
Rule 41. No person, company, firm or corporation shall erect or maintain any manufactory or place of business within this city which is dangerous to life or detrimental to health, or where unwhole- some, offensive or deleterious odors, gas, smoke. deposit or exhalations are gener- ated, except in such places as are al- lowed by the board of health. All such establishments shall be kept clean and wholesome, nor shall any offensive or deleterious waste substance be allowed to accumulate upon the premises or be thrown or allowed to run into any pub- lic waters, stream, watercourse, street or public place.
Rule 42. All licenses granted by the board of health may be revoked at the pleasure of said board.
North Adams, Mass., June 24, 1903. DISTRIBUTION OF FREE SAMPLES.
Rule 43. No person shall distribute, or cause to be distributed, from house to house on any street in this city, any
package or bottles containing free salir- ples of any medicinal substances, or suv- stances for household use, except by permission of the Board of Health.
Adopted September 1, 1905.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR BARBER SHOPS.
Rule 44. The place of business, to- gether with all the Furniture, shall be kept at all times in a cleanly condition.
Mugs, shaving brushes and razors shall be sterilized in boiling water after every separate use thereof.
A separate clean towel shall be used for each person.
Alums or other astringents shall be used in powdered form and applied with a clean towel.
The use of powder puffs and sponges is prohibited.
Every barber shop shall be provided with running hot water (through a pres- sure boiler.)
Every barber shall clean his hands thoroughly immediately after serving each customer.
Hair brushes and combs shall be thor- oughly washed at least once a day.
No person shall be allowed to use any barber shop as a dormitory.
Shaving mugs, etc., except those in constant use, shall be kept in closed or covered receptacles.
Hair and other waste accumulations shall be destroyed each day by fire, or by such means as the board of health may approve.
EVERY BARBER AFTER HAND- LING ANY ONE WITH ANY SKIN ERUPTION, MUST CLEANSE HIS HANDS THOROUGHLY BEFORE HANDLING THE NEXT PERSON, AND ALL TOOLS USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH MUST BE THOROUGH- LY STERILIZED BEFORE THEY ARE USED AGAIN.
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"Whoever violates any such regula- tion shal forfeit not more than one hun- dred dollars ($100.00)."-Rev. Laws, Chap. 75, Sec. 65.
A copy of these rules shall be dis- played in every barber shop.
The provisions of these rules shall go into effect on and after April 15, 1905. Adopted March 31, 1905.
North Adams, Mass., July 21, 1905.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU-
SETTS.
Berkshire, ss:
I, Frank P. Nugent, clerk of Board of health, for the City of North Adams, hereby certify that the foregoing rules and regulations were adopted at a reg- ular meeting of the said board of health on the 21st day of July, 1905.
Attest: FRANK P. NUGENT. Clerk of the Board of Health.
MEAT AND PROVISIONS.
Revised Laws of Massachusetts, Chap- ter 56.
Section 70. Boards of Health of cities and towns may inspect the carcasses of all slaughtered animals and all meats, fishı, vegetables, produce, fruit and pro- visions of any kind found in their cities or towns, and for such purpose may en- ter any building, enclosure or other place in which carcasses or articles are stored, kept or exposed for sale. If, on such inspection, it is found that such carcasses or articles are tainted, dis- eased. corrupted, decayed, unwholesome, or from cause unfit for food, the board of health shall seize the same and cause it or them to be destroyed forthwith, or disposed. of otherwise than for food All money received by the board of health for property disposed of as afore- said shall, after deducting the expense of
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