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Machinist
29
Thompson, Perley B.
Market st
Market st
Druggist
29
Thompson, William
Granite st
Granite st
Compositor
28
Thorn, William H.
Nichols st
Nichols st
Teamster
34
Tibbetts, Edward J.
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Mason
21
Tibbetts, William R.
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Bricklayer
70
Tibbetts, Stephen
Market st
Pleasant st
Mason
25
Tilton, Frank W.
Winter st
Winter st
Merchant
39
Tinker, Francis
Cottage st
Cottage st
Retired
80
Tisdale, Lawrence F.
Washington st
Washington st
Farmer
29
Tobin, James D.
Washington st
Washington st
Car Shop Employee 25 Laborer 29
Tobin, John F.
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Tanner
22
Tobin, John
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Laborer
55
Tobin, Morris
Pleasant st.
Pleasant st
Tanner
20
Tobin, John J.
Clarke st
Clarke st
Blacksmith
29
Tobin, Charles B.
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Tanner
25
Tobin, William J.
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Moulder
27
Tobin, William J.
Cross st
Cross st
Tanner
31
Tobin, Michael
Cross st
Cross st
Laborer
66
Tobin, Michael E.
Clarke st
Clarke st
Tanner
20
Tobin, William
Clarke st
Clarke st
Laborer
60
Toomey, Patrick
High st
Canton, Mass.
Tanner
40
Troy, James B.
Washington st
Washington st
Clergyman
34
Tucker, Arthur A.
Guild st
Guild st
Painter
27
Tucker, Edward P.
Guild st
Guild st
Painter
37
Tucker, Herbert
Cottage st
Market st
Painter
37
Turner, Harry M.
Walpole st
Chapel st
Tanner
28
Turner, Frank W.
Hill st
Hill st
Tacker
41
Turner, Harris F.
Railroad ave
Railroad ave
Carpenter
45
Turner, Harry
Baker st
Baker st
Carpenter
20
Tuttle, William
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Farmer
67
Turner, Adelbert
Vernon st
Market st
Teamster
23
U
Upham, George G.
Linden st
Linden st
Machinist
49
Tobin, John, 2d.
Munroe st
Munroe st
35
V
NAME.
RESIDENCE, 1896.
RESIDENCE, 1895. OCCUPATION. AGE.
Van Buskirk, Holmes
Maple st
Maple st
Fishman 26
Van Buskirk, Lawrence
Nahatan st
Nahatan st
Blacksmith 57
Vance, James R.
Eliot st
Eliot st
Tanner
37
Vaughn, Richard K.
Washington st
Washington st
Retired
82
Vickery, Robert J.
Washington st
Washington st
Engineer
30
W
Wagenman, Peter
Cedar st
Cedar st
Tanner
24
Wagner, John
Guild st
Guild st
Cabinet Maker
31
Wagner, John P.
Guild st
Guild st
Pattern Maker
71
Waldheim, Wolf
Wilson st
Wilson st
Tanner
35
Waldheim, John
Cedar st
Cedar st
Tanner
37
Waldron, Peter
Washington st
Washington st
Ink Maker 36
Walker, Robert
Washington st
Washington st
Carpenter
51
Walker, Joseph S.
Pleasant st
Pleasant st
Paper Maker
28
Walker, James R.
Market st
Market st
Baker
40
Walker, H. Frank
Cottage st
Cottage st
Builder
49
Walker, Reuben
Cottage st
Maple st
Carpenter
42
Walker, Arthur
High st
Howard st
Car Shop Employee 24 Laborer 23
Walsh, Frank
Vernon st
Vernon st
Blacksmith
25
Walsh, Richard
Vernon st
Vernon st
Blacksmith 51
Walsh, Henry
Rock Hill ave
Rock Hill ave
Paper Maker
28
Walsh, Martin
Rock Hill ave
Rock Hill ave
Paper Maker 22.
Wallace, William J.
Vernon st
Vernon st
Postmaster
62
Ward, Eugene A.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Tanner
52
Ward, Ernest F.
Baker st
Railroad ave
Press Employee
36
Ward, R. Stanley
Baker st
Baker st
Press Employee
22
Ware, Albert E.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Butcher
35
Waterman, Edgar Roby
Howard st
Newton, Mass.
Carriage Painter
35
Weatherbee, David F.
Neponset st
Neponset st
Farmer
60
Webb, Albert G.
Highland st
Washington st
Nickel Plater
53
Weil, John
Nahatan st
Nahatan st
Moulder
25
Weistman, Theodore
Cottage st
Cottage st
Barber
31
Welsh, Daniel
Guild st
Munroe st
Laborer
27
Welch, William P.
Railroad ave
Railroad ave
Tanner
34
Washburn, Alexander C. Clapboardtree st Clapboardtree st Lawyer
66
Welch, James
Foundry st
Foundry st
Carpenter
92
Welch, Patrick
Washington st
Boston, Mass.
Press Employee
25
Welch, Daniel
Munroe st
Munroe st
Laborer 30
Welch, Patrick
Fulton st
Fulton st
Ink Maker
48
Welch, P. James
Fulton st
Fulton st
Machinist
20
Welch, John J.
Casey st
Casey st
Moulder
39
Wellington. T. F.
Washington st
Washington st
Hotel Landlord
63
Wenstom, Oscar
Chapel st
Sweden
Tanner
25
Walman, Peter
Pleasant st
Sweden
36
NAME.
. RESIDENCE, 1896. RESIDENCE, 1895. OCCUPATION.
AGE.
Wesley, George W.
Everett ave
Winter st
Press Employee 32
Westgate, Elmer C.
Washington st
Washington st
Tanner 26
Weston, George
Washington st
Boston, Mass.
Barber
35
Whedon, William T.
Bullard st
Washington st
Clerk
36
Wheelock, Elijah
Maple st
Maple st
Retired
84
Wheelock, Charles T.
Maple st
Maple st
Merchant
50
Wheeler, W. B.
Highland st
W.M'df'rd, Mass. Press Employee 45
Wheeler, Cyril
Howard st
Washington st
Butcher 38
White, Michael
Neponset st
Neponset st
Farmer
41
White, James F.
Neponset st
Neponset st
Retired
73
White, Nelson B.
Nahatan st
Nahatan st
Retired
70
White, Lucius B.
Nahatan st
Nahatan st
Musician
36
Whitney, Hiram
Washington st
Walpole, Mass.
Farmer 37
Whitney, Constant F.
Cottage st
Cottage st
Merchant
59
Whittier, Herbert
Washington st
Chapel st
Station Agent
35
Wilder, Jerome B.
Morse ave
Morse ave
Steam Fitter
52
Wilkins, Edward
Chapel st
Chapel st
Coachman
31
Willett, George F.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Wool Merchant
25
Williams, John H.
Walnut ave
Walnut ave
Clerk
46
Williams, Frank
Davis ave
Davis ave
Tanner
30
Williams, Joseph
Railroad ave
Canada
Tanner
38
Williamson, William
Washington st
Washington st
Retired
69
Williamson, William
Washington st
Washington st
Carpenter
24
Williamson, Charles B.
Market st
Railroad ave
Engineer
28
Wilson, John
Washington st
Everett ave
Retired
61
Winship, Fred L.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Carpenter
28
Winslow, George S.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Manufacturer
66
Winslow, Francis O.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Manufacturer
53
Winslow, Frank H.
Chapel st
Chapel st
Foreman
33
Winslow, Samuel M.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Farmer
35
Winslow, Eugene E.
Walpole st
Walpole st
Clerk
38
Winslow, John M.
Day st
Day st
Retired
59
Winslow, Richard E.
Day st
Day st
Student
23
Wood, C. Henry
Nahatan st
Nahatan st
Salesman
42
Wood, Owen G.
Vernon st
Vernon st
Shaver
45
Woolard, John K.
Market st
Market st
Baker
44
Worcester, Fred A.
Railroad ave
Casey st
Tanner
26
Worcester, August
Nahatan st
Nahatan st
Laborer
48
Worth, Mark F.
Washington st
Rock Hill ave
Paper Maker
38
Y
Young, Knight Charles Walnut ave
Boston, Mass. Laborer 42
FRANK A. FALES, FRED L. FISHER, GEORGE H. BATEMAN, Assessors of Norwood.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
BOARD OF HEALTH,
TOWN OF NORWOOD.
NORWOOD ADVERTISER AND REVIEW PRESS 1896.
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RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
Norwood Board of Health
in accordance with the Public Statutes.
In 1895 a committee was appointed by the town at the March meeting to consider and report on the subject of improved sew- erage, or what changes were necessary for the better protection of the health and lives of the citizens of the town. That com- mittee considered and reported on the whole subject of deep and surface sewerage, the necessity and cost of the former, and the relief to be found in the latter. In making up our rules and regulations we publish what is important in that report on surface sewerage, as it was the vote of the town to print and circulate said'report.
While, therefore, we do not deem it absolutely necessary for this town at this time to expend $100,000 or $150,000 for a system of deep sewerage, we are fully aware that some radical changes and improvements are needed immediately for the health and safety of the inhabitants. At the present time we have less than 5000 population. The dwellings are not thickly crowded. We have no overpowering nuisances, or pest-holes. The natural drainage from the sloping nature of the land, and the passage of several water-courses is good. There are towns in the near vicinity of a much greater population and a more level territory, that are without underground sewerage. Brockton, a city of over 30,000 inhabitants, did not establish such a system until two or three years ago. Dedham has 7,000 population, and
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depends upon surface drainage. Hyde Park with 11,000, the same. There is no immediate danger or pressure here. Nor- wood's death rate is no higher than in Canton, Dedham, Hyde Park and Walpole. And yet it must be admitted that we are losing some valuable lives every year by the presence of filth and disease breeding conditions. The physicians, in nearly every case of contagious zimotic disease, know that the cause is local and not far from the home of the patient. They speak of it, and are magnanimous and humane enough to use their influence and professional authority to have the cause of sickness removed. Many cesspools are too near the top of the ground, many privies are too near the back door and playgrounds of the children. Nearly all such are sources of microbes and baccilli ; many cel- lars are damp, unventilated, undrained, and occasionally a stable for cows and horses, or a pig-stye, is found in dangerous prox- imity to the dwelling; and some few instances have been known where hens have been kept under the house; and many cases are known where no traps are provided for the sink drain, and some possibly where the water-closet is under the roof of the. dwelling, and its foul odor easily detected by a stranger. All these abuses are full of danger, and most of them the result of ignorance, carelessness and neglect. And every one of them is within the province and the powers of the Board of Health to correct and remove at a comparatively small cost to the owner or to the town. ·
The Board of Health has almost absolute power to protect. people from their own neglect, and the public from danger. With its enlarged powers, under the new statutes, an efficient Board of Health can render Norwood as healthy a town as there is in Massachusetts at a cost of a few hundred dollars per annum.
Your physicians and sanitarians will all confirm this statement, much as they might suffer in their practice by the change. For the next eight or ten years Norwood may be rendered healthy by a firm enforcement of the sanitary laws now on the statute book, and the householders be better satisfied and more fully informed upon the laws of hygiene than they would be under communistic control. With 10.000 inhabitants we may be com-
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pelled to have a deep underground expensive system of sewer- age, a system bringing all our streets to a descending grade towards the Neponset plains, and an ample sewerage farm, where the purified liquids may be sent into the river to help purify the stream, and the solids ploughed under and brought up town again in the form of beets, turnips and cabbages, and sold in the markets for food.
Under these circumstances, after careful consideration of pub- lic and individual danger, your committee recommend that the Board of Health make a general and personal inspection of all parts of the settled portions of the town early in the present year; and while giving every careful householder the privilege of looking after and caring for the sewage and waste of his premises, they should be prepared to do it in case of neglect and public danger. To do this effectually and inoffensively, we recommend the purchase and ownership of an odorless excavator and the employment of some man to attend to it who will make such use or disposition of the waste for fertilizing purposes by sale to farmers and gardeners as shall help to defray the cost of removal. This matter shall be left to the Health Board.
We further recommend the raising and appropriation of $625 for the purchase of the odorless excavator, and an adequate sum as annual compensation for the services of the Board of Health. Also that this report be printed in separate form with certain portions of the statutes relating to the powers and duties of the Board of Health, for distribution among the householders.
DUTIES AND POWERS OF BOARDS OF HEALTH,
Chapter 26, pp. 187-8.
Section 5. The Board shall make such regulations as it judges necessary for the public health and safety respecting nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness within its town, and respecting articles which are capable of containing or conveying infection or contagion, or of creating sickness, brought into or conveyed from its town, or into or from any vessel. Whoever
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violates any such regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $100.
Section 6. Public notice must be given of such regulations,. etc.
Section 7. The Board shall examine into all nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness within its town, that may in its. opinion be injurious to the health of the inhabitants, and the same shall destroy, remove or prevent, as the case may require.
Section 8. The Board or the Health officers shall order the. owner or occupant at his own expense to remove any nuisance,. source of filth and cause of sickness found on private property within twenty-four hours, or such other time as it deems reason- - able after notice served as provided in the following section ; and. if the owner or occupant neglects so to do he shall forfeit a sum. not exceeding $20 for every day during which he knowingly permits such nuisance or cause of sickness to remain after the. time prescribed for the removal thereof. 4
Section 9. Tells how the order is to be served and by whom. Section 10. If the owner or occupant fails to comply with such order the Board may cause the nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness to be removed and all expense incurred thereby shall be paid by the owner or occupant or other person who caused or permitted the same, if he has had actual notice from the Board of Health of the existence thereof.
Section 11. The Board, when satisfied upon due examination, that any cellar, room, tenement or building in its town occupied as a dwelling-place, has become by reason of the number of occupants, or want of cleanliness, or other cause, unfit for such purpose, and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the occupants or the public, may issue a notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them, requiring the premises to be put into a proper con- dition as to cleanliness ; or if they see fit, requiring the occupant to remove or quit the premises within such time as the Board may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, the. Board may cause the premises to be properly cleansed at the ex- pense of the owner, or may remove the occupants forcibly and
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close up the premises, and the same shall not be again occupied as a dwelling place without the consent in writing of the Board of Health. It the owner thereafter occupies or knowingly per- mits the same to be occupied without such permission in writing, he shall forfeit a sum not less than $10 nor more than $50.
Section 14. The Board may make compulsory examination of any premises, private or public, etc.
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RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
NORWOOD BOARD OF HEALTH FOR 1896-7.
PUBLIC STATUTES: CHAPTER 80, SECTION 18. - The Board of Health of a town shall make such regulations as it judges necessary for the public health and safety, respecting nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness within its town. Who- ever violates any such regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceed- ing one hundred dollars.
In making and publishing the following Rules and Regulations the Board calls attention to the fact that it is governed not alone by statute law, but by due regard to the health and safety of each family, and the rights of the public in general. The action of the Board is not capricious and arbitrary, but beneficent and just. Hence we call the attention of the owners, occupants, agents of all dwelling-houses, places of business, markets, and other prop- erty in the town, to the necessity of taking prompt and vigorous measures for the thorough cleaning up of their premises and removal of all filth and sources of decay and infection, so as to conform in all respects to the safety of the occupants and the laws in relation to health. The Board of Health as empowered by law intend to make personal inspection of all inhabited local- ities in town and will exercise its full authority to secure com- pliance with the following wholesome and necessary requirements:
REGULATION I. Privy Vaults and Drains. Section 1. Every tenement shall be provided with a water-tight underground drain to carry off the waste waters, also with a suitable privy or water- closet sufficient for the accommodation of all those inhabiting the premises.
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Section 2. All privy-vaults, unless water-tight, shall be so con- structed that the inside of the same shall be at least five feet distant from the line of any adjoining lot or street, and at least twenty feet from any dwelling house, and shall be provided with proper ventilation. The same shall not be used as cesspools nor receive drainage from the premises. Their contents shall not be allowed to leak out or otherwise become offensive. All privy vaults shall be of a size sufficient to satisfy the Board of Health.
Section 3. All waste water shall be conveyed through suffi- cient drains under ground to a cesspool sunk under ground, which shall be of sufficient size to contain all escaping liquids, and when not water-tight must be at least twenty feet from the cellar wall of any tenement or dwelling, and at least five feet distant from any adjoining lot or street. Cesspools shall be built in a thorough and substantial manner as shall be approved by the Board of Health.
Section 4. No person shall allow any drain or the overflow of any cesspool to enter any running stream, or any drain constructed for surface water, and no person shall suffer any house drainage or other offensive water to remain in any cellar, or upon any lot or vacant ground by such person owned or occupied. All privy vaults and cesspools within one hundred and fifty, feet of any well or spring, the water of which is used for domestic purposes, must be water-tight.
Section 5. All privy vaults or cesspools must be thoroughly cleansed at least twice in each year, and oftener if necessary for the public health, the expense to be borne by the owner of the property.
REGULATION II. Section 1. The Board, when satisfied upon due examination that a cellar, room, tenement or building in the town occupied as a dwelling place, has become by reason of the number of occupants, want of cleanliness or other cause, unfit for such purpose, and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the occupants or to the public, may issue a notice in writing to such occupants, requiring the premises to be put in proper condition ; or if the Board see fit they may require the premises to be
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vacated, and the same shall not be again occupied without the. written permission of the Board.
Section 2. No person shall throw or put into any public place- or pond, or running stream or body of water, or in any other- place where the Board of Health may deem it a nuisance, any dead animal, animal matter, decayed fruit or vegetables, dirt or· rubbish whatever ; nor shall any person throw into or upon any flats within the jurisdiction of the town, any dead animals, filth. or offensive matter.
REGULATION III. Swill and Offal. Section 1. No person. shall remove or carry through any of the streets, lanes or avenues,. places or alleys within the town, the contents of any cesspool, vault or privy well, swill or house offal, (either animal or vege- table,) or grease or bones, unless a permit be granted by the . Board of Health upon such terms and conditions as said Board. may deem necessary, except in small parcels.
Section 2. No person shall bury swill or house offal, or the contents of any cesspool, vaults, privy or privy well within the limits of the town unless a permit be granted by the Board of Health.
Section 3. Parties will be licensed by the Board of Health to collect swill and refuse matter from houses in Norwood twice a. week or oftener, and all housekeepers and others are directed to deliver the same to those duly authorized to make such col- lections.
REGULATION IV. Diseased Meat and Provisions. Section 1. No person shall bring into town, keep or offer for sale any dis. eased, putrid, stale or unwholesome meat, vegetables or provisions.
REGULATION V. Swine. Section 1. No person will be per- mitted to keep any swine within the limits of the thickly settled parts of the town, without a written permit from the Board of Health, and under such regulations as they may prescribe.
REGULATION VI. Contagious Diseases. Section 1. Any per- son sick with the small pox or other contagious disease, together with all persons in attendance upon them, and the premises where such sick person is, will be subject to the control of the Board, and no person shall enter or leave a house wherein a per-
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son is or has been sick with the disease, or in any way come in contact with the inmates of such house, except by permission of the Board.
Section 2. Whenever the Board of Health shall ascertain that any person is sick with small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or- any other disease dangerous to the public health, the Board shall at their discretion, have full control of said person or premises, and shall, if they deem proper, order the premises vacated.
Section 3. All persons are warned not to approach a house or- the surrounding premises whereupon is displayed a disease flag by day, or a red light at night.
Section 4. The bodies of all persons dying of small pox, scarlet fever, typhus fever or diphtheria must be immediately disinfected and placed in a sealed coffin, which shall not be re-, opened, and the bed, bed clothing, and other clothing used by any such person, and by those in attendance on him, and all the furnishings of the sick room, thoroughly disinfected before taken from said room. In the above case no public funeral will be- allowed without permission from the Board of Health.
Section 5. The owner, or persons having charge of any vehi- cle, public or private, used at a funeral in the foregoing cases to carry the deceased or any of the family or attendants of the deceased, shall thoroughly disinfect such vehicle before the same is again used, and take such precautions as shall avoid all possi- ble danger to health and safety.
Section 6. All complaints in relation to nuisances and sources. of filth injurious to the public health and safety, must be ınade in writing to the Board of Health, or in person, with a descrip- tion of said nuisance and of the premises on which it exists, and. signed or vouched for by the person complaining. The Board of Health shall then examine the premises complained of and pro- ceed to abate the nuisance if such is found to exist.
Section 7. Builders, stone amd brick masons, shall not advise- or contract for work for the sake of cheapness, nor construct any drains or cesspools or water-closets or privies for any owner of a house in violation of the above laws and requirements relating to the health and safely of the family or the public. All drains
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and cesspools and privy vaults must be so constructed and cared for as to prevent the escape of noxious and poisonous gases therefrom.
REGULATION VII. Section 1. The removal of the contents of privy vaults and cesspools shall be done as often as twice a year, at least, and oftener if necessary. For all liquid contents the odorless excavator shall be used, and for dryer material a tight dump cart with a close cover, so as to prevent the escape of offensive odors. To absorb liquids and disinfect vaults, dry loam, meadow muck, or dry coal ashes should be used in warm weather twice or thrice a week. Sulphate of iron is a germ- destroyer and disinfectant. Persons having gardens or tillage land and wishing to utilize for fertilizing purposes the contents of vaults and cesspools will be permitted to do so, provided they will do it without danger to health or annoyance to the public.
Section 2. No person from any dwelling or tenement house wherein a case of small pox, varioloid, scarlet fever, diphtheria or cholera shall occur, shall attend any school, church or public gathering of any kind, without a permit from the Board of Health.
Section 3. All persons afflicted with any one of the diseases specified in Section 2, and all articles infected by the same, shall be immediately separated from all persons liable to contract or communicate the disease.
Section 4. When a householder knows that a person within his family is sick of any of the diseases specified in Section 2, he shall not allow any book, paper or magazine to be taken from or returned to the Public Library, without a written permit from the Board of Health.
Section 5. The Board of Health shall give to the Librarian immediate information of all cases ot contagious diseases report- ed to them, and she is to allow no person to return to or take from the Library any book, paper or magazine, unless such per- son shall present a written permit from the Board of Health, as specified elsewhere.
Section 6. Should any well, cistern or other receptacle, the water of which is used for drinking or culinary purposes, present
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a suspicious appearance from unsanitary surroundings, the Board: of Health may make a simple qualitative examination of the. same; and should it be found to contain any substances which are likely to be hurtful, the Board may cause the water to be analyzed by a competent chemist, and by him pronounced safe before allowing it to be used, and the expense incurred thereby shall be paid by the owner of said well.
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