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from 5 00 to 50 00
Sinks and Basins. All sinks more than two, in general use, each
1 00
And all wash basins more than two, in general use, each 50
Water Closets, in dweliings or tene- ments, not including boarding houses, where only a single water closet is used.
4 00
Each additional water closet .. 2 00
Water Closets used in common by sev- eral families, according to the num- ber of families and persons using,
from 6 00 to 15 00
Water Closets in boarding houses, for one water closet. from 5 00 to 10 00 For each additional closet. 3 00
Water Closets in Stores, Offices, and Eating Houses. from 3 00 to 10 00 Baths, in dwellings or tenements, for a single bath tub. 5 00
For all other uses of hose, at such rates as may be fixed by the Committee on Water. The use of all hose will be restricted as per Section Fourteen of Ordinances governing use of Wa- ter.
METERED WATER .- When the daily consump- tion is one thousand gallons or less, twenty-five cents per thousand gallons; for one thousand to five thousand gallons per day, twenty cents per thousand gallons; for from five thousand to fif- teen thousand gallons per day, fifteen cents per thousand gallons.
For all amounts to any single consumer over fifteen thousand gallons per day, at such special rates as may be fixed by contract with the Com- mittee on Water, provided no such contract shall be made to extend'over one year from the date thereof.
USED BY CITY .- Water supplied to the vari- ous departments of the city shall be assessed at the rate of fifteen cents per thousand gallons,
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30
Each additional tub 2 00
4 00 to 10 00
'3 00
Eating Houses, fish and other markets, provision shops, refreshment or oys- ter saloons, or for purposes not in- cluded in any other classification,
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the amount to be charged to the deparments so supplied.
WATERING STREETS .- Water supplied for the purpose of watering streets shall be furnished by special contract with the Committee on Water,
and no contract shall be made under this section for a longer period than one year.
Where no specific rates are fixed by this ordi- nance for water, the Committee on Water shall have power to fix such rates.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
An Ordinance governing the introduction and use of Water in the City of Worcester. Passed in 1887.
SEC. 1. All applications for the use of city water must be made at the office of the Water Registrar, in the form prescribed, stating truly and fully the various uses to which the water is to be applied, and signed by the owner of the premises to be supplied or his properly author- ized agent.
SEC. 2. No alteration in any water pipe or water fixture, whereby the consumption of water is increased, shall be made without first giving notice and obtaining a permit therefor from the Water Registrar. No plumber or other person shall make alteration in or addition to any water pipe or fixture as aforesaid, unless the owner or agent shows a permit therefor, signed by the Water Registrar, and then only to the extent stated therein.
SEC. 3. All service pipe and its appendages laid in the streets shall be furnished and main- tained at the expense of the city.
SEC. 4. All pipes and other fixtures upon the premises outside of the buildings of any taker shall be furnished and laid by the city at the ex- pense of said taker, who shall maintain, keep in repair and protect the same from frost and other injuries.
SEC. 5. All water takers shall be held by the department liable for such repairs of the fixtures upon the premises occupied or owned by them as shall be deemed necessary to prevent waste of water.
SEC. 6. No damages shall be allowed any tak- er for shutting off water for the purpose of doing ordinary repairs on pipes, gates, hydrants or other fixtures, or for adding or inserting new ones, or for changes of pipes at any time from one size to another, or for lowering and raising pipes in any street or highway ; but twelve hours' notice shall be given to all takers before their supply of water shall be cut off, except in cases of great emergency.
SEC. 7. The Committee on Water, Water Commissioner and Registrar, or any employe authorized by them, shall have access at all rea- sonable times to all premises where water is used, for the inspection or repairs of the fixtures, or for setting, testing or repairing meters, and also for shutting off the water from any delinquent taker by closing any faucet or cutting any pipe or pipes necessary to effect the object desired.
SEC. 8. The regular water rates shall be paya- ble annually, in advance, on the first day of June, and bills for metered water shall be paya- ble semi-annually, on the first day of March and September.
SEC. 9. If bills for water, meters, or service pipe, materials and labor furnished, are not paid
within forty days after notice from the City Treasurer that the same are in his office ready for payment, the water shall be shut off from the premises which are supplied, and shall not be turned on again until all bills are paid, and in addition thereto two dollars for the expense of shutting off and letting on the water. This rule applies to all premises supplied with water, whether they are occupied at the time of such shutting off by the parties who owned or occu- pied the premises at the time the bills accrued, or by other parties.
SEC. 10. Whenever two or more several par- ties, or families, are supplied with water from the same service pipe, and any one of said par- ties refuses or neglects to paythe water rate when due, or to comply with the published rules and regulations, the committee on water shall cause to be put on seal locks when such parties refuse or neglect to pay.
SEC. 11. Water takers will be charged two dollars for shutting off and letting on the water at the street mains, for the purpose of repairs or extensions of services upon their premises. Water takers will be charged for all services ren- dered upon their premises for thawing out frozen pipe, or repairing the same in any manner, or for removing obstructions from their pipes. Twenty-four hours' notice will be required for letting on or shutting off the water. All per- sons are prohibited from opening or closing any service stop at the mains without permission from the committee on water.
SEC. 12. The construction and location of private fire hydrants or fountains shall be sub- ject to the approval of the committee on water, and no charge will be made for water used from hydrants for fire purposes exclusively, and no fire pipe will be allowed to be used for any other purpose. Any person or corporation breaking this rule shall have the supply of water cut off.
SEC. 13. All injuries to service pipe, street mains, hydrant or other fixtures caused by exca- vations in putting in any sewer, drain or other pipe, shall be chargeable to the owner of the premises for whom such work is done.
SEC. 14. The use of hose for washing windows and sidewalks shall be confined to the hours of 5 to 7 A. M., and 7 to 8 P. M., and from April 1st to December 1st in each year.
SEC. 15. When a consumer shall prefer to pay the cost of such a meter as shall be approved by the committee on water, together with the cost of putting in and maintaining the same, rather than to pay tariff rates or for the quantity esti- mated, a meter will be put in; but in no case shall measured water be furnished for less than
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$4.00 per annum, payable in each case semi-an- nually, without regard to the amount of previous payments, and no reduction of the minimum rates will be made on account of vacancies.
SEC. 16. On all premises where meters have been set, the owner or owners of the premises shall be held to pay the rates according to the schedule adopted by the City Council for the en- tire amount of water used upon such estates irrespective of all under leases or any individual consumer or individual consumers upon such estates, and he or they shall be held to pay rate thereby until released therefrom by the com- mittee on water. In all cases where meters are ordered, the size of the same necessary to do the work shall be determined by the department. Where a meter is set to cover the use of an ele- vator, no water will be allowed to be drawn through the meter for any other purpose.
SEC. 17. No fireman or other person, except for the purpose of extinguishing fires, or for the purpose of drill under the direction of the Board of Engineers, or the Superintendent of Sewers, under the direction of the Committee on Water, shall open any fire hydrant or stop-cock connect- ed with the fire service without the consent of the Water Commissioner.
SEC. 18. Whenever an abatement on account of non nse of water is desired, and notice thereof has been given at the office of the Registrar, while the person liable for the water rates is in possession of the premises, the water shall be
cut off by an employe of the Department and an abatement made, less the charge of one dollar for cutting off; provided, that such seal locks as may be adopted by the Committee on Water may be placed upon faucets in tenements so con- nected with other tenements that they cannot be separately shut off in the street; but they shall not be put on in any house that can be shut off except for particular fixtures. The charge for putting on such seal locks shall be established by the Committee on Water. Such seal locks shall not be taken off by any one except an em- ploye of the Department, on penalty of forfeit- ing all claims for allowance, and having the water shut off from the premises.
· SEC. 19. No water taker shall be allowed to supply water to any other person or family out- side his premises, nor shall any person take or carry away water from any hydrant, watering trough, or public fountain, without the consent of the Water Registrar first having been obtain- ed in writing.
SEC. 20. Any person violating either of the foregoing rules shall forfeit and pay to the use of said cfty the sum of twenty dollars. Any person or corporation neglecting or refusing to comply with said rules and regulations shall have their supply of water cut off.
SEC. 21. All previous ordinances, rules, regu- lations and tariff rates, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
ESTABLISHED RY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT OF 1877. Appointed biennially by the Mayor and Aldermen. Henry Griffin, Chairman, term expires Feb. 1890. Salary, $200. James C. Coffey, term expires Feb. 1889. Salary, $1,000, and $200 as clerk of Board. The City Physician, Lemuel F. Woodward, ex-officio.
General Inspector, Jonas White. Salary, $2.50 per day. Appointed annually by the Board Inspector of Plumbing, John F. McCartney. Salary, $3.1212 per day. Appointed annually by the Board.
REGULATIONS.
The following Regulations are established by the Board of Health for the public health and safety.
Privies, Etc.
RULE 1. Every tenement in said city, used as a dwelling house, shall be furnished with sufficient drain, underground, to carry off the waste water into a common sewer or reservoir; and also with suitable water closets, or with a privy, the vault of which shall be underground, built and kept in the manner prescribed in this chapter, and of sufficient capacity for the num- ber of occupants in such tenement.
RULE 2. Every vault or privy shall be so con- str.icted that the inside of the same shall be at least three feet distant from the line of every adjoining lot, unless the owner of such lot shall consent or agree otherwise; and also three feet from every street, lane, passage-way or public place; and every such vault or privy shall be built in a thorough and substantial manner, and kept water tight, and its contents shall never be within eighteen inches of the surface of the ground. And whenever any privy or vault shall
become offensive, the same shall be cleansed. In case the condition or construction of any vault or privy shall be different from the require- ment of this section, the Board of Health, after forty-eight hours' notice to the occupant requir- ing him to cleanse said vault, may have the same cleansed, repaired, altered or removed, as may be necessary, aud shall charge the expense in- curred in so doing to the owner or party occupy- ing the estate in which such privy or vault may be.
RULE 3. No water closet shall be maintained without a tiglit drain to convey the contents thereof to a proper reservoir or to the common sewer; and no such reservoir shall be establish- ed within twenty feet of any well, spring or source of water used for culinary purposes.
RULE 4. No privy or vault shall be opened in any manner or at any time than at such time and in such manner as the Board of Health may di- rect; and no person shall remove or carry
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through any public street, highway or square of the city, the contents of any vault or privy, un- less the person removing the same, and the cart, wagon or other conveyance in which the same is to be carried, shall be licensed for such pur- pose by the Board of Health. All such vaults shall be thoroughly cleansed out and the con- tents thereof removed once in each year, and of- tener if the Board of Health so direct.
Drainage.
RULE 5. No sewer drain, not water tight, shall be allowed to pass within twenty feet of any well, or other source of water used for culi- nary 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.
*RULE 6. Whenever it shall appear to the Board of Health that any cellar, lot or vacant land is a nuisance, or in such condition that it may probably become dangerous to the public health, they may cause the same to be drained, filled up, or otherwise prevented from becoming or remaining a cause of nuisance or sickness, and shall charge all reasonable expenses incur- red in so doing to the owners or parties occupy- ing such cellar, lot or land; provided, that no- tice shall have been first given, and forty-eight hours thereafter allowed, as provided in Rule 2.
*RULE 7. The owners or occupants of estates abutting on a public sewer shall cause such es- tates to be connected by proper drains with such public sewer. Whoever neglects or refuses to comply with such regulation shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each day that such neglect or refusal continues.
Animals, Etc.
RULE 8. No animals affected with an infec- tious or contagious disease shall be brought within the limits of the city. No diseased ani- mal or its flesh shall be sold or offered for sale; and no decayed, diseased or unwholesome meat, fish, vegetables, fruit or other articles of food shall be sold or offered for sale, in the city.
RULE 9. No person shall keep any swine or goats within the limits prescribed by the Board of Health, except the keeper thereof be licensed to keep the same by the Board of Health, and when so licensed, said animals shall be kept in a manner prescribed by the Board of Health.
RULE 10. All putrid, decaying or decayed ani- mal or vegetable matter shall be removed from the cellars and outbuildings on or before the first day of June in each year. No fish, slaugh- ter-house offal or other decaying animal matter shall be left or permitted to remain upon the land for purposes of fertilization, without being ploughed in, or otherwise rendered inoffensive.
House Offal.
RULE 11. Each family shall have a properly covered receptacle for swill and house offal, un- til the same is removed.
RULE 12-1. No person shall go about, in, or through the streets, squares or highways of the
* Amended Aug. 17th, 1885.
city collecting, carrying or removing swill or of- fal, unless duly authorized and licensed by the Mayor and Aldermen or Board of Health.
2. All swill or offal collected and carried through the streets, squares or highways, as be- fore provided, shall be put and carried in a close- covered vehicle, box or other tight vessel, and shall be taken away and removed not less than three times in each week.
RULE 13. Every occupant of any building in this city shall keep such building and the yard belonging thereto free from all filth and sub- stances liable to produce offensive odors.
RULE 14. No person shall burn, on premises occupied by him, any garbage, refuse woolen, silk, leather or India-rubber goods or other sub- stances, so that the same shall evolve offensive odors and gases while burning.
RULE 15. No person shall deposit or permit to be deposited by any one occupying his prem- ises, any house offal, brine, bones, dead animals, old leather, decayed fruit or vegetables, or any other rubbish, in any streams, ponds, catch ba- sin, street, lane, alley or public grounds of the city. Further, no person shall clean, scale or wash fish or meat upon any street, lane, alley or public grounds of the city.
RULE 16. No person shall transport fat, bones or any decayed, putrid or vile-smelling animal or vegetable substances, through any of the public streets, lanes, alleys, or public grounds of the city, except in water-tight, se- curely covered vessels, from which no odors can escape.
Slaughter Houses, Etc.
RULE 17. No slaughter-house or abattoir shall be established or used as such within the two mile circle (the city hall being the center), and none elsewhere within the limits of the city, un- less kept free from all obnoxious smells, and all offal shall be removed daily therefrom. No melting or rendering house shall be established or used as such within the limits of the city, ex- cept by permission and location of this Board.
RULE 18. No manufacturing or other busi- ness, giving rise to obnoxious or injurious odors, shall be established or continued within the city limits, except in such locations as this Board shall assign, and all persons having any control of existing manufactories, stables and fish mar- kets, shall use all means available to render them inodorous and free from all obnoxious smells.
RULE 19. All licenses granted by the Board. of Health may be revoked at the pleasure of said Board.
Contagious Diseases.
RULE 20. Every person, in whose dwelling there shall break out a case of cholera, yellow fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, small pox or varioloid, shall immediately notify the Board of Health of the same, and, until in- structions are received from the Board, shall not permit any clothing or other property tha", may have been exposed to infection to be removed from the house, nor shall any occupant take up
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a residence elsewhere without consent of the Board.
RULE 21. Any physician who may know of or be called to a case of either of the diseases specified in the foregoing regulations, shall at once report such case to the Board of Health, and receive their instructions in regard thereto; and whenever therc shall come under the obser- vation of any physician such number of cascs of scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, dysen- tery or spotted fever, so called, as in his opinion to justify the belief that any considerable epi- demic thereof exists, he shall at once report the same to the Board, with such suggestions in re- gard thereto as may seem to him expedient.
RULE 22. All persons affected with either of the diseases specified in Rule 20, and all articles infected by the same, shall be immediately sep- arated from all persons liable to contract or com- municate the disease, and none but nurses and physicians shall be allowed access to persons sick with such diseases; and no person sick with any of said diseases shall be removed at any time, except by permission and under direction of the Board of Health, but all persons infected with either of said diseases who cannot be prop- erly quarantined, may be removed, according to law, to such hospital or other place as the Board
of Health direct, and no persons shall obstruct, hinder or opposé 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 23. All bedding and personal clothing or other personal property, affected with conta- gion or infection, shall be disposed of or treated as the Board of Health may direct.
RULE 24. All bedding or other personal prop- erty, liable to propagate any of the diseases men- tioned in Rule 21, 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 25. No person or article liable to propa- gate a dangerous disease shall be bronght with- in the limits of the city without the special con- sent and direction of the Board; and whenever it shall appear to any person that such person or article has been brought into the city, imme- diate notice thereof shall be given to the Board, specifying its location.
RULE 26. No person or persons shall deposit ashes or rubbish in any place within the city limits, except in such places as shall be designat- ed by the Board of Health.
PLUMBING REGULATIONS.
As established by an Ordinance of the City.
SECTION 1. The Board of Health may license proper persons to carry on the business of plumbing.
SECT. 2. No person shall carry on the busi- ness or do any work of plumbing unless he shall have first obtained a license and registered his name and place of business in the office of the Board of Health, and notice of any change in the place of business of a registered plnmber shall be immediately given to said Board. Pro- vided, that this section shall not apply to em- ployes while working for licensed plumbers.
SECT. 3. Every dwelling-house where a pub- lic sewer abuts the estate shall be supplied with a water-closet for every fifteen persons, conve- niently located and constantly supplied with water. All water-closets constructed after the passage of this ordinance must be supplied with water from a special tank or cistern, not used for any other purpose, unless permission has been first obtained from the Board of Health to use other fixtures. It shall in all cases be connect- ed directly with the general or common drain- pipe of the house. The common drain-pipe shall be separately and independently conncct- ed with the public sewer, wherever sich sewer is provided, and if there is no such sewer, with a properly constructed cesspool of a capacity ap- proved by said Board.
SECT. 4. Where it is necessary to lay soil-pipe under the ground, it shall be of the quality known as "Extra-Heavy Pipe." The length passing through the walls of the building shall also be of Extra-Heavy Pipe. All cast-iron pipes must be sound and free from holes and
other defects, of a uniform thickness, and of not less than the weights specified below for the corresponding diameters, and before use shall be thoroughly coated inside and out with coal tar or an equivalent substance.
External diameter, ordinary pipe :- 2 inches, 312 lbs. per foot.
3
41% 66
4
66 612
5
66
8
6
66 10
Extra-Heavy Pipe, external :-
2 inches, 512 lbs. per foot.
3 912 .6
4 66 13
66
5
66 17
6
66 20
66
Drain and soil-pipes through which water and sewage is used and carried, shall be of sound iron when within a building, and for a distance of not less than five (5) feet outside the founda- tion walls thereof. They shall be securely iron- ed to walls or laid in trenches of uniform grade, or suspended to floor timbers by strong iron hangers, or as the said Board may direct. They shall have proper fall towards the drain or sew- er, and soil-pipes shall be carried out through the roof, open and undiminished in size, to a distance of not less than two (2) feet above the roof, or as the said Board may direct. Changes in direction shall be made with curved pipes, and all connection with pipes shall be made with Y branches. Every waste-pipe used for conduct- ing waste water from sinks or other fixtures shall be carried through the roof, open and un-
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diminished in size, to a distance of not less than two (2) feet above the roof, or into soil-pipe above highest fixtures.
SECT. 5. Rain-water leaders must never be used as soil, waste or vent-pipes, and when con- nected with soil or drain-pipe shall be suitably trapped.
SECT. 6. Sewer soil-pipes or waste-pipe venti- lators shall not be constructed of brick, sheet metal or earthenware, and chimney-flues shall not be used as such ventilators.
SECT. 7. Joints shall be run with molten lead, packed with oakum, and thoroughly caulked and made tight. Connections of lead pipes with iron pipes shall be made with brass ferrules, properly soldered and caulked to the iron.
SECT. 8. Every sink, basin, bath-tub, water- closet, slop-hopper, and every fixture having a waste-pipe, shall be furnished with a trap. Traps shall be protected from siphonage or air-pressure (when such make of trap is used that is liable to siphonage) by special air-pipes of a size not less than the waste-pipe; but air-pipes for water-clos- et traps shall be of not less than 2-inch bore. Air-pipes shall be run as direct as practicable, and shall not be of less than 4-inch bore where they pass through the roof. Two or more air- pipes may be connected together or with a soil-
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