Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-05-11

any house or tenement forth with to abate any
nuisance or other source Of disease that may
be discovered in bis premises; TO cause the
same to be abated by their own agents, and a.
the expense Of such owner or occupant; II Nc
refuse or neglect for twenty-fou hours 10
do so; to pursue these measures so continu.
ously as to prevent, as far as possible, any as-
cumulation of the causes Of disease; to procure
from the engineer or surveyor map Oh
the District, exhibiting its natural drainage
and the present system Of sewerage upon
scale TO be prescribed by the board; to assume
the management and entire control OF All
sewers, drains, or waste pipes now existing or
hereafter TO be constructed: to cause every
part of the District to be effectually drained
upon one general and systematic plan; TO re.
pair, arch over, enlarge, lessen, or otherwise
repair or alter any now existing sewer or dram;
- construct any new sewer or drain, and re-
pair or alter the same TO discontinue, close ups
or destroy any sewer or drain; to carry any
sewer. or drain or pipe, for the distribution OF
sewage, through, AGREES, or under any rail-
road, turnpike road, or other highway, or any
bridge, or street, OF place laid out or intended
for street, or under any cellar or vault which
may be uncer the pavement or carriage way
OF any street, or intended street, upon condi-
tion of making good all damages done by
them; or, II deemed necessary by the engineer,
into, or under, or through any lands whatev yer,
upon making due compensation for the same:
to construct either above or under ground,
such reservoirs and other works as may be
necessary for holding the sewage flowing from
the sewers of the district, or to provide out
falls for the same: TO cause the sewers to empty
INTO such reservoirs or outfalls by means of
connecting sewers, or such other sufficient de-
vices; TO contract for the sale of sewage or for
the distribution OF it over lands, giving to the
contractors power 10 make sub contracts, SUBJ
Ject 10 the conditions TO which they themselves
are subiecI; to contract for, purchase, or take
on lease any buildings, engines, materials or
apparatus 1or receiving, storing, dsinfecting
and distributing any sucn sewage, and TO lease
OF assign such buildings, engines, materials,
or apparatus: 10 purchase or take Oh lease, or
cause TO be condemned, any lands or materials
necessary for The execution of the above pow-
ers; TO permit upon sucn terms as may be
thought reasonable and just, the owner or oc-
cupier of premises, adjoining or near their
sewers or drains, to communicate with them
by his private sewer or drain; to notify and
require the owner OF any house, built without
any or with insufficient waste pipe, drain, or
water closet, TO make, within a reasonable time
specified in the notice, sufficient drain of a
construction approved by the board to require
the drains OF every new house or building to
De cOyeGe ed in, and to be of such size and ma.
terials, at such levels, and with such fall as
may be efiectual, In the opinion of the engi-
neer or surveyor. TO secure perfect drainage of
such house or building and its appurtenances;
10 require the drains of such new house to
communicate with the nearest public sewer,
II there be one within 100 feet, or, If not, then
TO empty into covered cesspool or other place
not being under any house, and being so far
from other houses as the board shall direct; to
compel and direct the constr u ction Of dry
priries," vaults, or cesspools, wherever the
employed, the imperfect supply of water, or
other cause, shall render this necessary for
the preservation of the public health or the
purify OF streams, springs, or other sources of
fresh water; to cause prIvies or vaults of this
class TO be SO constructed as that their contents
can be conveniently and safely removed peri
odically, for agricultural or other pur-
poses; TO require said contents to be suf.
ciently deodorized by some proper and
sufficient drying or deodorizng agent, 50
as 10 render them harmless while undis-
turbed and inOfiensive during removal:
10 apply the same rule to any house or build.
ing which, for the purpose of repairs shall he
pulled down to the ground floor, as to 4 new
house or building; to do the work req uired OF
the owner or occupant. If he fail TO comply
with their notice. and collect from him the
cost OF the same; TO construct works, if practi-
Reedy branch may be made to flush the main
sewers of the District, and effectually clean
them out. To cause all the streets and roads
OF the District; and all foot pavements 70 be
continually and efectually cleaned, and, when
necessary, watered; to cause all dust and rub
bish to be carried away from the premises Of
the inhabitants. at the expense of those who
permit Accommodations of them; to cause all
privies and cesspools. from time to time, to be
emptied and cleaned, first causing or requir.
ing their contents 10 be deodoriZed; TO remove
from any tenement house or other dwelling
which, by reason Of overcrowding. has become
a nuisance, or the cause Of sickness, or the
source Of filth, so many Of the occupants a.
may be requisite to enable those who remain
10 keep the same clean and innocuous: to
charge the expense OF such removal to the
owner Of the tenement house or dwelling: to
notify the remaining occupants, or the owner
or his agent, to cleanse the same, so as to be no
longer a nuisance; or cause 1t to be cleaned at
the expense Of said owner or occupant; to close
mp or demolish such house or dwelling IL il be
found imprac ticable otherwise to free IL from
its deleterious condition. To prescribe rules
for the management Of slaughter houses, and
for keeping them in a wholesome state; to
enter, at reasonable times, and inspect any
I,,HA Asr,n
the sale Of butchers meat, poultry or fish, or
as slaughter house, and examine any animal,
carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, or fish,
which may be therein intended for the food OF
man; and II the same appear to be unfit for
food, TO seize IL and cause IL to be DESTROYED or
otherwise disposed Of, so as to prevent its
being exposed again fer sale to seize any fresh
fish brought into the market before they have
been cleansed Of their entrails and refuse
parts; and any fish offered for sale unless kept
well secured from the rays Of the sun in cover.
ed and clean stalls, boxes. houses. or carts;
TO seize any vegetables whatever, except green
peas in the pod, and green corn in the inner
husks, which have not, when offered for sale,
been diyested Of such parts or appendages as
decayed or damaged grain, vegetables, or fruit,
which has been landed at any wharf or other
place, or brought into the District for sale, or
for any purpose, without permit from an Of
ficer of the board Of health, and in such man.
ner as he may direct, TO seize adulterated or
unwholesome food or drink or milk adultera-
ted with water, or deprived OF its cream, or
mixed with any other substance, solid or
liquid, II offered for sale, and destroy the same;
to eject from the market any person found Of
fering for sale, anywhere within the District,
articles Of any kind unfit for food, unwhole-
IR5ks al s sna s9tSsFSSs Seases assn
and the sale OF provisions as they NAV deem
expeoientj 10 aoate al unlicensed drau shops
urlhking houses, or stalls, or places used Tor
tue saie OF intoxicating drinks; to deliver 10
any person intending to apply for a license TO
Keep common lodging house card on which
snail be printed the number OF dodgers. who
may oe received into the same; directions for
pIomoting cleanliness and ventilation therein.
aho the conditions and restrictions under which
inspection may be made, and access had there.
10 for the purpose Of introducing or usin1
therein any disinfecting process. To insnect
every cellar or underground room intended 10
oe iet or occupied, separately, as a dwelling.
ana 10 grant a license for such occupation unon
ihe following conditions, and not otherwise -
Al tne same - In every part thereof at least
seven ieet In height from floor TO ceiling: N the
same Is Al least one foot of its height above the
surface OF the street or adjoining or nearest
gIouho; II IL mas an open area M least three
Itet Wioe, along Its entire front and at Ieasf
fx incnes lower than the floor: N il js yveII
ana enectually drained, and secure again.t tha
rise OF efhuvia from any wer or dram. ~ thaIs
appurtenant TO II, or that may be used by its
occupants. lawfully constructed water Closet
or privy, and an ash pit furnish he a with proner
ooofs ana coverings; IL IL has an ETERNAL
~inCOw OF At least