Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-05-11
WASHINGTON. D. c.. FRIDAY. MAY IL. 1876,

houses, for manufacturing purposes, for flush.
ing tne streets, and for other public purposes;
10 grant licenses for using the water by private
INDIVIDUALS; TO cause the solicitor to prosecute
any person as for a misdemeanor, and to sue
the water, or INJURIES any Of the works for its
supply; to supply any house or tenement with
wafer at the expense of the owner or occupant,
II n ne omit, after six days notice. to procure 1t
TO be supplied himself To direct the. solicitor
10 prosecute as for nuisance, by indictment,
or 6y civil suit, or by both, the owner Of any
e'nar. lodging house, or other house intended
lor Inc constant occupation Of not less than ter
persons, or for the occasional assemblage of
larger numbers, unless IL be ventilated, as fol-
lows by yentIducts for admitting fresh air,
having opacity Of not less than one hundred
square inches for every twenty five persons,
AID in the same proportion for any greater or
Iees number; or by some other mode capable of
supplying pure air to each person at the rate
OF Jour cubic feet a minute; by discharging
ventldncts, opening directly into heated nues,
or into the open air above the roof terminated
by suitable eowl or cap, and having a ca
pacity OF notdess than two-thirds of the ad-
mIttingtventiduct: or by an open fireplace, an
Arnott valve. an opening into some other ven-
aiaied % apartment, or by some ether effec-
or unless the drains. vaults, and water closets
be securely trapped and efectuaily ventilated;
by connecting them with the rain W ater spouts
or II within the house, as in the ease of water
closets, by ventlating fiue opening ABOVE the
root, or connected with a heated f1ue. To issue
directions and regulations in order that meas
ures of precaution may be taken with prompt
tude, according 10 the urgency Of the case.
when any epidemic, endemic, or contagious
disease threatens the District or any part OF il;
toprevent the spread OF such malignant dis
eases, or mitigate the same by such measures
as they deem expedieut, other than vigorously
cleansing the streets and public highways:
cleansing, purifying, ventilatiDg, and disin.
feeuDg houses; removing nuisances; providing
fOrt tho Sial hNp Sfab llSh md
pOrary hospitals, and for the speedy interment
of the dead: TO order TO quarantine any vessel
having on board any contagious or malignant
disase or that has come from any port or
place where any such disease is prevailing: to
provide suitable apartments for sufficient med
zeal officers or employers to vaccnate without
charge all persons who shall apply: to direct
sand officers to give to every child OF the age to
attend The public schools, or under that age, a
Ger ifcate of vaccination, TO be produced before
admission to the public schools; to direct and
require said officers TO keep on hand, if practi-
cable, sufficient quantity of vaccine lymph to
supply the physicians and public Institutions:
to employ no person in the public works under
their control who has not been well and sniff
gently protected against smallpox either by
vaccination or otherwise. To provide places
of burial, either within or without the District,
for all persons dying therein; TO enlarge the
same when they deem il expedient by the pur.
ehase OF lands for the purpose; to make roads
to the same, or Improve those already existing:
TO build therein suitable chapels, and such
other buildings and works they think
proper; to discontinue burials in any par.
ticnlar burial grounds, making exceptions in
special cases. If 1t can be done without
prejudice to the public health; to grant
rights Of sepulture to persons deprived thereof
by disseminating buriais in particular places,
or Otherwise to make them compensation; to
grant leave for the removal Of bodies from any
burial ground under their control, when IL can
be done without injury to the public health.
To keep constantly fixed upon some conspi.
cuous part of every burial ground under their
control, printed regulations-ast to the forma.
tion of graves ard places of interment; as to the
nature OF the coffins TO be received in said
grounds; as TO the conduct Of funeral proces.
sions; as 10 the time and mode of removing be-
dies; and, generally, as to all matters connected
win the good order OF such grounds, and the
convenient exercise o. the right of ipterment.
To register, in books to he kept for the purpose
the name, sex, age, rank, profession or occu.
pation, residence at the time ofdeath, and cause
Of the death Of each person whose body is i'm
TERED in said grounds; to grant permit for the
burial after said register has been completed; to
provide onvenient houses for the receptjon
and care Of the bodies of the dead until iptar
ment; make arrangement for such rrcent,on
and the care of the bodies; and appoint officers
10 .nperin,ent i the same to permit no awake
without leave in writing; to grant no such leave
II the death was occasiontd by any malignant
or epidemic disease; or, if from any cause the
health OF those who would be present, or Of
others with whom they would be in contact
would b. thereby endangered: to fix a scale of
charges for the conduct Of funerals, VARYING
according to circumstances but SO that the fun.
eral may be conducted with decency and sol.
emnity, however small the charge may be, or
II no charge whatever is made.
II is nuisance, among other things-to nil
or load tie air with unhealthy exhalations and
odors so near dwellings as to endanger the
health ofthe occupants to establish magazines
or repositories OF gunpowder, or other explo-
sive subfance, or to manufacture the same, 50
near to dwellings as to render their occupation
unsafe, q occasion reasonable dread of harm:
TO District, without lawful authority, the
natural low OF the water of rivers or streams,
or alongdrains, cutters, or sewers; to corrupt,
or rende impure or unwholesome, the water
OF any rger, stream, well, fountain, spring, or
pond; to,bsfruct any public highway. private
way, av0ue, street, alley, road TO any place of
ihtermen, common, public square, or reserva.
ton; to throw into or leave in or upon any
strest, sqlare, or vacant lot or into any pond or
body OF vater, any dead animal, dirt sawdust,
oyster, dam. or lobster shells, waste water,
rubbish, or filth Of any kind, or any refuse
whatsoe' 'er, animal or vegetable; to throw int
or leave or upon any wharf, dock, slip, fats.
or tide-vater, any dead animal or other foul or
ofensiyematfer; to keep disorderly house to
wit-for PROSTITUTION or iewdness: for gambling:
for drinhng Intoxicating liquors, to which
quarreiing, nghting, and breaches ofthe peace
scandalied or annoyed; to conceal the exis.
tence in ny house, tenement, or dwelling Of
any CONSCIOUS disease; to let any house or
tenement to greater number of tenants than
is, in thopinion Of the board of health, com
patible With the continued health of the oscu.
pants; so as to tend to generate disease among
them an0propagate the same abroad; TO wash
or clean arriages, or feed horses or cows, or
wash then in the streets; to suffer any animal
Of the hose kind that is blind, or that has the
glandere. or other contagious or infectious
disease, t.run at large; to open ana leave open
without eRcingi securely, any ditch, trench,
gutter. r. lily, or other excavation, in any ave.
nue., strek, or alley, whether for drain cellar.
or other awful purpose.
To facilitate the removal Of nuisances and
aid the authorities therein, and to prevent in.
Juries tc individuals, it is the duty Of every
occupant Of any dwelling or other building TO
have the dirt and rubbish in and about his
premises and in any alley or street adjacent
thereto. made into piles rs often as may be re.
CURED b, the board Of health; to keep slop.
fube Tor ecelving the offal OF the kitchen, and
10 place ne same therein; to clean the paved
gutter infront Of his premises daily; to remove
the snowfrom the pavement in the front of his
nonse within SIX hours after IL has fallen In IL
Iaii IN Tie day time, and within two hours
aiter sunrise II 1t fall in the night; TO fence IN
every dith, trench, gutter, gully, or other ex.
caSaiion made in any avenue, street, or alley,
Whether or drains. cellars. or other purposes:
'ocoVer ever or enclose safely and securely and
afer unet light with lamp or lantern, every
excavation made for q lawful purpose: to
fence OH he pavement on the right and left
ana In frnt OF any vault or opening for a eel.
lar door, area, or steps in the process OF con.
structiOn, and to light the same effectnalIv