The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-23
RULES AND REGULATIONS
ADOPTED BY
Board Of Health Of the City Of Jackson
[. All priKies shan be disinfected az ono.

[. All priVies shall be disinfected at once
and regularly once every week.
IL No night soil or contents of css<-poois
within The jurisdiction of this Boa shall
I be removed uule-s previously deo,leI lied
and during removal shall be covered with a
/ layer of fresh earth.
| III. No sewer or drain shall empty into
/ any lake or pond or other source of water
standing water within the jurisdiction OF
I this Board.
Nv. No house offal. dead animals or refuse
| of any Kind shall be thrown upon the streets,
or left exposed b, any person, aud no
butcher. fish monger or vender of merchan-
disc of any KIND, shall have any refuse upon
the streets or uncovered by earth upon the
lots of this city ; and putrid and decaying
animal or vegetable m alters must be re-
moved from all cellars and ouL-buildings.
Y. All families. hotels, restaurants and
others accommodating garbage are required
To have proper covered receptacle for swill
and house offal. and cause the contents to
be regularly removed daily.
vi All slaughter pens or houses and
butcher stalls within the Jurisdiction OF this
Board must be kept free from all obnoxious
smells and all offal be removed every day.
VII. All sewers, drains aud cesS-pools or
other places giving rise to obnoxious yapors,
shall be At once disinfected.
VIII. Any householder in whose dwelling
there shall occur a case OF yellew fever or
other infections disease, shall Immediately
noIif, the Board OF Health OF the same,
and, until instructions are received from the
Board. shall not permit any clothing or
other property that may have been exposed
to infection to b. removed from the house,
nor shall any occupant take up residence
elsewhere without the consent of the Board.
IN. Any physician who may be called to
a case of any of the diseases spec fled in the
foregoing rule, shall at once report such
ease TO this Board and receive Instructions
in-regard thereto
Y. No person or any article liable to
propagate dangerous disease, shall be
brought within the jurisdiction of this
Board, without the special consent and di-
come to the knowledge OF any person that
such person or article has been brought
within such limits, he shall Immediately
give notice thereof to this Board, together
with the location thereof
NJ. No person sick with any of the
diseases specified in Rule VIII, shall be re-
moved at any time except by permission
and under direction of the Board.
XII. Persons affected with any of the
diseases specified in Rule VIII, and all
articles injected by the same, shall be i'm
mediately separated from all persons liable
To contract or communicate the disease, and
none but physicians, nurses and the clergy
men OF the family shall be allowed access
to persons sick with these diseases. fSee Sec.
IL of an Act 10 amend an Act creating a
State Board Of Health, laws of Mississippi.
1873, page 1861
Kill Persons recovering from any of the
diseases specihed in tie preceding rules, and
their nurses, shall not leave the premises till
they have been thoroughly bathed and their
clothing diSinfected.
XIV. All vessels used by such patients
shall be disinfected. then emptied, their con-
tents buried in earth, and the vessel cleansed
with boiling water.
XIV. All personal clothing, bedding, tow
els, etc, aud all articles in contact with or
used by the patient, shall be disinfected and
" aShed in boiling water.
XVI. Infected feather beds, pillows and
hair mattresses shall have their contents re-
moved and disinfected, and their ticks
washed in boiling water; but no article
shall be burned without the direction of this
Board. Infected straw beds and moss mat
tresses shall have their contents removed
and burned, and their ticks washed in boil
ing water.
The Sanitary Inspectors for their respec
tive wards are instructed and empowered to
inspect and direct the cleansing and disin
fecting of the same. They are also fully
EN- powered to enforce the Rules of this
Board.
The Board earnestly asks the cooperation
of every individual to secure the desirable
sanitary condition., to promote which the
foregoing rules are framed: