The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-09
RULES AND REGULATIONS
Board Of Health Of the City Of Jackson.

l. All priyies shall be disinfected at once,
| aud regularly once every week.
! III. No night soil or contents of CESS pools
within The jurisdiction of this Board shall
/ be removed unless previously dQodeTiZed,
| 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
| used for culinary purposes, nor into any
standing water within the jurisdiction OF
| this Board.
| ". No house offal dead animals or refuse
| of any kind shall be thrown upon the streets,
or left exposed by any person, and no
| butcher, fish monger or Vender of merchan-
disc of any kind. shall leave any refuse upon
| the streets or uncovered by earth upon the
| lots of this city ; and putrid and decaying
animal or vegetable matters must be re-
moved from all cellars and out-buildings.
V. 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 vapors,
| shall be at once disintected.
| VIII. Any householder in whose dwelling
| there shall occur a case of yelieW fever or
| other infectious disease, shall Immediately
| notify 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 be removed from the house.
| nor shall any occupant take up residence
| elsewhere without the consent of the Board.
TX. ANY physician who may be called to
| a case of any of the diseases specified in the
foregoing rule, shall at once report such
case to this Board and receive instructions
| in regard thereto.
Y. No person or any article liable to
propagate Il dangerous disease, shall be
| brought within the jurisdiction of this
Board, without the special consent and d.
rectiOn of this Board and whenever it shall
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 permiSs ion
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 inn
medately 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. TSee Sec.
IL of an Act to amend an Act creating a
> EaJ6 0OdTu al IiedIlL, laws OI MlSSlSo1p pl.
1873, page 1856.
Mi. Persons recovering from any of the
diseases specified in the preceding rules, and
their nurses shall not leave the premises till
they have been thoroughly bathed and their
clothing djsinfected.
XIV. All vessels used by such patients
shall be disintected then emptied, their con-
tents buried in earth, and the vessel cleansed
with boiling water.
XIV. All personal clothing, bedding, tow
els, etc, and all articles in contact with or
used by the patient, shall be disinfected and
washed 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 disn-
fecting of the same. They are also fully
empowered to enforce the Rules of this
Board.
The Board earnestly asks the cooperation
of every Individual to secure the desirable
sanitary conditions, to promote which the
foregoing rules are tramed: