The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-08-21
RULES AND REGULATIONS
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Board Of Health Of The City Of Jackson.

/ [. All priyies shall be disinfected at once,
/ and regularly once every week.
/ III. No night soil or contents of cess-pools
within The jurisdiction of this Boa d shall
+ be removed unle-s previously deoerized.
and during removal shall be covered Niih
/ layer of fresh earth.
| III. No sewer or drain shall empty into
4 any lake or pond or other source OF water
used for culinary purpos, :, nor into any
standing water within the jurisdiction of
/ this Board
| ". No house offal dead q FINALS or refuse
| of any kind shall be throw upon the streets,
| or left exposed b. any person, aud no
! butcher. nSh mOnger or veuder of merchaD-
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-1uidings.
V. All families, hotels, restaurants and
Others accommodating garbage are required
to have a proper covered receptacle for swiIl
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 otfal be removed every day.
VII. All sewers, drains and cess-p pools or
other places giving rise to obnoxious vapors,
shall be at once diSintecied.
VIII. Any householder in whose dwelling
there shall occur a case of yellew fever or
other infectious disease, shall Immediately
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.
IN. Any physician who may be called to
a 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 a dangerous disease, shall be
brought within the jurisdiction of this
Board, without the special consent and di-
rcction 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 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 inn
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. tSee Sec
II of an Act 10 amend AN Act creating a
State Board of Health, laws of Mississippi,
1873, page 1876
Nil. Persons recovering from any OF the
diseases specified 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, and all articles in contact with or
used by the patient, shall be disinlected and
washed in boiling water.
| XVI. Infected feather beds. pillows and
| hair mattresses shall have their contents
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
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 framed: