The weekly clarion., 1878-10-16
RULES AND REGULATIONS
ADOPTED BY
Board Of Health Of the City of Jackson

| [. All priTies shall be disinfected at oncr,
| and resul larly once every week.
IL No night soil or contents of ces-- pools
within ;he jurisdiction of this Boa d shall
be removed unless previously dso6erized.
and during removal shall be covered with a
layer of fresh earth.
III. No sewer or drain snail 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-buiidings.
V. All families. hotels, restaurants and
others accumulatiHg 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
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 case of yellew 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
ease 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-
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.
XI. 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 com municate the disease, and
none but physicians, nurses and the clergy
men OF the family shall be allowed access
to persons sick with these diseases. [See Sec.
II of an Act 10 amend an Act creating a
State Board of Health, laws of Mississippi.
1873, page 1856
XIII. 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 disinfected.
XIV. All vessels used by such patients
shall be oisinfected, 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. Injected 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
powered 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: