Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-23

of anv improper substances that may enter
them, so that no accumulation shall take
place, and SO as to prevent any exhalation
therefrom, offensive, dangerous or preju-
diciaI to health, and so as to prevent the
same from being or becoming obstructed.
Sec. 81. Every tenement or lodging
house shall have the proper and suitable
conveniences or receptacles for receiving
garbage and other refuse matter. No
tenement or lodging house nor any portion
thereof shall be used as place of storage
for any combustible article or any article
dangerous or detrimental to health, nor
shall any horse, COW, calf, swine, pig, sheep
or goat be kept in said house.
Sec. 50. That every agenH or other per-
son having the charge, control OF manage
ment or who collects or receives the rents
of any lands, premises or other
property in the city, shall disclose
the name or names of the owner or owners
of such land, premises or property, or the
name or names o. the person or persons
for whom such agent or other person is
acting, upon application being made
therefor by any inspector, agent or officer
of the department of health or the depart
ment of buildings.
Sec. So. That every butcher, grocer
and milk dealer and their agents shall al
low the parties authorized by the health
officer to freely and fully inspect their
cattle and milk, meats, fish and vegetables
held, offered or intended for sale, and will
be expected to answer all reasonable and
proper questions asked by such persons
relative to the condition thereof, and of
the places where such articles may be.
Sec. 81. That neither the owner, tenant,
nor occupant of any building or premises
in the city of st. Paul shall employ, cause
or permit any part of the contents OF any
vault. privy, sink or cesspool (being there
on and of which he has controI, to be re-
moved unless according to a permit or
the regulations of the said department of
health.
Sec. SO. That no person shall obstruct,
delay or interfere with the proper and free
use, for the purposes for which they may
be and s',Juld be set apart and devoted, of
any dock Or wharf set apart for the use of
any cont actor or person engaged in re-
moving 10y offal, garbage, rubbish, dirt,
dead animals. night soil or other like sub
stances, or with the proper performance
of such contrats.
Sec. 80. That it shall be the duty of every
contractor, scavenger and person, his
agents and employees, who has contracted
or undertaken to remove any diseased or
dead animal, offal, rubbish, garbage, dirt,
street sweepings, night soil or other filthy,
offensive or noxious substance, or is en-
gagged about any such removal, or IN load
ing or unloading of any such substance, to
do the same with dispatch, and in every
particular in a manner as clearly and lit
tie offensive, and with as little danger
and prejudice to life and health as posi-
BILE.
Sec 100. That no person or persons
shall keep, stable or yard more than one
COW or other cattle for any length of time
whatever, in any one stable, yard or en-
closure within the city without permit
from the Board of Health.
Sec. 1O1. That no person or persons
shall keep or pen any swine, sheep or goats,
chickens or fowls of any description for
any length of time within the city,
without a permit from the Board of
Health.
Sec. 102. That every person shall observe
and obey each and every special regula-
ton and every order of this board that is
or may be made for carrying into effect,
any of the foregoing ordinances or powers,
or any law of this state or otherwise
whether issued directly by the Board or
promulgated by its Health Officer as if
the same had been herein inserted at
length.
SCAvENGERs.
Sec 1O3. The Board of Health of the
city of st. Paul shall have the power
to grant a license to any per-
son, company or corporation cleaning
or removing the contents of privy vaults,
sinks or private drains; and every person,
company or corporation engaged in said
business shall be deemed night scaven-
ger within the meaning of this article.
Sec. 104. No person, company or corpo-
ration shall, within the city of st. Paul,
empty, clean or remove the contents of
any privy vault, sink or private drain, or
in any manner engage in the business of
night scavenger without first having OBJ
tanned a license so to do, under the penal
ty hereinafter provided;
PROVIDED, That the owners, occupants or
agents of privy vaults, sinks or private
drains within the city desiring to clean
and rsmoYe the contents thereof them
selves without the aid of night scavengers,
may be allowed to do so upon the written
permission of the Health Officer, and then
only in such manner as he in said permit
shall direct.
Sec. 105. Every person, company or
corporation applying for such license shall
pay to the City Treasurer the sum of five
dollars and execute a bond to the city in the
penal sum of five hundred dollars with not
less than two sureties to be approved by
the Board of Health, conditioned that said
scavengers will comply with the provisions
of this article and every ordinance which
may DE hereafter passed by the Common
Council touching their said employment,
and will also comply with and obey the
orders, directions ard regulations of the
Board of Health or Health Officer OF the
city made IL pursuance of law.
Sec. 106. No licensed person, company
or corporation shall within the city Of st.
Paul remove, or cause to be removed the
contents of any privy vault, sink or Pri-
vate drain without permit first obtained
from the Health Officer.
Sec 1d7. Every such permit shall give
the name CT the scavenger, describe The
premises where the work shall be done, and
state where the contents thereof shall be
deposited.
Sec. los. Each scavenger shall make
return 10 the health Officer of every per
NIT issued TO him within FIVE days after
the work shall have been performed, Ger