The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-06-27

Adopted by the Board OF Health OF Deer
Lodge County for the Town OF Deer Lodge,
Mont, March O, 1884, under the Act APP
proved March 3, 1888.
Published by Authority Of the Board.
Orders and regulations adopted by the Board
of Health for the town of Deer Lodge,
County of Deer Lodge, Territory Of Mon
tans.
SECTION /. Whatever Is dangerous to hui
man life or TO health, Whatever building,
erection, or part or cellar thereof, Is over
crowded, or not provided with adequate
means Of ingrsss or egress, or Is not sum.
ciently supported, ventilated, severed,
drained, cleaned or lighted, and whatever
renders the air or food and water or drink
unwholesome, are declared to be nuisances,
and to be illegal, and every person having
aided iE creating or contributing to the
same, or who may support, continue or re-
tain any of them, shall be deemed guilty Of
q violation Of this ordinance, and also be
liable for the expense Of the abatement and
remedy thereof.
SEC. 2. No privy-vaul:, cesspool or rsser-
voir, into which privy, water-closet, stable
or sink Is drained, except It be water-tight,
seventy. five feet of any well, spring or other
source of water used for drinking or culinary
purposes; and every privy-vault and cesspool
shall be cleaned, and the contents thereof
removed, at least once before the first of May
in each year.
SEC. 3. ALI sewers or drains that pass
within seventy five feet of any source Of
water used for drinking or culinary purposes
shall be water.tight.
SEC. 4. No house offal, desd animals or
refuse Of any kind shall be thrown upon the
streets or left exposed by any person; and
no butcher, fish monger or vendor OF mer-
chandise Of any kind, shall leave any refuse
upon the streets, or uncovered by earth, upon
the lots of this town; and all putrid and de-
caying animal or vegetable matter must be
removed from all cellars aud outbuildings at
least once In each year, and on or before
May first In each year. Whoever shall vio-
late any of the provisions of this section shall
be liable to a penalty Of twenty-five dollars
for each and every offense, In addition to liza
billty to fine and imprisonment as for q mis-
demeanor, as provided by law.
Sec. 8. No meat, fish, birds, fowls, fruit,
vegetables, milk, and nothing for human
food, not being then healthy, fresh, sound,
wholesome, fit and safe for such use, nor any
dent, and no carcass Of any calf, pig or lamb,
which at the time of its death was less than
four weeks old, and no meat therefrom, shall
be brought within the limits of this town, or
offered or held for sale as food any~ here In
said town. Whoever shall violate any of the
provisions of this section shall be liable to .
penalty Of twenty five dollars for each and
every offense, in addition to the liability to
fine and Imprisonment as for misdemeanor,
as provided by law.
Sec. @. Any householder in whose dwell.
ing there shall occur q case Of cholera,
typhus, or typhoid fever, scarlet fever, dip.
liberia, or smallpox, shall Immediately mott
fy the Board Of Health Of the same; and
until instructions are received from the said
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 of an infected house
change his residence elsewhere without the
consent of said Board during the prevalence
Of any public danger from said disease; and
all physicians and other attendants upon any
person sick with smallpox, diptheria, chol-
era, typhus, typhoid, or scarlet fever, or
other disease dangerous to the public health
shall forthwith report the same to the Board
Of Health. And it shall be the duty Of said
to the public Of any garments or clothing
about their own persons that may have been
Infected from exposure to any disease.
SEC. I. No person or article, liable to
propagate q dangerous disease, shall be
brought within the limits Of this town, with
out the special permit and direction of the
Board of Health thereof; and whenever IL
shall come to the knowledge of any person
that such person or article has been brought
within such limits, he shall immedi lately give
notice thereof to the said Board, together
with the location thereof. No person shall,
within the limiis nf this tnirn. without .
permit from the Board Of Health thereof,
carry or remove from one building TO another
any person sick of contagious disease. Nor
shall any person, by any exposure Of any
individual sick Of any contagious disease, or
OF the body Of such person, or by any negli-
gent act connected Herewith, or In respect
Of the care or custody thereof, or by . need
less exposure Of himself, cause or contribute
to, or promote the spread of disease, from
any such person, or from any dead body.
And 1t shall be the duty Of this Board to or.
der such separation aud isolation or domestic
quarantine of the sick from other persons
not necessary as attendants, and alss such
special care and dislnfection as shall be need
ed In order to prevent the spreading Of such
disease TO others.
SEC. 8. There shall not be . public or
church funeral Of any persen who has died
OF small pox, diphthera, scarlet fever, or
Asistic cholera; and the family of the de-
ceased is required to limit the attendance to
as few As possible, and to prevent ths pres
ence, so far As they are able, of those who
have not had the disease of which tho
deceased person died; and It shall be the
duty OF houssholders and all persons con.
cerned, when death occurs from any con-
tagious or pestilential disease, to prevent
needless assembling In the apartments and
house, where such diseases are, Of all per-
sons liable to become infected thereby.
SEC. o. The keeping or slaughtering of
all cattle, swine, and the prepar alton Of oil
meat and fish, birds and fowls, shall be in
hat manner which Is, or Is generally reputed |
Dr. known TO be, best adapted to secure and |
continue their safety and wholesomsness as |
GOD and every butcher and every person |
owning, or leasing, or occupying any place,
Or room' or building, where any cattle, sheep |
Dr. swine, have been or arc killed or dressed,
Ind every person being the owner, lessee or |
occupant Of any room or stable, whore any
'attle may be kept for market, public |
" private, shall cause such place, room,
building, stall and market, and their Yards
NO appurtenancss to be thoroughly cleaned
md purified, and all offal, blood, fat, garbage,
efuse, and unwholesoms or offensive matter
o be therefrem removed, at least once In
very twenty four hours afer the use thereof
or any Of the purposes herein referred to;
nd shall also, at all times, keep all wood
york, save floors and counters, Ia any build
ng, place or premises aforesaid, thoroughly
ainted or whitewashed.
SEC. 10. No animal afflicted with an in.
sctious or contagious disease shall be kept
r brought within the limits Of this town,
kept by the permission Of the Board OF
iealth. No animal having the CHAMBERS or
arcy shall be kept or retained or be permit
ID within the said limits.
SEC. II. No person or company shall erect
maintain, within the limits Of this town.
ny mandatory or place Of business dan.
erous 10 life or detrimental to health, or
here unwholesome, offensive, or dsleteri-
US odors, gas, smoke, deposit or exhalatiops
re generated. without the permit of the
'oard OF Health; and every such establish
lent now existing shall be kept clean and
'holesome In every particular, so IS not TO
offensive or preJudicial to life and health.
SEC: IL. Every hotel, lodging house, tsns.
lent house,, workshop, or other building |