St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-18

BOARD OF dedlLn, anu ueuuiHS tntlr powers
and duties.
| The Com Council OF the city OF st. Paul
| do ordain as follows:
| Section 1. That no meat, fish, birds or
| fowls, or vegetables, nor any milk not being
| then healthy fresh, sound, wholesome, and
safe for human food, nor any meat or fish
| that died by disease or accident, shall be
brought within the city of st. Paul, or held
for sale at any public or private market, as
| such food, anywhere in said city.
Sec. 2. That no calf, pig, or lamb, or the
meat thereof shall be brought, held or offered
for sale as such food, in said city, which at
the date of its death (being calf, was less
! then five weeks old; or (being Pig, was,
when killed, not more than five weeks old;
or (being lamb was, when killed not more
than eight weeks old. Nor shall any meagre,
sickly, or unwholesome fish, birds or fowls
be brought, held, sold, or offered for sale as
such food in said city.
| Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of assistant
| health inspectors, upon discovering any
meat, fish, birds or fowls, vegetables or milk
| offered for sale as food within the city of st.
Paul, that is decayed, diseased. unwholesome,
| or from any cause unfit for food, to at once
seize and contiscatc such meat, fish, birds or
fowls, vegetables or milk, and report the
enter com plant against the owner or person
offering such meat, fish, birds or fowls, vege
tables or milk for sale
Sec. 4. That every person being the own
er, lessee or occupant of any room, stall or
place where any meat, fish or vegetables de
signed or held for human food, shall be stored
or kept, or shall be held or offered for sale,
shall put and keep such room, stall and
place, and its appurtenances, in Clearly
and wholesome condition, and every person
having charge Tor interested or engaged
whether as principal or agent in the care, or
| in respect to the custody or sale of any meat,
fish, birds, fowls or vegetables designated for
human food shall put and preserve the same
ina Clearly and wholesome condition, and
shall not allow the same, or any part
thereof, to be poisoned, infected or
rendered unsafe or unwholesome for human
food.
Sec. 5. That no person shall receive or
| store, or dress, or pack, or sell any green
hides, or establish any tannery or carry on
the same within the limits of the city of St
Paul, without first obtaining q permit from
the Board of Health.
Sec. 6. And it shall be the duty of the
Police force of the City of st. Paul promptly
to advise the Board of Health of said city of
all threatened danger to human life, and OF
all matters thought to demand its attention,
and regularly to report to said Board of
Health ali violations of its rules and of said
ordinance, and of the health laws, and all
useful sanitary information; and it shall be
the duty of the said Police force faithfully
and at the proper time to enforce and exc
cute the sanitary rules and regulations, and
the orders of said Board of Health (made
pursuant to the powers of said Board of
Health) upon the same being received in
writing and daily authenticated, as said
Board of Health may direct; and in aud
about the execution of any orders of the
Board of Health, Police officers and Police
men shall have as ample power and authority
as when obeying any order or
law applicable to the Police author
tiles, or as if acting under special
warrant of justice or judge, duly issued.
But for their conduct their responsibility
shall not be the Board of Health, but shall
continue as now provided by law.
Sec. Z. That it shall be the duty of every
person knowing Of any fish, meat or fowl bird
or vegetable being bought, sold or offered for
sale Gas food for human beings, or being in
any market, public or private, in said city,
and not being sound, healthy or wholesome
for such food, to forthwith report such facts,
and the particulars relating thereto, to this
Board, or to one OF its officers.
See. s That no poisonous medicines,
decoCtiOns or substances shall be held Tor
sale or sold, except for lawful purposes and
with proper motives, and by persons compe-
tent to give the proper directions and pre-
cautions, as to the use thereof, nor shall any
bottle, box, parcel, or receptacle thereof be
delivered to any person unless the same is
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the party who delivered the same had reason
to think intended it for any illegal or i'm
proper use or purpose.
Sec 9. That no person shall make, offer,
or have for sale, or keep at any place for
sale any poisonous, unwholsome,
dcleterious or adulterated drugs, drinks,
medicines or food, or in respect thereto any
act or thing required, or do any act forbid
den by any laws or health regulation Of this
state applicable in any part OF this city.
Sec. 10. That no person, officer, or board
within said city, Except the Board of Health
or its proper officers, and as its regulations
shall provide) shall grant, sign or deliver
any certificate or "bill of health"
Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty of the Health
Officer to enter complaint before the munich
pal court Of said city, against every person
violating any of the provisions of this ordi-
nance, and upon a conviction thereof, the
offender shall be fined in any sum not less
than twenty-five $3.50 dollars, nor exceeding
the sum of one hundred ($100) dollars
Sec. u. This supplementary ordinance
shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage and publication.
Yeas--Ald. Dowlan, O'Connor, Fischer,
Otis, Smith, Cornish, johnson, Starkey, st.
Peter, Mr.. Presidential.
Passed April Is, 1884.
A. ALLEN,
President of Council.
Approved April II, 1884
G. D. O'BRIEN, Mayor.