The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-05-28
MladEoTd NEWS CONDENSED:
11o1zcxua PUBLIC "ATLH:

The law adopted by the last legislature il
regard to boards Of health requires that :
'horough sanitary inspection of towns, viii
iages, boroughs and cities shall be made in
May Of each year by the Health officer, and
written report thereof submitted at the
next meeting of the board OF health.
Any person violating any order or regu-
lation of the board Of health is guilty of .
ing $3.50, or imprisonment not exceeding three
months. The board can order the owner or
occupant to remove any nuisance, filth or
cause of sickness found on any private prop
erty, under penalty Of $50 fine. The board al
50 has fui power to assign certain ptscei iS5
are nuisances, or deleterious to health or at
tended by noisome or injurious odors. The
board also is given control of contagious in
fectious diseases among cattle, horses and
other domestic animals. For this purpose
sanitary survey of ali stables and sur
has 'Is slrsssdy beea 'S 5esSah, By many health
officers throughout the state. For
their instruction, the state board Of health
has just issued circular setting forth the
facts above stated, and quoting important e!-
given for use in making and recording san
itary survey of farm, lot or block. A per-
nanent record is to be kept as follows: The
first page to contain the number of the plat
and brief description with the date and san
itary results of inspection; the second page to
contain diagram of the lot block or grounds,
showing houses, with number Of adults and
children; wells, water or earth closets, privies,
cisterns, cesspools and drains, garbage heaps,
barns, with number of horses, Sheds with
number Of cattle, manure heaps, pig pens,
plank walks, brick, stone or concrete walks,
water mains, sewers, swamps or wet grounds,
flowing and stagnant water, tiles and direction
Of surface drainage.
THE UTILITY OF SANITARY PLATs.
These plats are to be filed for future use.
In case Of an outbreak Of disease in any locali-
ty, the health officer can at glance note it's
sanitary condition, relation to other districts,
population, character and other essential data,
and can lay his plans for its control promptly
the whole Of a village, town or city be plated
at once, as advised, but unless it is done there
will be no available record Of sanitary needs
and work convenient and there will be in
creased liability to forget or neglect until too
late to prevent disease-which is the end of a
local health board. For knowledge of sanitary
condition is the most important Of the factors
of disease prevention. The most important
points to be looked after In the sanitary survey
are the following:
The number, construction, condition and
location Of all privles and cesspools; the loca-
ton and character of all other collections Of
refuse, animal or vegetable matter, fluid or
solid the location and construction of wells,
cisterns and other sources OF water supply for
domestic use; the source of the water, and in
case Of disease or suspicion OF the quality OF
the water, its examination. All springs, wells
and streams should be studied with reference
to the first two points mentioned; the cOnstruc-
ton and efficiency of all drains, sewers, or
other apparatus or methods OF dispOsing of
slops OF all sorts; the condition of lots, streets
and alleys as respects drainage and cleanliness;
the location Of all trades or employments LA
BILE to "be dangerous to the public health, or
sive odors, or otherwise injurious to the es-
tates of the inhabitants; {" the care of domestic
animals, and of barns, sheds or pens occupied
by them, as affecting public health, or their own
liability to infectious or contagious diseases;
be particular as to inspection of stock yards the
public disposal Of night soil, garbage, manure,
offal or other refuse vegetable or animal mat
ter; stagnant pools, s'Sampy or marshy land
adjacent to residences md liable to effect, in
juriously the public health; the condition,
quality and quantity, - public water supplies;
the condition and sum ':,ency Of the public sew
or system; the sanitary condition of buildings
used for public assemblies, particularly school
houses and places Of amusement; sanitary
condition Of hotels, common boarding houses
and tenement houses, hospitals and poorhouses,
jails and lockups, railway station houses, iv
cry stables and stock yards
The state board of health expects local boards
to carry out its instructions, and is under the
new law, after this May inspection is compl et-
cd, tho various cities and towns Of Minnesota
will be prepared to meet and resist not only
cholera but all other infectious and epidemic
diseases