The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-07-13

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
.a.,..a by the Board Of Health Of Deer
Lodge County, Montana.
p,,h,;.hed by Authority Of the Board.
SECTION 1. Whatever 10 dangerous 10 nun'aA l1eo-
- h..lth: whatever building, structure, or part OF
cellar thereof, is overcrowded, OF nos plos'ue1 "s-
.deou.te means of 1ngress or egrese, or Is NOT sum
GENTLY supported, ventilated, sewefeo' u'"."e =,
s,e.ned or lighted and whatever renders the ar OF
800 ami water or drink unwholesome, are declared 10
No nuIaance.. and to be illegal, and every person nav
~. .,ded In creating or contributing to the same or
10 ,n.v .unnort. continue or retain any of them'
.h.u n. deemed guilty of a violation OF this ordl-
..n.o and also be liable for the expense of the aoate-
ment and remedy thereof.
CO . No nriyy vault, cesspO0l or reservoir, Into
,,h,ch q nrivv. water closet, stable or sink Is drained >
oxcept Il he water tight, shall be established or per-
m,tted within scyenty-fve feet Of any WELL spr'ne'
nond. reservoir or stream from which water u useu
for drinking or culinary purposes: ana every pr'sy
vault and ce.spool shall be cleaned, and the contents
+horeof removed. at least once before the nrst OF
May 10 each year.
src. 3. All sewers or drains that pass within
seventy- five feet of any source OF wafer useo 'or
drinking or culinary purposes, except sncn as 10
beiug conveyed in pipes, shall be water tight.
SIC. 4. No house ofal, dead animate or refuse OF
anv kind. shall be thrown upon the streets or LETT e4-
posed by any person in such a way Is to
poison or render unwholeeome the atmosphere IN any
town or village in this county. or within three nun
dred Yards of any highway in this county; and no
butcher. fish monger or vender of merchandise OF any
kind, shall leave any refuse upon the streets or nlsn-
ways, and all putrid and decaying animal OF vegetaoe
matter must he removed from all corrals. barns or
stables, and the yards pertaining to them, when Local
ted in a town. village or hamlet in this county. and
from all cellars and outbuildings IN this county at
least once in each year, and on or before May Isl IN
each year.
SEC. & No meat, fish, birds, fowls, fruit. vcgeta-
bles, milk, and nothing for human food, not being
| then healthy, fresh. sound, wholesome, fit and safe
for such use, nor any animal or fish that died by dis
ease or accident, and no CARCASS of any calf, pig OF
lamb, which at the time of its death was less than
four weeks old, and no meat therefrom, shall DC
brought within the limits of this county, or offered
or held for sale as food anywhere in said county.
SEC. 6. Any householder In whose dwelling there
shall occur a case OF cholera, typhns or typhoid
fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria or small pox. ehal
lnmeIlAIEty uOtlly ~ VAAU VI VA - oosAS
and shall Immediately d isplay in a conspicuous man.
ner, at or near the entr anee to the place where such
contagious disease may be, a red flag, as a notice and
warning of local quarantine of contagion. and SAID
flag and quarantine shall continue until such premises
| the contents thereof, and the persons residing therein
| shall be pronounced free from %contagion or infection
| by the Board of Health and until Instructions are
received from the said Board, shall not permit any
| clothing or other property that may have been ex-
posed to infection to be removed from the house
| Nor shall any occupant Of an infected house change
his residence elsewhere without the consent Of sale
| Board during the prevalence of any public danger
from said disease; and all physicians and Other
| attendants upon any person eick with smallpox
dlphtheria, cholera, typhus. typhoid 0 recariet 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 physicians and atten'
dants to AVOID exposure to the public of any garment
or clothing about their own persons that may have
been infected from exposure to any disease.
Sec. Z. No person or article liable to propagate
dangerous disease shall be brought within the limit
of this county without the special permit and direc.
| ton 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 ehall Immediately give notice thereof to the said
Board, together with the location thereof. No per
son shall, within the limits of this county, without q
permit from the Board of Health thereof, carry o.
remove from one building to another any person sicl
of a contagious disease. Nor shall any person, BY
any exposure of any individual sick of any conta.
| gious disease, or of the body OF such person, OF BY
any negligent act connected Herewith, or in respect
of the care or custody thereof, or by a needless ex'
posure of himself, cause or contribute to-, or promote
/ tho sprnnd IF 1isoaep from anv anch nnraon mr. from
any dead body. And it shall be the duty of thit
Board to order such separation and isolation or do
mestic quarantine of the sick from other persons moi
necessary as attendants. and also such special care
and disinfcction as shall be needed in order to prevent
the spreading of such disease to others and the
burial Of such body shall be prompt and as speedy as
practicable.
SEC. 8. There ehall not be a public or church fun
cral of any person who has died of smallpox, diph
liberia, scarlet fever. or Aeiatic cholera; and the
family of the deceased is required to limit the atten-
dance to as few as possible, and to prevent thu
presence, SO far as they are able, of those who have
not had the disease of which the deceased pereo1
died and it shall be the duty of householdere and
all persons concerned, when a death occurs from any
contagious or pestilentlal disease, to prevent needless
| assembling in the apartments and house where such
| diseases are of all persons liable to become infected
thereby. ."
SEC. 9. The keeping or slaughtering of all cattle
swine, and the preparation of all meat and fah, birds
and fowls, shall be in that manner which is. or j:
generally reputed or known to be, best adapted tc
secure and continue their safety and wholesomcnes
as food and every butcher and every person owning
or leasing, or occupying any place, or room, or build
ing, where any cattle, sheep or swine have been, o.
are killed or dressed, and every person being The
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where any cattle may he kept for market. public OF
private. shall cause such place, room, building, stall
and market. and the yards and appurtenances. to be
thoroughly cleaned and purified, and all offal, blood
fat, garbage, refuee and nnwholesome or offensive
matter to be therefrom removed, at least once in every
twenty-four hours after the uee thereof for any o
the purposes herein referred to; and shall also, at al
times, keep all wood work, save floors and counters
in any building, place or premises aforesaid, thor
onghly painted or whitewashed.
SEC. 10. No animal afflicted with an infectious o.
contagious diseaee shall be kept or brought within
the limits of this county, except by the permission
of the Board of Health. No animal having thu
CHAMBERS Or farcy shall be kept or retained or be per.
mitted within the said limits, unless safely Quaran.
tined.
She. II. No person or company shall erect or main.
tain, within the limits of this county, any manufac
tory or place of business dangerous to life or detri
mental to health without the permit of the Board o
Health; and every such establishment now existin,
shall be kept clean and wholesome in every particular
so as not to be prejudicial to life and health.
Sec. II. Every hotel, lodging house, tenement
house, workshop or other building where several per
sons are employed, factory, school, church, theater
and every public building, shall be open to the healtl
officer and to the officers of the Board OF Health
Every owner, lessee, tenant. occupant or person in
charge. or having any care or responsibility of an,
such building, or any public building, who shall hav,
any knowledge or information of anything prejudi.
clal to life or detrimental to health, or of any nui
eance, or of anything likely to become such, in O
about such building or the premises thereof, shall
promptly give notice Of the same to the Board o
Health, and in such notice as fully as possible de
scribe the locality. The remedy in respect to sue,
building or it's premises, or the repairs aud improve
ments thereof, or the abatement of any nuisanc,
which the Board of Health may at any time order o
direct. shall at once he provided nv the neraon n