The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-02-24
n,,,1Es AND REGULATIONS
- ..a bv the Board Of Health OF Deer
Lodge County, Montana.

-, Inv the Board OF Health OF Deer
Lodge County, Montana.
o-cr,ox 1. Whatever is dangerous to hu-
-sn lifa or to health; whatever 0ulioing'
structure, or part or ceila1 tn 1;th sdeonate
IoTu W. ~ ;noress or egress, or is not sum
nientIv sn6Dorted, ventilated, severed,
Sr 81; Cleaned or lighted; and Whatever
| randers the air or food ana wafer ~ 30.
INV holesome, are declareo ~ , = having
s;dai in creating or contributing to tue same,
~ Tho NAV support, continue or :etaip any
| If them, shall be deemed guilty OF a ya" "a
! tien of this ordinance, ana also oe an" ",na1a
the expense of the abatement ana remedy
SIC .. No privy vault, cess pool or ress1.
ro;1 into which a privy, water closet, STARE
or sink is drained. except II oe ,,.;;,iiin,
shall be established or permitted wl1nln
savantv.dye feet of any we'll, spring, pond,
roservoir or stream from which water Is
nsed for drinking or culinary purposes anu
every privy vault and cesspooi snall "
cleaned, and the contents thereou sach
year. ~ mot n,ss
within seyeuty-ive feet Of any source OF
water used for drinking or culinary purposes
| except such as is being conVeyeu III piPo''
shall be water-tIght.
Src j. No house offal, lead animals, or
refuse of anv kind, shall be thrown upon the
streets or left exposed by any person ~ sucn
unwholesome the atmosphere IN any town
or village in this county, or WITHIN three
hundred Yards of any highway in this county,
and no butcher, fish monger or vendor OF
merchandise of any kind, shall leave any
refuse upon the st, eets or highways, and all
putrid and decaying animal or vegetable
matter must be removed from all %corrals,
barns or stables, and the yards pertaining to
them, when located in a town, village or
hamlet in this county, and from all cellars
and outbuildipgs in this county at least once
in each year, and on or before May LIST in
each year.
SEC. s. 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
animal or fish that died by disease or acct
dent, and no carcass of any calf, pig or lamb,
which at the tim. of its death was less than
four weeks old, and no meat therefrom, shall
be brought within the limits of this county
or offered or held for sale as food anywhere
in said county.
SEC ANY householder in whose dwelling
there shall occur a case of cholera, typhus or
typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or
small pox, shall Immediately notify the
Board of Health of the same, and shall imme-
diat-ly display in a conspicuous manner, at
or near the entrance to the place where such
contagious disease may be, a red flag as a
notice and warning of local quarantine of
cantagion, and said flagiand 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 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, diphtheria,
cholera, 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 he 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. Z. No person or article liable to prop
within the limits of this county without the
special permit and direction of the Board of
Health thereof; and whenever it shall come
to the knowledge of any person that such
person or article has been brought within
such limits. he shall Immediately give notice
thereof to the said Board, together with the
location thereof. No person shall, within
the limits of this County, without a permit
from the Board of Health thereof. carry or
remove from one building to another any
person sick of a 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 a 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 it shall be the duty of this board to or
quarantine of the sick from other persons
not necessary as attendants, and also such
special care and disinfection as shall be
needed in order to prevent the spreading of
such disease to others; and the burial of such
ticable.
SECS. There shall not be a public or
church funeral of any person who has died
OF smallpox, diphtberia, scarlet fever, or
Asiatic cholera: and the family of the de-
ceased is required to Limit the attendance TO
as few as possible. and to prevent thu pres
ence, so far as they are able, Of those who
have not had the disease of which the de-
ceased person died: and it shall be the duty
of househollers and all persons concerned.
when q death occurs from any contagious or
peStllentlal disease, to proven: needless as
sembllng IN the apartments aud house where
sach diseases are OF all persons liable to be
come Infected thereby.
SEC. 9. The keeping or slaughterlne of all
cattle, swine, and the preparation of all meat
and fish, birds and fowls, shall be in that
manner which is. or is generally reputel or
known 10 be, best adapted to secure and con-
tlnue their safety and wholesomeness as
TODD; and every butcher and every person
owning, or leasing. or occupying any place.
or room. or building, where any cattle.
sheep or swine have been or are killed or
and every person being the owner.
lessee or occupant of any room or stable
Where any cattle may be kept for market.
pubic or private. shall cause such place.
room, building, stall and market, and their
saf''s and appurtenanc-s to be thoroughly
cleaned mt ry1riSai 1r1 oil u, I1.-IS-s
garoℜ refuse and nnwholeSome or often
slVe matter to be therefrom removed, at least
once III every twentv-four hours after the
use thereof for any OF the purposes herein
Ee1erreu 10: ana shall also, at all times, keep
woodwork, save floors and counters. in
any building, place or premises aforesaid.
thoroughly painted or w~hltewashed.
SEC. III. Nc animal afflicted with an infec-
.lous OF contagious disease shall be kept or !
brought within the limits of this countves ex.
;ept. by the permission of the Board Of
ealth No animal having the elauders or
aIcy snall De Kept or retained or be permit
within the SAID limits, unless safely
lnarantined. ~ !
II maintain, within the limits of this county.
my MANDATORY Or place Of business dan \
'erors to lite or detrimental to health with
'ue the permit Of the Board of Health: and
,e Kept clean and wholesome in every nar-
leaith. ~ :
SEC. y. Every hotel, lodging house. teue-
nent house, workshop, or other building e
mere several persons are employed, factory, r
chool, church, theater, and every nublie
'uilding: shall be open to the health officer
no TO the officers OF the Board of Health :
very owner. lessee, tenant. OCCUPANT or :
erson IN charge, or having any care or re-
possibility of any such building. or any
uollc building. who shall have any know.
edge or information of anything preiudicial
. life or detrimental to health, or of any \
uisance, or of anything likely to become
ach, IN or about such building or the prem.
.es thereof, shall promptly give notice Of y.
1e same to the Board Of Health. and in snch 4
otlce as fully as possible describe the local
y: The remedy in respect to such buildine
: us premises. or the repairs and Improve. =.
Ients thereof, or the abatement of any mi A
ance which the Board of Health NAV At =
N order or direct. shall a, once he
DIVIDED by the person or persons who shall
or have in charge or be resnonsibie for
Re p1emlse in the order or direction Of The
sec. Is. No milk which has been watara,, n
reduced. or changed in any res, y
ect by the addition of water or other sinh u
snce; shall be brought into, held. ksnf nr
leleu LOT sale at any place in this cn1n.v