The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-25
NUMBER 26. =

90 The owner or occupant Of every house,
in the month OF May in each and every year,
shall cleanse the cellars thereof Of all dirt,
vegetable and other impure matter caicu-
lated to engender disease, and cause them
to be thoroughly whitewashed with fresh
lime.
Gl) Swine shall be kept in such a place
and manner as not to be offensive to the
persons residing in the vicinity: and their
pens and yards must be kept deodoriZed by
the application of dried muck, dry earth, or
some other effective absorbent or disin-
fectant.
Q2) No person shall cause or permit putrid
or decayng animal or vegetable matter TO
be kept in any house, cellar, or adjoining
outbuildng or grounds, for more than
twenty-four hours. This shall include the
bodies of persons dying of contagious dis
eases, but not the bodies of persons dying
Of other diseases and in especially danger
GUS cases burial shall occur as soon and as
privately as directed by the health officer.
03) The keeper, or keepers, of livery or
other stable shall keep his or their stable
and stable-yard clean, and shall not permit
a large amount of manure to accumulate at
any one time.
04) The owner and occupant Of any
premises upon which there are privy-vaults
cess-pools or reservoirs shall cause the same
to be cleaned out at least twice year once
in the spring, not later than the 10Th Of
May, and once in the fall, not earlier than
the 10Th Of October. From the 10Th Of May
to the 10Th Of October the owner and occu-
pants shall cause the same to be frequently
and thoroughly disinfected.
! 90 No pig-pen shall be built or main
tained or swine kept, within one hundred
! feet of any street or any inhabited house
| 06) Any person who shall violate any Of
| the foregoing bylaws, numbered from two
/ to fifteen inclusive, or do any act or thing
| therein prohibited, or neglect to do and
| perform any thing therein enjOined, shall
| be fined ten dollars, and shall also be fined
five dollars for each day he shall continue
to do any act prohibited or neglect to do
any act enjoined therein, after notice from
the bailiffs.
Q7) If the owner or occupant of any
grounds or premises shall suffer the same to
be in such condition, by reason of any
slaughter-house, hog-pen, sink, drain, filth
| or other cause thereon, as to emit nauseous
| smells, or to be injurious to the public
health, or to be offensive to passers in the
street, or to any neighborhood, person or
family or shall suffer or permit anything
that is dangerous to human life or health,
| or anything that renders soil, air food,
water or other drink unwholsome; or shall
suffer or permit any building, erection, or
part or cellar thereof to be overcrowded, or
not provided with adequate means of in
gress and egresS, or not sufficiently sup
ported, ventilated, severed, drained,
cleaned and lighted or shall suffer, cause
or permit the collection of refuse matter in
and around the immediate vicinity of any
dwelling-house, outbuilding or place of
business, such as swill waste of meat fish
or shells, bones, decaying vegetables, sink
water, sewage or any kind of foul water
excrement, or any kind of offal that may
decompose and generate disease germs or
unhealthy gases, or deleterious or waste
substance of any description, or refuse or
injurious matter, or cause or permit any OF
the above-nalned to accumulate or to be
| thrown unOQ DrpmiSpS street. such
owner, occupant or person shall be fined ten
dollars, and shall also be fined five dollars
for each day such nuisance shall be con-
tinued after such person, owner or occu-
pant has received notice from the bailitfs to
abate the same If any person causing,
suffering or permitting any such nuisance,
after receiving notice from the bailiffs TO
abate the same, shall neglect or refuse to
abate the same for the space of twenty-four
hours the bailffs may, at the expense OF
the village, cause such nuisance to be abated
and such source of filth to be removed, and
such expense shall be repaid to the village
by such owner or occupant or such other
person as caused or permitted the same.
The bailiffs shall notify such owner, occu-
pant or other person of the amount of such
expense, and if such owner, occupant or
other person shall refuse to pay the same
within ten days, such owner, occupant
or other person shall be fined five dollars
for each days neglect thereafter to pay and
reimburse the village such expense.
QS) The bailiffs shall cause (through the
health officer, or otherwise) plain and dis
tinct notices to be placed upon the prem
ises, or house, in which any person has
smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus
fever, measles or whooping-cough, or any
other contagious or communicable disease.
Any person who shall hinder or prevent, or,
being the owner or occupant of such prem
ises, or house, shall forbid the placing of
such notice, or any person who shall will
fullV rpmnVa Snph notice " hlla such disease
exists therein shall be fined twenty-five
dollars.
A true copy of the eighteen articles in
addition to the village bylaws, adopted
June II, 1880.
JAMES T. SABIN, Village Clerk.