Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-19
Board ofHealth.

SEo. ! Provides for the appointment an
organization Of Board Of Health, as pro
vided by the laws of Ohio,
SEo. Gives the board all authority neces
sary for public health and the prevention o
diseases in the village.
SEQ. 8 Provides for the division of tn
town into districts, over which the differen
members of the board have supervision. Tn
board are empowered to remove or abat
all nuisanceS, and to take measure to preven
the spread of contagious on infection
diseases.
SEQ. 4. The board may cause the remova
of any person affected with any dangerous
contagious of infectious disease, to hospita
or pest house when they deem it necessary, t.
prevent the spread of such diseases.
SEQ. 3. The board and its officers are au
thorized to enter any dwelling or other plac,
for sanitay inspection, and are authorized
to cause the removal of any nuisance founC
therein, at the expense of the owner or occu
pant.
SEC. 6. The board has power to perform
all duties required by the State law.
SEC.7. No person is allowed to resist
an officer of the board in the discharge of his
duty.
SEC. q Makes it unlawful for any owne,
or operator of any butcher shop or meat store
to render, fry out, boil, stew or try any lard
| tallow or any offal of meat, fat, or any refuse
of said shop or store, within the corporation
| limits.
SEQ. 9 Makes it unlawful for any person
| to carry on the business of Strengthening any
! of the cattle, hog or sheep kind, in the cor
poration.
SEC. 10 Makes it unlawful to place the car
| nj al oh
or any other decayed or putrid substance in
the Maumee river, the canal or any stream
leading thereto.
SEC. II Makes it the duty of the occupants
of any house in which there is case of small
pox or other contagious diseases, and of the
physician attending the same, to report such
fact to the board of health.
SEQ. IL. In case of death it is the duty
of the physician or undertaken to report to
the health officer the name, age, sex, color,
nativity, occupation and cause of death, of
deceased.
SEQ. 13 Provides for a record of the facts
reported under SEQ. IL.
SEC. IA. Physicians are requiredto furnish
certificates of the cause Of death.
SEQ. 15. No person shall be inferred with
in the village without a permit from the
days after the burial TO the health officer.
SEQ. 16. No person shall convey a copse to
or from the village without permit.
SEQ. II. The health officer shall grant such
permits upon receiving the proper certificate
of the attending physician; a record of such
permits being kept by him.
SEQ. 18 Imposes fine of from five to twen-
ty-ive dollars for anyone neglecting or re-
tusing to perform the duty required by the
last seven sections.
SEQ. 10. A notice to be given to the owner
of any house, lot or lands on which nuisance
is found.
SEQ. 20 Provides for the meeting of the
board.
SEC. q Empowers the health officer to
enforce all sanitary laws and regulations.
SEC. o. Health officer may order the
disinfection or destruction of any clothing
or other property infected by dangerous dis
eases.
SEC. %. No person shall make any ex-
cavation for any privy vault or cess pool,
without permit from the health officer, pre-
scribing the method of construction. And
when any such vault or cess pool shall become
often sive, the health officer may order the
same abated, and provide penalties in case of
neglect or refusal.
SEQ. "a. Privy vaults, etc., to be cleaned by
pneumatic process.
SEC. rs. Removal of night-soil to be done
between the hours of 10 p. m. and a. m.
SEQ. 26. No swine shall be kept or fed
within said village without permit from the (
board of health.
Sec. 27. No swine shall be kept within rs
Feet of any occupied dwelling, and provides |
that there shall be at least 20 feet of space for
zach hog; that the hogs are to be fed liquid |
food in trough, and that the pens are to be |
Kept clean and free from offensive odors.
SEC. 2S. No lot to be filed up by animal |
Or vegetable matter, street sweepings. etc.. |
without permit from the board of health.
SEQ. 20. No slop or other liquid matter to |
be thrown upon any street or alley, 80 that it |
forms stagnant pool or place.
SEQ. 30. No manure of offal to be thrown |
upon any street or alley, and no stable to be |
built on any street.
SEC. 81. Upon the natural death of any |
animal the owher thereof shall remove the
same outside the village and bury it.
SEC. 80. No person shall use for food, or
offer the same to others for food, the flesh |
Of any animal that died by accident or dis |
ease, or of any animal less than four weeks
old, or any decayed or damaged fruit.
SEQ. 33. No child from any family in
which there is a case of contagious or infec-
tious disease, shall attend school or any gath
ering of children until certificate of ply
sician shall have been obtained, stating that
all danger of communicating such disease
has passed.
SEC. "a Provides that when death occurs
from such disease the body shall be disin-
fected and enclosed in tight burial case,
that the funeral shall be strictly private, and
that no child shall attend it; that the clothing,
bedding, room, etc., shall be thoroughly dis
SEQ. 35. No person shall removed corpse,
dying of such contagious disease, in and
vehicle used by the public, and that the un-
dertaker shall enclose the same in a casket,
not again to be opened, within six hours
after being notified of the death, and shall
notify all persons of the cause of such death,
and such corpse shall not be taken into any
church or other building after death.
SEC. 36 Provides fines and penalties for
the violation of sections 80, 80 and 81; also
SEQ. 81 Provides for the payment of Of
fcers employed by the board of health.
SEQ. 38. Ordinance took effect in Septem-
ber, 1889.
The rules and regulations passed by the
board Of health are such as are necessary for
the carrying out of the provisions of the Or
dinance. They are also authorized by the
State Sanitary law to enact all such rules and
regulations as are unnecessary to protect the
health of the community. The health officer
is required to keep record of all births and
deaths that occur in the corporation limits,
and is the executive officer of the board.
T. @. HUNTER, Health Officer.
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