Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-03-27
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require strict isolation of the sick person and
make use OF disinfectants in the sick room
and house, and after such sick person is con
valescent to require a thorough distinction
or fumgation of all clothing, furniture and
rooms that have been subj scted to injection.
4, No person who has small pox, diphthe-
ria, scarlet fever, measles, or whooping
cough, shall attend school or any place of
public worship or amusement.
.. Books from IL public or circulating H.
braIY must not be allowed in any house
where there is Il case OF small pox diphthe-
6. Members of any household in which
small poX, dphtheria, scarlet fever or meas
les ext shall abstain from attending places
of public amusement, worship or education,
and, as far rs possible, from visiting other
private houses.
= No parent, guardian or ma ster in whose
house or family there shall have been q com
muncabc disease dangerous to the public
health shall permit any child in said house
or family to attend any public, private or
sunday school during or after the cessation
OF such disease, until the house shan have
been thoroughly disinfected and cleansed,
and the child shall have II proper certificate
from the attending physician, countersigned
by selectman or health officer.
! 5. Plain and distinct notices must be placed
upon the premises or house in which any
person has small pox, diphtheria, scarlet
! fever, typhus fever, measles or whooping
cough, and the placard and quarantine shall
remain until removed by order OF the select,
men or health officer.
| .. The clothing, bed.clothing and bedding
OF persons who have been sick with any
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public heal It'll, and the rooms which they have
| occupied during such sickness together with
| their furniture, shall be thoroughly disnfect-
| ed.
| 10. There shall not be a public or church
| funeral OF any person who has died of Asiatic
| cholera, small pox, typhus fever, diphtheria,
| yellow fever, scarlet fever or measles, and
| the family of the deceased shall in all such
cases limit the attendance to as few rs pos
sible, and take all precautions possible to
prevent the exposure OF other persons to
| cOntagiOn injection.
| II. No meat, fish, birds, fowls, fruit, vcge
tables milk, or anything tor human food, not
being then healthy, fresh sound wholesome,
| fit and safe tor use, nor any animal or fish
| that died by disease, nor carcass of any
calf, pig or lamb which at the time of its
death was less than three weeks old, and no
meat thereirom, shall be offered or held TOR
sale rs food.
| l2 1t shall be the duty OF the occupant of
every house, in the month OF May, in each
and every year, to cleanse the cellars thereof
of all dirt, vegetable and other impure mat
| ter, calculated to engcnder disease, and cause
them to be thoroughly white-washed with
fresh lime.
ID. Swine shall be kept in such place and
manner rs not to be offensive to the persons
residing in the vicinity; and their pens and
yards must be kept deodorized by the APP.
plication OF dried muck, dry earth, or some
other effective absorbent or disintectant.
| IA. Whatever is dangerous to human life
| or health, and whatever renders soil, air,
TODD, water or other drink unwholesome, are
| declared to be nulsances. and liable to origi
nate or spread contagious diseases.
-. Whatever building erection or part or
cellar thereof is OVercrOwded, or not provid-
ed with adequate means of ingress and
egress, or is not sufficiently supported, ven.
tllated, severed, drained, cleaned or lighted,
is declared to be II nuisance.
Is. The collection OF refuse matter in and
around the immediate vicinity OF any dwell
ing house, or place OF business, such as swill,
waste OF meat, fish or shell bones, dccHYlng
vegetables, cXcremcnt, or any kidd ct otftl
that may decOmpOse and generate disease
germs or unhealthy gases, snail be consider.
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removed or disposed OF either by burning,
burial or otherwise in such manner that il
may not be offensive to the neghborhood.
L.. No putrid or dccaying animal or vcge
ctablc matter shall be kept in any house
cellar or adjoining outbuilding or grounds
tor more than twenty tour hours.
Is. No slaughter house shall be allowed
within the limits OF any village or city, oil
within fifty yards OF any highway, without
the written consent of the sclectmen.
10. The preparation and keeping OF al
meat, fish, birds or other animal food, shall
be in the manner best adapted to secure anC
continue their wholesOmeness as food.
20. Every butcher or other person, owning
leasing or occupying any place, room ol
building wherein cattle, sheep or swine hav,
been or are killed or dressed, ana every per
son being the owner, lessee or occupant o
any room or stable wherein any animals ar,
kept, or OF any market, public or private
5 shall cause such place, room CT huilding
stable or market, To be thoroughly clcanset
: and purified, And all otfal, blood tat. gar
| bage, refuse and unwholesome or oifensiv,
T. matter shall be removed thcrefrOm at lcas
I once in every twenty TOUR hours il used con
[ tinously, or, il only used occasionally, within
twenty-fOur hours after using, and the floor
OF such building, place or premises shall b
so constructed rs to prevent blood, ton
liquids or washing from settling in the cart
. beneath.
2l No blood.pit dung-pit, oflnl-pit, o
= privy-well shall remain or be constructs
# within any slaughter house.
4 -. No pigs or hogs shall be kept in tn
It same enclosure with slaughter house, no
hn off nj "a
.. No person OF company shall erect a
maintaia amy mandatory or place of bus
ness dangerous to lite or detrimental I
health, or where unwholesome, offensive q
deletcrious odOrs, gas, smoke deposit q
eXhaations are generated, such rs tanncrie
establishments tor boiling bones and dea
4 animals etc. etc, without the write
permit of the selectmen or health Officer
and all such establishments shall be kel
clean and wholesome SO as not to be Offer
!. sive or preiudicial to public health; nor sha
any offensive or deleterious or waste sui
stance, refuse or injurious matter be above
to accumulate upon the premises or b
thrown or allowed to run into any publ
waters, stream, watercourse, street, road {
+ public place. And every person or compan
conducting such manufacture or busine,
shall use all reasonable means to prevel
N the escape of smoke, gases and odors, an
a to protect the health and safety of all oper
es tives employed therein.
-. The keeper keepers, of livery
other stable shall keep his or their stable
stable yard clean, and shall not permit
large amount of manure to accumulate nj al
one time.
IF -. No pig.pen shall be built or maintaint
within one hundred feet OF any well or sprir
al OF water used tor drinking purposes, or wit
of in thirty feet of any street or any iuhabit,
ne house.
II, 20. No privy vault cess pool or reserve
Il, in which IA priVy, water.closet, ccss-po,
Il. stable or sink is drained, unless IT is waite
o, tight, shall he constructed, dag or permit,
ne to remain within one hundred and fifty te
e. OF any well, spring or other source OF wat
of used tor drinking or culinary purposes, u
La
tx reservoir is AT II lower level than the botto
D. of such we'll
id %. All privy-vauts, esspools or res,
X voirs shall be cleaned out at least twice
year, once in the spring not later than I
IN, 18th of May, and once in the tall not earli
than the 18th OF October. From the l5th