San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-03
THE CITY COUNCIL
HELD AN IMPORTANT MEETING
YESTERDAY ON SANITARY
AFFAIRS.
Ordinances Passed and Resolutions
Adopted - An Extra Sanitary
Force - School Teachers
Salaries Not Raised
Other Business

called meeting of the city council was
held in their chamber, in response to
call from the mayor, for the purpose of
placing this city in thorough sanitary
condition, also TO pass upon budget for
the public schools for the scholastic year
1892 and 1898.
Mayor Callaghan called the meeting to
order and the following aldermen re-
sponded TO the roll CALI Aldermen An
derson, Beckmann, Conner, Guerguin,
Hoefling, Lockwood, Muth, Santleben,
Schreiner and Weber.
After the reading of the call the bust
ness the meeting proceeded.
The object, as stated, being for the
sanitation OF the city the clerk read an
ordinance pertaining to the way in which
the city should be conducted. which was
adopted and is in substance as follows:
Section |. That it shall be the duty Of
the mayor at all times 10 appoint as
many sanitary inspectors as the council
may provide, such inspectors TO wear a
badge while on duty with the words,
sanitary inspector"
Section .. The sanitary inspectors du-
ties are to inspect all places. streets, all
legs, etc.! and report any violation OF the
sanitary ordinances TO the mayor or city
physician, when arrests will be made.
Section 3. The mayors duty shall be,
in case of any contagious disease enter
ing the city, whenever ordered by the
board of health, to establish quarantine
against all persons coming within the
city, liable to bring disease. The board
Of health shall have power to appoint
guards when necessary aud establish
quarantine stations and pest house or
hospitals. said places to be established
within five miles beyond the city limits.
Section 4. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person to deposit garbage, slop, etc, in
any street, alley or public place. All per-
sons within the End fire limits shall pro.
vide themselves with a galvanized iron
box in any shape, to hold two bushels,
with an automatic cover, for the purpose
of deposting waste. garbage, etc, and
those residing out side the 2nd fire limits,
shall deposiue their garbage in wooden
boxes, said boxes to be placed in conven-
lent places where they can be emptied
daily by the scavangers.
Section 5. 1t shall be the duty OF every
person having a drain, soil-pipe or pass
age to connect with any sewer IRON any
place, TO cause and require such drain,
etc, to be for its purpose and such as
shall convey what enters in a free man
ner
Section 6. That no water closet, sink
or vault shall De constructed or used IN
the city having connection with any
sewer, unless sprovided with adequate
provisions.
Section :. All connection with sewers
or drains used shall have sufficient
water fixtures so as to carry off such mat
ter, as may be deposited in proper way.
Section 5. No boarding house keeper or
keeper of any house shall allow so great a
number of persons to sleep in their houses
as would cause detriment to health.
Section9. Every occupant of a house
shall cause such house to be thoroughly
lighted and ventilated, in clean and
wholesome condition, and to maintain
such temperature as not to cause neceS-
sary danger or detriment TO the health OF
any person residing therein.
Section 10. No one is permitted to
sleep in any cellar or in anypIace danger
Gus Jr prejudicial to health.
Section IL. No substance, matter or
thing whatever, dangerous or detrimen-
tai TO health shall be permitted to exist
In connection with any business, or TO be
used in any work prosecuted, and that no
nuisance shall be permitted to exist In
connection with any work or labor.
Section II. Nor person Is to suffer or
permit any cellar, vault, private draih,
pool, or such place TO become nauseous,
foul or injurious TO the public health.
Section 49, No person shall have any
offensive water or other liquid on his
premises or grounds to the prejudice OF
life.
hereafter be built Of walls of stone or
brick, the walls TO be not less than nine
inches thick, laid with full joint Of ce-
ment mortar. No privy vault shall be less
than six feet deep. They must be cleaned
and filled with dirt when the use of same
is discount nued. All water closets and
sewer pipes, inside of any building, shall
be thoroughly ventilated. so as TO pre-
vent sewer gas from entering the building
in which the closets or pipes are. All
saloons, hotels, etc, shall have one. or
more urinals emptying into cess pool or
sewer. All privies must be diSintected
three times per week by the use OF such
disinfectants as may be prescribed by the
board of health.
Section Is. The mayor shall, whenever
deemed necessary by the board OF health:
issue proclamation suspendlng some Oh
the requirements of section 10, chapter
80, of the revised ordinances, during the
prevalence of an epidemic; also, when
deemed necessary by the health board,
prohibit by proclamation, the laying or
taking Of bodies into churches or other
public places for services, ana 10 prohlplt
funeral professions and designate the
time after death within which the bodies
shall be buried,
Section 10. That it shall be unlawful to
cure, store or receive green hides within
the city limits, except at places west OF
the Aiszan creek, north of Zavalla street
and south of the Catholic cemetery.
Section II That the city, under the d.
rection of the board of health, shall, in
case of a threatened epidemic, establish
rec drinking fountains for the use OF the
general pub .ic.
Section 10, No person shall remove a