Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-04-28
Proceedings Of the Board of Health of
the City of Little Falls,
Minnesota.

minnesota.
LITTLE FALLS, MINI. April 10, 1898
At Il meeting of the Board oi
Health held in the office OF the
Register of Deeds in the court house
subject to call of G. NJ. A. Fortier,
Health Officer, for the purpose OF
establishing regulations concerning
the preservation of health in the city
of Little Falls, Minn., there were
present: j. G.. Burial. Fred Stangl,
j Ohm Mcdonald and G. NJ. A. Fortier.
G. NJ. A. Fortier, Health Officer,
presided at the said meeting.
The following resolutions We're
separately voted upon and after
motion being duly made and
seconded it was unanimously
carried that the within resolutions
shall be published in the official
paper of the City of Little Falls,
Mimi, and thereby become in force
after publication. 3...s ....z..... 49,
ARTICLE ]. ~ 'ss&ss. ssssa*s@ss4
whenever a person dies in the City
OF Little Falls, Minn., a certificate of
death, furnishing the cause OF death,
the name, the age, the sex of the
person shall be made to the Health
Officer by the attending physician
and signed by himself, and no coffin
shall be furnished by any OF the
undertakers of the city to any person,
unless presented with the certificate
furnished and signed by the attend
ing physician, and countersigned by
the Health Officer. Said certificate
shall be returned by the nndertakers
to the Health Officer on the last day
OF each mouth.
ARTICLE II.
Nopublic funerals shall take place
whenever the death OF Il person was
caused by diphtheria, smallpox,
cholera, scarlet fever, typhoid fever
or any other contagious disease. The
body Of any person having died of any
OF the said diseases shall not be taken
into any Of the churches of the city.
Hearses used at public funerals shall
not be employed in cases of death
from contagious diseases unless they
are disinfected to the satisfaction Of
the Board of Health Immediately
after it has been made use off, and inn
case shall they be used for any other
public funeral before they have been
thoroughly disinfected.
ARTICLE Ill.
No sewerage, drainage or refuse or
pollutive matter OF such kind as
either by itself or in connection with
other matter will corrupt or impair
the quality OF the water of the
Mississippi river for domestic use or
render it injurious to health, and no
human or animal excrement shall be
placed in or discharged into, or
deposited upon the bank or the ice of
the Mississippi river used as source
OF water supply in this citv.
ARTICLE
No privy, vault or ''hold in the
ground system" shall be allowed
in the city. All privies beside the
water closets shall be dry earth
closets, built in such way as to
admit a free circulation OF air under
it. Where it will be possible to
connect with the sewers, privies of
all kinds shall be condemned, and
water closets connected with sewers
shall be ordered built
ARTICLE V.
No cess pool shall exist in the city
unless n permit shall have been pro-
cured. No such permit shall be
given by anyone member of the Board
Of Health individually, but by the
majority OF the members of the Board
Health in session.
Stagnant pools are strictly and
absolutely prohibited in any and all
parts Of the city limits, but tespecia]ly
in the thickly settled portion of the
city.
ARTICLE VI.
Hogs shall not be allowed in the
fire limits and if tolerated elsewhere
they shall be ordered removed within
(24) twenty-four hours from the time
written complaint has been made
to any of the members of the Board
of Health, but nobody is permitted
to keep hogs in any part OF the city,
the Board of Health shall have the
pow er TO order them removed at
an time.
ARTICLE VII.
no person shall have the right to
dump manure or any other vegetable
or animal refuse inside of the city
limits. Manure may be used in the
city only for gardens and lawn
PURPOSES, and in that case it shall be
Immediately and thoroughly spread
over the ground. Manure shall not
be used il filling up streets, alleys or
lots unless permitted by the Board
Of Health, and if it is done, it shall be
covered with earth as directed. A
pound yard shall not be allowed in
the fire limits, and wherever located
in the city limits, it shall be kept
clean OF manure and of any other
filthy acvumula tions, ii not it shall
be ordered removed.
ARTICLE VIII.
Manure piles, accumulations OF
vegetables, fruits, fruit pce!ings or
any other garbage deposited in
alleys of the city shall be removed