Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-19
ORDINANCE EoFTHEBoARD oYHEALTH

llit istWS OF Tue commonwealth oil PpuuSylNH-
niu, he ii ordained by the burgess and borough
council of the borough of Freeand, Pa, and il
is hereby ordained by the authority of the
same.
Sec. l. That whatever is dangerous to hu
man life or health, whatever renders the air or
food or water or other drink unWholesOme,
ana whatever building, erection, or part or
cellar thereof, is overcrowded. or not provided
with adequate means of ingress and egress, or
is not sufficiently supported, ventilated sewer
ed, drained, cleaned or lighted, are declared to
be nuisances, and to be Illegal; and every per-
son having aided in creating or contributing to
the same, or who may support, continue or re-
tain any of them, shall be deemed guilty of
violation of this ordinance, and also be liable
for the expense of the abatement and remedy
therefor.
See. 2. No house-refuse, offal, garbage, dead
animals, dccaying vegetable matter, or or
ganic waste substance of any kind, shall be
thrown on any street, road, ditch, gutter or
public place within the limits of this borough,
and no putrid or decaying animal or vegetable
matter shall be kept in any house, cellar or adj
Joining out0uilding or grounds for more than
twenty-four hours.
Sec. 3. No person or persons, without the
consent of the board of health Tor borough
council, shall bui or use any slaughter house
within the limits of this borough, and the keep
ing and slaughtering of all cattle, sheep and
swine, and the preparation and keeping of all
meat, fish, birds or other animal food, shall be
in the manner best adapted to secure and con-
tinue their wholesomeness as food; and every
butcher or other person owning, leasing or oc-
cupying any place, room or building wherein
any cattle, sheep or swine have been, or are
killed or dressed, and every person being the
owner, lessee or occupant of any room or
stable wherein any animals are kept, or of any
mar ct, public or private shall cause such place,
room or building, stable or market, to be thor
oughy ceansed and purified, and all offal,
blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome
and offensive matter to be removed therefrom
at least once In every twenty-four hours, after
the use thereof for any of the purposes herein
referred to, and shall also at all times keep all
woodwork, save floors and counters, in any
building, place or premises aforesaid thor-
oughly painted or whitewashed; and the floors
of any such building, place or premises shall be
so constructed as to prevent blood or foul
liquids or washings from settling in the earth
beneath.
Sec. 4. No blood-pit, dung-pit offal-pit or
privy-well shall remain or be constructed
within any slaughter house. Any one offend
ing against this rule shall be guilty of creating
and maintaining a nuisance preiudicial to
public health, and shall be required to remove
| the nuisance within ten days from the date of
notice.
Sec. 3. The owners, agents, or occupiers of
all slaughter-houses are required, during the
months of June, July, August and September to
twice distribute in each week not less than twen-
| ty hYe pounds OF chloride of lime about their
premises, and also to remove the contents of
| any manure-pit or manure-ple on the prem
| ises, once in each week, the said premises and
| contents of manure-pits being hereby declared
| to be nuisances prejudicial to public health.
| unless subjected to frequent disnfection and
| cleaning as herein indicated. No pigs or hogs
| shall be kept in the same enclosure with II
| s'aughter-house; nor shall they be fed there or
| elsewhere, upon the oifal of slaughtered ami
| mails.
Sec 9. No person or company shall erect or
| maintain within the limits of this borough any
| manufactory or place of business dangerous to
| life or detrimental TO health, or where unwhole-
| some, offensive or delcterious odors, gas,
| smoke, deposit or eXhalations are generated,
such as tanneries, refneries, manufactures OF
starch, glue, leather, chemicals, fertilizers, gas,
| etc. etc, without the permit of the board of
| health (or borough counciD and all such es-
| Establishments shall be kept clean and whole
some so rs not to be offensive or prejudicial to
| public health nor shall any offensive or dele
| terious waste substance, refuse or injurious
| matter be allowed to accumulate upon the
| premises, or be thrown or allowed to run into
any public waters, stream, water-course, street,
road or public place And every person or
company conducting such manufacture or
| business shall use the best approved and all
| reasonable means to prevent the escape of
| smol @, gases and odors, and to protect the
| health and safety of all operatives employed
| therein.
| Sec. Z. The business of bone and horsc-hoil-
| ing shall not be allowed, unless conducted under
| cover, the building to be provided with smoke
| consumers and Il due regard be had to cIeauli-
| ness in the disposition of the ofa No bone
| boiling establishment or depository of dead
animals shall be kept or erected in any part of
| this borough without permit from the board
| of health (or borough eouncil)
| Sec 8. No permit shall be granted to any
person or persons to carry on the business of
| boiling bones and dead animals until after n
| careful inspection OF the locality, buildings and
apparatus, and OF the plans for conducting the
business, by an accredited inspector of the
board of health Tor borough council
| Sec. Q. No bone-boiling establishments or
repositories of dead animals shall be kept or
erected in or near to thickly inhabited
Sec. 10. The floors of all bone boiling estab-
lshments and repositories of dead animals sha
be paved with asphalt or with brick or stone
well laid in cement, or with some other imper.
vious material, and shall be well drained; and
al such establishments shall have such an
adequate water supply as will enable thorough
| a maintained
Sec. H. The boiling of bones and dead ami
mails, etc, shall be conducted in steam tight
kettles, boilers or caldrons, from which the
foul vapors shall be first conducted through
scrubbers or condensers, and then into the
back part of the ash-pit of the furnace fire, tC
be consumed, or by other apparatus equally
efficient in preventing or counteracting the Of
fcnSve efliuvia.
Sec. H. When bones are being dried after
boiling, they shall be placed in close chamber
through which shall be passed by means OF
pipes, large volumes of fresh air, the outlet
pipe terminating in the fire-pt.
Sec, ID. All proprietors of bOne-boiling es
Establishments not having on the first day of july
1893 permits to carry on the business, and vic
lating these ordinances, shall be iindd for every
such otfense, and for each months continuance
of the same, after notice, and also be liable Il
an indictment at common law for creating ant
maintaining II nuisance,
Sec. a. The permit clerk of the board oi
health Tor borough counciD shall have provided
u book in which to enter the names of all per
sons engaged in the business of boi ing bone.
and having repositories of dead animals also
the location of works and appliances as report
ed by the inspector; whether licensed or not
the number and date of permit and remarks.
Sec. l5 The keeper or keepers of II livery ol
other stable shall keep his or their stable ant
stable yard clean, and shall not permit, betweer
the 10Th day of May and the lst day of Novem
ber more than two wagon loads of manure tC
accumulate in or near the same at any oni
time, except by express permission of TIL,
board of health Tor borough counciD, no.
shall any manure be removed between tn,
dates aforesaid except between twelve oclocl
at night and two hours after sunrise, without
written permit from the board of health (o
borough counciD; nor shall any manure b,
removed except in II tight vehicle, so protected
that the manure, in process OF removal, ma,
not be dropped or left in any street, road, liant
or way of the borough.
See. 49, No pig pen shall be built or maintain
ed within the limits of this borough without
permit from the board of health Tor borough
councD, or within one hundred feet of any wei
or spring of water used for drinking purposes
or within thirty feet of any street or of any in
habited house, or unless constructed in thu
following manner, viz: so that the floor or floor
of the same shall be not less than two feet from
the ground, in order that the filth accumuatinl
under the same may be easily removed; an,
such filth accommodating in, about and unde
the same shall be removed ut least once weel
and oftener If so ordered, and on the failure o
any owner or occupier of such premises so Il
do, then the same shall be done by the board o