Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-29
NEW REALTH RULES ADOPTED.

Health.
The following are the new rules estab-
ished by Town Health Officer Dr.. L J.
3aynor and approved by the County
Health Officer Carlton e. Hoadley and DR.. |
}. A. Lindsley, secretary of the state board |
If health:
COMPLAINTS OF NUISANCEs, ETC. |
Rule I. All complaints made to the town
health officer shall be In writing, and must |
bear the signature of the complainant.
CONTAGIOUS OR MALIGNANT DISEASES.
Rule II. Every physician shall report in
writing to the town health officer every
case of cholera, yellow fever. diphtheris,
Group, typhus fever, typhoid
fever, measles, leprosy, small pox, or other
contagious or infectious disease which the
town health officer may designate, occur
ring in his practice, within forty eight
hours of his first attendance upon such
case.
Rule III. No superintendent, principal
or teacher of any school, and no parent or
guardian of any child attending school,
shall permit child sick with smallpox,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, membraneous
Group, measles, whooping cough, scabies
Gtch), or child afflicted with lice. to attend
school. Nor shall any child residing In q
houee in which such disease shall exist be
permitted to attend school without
written permit from the health officer.
VACCINATION.
Rule ". The town health officer shall
have the power to isolate children or other
persons who are not vaccinated, in case of
the occurrence of small pox in the town.
FUNERALS.
Ru1a " No raraop olInv, 70 ho
tanned, unburied, the dead body of any
human being for a longer time than four
days, or, where death has been caused by
contagious disease, for longer time than
thirty six hours, after the death of such
person, without permit from the town
health officer. which permit shall specify
the length of time during which such body
may remain unburied; and, when death has
been caused by a contagious disease, the
body shall be Immediately thereafter dis
infected or enclosed in tightly sealed
coffin, which shall not thereafter be
opened; and the funeral of such persons
shall be attended at the house, only by the
undertaken and persons living In the
house where such person died, and
by clergyman, who shall take such
precautions as the health officer may direct.
In the removal thereof for burial, or other
wise, the body shall not be carried in a
vehicle with other passengers. And the
bedding, clothing and furniture of the
room wherein such person has died, shall
be thoroughly disinfected and otherwise
treated as the town health officer may
direct.
SPECIAL NUIsANCES.
Rule vi. No privy vault, cesspool or res.
ervoir into which privy, water closet OF
sink Is drained, except 1t be water tight
shall be established or permitted 80 near 8
we'll. spring or other source of water used
for drinking or culinary purpose as in the
judgment of the town health officer tc
contaminate the same.
Rule VII. All privy vaults, cesspools OF
reservoirs named in rule 6 shall bs cleaned
out st such times and in such manner al
the health officer shall prescribe.
Rule VIII. No person shall keep ano
| maintain upon his premises at any time
| any privy, water closet, c.sspool, sink
and inofensive condition.
Rule TX. No sewage drain, privy vault
cesspool or sink shall empty into an,
stream, pond, or other source of water
nor shall any priyy, pig or stable b.
constructed SO near such stream, pond O.
| other source of water that it's contents viii
drain into the same.
| REGULATIONS CONCERNING GARBAGE.
Rule x, No person shall permit the &C
| cumulation in or around the immediate vi
cinity of any dwelling house or place o
business under his control, of refus
matter such as swill, waste of meat, sou
| -four, fish or shells, bones, decayirg vege
tables, dead carcasses or any kind of offs
In stste of decomposition.
Rule XII. No person shall throw, dunn
or deposit any filth, garbage, decsying AMI
NAL or vegetable matter which may b
prejudicial to public health upon any va
cant lot, highway or public place. nor il
any brook, pond, or spring. This does no
preclude the proper use of fertilizers upol
the land.
| IMPERFECT DRAINAGE OR SEWERAGE.
Rule XII. When the town health Office
finds that the plumbing or drainage of an
dwelling or habitstion in this town is de
fective and dangerous TO health and life
the owner or agent having the property Il
charge ehall have placed within reason
able time proper traps under every sink
basin and other fixture, and shall hav
each soil pipe carried through the roof t
such height as the town health officer shal
direct, not less than two feet, and of IN
diminished eize whenever practicable, an,
if this cannot be accomplished said tow
health officer will order such efficient ven
tilation and such repair of soil pipes e
shall 10 his judgment prevent the pollu
ton of the premises by sewer gas.
Rule XIII. Whenever. In the judgmen
of the town health officer, any premise
fronting on any street or highway in who
there is 8 sewer should be connected witt
such sewer, and the use of the privy dis
continued, said health officer will motif
the owner or agent having the property Ii
charge, who shall within thirty days caus
eueh privy to bs cleaned out and the us
thereof discontinued and such come ctiol
with the sewer to be made, and shall pro
vide proper means for ventilatipg tt
house drains. All connection with til
sewer shall be made under direction CT tn
town health officer. All drain pipes pass
ing through tbs wall of any building shsl
be of iron or vitrifed, salt glazed tile, O
euch thickness as the town health Office
shall determine. When any privy vault o
cesspool ia discontinued the contents cha
be entirely removed, and the vault file
with earth or other suitable material.
Rule XIV. No person shall bury In
draw off or allow to run into any street O
highway of this town, the contents Tor an
part thereof) of any cesspool or sink; no
shall any owner, occupant, or tenant o
any building, to which any sink or cesi
pool shall appsrtsin, or be attached
permit the contents Tor any part thereof
to flow therefrom, or to rise within on
foot of the top, or said contents to becom
offensive.
Rule XIV. No person shall throw into @
deposit in any vault, sink, privy or cesi
pool, any offal, meat, feb, garbage, or an
other substance exespt that of which sue
place is the appropriate receptacle.
Ru1a XVI The oopfapfa of apv fuh n
any receptacle, cesspool, privy. vault, sin
or water closet, cistern, or anything In an
room, excavation, vat, building, premises
or place shall not be allowed to become
nuisance, or offensive, 80 as to be danger
GUS or prejudieial to health.
SWINE, GOATS, ETC
Rule XVII The keeping of swine, fowl
or goats in any locality in this town, i
such a manner as to become, in the opin
ion of the town health officer, nuisance
will not be permitted.
MARKETS.
Rule XVIII. No butchers offal or gar
bage, nor any dead animals, aor any putri
or sinking animal or vegetable matte
shall be thrown by any person, or allowe'
to 60 into the street, place, sewer, or re
oeiving basin, or into any river, or stand
ing or running water or excavation, or upol
any ground or premises in the built NJ
portions of the town.
Rule XIX. ALI alleys, back yards, stables
privy vaults, cesspools, and other like fifth,
places, shall be sufficiently cleaned an,
disinfected at such times and In such man