Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-05-04
Orders and Regulations for Ma
poleon Twp. Board Of Health.

pOleOn Twp. Board Of Healln'
The Napoleon township Trustees met Saturday,
April 2and 1888, aud organiEed Board OF healin
in compliance with section 212i, Revised Statutes
OF Ohio. Jacob Westernan vas made freslnent
and T. B. DittenhaVer, Clefk, for the ensuing year.
The following Rules and Regulations were Aoops
ed and ordered published;
Contagious Diseases.
u) II shah be the duty OF every physician called
to attend case Of cholera, small pox, diphiheria.
yellow fever, typhus fever or scarlet fever IN the
township, TO report the case within twelve nonrs
thereafter, to the clerk OF the board Of health OF
the township, giving the name and place OF resi-
dence Of the patient.
"a It shall be the duty OF the clerk ofthe board
OF health 10 at once place on conspicuous part OF
the house in whtc such patient resides or lod ges
q quarantine card and notice, announcing the
character of the disease Within and forbidding IN
gress or egress 10 or from such house without q
written permit from the board Of health.
(3) No person shall remove or mar such quar-
antine card notice without permisui on from ihe
board OF health.
of health when case Of contagious disease Is re
ported In the township to at notify the super
inten6ent or teacher of the school attended by
any such perron residing or lodging In the no use
with the patient. No pupil or teacher from such
house will be permitted 10 attend scnooi nnui tne
board Of health issues certificate that all danger
from c0ntARion mas passed.
(5l All houses in which case OF contagious
disease has occurred. shall be cleaned and disin.
fected in the manner directed oy the Doafo Oh
health.
infectious disease, the body shall be buued as
soon after death as possible.
an The body of a person who has died OF
contagious or infectious disease shall not be taken
into any church chapel or other public place; and
only the immediate relatives of the deceased-ex-
cluding chidren-shall be present at the burial, or
at the funeral services when held in the presence
OF the deceased.
t6J WheT deemed necessary by the board Of
health, clothing, bedding or other infected arti-
cles may be burned and to the INDECENT poor the
board OF health may replace properly 80 Destroyed
i9l No corpse shall be removed from any house
for burial, cremation, or for transportation out
side Of the township, without permit from the
board OF health and before such permit Is grant
ed the undertaken, sexton, or other person in
charge, shall deposit with the board OF health .
certificate setting forth such facts as may be re.
Quired, including q certificate OF the cause OF
attended the deceased. When q coroner's inquest
has been held the coroner shall certify TO such
facts; and wnen no physician has been an attend
snce, and an inquest has not been held, tne ceIIl
hcate shall be given by relative or attendant
of the deceased.
dO) It shall be the duty of physicians, on ap-
plicaton OF All undertaken or other person In
charge OF burial, to furnish certificate In writ
ing Of the name residence date and cause OF death
of all persons professionally attended by them
during last illness.
nm No cOrpse shall be inferred or disinterred
in any cemetery other place Of burial within the
township nor be cnpveyed into or from the town
ship without permit from the board of health.
Nuisances.
(I2) No privy vault. cesspool nor reservoir into
which lrivy water closet, stable or sink Is drain
ed except ii be wateF-tght shall be esta Dhshed OF
permitted within fifty (50) feet Of any well, spring
or other source of water supply used for drinking
or culinary purposes.
CS) All privy vaults and cesgpools, and reser-
yoirs for the accumulation Of fecal and hlthy mat
Ter shall be emptied at least once each year, and
at such otht times as the board OF nearh may
direct.
u4) Slaughter houses and places where glue.
SOAP starch, phosphates or other articles are
manufactured which may occasion unwholesome
or noxious odors, shal be kept in the cleanest
possible condition, and be conducted in such man
ner as not TO occasion nuisance.
Food.
d0 No person shall take into any village, oil
SELL or offer for sale, any cattle, sheep, hog, OF
lamb, nor any meat, hsh, game or poultry, MOI
any vegetables fruits other articles OF food thal
are diseased, unsound, unwho lesome, or that fol
any other reason are judged by the board OF health
to be unfit for human food.
(i6) Ne calf, pig or lamb or the meat thereof,
shall be bought, held offered for sale for human
food which when killed was less than four weeks
old.
On No person shall sell any SKINNED milk. OF
milk which is part whole and part skinned, unless
at the time he sells the same he truly states tht
fact OF such hkimming to the purchaser.
OS) No person shall sell or have for sale any
unwholesome impure, diluted or aduterat ed mill
or min known as 'swin milk" or milk from dis
eased cows or COWS fed on swill, garbage or othel
unhealthy food; nor cheese or butter made from
such milk.
t19) These rules and regulations shall take ef
feet and be in force from and after their passag'
and legal publication.
Adopted April %, 1923.
JACOB wEsTERMAN, President.
j. B. DITTENHAVER, Clerk
Penalties.
Whoever violates any provisions of this chapter
or any order or regulation Of the board OF healtf
made in pursuance thereof, or obstructs or inter
feres with the execution of any such order. or viii
fully or illegally olnits to obey any such order
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hun
dred dollars, or imprisoned for any time not ex
ceeding ninety days, or both; but no person shas
be imprisoned under this section for the tfs
offense and the prosecution shall always be q
and for first effense, unless the affidavit upo1
which the prosecution is instituted contains tn
allegation that the ofiense is second or repeate
offense
Section a13,, Revised Statutes of Ohio.