Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS oF HEALTH

~ of the borough of Freeland, Pa, for the
better preservation of the public health, and to
prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
In virtue of the powers conferred by the act of
assembly OF April 3, 1851, section !, 2. L. $40, of
the laws of the commonwealth of PennsylVn-
mia, be it ordained by the burgess and borough
council of the borough of Freelann, Pa, and IL
is hereby ordained 10y the authority OF the
same.
See l. That whatever is dangerous to hui
man life or health, whatever renders the air or
food or water or other drink unwholesomc
and 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
Tor the expense of the abatement and remedy
therefor
Sec. 2. No house-refuse, ofral, garbage, dead
animals, decaying 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 outbuilding or grounds for more than
twenty-four hours
Sec g. No person or persons, without the
consent of the board of health TOR borough
counciD, shall bu 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
market public or private, shall cause such place,
room or building, stable or market to be thor
oughly ceansed and purified, and all otfal,
blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholeSume
and offensive matter to be removed therefrom
twenty. hnl1rS
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 us to prevent blood or foul
| liquids or washngs from settling in the earth
| beneath.
See. 4. No blood-pit, dung-pit, oifal-pt or
| privy-well shall remain or be constructed
| within any slaughter house. Any one Offend
| ing against this rule shall be guilty of creating
| ana maintaining q nuisance pre1udichl TO
public health, and shall he required TO remove
| the nuisance within ten days from the date of
| notice.
Sec. 8. The owners, agents, or occupiers of
| all slaughter-houses are required, during the
| months of June, July, August and September to
twice distribute i'll each week not less than twen-
| ty five pounds of chloride of lime about their
premises and also to remove the contents of
any manure-pit or manurcpile on the prem
| ises, once in each week, the said premises and
contents of manure-pits being hereby declared
to be nuisances preiudicial TO public health,
unless subjected to frequent dsinfection and
cleaning as herein indicated. No pigs or hogs
shall be kept in the same enclosure with q
| slaughter-house; nor shall they be fed there OF
elsewhere, upon the offal of slaughtered ami
mails.
See. 6. No person or company shall erect on
maintain within the limits of this borough any
manufactory or place of business dangerous to
life or detrimental to health, or where unwhoe-
some, offensive or dclcterous odors, gas
smoke, deposit or eXhalations are generated
such MS tanneries reiineries, manufactores ot
starch, glue, leather, chemicals, fertilizers gas
etc. etc, without the permit of the board OF
health Tor borough counciD, and all such es-
Establishments shall be kept clean and whole
some so as not to be offensive or preiudiclal tC
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 pubic waters, stream, water-course, street
road or public place. And every person oI
company conducting such manufacture. ol
business shall use the best approved and al
reasonable means to prevent the escape OF
smol e, gases and odors, and to protect the
health and safety of al operatives employed
therein.
Sec. Z. The business of bone and horsc-boi'
ing shall not be allowed, unless conducted undel
cover. the building to be provided with smoke
consumers, and due regard be had to c'oanli
ness in the disposition of the otfa No bone
boiling establishment or depository of deat
anima's shall be kept or erected in any part o
this borough without n permit from the boart
of health (or borough counci0
Sec. s. No permit shall he granted to an!
boiling bones and dead animals until after
careful inspection of the locality, buildings ant
apparatus, and of the plans for conducting th'
business, by an accredited inspector of tn,
board of health (or borough councD.
Sec. 9. No bone-b boiling establishments o
i repositories of dead animals shall be kept cl
erected in or near to II thickiy inhabited
neighborhood.
Sec 10. The floors of all bone boiling estab
lishments and repositories of dead animals shal
be paved with asphalt or with brick or stone
wei laid i'm cement, or with some other imper
vious material, and shall be well drained; au'
al such establishments shall have such al
adequate water supply as will enable thorough
| cleanliness TO be maintained.
Sec. II. The boiling of bones and dead ami
mails, etc, shall be conducted in steam tigh
, kettles, boilers or cadrons, from which TIN
foul vapors shall he first conducted through
scrubbers or condensers, and then into tn
back part of the ash pit of the furnace fire. t.
be consumed, or by other apparatus equal!
J efficient in preventing or counteracting the Of
fenSive effiuvia.
See. H. When bones arc being dried afte
boiling, they shall be placed in close chamber
through which shall be passed by means o
pipes, large volumes of fresh air, the outle
pipe terminating in the fire-pit
Sec, 10. All propretors of bone boiling es
Establishments not having on the first day of Jul.
1893 permits to carry on the business, and vic
lating these ordinances, shall be findd for ever
such offense, and for each months continuanc
of the same, after notice, and also be liable 4
an indictment Mt common law for creating AM
maintaining Il nuisance,
Sec II. The permit clerk of the board o
health Tor borough counciD shall have proVido
Il 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 us report
ed by the inspector; whether licensed or not
the number and date of permit; aud remarks.
See Is. The keeper or keepers of n livery o
other stable shall keep his or their stable an
stable-yard clean, and shall not permit, betwee
the 10Th day of May and the 1st day of Novem
ber, more than two wagon loads of manure t
accumulate in or near the same Mt any on
time, except by express permission of TIL
, board of health Tor borough counciD, no
shall any manure be removed between th
dates aforesaid, except between twelve o'cloc
. | at night and two hours after sunrise, without
written permit from the board of health 20
. borough counciD; nor shall any manure b
removed except in tight vehicle, so proteete
that the manure, in process of removal, ma
not be dropped or left in any street, road, Ian
or way of the borough.
Sec. 49, No pig pen shall be built on maintain
] ed within the limits of this borough without
= permit from the board of health Tor boroug
counciD, or within one hundred feet of any we
or spring of water used for drinking purpose
or within thirty feet of any street or of any II
habited house, or unless constructed in til
following manner, viz; so that the floor or flool
of the same shall be not less than two feet froi
, the ground, in order that the filth accumulatin
under the same may be easily removed; an