Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-15
NoEoFTHEBoARD OF HEALTH

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| better preservation of the public health, and to
| prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
In virtue Of the powers conferred by the act of
| the laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylva-
mia, be it ordained by the burgess and borough
| council of the borough of Freeland, Pa. and il
is hereby ordained by the authority of the
same.
Sec. /. That whatever is dangerous to hu-
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 ngress and egrcss, or
is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewer
| ed, drained, cleaned or lighted are declared to
! be nuisanees, and to be Illegal; and every per-
| son having aided in creating or contributing to
| the same, or who may support, continue or re-
| tam any OF them, shall be deemed guilty of Il
! violation of this ordinance, and also be liable
| Tor the expense OF the abatement and remedy
| therefor.
Sec. 2. No house-refuse, oflal, garbage, dead
animals, decuying vegetable matter, 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 ad-
! joining outbuiding 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 build or use any slaughter house
within the limits of this borough, and the keep
| ing ana Slaughtering of all cattle, sheep and
! swine, and the preparation and keeping of all
meat, fish, birds or other animal food, shall he
| in the manner best adapted to secure and con-
| tinue their whOlesCmeness 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 cleansed and purified, and all oilal,
Dloou, 1at, garbage, refuse and unwholesome
and offensive matter to be removed thereffom
az least once in every twenty-four hours, after
| the use thereof for any of the purposes herein
referred to- and shall also Mt al times keep all
| woodwork, save floors and counters, in any
Dullding, place or premises aforesaid thor
| oughly painted or whitewashed; and the floors
oil any such building, place or premises shall be
| so constructed as to prevent blood or foul
liquids or washngs from settling in the earth
Sec. A. No blood-pit, dung-pit, ofta-pit or
prlyy-well shall remain or be constructed
within any slaughter house. Any one Offend
ing, against this rule shall be guilty of creating
and maintaining nuisance prejudicial to
pubic health, and shall be required to remove
the nuisance within ten days from the date of
notice.
Sec. 8. The owners, agents, or oceupiers of
all slanghter-houses are required, during the
months of June, July, August and September to
twice distribute in 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 manure-pile 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 disufectiou and
cleaning as herein indicated. No pigs or hogs
shall be kept in the, same enclosure with a
slaughter-house; nor shall they be fed there or
elsewhere, upon the otfal of slaughtered ami
mails.
Sec, 6. No person or company shall erect or
maintain within the limits of this borough any
manutactory or place of business dangerous to
life or detrimental to health, or where unwhole-
some, offensive or deeterious odors ras
smoke, deposit or eXhalations are peneroted
such as tanneries, reineries, manufactures of
starch, glue, leather, chemicals, fertilizers, gas,
etc, etc, without the permit of the board of
health Tor borough counciD, and all such es-
adjustments shall be kept clean and whole
some so as not to be offensive or prejudcial to
public health; nor shall any offensive dele
terlouS 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
smoIe, gases and odors, and to protect the
health and safety of all operatives employed
therein.
Sec. Z. The business of bone and horse-boil-
ing shall not be allowed, unless conducted under
cover, the building to be provided with smoke
consumers, and due regard be had to cleanli-
ness in the disposition of the oiia. 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 Cor borough counel
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 a
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 cOunciD
Sec. .. No bone-boiling establishments or
repositories of dead animals shall be kept or
erected IN or near to thickly inhabited
neighborhood.
Sec 10. The floors of all bone boiling estab-
lishments and repositories of dead animals shall
be paved with asphalt or with brick or stone.
well laid in cement, or with some other imper-
Vlous material, and shall be well drained; and
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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 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. to
be consumed, or by other apparatus equally
eilcient in preventing or counteracting the Of
Sec. IL. 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-pit.
Sec, ID. All proprietors of bone boiling es-
adjustments not having on the first day of July
1873 permits to carry on the business, and yio-
lating these ordinances, shall be tindd for every
such ohense, and for each months continuance
OF the same, after notice, and also be liable to
an Indictment mt common law for creating and
maintaining nuisance,
sec; II. The permit clerk of the board of
health Tor borough counciD shall have provided
Il book in which To enter the names of all per-
sons engaged in the business of boiling bones
and having repositories of dead animals; ALSO
the location OF works and appliances as report
ed by the inspectors whether licensed or not;
the number and date of permit; and remarks
Sec. 10. The keeper or keepers of a livery or
other stable shall keep his or their stable and
stable-yard clean, and shall not permit, between
the 18th day of May and the lst day of Novem-
Der, more than two wagon loads of manure to
accumulate in Or near the same at any one
time, except by express permission Of the
board of health Tor borough counciD nor
shall any manure be removed between the
dates aforesaid, except between twelve O'Clock
ut night and two hours after SUNRISE without a
written permit from the board of health Tor
borough counciD nor shall any manure be
removed except in tight vehicle, so protected
that the manure, in process of removal, may
not be dropped or left in any street, road, lane
OF way of the borough.
Sec. 10. No pig pen shall be built or maintain
ed within the limits of this borough without a
permit from the board of health (or borough
counciD, or within one hundred feet of any well
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 the
following manner, viz: so that the floor or floors
of the same shall be not less than two feet from
the ground, in order that the filth accommodating
under the same may be easily removed; and
such filth accumulating in, about and under
the same shall be removed Mt least once "A week