The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-02

permitted within fifty feet of any well, spring
or other source Of water used for drinking or
culinary purposes; nor shall any such open
into any stream, ditch or drain, except COM
mon sewers.
Rule 3. Earth privies, or earth closets, with
no vault below the surface Of the ground shall
be excepted in Rule l, but sufficient dry earth
or coal ashes must be used daily to absorb all
the fluid part Of the deposit, and the entire
contents must be removed monthly;
Rule 3. All privy vaults, cessPools or reser-
VOirs named in Rule must be cleaned at least
once a year; and from the 1st OF May to the lst
OF November of each year, shall be thoroughly
deodorized by adding to the contents OF the
vault, once every month, solution OF cop
peras, in the proportion of one or two pounds
to pailful OF water for each member OF the
family.
Rule 4. No night soil or contents of cess
pool shall be removed unless previously de-
Odorized by the COpperas solution as above or
dislnfected with elcorrosive-sublimate solu,
tiOn, and during removal the material
shall be covered with layer Of fresh earth,
unless the removal be by the "odorless exca-
waiting process"
Rule 5. No sewer drain shall empty into any
lake, pond or other source OF water used for
drinking or culinary purposes, nor into any
pond, lake or running water. Such drains
passing within fifty feet lin ordinary soil) or
eighty feet Tin sandy sOil) Of any source OF
Wator supply, shall be water tight. All stag
nant ponds must be drained or filled up.
Rule 6. The collection of refuse matter In
OF HfOuUu GnG lunLu6u1uLO f4C1lA4bJ VI any
dwelling or place of business, such as sw1ll
waste of meat, fish or shells, bones, decay1ng
vegetables, dead carcasses, eXcrement, or any
kind of Offal that may decompOSe and gener-
ate disease germs or unhealthy gases ana mus
affect the purity of the air. shall be constd-
cred the worst kind Of nuisance, and must be
removed or disposed OF either by burial, burn
ing for otherwise and in such manner as not TO
be offensive.
Rule !. No diseased animal, or its flesh, and
no decayed, diseased meat, fish, vegetables or
fruit no impure or adulterated milk or other
article used for food. shall be sold or
offered for sale. No dead animal or onenslye
refuse shall be thrown upon the street or ad-
joining lot to the street or into or near any
stream, spring or well.
Rule s. No pig pen shall be maintained
within one hundred feet OF any Wen OF sPrinlB
of water used for drinking purposes, or within
thirty feet of any street or inhabited house.
Such pens shall be kept in such manner as not
to be offensive, by being freely deodorlZed at
short intervals. No pigs shall be kept within
the limits of any incorporated city between
May and November OF any year.
Rule g. Every person owning, leasing or oc-
cupying any place, room or building wherein
cattle, sheep or swine are killed. OF uIesseo,
and every person, being the owner lessee or
occupant Of any stable wherein animals are
kept, or of any market, public or private, snail
cause such place, room, building, stable or
market to be kept at all times thoroughly
cleansed and purified and all offal, blood, fat,
garbage stable manure or other unWholesome
or offensive refuse, shall be removed there
from at least once in every tWentv-four hours
if used continuously, or II only used
occasionally within twenty-four (24) hours
after using, and the floors Of such building,
place or premises shall be so constructed as TO
prevent blood, foul liquids or Washlngs from
being absorbed. No blood pit, dung Plt onal
pit or priyy well shall remain or be construct
ed within any such place, room or building,
nor shall swine be kept in the same In
closure with slaughter house, nor fed there
or elsewhere upon the offal of slaughtered an
imals.
Rule TO- No person shall maintain any
mandatory or place OF business where un-
wholesome, offensive or deleteriOus odors,
gases, smoke or exhaiatlons are generat,eu,
such as tanneries, establishments for boiling
bones and dead animals, etc., etc.,9xcept sueh
establishments shall be kept clean and whole
some nor shall any offensive or deleterlous or
waste substance, refuse or injurious matter
from such establishments be allowed TO ac-
cumulate upon the premises or be thrown
or allowed to run into any public waters,
stream, water course, street, road or pubic
place. And every person or company conducG-
ing such manufacture or business shall use all
reasonable means to prevent the escape OF
smoke gases and odors, and to protect the
health and safety Of all operatives employed
therein.
CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Rule IL. Whenever any householder shall
know that any member of his family is taken
sick or has died Of smallpox, cholera, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, or any other disease danger
Gus to the public health, he shall immediately
give notice thereof to the nearest Board OF
Health or Health officer, placing the case at
once in charge Of physician and placarding
the house as prescribed in the following rule
Rule u Whenever any physician shall
know, or have reason to believe, that any per
son whom he is called to visit, or any person
sick within his knowledge, without the care OF
physician Is infected with or has died OF
cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria
or any disease dangerous to the public health,
he shall Immediately give notice thereon to
the nearest Board of Health or Health officer,
and II the case occurs in his own practice,
shall at once cause red or yellow cloth or
card not less than twelve inches square with
the name of the disease written or printed there
on in large characters, to be fastened upon the