Connecticut western news., 1894-09-20
HEALTH RULES,
with the Approval and Co., operation of the County Health Officer for Towns in Litchtield COun- fy
COMPLAINTS OF NUIsANcEs, ETC.

COMPLAINTS OF NUISANCEs, ETC.
 RULE I.-All complaints made to the Town Health Officer shall be made in writing, and must bear the signature of the complainant.
 REPORTING CASES OF CONTAGIOUS OR
 MALIGNANT DISEASES.
 RUnE II.-Every physician shall re- port in writing to the Town Health Officer at once every case of cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, membraneous croup, typhus fever, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, measles, leprosy, small pox, humps, whooping cough, or any other contagious or infectious disease which the Town Health Officer may designate, occurring in his practice, and shall also report all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis.
 THEIR RELATION TO SCHOOLS OR OTHER
 PUBLIC AssEMBLAGEs.
 RULE III.-No superintendent, prin- cipal or teacher of any school, and no parent or guardian of any child attend ing school, shall permit child sick with small pox, scarlet fever, diph- theria, membraneous croup, measles, whooping cough, scabies itch, humps, chicken-pox, or child afflicted with lice, to attend school. Nor shall any child residing in a house in which such diseases shall exist. be permitted to at tend school or go about the town or work in the shops without a written permit from the Health Officer; all su- perintendents of shops in which child ren are employed shall see that the provisions of this section relating to children working in their respective shops are enforced.
 QUARANTINE.
 RULE IV.-The Town Health Officer shall have the power to quarantine all cases of measles, scarlet fever and small pox or any other contagious or infec- tious disease which in his judgment justifies such action. It is also recom- mended that the patient be placed in a room upon the upper floor of the house, having first caused to be removed all unnecessary articles, carpets, curtains, clothes from closets, etc, and that a nurse or one member of the family be wholly responsible for the patients care.
 VACCINATION.
 RULE V.-The Town Health Officer shall have the power to isolate children or other persons who are not vaccinated, and to enforce the vaccination of all persons who have never been vaccinated and the representation of all persons who have not been viccinated within seven (7) years, in case of the occur renee of smallpox in the town.
 FUNERALS.
 RULE VI.--No person shall allow to be retained, unburied, the dead body of any human being for longer time than five days, or, where death has been caused by contagious disease, for 0 longer time than twenty-four 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 8 contagious disease, the body shall be immediately there after disinfected or enclosed in tight ly sealed coffin. which shall not there after be opened; and the funeral of such persons shall be attended at the house, only by the undertaken and per- sons living in the house where such person died, and by clergyman who shall take such precautions as the Health Officer may direct. In the re- moval thereof for burial, or otherwise, the body shall not be carried in vehi- cle 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.
 REGULATIONS CONCERNING SPECIAL
 NUIsANoKs, PRrvY VAULTS, cEssPooLs
 AND DRAINS.
 RULE VlI.-No privy vault, cesspool or reservoir into which privy, water closet or sink Is drained, except 1t be water tight, shall be established or per- mitted so near a we'll, spring or other source of water used for drinking or culinary purposes as in the judgment of the Town Health Officer to contami- nate the same.
 RULE VIII.-All privy vaults, cess- pools or reservoirs named in Rule VII, shall be cleaned out at such times and in such manner as the Health Officer shall prescribe.
 RULE 1X.-No persons shall keep and maintain upon his premises at any time any privy, water closet, cesspool, sink, drain, stable or pig sty except in clean and inoffensive condition.
 RULE X.-No sewage drain, privy vault, cesspool or sink shall empty in to any stream, pond or other source oi water, nor shall any privy, pig-sty O, stable be constructed so near such stream, pond or other source of water that it's contents will drain into the same. except by permission of the Health Officer.
 REGULATIONS CONCERNING GARBAGE.
 RULE XI.-No person shall permit the accumulation in or around the i'm mediate vicinity of any dwelling house or place of business under his control of refuse matter such as swill, waste O. meat, sour flour, fish or shells, bones | decaying vegetables, dead carcasses ol any kind of offal in Q state of decompo sition. RULE X1I.-No person shall throw dump or deposit any filth, garbage, de caying animal or vegetable matter which may be prejudicial to pubh, health upon any vacant lot, highwa, or public place, nor in any brook, pont or spring. This does not preclude tn, proper use of fertilizers upon the land IMPERFECT DRAINAGE OR SEWERAGE ol | HOUSES ALREADY ERECTED. RULE XIII.-When the Town Healtl Officer finds that the plumbing O drainage of any dwelling or habitatior in this town is defective and dangerou. to health or life, the owner or agen having the property in charge shal have placed within reasonable tim, proper traps under every sink, basil or other fixture, and shall have eacl soil pipe carried through the roof t, such height as the Town Health Office l eI,o1 c.