The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-20
RULES FROM THE BOARD OF HEALTH

islature of the State of Kansas, ap.
proved March 18th, 1885, there exists
in Allen county a Local Board of
Health. The law reads: 1.-THE cOun-
ty commissioners of the several coun-
ties of this State shall act as Local
Boards of Health for their respective
counties. Each Local Board thus
created, shall elect physician, who
shall be, ex officio, a member of the
board, and the health officer of the
same" At a meeting of the Allen
County Board of Health, authorized
by law, as above, held on the sixth
day of July 1894, in the office of the
County Clerk of Allen County, Kans.,
the Secretary of said Board was in
structed to issue an address to the
people of Allen county and the fol-
lowing rules were adopted, viz:
RULE |. Water used for drinking
and culinary purposes shall be re-
moved from all wells in county, and
wells thoroughly cleaned out between
the first of May and the first of June
of each year and that water that gains
access to cellars, be removed from
time to time, and the cellars disinfect
ed.
RULE 2. No privy vault, cess pool
or reservoir into which privy, water
closet, stable or sink is drained, ex-
cept it be water tight, shall be per-
mitted 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.
RULE 8. Earthquakes, or earth
closets having no vault below the sur
face of the ground, excepted in Rule
3, provided sufficient dry earth or coal
ashes be used daily To absorb all fluid
part of deposit, and the entire contents
be removed monthly.
RULE 4. All privy-vaults, cess
pools or reservoirs, named In Rule 2,
must be cleaned out at least once
year, and from the LIST day of May to
the LIST day of November of each year,
shall be thoroughly deodorized, by
adding to contents of vault, once every
month, a solution of Copperas in the
proportion of two pounds to pailful
of water, and repeated until all bad
odor is destroyed.
RULE 5. No refuse matter shall be
permitted in the immediate vicinity
of any dwelling or place of business,
such as swill, waste meats, fish, bones,
waste paper or decaying vegetables,
and all persons are warned, against
casting dead fowls or other offensive
refuse, in public streets or alleys.
RULE6. No pig-pen shall be main-
tanned within 100 feet of any we'll or
spring of water, used for drinking
purposes, or within 40 feet of any street
or inhabited house, and all such pens,
shall be kept in condition not to be
offensive.
RULE Z. Every physician and
every midwife, engaged in the prac-
tice of his, or her profession in Allen
county. Kan, must register with the
clerk of said county, within a reason
able length of time, after publication
of this order.
The following disinfectants and
deodorizers are recommended: For
sink pipes, water closets and plivies,
formula:
Copperas. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .2lbs.
Water Gal.
Mix.
For cellars, sink-pipes, privies, and
where the odor is not Objectionable,
the following is one of the most effect
i've disinfectants and sermicides.
No. ..
Chloride of lime..... ........... / 10.
Water. zee. Gal.
Mix.
This formula costs so little, that the
preparation may be used freely.
1t is non-poisonous. does not injure
clothing and hence, is well adapted
to use in the sick room.
The county Bosrd of Health calls
attention to rule /, because it
is fact known to all physians of ex-
perience, that in niDe-tenths of the
typhoid fever cases of this county, the
disease is caused, either by use of i'm
pure drinking water or living over
damp and unhealthy cellars.
If health is better than disease pre-
vention is better than cure. 1t is
therefore desired that each house.
holder of Allen county take warning,
and act at once.
By order of the Local Board of
Health. A. J. FULTON,
Secretary. !