The Press., 1894-01-25
RULES ESTABLISHED BY THE
 TOWN HEALTH OFFICER.
Complaints of Nuisances, etc.

and must bear the signature of the com plainant. Reporting Cases of Contagious or Malig- nant Diseases.
 Rule II, Every physician shall report in writing to the Town Health Officer ev- cry case of cholera, yellow fever, diphthe- ria, membraneous croup, typhus fever, ty- phoid fever, scarlet fever, measles, lepro- sy, small pox, or other contagious or in- fectious disease which the Town Health Officer may designate, occurring in his practice, within forty-eight hours of his first attendance upon such case.
 Malignant Contagious Diseases in their
 Relation to Schools or other Public As= semblages.
 Rule III. No superintendent, principal or teacher of any school, and no parent or guardian of any child attending school, shall permit child sick with small poX, scarlet fever, diptheria, membraneous croup, measles, whooping cough, scabies, (itch) or child afflicted with lice, to attend school. Nor shall any child residing in a house in which such disease shall exist be permitted to attend school without writ ten permit from the Health Officer. Vaccination, Rule W. The Town Health Officer shall have the power to isolate children or other persons who are not vaccinated, in case of the occurrence of small pox in | the town.
 Funerals.
 Rule V. No person shall allow to be I retained, unburied, the dead body of any human being for longer time than four days, or, where death has been caused by @ contagious disease, for longer time than thirty-siX 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 shall remain unburied; and when death has been caused by a contagious disease, 1 the body shall be immediately thereafter disinfected or enclosed in tightly sealed coffin, which shall not thereafter be open ed; and the funerals of such persons shall be attended at the house, only the under taker and persons living in the house where such person died, and by a clergy man 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 vehicle with | other passengers. And the bedding, cloth- | ing, 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 Nuisances, Privy Vaults, Cess Pools and Drains.
 Rule VI. No privy vault, cess pool or reservoir into which a privy water-closet or sink is drained except it be water tight, shall be established or permitted so near a well spring or other source of water used for drinking or culinary purpose as in the judgment of the Town Health Off cer to contaminate the same.
 Rule VII. All privy vaults, cesspools, or reservoirs, named in Rule 6 shall be | cleaned out at such times and in such manner as the Health Officer shall pre- scribe.
 Rule VIII. No person shall keep and maintain upon his premises at any time any privy, water-closet, cesspool, sink, drain, stable or pig-sty except in @ clcanly and inoffensive condition.
 Rule TX. No sewage drain, ,privy-vault, cess pool or sink shall empty into any stream pond or other source of water nor shall any privy, pig-sty or stable be con- structed so near such stream, pond or oth- CT source of water that it's contents will |. drain into the same.
 Regulations concerning Garbage.
 Rule X. No person shall permit the accumulation in or around the immediate vicinity of any dwelling house or place of business under his control, of refuse mat ter, such as Swill, waste of meat, sour flour, fish, shells, bones, decaying veget- ables, dead carcases, or any kind of offal [ in state of decomposition.
 Rule XI. No person shall throw, dump or deposit any filth, garbage ,decaying an- imal or vegetable matter which may be prejudicial to public health, upon any va- cant lot, highway, or public place, nor in any brook pond or spring. This does not
 preclude the proper use of fertilizers upon the land.
 Imperfect Drainage or Sewerage of Houses
 already erected.
 Rule XII. When the Town Health Of ficer finds that the plumbing or drainage of any dwelling or habitation in this town is defective and dangerous to. health or life, the owner or agent having the prop erty in charge shall have placed within a reasonable time proper traps under every sink, basin and other fixture, and shall have each soil pipe carried through the roof to such height as the Town Health Officer shall direct, not less than two feet, and of undiminished size whenever prac- ticable, and if this cannot be accomplish ed, said Town Health Officer will order such efficient ventilation and such repair of soil pipes as shall in his judgment, pre- vent the pollution of the premises by sew CT gas.
 Rule XIII. Whenever, in the judgment of the Town Health Officer, any premises fronting upon any street or highway in which there is a sewer should be connect ed with such sewer, and the use of the privy discontinued, said Health Officer will notify the owner or agent having the property in charge, who shall within thir- ty days cause such privy to be cleaned out and the use thereof discontinued, and , such connection with the sewer to be made, and shall provide proper means for
 ventilating the house drains. All connec-
 tions with the sewer shall be made under direction of the Town Health Officer. All drain pipes passing through the wall of any building shall be of iron or vitrified, salt glazed tile, of such thickness as the
 Town Health Officer shall determine When any privy vault or cesspool is dis } continued the contents shall be entirely removed, and the vault filled with earth
 or other suitable material. Rule XIV. No person shall bury in, draw off or allow to run into any sti eet or , highway in this Town the contents Cor
 any part thereof) of any cesspool or sink |; nor shall any owner, occupant or tenant of
 any building, to which any sink or cesspool shall appertain, or be attached permit the contents
 (or any part thereoD to flow therefrom, or to rise within one foot of the top, or said contents to become offensive.
 , Rule XIV. No person shall throw into :, or deposit in any vault, sink, cesspool, or privy, any offal, meat, fish, garbage, or . any other substance except that of which l the place is the appropriate receptacle. Rule XVI. The contents of any tub or
 any receptacle, cesspool, ,privy vault sink, or water-closet, ,cistern, or anything in any = room, excavation, vat, building premises, . or place shall not be allowed to become 0 nuisance, or offensive, so as to be dangerous or | prejudicial to health.
 . Swine, Goats, Sc. : Rule XVII. The keeping of swine fowls, g or goats in any locality in this Town. in q such a manner as to become, in the opin-
 ion of the Town Health Officer, nuisance, will
 not be permitted.
 = Markets.
 Rule XVIII. No butchers offal or gar