The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-22
THEY'LL LOOK AT IT
Commissioners Decide to Visit the
Scene of the Big Hole Dispute.
A CENTERvILLE COMPLAINT
1t Is Charged That People There
Are Violating the Rules OF the
County Health Board IA
Lesson In the Codes

received petition from the Divide
Lumber company, containing 40 sigma
| lures, asking that the company be per-
mitted to continue to occupy the coun-
ty road on the Big Hole river as a side
| track for the Utah Northern railroad,
for the removal of which the commits
| sioners were petitioned a few days ago
| The board has determined to visit the
road and decide the trouble for them
I, selves.
| A complaint was made yesterday
that parties in Centerville were DELHI
| erately violating the rules and regula-
lions of the county health board in re-
| gard to the dumping of garbage. etc..
and the special health officer was in
structed by the commissioners to see
| that the rules are obeyed and send the
offenders to Jail. The board has sent
| out a lot of special notices calling at
| tention to the following sections of the
new codes:
1T is the duty of the board of health
to establish for the county, or any part
thereof, such sanitary rules and regu-
| lations as may be necessary to prevent
the outbreak or spread of infectious or
contagious diseases. Any person fail
ing to comply with or obey such rules
and regulations is guilty of a INSIDE
meanor.
Except in cases where a different
punishment is prescribed by this code,
every offense declared to be a INSIDE
meanor is punishable by Imprisonment
in a county Jail not exceeding six
months, or by a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars or both"
The board of health has adopted the
following rules and the special sanitary
officer has been instructed to see that
they are enforced:
1T is hereby ordered by the board of
health of Silver Bow county that all
persons residing in Silver Bow county
outside the corporate limits of the
cities Of Butte and Walkerville, whose
premises need cleaning, to at once
clean them, upon being served with a
notice from the board Of health to do
so.
The health officer shall, in case Of
any outbreak of pestilence or epidemic
disease, or any danger from the same
within the county, take immediate
steps to prevent or abate the spread of
any such pestilence or epidemic dis
ease, and shall have the power to visit
and examine or cause to be visited and
examined any person within the coun-
ty who shall be reported to them or
either of them as afflicted or supposed
to be afflicted with any pestilenttal or
contagious disease, such as smallpox,
cholera, scarlet fever, typhoid fever,
diphtheria or any grades or modifica-
tions of such diseases.
Amy physician practicing or visit
ing in this county shall report to the
health officers of the county any and
every case which may come to their
knowledge of infectious or epidemic
disease, and 1t is hereby made a duty
of any such physician to report the
name IN full, sex, age. place of domi-
Ncile and nature of disease of any such
infected person. If such physician be
the attending physician he shall in
such case act in accord with the board
of health of this county in having strict
quarantine and sanitary regulations
enforced, and may call upon the board
of health for any assistance requisite
for the enforcement Of this rule.
1T shall be unlawful for any person
to cast upon, or keep in or upon. or
adjoining any residence premises OF
any street, lane, alley, square or pub
lie place, or in any yard, lot. block or
residence premises within the county,
any bones, putrid, unsound, unwhole-
some or refuse beef or meat of any ami
NAL, whether sailed or otherwise, or
any hides or skins of any kind, or the
whole or the part of any dead animal,
or fish, or unsound. putrid or unwhole-
some substance, or the offal, garbage
or other offensive part of any dead ami
NAL
mo person shall suffer or permit any
cellar. vault, drain, sewer, yard,
grounds or premises belonging to or
controlled by him as agent or tenant,
TO become. from any cause, nauseous,
foul or offensive or injurious to the
public health, or unpleasant and disa-
greeable to adjacent residents or per-
sors.
mo person shall cause or permit any
nauseous, foul or putrid liquor or sub
stance likely to become nauseous, foul,
offensive or putrid, upon any premises
to be discharged, placed or thrown, or
to flow from or out of any premises
into or upon any adjacent premises, or
any public street, alley, road or high
way.
Every person the owner of or in
possession of any animal which shall
have died within the county and know
ing its death, shall within IL hours
thereafter cause the same to be re-
moved to the crematory or to be buried
at least three feet under ground at a
distance Of at least 300 yards from any
occupied premises and at least 300
yards from any public road or high
way.
mo person shall, within the county,
keep or maintain any pen, enclosure
stable or building for swine. cattle,
horses or any animals. in such a filthy
condition as to be offensive to neigh
bors or passersby. or injurious to the
health of the neighborhood
Amy person or persons creating,
keeping or maintaining any nuisance,
who shall neglect or fail to abate or
remove such nuisance within "a hours
next after receiving a notice from the
board Of health or it's agent, shall be
liable for the penalties imposed by sec
ton 10 Of the penal code and shall. for
each "a hours thereafter in which said
nuisance is continued. be subject to a
like penalty as originally incurred.
when any nuisance is Of such char
acter and is so situated that the same
can be abated without invasion or de-
struction Of private property and the
further continuance thereof is likely
TO result in expense to the county OF