Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-09-18
BOARD OF HEALTH
Met and Adopted Sanitary Rules and Regu-
lations.

Met and Adopted Sanitary Rules and Regu-
Lewistown, Fergus County. Montana, Sept.
9th, 1901 Board of health of Fergus county
met In regular session. Present-Sam1 Phil
lips. president Of board; II. ii. Wilson,
secretary; J. ]. Corbly. W. I. Neill.
The following sanitary rules and regulations
were adopted:
Sanitary Rules and Regulations TO Prevent the
tagious Diseases in Fergus County. State of
Montana.
SEcTIoN1 1. No privy, cess pool or reservoir
into which a priyy, water closet, stable or sink
is drained, except it be water-tight, shall be
established or permitted within fifty (j0) feet
of any well. spring or other sources of water
used for drinking or other culinary purposes.
Sec 2. All privy vaults, cess-pools or reser-
voirs named in Section / must be cleaned out
at least once a year, and from the LIST of May to
the LIST of November of each year shall be thor
oughly disinfected by adding to the contents
OF the vault, once a month, one or two pounds
of corperas dissolved in a pail of water.
SEC. 3. No house offal or dead animal of any
kind shall be thrown into the streets of n
town, or left exposed to any person, and no
butcher, fish monger or vender OF merchandise
OF any kind shall leave any refuse upon the
streets of any town, or uncovered by earth upon
any of the lots of any town, within the ~jurisdic-
ton of this board, and all putrid and decaying
animal and vegetable matter must be emoved
from all cellars and outbuildings on or before
May fst Of each year. or at any other time when
SO ordered by the county health officer. And
il shall be the duty of the owner. occupan or
person in control of such cellar or outbuildings
to see that the same conform to the provision
of this section. and such owner, occupant or
person in control shall be liable for such nom
compliance under the penalty here provided.
SEC. 4. All keepers of hotels, restaurants and
other places accumulating garbage are re-
CURED to keep a properly covered receptacle
for swill and house offal. and to cause the con-
tents to be regularly removed AS often as vice
each week between the LIST day of April and
the LIST day of November, and once each week
at all other seasons; and all keepers, owners or
occupants of stables OF barns within the limits
of any town are required during the same
period to keep the premises clear and free from
all accumulation of manure.
SEC. 5. No diseased animal or decayed OF
unfit meat, fish, vegetable or fruit. or diseased,
impure or adulterated milk, or other impure,
diseased or adulterated article used for food,
shall be sold or offered for sale.
SEC. 6. No dead animal shall within the
jurisdiction of this board be put in any river
spring. cistern, reservoir, stream or pond.
SEC. Z. Every child attending the schools
private or parochial. and every teacher, mus
be examined relative to having been success
fully vaccinated. and If not so vaccinated mus
be excluded from school until so protected.
SEC. s. II person is ascertained to have at
tended school when affected with either diph'
liberia, measles, scarlet fever. membranou
Group, whooping cough or smallpox, the coun
" health officer must Immediately order tn,
schools closed wherein such persons attended
and direct the proper disinfection.
SEC. Q. 1t slall be the duty of every physi
clan or person practicing medicine within thu
county Of Fergus. to report in writing over hi
or her own signature. to the county board o
health, every case of contagious disease within
"a hours after the same shall have come unde
his or her treatment. 1t shall also be the dut.
of any other person having care OF a patien
suffering from any such disease to report tn,
same as above provided.
SEC. 10. II shall be the duty of the count,
health officer. on being notified of the exist
ence of any contagious disease. to repair to tn
place or places where such contagious diseas'
exists and use due caution to prevent tn,
spread of the disease. He may prevent al
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put upon or in RON of the said infected hous'
a card with the name of the disease printe'
thereon, and no one shall be allowed to visi
said house while the card is there, only on orde
OF the board of health and then only the neces
sary persons TO take care of the sick.
SEC. II. No person shall remove, deface O
destroy any card referred to in Section iOhereof
unless so authorized by the board of health.
SEC. II. No person shall Expose himself Q
another, infected with any infectious or con
tagious disease in any any public place OF thor
oughfare, except in his necessary removal in
manner the least dangerous to the publ
health.
SEC. 10. No hogs shall be kept %confine,
within the limits of any town in a pen. whic
pen shall be within 30 feet Of any well. sprlnI
OF other sources of water used for drinking G
culinary purposes, or any house used as a dwell
ling.
SEC. IL. No person shall, within the limits c
any town. keep OF maintain any pen, foreclosure
stable building. or yard for horses, or animals
or fowls In such a filthy condition as to b
offensive to neighbors or passers.by, or injuri
Gus to public health.
SEC. Is. There shall not be a public or churc
funeral of any person who has died of small
pox, diphtherla. scarlet fever, typhus fever O
Asiatic cholera. but the funeral OF such perso
shall be private, and 1t shall not be lawful I
invite or permit at the funeral Of any perso
who has died OF any OF the above diseases, @
any contagious or Presidential disease. or at an
service connected Herewith. any person who's
attendance Is not necessary. or to whom Their
is dang er Of contagion thereby.
SEC. lG. During an epidemic In any schoc
district OF any contagious or infectious diseas
mentioned in Section s hereof. the board G
health may close the schools In said distric
during said epidemic. and they shall renal
| closed until permission To open Is given to III
school trustees by the board of health.
ANY person violating any OF THESE rules an
regulations Is guilty of a misdemeanor an
punishable by a the not to exceed eS0O. or ST
months Ia jail. or both.
Adopted by the county beard OF health Q
Fergus county. Montana ihis WI day OF sep
'e"0 Attest, Fl. II. WILSON. M. D..
Secretary of County Board OF heaitn'