The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-07-11
Rules of the Marshall County
Board of Health Governing
Sanitary Conditions at Max
inkuckee Lake, and the Town
of Culver.

Rule l. PrivY vaults are pronounced a
nuisance and are hereby condemned and
shores OF Maxinkuckee lake, and earth clos
cts shall be built by all housebolders and
managed as follows
td) Privies shall be built with water tight
drawers beneath the seats and so constructed
that they may easily be gotten at and cleaned
o. Dry earth shall be kept at all times in
all such privies in suitable receptacle, and
a sufficient quantity of this dried earth shall
be used to keep defecta well covered and
absorbed.
lel When necessary, and also when order
ed oy the health officer or his deputy in
charge of grounds, in writing the contents of
said earth closet drawers shall be carried
away and spread upon open ground, remote
(d) The householder shall pay the expense
OF cleaning, and IL necessary, disinfecting
earth ciosets-and in the event of refusal or
infect his or her earth closet, then the county
health officer or deputy shall have IL done
and the cost shall be collected against the
property, the same as other taxes are COL
Rule 2. All garbage shall be kept In gall
vanfzed iron or tin receptacles of sufficient
size, having, tieht-ftting covers, and said
garbage shall be carried away at least every
second day, and garbage receptacles shall be
cleaned and disinfected at all times upon
written order from the county health officer
or deputy.
Rule 8. Trash, as here defined to be waste
paper, paper and small fruit boxes, rags, olo
shoes, string and all worthless articles that
accumulate about living abodes. shall be
kept in bins, boxes or barrels and DESTROYED
by fire, or may be Immediately burned. In
the event. etc
Rule 4. All rubbish. such as tin cans and
all such as will not burn, shall be kept in a
box, barrel or suitable receptacle with a
cover, and when necessary, or upon written
order OF proper health officers, or deputy
said rubbish shall be carted away. and
dumped In some remote or general DUMPING
grounds.
Rule 5. No hogs or shoats shall be kept In
a pen or lot within 500 feet of lake shore OF
water line.
Rule 6. Any householder or botel owner OF
owners atMaxinkuc kee lake or I'm the town OF
Culver within the jurisdiction of these rules
who refuses or neglects to build an earth
closet as herein directed, or who refuses OF
neglects to secure galvanized iron or tir
garbage receptacle. as herein provided OF
who refuses or neglects to give the sanitary
care to earth closets or garbage receptacles
or who refuses or neglects to care for trash
or rubbish from his abode as herein provided
pen within the limit OF these rules, shall be
hned In any sum not less than ten dollars OF
more than one hundred dollars which is the
penalty for violation of the state board OF
nealth laws, and of the county board OF
health when passed In accordance With the
same.
Rule z. The health officers appointed fol
the purpose OF enforcing these rules, shall
have the power and right at proper times t<
enter into ana upon all premises for the pur-
pose of making sanitary inspection.
L. d. ELEY, n. D..
Secretary County Board of Health