Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-11-09

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small pox, leprosy typhus fever, oil
yellow fever, or from any sequelae Oh
complication of said diseases; noI
shall any permit for such removal be
granted in any case whatsoever where
the cause of death was a contagious
or infections disease, or any sequelae
OF such disease, unless the permit be
approved and signed by the health
officer of the local beard of health,
nor shall permit be granted except
upon the presentation of the proper
certificate of the cause of death.
Sec. 70. No hack, omnibus, street
car, or other closed vehicle used for
the conveyance of the living shall be
permitted to carry the body OF any
person dead from an infectious or
contagious disease; nor with the
knowledge of the owner, driver, or
person in charge thereof, TO carry
any person or article liable TO COM
municate the infection or contagion
of such disease.
Sec. 30 Each undertaken or sexton
and every person engaged or concern
ed in the burial of the body of a
human being in violation of the pro-
visions OF sections twenty-siX, twenty.
seven and thirty-one of this ordinance,
and the owners, officers and employees
OF any transportation company, or
any other person engaged or concern
ed in the removal OF such dead body
from the limits of this town In viola
tion of any of the provisions of this
ordinance, shall be fined not less than
hfty dollars, nor more than one hum
dred dollars, or to be imprisoned not
less than ten days, nor more than
thirty days, in the discretion of the
court, for each otfense.
Sec. 81. If any person shall neg
lect or refuse to furnish the certif-
cate of death as required by section
twenty-six of this ordinance, he shall
be fined not less than live dollars for
each offense. Provided, that this
section shall not apply to coroners
engaged in official investigation of a
cause of death.
Sec. 81. If any physician, or any
other person within the limits of this
town shall knowingly attempt to Sc
crete, or withhold the true character
OF any of the contagious or infectious
diseases specified in this or
dinance, or shall in any manner what.
soever attempt to deceive or detraud,
or who shall make any false state
ment In making certificate of cause
ofdeath as required by this ordinance,
by giving any other than the true
cause of such death;or if the decedent
was affected with any of such con
tagious or infectious diseases during
his last sickness, he shall neglect or
refuse to state such fact in such GER.
titicate, he shall be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not
less than i've days, nor more than
thirty days, at the discretion of the
court.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
Sec. 81. No slaughter house shall
be erected nor used within the limits
of this town unless a permit from the
mayor has been first obtained with the
advice and assent of the health officer,
and no slaughter house shall be erect.
ed, nor used within three hundred
and twenty feet of any public high.
way, nor within six hundred feet of
any dwelling house, school house or
church, or any building used for church
purposes. 1t sh II be erected on dry,
hard land, that can be well drained
it shall be amply supplied with clean,
wholesome water, from springs, wells
or unpolluted streams. 1t shall be
iloored with a tight, solid floor of
hard wood, or cement, or well. Joined
stone. The yards, sheds, and close
pens shall be dry, and free from mud
and filth, and their sides or walls
shall be thoroughly whitewashed at
least twice each year. All its appar-
atus shall be kept in neat and or
derby manner, and free from offensive
smells. When the Strengthening for
the day is completed, the sides and
floor of the slaughter room shall be
thoroughly washed with an abundance
of clean water. No animal matter of
any kind shall be permitted to remain
in, under or near the slaughter house
to deCompose or putrefy. When blood
and offal, or mature animals are fed
to swine on the premises, such ar
rangement shall be made that such
material shall be speedily consumed
The blood of all slaughtered animals
shall be conducted by water-tight
gutter to water-tight trough in the
hog yard. The offal and bodies of i'm
mature animals shall be thrown into
a pen with a tight, dry floor, to be
consumed at once by the swine; and
all portions not consumed within
twelve hours shall be removed from
the pen, and be burned, buried or
composted with fresh earth. When
the blood or offal are not fed to swine
or on the premises, they shall be
or be converted into fertilizers, or
nfh ar hu t,,a
the gases from which shall be carried
under the furnaces and consumed.
The fat and all material from which
fat or oil Is to be extracted, shall be
rendered within such time after the
Strengthening of the animals that no
offensive odor shall arise from them,
or from the process of rendering.
Any person who shall violate any of
the provisions of this section shall be
fiued not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars, or
be imprisoned not less than five days,
nor more than thirty days. And upon
conviction thereof all grants, licenses
or privileges contemplated herein
shall be Immediately revoked and an
nulled.
The provisions of this section, 80
far as practicable, shall apply to so
called "knacker's" plants, or plants
for the disposal of the bodies of dead
animals, and to premises used for the
killing and shipment of poultry.
DISEASED ANIMALS.
Sec. "a. Every person owning, OF
having the care or custody of any
animal which he shall know, or have
reason to suspect, Is affected with
CHAMBERS, farcy, anthrax, or any Other
contagious or infectious disease dan
gerous to the public health, shall i'm
mediately isolate such animal from
all other animals, and shall give