Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH,

Ishow the absence of diphtheris
bacilli.
MEASLES.
| For the patient Quarantine until
lsuch time as in the opinion of the
ATTENDING physician the disease
ceases to be communicable to other
persons.
| For persons associated with or in
the family with the patient: Quar-
antine until after the death or
recovery of the patient and disin-
lection of the person, clothing and
premises.
RULE II. The bodies of persons
who have died of Asiatic cholera
(cholerine), yellow fever, smallpox,
typhus fever, bubonic plague, diph-
liberia (membranous croup,) and
scarlet fever (scarlatina,) shall be
wrapped in sheet saturated with
a solution of bichloride of mercury
Zone ounce to gallon of water) or
some other efficacious disinfectant
to be approved 10y the Commissioner
of Health, and shall be buried or
incinerated within twenty-four GA
hours after death. The removal of
bodies for burial or incineration
from place of death of those who
have died of Asiatic cholera (choler-
incl, yellow fever, smallpox, or
bubonic plague, shall take place
between the hours of nine (9) p. m.
and five (5) a. m.
RULE II. No public or church fun
eral shall be held in connection with
the burial of a person who has died
of Asiatic cholera (cholerine), small
pox, yellow fever, typhus fever,
diphtheria (membranous croup),
scarlet fever (scarlatina, nor shall
bodies of such persons be taken into
any church, chapel, or other public
place.
RULE IL. School books, or books
from public or circulating libraries
shall not be taken into any house
where Asiatic cholera (cholerine, J
smallpox, typhus fever, diphtheria
(membranous croup,) scarlet fever
(scarlatina,) exists, and if school
books or library books have already
been taken into such house they
shall be destroyed by the owner or
library authorities.
RULE IA. Whatever is dangerous
to human health or life; whatever
building or part or cellar thereof,
is overcrowded or not provided with
adequate means of ingress and
egress, or is not sufficiently support
ed, ventilated, severed, drained,
lighted or cleaned; and whatever
renders soil, air, water or food i'm
pure or unwholesome, are declared
to be nuisances and to be illegal;
and every person having aided in
creating or contributing to the
same, or who may support, continue
or retain any of them, shall be
deemed guilty of a violation of this
rule and shall also be liable for the
expense of the abatement or rem
edy required.
RULE Is. Priries, Cess Pools, ETC.
No privy-pit, cess-pool, or reservoir
into which any privy, water-closet,
stable, sink or other receptacle of
refuse or sewerage is drained, shall
be constructed or maintained in
any situation or in any manner
whereby, through leakage or over
flow of its contents, it may cause
pollution of the soil near or about
habitations, o. of any we'll, spring,
or other source of water used for
drinking or culinary purposes; nor
shall the overflow from any such
reservoir or receptacle be permitted
to discharge into any public place
or in any wise whereby danger to
health may be caused. And every
such pit, reservoir, or receptacle
shall be cleaned and the contents
thereof removed at such times and
under such precautions as the Com
missioner of Health may prescribe.
Violation of any of the provisions
of this rule shall subject the offend
ing party to penalty of twenty
five dollars, for each days continu
ance of the nuisance after due
notice to abate it from an author
lied officer.
RULE 16. Se,cers, Drains, Etc. All
house sewers or drains for the con-
vevance of deleterious or offensive
matters shall be water-tight, and
the plans and methods of their con-
struction shall be subject to the
approval of the Commissioner of
Health. In streets or avenues
where public sewers are or shall be
constructed, the commissioner of
health may order transformations
to be made Herewith.
House refuse, garbage, etc. No
house refuse, offal, garbage, dead
animals. decaying vegetable mat
ter, organic waste substance of any
kind, shall be thrown upon any