The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18
Bylaws of the Board of Health Relating
 to Sanitation

The Board of Health of the City of Bridgeport, at meeting held May g, 1911, adopted the following oy- law:
 Section 1. Whenever any privy vault becomes in the Judgment of the nuisance. said board or health officer may order the privy vault abolished and the premises connected with the street sewer or cesspool.
 Sec. 2. No building. except a liv- cry stable, shall be used for the twenty-five t25) feet of any dwelling house, without a permit from the board of health or health officer.
 Sec. 3. Whenever the drainage from any stable in the city becomes in the judgment of the board of said board or health officer may or der the premises connected with the street sewer or a cesspool. No cess pool shall be permitted to overflow nor be covered with less than one foot of earth.
 Sec. 4. No water from a sink or drain, or stable, or dirty water of any kind, shall be thrown or allowed to run upon the surface of the ground but it shall be carried away by suit able pipes to the street sewer or a cesspool, if there be no public sewer available.
 Sec. 5. The owners or agents of unoccupfed buildings or sheds in the city, shall keep them closed at all times against persons who may enter and commit a nuisance therein.
 Sec. 6. No boxes or barrels or cans or receptacles of any kind cap able of holding water; nor wastes or rubbish of any kind likely to harbor mosquitoes, shall be allowed in any yard within the city limits, unless the same be kept under cover and secure from rain.
 Sec. z. The owner of an ash re- ceptabie shall provide for it a tight cover, when notified to do so by the health officer or sanitary inspector.
 Sec. 8. All garbage receptacles must kept covered by the household CT using the same, and secure from
 Sec g. Any person depositing up- on a public dumping ground or upon any premises within the city limits, any paper, rags, feathers or other similar refuse, shall dispose of them in such a manner as to prevent their being blown upon any street or other premises.
 Sec. 10. Any person. firm or cor poration owning land within the city limits, and permitting the deposit on the same of papers, rags, feathers or other light refuse, shall cause such material or refuse to be so disposed of as to prevent it's being blown upon any street or other premises.
 Sec II. No paper, ashes, hair, feathers, or other substances that are in a similar manner liable to be blown by the wind, shall be exposed or agitated in the open air; nor shall any mat, carpet or cloth be shaken or beaten, where particles therefrom set in motion thereby, will pass into any dwelling house or store, or into any yard where clothes are being dried or become a nuisance to per sons using the public sidewalk or street.
 Sec. 12 All owners of lots with in the second district of the city shall keep the weeds cut upon such prem ises No weeds shall be permitted to grow more than one foot in height.
 Sec. 13. Any person. firm or cor poration, violating any of the provis- ions of these by-Iaws relating to san:- tation, or any order of the board of health or health officer relative there to, shall upon conviction be fined not more than ten. dollars for each of- fense.
 Attest,
 DAVID ". LYNCH, R 6u" Clerk.