The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-08-10
FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

DR.. A. ". Hyde, health officer, to APP
public servant that has long been
needed in Brookings and the councils
action, which was taken upon the
recommendation Of DR.. Hyde, will
have the general approval Of the citi-
zens.
The city scavenger will not until
the first of next April be a salaried
employee, but all work that he does
until hat time in the way of clean
ing up alleys or yards will be
charged up against the premises af-
fected. After April LIST the official
will be paid by the city and every
householder will be required to place
a garbage can on the alley line to con
tain all solid garbage and these a n
will be emptied by the scavenger.
However, all garbage that is too great
10 be contained In the cans and hat
has TO be removed by the scavenger
the cost will have to be paid by the
property owner
1t is the councils intention the com
ing year to secure some device 10
%incinerate all garbage, doing away
with the dumping ground west of the
city, which has become a public NUS
ance. This will place the city in line
with other progressive and larger
cities in the maintenance of the public
health.
At the present time the city has an
ordinance which covers all matters
relating TO the disposal of garbage.
but it has been and is being violated,
principally through ignorance. How
ever. ignorance is not a good excuse
and every citizen owes it to himself
and family as well as to his neighbor
TO cooperate with the health officers
in their efforts to make the city a
clean and healthful one One Of the
principal offenses Of our citizens is
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other garbage in the alleys. An alley
is as much "A public highway as a
street and it must be kept as clean.
Below we publish those sections of
the health ordinance relating to the
disposal of garbage:
Section SO. Nuisances. Offensive
Sewerage. No person shall suffer or
permit any cellar, vault, private drain,
cesspool, privy or sewer upon any
premises belonging to him or oc-
cupied by him, within the limits of
the city, to become nauseous. often
sive or injurious to the public health.
Section 81. Same, Offensive Matter.
No person shall discharge or permit
building owned. occupied or used by
him, any foul or nauSeous liquors,
Stops or substance whatever, into any
ground, street, alley, or public
ground within said city and no per-
son shall keep or use, or cause to be
kept or used, any stale or putrid Or
sinking fat, grease or meat; nor shall
any person keep, for more than TWEEN
hours, any undressed hides,
except at the place where the same
are to be manufactured, without a
permit from the city council.
Section 50. Dead Animals or Other
No owner or %possessor of any
dead animal not killed for human
food shall suffer the same to be or
remain on any public street. alley,
public ground or private lot or place
within this city or within one-half
mile of the boundary thereof for a
longer period than IL hours after the
death thereof, if within the months of
April, May, June, July, August, Sep
TENDER or October, or for a longer
period than twenty-four hours if with
in the months of November, December,
January, February or March; and
every person owning or possessing
any such dead animal shall cause the
same to be Immediately burned and
completely destroyed or buried at least
three feet under the surface of the
ground on and within the public dump
ing ground provided by said city for
such purposes; nor shall any drayman
or other person who shall be employed
or who shall volunteer, either with
or without compensation therefor, to
remove any such dead animal and
burn, destroy or bury the same in ac-
cordance with the provisions in this
ordinance, leave, place or permit to
be left or placed any such dead ami
NAL on the surface of the ground, but
such person shall either burn and COM
pletely destroy the same or shall bury
the same in the public dumping
grounds In accordance with the pro-
visions of this ordinance and in the