Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1913-07-24
Amendments and Additions to the
Rules and Regulations Of the
Mississippi State Board OF Health


pies. douehnuts and other ready
to-serve food mus, be kept under
a glass or wire screen. thoroughly
protected from lies.
Sec. 30. No restaurant or hotel
shall serve diluted or skinned
milk or milk below the standards
set forth in the Regulations Cow
erning the Production and Sale
OF Milk; mr. shall any hotel or
restaurant serve milkboughr from
any dairyman who does not hold
a license from the local health an
thority as provided for by this
Board.
Sec. 81. No person suffering
from tuberculosis shall be perman
emily housed or maintained in a
hotel or restaurant, nor shall such
person be allowed 10 loaf or loiter
in same. No bed room shall open
into or have direct connection
with any restaurant or hotel kitch
en- or dining room.
Slaughter Houses.
Sec. IA. The State Board OF
Health or its representative shall
use its own discretion as 70 who
shall be allowed 10 feed hogs with
in 100 feet OF the slaughter house
for the purpose of disposing of
refuse.
Groceries
Sec Z. All food products shall
be properly protected from the
dust by suitable coverings.
Sec. {. No bedroom shall open
into or have connection with any
grocery store or fruit stand.
Jails and Court Houses.
I Sec 1. All city andcounty jails
shall be kept in n sanitary condi-
ton. Bars, cages and floors shall
De kept clean and properly paint
ed. All bedding shall be kept
clean and fresh. Jails mus. he
also provided with proper toilet
facilities Of such a character that
they will not be a menace To the
health Of the inmates.
Sec. 2.No person suffering from
a contagious or infectious disease
shall be imprisoned with other in
mates, and any prisoner who IS
suffering from any cough or other
signs OF disease shall be reported
1t once to the county health Of
ficer, who shall Determine hos
his sickness shall be handled.
Sc. 3. Any jail r. sheriff or
Board Of Supervisors who fails
TO meet the requirements shall be
proceeded against a. the law and
regulations require; and the jail
in their keeping shall be declared
4 nuisance and abated.
Sec. 4. All court houses shall
be rnaintaiLed in a sanitary condi
ton. and when found otherwise
snail bs handled in the same man
ner rs the jail.
County Health Officers
The county health officers OF
1.-THE State are hereby designated
lzs.istant sanitary inspectors as
we'll as county health officers. In
the future It shall be oae o. thei
tduties to prouulgate 70 rules and
regulations Of the StatelBOaFd OF
Health and % see that Same are
obeyed in their resrestiva coua-
ties. This they shall do prompt
/ " and effectively. reporting what
ever they cannot promptly handle
to the chief sanitary inspector.
Adopted Jan. Il, 1913.
Rules and Regulations passed
by the Mississippi State Board Of
Health June ., 1918:
. Infectious and Contagious Dis
eases.
, Sec. /. Any person who is SUI
! fering from smallpox, chickenpox
scarlet fever, measles, diptheria,
: whooPing cough or other conta-
giOus or infectious disease, must
not leave, or go to any house, or
visit any person, without The per-
mission nj the city or county
health officer.
! sec. =. No psFen; OF guardian
shall send or take 70 any public
meeting, or on any railway train
or street car, or into the presence
a of any child or - any school. a
child who IS III with whoopinc
r cough, measles, sore eyes. scarlet
{ fever, or other con:agiou diseases
; The principal, or teacher of any
school shall not allow such a child
I to remain in school. and the name
: OF said child shall be reported to
TIE health officers at once.
Fly-Breeding Places.
: Sec. l. No petson shall main
: tain n any city, town or villege,
any horse or COW stable, garbage
piie, dumping ground OF other
place in such q manner it will al
iorl feeding or breeding place
for flies.
See. > All manure shall be
kept in closed bins and in such
way as TO prevent the breeding
OF flies, or else removed twice a
weak throughout the year.
Privies and Cess Pools.
Sec. 3. No privy shall be main
tanned in any room, nor shall it
have direct connection with any
room wherein any kind of expos
ed food, or foodstuh is stored, pre-
pared or handled.
Sec. 1. All privies located in or
near, public buildings such as
court houses, depots, hotels and
school houses must be we'll hight
ed and ventilated and kept in
sanitary condition at all times.
Sec. .. No ineanitary privy
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