The Huttig news., 1913-08-09
NEW HEATH RULES.
State Board Will StriCkIy Enforce Sanitary
 Laws in State.

Beginning July l the state board of health, it is announced, placed into effect a rigid code governing city and town buildings, churches, state and county buildings, office buildings, halls and theatres, or any other buildings used the public.
 The newly created board also is sued rules to be followed for gar bage and house refuse. the sections of the regulations declaring that no house refuse, offal, garbage or or ganie waste substances of any kind shall be thrown upon the streets.
 Dr. Morgan Smith. state health officer. says that the board will enforce the regu ns, all of which form part of the sanitary code on July L.
 pr. Smith then took up the gar bage and house refuse regulations and said that the board would be particularly careful to see thatevery one of the regulations were follow ed to the letter during the summer
 l. No house refuse, offal, gar bage, dead animals and decaying vegetables or organic waste sub stance of any kind shall be throWt upon any street, road or public place, and no such refuse, putresi- bIe or deeaying animal or vegetable matter shall be kept in any house. cellar or adjoining outhouses or premises for more than 48 hours in any incorporated city, town or built up community. All recep- taeles for such garbage, etc.. shall be so constructed as to be of suffi- cients dimensions for the reception of all garbage and shall be water tight. made of tight matched lum- Der or galvanized iron, and shall stand at least nine inches from the ground and be provided with a suitable cover which must be kept properly adjusted to same, so as to protect the contents from flies. insects, rats, etc. All garbage and refuse contained shall have their contents emptied at least once every 24 hours.
 2. No filling in or making of land by the dumping of rubbish or other material shall be done within, or in the vicinity of any ineorpor- ated or unincorporated city or town limits unless approved by the health officer having jurisdiction; and no garbage. offal, dead animals or other vegetable, or organic or putresible matter or admixture thereof shall be used for filling in lowlands, nor be deposited in any other place nor in any manner un- less approved by health officer having jurisdiction.
 5. No offal, slops or other wastes from creamery, factory shop, chicken house, slaughter house, tannery, boarding house, restaurant, laundry, meat market, or private residence, or any other source, shall be thrown or deposit ed except in accordance with prop erly provided garbage disposal upon any lot or land into which any rav- inc or open ditch, stream or pond, or upon any land adjoining, which is subject to overflow.
 b. Any of the wastes above mentioned, not properly dlSpoSed or as garbage or common sewerage. shall be disposed of by independent sewerae disposal plants which latter shall apply particularly to creamer- ies, slaughterhouses, factories and shops.
 4. All dead animals and all de- composed animal matter shall be deodorized and immediately remov- ed to dun p grounds provided by the city and be buried not less than three feet underground.
 b. The dump grounds so used must be located and of such char acter as not to contaminate any domestic water supply, either by