St. Tammany farmer., 1917-03-03
ORDINANCES.


ORDINANCE NO. So.
Ordinance regulating sanitation with
reference to tuberculosis people or
people with other disease contain
ing infected spuum or other in
fectious secretions, and providing
penalty for violation, etc.
!, Be it ordained by the Mayor and
aboard of Aldermen and the Munich
bal Board of Health of the Town OF
COvingtOn, La, as follows:
Section 1. That any person hav-
ing tuberculosis who shall dispose OF
his sputum, saliva or other bodily
secretion or excretion so as to cause
offense or danger to any person or
persons occupying the same room or
apartment, house or part OF a house
or adjoining house or compartment,
on complaint of any person or per-
sons subjected to such offense or
danger shall be deemed guilty OF
nuisance, and any person subjected
to such nuisance may make COM
plant in person or writing to the
Health Officer of the Town of Gov
ington, setting forth the time, place
and manner, in which such nui-
bances complained OF has been COM
mitted, and it shall be the duty OF
said Health Officer to Immediately
investigate said complaint, and II 1t
appears that the nuisance complain
ed of is such as to cause Offense or
danger to any person occupying the
same room, apartment, house or part
of q house, he shall serve notice
on the person so complained of, re-
citing the alleged cause of offense or
danger, and requiring him to dis
pose Of his sputum, saliva or other
bodily secretion or excretiOn, In such
Q manner as to remove all such rea-
sonable cause of offense or danger. r.
Section 2. Any person who after
having been warned in the manner
set forth in section 1, shall upon
second offense be deemed guilty of
q misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton, be fined not more than $500,
or imprisoned more than thirty days,
or both, at the discretion Of the
Court.
Section 3. Any person afflicted
with tuberculosis of the lungs or
larnyx or any other disease whose
virus or injecting agent is contain
ed in the sputum, or other infectious
eecretions, shall not deposit his sput-
um, saliva or other infectious secre-
tions in such public place as to
cause offense or danger of contract
ing the disease to any other person
or persons. 1t shall be the duty Of
wit fMhorRn-
losis of the lungs or larnyx or any
other disease whose virus or infect
ing agent is contained In the sputum,
saliva or other infectious secretions
to provide himself with a suptum
flask or receptacle in which to de-
posit his sputum, saliva or other in
fectious secretion while travelling IN
any public conveyance or attending
any public place, and the contents
Of said flask or receptacle shall 4e
burned or otherwise thoroughly dis
infected.
Upon the complaint OF any re-
sponsible person the Health Off1cer
shall at once investigate the condi-
ton complained of, and if found dan
gerous or detrimental to the public
health. the Health Officer shall re-
port and enforce such orders as may
be covered by anti-spitting ordinanc-
es at present in force.
This ordinance shall be posted in
q conspicuous place in the rooms of
all boarding houses or hotels, and
restaurants, theatres, and other pub
lie places within the corporate limits
of the town of Covington, provided
that nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued to anywise abridge the rules
or regulations provided the estao-
lishment OF hotels or boarding houses
previously certified against tubercu-
lar occupants.
That this ordinance shall take ef-
feet from and after Its promulga-
ton.
Adopted Feb. IS, 1917.
P. J. LACRO1X,
Mayor.