The
Cortland Democrat, Friday,
April 29, 1887.
SANITARY
REGULATIONS.
Adopted
by the Board of Health of the Village of Cortland.
Nuisances defined. SECTION 1. Whatever is dangerous
to human life or health; whatever building, or part or cellar thereof, is
overcrowded or, not provided with adequate means of ingress and egress or is
not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, lighted or cleaned;
and whatever renders soil, air, water or food impure or unwholesome, is
declared to be a nuisance and to be illegal; and every person having aided in
creating or contributing to the same or who may support, continue or retain any
of them, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance, and shall
also be liable for the expense of the abatement or remedy required.
Privies, cess-pools, etc. § 2. No privy-pit, cess-pool or reservoir into which any privy, water-closet,
stable, link or other receptacle of refuse or sewage is drained, shall be
constructed or maintained in any situation or in any manner whereby, through
leakage or overflow of its contents, it may cause pollution of the soil near or
about habitations, or of any well, spring or other source of water used for
drinking or culinary purposes; nor shall the overflow from any such reservoir
or receptacle be permitted to discharge into any public place or in anywise whereby
danger to health may be caused. And every such pit, reservoir or receptacle shall
be cleaned and the contents thereof removed at such times and under such precautions
as The Board of Health may prescribe. Violation of any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of one dollar for each day's
continuance of the nuisance after due notice to abate it from an authorized
officer.
Sewers, drains, etc. § 3. All house sewers or drains for the conveyance of deleterious or
offensive matters shall be watertight, and the plans and methods of their construction
shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Health.
House-refuse, garbage, etc. § 4. No house-refuse, offal, garbage, dead animals, decaying vegetable
matter, or organic waste substance of any kind, shall be thrown upon any street,
road or public place, and no putrid or decaying animal or vegetable matter shall
be kept in any house, cellar or adjoining outbuilding for more than twenty-four
hours. Violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by
a fine of one dollar.
Filled-in or made land. § 5. No sunken places
shall be filled, nor made land constructed, with any materials containing an admixture
of putrescible animal or vegetable matter under a penalty of not less than one
dollar nor more than two dollars for each cartload, or part thereof, of such
materials deposited.
Noxious Trades. § 6. No person or
company shall erect or maintain any manufactory or place of business dangerous
to life or detrimental to health, or where unwholesome, offensive or
deleterious odors, gas, smoke, deposit or exhalations are generated, without
the permit of the Board of Health, and all such establishments shall be kept
clean and wholesome so as not to be offensive or prejudicial to public health; nor shall any offensive or deleterious waste
substance, gas-tar, sludge, refuse or injurious matter be allowed to accumulate
upon the premises or be thrown or allowed to run into any public waters,
stream, watercourse, street or public place. And every person or company
conducting such manufacture or business shall use the best approved and all
reasonable means to prevent the escape of smoke, gases and odors, and to
protect the health and safety of all operatives employed therein. Any violation
of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punishable by a fine of not
less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
Unwholesome Food. § 7. No meat, fish, bird, fruit, or vegetables, milk or anything for
human food or drink, not being then fresh or properly preserved, sound, wholesome and safe for such
use; nor any flesh of any animal which died by disease, or which was at the
time of its death in a sickly or unwholesome condition; nor the carcass of any
meat or calf which was at the date of its death less than four weeks old, or of
any lamb which was at the date of its death less than eight weeks old, or of
any pig which was at the date of its death less than five weeks old shall be
brought within the limits of this corporation, nor offered or held for sale as
food therein. Any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars and by the seizure and destruction
of such unsound, unwholesome or immature food substances.
Slaughter-houses, markets, etc.
§ 8. No person or persons, without the consent of the
Board of Health, shall build or use any slaughter-house within the limits of
this Corporation; and the keeping and slaughtering of all cattle, sheep and
swine, and the preparation and keeping of all meat, fish, birds, or other animal
food, shall be in the manner best adapted to secure and continue their
wholesomeness as food; and every butcher or other person owning, leasing or occupying
any place, room or building wherein any cattle, sheep or swine have been killed
or dressed, and every person being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room or
stable wherein any animals are kept, or of any market, public or private, shall
cause such place, room, building, stable or market, and their yards and
appurtenances, to be thoroughly cleansed and purified, and all offal, blood,
fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome and offensive matter to be removed therefrom
at least once in every twenty-four hours after the use thereof for any of the purposes
herein referred to, and shall also at all times keep all woodwork, save floors
and counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid thoroughly painted
or whitewashed ; and the floors of such building, place or premises shall be so constructed as to prevent blood or foul
liquids or washings from settling
in the earth beneath. Any violation of any of the provisions of this ordnance
shall be punished by a fine of five dollars for each day's continuance or
repetition of the offense.
Notification of infectious
disease. § 9. Every householder or head of family in a house
wherein any case of infectious disease may occur shall report the same to the Board of Health or to the Health Officer within twenty-four hours from
the time of his or her first knowledge of the nature of such disease and, until
instructions are received from the said Board or the Health Officer, shall not
permit any clothing or other article which may have been exposed to infection
to be removed from the house; nor shall any occupant change his residence elsewhere
without the consent of the said Board or Health Officer.
Every physician who may be
called to attend a case of infectious disease shall, as soon as he discovers
the nature thereof, make a written report specifying the name and residence of
the patient, the nature of the disease, and any other facts relating thereto
which he may deem important to the public health, and affix the date and sign
his name thereto, and he shall hand such report to the householder or head of family
as aforesaid, who shall thereupon become responsible for its transmission to the
Board of Health within twenty-four hours as above provided. The diseases to be
thus promptly reported are: Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, and small-pox.
Any violation of any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be punished
by a fine of five dollars.
Importation
of infected persons and things. § 10. No person
or article liable to propagate a
dangerous disease shall be brought within
the limits of this corporation unless
by the special permit and direction of the Board of Health and any one having knowledge that such person or article has been brought within such limits
shall immediately notify
the said Board thereof. Any
violation of any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than ten dollars.
Exposure of infected persons or
things. § 11. No person shall, within the limits of this
corporation, unless by permit of the Board of Health, carry or remove from
one building to another any patient affected with any contagious
or infectious disease. Nor shall any person by an exposure of any individual
so affected, or of the body of such individual, or of any article
capable of conveying contagion or infection, or by any negligent
act connected with the care or custody thereof, or by a needless
exposure of himself or herself, cause or contribute to the spread
of disease from say such individual or dead body. Any violation of any
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not
less than five dollars.
Funerals after infectious diseases.
§ 12. There shall not be a public or church funeral of any person who has
died of Asiatic cholera, small-pox or typhus fever, without the permit of the
Board of Health therefore; and the family of the deceased shall in all cases limit
the attendance to as few as possible, and take all necessary precaution to
prevent the exposure of other persons to contagion or infection. Any violation
of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not
more than five dollars.
Infectious diseases of animals.
§13. No animal affected with an infectious or
contagious disease shall be brought or kept within the limits of this
corporation, except by the permission of the Board of Health; and the bodies of
animals dead of such disease or killed on account thereof, shall not be buried within
five hundred feet of any residence, nor disposed of otherwise than as the said
Board or its Health Officer shall direct. Any violation of any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not less than five
dollars.
Reports of marriages and
deaths. § 14. It shall be the duty of the minister or
magistrate officiating in every marriage and of the physician in attendance at
the birth of every child to make sure that the prescribed report of such
marriage or birth is presented to the registering office of the Board of Health
within ten days under a penalty of five dollars for failure to do so; and for each
ten days of continued neglect to present such report after the expiration of
the first ten days an additional penalty of five dollars shall be incurred.
Certificates of death and
burial permits. § 15. Every undertaker who may have charge of the
funeral of any dead person or furnisher who only supplies the casket
shall procure a properly filled-out certificate of the death and
its probable cause in accordance with the form prescribed by the State
Board of Health, and shall present the same to the Registrar of the
Board of Health and obtain a burial permit and when necessary a
transit permit also thereupon at least twenty-four hours before the time
appointed for such funeral; and he shall not remove any dead body
until such burial permit shall have been procured. Any violation of any
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of
not less than ten dollars.
Sextons, cemetery keepers, etc § 10 Every person who acts as sexton, or undertaker, or cemetery keeper,
within the limits of this corporation, or has the charge or care of any tomb,
vault, burying ground or other place for the reception of the dead, or where the
dead bodies of any human beings are deposited, shall so conduct his business and
so care for any such place above named, as to avoid detriment or danger to
public health; and every person undertaking preparations for the burial of a
body dead from contagious or infectious disease as hereinbefore enumerated
shall adopt such precautions as the Board of Health may prescribe to prevent the
spread of such disease. Any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars.
Coroners' inquests. §
17. Before the holding of any inquest within this corporation the coroner who
may intend to hold such inquest shall notify the Board of Health or the Health
Officer of the place where the body is; what is reported to have been the
cause, place and date of death where the body has since been; when and where the proposed inquest
is to be held; and, if known, what physician attended the deceased person within
forty-eight hours of such decease. And within twenty-four hours after the
termination of such inquest such coroner shall cause to be transmitted to the Registrar
of the Board of Health a certificate according to the form prescribed by the
State Board of Health, supplying the date therein required to the best of his
information and belief. Any violation of any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be punished by a fine of five dollars
Penalties. § 18. Every person who willfully violates or refuses to comply with, or
who resists any ordinance, order, regulation or resolution of the Board of
Health of this corporation will be liable to the arrest, action, penalty, fine
and punishment provided and declared in chapter 270 of the laws of 1885, of
which notice must be taken. Signed,
J. F. WHEELER, Pres.,
Dr. MOORE, Sec.,
SAMUEL FREEMAN,
W. B. KNAPP,
DR. J. W. HUGHES, Health Officer.
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