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6 M PUBLIC HEALTH. The Proposed Ordinance for the Regula tion of the Sanitary Affairs of St. Panl. At a meeting of the Board of Health daring last June, a committee, consisting of the President of the Board, the City En gineer and the City Attorney, was ap pointed for the purpose of revising the health and sanitary code, etc . , of the city of St. Paul. As the result of their labor the following ordinance of sanitary rules, etc., was submitted to the Board at a recent . meeting, accepted and referred to the Common Council for official action. An ordinance creating a Board of Health and defining their powers and duties. The Common Council of the City of Saint Paul do ordain as follows: Sec. 1. That there is hereby established a Board of Health as follows: The Presi dent of the Council shall at the first meet ing of the Council in June in each year appoint four aldermen who together with the City Engineer and a Health Officer as hereinafter provided shall constitute a Board of Health. Sec. 2. On the first meeting of the Common Council in the month of June of each alternate year, shall be appointed one Health Officer, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall take the usual oath of office and give bond with security to the satisfaction of the Com mon Council in the sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, and shall receive such co upeusation as the Conncil may deLermine,notto exceed one thousand dollars. Sec. 3. A majority of the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for business. The Board of Health shall meet at 5 o'clock p. m. ou the Monday preceding the first Council meeting of each month, in the Council chamber at the City Hall, at which meeting the Health Officer shall preside. Sec. 4. Special meetings may be called by the President of the Board of Health when he may deem it necessary. Sec. 5. The City Clerk shall be secre tary of the Board of Health. Sec. 6. The Board of Health shall exer cise a general supervision over the health of the city, with full power to take all steps and use ah measures necessary to promote the cleanliness and salubrity thereof; to prevent the introduction into the city of malignant, contagious or in fectious diseases, and to remove or other wise take care of any person attacked by any such disease, and to adopt in reference to such persons any regulations, restrictions or measures deem ed advisable and to establish rules for the government of the city pest house and quarantine hospital. Sec. 7. The Health Officer shall have and exercise a general supervision over the sanitary condition of the city. Sec. 8. He shall give the Mayor, the Common Council and the Board of Health all such professional advice and informa tion as they may require, with a view to the preservation of the public health, and whenever he shall hear of the existence of any malignant, contagious, or pestilen tial disease, he shall investigate the same and adopt measures to arrest its progress. Sec. 9. It shall be the further duty of " the Health Officer to enforce all the laws of the state and ordinances of the city in rela tion to the sanitary regulations of the city, and causa all nuisances to be abated with all reasonable promptness. And for the pur f pose of carrying out the foregoing re . quirements lie shall be permitted at all times, from the rising to the setting of the sun, to ©nt-jr into any house, store, stable or other building, and to cause the floors to be raised, if he shall deem it necessary, in order to a thorough examination of cel lars, vaults, sinks or drains, and to cause all privies to be cleansed and kept in good condition, and to cause all dead animals or other nauseous or unwholesome things or substances to be buried or removed or disposed of as the Health Officer may direct. Sec. 10. In order to the carrying out of the provisions of the foregoing section, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer to serve or causa to be served a notice, iv writing, upon the owner, occupant or agent of any lot, building or premises in or upon which any nuisance may be found or who may be the owner or cause of any such nuisance requiring them to abate the same in such manner as he shrill prescribe and within the time named in said notice, provided that it shall not be necessary in any ease for the Health Officer to specify in his notice the manner in which any nuisance shall be abated, unless he shall deem it advisable so to do; and such notice may be given or served by any officer or person who may be directed or deputed to give or make the same; and if such owner, occupant or agent shall neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of such order within the time specified, they shall be subject to the penalty hereinafter de scribe!, and it shall bo the duty of said officer to proceed at once, upon the ex piration of tne time specified in said j notice, to cause such nuisance to be abat- i ed; and provided, further, that whenever the owner, occupant or agent of premises, in or upon which any nuisance may be found, is unknown or cannot be found, the j said Health Officer shall proceed to abate* the same without notice; aud in either case the expense of such abatement shall be collected from the person or persons who may have created, continued aud suf fered such nuisance to exist. Sec. 11. The Health Officer shall have the power to appoint with the onsent of (he Board of Health and approval of Com mon Council such assistance as may be necessary to enforce the sanitary laws and ordinances of the City of St. Paul. Said assistants shall be known as Assistant Health Inspectors. They shall be commissioned and qualify as special policemen and shall have the power to arrest, when necessary, any per son violating any of the sanitary laws or regulations of said city. Said Assistant Health Inspectors shall be under the supervision of the Health Officer and shall obey all orders from him or from the Board of Health through him. They shall report daily to the Health Officer in person and shall present to said Health Officer at the end of each month a written report of their labor during that month in such a manner as he may direct. Sec. 12. The Health Officer shall have the power to remove at any time any Assistant Health Inspector, person or persons who may be in the employ of the Board of Health, or cause to be revoked the license of any scavenger whenever through disobedience of orders or other i misdemeauors, or whenever he considers it to the advantage of the Health Department to do so. Sec. 13. That the Health Officer shall, at the end of each month, submit to the Board . of Health a full report, comprising every thing connected with the working of the department during the month. That at I the end of each official year the Health Officer shall report to the Board of Health, ; the Mayor and the Common Council, a full I "and concise statement of the eioings of the Health Department, in classified and tabu lar form, comprising the reports of the . .mortuary tables, financial report and, a •'■■:■ full statement of the sanitary condition of ! the city, together with any special observa § tions, recommendations or facts that he .•..may present that would be conducive to the health and improved sanitary condi tion of the city. .Sec 14. It shall be the farther duty of the Health officer to visit and examine or cause to have visited and examined, all sick persons who shall be reported to him as laboring or supposed to be laboring under any yellow or ship fever, small-pox, cholera, or any infections or pestilential disease and cause all such infected per sons to be removed to the pest house or to such other safe and proper place as he may think proper not exceeding three miles from said city, and cause them to be provided with suitable nurses and medical attendance at their own expense if they are able to pay for the same, but if not, then at the expense of the city . Sec. 15. The Health officer shall have charge of the city quarantine or small-pox hospital and shall have power to employ such assistants and nurses as he may deem necessary and it shall be his duty to see that said hospitals are supplied with suita ble furniture, nourishment, fuel and med icines, and that persons dying therein or in other places under the charge of the city, are decently and promptly buried at the expense of the city, provided such deceased persons have not the means to defray their own ex penses of sickness or burial. Sec. 16. In case of pestilence or epi demic disease, or of danger from antici pated or impending pestilence or epidemic disease, or tit case the sanitary condition of the city should be of such a character as to warrant it. it shall be the duty of the said Health Officer to take such measures and to do and order and cause to be done such acts for the preservation of the public health (thong not herein or elsewhere or otherwise authorized) as he may in good faith dedai the public safety and health to demand . Sec. 17. The Health Officer may take such measures as he may from time to time deem necessary to prevent the spread of the small-pox by issuing an order re quiring all persons in the city or any part thereof, requiring vaccination, to be vac cinated within such time as he shall pro scribe; and a 1 persons refusing or neglecting to obey such order shall be liable to the penalty here inafler specified. Provided, that it shall be the duty of the Health Officer to pro vide for the v«..cmation of such persons as are unable to pay for the same, at the expense of the city. Sec. 18. He shall have power to cause any house or any premises to be clear, < ,!. disinfected, or closed to visitors, and pre vent persons from iesorting thereto while I any person is labor. under any pesti lential or infectious disease; he may by an order in writing, direct any nuisance to be abated, or unwholesome matter or sub stance, dirt or filth, to be removed from any house or premises, and may prescribe the time and mode of doing so, and take any other measures he may deem neces sary and proper to prevent the spread of any infectious, pestilential or epidemic disease. Sec. 19. Said Health Officer whenever and at such times as by him it shall be deemed necessary, may by proclamation (the approval of the Com mon Council being first had and obtained) require all b»ate, vessels, railroad cars or other public conveyances bound for this city, befo.e the same shall land or stop at any wharf, depot or landing, or stop ping place therein, to touch or stop at any or either of the sites, places or boundaries so selected and established for quarantine purposes and leave all such emigrants, travelers or persons, and all such sick, dis eased or unclean persons with their stores aud baggage, as in the opinion of the offi cers stationed at such quarantine sites, places or boundaries shall be deemed proper, on account of the existence or gen eral report of cholera, ship fever or any contagious disease, or disease apprehended, to endanger the health of the city. Sec. 20. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary to issue such proclamation^ shall be the duty of the said Health Officer to send the same, together with the substance of the regulations for quarantine, and the period for which the same shall be in force, unless sooner revoked, to Chicago, St. Louis, Fargo, Dnluth, Milwau kee, Stillwater, Sioux City, Minne apolis and such other cities and places as by him shall be deemed proper. Sec. 21. He shall also cause to be sta tioned at such quarantine sites, places and boundaries as he may deem advisable one or more physicians or assistant health in Bpector, whose duty it shall be to go on board and examine all boats, vessels, cars or other public conveyances, so as afore said required to touch or stop at said quar antines respectively, and then and there determine what emigrants, passengers or persons (if any) shall be permitted to come to the city, and what emigrants, pas sengers or persons (if any) shall stop at such quarantine; and it shall be the duty of all persons conducting or in charge of any such vessel, boat, car or public convey ance, to aid and assist any such physician or health officer in the exercise of his duties. Sec. 22. Said physician or assistant health inspector shall attend to all sick persons who may be landed or placed in quarantine, and provide medicines and necessaries for their use, °.nd shall have general supervision of such quarantines and compel persons therein to purify their bodies, clothes and baggage, and .do all such acts and things as shall be proper in the premises, keeping correct accounts of all expenditures and wages which shall be allowed and paid by order of the Board of Health. Sec. 23. Whenever the physician or officer in charge of any quarantine station or place as aforesaid, shall, upon examina tion, be satisfied that there is no longer occasion for the detention of any boat, vessel, car or conveyance at such qearan tine or place, and such boat, vessel, car or conveyance shall have been thoroughly cleansed, and such persons as aforesaid landed and placed in the care of such physici n or officer, such physician or offi cer shall give such vessel, boat, car or con veyance a permit signed by bim, to enter the city, which shall be ample authority for the entry of said boat, vessel, car or conveyance, and the said officers, respect ively, 6hall discharge all persons in quar antine by their certificate for that purpose, whenever they are satisfied that such per sons are free of disease and their baggage and effects properly purified; provided,how ever, that the Health officer in his discre tion by proclamation for that purpose may, during the prevalence of cholera, ship fever or other contagioHs or fatal dis eases, forbid the admission of emigrants or others peculiarly liable thereto, into any or all of said quarantines or stations until, in his opn ion, the health of the city will justify the same. Sec. 24. It shall be the duty of the said Health Officer, whenever by him it shall be deemed necessary, to keep at the quaran tine station or stations a sufficient police force, whose duty it shall be to enforce all regulations by this chapter required, or by said Health Officer to be established, and to arrest all persons violating said regula tions or committing any breaches of the peace and bring such person before any court having jurisdiction, for trial, and to arrest and hold for trial all persons dis obeying, or interfering with, or resisting any physician, Health Officer or other per son iv authority at such quarantine site or station. Sec. 24. In case nny boat, vessel, car or public conveyance shall leave any quarantine station, place or boundary, without a permit as aforesaid, or shall fail to stop at the same, when so, as aforesaid ■ — » ■«-■ m Tfc-Jl V n ■ : I a ..*-*. ju ...^. ...-.■■- i | | thest;paul^M required by the issuing of the said proc lamation, or whenever the person in charge thereof, or any person under his command shall fail or refuse to obey any regulation or command of the said Health Officer, physician or person in charge of any quarantine station or place, or of any provision or requirement of this chapter, the said Health Officer shall have the power and it is hereby made his duty, if in his opinion the health of the city requires it, to send sufficient police force to such boat, vessel, car or public conveyance, and cause the same, with the crew and passengers on board, to be landed or stopped, or con veyed to the quarantine station or place, and there to remain until properly dis charged by the permit aforesaid; and the owner, master, or the person in charge of any such boat, vessel, car or public con veyance, shall be liable to the ciiy for all expenses and costs incurred by reason thereof. If any emigrant, traveler, or person so placed in quarantine as afore said shall leave the same without permis sion as aforesaid he may be arrested and taken back to said quarantine and there retained until such permission shall be given. Sec. 26. The said Health Officer shall make such rules and regulations for the government of the quarantine or health of the city as from time to time he shall deem necessary; and the physicians or Health Officers in charge of any quaran tine station or place shall have power to make and enforce such regulations as may be necessary for the proper conducting and management thereof; and it shall be the duty of all persons in quarantine and all agents, officers, policemen or others em ployed by the city in and about said quarantine stations or places to carry out and obey the sam 9. Sec. 27. The said Health Officer by and with the approval of the Board of Health may appoint one or more competent physi cians as quarantine physicians, who shall be present at such quarantine stations as the said Health Officer shall designate and attend to all the duties imposed by this chapter or by the regulations of said Health Officer, and who shall receive, each, for actual service ren dered and for such time as such services shall be actually required, not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars per day, to be allowed by the said Health Officer; also, the said Health Officer may employ such agents, servants, nurses or temporary medical assistants for the purpose of car rying into effect the object and intent of this chapter or any regulation as in his judgment shall from time to time be nec essary, or authorize the employment there- of by the physicians or health officers in charge of any quarantine or station. Sec. 28. All the salaries, wages and ex penses in this article contemplated are to be audited arid allowed by the said Health Officer, and when bo allowed are to be paid out of the fund set apart for quar antine purposes, or in case of necessity out of the treasury of the city; provid ed that when practicable the persons taken in such quarantine or stations and receiving the aid and care afforded thereby shall each pay a sum of money sufficient to meet all expense, labo r and care.incur red in their behalf, which said money shall be failhfully kept, reported and ac counted for by the physician, assistant health inspector or other person in charge of said quarantine or station to the said Health Officer. And all other expenses to be incurred by reason of this chapter or of any regulation of Baid Health Officer shall be paid out of the fund set apart for quarantine purposes, or, when necessary, out of the general fund of the city. Sec. 29. No person, master, captain or conductor in charge of any boat, vessel railroad car or public conveyance, shall knowingly bring into this city any person or persons diseased of cholera, small-pox ship fever or contagious or communicable disease whatsoever; and no vessel, boat railroad car or public conveyance at any time covered by the said proclamation, shall pass by any quarantine station or place, without stopping, nor shall leave the same without the permit aforesaid; and no person stopping in said quarantine or so as aforesaid received therein, shall leave the same without first obtaining permission as aforesaid, n-?r shall any person aid or abet any master, conductor <•.'- person in charge of any boat, vessel, railroad car or public conveyance: in violating, neglecting or evading any provision or requirement of this chapter; nor shall any person interfere with, resist,' neglect or refuse to obey the orders of any physician or other person in authority at any quarantine station or place of quaran tine so as aforesaid established, nor el.;> any act or thing in violation of or in diso bedience to any of the provisions,clauses or sections of this chapter; nor shall commit any breach of the peace or do any act calculated in anyway to defeat or interfere with the provisions or requirements of this chapter or of any regulation of the said Health Officer, physician or officer in bharge of any quarantine Sec. 30. The moneys appropriated to the quarantine fund shall be faithfully ap plied by the said Health Officer to the true objects and purposes of its appropriation, and the said Health Officer shall make reports of his doings and expenditures to the City Council whenever requested so to do. Sec. 31. Any master of a vessel, con due-tor, captain, or person whatsoever, who shall violate auy clause, provision, require meat, duty or regulation of this chapter, or of any rule or regulation of the said Health Officer, ph> sician, or person in charge of any quarantine, or who shall fail or neglect to comply with any such clause, provision, requirement, duty or or ders, or who shall interfere with or in any manner resist any officer or agent of the city in the discharge of his duty as herein contemplated, or who 6hall commit any breach of the peace or be guilty of any act or thing calculated to defeat or inter rupt the carrying into effect any part of this chapter or any regulation of the Board of Health, shall, on conviction, be li able to the penalty hereinafter provided. Sec. 32. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to mike a circuit of obser vation once in every mouth to every part of the city and its environs, which from its location or from any col lateral circumstances, may be deemed the cause of disease, and in all cases where he may discover the existence of any agent, the presence of which . will prove danger ous to the health of the city, and there is no ordinance competent to the correction of the evil, he shall immediately report the j same to the City Council, accompanied with his opinion of the uece.-sity of extra ordinary or particular action. Sec. 33. The Health Officer by and with the approval of the Common Council, may select, purchase} lease aud establish such site, places and boundaries for quarantine stations and purposes, and With the ap proval of said Council may erect from time to time such buildings and hospitals > upon such sites and places, and so keep j the same in repair as in his judgment ! shall be deemed necessary. Sec. 34 It shall bo the duty of the ; Board of Health to provide tho necessary oooks far keeping a record of all transac- ' tions of said department, including the proper registration of bir'tis and i deaths and such other statistical information necessary for efficient . working of said department, ! and they shall also keep on hand all neces sary blanks to be used by phj sician* and midwives, and furnish them with the same on application. ..--.. j Sec. 35. Said Health Officer shall al- j ways have on hand as far as practicable a sufficient quantity of valine virus; and he shall vaccinate and revaccinate all per sons who may apply to him for that pur pose; and shall give certificates of vaccin ation to children who have been vaccinated, and require such certificates for admission to the public schools. BIBTBS, DEATHS AND MABBIAGES. Sec. 36. That every clergyman, magis trate and other person who may perform a marriage ceremony shall make and keep a registry of the marriage celebrated, and therein enter the full name of the parties married and the residence, age and con dition of each; and every physician, mid wife and other person who may profes sionally assist or advise at any birth, shall make and keep a registry of every such birth and therein enter the time and place, ward and street of said birth and the sex, and color of the child born, and the name and residence of each of the parents so far as the foregoing facts can be ascertained, and every physician and professional ad viser who has attended any person at a last illness or has been present by request at the death of any person, shall make and preserve a registry of such death, stating the cause thereof, and specifying the date, hour, place and street of such death. Sec. 37. That it shall be the duty of every person mentioned in the last section (or required to make or keep any suoh register), to present to the said Board of Health a copy of such register, sighed by such person or a written statement by him signed of all the facts in said register required to be entered within five days after the birth or marriage, and within thirty-six hours after the death of any per son to whom such registry may or shall re late. PHTSICIANS, CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, BOABDING HOUSE KEEPEES, ETC. Sec. 38. That ,the word physician shall include dentists and every other person who practices about the cure of the sick or injured, or who has the charge of or professionally prescribes for compensation, for any per son sick, injured or diseased; that the phrase "contageous disease" shall be held to include all persons sick, affected or attack ed by or of a disease of infectious, conta gious or pestilental nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by this Board dangerous to the public health: and every physician in said City of St. Paul shall at all times cause his or her name, office and residence and also his or her kind and class of practice to be register ed with this Board and in a manner according to its regulations. Sec. 39. That every physician shall re port to the Health Officer of the City of St. Paul iv writing every person having a contagious or infectious disease, such as cholera, yellow fever, scarlet fever, typhus fever, typhoid fever, small-pox, varioloid, diphtheria, measles, or any of the grades of such diseases (and the state of his or her disease End his or her place of dwell ing and name if known) which such physi cian has prescribed for or attended for the first time since having such disease during any part of the preceding twenty-four hours; but not more than one report shall be required ia one week concerning the same person; bat every at tending or practicing physician thereat must at his peril see that such report is or has been made by some attending physi cian. Sec. 40. That it shall be the duty of each and every practicing physician iv the city to report in writing to the Health Officer the death of auy of his patients **;; shall have died in said city of contagions or in fections diseases within twenty-four hours thereafter, and to state in such report tho specific name and typo if such disease. Sec. 41. That every keeper ,> v ' every boarding house or lodging house mil ovary inn keeper and hotel keeper fhall within twenty four hours report in writing to the Health Officer the same particulars in the last section required of any physician con cerning any person being at any of the afordsaid houses or hotels nd attacked with any contagion- disease. Sec. 42 That tho commissioner, mana ger, principal or other proper head officer of .' each and every public or private institution in said city, shall ones in each week report in writing (or eau 5a each report by some proper person to be made once in each week) to tho Health Officer and state there in the name, if known, and condition and disease of any and every person being thereat and sick of any contagious dis ease. Sec. 43. That it shall be the duty of every person knowing of any individual in said city, sick of any contagions dis ease, (where such person shall have reason to regard Bach individual as neglected or not properly cared for, and to avoid, giv ing said disease to others), and the duty of every physician hearing of any such sick person, who he shall have reason to think requires the attention of the Depart ment of Health, to at once report the Facts to the said Department of Health in re gard to the disease, condition and dwelling place or position of such sick person. Sec. 44. That the keepers, lessees, ten ants aud owners of every boarding house and lodging house, shall, within six hoars after the facts shall come to his cr he or their knowledge, notify the Health Officer iv writing of the fact of any man or person lately from any steamboat or vessel, being taken sick at such house, and shall in such notice state where such sick person may be foneid, and from what vessel and when he came, to the best of the knowledge of the person or persons giving such notice. Sec. 45. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to cause a notice to be placed upon or near any house in' which any person be affected or sick with any disease named or provided for in section (39) thirty nine of this ordinance; upon which shall be written or printed the name of such diseases, and no person or persons shall remove, defacs, mutilate or interfere in any way with the purpose of said notice without permission from the Health Offi cer. Sec. 46. Upon the death of any person affected or sicK with any disease named or provided for in section thirty-nine of this ordinance, the following regulations must be observed in all cases except as hereinaf ter provided: The remains of said person must be thoroughly disinfected and be exposed to the view of no one except those absolutely necessary in pre paring the body for burial, and be placed in a hearse which mast not be accompa nied by more than two vehicles and shall be taken directly from the place of death to the place of burial. Provided this section is not to be applied to death from typhoid fever or measles. Sec. 47. When funeral obsequies are desired in any death from any contagious or infectious disease, except typhoid fever and measles, the Health Officer shall grant a permit for that purpose, subject to the following conditions: That the body be placed in a metallic cas ket which shall be hermetically sealed at once and shall not be opened afterwards. That the room containing same shall be fumigated with sulphur for at least six hours before the funeral takes place and then disinfected with approved disinfect ants such as are not injurious to furniture or weanug apparel. Tnat this shall be done under the personal supervision of an officer from the Health department who shall be detailed for that purpose by the Health Officer aud whose directions shall be obevedl Sec. 48 The burial of any person who may die of any of the diseases named or provided for in section thirty nine of this ordinance, must take place j within twenty-four hours after such death, ! and when practicable should . take place in : the night. Provided that this section is not !to be applied to deaths from typhoid fever or measles. Sec. 49. That every master and chief officer of any vessel, and every physician of or who practiced on any vessel which shall arrive at any dock or wharf in the city from any other port, shall at once re port to the department of health the par ticulars of any infected person er article on such vessel or that came thereon, which he has reason to think may endanger the public health of this city. Sec. 50. That every master, charterer, owner, part owner, and consignee of any vessel or of the cargo thereof, which shall be in the waters of said city, unless de tained in quarantine, shall at once give or cause to be given to the Health Depart ment written notice of any infected article or person, and of every person sick of a contagious disease being or having within ten days been on board said vessel ; and also of each and every fact and thing relative to said vessel, sick person or cargo or to the crew of said vessel which any of the first-mentioned persons shall have reason to think may be useful for this department to know or be or become dangerous or prejudicial to life or health in said city. Sec. 51. That no person shall bring to any dock, wharf or building within one thousand feet thereof in said city or un load at any dock, building or pier therein or have on storage in said city any skins, hides, rags or similar articles or materials having been brought from any infected place without or otherwise than according to a written permit so to do from the de partment of health, and no person shall sell, exchange or in any. way make any ex posure of any straw, bedding or articles that have been exposed to any contagions disease or are liable to communicate such disease till after the same have been ade quately cleansed or disinfected. Sec. 52. That no captain, officer, con signee, owner, or other person in charge of any vessel (having right and authority to prevent the same) shall remove or aid in removing from any vessel to the shore (save as legally authorized by the depart ment of health and into quarantine grounds or building only) any person sick of or that has been exposed to and is lia ble very soon to develop any contagious disease, nor so remove or aid in removing any articles that have been exposed to the contagion of any such disease except in accordance with a permit of said depart ment or with its special regulations. Ses. 53, That no person shall bring into this city from any infected place or from any vessel or building in which had lately been any person sick of a contagious disease, any article or per son whatsoever, nor shall any such person come into said city without a permit of the department of health, and it shall be no excuse that such person or article so offending or the occasion of offence has passed through quarantine, or has a per mit from any other source than the said department. Sec. 54, That no person shall within the city, without a permit from the Health Officer, carry or remove from one building to another or from any vessel to the shore any person sick of any contagious disease. Nor shall auy person by any exposure of any individual sick of any contagious dis ease, or of the body of such person, cr by any negligent act connected therewith, or in respect of the cure or custody thereof or by a needless exposure of himself, cause or contribute to or promote the spread of disease from any such person or from any dead body. Sec. 55. That upon death or convales cence of any person or persons affected or sick with any of the diseases named or provided for ia section thirty-nine of this ordinance, the Health Officer shall at once ciuse the room or rooms used by — or those in the immediate vicinity of said person or persons, together with contents of said room or rooms to be thoroughly disinfect ed, cleansed, fumigated, or whatever in his discretion may be deemed necessary in order to prevent a further epreati of the disease, even in extreme cases to destroy ing ed contents of said rooms. All this to be done at the expence of the owner, when hi or she is able, and when he or she is not, ti;en at the expense of th.; city. Sec. 56. That no person or persons who have been affected or sick with tiny of the diseases named and provided for in sec tion thirty-nine of this ordinance who have be«a quarantined or isolated in any place \4 iiiu the jurisdiction of the city of St. Paul, cr placed in tho small-pox hospital bj 'he Health Department of the city of S . Paul, shall be allowed to leave such quarantine or small-pox hospital without permission of the Health Officer. Sic 57. That no child or minor from any house where any person or persons is sietu: or affected with any of the diseases n. ued or provided for in section thirty n:,.3of this ordinance, except typhoid fever, shall attend any public or private school in this city until tho recovery or deal hof said sick person or persons, and hi .-ither event th aforesaid child or minor si -1 bo provided with a writted statement b\ the attending physician, if any. and if ne. .■-. then by the Health Officer certifying j to their non-contagiousness, which state ment must be presented to the principal oi eanher of said public or private school before said child or minor will be allowed te urn . Sec. 58. I: shall be the duty of all phy si- ms, noon discovery of any contagious j or infectious disease, except typhoid fever, to .struct the parents or guardians of any child or minor who may be residing at the j infected premises, of the provisions of the | above section. And it shall be the duty of ; an-, principal or teacher of any public or ! private school in the city, to report at one to the Health Office in writing, any violation of the above section. INT2BMENT3 . Sec. 59. That whenever any person Bhail die within the city of St. Paul, it shall be the duty of the physian attending such person daring his or her last sick ness, or of the coroner of the city when the case comes under his official notice, to furnish and deliver to the undertaker, or other person superintending the ourial of said deceased person, a certificate duly signed, setting forth, as far as the same may be ascertained, the name, age, color, sex. nativity (giving state or county), oc cupation, whether married or single, dura tion of residence in the city of St. Paul, cause, date and place of death (giving street and number), and duration of last sickness of 6aid deceased person. And it shall be the duty of the undertaker or other person in charge of the burial of said deceased person, to forward it to the Health Officer within twenty-four hours after such death. Provided, That in case of death from any infectious or contagious disease, said certificate shall be so made and forwarded within twelve hours there after* Sec. 60. That no interment or disinter ment of the dead body of any human be ing, or disposition thereof in any tomb, vault or cemetery, shall be made within the city of St. Paul without a permit there for granted by the Board of Health of said city, nor otherwise than in accordance therewith. And no sexton or other person shall assist in or Assent or allow any such interment or disinterment to be made un til such permit shall be given as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of every sexton or ether person having charge of any bury ing ground, cemetery, tomb or vault, as aforesaid, who shall receive any such per mit, to preserve and return the same to the Health Officer, together with a full report on blanks which will be furnished him for that purpose at the end of every month, and no sexton, undertaker or other person shall bury or cause to be buried the body of any deceased person within the city of St. Paul, except in such grounds as are now known and used as burial grounds, or such as shall hereafter be by law desig nated and authorized to be used as such. Sec. 61. That no dead body, or part of the dead body of any human being shall be in any manner carried or conveyed from, in, to, or through the city of St. Paul by any person or by means of any boat, ves sel, car, stage or other veh.cle, or by any public or private conveyance without a permit therefor first granted by the Board of Health of said city, Provided, That the same effect may be given by said board to a burial, or transit permit issued by the proper authority of any other place or jurisdiction when the death of the person named in the permit shall have occurred within such place or jurisdiction. Sec. 62. That whenever a permit for burial is applied for, in case of death with out the attendance of a physician, or if it be impossible to obtain a physician's cer tificate, it shall be the duty of the health officer to investigate the cause and circum stances of such death, to make and sign the certificate required by section fifty nine of this ordinance, and if not satisfied as to the cause and circumstances of such death, he shall refer the case to the coroner of the city for investigation and report,and said coroner is hereby required to make such investigation and report. Sec. 63. That it shall be the duty of 6very physician, accoucher, midwife, un dertaker, sexton or superintendent of any cemetery, or person having charge of the same, practicing medicine or doing busi ness within the city of St. Paul to register his or her name in a book or books to be provided for such purpose at the office of the Board of Health of said city, giving full name, residence and place of business, and in case of removal from one place to another in said city, to make change in said register accordingly. ' VACCINATION. Sec. 64. That every person being the parent, or guardian, or having the care, custody or control of any minor or other individual, shall (to the extent of any means, power and authority of said parent, guardian or other person that could prop erly be used or exerted for such purpose,) cause and procure such minor or individ ual to be so promptly, frequently and effectively vaccinated that such minor or individual shall not take or be liable to take the. small-pox. Sec. 65. That no parent, master or cus todian of any child or minor (having the power and authority to prevent) shall per mit any such child or minor to be unneces sarily exposed, or to needlessly expose any other person to tho taking, or to the in fection of any contagious disease. Sec. 66. That no principal of any school and no principal or teacher of any private sectarian or other school shall admit to any such school ary child or minor who shall not have been vaccinated within seven years next preceding the admission or application for admission to auy such school of such child or minor; or shall any such principal or teacher retain in or per mit to attend any such school any such child or minor who shall not have been vaccinated within seven his next pre ceding the taking effect of this article.' Sec. 67. The evidence of such vaccina tion to be presented to any such principal or teacher, as is mentioned in the preced ing section, shall be a certificate signed by the Health Officer or any physician duly licensed by the state board of examiners. Sec. 68. The Health Officer is hereby empowered to visit any and all public and private schools in the city, and to make or cause to be made au examination of the children and minors in attendance therein as often as he may dee n necessary to se cure compliance with the provisions hereof. See-. 69. Any principal of a public school, or principal or teacher of any private or other school who shall violate any of the provisions of section sixty-six of this ordinance, or shall in any way pre vent or attempt to prevent the Health Officer from exercising the power con ferred on him by section sixty-eight of this ordinance, shall be upon conviction liable to the penalty hereinafter described. NUISANCES. See. 70. That no person shall suffer or permit any cellar, vault, private drain, cess-pool,privy or sewer, upon any premises belonging to cr occupied by him or her within the limits of the city of St. Paul, to become nauseous, offensive or injurious to the public health. Sec. 71. No distiller, tanner, brewer, soap boiler, tallow chand ler. meat packer, dyer, livery stable keeper, housekeeper or other person shall discharge out of or permit to flow from their still house, tannery, brewery, manu factory, shop, pricking house, stable, or other place any foul or nauseous lieiuors, slops or substance whatever into any pri vate ground, street, lane or public ground within said city. Sec. '._'. No soap toiler, tallow chandler, candle or oil maker or other person shall keep or use, or cause to bo kept or used, any stale, putrid or stinking fat, grease or meat; nor shall any. person keep for more than twenty-four hours any undressed lades, except at the place where the same are to be manufactured. Sec. 73. No o.vucr or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandlery, shop, soap factory, tannery, brewery, distillery, pork or beef packing house, stable or barn snail suffer the same to become foul, nauseus or offensive Sec. 74. No owner or possessor of any animal which shall have died, shall suffer the same to lie on any public ground, street, lane, alloy or any private lot or place within this city; nor shall any per son throw or leave any such animal, or any vegetables or de cayed nnimal matter or any slops or filth whatever, solid or fluid, into any pool of water in said city. Sec. 75. No owner or occupant of any lot or tenement shall cause or permit any nuisance to be or remain in or upon any lot or tenement, or between the same and the center of the street ad joking. Sec. 76. If any person within the limits of the city of St. Paul, shall permit or suffer on his, her or their premises, or on premises of which he, she or they may be the occupant or occupants, any nuisance, either by exercising any unwholesome or offensive trade, calling or business, or by having or suffering or permitting any building, outhouse, sewer, sink, or any putrid or unsound beef, pork, fish, hides, skins or any putrid carcass or, any unwholesome substance, or thing what ever, to be or remain on premises of which he, she or they shall be the owner or own ers occupant or occupants until by offen sive and ill stenches or otherwise they or any of them shall become offensive, hurt ful or dangerous to the neighborhood, it shall be the duty of the Assistant Health Inspector to give notice to such person or persons, to remove such nuisance forth with, and if the owner or owners, . occu pant or occupants of premises on which such nuisance shall be situated, shall neg lect or refuse to remove the same for the space of twenty-four hours after such no tice shall have been given, he, she or they upon conviction thereof before the munic ipal court, of the city of St. Paul, shall be liable to the penrlty hereinafter described together with the ex pense of removing such nuisance and the costs of prosecution. . Sec. 77. If any person or persons shall after notice as aforesaid permit any such nuisance to remain which shall be manifestly [dangerous or improper, it shall be lawful for the assistant health inspectors to remove and abate such nui sance either by removing any putrefaction or by draining the premises, or by filling them up forthwith under direction of the Health Officer; and the person or persons permitting the same to remain as afore said shall on conviction thereof be liable to the penalty hereinafter described . Sec. 78. No person shall deposit or leave, or cause to be left, or placed or de posited in any part of the said city any dead animal, or any animal or vegetable excrementative or other substance which is offensive, or which by process of decom position, may become offensive unless the same shall be buried at least three feet be low the surface of the ground. Sea 79. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to report to the Health Officer the existence of any nuisance whatever in said city and perform such other acts rela tive to the same according to the general or special regulations prescribed relative thereto. Sea 80. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to carry on the business of slaughtering of animals or rendering of any animal matter or manu facturing the same into fertilizing material or changing the form thereof in any manner by the use of heat, steam, fire, chemicals or otherwise, at any place or in any establishment anywhere within the city of St. Paul or within one mile of the limits of said city, except by a permit from Common Council. Sec. 81. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation having the ownership or control of any animal matter which is unsound, or in process of decay within the city of St. Paul, to permit the same to be aDd remain while in such con dition within said city or within one mile of the limits thereof more than twelve hours after such animal matter shall have become unsound, or after the process of decay shall have begun in the same, whether it be at any establishment for the rendering or changing the character thereof within the locality prescribed and designated in the preceding section of this article or elsewhere within the said city, or within one mile of the limits thereof. See. 82. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company or corpora tion within the city of St. Panl or within one mile of the limits thereof to engage in the business of slaughtering animals for food, packing them for market, or render ing the offal, fat,bones or scraps from such animals or any dead carcass or any animal matter whatever, or to engage in the man ufacture or production of fertilizers or glue, or the cleaning or rendering of in testines, unless he or they shall have ob tained a permit from the Common Council for such business. Sec. 83. Any license so granted may be revoked upon written notice by the Board of Health whenever it shall appear to their satisfaction that the parly so lie-eused shall have violated any provision of any ordi nance of the City Council or any statute law of the State of Minnesota relating to said business of slaughtering, packing,ren dering and manufacture of fertilizers or glue. Sec. 84. The Health Officer or any or all of his assistant inspectors shall be per mitted free entrance at all hours of the day or night to all buildings used for the purposes specified iv section eighty-three of this article.and to free and unrestrained examination of all apparatus or untensils used in such manufacture, or iv the dis position of gases generated in such manu facture. Sec. 85. It shall constitute and is here by declared a nuisance for any person to erect or maintain any pri-y as near as forty feet to any street, dwelling, shop, or well unless the same be furnished with a substantial vault six feet deep and made water tight, so that the contents cannot escape therefrom, and sufficiently secured and enclosed. Sec. 86. All privies, any part of the contents which are above the surf ace, or within two feel of the surface of the earth and all other privies that, are foul, emit ting smells and odors prejudicial to the public health are hereby declared nuis ances and the department of health or any Health Officer or Inspector shall have power to abate the same. Sec. 87. Whenever any nuisance shall be found on any premises within tho city contrary to this article, the Health Officer is hereby authorized in his discretion to cause the same to be summarily abated in such manner as he may direct. Sec. 88. In all oases where a nuisance shall be found in auy building or upon any ground or other premises within the jurisdiction of the city, twenty-four hours notice may be given in writing, signed by the Health Officer or by the as sistant health inspector to the owner or occupant of such building or other prem ises where he is known and can be found, to remove such nuisance, and iv case of his neglect or refusal to abate the same in accordance with such notice be shall be chargeable with the expenses which may be incurred in the removal thereof, tube collected by suit or otherwise, in addition to the fine or penalty. Sec. 89. In ail cases where no provis ion is herein made defining what are nui sances and how the same may bo re moved, abated or prevented, in addi i' moved, abated or prevented, in addi tion to what ma.» be declared such herein, those offences which are j known to the common law of the land and i the statutes of Minnesota as nuisances I may, in case the sane exist within the city j limits or within one mile thereof, be treat ed as)such and proceeded against as is in this article provided, or in accordance ! with any other law which shall give the j officer trying the same jurisdiction. Sec. 90. That no pile or deposit of ma- I nure, offal or garbage, nor accumulation lof any offensive or nauseous substance shall be made within the limits of said city, nor shall any person or corporation un load, discharge or put upon or along the line of any railroad, street or highway, or public place within said city, any manure, offal, garbage or other offiensive or nau seous substance; nor shall cars or flats loaded with or having in or upon them any such substance or substances be al lowed to remain or stand on or along any railroad, street or highway within the lim its of said city within three hundred yard 6 of any inhabited dwelling All manure vaults attached to stables, where more than two horses are kept, shall between April and November of each year be emptied twice in each week, and such vault shall in no case be permitted to become a nuisance. Sec. 91. That no manure, garbage, offal or any vegetable or animal matter or nau seous substance detrimental to health shall be dumped or deposited at any place with in the limits of the city of St. Paul except at such place or places designated and provided for that purpose by the Board of Health. GENEBAL SANITABY BKGULATIONB. Sec. 92. Every house situated upon a lot or street in which there is a sewer, shall have the water closets or privies furnished with a proper connection with the sewer, which connection shall be in all parts ad equate for the purpose as to permit en tirely and freely to pass whatever enters the same. '.-:■. * ..-. Sec. 93. All such water closets and vaults shall be provided with the proper traps and connected with the house sewer by a proper tight pipe, and shall be provided with sufficient water and other proper means for flushing the same, and every owner, lessee and occupant shal 1 take adequate measures to prevent im proper substances from entering such water closets or privies or their connec-