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6 IEALTIBIMCE. ©flic Lai Publication of Ordinance Passed by the Common Conn, of th« City of St. Panl, October 10, 1883. Obdinance No. 355. hi 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: I. That there is hereby established b. Board of Health as follows: The Presi den: 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 Offioer as hereinafter provided shall constitute a Bo^rd of Health. Sec. 2. On the first meeting of the Conirnon Council in the month of June of &ach alternate year, shall be appointed one HeaJth Officer, who snail hold his office for two ytars, and until his successor shall be ap£K>inted and qualified. Before entering mpon the duties of his office he shall take the seual oath of office and give bond with security to the satisfaction of the Com- I 'ouncil in tho sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his da: it*, and shall receiva ouch compensation as the Council nay? determine. Sec. 3. A majority of the member? of tfae 3oard shall oocu^itute a quorum for bur-ia&63. The Board of Health shall meet at 5 o'clock p. m. on the Monday preceding the first Council meeting of each month, in the Council chamber at the Cv.y Kail, nt which meeting the Health Ofiloer shall preside. I. Special meetings may be called :'resident of the Board of Health ie may deem it necessary. 5. The City Clerk shall be secre the Board of Health. Soc. G. Tho Board of Health shall exer "-•nerril supervision over the health lity, with full power to take all ■ ..d use ah measures neoessary to promote the cleanliness and salubrity thtreof: to prevent the introduction into the city of moiignant, contagious or in fections diseases, and to remove or other wif c take care of any person attacked by any auoh disease, and to adopt in reference to such persons any reflations, restrictions or measures deem ed advisable and to establish rules for the government of the city pest house and qur.rantine hospital. Sec. 7. The Health Offioer shall have and exercise a general supervision over the saaitary condition of the city. Stc. 8. He shall give the Mayor, the Common Council and the Board of Health all euch professional advice and informa tion aa they may require, with a view to the preservation of the public health, and whenever he shall hoar of the existence of acy malignant, contagious, or pestilen tial disease, he shall investigate tho same and adopt measures to p.r-est its progress. S«c. '.). It shall be the further duty of the Health Offioer to enforce all the laws of the state and ordinances of the city in rela tion to the sanitary regulations of the city, and caus j all nuisances to be abated with ail reasonable promptness. And for the pur pose of carrying out the foregoing re quirements ho shall ba permitted at all times, from the rising to the setting of the sun, to ent^r into any house, store, stable or other buildine, 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 cleunsed 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 direot. Sec. 10. In order to the carrying out of the provisions of the foregoing seotion, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer to serve or cause to be served a notice, in -writing, upon the owner, occupant or agent of any iot, buildiagor premises in or upon whioit auy nuisanoe may be found or who may be the owner or cause of any sush nnisauoo requiring them to abate the same in such manner as he shall prescribe and within the time named in said notice, provided ihat it shall not be neoeesary in any oase for the Health Offioer to specify in his aotioe the manner in which any nuisanoe 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 direoted or depnted 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 scribed, and it shall be the duty of said offioer to proceed at once, upon tho ex piration of the time specified in eaid notice, to oause such nuisance to be abat 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 said Health Officer shall proceed to abate the same without uotioe; and in either case the expense of suoh abatement shall be collected from the person or persons who may have created, continued and suf fered such nuisance to exist. Sec. 11. The Health Officer shall have the power to appoint with the consent of the Board of Health and approval of Com mon Council suoh assistants as may be necessary to enforce the sanitary laws and ordinances of tho 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 reflations 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 Offioer in person and shall present to said Health Offioer 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 j 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 misdemennorf, or whenever he considers it to the advantage of the Health Department to do =o. Sec. 18. 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 daring the month. That at the end of each official year the Health Officer hall report to the Board of Health, the Mayor and the Common Council, a full and conaise statement of the <oings> of the Health Department, in classified and tabu lar form, comprising the reports of the morttiirv tables, financial report and, a fall statement of the sanitary condition of the city, together with any special observa tions, recommendations or facts that lie may. present th.at would be conducive to the health and improved sanitary condi tion of the city. See. 14. If shall be the further duty of the Hea th officer to.'jjjit 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, emall-pox, cholera, or any infections or pestilential I 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 Baid city, and cause them to be provided with suitable nurses and medical j 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 offioer 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 oity, are decently and promptly buried at the expense of the city, provided such deceased person? hare not the mean 3to defray their own ex penses of Eiekness or burial. Sec. 16. In case of pestilence or epi demic disease, or of danger from antioi pp.ted or impending pestilence or epidemic disease, or in case the sanitary condition of i 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 acta for the preservation of the public health (though not herein or elsewhere or otherwise authorized) as he may in good faith declare the public safety and health i to demand. Sec. 17. The Health Officer may take such measures as he may from time to time deem necessary to prevent the spread i of the emall-pox by issuing an order re quiring all persons in the city or any part i thereof, requiring vaccination, to be vao- ' cinated within such time as he shall pre- < scribe; and all persons rofusing or : negleotii;g to obey such order shall i be liable to the penalty here i iuafter specified. Provided, that it shall i be the duty of the Health Officer to pro i vide for the vaccination of such persons 1 as are unable to pay for the same, at the i expense of the city. I Sec. 18. He shall have power to cause i any house or any premises to be cleansed, i disinfeoted. or oloaed to visitors, and pre- i vent persons from resorting thereto while j any person is laboring under any pesti- < lential or infectious disease; he may by an < order in writing, direot any naisanoe to be < abated, or unwholesome matter or sub stance, dirt or'filth, to be removed from ] any house or premises, and may prescribe I the time and mode of doing so, and take < any other measures he may deem nece3- I eary and proper to prevent the spread of ( any infection?, pestilential or epidemic < disease. < Seo. 19. Said Health Officer whenever and at suoh 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 beats, vessels, railroad cars or other public conveyances bound for this city, befoie 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 suoh sick, dis eased or unclean persons with their stores and baggage, as in the opinion of the offi cers stationed at such quarantine sites, places or boundaries shall be deemed proper, oa 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. Seo. 30. Whenever it shall be deemed necepsaryro insne such proolamation,it shall be the duty of tho 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, Duluth, 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 oause to be sta tioned at such quarantine sites, places and boundaries as he may deem advisable one or more physicians or assistant health in spector, whose duty it phall 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 suoh 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 suoh physician or health officer in the exercise of his duties. Sec. 22. Said physician or assistant health inspector shall attend to all eiok persons who may be landed or placed in quarantine, and provide medicines and necessaries for their nse, and 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. Seo. 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, oar or conveyance at such quaran tine or place, and suoh boat, vessel, car or conveyance shall have been thoroughly cleansed, and such persons as aforesaid landed and placed in the care of such physician or officer, such physician or offi cer shall give such vessel, boat, car or con veyance a permit signed by him, to enter the city, which shall be ample authority for the entry of said boat, vessel, car or conveyance, and the said officer?, respect ively, shall 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; provideif,how ever, that the Health offioer in his discre tion by proclamation for that purpose may, daring the prevalence of cholera, ship fever or other contagious 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 opi'.ion, the health of the city will justify the same. Sec. 24. Ik shall be the duty of the eaid Health Officer, whenever by him it ehull be deemed accessary, to keep at the quaran tine station or -tatii-. a sufficient police force, whose duty it shall be to enforce all I regulations by this chapter required, or by i j paid Health Officer to he established, and to arrest all persons violating caid regula tions or committir.e any breaches of the peace and bring f-uoh person before any court having jurisdiction, for trial, and to arrest aud hold for trial all persons dis obeying, or interfering with, or res'eting i any physician, Health Officer or other per «on in authority at euch quarantine 6ite or ion. Ji. In ca?e nny boat, ves?el. car I or publia conveyance shall leave any without a permit as aforesaid, or shi'l fail > at the same, when sr>. as aforesaid required by the issuing of the said proc lamation, or -whenever the person in I thereof, or any person under his command phnll fail or refuse to obey any i or commnnd of the said Health OtEeer, physician or person in change of any quarantine s'ntion or place, or of any j provision or reqnirement of this chapter, I the said Health Officer shall haT&the power THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. THURSDAY UORBING. OCTOBER 25,1883. and it is hereby made his duty, if in hit ! opinion the health of the oity 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 ol any such boat, vessel, car or public con veyance, shall be liable to the city 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. Sen. 26. The said Health Officer Bhali 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 o: 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 th 9 proper conducting and management thereof; and it shall be the duty of all persona in quarantine and all agents, officers, policemen or others em ployed by the city in and about said quarantine stations or places to carry oui and obey the same. 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 6hall 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 run- dered and for such time as such services shall be actually required, not les3 than five dollars nor raore than ten dollars per day, to be allowed by the said Health Offizer; also, the said Health Offioer may employ such agents, servants, nurses or temporary medical assistants for tha purpose of car rying into effect the object and intent of this chapter or any regulation as in his judgment Bhall from time to time be nec essary, or authorize the employment there of by the physicians or health offioers in charge of any quarantine or station. Sec. 28. All the salari3s, wages and ex penses in this artiole contemplated are to be audited and allowed by the Baid Health Officer, and when so allowed are to be paid out of the fund &et apart for quar aatine purposes, or ia. ease of necessity out of the treasury of the city; provid ed that when practicable the persons takeu in sach quarantine or stations and receiving the aid and care afforded thereby shall each pay a sum of money sufficient to meet all exoense, labor and care ,incur- red in their behalf, which said money shall be faithfully 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 ail other expenses to be incurred by reason of this chapter or of any regu ation of said Health Officer shall be paid out of the fund set apart for quarantine purposes, or, when necessary, out of the treasury 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, smallpox ship fever or contagions 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 co as aforesaidj received therein, shall leave the same without first obtaining permission as aforesaid, nor shall any person aid or abet any master, conductor ar person in charge of any boat, vessel, railroad oar or public conveyance in violating, neglecting or evading any provision or requirement of this chapter; nor shall f->j 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 bo as aforesaid established, nor do any aot or thing in violation of or in diso bedience to any of the provisions,clanEes or sections of this chapter; nor shall commit any breach of the peace or do any aot calculated in anyway to defeat or interfere with the provisions or requirements of this ohapter or of any regulation of the said Health Officer, physioian or officer in charge of any quarantine. Sec. 30. The money appropriated to the quarantine fund shall be faithfully ap plied by the said Health Officar to the true objects and purposes of its appropriation, and the said Health Offioer 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 ductor, captain, or person whatsoever, who shall violate any clause, provision, require ment, duty or regulation of this ohapter, or of any rule or regulation of the said Health Officer, physician, or person in charge of any quarantine, or who shall fail or neglect to comply -with any suoh clause, provision, requirement, duty or or ders, or who shall interfere with or in any manner resist any officer or agent of the oity in the discharge of his duty as herein contemplated, or who shall 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. See. 32. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to make a circuit of obser vation once in every month to every part of . the oity and its . environs, which from its location or from any col lateral circumstances, may be deemed the cause of disease, and in all eases 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 same to the City Council, accompanied with bis opinion of the necessity of extra ordinary or partioalar action. Sec. 33. The Health Officer by and with the approval of the Common Council, may select, purchase, lease and 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 site* and places, and so keep the same in repair as in his judgment shall be deemed necessary. Bee. 34. It shall bo the duty of the Board of Health to provide tho necessary books for keeping a record of all transac tions of said department, including, the proper registration of births and j 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 physician« and I midwivee, and furnish them with the same on application. Sec. 35. Said Health Officer shall al ways have on hand as far a? practicable a sufficient quantity of vaacine virus; and he shall vaccinate and r^vaccinate all per sons who may apply to him for that pur i pose; and shall give certificates of vaccin- j ation to children who have been vaccinated, and require such certificates for admission to the public schools. EIETHS, DEATHS AND MARBIAQES. Sec. 36. That every clergyman, magis trate and other person who may perform ' a marriage ceremony shall make and keep j 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 or every 6uch 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 suoh 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 suck register), to present to the said Board of Health a copy of such register, signed by such person or a written statement by him signed of all the faot3 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. PHYSICIANS, CONTAGIOUS DISBASBS, BOABDING HOT7BB KBEP2JJS, 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 "contagious disease" shall be held to include all persons sick, affected or attack ed by or of a disease sf 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 ail 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. S3. That every physician shall re port to the Health Officer of the City of St. Paul in writing every person having a contagious or infectious disease, such as i oholara, yellow fever, scarlet fever, typhus fever, small-pox, varioloid, diphtheria, or any of the grades of of such diseases (and the state of his or her disease and 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; bat not more than one report shall be required in one week concerning the same person; but 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 tho duty of each and every practicing physician in the city to report in writing to the Health Officer the death of any of his patients who shall have died in said city of contagions or in fections diseases within twenty-four hours thereafter, and to state in such report the specific name and typ9 of such disease. Sec. 41. That evary keeper of every boarding house or lodging house and every inu keeper and hukii keeper ehall 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 aforesaid houses or hotels and attacked with any contagions disease. Sec. 42. That the commissioner, mana ger, principal or other proper head officer of each and every public or private institution in said city, shall once in each week report in writing (or cause such report by some proper person to be made once in each week) to the Health Offioer and state there in the name, if known, and condition and disease of any and every person being thereat and siok of any contagious dis ease. , Sec. 43. That it shall be the duty of every person knowing of any individual in said oity, sick of any contagious dis ease, (where such person shall have reason to regard such 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 and owners of every boarding hoase and lodging house, shall, within six hours after the facts shall come to his or he or their knowledge, notify the Health Officer in 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 suoh sick person may be found, and from what vessel and when he came, to the best of the knowledge of the person or persons giving suoh 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 suoh disease, and no person or persons shall remove, deface, 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 sicx with any disease named or provided for in section thirty-nine of this ordinance, the following regulations must be observed: The remains of said person must be thoroughly disinfected and be exposed to the view of no one except thos<» absolutely necessary in pre paring the body for burial, and be placed in a hearse which mHst not be accompa nied by more than two vehicles and shall be taken directly from the place of death to the place of burial. Sec. 47. When funeral obsequies are desired in any death from any contagious or infectious disease, the Health Officer 6hall 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 s'.iall not bo opened afterwards. That the room containing sani9 shall be fam:,- ited with sulphur for at least six hours before the funeral takes place and disinfected with approved disinfect ants such as are not injurious to furniture or wearing apparel. That this shall- be done under the personal supervision of an officer from the H&alth department who j shall be detailed for that purpose by the! Health Officer and whose directions shall | be obeyed. S^o. 48 The burial of any person who j may die of any of the diseases i named or provided for in section thitty- !■ nine of this ordinance, must take place ! within twenty-four hoars after death. : and when practicable should take place in . the night. Seo. 49. That every master.and chief officer of any ve?sel, 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 ©r article on such vessel or that came thereon, which he h.is reason to think m«y endanger the public health of tnia city. ! Sec. 50. That every master, charterer, | owner, part owner, and consignee of any vessel or of the cargo thereof, which shall be in toe 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. Sac. 51. That no person shall bring to any dook, wharf or building within one thousand feet thereof in eaid city or un load at any dock, building or pier therein or have on storage in said city any skins, hides, rags or similar articled 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 contagious disease or are liable to communicate such disease till after the same have beea ade quately cleansed or disinfected. Sec. 52. That no captain, officer, con signee, owner, or other person in charge of j any vessel (having right and authority to ! prevent the same) shall remove or aid in [ removing from auy vessel to the shore (save as legally authorized by the depart ment of health and into quarantine grounds or buildiag only) any person sick of or that has been exposed to and is lia i 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. See. 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 artiole so offending or the occasion of offence has passed through quarantine, or has a per mit from any other source thau tho said department. Sec 54. That no person shall within tha 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, or by any negligent act connected therewith, or iv respeot 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 suoh 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 in seotion thirty-nins of this ordinance, the Health Offioer shall at once cause the room or rooms used by—and those in the immediate vicinity of —said person or pc-raons, together with eonteuts of said ,\,^^u or rooms to be thoroughly disinfect ed, cleansed, fumigated, or whatever in his discretion may be dsemed neoaesary in order to prevent a further spread of the disease, even in extreme oases to destroy ing said contents of said rooms. All this to be done at the expenoe of tho owner, when he or she is able, and when he or she is not, then at the expense of the city. Sec. 56. That no person or persons who have be«n affected or sick with any of the diseases named and provided for in sac tiou thirty-nine of this ordinance who have been quarantined or isolated in any place within the jurisdiction of the city of St. Paul, cr placed in the small-pox hospital by the Health Department of the oity of St. Paul, shall be allowed to leave such quarantine or small-pox hospital without permission of the Health Officer. Sec 57. That no child,minor or person from any house where any person or persons is sick or affected with any of the diseases named or provided for in seotion thirty nine of this ordinance, ehail attend any public, private or seotarian school in this city until the recovery or death of said sick person or persons, and in either event the aforesaid child, minor or person Bhall be provided with a writted statement by the attending physioian, if any. and if not, then by the Health Officer, certifying to their non-contagiousness, which state ment must be presented to the principal or teacher of said public or private school before said child, minor or person will be allowed to return. Sec. 58. It shall be the doty of all phy sicians, noon discovery of any conta gious or infectious disease, to in struct the parents or guardians of any child or minor who may be residing at the infected premises, of the provisions of the above section. And it shall be the duly of any principal or teacher of any public, private or sectarian sohool in this city, to report at once to the Health Office in writing, any violation of the above section. IJiTERMKNTH. Sec.%9. That whenever any person shall die within the city of St. Paul, it shall be the duty of tho physian attending such perso:-'. during his or her last sick ness, or of the coroner of the city when the case couie.i under his official notice, to furnish and deliver to the undertaker, or other person superintending the oarial 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, oause, date and place of death (giving street and number), and duration of last sicknees of said 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, Raid certificate phall be so made and forwarded within twelve hours there after. Sec. 60. That no interment or dis inter ment of the dead body of any human be ing, or disposition thereof in any tomb, vault or cemetery, shall bo made within the city of St. Paul without a permit there for granted by tha Board of Hi aith of Baid city, nor otherwise thr,n ia accordance therewith. And no sexton or other person shall assist in or <i9sent 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 sime to the Health Officer, together with a full report on blanks which wil ibe fnruished him for that purpose at the end of every month, ; nd no sexton, undertaker or other person ?hall bury or canse to be buried the body of any deceased person within tho city of St. Pan!, except in puirh grounds us are now known and osed ns bur>->! Lrroands, or snch «s shall hereafter bs by law desig nated and authorized to be. used as such. Sec. 61. That no dead body, or part of the dead body of nny human bf-intf phnll bs in nny manner cirried or conveyed from, in, to, or throngh the city of St. Paul by auy person or by means of any boa , ves sel, car, stag" or other veh ole, 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. Seo. 62. That whenever a permit for burial is applied for, in case of death with out the attendance of a physician, or if it b# impossible to obtain a physician's cer tifioate, it shall be the duty of the health officer to investigate the cause and oircum stances of suoh death, to make and sign the certificate required by section fifty nine of this ordinance, and if not satisfied as to the cause and ciroumstanoe3 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 every physician, acconoher, midwife, uu dGrtaker, sexton or superintendent of any cemetery, or person having charge of the same, practicing medicine or doing busi ness within the oity of St. Paul to register his or her name in a book or books to be provided for euch purpose at the office of the Board of Health or said oity, 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 extant 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 ths 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 the 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 acy child or minor who shall not have been vaccinated within seven years next preceding the admission i or application for admission to any such school of such child or minor; or shall any ; suoh principal or teacher retain in or per mit to attend any suoh school any such child or minor who shall not have been vaccinated within seven years next pre i ceding the taking effect of this article. Seo. 67. The evidence of suoh 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 Offioer 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 an examination of the children aud minors in attendance therein as often as ho may deem necessary to se cure compliance with the provisions hereof. Sec. 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 seotioa sixty-eight of this ordinance, shall be upon conviction liable to the penalty hereinafter described. NUISAKOBB. Sec 70. That no person shall suffer or permit any cellar, vault, private drain, pool, privy or sewer, upon any premises belonging to or occupied by him or her within the limits of (he 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, packing house, stable, or other place any foul or nauseous liquors, slops or substance whatever into any pri vate ground, street, lane or public ground within said city. Sec 72. No soap boiler, tallow chandler, candle or oil maker or otner person shall keep or use, or cause to be 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 hides, except at the plaoe where the same are to be manufactured. Sec. 73. No owner or ocoupaut of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandlery, shop, soap factory, tannery, brewery, distillery, pork or beef packing house, stable or barn shall suffer the same to become foul, nausens 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, alley or any private lot or place within this city; nor shall any per son throw or leave any suoh animal, or any vegetables or de cayed t nimal 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 can so 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 adjoining. Sec. 76. If any person within the limits of the city of St. Paul, shell permit or suffer on hi?, 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, sawer, Rink, or any putrid or unsound beef, pork, fish, hides, skins or any putrid carcase or, any unwholesome substance, or thing what ever, to be or remain on premises of which be, 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, hurl 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 oqou pants of premise* oa which snc'a nuisance shall bo 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 penalty 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 Bach 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. Seo. 78. No person shall deposit or leave, or cause to be left, or placed or de posited in any part of _the said aity any dead animal, or any animal or vegetable oxcrementative or other 6ubstacce which is offensive, or which by process of decom position, may become offensive unless the same shall be buried by the permission and under the direction of the Health Officer Sec 79. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to report to the Health Offioer 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. Sec. 80. It shall be ke! iwful for nny person, firm or corporation to carry o n the busiaess of slaughtering of animals or rendering of any animal matter or manu facturing tha same into fertilizing material or changing the form tli.-. -»f in any manner by the U9eof Li^it, *'.■-• chemicals or otherwise, al any ; any establishment anywhere within the city of St. Paul or within oa<s mile of the limits of said city, except b- x permit from Common Council. Sea. 81. It shall bo 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 F.ach con dition within said city or within one mile of tho limits thereof mo:- than twelve houra after such animal mittor 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 tho locality prescribed and designated in the preoedic .; section of this article or elsewhere within the said city, or within one mile of the limits thereof. Se3. 82. It shall be unlawful for any ptrson or persons, company or corpora tion within the city of St. Paul or within one mile of the limits thereof to engage in the business of slaughtering animals for food, packing thorn for market, or render ing the offal, fat,bones or scrap.-* from such animals or any dead carcass or any animal matter whatever, or to engage in the man ufacture or production of fertilizers or glse, 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 way be revoked upon written notice by tha Board of Health whenever it shall nj>pear to their satisfaction that the party ho licensed shall have violated any provision of any ordi nance of the City Council or any statute law of the State of Minnesota relating to Baid 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 hoars of the day or night to all buildings used for the purposes specified iv section v -three of this article.and to free and unrestrained examination of all apparatus or nntensils used in such manufacture-, or in the dis position of gases generated in suck 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, bo that './..■> contents cannot escape therefrom, and sufficiently t?cured and enclosed. See. 86. All privies, any part of the oontent3 which are above the surface, or within two feet 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 ance.; and the department of health, Health Officer, or any assistant Inspector shall have power to abate the same. Sec 87. Whenever auy nuisance shall be found on any premise* within the city contrary to this article, tiut Health Officer is hereby authorized in his discretion to cause the same to be summarily abated in such manner as he may direot. Sec. 88. In all cases where a nuisance shall be found in any 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 ho is known find can be found, to remove such nuisance, and in oatse of his neglect or refusal to abate the same in accordance with t>uch notice he shall be chargeable with the expenses which may bo incurred in the removal thereof, to be collected by suit or otherwise, in addition to the fine or penalty. Sec. 89. In all oases where do provis ion is herein made defining what are nui sances and how the same may be ro nioved, abated or prevented, in addi tion to what may bo deolared such herein, those offences which are known to the common, law of the l.md and the statutes of Minnesota as nuisances may, in case the same exist within the city limits or within one mils 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 offioer trying the same jurisdiction. Sec 90. That no pile or deposit of ma nure, offal or garbage, nor accumulation of any offensive or nauseous substance shall be made within the limits of said city, nor shall any person or corporation uu 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 oSienaive or nau seous substance; nor shall oars or flats loaded with or having in or upon them any such substanoe 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 yards of &ny 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 ptieh vault phall 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 place.- designated and provided for that purpose br the Board of Health. GHSH.Ii.VIi (UHITART BHGKJLAnONK. Bee. 92. Every water closet, privy vault or cess pool shall be proper}} con nee ted j with a public sewer when practicable, which connection shall be in all part-* ad equate for the purpose, sb to permit en tirely ':d freely to pasa whatever enters the pamV; awl till such water closetp, privy vaults or cess pools ?hall be provided with proper traps, ventilating pipes, tight pipes for connecting with house sewer, sufficient water and other proper means for Hushing the sum* 1, and every owner, lessee and occupant "hall take adequate measures to prevent improper snbsiances from enter ing sach water o;osetp, privy vaults or their connections and to secure the prompt re i moval of any improper aubtitaiices that ! may enter therein, so that no accumula tion shall take place and bo as to vent any exhalation therefrom, offensive dangerous or prejudicial to health and so as to prevent the name from being or be coming obstructed. Sec. 93. When not connected with any sewer, all water closets, privy vaults or cess pools shall be walled up or cemented on Rides and bottom in such a way that they will be impervious to water. Said bottom ehall be at least six feet below the level, and they shall be provided with proper ventilating pipes and covers sub ject to the approval of the building in spector; and no water closet, privy vault