1874,June 23,ch. number one, part eight, be, and the same are hereby, legalized; and 490, ante, p. 55. the respective penalties therein prescribed for violations thereof may be imposed and enforced for the respective offenses therein described, excepting the sections of said ordinance following, namely: Sections seven, nine, and fourteen, which said sections are not hereby legalized. 1878, June 11,ch. 180,88,ante,p. 179. 1881, Jan. 25, ch. 27, post, p. 314. 1887,Jan. 26, ch. 49, post. p. 523. 1890, Dec. 20, ch. 25, post, p. 885. -domestic animals. -unwholesome food. SEC. 2. That the ordinances, rules, and regulations of said late Board of Health contained in the report mentioned in the preceding section, and printed in the said executive document therein mentioned, namely: (1) First. "An ordinance to amend an ordinance to prevent domestic amimals from running at large within the cities of Washington and Georgetown, passed by the Board of Health May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one"; Second. "An ordinance to prevent the sale of unwholesome food, in the cities of Washington and Georgetown"; -inspection of Third. "An ordinance to provide for the inspection of streets, food, food, &c. live stock, fish and other marine products, in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and to define the duties of inspectors and other officers of the Board of Health"; -public urinals. -small-pox. -record of vital statistics. Filth or other offensive substance thrown in streets, avenues, or public places declared nuisances. Carrying offensive substances, in open vehicles, through streets, avenues, &c. Manure, offal, &c., within 300 feet of dwelling, or along line of street, railroad, &c. Fourth. "An ordinance to amend section ten of the code so as to read"; 66 Fifth. An ordinance to amend an ordinance passed May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to read as follows"; Sixth. An ordinance to prevent committing or creating nuisances. in or about public urinal or urinals located within the cities of Washington and Georgetown"; Seventh. "Rules and regulations in regard to small-pox"; Eighth. "Regulations to secure a full and correct record of vital statistics, including the registration of marriages, births, and deaths, the interment, disinterment, and removal of the dead in the District of Columbia", be, and the same are hereby, legalized and made valid; and the penalties therein provided respectively for violations thereof, may be imposed and enforced for the violations of the same respectively, as provided by section twenty-seven of the ordinances passed November nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. [April 24, 1880.] NOTE. (1) The following are the ordinances, &c., legalized by the foregoing act. [ORDINANCES OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, LEGALIZED BY JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS, 1880, APRIL 24, NUMBER 25.] AN ORDINANCE To revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the Board of Health, to declare what shall be SEC 2. That the carrying and transporting of bones, hides, fish, garbage, offal, or other animal or vegetable substances, in decomposing and offensive condition, in any other than covered and inclosed vehicles, through any street, avenue, alley or public place, within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely populated suburbs of said cities, is hereby declared a nuisance injurious to health; and any person who shall cause, commit, create or maintain such nuisance, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than two nor more than twenty-five dollars for every such offense. SEC. 3. That manure accumulated in great quantities; manure, offal, or garbage piled or deposited within 300 feet of any place of worship, or of any dwelling, or unloaded along the line of any railroad, or in any street or public way; cars or flats loaded with manure, or other offensive matter, remaining or standing on any railroad, street, or highway in the cities of Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely populated suburbs of said cities, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person who shall pile or deposit manure, offal, or garbage, or any offensive or nauseous substance within 300 feet of any inhabited dwelling, within the limits of said cities, or their said suburbs ; and any person who shall unload, discharge, or put upon or along the line of any railroad, street or highway or public place, within said cities or their said suburbs, any manure, garbage, offal, or other offensive or nauseous substance, within 300 feet of any inhabited dwelling, or who shall cause or allow cars or flats loaded with, or having in or upon them any such substa ce to remain or stand in or along any railroad, street or highway, within the limits of said cities or their said suburbs, within 300 feet of any inhabited dwelling, and who shall fail, after notice duly served by this board, to remove the same, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five, nor more than twenty-five dollars for every such offense. SEC. 4. That the filling, leveling, or raising the surface of any ground or lot within the cities of Filling lots with filth Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely populated suburbs of said cities, with animal or and offensive subvegetable substances, filth gathered in cleaning yards or streets, or waste material from mills or fac- stances, or removing tories, or the removal of the surface of any ground or lot within said cities or their said suburbs, surface of lots so filled. filled with such offensive matter or substance, in such manner as to cause noisome odors or noxious gases to arise, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person who shall cause, commit, create, or maintain such nuisance, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for every such offense. SEC. 5. That throwing or placing any defiling or poisonous substance, decayed animal or vegetable Defiling or poisonmatter or filth into, or causing or allowing the same to pass or enter into, any spring, well, or river ous substances thrown water, used by the public for drinking or cooking purposes, or into the water of any public reservoir into spring, well, or or water-pipe within the District of Columbia, whereby such water is rendered impure and unwhole- river water, &c. some, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person who shall commit or create 1885, March 2, ch. such nuisance shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for every 316, post, p. 480. such offense. Impure and un SEC. 6. That any wells, springs, or waters used for drinking or cooking purposes, which are impure and unwholesome, or which have been rendered impure and unwholesome by reason of any defiling or wholesome wells or poisonous substance, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person who shall springs. maintain or continue such nuisance, after due notice from this board to abate the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every such offense. SEC. 7. [Not legalized.] SEC. 8. That ailantus trees, the flowers of which produce offensive and noxious odors, in bloom, in Ailantus trees, in the cities of Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely populated suburbs of said cities, are bloom, producing ofhereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person maintaining such nuisance, who shall fensive and noxious fail, after due notice from this board, to abate the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than odors. five nor more than ten dollars for every such offense. SEC. 9. [Not legalized.] SEC. 10. That drain-pipes, soil-pipes, passages into sewers, or connections between any sewer and any ground or building, not of adequate and sufficient size to allow the free and entire passage of all the material that enters the same, or not provided with good and sufficient sewer-traps, so as to prevent the escape of noisome odors and noxious gases therefrom, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person creating or maintaining either of said nuisances, who shall fail, after due notice from this board, to abate the same. shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty five dollars for every such offense. R. S., § 1830. Inadequate and insufficient drain-pipes, soil-pipes, and pas sages into sewers. SEC. 11. That all water-closets and privies connected with any house, building, or premises within Filthy and offensive the District of Columbia, in or upon which people live, or where they congregate or assemble, or any water-closets and kind of business is done, kept in a filthy and offensive condition, or from which noisome odors and privies. noxious gases arise, and all water-closets located within and being a part of any such house or building not provided with proper sewer-traps so as to prevent the return and escape of noxious gases and offensive odors from any public or private sewer connected therewith, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person creating, keeping, or maintaining such nuisance, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for every such offense. Privies unlawfully SEC. 12. That any privy within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely-populated suburbs of said cities, including Uniontown or Anacostia, and Mount Pleasant, in the District of and improperly conColumbia, constructed of other material than brick, cement, or wood, or which is not provided with a structed or located. sufficient box, bucket, or vessel for the reception of filth, and the inside of which is not at least five fert distant from the line of any adjoining lot, and at least two (2) feet distant from any street, lane, alley, camp, square, or public place, or public or private passage-way; and any privy so constructed that it cannot be conveniently approached and cleaned, or in such manner that each and every vault. box, bucket or vessel thereof is not made tight and close, so that the contents thereof cannot escape Leaky privies, privytherefrom, except as may be permitted by means of passage-way or conduit under ground, for the purpose of carrying away the contents of such vault, box, or vessel into any common sewer or drain, boxes, vaults, &c. is hereby declared a nuisance injurious to health; and any person who shall create, maintain or continue such nuisance, and shall fail, after due notice from this board, to abate or remedy the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for every such offense. SEC. 13. That fecal matter, not thoroughly deodorized and disinfected, remaining in privies in the District of Columbia, is hereby declared a nuisance injurious to health; and the board of health shall, upon the receipt of complaint in writing, cause any privy to be inspected, and, if necessary, cleaned by the persons authorized for said purpose; and any person owning or occupying premises on which any privy is situated, who shall refuse to permit the same to be inspected and cleaned at the times designated by said board, or whenever necessary, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars for every such offense. SEC. 14. [Not legalized.] Sac. 15. That it shall be unlawful for any person to deposit the contents of any privy in any place other than such as may be approved by this board; and any person so offending shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more fifty dollars for every such offense. Fecal matter remaining in privies. Privies to be inspected and cleaned. SEC. 16. That the system heretofore in use of removing night-soil, cleaning privies, privy-boxes, Bucket system of reraults, sinks, and cess-pools within the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the more densely moving night-soil and populated suburbs of said cities, by buckets or other process agitating and exposing the contents transporting contents thereof in the open air, and of transporting said contents in carts or other vehicles not air-tight, through streets, &c. through the streets, avenues, alleys, and other public places within said cities, and their said suburbs, is hereby declared a nuisance injurious to health; Contents of privies, And that, from and after the 15th day of October, A. D. 1873, no part of the contents (except substances not soluble in water) of any privy, privy-box, vault, sink, or cess-pool within said cities or their &c., to be removed said suburbs, shall be removed therefrom, nor shall the same be transported through any of the streets, and transported only avenues, alleys, or other public places of said cities or of their said suburbs, except as the same shall by air-tight apparabe removed and transported by means of some air-tight apparatus, pneumatic or other process, so as tus, &c. to prevent the said contents from being agitated or exposed in the open air during said process of removal or transportation; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every such offense. Keeping and feed SEC. 17. That the keeping, herding, and feeding of hogs, in pens or otherwise, within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely populated suburbs of said cities, is hereby declared a ing hogs in pens, &c nuisance injurious to health; and any person creating or maintaining such nuisance who shall fail after due notice from this board, to abate the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five For more than twenty-five dollars, for every such offense. Sec. 18. That filthy and unwholesome stables, sheds, pens, or places where cows, horses, mules, or Filthy and unwholeother animals are kept, within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely populated some stables, sheds, suburbs of said cities, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person creating or and pens. maintaining such nuisance who shall fail, after due notice from this board, to abate the same, shall, upa conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for every such offense. Ser. 19. That any animal affected by glanders or other contagious or pestilential disease, kept or remaining in any stable, shed, pen, or place within the cities of Washington or Georgetown or the more densely populated suburbs of said cities, is hereby declared a nuisance injurious to health; and any ing in stables, pens, person keeping or maintaining such nuisance, who shall fail, after due notice from this board, to abate &c. the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for every such offense. Glandered or diseased animals remain Sec. 20. That all establishments, or places of business for tanning, skinning, scouring, or dressing Filthy and noisome hides or leather within the District of Columbia, in a filthy condition, or from which noisome odors and tanneries, &c. SUP RS20 Boiling swill, burning bones, and other offensive and noxious trades, &c. Unclean and filthy slaughter-houses. Crushing or breaking stone, creating offensive dust, &c. Undressed dead animals remaining in cities of Washington and Georgetown. master if not noxious gases arise, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person who shall erect, create, maintain, or continue such nuisance, and who shall fail, after due notice from this board, to abate the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every such offense. SEC. 21. That the boiling of offal, swill, bones, fat, tallow, or lard; the crushing, grinding or burning of bones or shells; cleansing guts; making glue from any dead animal or part thereof; making or boiling varnish or oil; making lampblack, turpentine, or tar; distilling ardent, alcoholic, or fermented spirits; storing or keeping scraps, fat, grease, or other offensive animal matter; rendering or trying out dead, undressed, and unslaughtered animals, or any other business or trade, whereby noisome stenches and odors and noixous gases arise or are generated, within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, or the more densely-populated suburbs of said cities, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person who shall cause, erect, create, maintain, or continue any such nuisance, and who shall fail, after due notice from this board, to abate the same, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense. SEC. 22. That unclean and filthy slaughter-houses, rooms, buildings, or places where sheep, hogs, cattle, or other animals are slaughtered, within the District of Columbia, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person creating, keeping, or maintaining such nuisance, who shall fail, after due notice from this board, to abate the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every such offense. SEC. 23. That the crushing or breaking of stone within the cities of Washington and Georgetown, or the more densely-populated suburbs of said cities, by machines or otherwise, in such manner as to create offensive and deleterious dust, is hereby declared a nuisance injurious to health; and any person creating or maintaining said nuisance, who shall fail, after due notice from this board, to remove or abate the same, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every such offense," SEC. 24. That undressed dead animals being or lying in any part of the cities of Washingtonor Georgetown, or the more densely-populated suburbs of said cities, viz: Any of the horse, mule, or jack kind, or any cow, goat, calfs, heep, dog, or swine, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person owning, possessing, or controlling any such dead animal, or any person who shall knowingly place or allow such dead animal to remain in any part of said cities or their said suburbs, and who shall fail to give notice thereof to the board of health within eight hours after the death of said animal, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than ten dollars for every such offense. Unmuzzled and hySEC. 25. That unmuzzled dogs, going upon any street, avenue, or other public place, between the drophobic dogs going fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth day of October in any year, inad dogs, and dogs bitten by hyat large, to be killed drophobic dogs, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health; and any person owning or keepby owner, or taken up ing any dog who shall allow the same to go unmuzzled upon any street, alley, or other public place, and shot by pound- between the fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth day of October in any year, or who shall refuse to re- kill, or to cause to be killed, any such dog owned or kept by him, which has gone mad, or given deemed. symptoms of hydrophobia, or who shall omit to confine any such animal exposed to such disease, or 1878, June 19 ch. 323, which has been bitten by a hydrophobic dog or animal, shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a nui§7, ante, p. 197. sance, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than one or more than twenty-five dollars; and any dog going at large between the fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth day of October in any year, without a proper muzzle, shall be taken up by the poundmaster, who shall charge the owner of the same one dollar for its redemption; and every such dog not redeemed within twentyfour hours after having been taken up as aforesaid, shall be liable to be shot by said poundmaster. SEC. 26. That it shall be the duty of the health-officer appointed by this board, upon receiving information or obtaining knowledge of the existence of any thing or things herein declared to be nuisances, or any thing or things which may hereafter be declared to be nuisances by any ordinance or resolution enacted or adopted by this board, to notify the person or persons committing, creating, keeping, or maintaining the same, to remove, or cause to be removed, the same within twenty-four hours, or such other reasonable time as may be determined by this board, after such notice be duly given; and if the same be not removed by such person or persons within the time prescribed in said notice, it shall be the duty of the health-officer aforesaid to remove, or cause to be removed, such nuisance or nuisances, and all costs and expenses of such removal shall be paid by the persons committing, creating, keeping, or maintaining such nuisance or nuisances; and if the said costs and expenses thus accruing shall not be paid within ten days after such removal by said health-officer, the same shall be collected from the person or persons committing, creating, keeping, or maintaining such nuisances, by suit at law. Health-officer to abate nuisances after notice to party liable, and costs of removal to be collected by suit. Fines to be collected by information at instance of board of health. Court to order abatement of nuisances. Repeal. SEC. 27. That all fines and penalties imposed by any section of this ordinance shall be collected by prosecution in the police or other proper court of the District of Columbia, by information filed in said court, at the instance of the board of health. And whenever the nuisance complained of is set forth as continuing and existing, and is shown to be such to the satisfaction of the court before whom the person creating or maintaining said nuisance is tried, the party so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, in addition to the fine imposed, be ordered by said court to abate or remove said nuisance. SEC. 28. That all ordinances, or parts of ordinances, of this board, inconsistent or in conflict with the foregoing provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. [November 19, 1875.] AN ORDINANCE 1879, June 27, ch. 38, To amend "An ordinance to prevent domestic animals from running at large within the cities of ante, p. 268. Washington and Georgetown, passed by the Board of Health May 19, 1871.” 1887, Jan. 26, ch. 49, par. 7, post, p. 523. Domestic animals running at large to be impounded. Be it ordained, &c., That domestic animals shall not be permitted to run at large within the limits of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and all domestic animals found running at large within the limits of said cities shall be taken up and impounded. SEC. 2. That every animal taken up and impounded as aforesaid, within forty-eight hours after such to be sold if not impounding, if not claimed, and the charges for taking up, impounding, and keeping the same paid shall be sold at public auction; and the poundmaster appointed by this Board, as hereinafter provided, is hereby authorized to act as auctioneer at said sale. claimed. such case. SEC. 3. That the proceeds of such sales shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Board, who shall -proceeds of sale in give duplicate receipts therefor, one copy of the same to be retained by the officer selling such animals, and the other copy to be by said officer filed with the Secretary of the Board; and it shall be the duty of said treasurer to keep an accurate account of all moneys received by him under the provisions of this ordinance, and to report the same from time to time as required by the Board. to owner, SEC. 4. That all moneys received by said Treasurer from the sale of animals, as aforesaid, shall, if when may be paid demanded by the owner of such animals, at any time within one year from the sale thereof, upon satisfactory proof that such claimant was the owner of such animal sold as aforesaid, after deduction of charges and expenses, as hereinafter specified, of taking up, and impounding, and keeping such animals, be paid to said claimant; otherwise said moneys shall be used by this Board for sanitary purposes within and for the benefit of the District of Columbia. SEC. 5. That the charges for taking up and impounding domestic animals found running at large within the cities of Washington and Georgetown shall be as follows, to wit: For each horse, mule, bull, steer, cow, calf heifer, two dollars; and for each sheep, goat, hog, one dollar; and for each goose, fifty cents; and, in addition to said several sums, the charges for keeping said animals shall be the reasonable and necessary expenses thereof, to be paid by owner. Penalty for breaking SEC. 6. That no person shall break open, or in any manner, directly or indirectly, aid or assist in breaking open, any pound established by the Board of Health, or take or let any animal out of such open pound, &c. pound, without the consent of the officer keeping the same; nor shall any person or persons hinder, delay, or obstruct any person or persons engaged in driving or carrying to such pound any animal or animals liable to be taken up or impounded under the provisions of this ordinance; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty five dollars for each and every such violation. Poundmaster and SEC. 7. That there shall be appointed by the Board of Health a poundmaster, whose duty it shall be SEC. 8. That the poundmaster appointed by this board shall keep a register of all animals taken up by him, with an accurate description of the same, which shall at all times be open to the inspection of the public; and the said poundmaster is hereby forbidden to deliver any animal taken up and im pounded to any person applying for the same, unless such person shall present good and sufficient evidence of his ownership or right to the possession of said animal ; And no sale of any animal or animals impounded as aforesaid shall be made until due public notice by advertisement in at least one newspaper of such sale shall have been given, together with a description of the animal or animals to be sold, as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 9. That any ordinance or part of an ordinance heretofore passed by the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, inconsistent with the foregoing, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Pound keeper to keep record; to deliver animals on evidence of ownership. Sale of animals to be only after notice. Repeal. AN ORDINANCE To prevent the sale of unwholesome food in the cities of Washington and Georgetown. Be it ordained, &c., That no person shall knowingly sell, or cause to be sold within the cities of Wash ington or Georgetown, any impure, diseased, decayed, or unwholesome provisions, nor shall any per son fraudulently adulterate, for the purpose of sale within said cities, any bread or other material intended to be used for food with any substance of a poisonous character, or any substance injurious to health; and any person vlolating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 2. That no person shall offer for sale within the cities of Washington or Georgetown any liquor used for drink, whether malt, vinous, or ardent, or the milk of cows or goats, intended to be used for food or drink, which has been adulterated with any poisonou or deleterious ingredient; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 3. That no person shall convey into the cities of Washington or Georgetown, and offer for sale in any part of said cities, any animal or part of animal that may be sickly, diseased, or unwholesome, or which may have died from disease or accident, or any fish or vegetables not fresh, sound, and fit for food; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 4. That no person shall slaughter any cattle for the purpose of sale as food within the cities of Washington and Georgetown when such cattle are in a feverish or diseased condition; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 5. That no person, whether owner, manager, keeper of, or agent, bar-tender, or clerk, in any saloon, restaurant, boarding-house.or eating-house, located within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, shall offer for sale as food or drink anything poisonous or unwholesome; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 6. That no person owning, renting, leasing, or occupying any stall, room, or stand where meats or vegetables are sold for food, within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, shall fail to keep said stall, room, or stand in a cleanly condition; nor shall such person allow said meats or vegetables to become poisoned, or infected, or unfit for food, by reason of uncleanly condition of such stall, room, or stand; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 7. That no person shall offer for sale, within the cities of Washington or Georgetown, any unwholesome, watered, or adulterated milk, or swill-milk, or milk from cows kept up and fed on garbage, swill, or other deleterious substance; nor shall any person offer for sale within said cities. any butter or cheese made from such unwholesome milk; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 8. That on and after the passage of this ordinance it shall be unlawful for any person or persons -meat. to sell or expose for sale within the cities of Washington and Georgetown, any unsound, blown, or unwholesome meat, or other article of food, under a penalty of not less than five nor more than twentyfive dollars for each and every such offense. AN ORDINANCE To provide for the inspection of streets, food, live-stock, fish and other marine products in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and to define the duties of inspectors and other officers of the Board of Health. Health-officer and Be it ordained, &c., That there shall be appointed by the Board of Health a health-officer and such inspectors as may be required, who shall be assigned to the several duties of inspection of streets, of inspectors of streets, food, of live-stock, of fish and other marine products, or detailed for the performance of such other food, &c. duties as may be necessary. Health-officer's duty. streets. --food. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the health-officer, as he may be directed by this board, to execute or cause to be executed, the ordinances, resolutions, and orders of the board, and generally, according to its instructions, to exercise a practical supervision in respect to inspectors, pound-masters, and the clerical force in his office; and said health-officer shall devote his services to the aforesaid purposes as the board may direct. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of each inspector of streets to visit every part of his district daily, Inspector to inspect and carefully inspect all streets, alleys, yards, and inclosures, horse and cow stables, privies, slaughterhouses, wharves, and every other place where offensive or deleterious matter may exist, and to report promptly to the health-officer any and all nuisances injurious to health; and the inspectors of streets shall perform such other duties and special inspections as may be directed by the health-officer. SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of each inspector of food to attend the market or markets within his inspection-district every morning, at the time when sales commence, and carefully inspect all meats, fowl, game, and vegetables offered for sale, and condemn, seize, and cause to be removed such as may be diseased, or from any other cause rendered unfit for food. He shall also visit, as early as practicable each day, every green-grocery or other place within his district, where articles of food are kept for sale, and perform h sduty of inspection, condemnation, seizure, and removal as hereinbefore prescribed. He shall report his official proceedings daily to the health-officer, and in the performance of his duty shall be under the direction of said officer; and the inspectors of food shall perform such other duties and special instructions as may be directed by the health-officer. -live-stock. -fish. Powers of fish inspector. Proceedings when meat, &c., is found unwholesome. Penalty for hinderng, &c., health officer and inspector. SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the inspector of live-stock to carefully inspect all cattle, hogs, sheep, or other animals intended to be killed and sold for consumption as food in the cities of Washing ton and Georgetown, and to condemn all such as may be diseased, or from any other cause rendered unfit for food; and it is hereby made the duty of said inspector to brand with the letter "C" all cattle, hogs, sheep, or other animals condemned as aforesaid, and said inspector shall report his official proceedings daily to the health-officer. SEC. 6. That it shall be the duty of the inspector of fish and other marine products to examine and inspect all fish, oysters, clams, lobsters, and other marine products, landing by boat, arriving by rail, or otherwise brought by any person or persons into the cities of Washington and Georgetown; and if upon such inspection, said inspector shall find any of the said marine products to be in an unsound, diseased, or unwholesome condition, it shall be his duty to prohibit theír sale; and the said inspector of fish is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to condemn, seize, and remove any unsound, diseased, or unwholesome fish, oysters, clams, lobsters, crabs, or other marine products which may be offered for sale as food within the cities of Washington and Georgetown. SEC. 7. That in the performance of the duties herein prescribed the inspector of fish shall be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to board all boats, vessels, steamboats, and cars, and to stop all vehicles believed by him to contain fish or other marine products, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this ordinance, and said inspector shall report his official proceedings daily to the healthofficer. SEC. 8. That upon any cattle, meat, birds, fowls, fish or other marine products, vegetables, or other articles of food being found by any inspector or other officer of the Board of Health in a condition which is, in his judgment, unwholesome, and unfit for use as human food, or in a condition or of a quality forbidden by the ordinances of this board, but with respect to the quality and condition of which articles of food said inspector or other officer may be in doubt, he shall forbid the sale thereof, and order that the same be set aside, and shall at once notify the health-officer of such action; and if, upon inspection, the health-officer shall concur in the judgment of the inspector or other officer aforesaid, said health-officer shall prohibit the sale and order the removal of said articles, according to the regulations of the Board of Health; and if the health-officer shall not concur in the judgment of the inspector or other officer aforesaid, the sale of said articles shall be allowed. But if, upon inspection, the health-officer is in doubt as to whether said articles should be condemned or not, then the com mittee on food-inspections of the Board of Health shall decide whether or not said articles shall be condemned and the sale thereof forbidden: Provided, That no article of food, in a decayed or offensive condition, shall be allowed to remain where found, but the same shall be caused to be removed forthwith by the inspector or officer aforesaid, according to the rules and regulations of the Board of Health. SEC. 9. That any person who shall molest, hinder, or in any manner prevent said health-officer or any inspector appointed by this board from performing any duty imposed upon him or them by the provisions of this ordinance, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every such offense. AN ORDINANCE To amend section 10 of the code, so as to read: SECTION 10. And be it further ordained and enacted, That drain-pipes, soil-pipes, or passages into sewers, which are of inadequate and insufficient size, or which are not provided with proper sewertraps, within the District of Columbia, are hereby declared nuisances, injurious to health; and any person or persons, whether owner or tenant (board, department, or corporation officer), using or possessing any drain-pipe, soil-pipe, passage or connection between any sewer and any ground, building, or place of business, who shall fail to make such drain-pipe, soil pipe, passage or connection of adequate or sufficient size to allow the free and entire passage of all that enters or should enter the same, and provide them with proper sewer traps: and who shall fail, after notice duly served upon him, to supply such pipes of adequate and sufficient size, and provided with proper sewer-traps, shall be deemed guilty of keeping and maintaining a nuisance, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars. [July 30, 1875.] Water-closets; when declared nuisances, &c. AN ORDINANCE To amend ordinance passed May 13, 1873, to read as follows:' SECTION 1. That all water-closets and privies connected with any house, building, or premises within the District of Columbia, in and upon which people live, or where they do congregate or assemble, or any kind of business is done, kept in an uncleanly and foul condition, and from which offensive smells and noxious gases arise, and all water-closets located within and being a part of any such house or building not provided with proper sewer-traps, so as to prevent the return and escape of noxious gases and offensive odors from any public or private sewer connected therewith, are hereby declared to be nuisances, injurious to health; and any person creating, keeping, and maintaining such nuisance, after due notice served upon him by this board to abate the same within twenty-four hours or within such reasonable time as may be determined by this board, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every day such nuisance is allowed to remain unabated. [July 30, 1875.] |