lii MM COLUMBIA LIBRARIES OFFSITE HEALTH SCIENCES STANDARD HX00077615 Mew York (City)' Sept, of -tiealth Sanitary code ft A \fi2 Columbia SHnitiers^ttp CoUege of Jftpsucians; anb ^urgeonsf Hibrarp Digitized by the Internet Arcliive in 2010 witli funding from Open Knowledge Commons http://www.archive.org/details/sanitarycodeofboOOnewy SANITARY CODE ^OARD OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1903 New York : PRESS OF THE J. W. PRATT (JO. 52 TO 58 DuANE Street 1903 KM i^ SANITARY CODE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page BARBER SHOPS 76 CATTLE, HORSES, ETC 29 CEMETERIES 69 CERTIFICATION OF SANITARY CODE 78 CORONERS 70 CHARTER PROVISIONS AS TO CODE 80 DEFINITIONS AND TERMS 1 DISEASED, INJURED AND DEAD ANIMALS 49 DISINFECTION 60 DRUGS, MEDICINES, ADULTERATIONS AND POI- SONS 26 65- DWELLINGS, LODGING HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS, VENTILATION, DRAINAGE AND PLUMBING 8 16- FALSE STATEMENTS 8 FOOD AND DRINK 18 42- FO WLS AND SMALL ANIMALS 31 78- INFECTIOUS DISEASES 54 133- MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS 64 158- MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE 5 NOISE 77 OBEDIENCE TO ORDINANCES AND REGULA- TIONS 5 OFFENSIVE MATERIALS 40 OFFENSIVE TRADES 34 PROOF OF SANITARY CODE 79 RAILROAD CARS • 73 REMOVAL OF FILTH 48 SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE 13 SLAUGHTERING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES 32 STREET DRAINAGE 17 SPITTING 75 TRANSPORTATION OF DEAD BODIES 67 VACCINATION, ANTITOXIN 60 VESSELS AND SEAMEN 61 WATER 25 [See index pp. 85-109.] THE SANITARY CODE. The Sanitary Code. The Sanitary Ordinances adopted by tlie Board of Healtii of the Department of Health of the City of New York, called the Sanitary Code, and conformed to Chapter XIX, Title 1, Chapter 378, of the Laws of 1897, and Chapter XIX, Title 1, Chapter 46G, of the Laws of 1901, pursuant to Section 1172 of said Titles, with the amendments and additional pro- visions, added and published to July, 1903. Definitions of Terms. Section i. The terms "Board," "this Board," and "said Board" whenever used in this Code shall be held to mean the "Board of Health of the Department of Health of the City of New York;" the word "Department," whenever used herein, shall be held to mean the Depart- ment of Health of the City of New York; the words "person," "owner," "tenant," "lessee," "occupant," "con- tractor," "party," "manager," "board," and "officer," shall respectively be held to apply to and include, both jointly and severally, each and all owners, part-owners, tenants, lessees, occupants, contractors, parties in in- terest, persons, managers, boards, officers, and corpora- tions, who may sustain the relations, or may be in like position of any one or more thereof referred to in any 2 THE SANITARY CODE. ordinance or regulation; every word or phrase anywhere herein defined shall be held to have such meaning when- ever used herein; the words "city," or "this city/' or "said city," whenever used herein, shall be held to mean the City of New York; the word "regulations" shall be held to include "special regulations" (which latter will be from time to time issued, and will contain more detailed provisions than can be herein conveniently set forth ) ; the Avord "permit" shall be construed to mean the permis- sion in writing of this Board, issued according to its by-laws, rules, regulations, and h'anitary Code; and every "report" herein required shall be held to be a report in writing, signed by the person (and indicating his official position) who makes the same; the word "light" or "lighted," shall be held to refer to natural, external light; and all words and plu-ases herein defined shall also include their usual and natural meaning, as well as those herein especially given. Sec. 2. The word "street," when used in the Sani tary Code, shall be held to include avenues, public high ways, sidewalks, gutters, and public alleys ; and the words "public place" shall be held to include parks, piers, docks, and wharves, and water and open spaces thereto adjacent, and also public yards, grounds, and. areas, and all .open spaces between buildings and streets, and in view of such streets;? the word "ashes" shall be held to include cinders,;5 coal, and everything that usually remains after j' fires; the word "rubbish" shall be held to include all ' the loose and decayed material and dirt-like substance that attends use or decay, or which accumulates from building, storing, or cleaning; the word "garbage" shall be hold to include swill and every accumulation of • THE SANITARY CODE. O both animal and vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, tha:t attends the preparation, decay, and dealing in, or storage of meats, fish, fowls, birds, or vegetables; and the word "dirf sliall be held to mean natural soil, earth, and stone. Sec. 3. A "tenement-house" shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied, as the home, or residence of three families or more, living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets, or privies, or some of them. A "lodging-house" shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored or received, or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at one time, or any part of which is let for any person to sleep in for any term less than a week. A "cellar" shall be taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of any building or house of which one -half or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street adjoining. The phrase "boarding-house" shall be held to include every building, and every story and portion thereof, which is at any time or usually used, leased, or occu- pied, or intended so to be, by any number of persons exceeding ten, as boarders thereat. The word "manu- factory" shall be held to include every building, and every story and portion thereof, in which any sort of labor or work is done, which calls for the continual or usual presence of several persons during several hours 4 THE SANITARY CODE. of the day or aight, engaged about said work or labor; and the word "saloon" shall be held to include every portion of any building in which the business of sell- ing meals, liquors, drinks, or refreshments of any kind, sliall be conducted, and includes "concert saloons." Sec. 4. The term "theatre" shall be held to include the building, rooms, and place where any play, concert, opera, circus, trick or jugglery show, gymnastic or other exhibition, masquerade, jjublic dance, drill, lecture, ad- dress, or other public or frequent gathering or amuse- ment, are, is, or may be held, given, performed, or take place, and the approach or approaches thereto, and ap- purtenances thereof. Sec. 5. The word "physician" shall include every person who practices about the cure of the sick or in- jured, or who has the charge of, or professionally pre- scribes for, any person sick, injured, or diseased, and any person who pursues the business of or acts as midwife; and the phrase "infectious disease" shall be held to in- clude all diseases of an infectious, contagious, or pesti- lential nature. Sec. 6. The word "meat" whenever herein used, includes every part of any land animal and eggs (whether mixed or not with any other substance); and the word "fish" includes every part of any animal that lives in water, or the flesh of which is not meat; and the word "vegetable" includes every article of human consump- tion as food, which (not being meat, or fish, or milk) is held, or offered, or intended for sale or consumption as food for human beings, at any place in said city; and all THE SANITARY CODE. 6 fish and meat found therein shall bo deeinod to be therein and held for such sale or consumption as such food, un- less the contrary be distinctly proved. Sec. 7. The word "cattle" shall be held to include all animals, except birds, fowl, and fish, of which any part of the body is used as food; the word "butcher" shall be held to include whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving, or slaughtering any cattle, or in selling any meat; the words "private market" shall in- clude every store, cellar, stand, and place (not being a part of a public market) at which the business is the buying, selling, or keeping for sale, of meat, fish, or vege- tables for human food. Misfeasance and Nonfeasance. Sec. 8. No person shall carelessly or negligently do or devise or contribute to the doing of any act or thing dangerous to the life, or detrimental to the health of any human being; nor shall any person knowingly do or advise or contribute to the doing of any such act or thing (not actually authorized by law), except with justifiable motives, and for adequate reasons; nor shall any person omit to do any act, or to take any precaution, reasonable and proper, to prevent or remove danger or detriment to the life or health of any human being. Obedience to Ordinances and Regulations. Sec. 9. Every contractor in these ordinances referred to, and every person who has contracted or undertakes, or is bound to do, or is engaged in doing any one of the things, in respect of which these ordinances contain provisions or regulations, shall comply with these ordi- C THE SANITARY CODE. nances, to the extent that any contract, obligation, or duty requires or permits; and no direction of any con- tractors or persons shall excuse him for a non-compli- ance with any of said ordinances. Sec. 10. It is hereby declared to be the duty of every owner and part owner and person interested, and of every lessee, tenant, and occupant of or in any place, water, ground, room, stall, apartment, building, erection, vessel, vehicle, matter, and thing in the City of New York, and of every person conducting or interested in business therein or thereat^ and of every person who has undertaken to clean any place, ground or street therein, and of every person, public of3&cer and department having charge of any ground, place, building or erection therein, to keep, place and preserve the same and the sewerage, drainage and ventilation thereof in such condition, and to conduct the same in such man- ner, that it shall not be a nuisance or be dangerous or prejudicial to life or health. The term "building" as used in this section, includes a railway car, booth, tent, shop or other erection or enclosure. Sec. 11. Evej-y person shall observe and obey each and every special regulation and every order of this Board, that is or may be made, for carrying into effect any of the ordinances or powers hereinbefore or herein- after contained, or any law of this State or otherwise, whether issued directly by the Board, or promulgated by any Bureau charged therewith, as if the same had been herein inserted at length. Sec. 12. Xo person shall omit or refuse to comply with, or resist any of the provisions of the Sanitary THE SANITARY CODE. 7 Code, or any of the rules, orders, sanitary regulations, or ordinances established or declared by this Board under or pursuant to any of the provisions of the seventy- fourth chapter of the Laws of 18G0j or of chapter six hundred and eighty -six of the Laws of 186Gj or of chapter nine hundred and fifty-six of the Laws of 1867; or of chapter three hundred and thirty-five of the Laws of 1873; or of chapter seven hundred and fifty-seven of the Laws of 1873; or of chapter six hundred and thirty- six of the Laws of 1874; or of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the Laws of 1897; or of chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the Laws of 1901; nor shall any person refuse or neglect to comply with any of the provisions of the said laws in so far as the same are now in force and applicable to the City of New^ York; or omit or refuse or neglect the execution of any order or special regulation of this Department; no person shall interfere with or obstruct any Inspector of this Department when making the inspections or examinations ordered by this Board, or when executing its orders. Sec. 13. The owner, lessee, tenant, and occupant of any building or premises, or of any part thereof, where there shall be a nuisance^ or a violation of any ordinance or section of the Sanitary Code, shall be jointly and sev- erally liable therefor, and each of them may be required to abate the nuisance, or comply with the order of the Board of Health in respect to the premises, or the part tliereof, of which such person is owner, lessee, tenant or occupant. Sec. 14. Whenever a nuisance in any place or upon any premises in the City of New York shall have been found or declared by resolution of the Board of 8 THE SANITARY CODE. Health to exist, and an order shall have been made di- recting the owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of such premises to make suitable and necessary repairs or im- provements, or to abate the said nuisance, such repairs or improvements shall be made, and such nuisance shall be fully abated within the time specified in and by said order. False Statements. Sec. 15. No person shall make any false or untruthful statement in any application for a permit from the Board of Health. Dwellings, Lodging-Houses and Other Buildings, Ventila- tion, Drainage and Plumbing. Sec. 16. Xo person shall hereafter erect, or cause to be erected, or converted to a new purpose by altera- tion, any building or structure, or change the construc- tion of any part of any building by addition or other- wise, so that it, or any part thereof, shall be inadequate or defective in respect to strength, ventilation, light, sewerage, or any other usual, proper, or necessary provision or precaution for the security of life and health; and no person shall make or use a smoke house or room, or apparatus for smoking meat, without a per- mit from the Board of Health, and subject to the condi- tions thereof; nor shall the builder, owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of any such, or of any other building or structure, cause or allow any matter or thing to be or to be done in or about any such building or structure dangerous or prejudicial to life or health. Sec. 17. No owner or lessee of any building, or any part thereof, shall lease or let or hire out or THE SANITARY CODE. 9 allow the same or any portion ilicrcdf to bo occu- pied by any person, or allow any (tnc l(j clwcl! m- lodge therein, except when said building or sucli parts thereof are sufficiently lighted, ventilated, pro- vided and accommodated, and are in all respects in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness for which this Code or any law of this State provides, or in which they or either of them require any such premises to be kept. Nor shall any such person rent, let, hire out, or allow, having power to prevent the same, to be used as or for a place of sleeping or residence, any portion or apartment of any building, which apartment or portion has not at least two feet of its height and space above the level of every part of the sidewalk and curbstone of any adjacent street, nor of wdiicli the floor is damp by reason of water from the ground, or which is impreg- nated or penetrated by any offensive gas, smell, or ex- halation prejudicial to health. But this section shall not prevent the leasing, "renting, or occupancy of cellars or rooms less elevated than aforesaid, and as a part of any building rented or let, when they are not let or intended to be occupied or used by any person as a sleeping apart- ment, or as a principal or sole dwelling apartment. Sec. 18. Xo person having the right and power to prevent the same shall knowingly cause or permit any person to sleep or remain in any cellar, or in any bath- room, or in any room where there is a water-closet, or in any place dangerous or prejudicial to life or health, by reason of a want of ventilation or drainage, or by reason of the presence of any poisonous, noxious, or offensive odors or substance, or otherwise. ]0 THE SANITAEY CODE. Sec. 19. No owner, lessee, or keeper of any tene- ment-house, lodging-house, boarding-house, or manufac- tory, sliall cause or allow the same to be overcrowded or cause or allow so great a "number of persons to dwell, be, or sleep in any such house, or any portion thereof, as thereby to cause any danger or detriment to life or health. Sec. 20. Every person who shall be the owner, lessee, or keeper or manager of any tenement-house, board- ing-house, lodging-house, or manufactory, shall provide, or cause to be provided, for the accommodation thereof and for the use of the tenants, lodgers, boarders, and workers thereat, adequate privies, or water-closets, and the same shall be adequately ventilated, and shall at all times be kept in such cleanly and wholesome condi- tion, as not to be offensive, or be dangerous or detri- mental to life or health. And no offensive smell or gases, from or through any outlet or sewer, or through any such privy or water-closet, shall be allowed by any person aforesaid to pass into such house or any part thereof, or into any other house or building. Sec. 21. For all lodging-houses in the City of New York containing rooms in which there are more than three beds for the use of lodgers or in which more than >>i.\' persons are allowed to sleep, a permit from the Board of Health shall be required, and no person shall have, lease, let or keep any such lodging-house or the lodgings therein, or assist in the keeping, hire, or assist in hiring, or conduct the business of any such lodging- house, or the lodgings therein, except pursuant to the terms and conditions of such permit. The beds in all lodging-houses and in every room in which beds are let THE SAiNlTARY CODE. 11 for lodgers shall he separated by a passageway of not less than two feet, horizontally, and all the beds shall be so arranged that under each of them the air shall freely circulate and there shall be adequate ventilation. Four hundred cubic feet of air space shall be provided and allowed for each bed or lodger. Sec. 22. Every owner, lessee, tenant and manager of any boarding-house or manufactory, shall cause every part thereof and its appurtenances to be put, and shall thereafter cause the same to be kept, in a cleanly and whol^oome condition, and shall cause every room thereof in which any p?rson may sleep, dwell, or work, to be adequately lighted and ventilated; and, if the same be a manufactory, shall cause every part thereof in which any person may work, to be maintained at such temperature, and be provided with such accom- modations and safeguards, as not, by reason of the want thereof, or of anything about the condition of such man- ufactory or its appurtenances, to cause any unnecessary danger or detriment to the life or health of any person being properly therein or thereat. See. 23. All filthy and dirty walls and ceilings of any building, including the walls and ceiling of the cellar thereof,, shall be thoroughly cleaned and whitewashed whenever required by the Board of Health. Sec. 24. The roofs and skylights of all buildings shall be kept in a condition of good repair so that rain water shall not enter the building. See. 25. No master or teacher, or manager of or in any school, public or private, or of or in any Sunday- 12 THE SANITARY CODE. school or gymnasium, or the officers or managers thereof, or officers or managers or persons having charge of any place of public worship, shall so far omit or neglect any duty or reasonable care or precaution respecting the safety or health of any scholar, pupil, or attendant, or respecting the temperature, ventilation, or cleanliness or strength of any church, hall of worship, school-house, school-room, or place of practice or exercise, or relative to anything appurtenant thereto, as that by reason of such neglect or omission, the life or health of any person shall suffer or incur any avoidable peril or detriment, and no day nursery shall be conducted in the City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 26. Every keeper or proprietor of a hotel or boarding-house, and every other person having for use a bathing-house upon any beach or shore of the ocean, for tlie accommodation of his guests or other perscms for pay, shall provide for the safety of such bathers two lines of sound, serviceable and strong manila or hemp rope, not less than one inch in diameter, anchored at some point above high water, at the same distance apart as the line of bathing-houses, or space fronting on such beach occupied by him is in width; and from the two points at which such life lines are so anchored^, such line shall be made to extend as far into the surf as bathing is ordinarily safe and free from danger of drowning to per- sons not expert in ST^imming, and at such points of safety such lines shall be anchored and buoyed. From the two points of such lines so extended, anchored and buoyed, a third line shall be extended, connecting the two extremities, and buoyed at such points as to be principally above the surface of the water, thereby in- closing a space within such lines and the beach within which bathing is believed to be safe. Every such keeper THE SANITARY CODE. 13 or proprietor or otlior sucli person sliall cause to be painted and put up in some prominent place upon the beach, near such bathing-houses, the following words: "Bathing beyond the lines dangerous." Such lines so placed, anchored and buoj^ed, and such notice so put up, shall continue and be so maintained by every such keeper, proprietor or other person during the entire season of surf bathing. The owner of a bathing-house shall not be subject to the provisions of this section where it is used, occupied or maintained by a lessee for hire, but such lessee shall be deemed the keeper or proprietor thereof. No bathing establishment shall be maintained in the City of New York or along the water front of said city without a permit from the Board of Health. Sewerage and Drainage. Sec. 27. Every person using, making, or having any drain, soil-pipe, passage or connection between any sewer (or with any river or other body of water) and any ground, building, erection, or place of business, and in like manner every owner or tenant of any gi'ounds, buildings or erections, and every person interested in such place of business or the business thereat, and in like manner every board, department, officer, and person (to the extent of the right and authority of each), shall cause and require such drain, soil-pipe, passage and con- nection to be at all times adequate for its purpose, and to convey and allow, freely and entirely, to pass w'hat- ever enters or should enter the same; and no change shall be made of the drainage, sewerage, or the sewer connection of any house or premises, involving changes in the drainage, sewerage, or sewer connection of any other house or premises, unless at least 30 days notice 14 THE SAIs^ITARY CODE. thereof in writing shall have been previously given to this Department, and to the owner or occupant of the premises affected by such change. Sec. 28. It shall be the duty of all boards, depart- ments, officers, and persons having power and authority so to do or require (and to the extent thereof) to cause sufficient water to be used, and other adequate means to be taken, so that w-hatever substances may enter any sewer shall pass speedily along and from the same, and sufficiently, far into some water or proper reservoir, that no accmnulations shall take place, and no exhalations proceed therefrom, dangerous or prejudicial to life or health. Sec. 29. Xo brick, sheet metal, or earthenware ma- terial or chimney flue shall be used as a sewer venti- lator, or to ventilate any trap, drain, soil or waste pipe. Sec. 30. The soil, waste and vent pipes in an exten- sion to any building must be extended above the roof of the main building if within thirty feet of the front or rear window^s of the main building or of an adjoining building, or if so located as to cause a nuisance. Sec. 31. All joints in iron drain pipes, soil and waste pipes, must be filled with oakum and lead and hand caulked so as to make them gas-tight. All connections of lead with iron pipes must be made with a brass sleeve or ferrule of the same size as the lead pipe, put in the hub of the branch of the iron pipe, and caulked' with lead. The lead pipe must be attached to the ferrule by a Aviped or overcast joint. All connections of lead waste and vent pipes shall be made by means of wiped joints. THE SANITARY CODE. 15 Sec. 32. All house drains, waste, soil and vent pipes, traps, and water pipes in any building and prem- ises shall at all times be kept in good order and repair so that no gases or odors shall escape therefrom and so that the same shall not leak. Sec. 33. Every water-closet, urinal, sink, basin, wash-tray, bath and every tub or set of tubs and hydrant waste pipe must be separately and effectively trapped; except where a sink and wash tubs immediately adjoin each other, in which case the waste pipe from the tuba may be connected with the inlet side of the sink trap. Traps must be placed as near the fixtures as practicable, and in no case shall a trap be more than two feet from the fixture. In no case shall the waste from a bath tub or other fixture be connected with a water-closet trap. No trap vent pipe shall be used as a waste or soil pipe. Sec. 34. No drain pipe from a refrigerator shall be connected with the soil or waste pipe, but it shall dis- charge into a properly trapped, sewer-connected, water- supplied, open sink. No overflow pipe from a tank shall discharge into any soil or waste pipe, or water-closet trap or into the drain or sewer, but it may discharge upon the roof or into an open water- supplied tank. Sec. 35. Rain water leaders shall be sound, tight and adequate for their purpose and shall not be used as soil, waste or vent pipes, or be connected therewith; nor shall any soil, waste or vent pipe be used as a leader. When within the house, the leader must be of cast iron, with leaded joints; ^vhen outside of the house and con- nected with the house drain it must be trapped bencatli IG THE SANITARY CODE. the ground or just inside of the wall, the trap being arranged in either case so as to prevent freezing. In every case where a leader opens near a window or a lightshaft, it must be properly trapped at its base. The joint between a cast iron leader and the roof must be made gas and water tight by means of a brass ferrule and lead or copper pipe properly connected. See. 30. The waste or soil pipe in every lodging- house, or other dwelling in the City of New York shall be ventilated by extending the same by means of a pipe of the same size to the height of not less than two feet above the roof of the building. Sec. 37. No privy vault, or cesspool, shall be allowed to remain on any premises, or shall be built in the City of New York, unless when unavoidable. The sides and bottom of every privy vault, cesspool, or school-sink in the City of New York must be impermeable, and secure against any saturation of the walls or the ground above the same. No water-closet or privy shall be constructed without adequate provision for the effectual and proper ventilation and cleansing thereof. Sec. 38. No person, persons, company or corporation shall cause, permit or allow any sewage, drainage, fac- tory refuse or any foul or offensive liquid or other ma- terial to flow, leak, escape or be emptied or discharged into the waters of any river, stream, canal, harbor, bay or estuary, or into the sea within the city limits, ex- cepting under low-water mark, and in such manner and under such conditions that no nuisance can or shall be caused thereby or as a result thereof. THE SANITARY CODE. 17 Street Drainage. Sec. 39. Ever}' person, Avlien cleaning any street, shall clean, and every contractor shall cause to be cleaned, the gutters and parts of the street along which the water will run, before using any water to wash the same; and no substance that could be before scraped away shall be washed or allowed to be carried or be put into the sewer, or into any receptacle therewith connected. Sec. 40. No person being owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of any building or premises, shall allow any water or other liquid to run from or out of such build- ing or premises upon or across any sidewalk or curb- stone, and if such substance is allowed to pass into any street, it must reach the same by a passage, to be kept at all times adequate and in repair, under or through such flag-stone or curb-stone; and no water or other liquid, or ice therefrom, shall be allowed to gather or remain on the upper surface of such curb, fiag-stone, or passage; nor shall such person allow any accumula- tion of such water or liquid, or the ice therefrom, upon any street or place, but shall at all times cause the same to be removed or to pass along the gutter or some proper passage to one of the rivers or into a sewer. Sec. 41. Every owner, tenant, lessee and occupant of any building or lot (whether vacant or occupied) Avithin or near the built-up portions of said city, shall keep and cause to be kept the sidewalk and flagging, and ciirb-stone in front thereof, free from obstructions and nuisances of every kind, and shall not allow anything in the area or yard or on or about his premises to become a nuisance, or dangerous or prejudicial to life or health. 18 THE SANITARY CODE. Food and Drink. Sec. 42. No meat, fisli, birds, fowl, fruit, vegetables, or milk not being then healthy, fresh, sound, wholesome, and safe for human food, nor any meat or fish that died by disease or accident, shall be brought into the City of New York, or offered or held for sale as such food anywhere in said city, nor shall any such articles be kept or stored therein. Sec. 43. No calf, or the meat thereof, shall be brought into the City of New York or held, sold or offered for sale for human food, which, when killed, was less than four weeks old, or when killed and dressed weighs less than forty-five (45) pounds. No pig, or the meat thereof, shall be brought into the City of New York or held, sold, or offered for sale for human food, which, when killed, was less than five weeks old. No lamb, or the meat thereof, shall be brought into the City of New York or held, sold or offered for sale for human food, which, when killed, was less than eight weeks old. Nor shall any meagre, sickly, or unwholesome fish, birds or fowl be brought into said city or held, sold or offered for sale for human food. Sec. 44. No cattle shall be killed for human food while in an overheated, feverish, or diseased condition; and ajl such diseased cattle, in the City of New York, and the place where found, and their disease, shall be at once reported to this Department by the owner or custodian thereof, that the proper order may be made relative thereto, or for the removal thereof from said city. THE SANITARY CODE. 19 Sec. 45. The body of any animal or any part thereof, which is to be used as human food, shall not be carted or carried through the streets or avenues, unless it l)e so covered as to protect it from dust and dirt; and no meat, poultry, game or fish shall be hung or exposed for sale in any street or outside of any shop or store, or in the open windows or doorways thereof, in the City of New York. No meat or dead animal above the size of a rabbit shall be taken to any public or private market to be sold for human food until the same shall have been fully cooled after killing, nor until the entrails, head and feet (except of poultry and game, and except the heads and feet of swine) shall have been removed. Sec. 46. No breadstuffs, cake, pastry, dried or preserved fruits, candies or confectionery shall be kept, sold or offered for sale outside of a building in the City of New York, or in any street or public place, unless the}^ be kept properly covered so that they shall be pro- tected from dust and dirt. Sec. 47. No person, being the manager or keeper of any saloon, boarding-house or lodging-house, or being employed as a clerk, servant, or agent thereat, shall therein or thereat, offer or have, for food or drink, or to be eaten or drunk, any poisonous, deleterious, or un- wholesome substance, nor allow anything therein to be done or to occur, dangerous to life or prejudicial to health. Sec. 48. No meat, fish, fruit, vegetables or milk, or unwholesome liquid shall knowingly be bought, sold, held, offered " for sale, labeled, or any representation made in respect thereof, under a false name or quality, 20 THE SANITARY CODE, or as being what the same is not, as respects wholesome- ness, soundness, or safety for food or drink. Sec. 49. Every person, being the owner, lessee, or occupant of any room, stall or place where any meat, fish, fruit or vegetables, designed or held for human food, shall be stored or kept, or shall be held or offered for sale, shall put and keep such room, stall and place, and its appurtenances, in a cleanly and w^holesome con- dition: and every person having charge, or interested or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care or in respect to the custody or sale of any meat, fish, fruit, birds, fowl or vegetables, designed for human food, shall put and preserve the same in a cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall not allow the same, or any part therrof, to be poisoned, infected, or rendered unsafe or unwholesome for human food. Sec. 50. Xo butcher or dealer shall keep in any market any refrigerator or ice-box, unless the same shall 1)6 lined with some proper metallic substance, so as to be water-tight. See. 51. In the sale, or keeping for sale, of any bev- erage or drink, no person shall keep or use any tap, faucet, tank, fountain or vessel, or any pipe or conduit in connection therewith, which shall be composed or made, either w^holly or in part, of brass, lead, copper, or other metal or metallic substances that are or will be afi'ected by liquids so that dangerous, unwholesome or deleterious compounds are formed therein or thereby, or such that beer, soda water, syrups or other liquids, or any beverage, drink or flavoring material drawn there- from shall be unwholesome, dangerous or detrimental to lirnlth. THE SANITARY CODE. 21 Sec. 52. No person shall havo at any plar-e wlicrc milk, butter or cheese is kept for sale, nor shall at any place sell, deliver, or ofler, or have for sale, or keep for use, nor shall any person bring or send to said citj' any unwholesome, skimmed, watered or adulterated miJk, or milk known as "swill-milk," or milk from cows or other animals that for the most part have been kept in stables or that have been fed in whole or in part on swill, or milk from sick or diseased cows or other animals, or any butter or cheese made from any si.ch milk, or any unwholesome butter or cheese. Sec. 53. Xo milk which is watered, adulterated, reduced or changed in any respect by the addition of water or other substance, or by the removal of cream, shall be brought into the City of New York or held, kept, sold or offered for sale at any place in said city: nor shall any one keep,- have, sell or ofTer for sale in th.e said city any such milk. The term "adulterated milk," when so used in this code means : First — Milk containing more than eighty-eight per centum of water or fluids. Second— Milk containing less than twelve per centum of milk solids. Third — Milk containing less than three per centum of fats. Fourth — Milk drawn from animals within fifteen days before or five days after parturition. THE SANITAEY CODE. Fifth — Milk dra^vn from animals fed on distillery waste, or any substance in a state of fermentation or putrefaction, or on any unwholesome food. Sixth — Milk drawn from cows kept, in a crowded or unhealthy condition. Seventh — ^IMilk from which any part of the cream has been removed. Eighth — Milk which has been diluted wdth water or any other fluid, or to w^hich has been added, or into which has been introduced, any foreign substance what- ever. Ninth — ^jMilk the temperature of which is higher than 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Sec. 54. Any milk found to be adulterated, either by the addition of water or other substance, or by the re- moval of cream, which has been brought into the City of Xew York or is held or offered for sale in said city, may be seized and destroyed by any inspector, or other officer of this Department authorized to inspect milk. Sec. 55. Xo condensed milk which is adulterated shall be brought into the City of New York or held, kept, sold or offered for sale at any place in said city, nor shall any one have, keep, sell or offer for sale in said city any such condensed milk. TTie words "condensed milk" mean pure milk from which any part of the water has been removed, or pure milk from which any part of the water has been removed and to which sugars have been added. The term "adulterated," when used in this section, refers to condensed milk in w-hieh the amount of fat is less than twenty- five per cent, of the milk solids THE SANITARY CODE. 23 contained therein, or to which any foreign substance whatever has been added, excepting sugars, as in pre- served milks. Sec. 56. No milk shall be received, held, kept, offered for sale or delivered in the City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health and snl)jcct to tlic conditions thereof. Sec. 57. No cream which is adulterated shall be brought into the City of New York or held, kept, sold or offered for sale in said city, nor shall any one keep, have, sell or offer for sale in said city any such cream. The term 'cream" means the fatty portions of pure milk which rise to the surface when the milk is left at rest, or which are separated by other means. The term "adulterated," when used in this section, refers to cream to which any foreign substance whatever has been added. Sec. 58. Upon any cattle, milk, meat, birds, fowl, fish or vegetables being found by any inspector or other officer of this Department in a condition which ren- ders them, in his opinion, unwholesome and unfit for use as human food, or in a condition or of a weight or quality in this, code condemned or forbidden, he is empowered, authorized and directed to immediately condemn the same and cause it to be removed to the offal or garbage dock for destruction, and report his action to the De- partment without delay. And the owner or person in charge thereof, when so divectnd by the said inspector "or by an order of the Sanitary Superintendent, or an Assistant Sanitary Superintendent, shall remove, or cause the same to be removed, to the place designated by the said inspectors 24 THE SANITARY CODE. or the order of said Sanitary Superintendent or As- sistant Sanitary Superintendent, or to the offal dock, and shall not sell, or offer to sell, or dispose of the same for human food. And when, in the opinion of the Sani- tary Superintendent, or an Assistant Sanitary Superin- tendent, any such meat, fish, fruits, or vegetables shall be unfit for human food, or any such animal, cattle, sheep, swine, or fowls, by reason of disease, or exposure to contagious disease, shall be unfit for human food, and improper or unfit to remain near other animals or to be kept alive, the Board of Health may direct the same to be destroyed,- as dangerous to life and health, and may order any such animals, cattle, sheep, swine, or fowls, to be removed by any inspector, police officer, officer or agent of this Department, to be killed, and taken to the offal dock. Sec. 59. It shall be the duty of every manufacturer, importer or other person who manufactures or imports, in the City of New York, any artificial or natural min- eral, spring or other water for drinking purposes, to file, under oath, with the Department of Health, the name of such water and the exact location from which it is ob- tained, together with the chemical and bacteriological analysis thereof, and, when manufactured, the exact formula used in its production, giving qualitatively and quantitatively each and every item entering into its composition. No person shall manufacture or bottle min- eral, carbonated or table waters, in the City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 60. Every butcher or milk dealer, and their agents, shall allow the parties authorized by this Depart- ment to freely and fully inspect the cattle, meats, fish, THE SANITARY CODE. 25 vegetables and milk held or kept by them, or intended for sale, and will be expected to answer all reasonable and proper questions asked by such persons relative to the condition thereof, and of the places where such arti- cles may be. - Water. Sec. 61. No person shall throw or allow to run or pass into any public reservoir, water-pipe or aqueduct, or into or upon any border or margin thereof, or excava- tion or stream therewith connected, any animal, vege- table, or mineral substance whatever; nor shall any per- son (having power or right to prevent the same) do or permit any act or thing that will impair or peril the purity or Avholesomeness of any water or other fluid used or designed as a drink, in any part of said city; nor shall any person bathe nor (except in the discharge of a public duty) put any part of his person into such water; nor shall any unauthorized person open any erection or unscrew any hydrant holding such water. Sec. 62. It sli.all be the duty of every person, officer, department, and board, having any authority and con- trol in regard to any Avater designed for human con- sumption (and within the proper sphere of the duty of each thereof), to take all usual and also all reasonable measures and precautions to secure and preserve the purity and wholesomeness of such water. Sec. 63. Water from wells in the Borough of Man- hattan shall not be used for drink; nor shall such water be used for any purpose in any tenement or lodging- house, hotel, manufactory or buildings in which persons are living or employed, or in which there are offices, or a 26 THE SANITARY CODE. restaurant or saloon, without a permit from the Board of Health. Water from wells in the other Boroughs of said city, other than the public water supply, shall not be used in any tenement or lodging-house, hotel, manu- factory or buildings in which persons are living or em- ployed, or in which there are offices or a restaurant or saloon, without a permit from the .Board of Health. Sec. 04. No person shall destroy or in anywise injure or impair any drinking hydrant, or part thereof, in the said city; nor shall any person interfere with the use or enjoyment of the water therein, or therefrom, or in- terrupt the flow thereof, nor shall any person put any dirty, poisonous, medicinal, or noxious substance into or near said water or hydrant, whereby such water is made or may be regarded as dangerous or unwholesome as a drink. Drugs, Medicines, Adulterations and Poisons. Sec. 65. Xo person shall make, prepare, put up, ad- minister or dispense any prescription, decoction, or medi- cine imder any deceptive or fraudulent name, direction or pretence; nor shall any ingredient be substituted for another in any prescription; nor shall any false or de- ceptive representation be made by any person to any other, as to the kind, quality, purpose, or effect of any such drug, medicine, decoction, drink, or other article offered or intended to be taken as food or medicine. Sec. 60. No poison shall be sold at retail by any per- son in the City of New York without having affixed to the bottle, box, parcel or receptacle containing such poison, a label bearing the word "Poison" distinctly shown, printed or wi'itten in red ink, together with the name and THE SANITARY CODE. 27 place of business of the seller and the name of the poison printed or written upon such bottle, box, parcel or receptacle in plain legible characters. Sec. 67. No person shall have, sell or offer for sale in tlie City of New York any food which is adulterated. The term food, as herein used, shall include every article of food and every beverage used by man, and all con- fectionery. Food, as herein defined, shall be deemed adulterated: (a). If any substance or substances has or have been mixed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously af- fect its quality or strength. (b). If any inferior or cheaper substance or sub- stances have been substituted wholly or in part for the article. (c). If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted. (d). If it be an imitation or bo sold under the name of another article. (e). If it consists wholly or in part of diseased or de- composed or putrid or rotten animal or vegetable sub- stance whether manufactured or not, or in the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal. (f). If it be colored, or eontcd or poIi^]lcd, or pow- dered, whereby damage is concealed, or it is made to ap- pear better than it really is, or of greater value. (g). If it contains any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient which may render such article injurious to the health of the person consuming it; or if it con- 28 THE SANITAEY CODE. tains any antiseptic or preservative not evident and not known to the purchaser or consumer. An article of food which does not contain any ingredi- ent injurious to health, shall not be deemed adulterated, in the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now, or from time to time, known as articles of food under their own distinctive names, or which shall be labeled so as to plainly indicate that they are mixtures, combina- tions, compounds or blends. Spirituous,, fermented and malt liquors shall be deemed adulterated if they contain any substance or in- gredient not normal or healthful to exist in spirituous, fermented or malt liquors, or which may be deleterious or detrimental to health when such liquors are used as a beverage. Confectionery shall be deemed adulterated if it con- tains terra alba, barytes, talc or other mineral sub- stance or poisonous colors or flavors, or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health. 8cc. G8. Xo person shall manufacture, produce, com- pound, brew, distill, have, sell or offer for sale in the City of Xev/ York any drug which is adulterated. The term drug, as herein used, shall include all medicines for external or internal use, or both. Drugs, as herein defined, shall be deemed adulterated: (a). If, when sold by or under a name recognized in the United States pharmacopeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein. (b). If, when sold by or under a name not recognized in the United States pharmacopeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopeia, or other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in such work. THE SANITARY CODE. 29 (c). If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which it is sold. Cattle, Horses, Etc. Sec. 69. No cattle, sheep, swine, horse, goat, goose, oi mule, or any dangerous or offensive animal, shall be allowed by any owner, or by any person having charge of the same, to go at large in any street or public place in the City of New York. No pigs, swine or cattle sliall be unloaded from any cars upon any street or public place in the City of New York, except pursuant to a permit from the Board of Health. No cattle, pigs, swine or slieep shall be driven to any slaughter-house in the Borough of Brooklyn, except between the hours of eight of the evening and one hour after sunrise of the next morning; nor shall more than twenty cattle, or more than one hundred pigs or swine, or more than one hundred and fifty sheep, be driven together; and they shall be driven in streets and avenues (leading toward their destination) where they will least endanger the lives of human beings, as the Department of Health may designate, provided, that when the land- ing or transportation of cattle shall have been delayed or prevented by ice, fog or unavoidable accident, the Board of Health may, at its discretion, give a permit to land and drive such cattle at other hours than those des- ignated herein, but in no case shall cattle be driven past any school or church. • Sec. 70. No cattle shall be kept in any place where the ventilation is not adequate and the water and food are not of such quality and in such condition as to pre- 30 THE SANITARY CODE. serve their health, safe condition, and wholesomeuess for food. Sec. 71. No cows shall be kept in the City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health. Every stable and place where any cows, horses, or other animals may be, shall be kept at all times in a cleanly and wholesome condition, and properly venti- lated, and no person shall allow any animal to be there- in, which is infected with any contagious or pestilential disease. Sec. 72. No horses shall be yarded and no cattle, swine, or sheep, geese or goats, shall be kept or yarded within or adjacent to the built-up portions of the City of New York, without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 73. No cattle, with or without their young calves, shall be led through or along any of the streets of the City of New Y^ork without a permit from the Board of Health, and in strict accordance with the routes, hours, and conditions prescribed thereby; and no person shall lead, attempt to lead, or cause to be led, any cattle otherwise than singly, one person with each, nor upon any sidewalks; provided, however, that sheep may be driven on routes prescribed for them, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the permits issued by the Board of Health. Sec. 74. No Texas, Colorado or other dangerous cat- tle .-hall l)e itri\tn through or along the public streets, except in those cases only where the cattle shall be land- ed at the foot of the street leading to the slaughter- house to v/hich such cattle shall be destined, and where THE SANITARY CODE. 31 the street shall be efTectually barred or closed, so as to prevent the escape of such cattle during the transfer from the dock to such slaughter-house, and no such cat- tle shall be landed except in accordance with the pro- visions and restrictions of this ordinance. Sec. 75. No cellar in the City of New York shall be occupied as a stable for horses, cattle or other animals, without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 76. No cattle shall be placed or carried, while bound or tied by their legs, or bound down by their necks, in any vehicle in said city, but shall be allowed freely to stand in such vehicle when transported, and while being therein. Sec. 77. No person shall take or drive or allow to go or be taken (having tjie right and ability to prevent the same), any horse or other animal, or any vehicle, upon any sidewalk or foot-path in front of any building, to the peril of any person; nor shall any person block up or obstruct any street or place, or contribute thereto. Fowls and Small Animals. Sec. 78. No live chickens, geese, ducks, or other fowls shall be brought into, or kept, or held, or offered for sale, or killed, in any yard, area, cellar, coop, building, premises, or part thereof, or in any public market, or on any sidewalk, street, or other place within the built-up portions of the City of New York, without a permit from the Board of Health and subject to the conditions thereof. 32 THE SANITARY CODE. Sec. 79. No person shall sell or keep for sale at any place in the City of New York any dogs, cats, birds or other small animals, without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 80. Xo live pigeons shall be kept within the built- up portion of the City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health and subject to the conditions thereof. Slaughtering and Slaughter-Houses. Sec. 81. No person shall kill or dress any animal or meat in any market, and the keeping and slaughtering of all cattle, and the preparation and keeping of all meat and fish, birds and fowl, shall be in that manner which is, or is generally reputed or known to be, best adapted to secure and continue their safety and whole- someness as food. Sec. 82. The business of slaughtering cattle, sheep, swine, pigs or calves shall not be conducted in the City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health. Nor shall such business be conducted unless the same shall be in buildings located on or near the water front, and all buildings shall be constructed so as to receive all slock deliverable thereat from boats, ears, or transports, and to secure the proper care and disposition of all parts of the slaughtered animals upon the premises, or the immediate removal thereof by means of boats. It shall not be unlawful, however, to slaughter cattle, sheep, swine, pigs or calves in the Borough of Brooklyn, at such places where such business was established and carried on on January 3, 1898. THE SANITARY CODE. 33 See. 83. The business of slaiigliterinjr cattle, sheep, swine, pigs or calves in the Borough of jNIanhattan shall be conducted on the west side of the Borough between the north of the middle line of the block between W. 38th and W. 39th streets and the south side of W. 41st street, 11th avenue and North River, inclusive ; and the slaughtering of cattle, sh.eep or calves on the east side of the Borough shall be between the north of the middle line of the block between East 42d and East 43d streets and the south side of East 47th street, First avenue and East River, inclusive. Sec. 84. No cattle, sheep, swine, pigs or calves shall be driven in the streets or avenues of the Borough of ^lanhattan. Cattle, sheep, swine, pigs or calves must be driven only in such streets and avenues as shall be set apart and designated by the Board of Health in the Boroughs of Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Rich- mond. Sec. 85. No building shall be erected or converted into, or used as a slaughter-house in the City of New York until the plans thereof have been duly submitted to the Board of Healtli and approved in writing by said Board; and no building occupied as a slaughter-house or any part thereof, or any building on the same lot, shall be occupied at any time as a dwelling or lodging place; and every such building shall at all times be kept adequately and thoroughly ventilated. All floors where any meat, refuse, oflfal, fertilizer or any other materials, derived directly or indirectly from slaughtering of animals, are treated or handled must be made water tight, properly drained and sewer. connected, and the walls of the killing, meat dressing and cooling 34 THE SANITABY CODE. rooms must be covered to the height of six feet above the floor with some non-absorbent material. The yards, other than where cattle are kept, must be cemented or paved so as not to absorb liquid filth, and be so graded as to permit the same to flow into the sewer opening. All woodwork, except floors and counters, must be painted or whitewashed. Blood from slaughtered animals must not be allowed to flow into the sewer or river, but while still fresh must be treated so as not to become offensive. All of- fensive odors arising from the handling of meat and treating of and caring for oflfal, blood or any other ma- terial stored or manufactured, must be cared for by destruction or condensation, and not allowed to escape into the outside air. Sec. 86. No horses shall be slaughtered in the City of New York mthout a permit from the Board of Health. The bringing into the City of New York and the keep- ing or selling of horse flesh for food, and the slaughter- ing of horses for food in said city are prohibited. Sec. 87. No ofl'al or butcher's refuse shall be conveyed through any street or avenue or over any ferry in the City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health and when so conveyed must be in tight boxes, barrels or receptacles, and tightly covered so that no odor shall escape therefrom. No ofl'al or butcher's refuse shall be brought into the City of New York. Offensive Trades. Sec. 88. No person shall permit or have any of- fensive water or other liquid or substance on his prem- THE SANITARY CODE. 35 ises or grounds, to the prejudice of life or health, whether for use in any trade or otherwise; and no establishment or place of business for tanning, skinning, or scouring, or for dressing hides or leather, or for carrying on any offensive or noisome trade or business, shall hereafter be opened, started, established or maintained in the City of New York, without a permit from the Board of Health, And every such establishment now existing shall be kept cleanly and wholesome, and be so conducted in every par- ticular as not to be offensive, or prejudicial to life or health. Sec. 89. No person or corporation being a manufac- turer of gas, or engaged about the manufacture thereof, shall throw or deposit or allow to run, or shall permit to be thrown or deposited in any public waters, river or stream, or in any sewer therewith connected, or in any street, or public place, any gas, tar, or any refuse matter of or from anj' gas-house works, manufactory, mains or service pipes; or permit the escape of any of- fensive odors from their works, mains or pipes; nor shall any such person or corporation permit to escape from any of their works, mains, or pipes, any gas dangerous or prejudicial to life or health, or manufacture illumi- nating gas of such ingredients and quality that in the process of burning it any substance which may escape therefrom shall be dangerous or prejudicial to life or health; or fail to use the most approved or all reasonable means for preventing the escape of odors. No buildings shall be erected or converted into, or used as a place for the manufacture of illuminating gas, until the plans of such buildings and the location thereof have been duly approved in writing by the Board of Health. 36 THE SANITARY CODE, Sec. 90. It shall not be lawful for any person or per- sons, incorporated or unincorporated, to carry on, estab- lish, prosecute, or continue, within the Borough of Man- liattan, the occupation, or trade, or business of bone boiling, bone burning, bone grinding, horse skinning, cow skinning, or skinning of dead animals, or the boiling of offal; and any such establishment or establishments, or place of such business existing within said borough, shall be forthwith removed out of said borough, and siich trade, occupation, or business shall be forthwith abated and discontinued, providing that nothing in this section contained shall apply to the slaughtering or dressing of animals for sale in said citv. Sec. 91. The business of bone crushing, bone boiling, bone grinding, bone or shell burning, lime making, horse skinning, cow skinning, glue making "from any part of dead animals, gut cleaning, hide curing, fat rendering, boiling of fish, swill or offal, heating, dry- ing, storing of blood, scrap, fat, grease or offensive ani- mal or vegetable matter, or manufacturing materials for manure or fertilizer, shall not be carried on or continued within the Boroughs of BrookljTi, The Bronx, Queens or Richmond without a permit from the Board of Health. Nor shall any buildings be erected or converted or used for the carrying on of any business above men- tioned until the plans thereof have been duly submitted to the Board of Health and approved in writing by said | Board. Sec. 92. No occupation or business that is dangerous or detrimental to life or health shall be established or carried on in the City of Xew York. THE SANITARY CODE. 37 Sec. 93. All persons engaged in the business of boil- ing or rendering fat, lard, or animal matter, siiall cause the scrap or residuum to hv dried or otherwise prepared so as to effectuallj- deprive such material of all od'ensive odors, and to preser\e'the same entirely inoffensive, im- mediately after the removal thereof from the receptacles in which the rendering process may be conducted. Sec. 94. Xo person shall hereafter erect or establish in said city any manufactory or place of business for boiling any varnish or oil, or for the distilling of any ardent or alcoholic spirits, or for making any lampblack, turpentine, or tar, or for the treating and refining of ores, metals or alloys of metals, with acids or heat, or for conducting any other business that will or does gen- erate any offensive or deleterious gas, vapor, deposit or exhalation without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 95. No fat, tallow or lard shall be melted or rendered, except when fresh from the slaughtered ani- mal, and taken directly from the places of slaughter in the City of New York, and in a condition free from sourness and taint and all other causes of offense at the time of rendering, and all melting and rendering must be in steam-tight vessels, and the gases and odors there- j from must be destroyed by combustion or other means equally effective, and according to the best and most im- proved means and processes; and everything preceding, following, and in connection with such melting and ren- dering, and the premises where the same shall be con- ducted, must be free from all offensive odor, and other cause of detriment to the public health. No fat, lard or tallow shall be brought into the City of New York to be rendered or melted, and none shall be rendered or 38 THE SANITARY CODE. melted that has come from any jjlace outside of said city. Sec. 96. Tlie owners, lessees, tenants, occupants and managers of every blacksmith or other shop, forge, coal-yard, foundry, manufactory, and premises where any business is done, or in or upon which an engine, or boilers, or locomotives are used, shall cause all ashes, cinders, rubbish, dirt and refuse to be removed to some proper place, so that the same shall not accumulate at any of the. above-mentioned premises, or in the appurte- nances thereof, nor the same become filthy or offensive. Nor shall any owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, manager, engineer, fireman, or any other person, cause, suffer or allow any cinders, dust, gas, steam or offensive odor to escape or be discharged from any such building, place or premises, to the detriment or annoyance of any person not being therein or thereupon engaged. Nor shall any such owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, superintendent, manager, engineer, fireman, or anj^ other person, cause, suffer or allow smoke to escape or be dis- charged from any such building, place or premises or from any engine or locomotive used therein or thereon. Sec. 97. Every owner, lessee, tenant, and occupant of any stall, stable, or apartment in the built-up portions of the City of New York, in which any horse, cattle, or other animal shall be kept, or of any place in which manure, stable refuse, or any liquid discharge of such animals shall collect or accumulate shall cause such ma- nure, stable refuse, or liquid to be promptly and prop- erly removed therefrom, and shall at all times keep or cause to be kept such stalls, stables or apartments, and the drains, yards, and appurtenances thereof, in a THE SANITAKY CODE. 39 clean and sanitary condition, so that no olFensive odors shall be allowed to escape therefrom. Every such stable, and the yards and appurtenances thereof, shall bt; con- nected with the sewer in the street in front thereof. It shall be the duty of every such owner, lessee, tenant or occupant to cause all manure and stable refuse to be re- moved daily from such stable or stable premises, unless the same are pressed in bales, barrels or boxes, as here- inafter provided. It shall not be lawful to remove ma- nure and stable refuse in carts or wagons, or to cart the same within the city without a pormit from tne Board of Health, and such carts and wagons shall be of a con- struction approved by said Board, and every such cart or wagon must have a permit from the Board, and be used in accordance with the terms of such permit and not otherwise. Manure carts and wagons shall be loaded within the stable premises and not upon the street or sidewalk, and the manure and stable refuse shall be re- moved from such premises in a manner not in any way offensive or so as to cause any nuisance. All manure and stable refuse when transported through the streets must be covered and secured so that no part of the same will fall upon the street, and so as to prevent the escape of offensive odors, and the same shall not be unloaded or deposited within the city limits, ex- cept upon the conditions of a permit from the Board of Health, and at such docks and places as shall be ap- proved by the Board, and to which a permit in writing for such use shall have previously been granted by said Board. No manure or stable refuse shall be thrown upon or allowed to fall or remain upon any street or sidewalk or upon any ground rear any stable. No ma- nure vault shall be built or used on any premisos within the built-up portions of the City of New York. 40 THE SANITARY CODE. Every owner, lessee, tenant and occupant of any stall, stable or apartment, in the built-up portions of the City of NeAv York, in which any horse, cattle or other animals shall be kept, and from which the manure and stable refuse are not removed daily as hereinbefore provided, shall cause the same to be pressed in bales, barrels or boxes, at least once in each day, and so pressed as to reduce the same to not more than one-third of the' original bulk, ]Manure and stable refuse pressed in bales, barrels or boxes, shall be removed to such docks or places as shall be approved by the Board of Health, and to which a permit for such use shall have previously been gi-anted by said Board, aiid such bales, barrels and boxes shall not be opened until delivered at such docks or places. Offensive Materials. Sec, 98, Xo person shall fill in any land under or above water within the limits of the City of New York, or any of tlie islands situated within such limits, with garbage, dead animals, decaying matter or any offensive and unwholesome material, or with dirt, ashes, or other refuse, when mixed with such garbage, dead animals or portions thereof, decaying matter, or offensive and un- wholesome material. Xo street sweepings shall be deposited or used to fill up or raise the surface or level of any lot, grounds, dock, wharf, or pier in or adjacent to the built-up portions of the City of Xew Y^ork without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 99. Xo ground or material filled with offensive matter or substance, or that will emit or allow to arise through or from the same, any offensive smell or dele- THE SANITARY CODE. 41 terious exhalation, shall (adjacent to or within the built- up portion of said city) be opened or turned up or the surface thereof removed, between the first day of May and the first day of October of any year, except accord- ing to a permit first obtained therefor from the Board of Health. Sec. 100. No part of the contents of or substances fiom any sink, privy, or cesspool, nor any manure, or other offensive substance, shall be by any person de- posited or allowed to run or drop into or remain in any street or public place; nor shall the same be thrown or allowed to fall or run into any river or other body of water, save through the proper underground sewers. Sec. 101. No person shall gather, collect, accumulate, store, expose, carry, or transport in any manner through the streets and public places of this city, or in or to any cellar, or house in said city, any bones, refuse, or of- fensive material without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 102. No swill, brine, urine of animals, or other offensive animal matter, nor any stinking, noxious liquid, or other filthy matter of any kind, shall by any person he allowed to run or fall into or upon any street or public place, or be taken or put therein. Sec. 103. No blood, butcher's offal or garbage, nor any dead animals, nor any putrid or stinking animal or vege- table matter, shall be thrown by any person or allowed to go into any street, place, sewer or receiving basin, or into any river or standing or running water or excava- 42 THE SANITAEY CODE. tion or into any ground or premises in the built-up por- tions of the city. Sec. 104. Xo person shall draw off, or allow to run oflf into any ground, street or place of said city, the con- tents (or any part thereof) of any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool, or sink; nor shall any owner, tenant, or occu- pant of any building to which any vault, sink, privy, or cesspool shall appertain, or be attached, permit the con- tents or any part thereof, to flow therefrom, or to rise within two feet of any part of the top, or permit said contents to become offensive ; nor shall any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool or sink be filled or covered with dirt until it has been emptied of its filthy contents. Sec. 105. Xo person shall throw into or deposit in any vault, sink, privy, or cesspool, any offal, ashes, meat, fish, garbage, or other substance except that of which any such place is the appropriate receptacle. Sec. 106. Every tub or other receptacle in any sink, or privy (or placed, or allowed to stand there- in by any owner, tenant, or occupant of any building or premises), and used to contain any liquid or partially liquid substance, shall be sufficiently strong, perfectly tight, and adequately provided with a strong cover and with hoops and handles; shall not be allowed to be filled to within four inches of any part of the top, and shall not be allowed (or its contents) to be offensive. And the provisions of this Code relatiA^e to emptying cesspools, and to throwing any substance therein, shall apply to said tubs and receptacles as if here repeated and applied thereto. THE SANITARY CODE. 43 And no person shall throw, drop or allow to fall into the North or East river, or into any street or place, any substance being, or having been, part of the contents of any such vault, cesspool, privy, sink, tub or receptacle, or any offal. Sec. 107. Neither the contents of any such tub, or of any receptacle, cesspool, privy, vault, sink, water-closet or cistern, nor anything in any room, excavation, vat, building, premises or place, shall be allowed to be- come a nuisance, or offensive, so as to be dangerous or prejudicial to life or health. Sec. 108. It shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, lessee, and occupant of any and every building, or place of business in the generally built-up portions of the City of New York, forthwith to provide or cause to be pro- vided, and at all times thereafter to keep and cause to be kept and provided, within such building or place of business, and for the exclusive use of such building or place of business, separate receptacles for receiving and holding, without leakage, all the ashes, garbage, and liquid substances that may accumulate during thirty- six hours, from said building or place of business, or the portion thereof of which such person may be the owner, tenant, lessee, or occupant; and every such receptacle de- signed and used to hold ashes shall be made of or lined with some suitable metal. All such materials and substances shall be separated and put into their respective receptacles, and such re- ceptacles shall not be filled to within four inches of the top thereof. Such receptacles, as well as any light refuse or rub- bish to be removed, shall be kept within the premises 44 THE SANITARY CODE, until the proper time for removal and shall then be placed in the area, or within the stoop-line only and shall there remain until such materials or substances are removed by the Department of Street Cleaning, but in no case shall such receptacles be placed where they shall be or become a nuisance. All light refuse or rubbish, likely to be scattered or blown about, shall, before being placed outside of any building or premises for removal, be properly bundled, packed or otherwise secured. Sec. 109. Xo person, not for that purpose authorized, shall interfere with such receptacles or with the con- tents thereof, nor shall such person in any way handle or disturb such contents. Sec. 110. All occupants so preferring may deliver their ashes, garbage and rubbish directly to the proper carts, to be taken away at any hour of the day when said carts may be present; and said carts may take such articles from receptacles delivered at any such hour; pro- vided that such garbage or rubbish be not highly filthy or offensive; and in the latter case, the same shall not be so delivered or received dui'ing the period from seven o'clock a. m. of any day till ten o'clock of the evening of the same day. Sec. 111. No pile or deposit of manure, offal, dirt or garbage, or any accumulation of any offensive or nau- seous substance, shall be made within the built-up por- tions of the City of New York, or upon the piers, docks or bulkheads adjacent thereto, or upon any vessel or scow lying at such pier, wharf or bulkhead; nor shall such deposit or accumulations be made anywhere in this THE SAMTAUY CODE. 46 city within throe hundred feet of any church or place of worship, or inhabited dwelling, without a permit from tlie JJoard of Healtli; and no person shall contribute to tlic making of any such accumulations; nor shall cars or floats loaded with or having in or upon them any such substance or substances be allowed to remain or stand on or along any railroad, street or highway within 300 feet of any inhabited dwelling, nor elsewhere in said city without a permit from the Board of Ilcaltli ; and no manure, garbage or other material that is liable to emit an offensive exhalation, shall, in or adjacent to the built- up portions of the City of New York, be turned or stirred, except about its removal, in such a way as to increase such exhalations by reason thereof; nor shall any straw, hay or other substance which has been used as bedding for animals, be placed or dried upon any street, or sidewalk, or roof of any building; nor shall any straw, hay or other substance, or the contents of any mattress or bed, be -deposited or burnt, without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 112, Every proprietor, lessee, tenant, and occu- pant of any oyster-house, oyster-saloon or other prem- ises where any oysters, clams, lobsters, or shell or other fish are consumed, used, or sold, or where any of the refuse matter, offal, or shells thereof accumulate shall daily cause all such shells, offal, and refuse matter to be removed therefrom to some proper place, and shall keep his house, saloon and premises at all times free from any offensive smells or accumulations. Sec. 113. No person shall obstruct, delay, or inter- fere with the proper and free use, for the purposes for which they may be and should be set apart and devoted, 46 THE SANITAKY CODE. of any dock, pier, or bulkhead set apart for the use of any contractor or person engaged in removing any offal, garbage, rubbish, dirt, dead animal, night-soil, or other like substances, or with the proper performance of such contracts. Sec. 114. It shall be the duty of every person (his agents and employes) who has contracted or undertaken to remove any diseased or dead animal, offal, rubbish, garbage, dirt, street- sweepings, night-soil, or other filthy, offensive, or noxious substance, or is en- gaged about any such removal, or in loading or unload- ing any such substance, to do the same with dispatch, and in every particular in a manner as cleanly and little offensive, and with as little danger and prejudice to iife and health as possible, and no matter or material shall lie piled up, or partially raked together, in any street or place before the removal thereof, mor'e than a reasonable time, nor for more than four hours in the daytime, un- der any circumstances. Sec. 115. Xo ship, boat, or other vessel, shall be taken or allowed by any person to come into or lay to, or at, or within any dock, pier, bulkhead, or slip, or be placed therein for the purpose of the shipment or removal of any offal, garbage, rubbish, blood or offen- siA-e animal or vegetable matter, dirt or dead animals, or for the use of any contractor for the removal of any of the foregoing substances, without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 116. It shall be the duty of every owner, lessee, and tenant of any vacant, sunken, or excavated lot in the City of New l^ork to keep the same at all times clean and inoffensive, and free from the accumulation of wa- THE SANITARY CODE. 47 ter tbercon, and to maintain around the same a proper fence, so as to effectually prevent the throwing or de- positing therein or thereupon any garbage or offensive thing whatsoever, and so as to prevent persons passing from falling into such excavation. Sec. 117. No person shall deposit upon any street or public place vvrithin the generally built-up portion of the City of New York, or upon any paved street, any dirt or brick, or other material, or dirt taken from any ground therein, in such manner as to occupy more than one hundred square feet of surface of any street or place (and the same shall be compact and at one side); nor shall any person allow the same to remain in said street or public place more than twelve hours, without a permit from the Board of Health, or unless such occupancy shall be otherwise duly authorized by paramount authority. Nor shall any such substance be so deposited or allow^ed to remain hy any person, as to obstruct the free flowage along any gutter. Sec. 118. No lime, ashes, coal, dry sand, hair, feathers, or other substance that is in a similar manner liable to be blown by the wind, shall be sieved, agitated or ex- posed, nor shall any mat, carpet or cloth be shaken or beaten, nor shall any cloth, yarn, garment, material, or substance be scoured, cleaned, or hung, nor shall any rags, damaged merchandise, barrels, boxes, or broken bales of merchandise or goods, be placed, kept, or ex- posed in any place v. here thoy or particles therefrom will pass into any street or public place, or into any oc- cupied premises. Neither shall any usual nor any rea- sonable precautions be omitted by any person to pro- vent fragments or other substances from falling, to the 48 THE SAXITARY CODE. peril of life, or dust or light material flying into any street, place, or building, from any building or erection, while the same is being altered, repaired or demolished, or otherwise. Removal of Filth. Sec. 119. No person shall engage in the business of transporting manure, swill, garbage, offal, or any offen- sive or noxious substance, or drive any cart for such pur- pose, in the City of New York, without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 120. No cart or other vehicle for carrying any manure, swill, garbage, offal, or rubbish, or other nauseous or offensiA^e substance, or the contents of any priAy, vault, cesspool, or sink, shall, without necessity therefor, be allowed to stand or remain before or near any building, place of business, or other premises where any person may be; nor shall any such cart or vehicle be allowed to occupy an unreasonable length of time in loading or unloading, or in passing along any street or through any inhabited place or grounds. Such carts, vehicles, and all implements used in connection tlierewith must be kept in an inoffensive and sanitary condition, and, when not in use, shall be stored and kept in some place where no needless offense shall be given to any of the people of said city. Sec. 121. All carts and vehicles for carrying any nauseous or offensive substances, boxes, tubs and recep- tacles in which any nauseous or offensive substance may be, or may be carried, shall be strong and tight, and the sides shall be so high above the load or contents, that no part of such contents or load shall fall, leak, or spill therefrom; and either the vehicle or vessel carried by it THE SANITARY CODE. 49 shall be so covered as to be inofrensive; and all such ma- terial shall be loaded and removed in a sanitary man- ner, and according to the regulations of the Department of Health, and it shall be the duty of every person re- moving any offensive material to at once replace in said vehicle or vessel any material that may have fallen therefrom upon or in any place, street or premises. Sec. 122. All putrid or oUtnsive matter, and all night- soil, and the contents of sinks, privies, vaults and cess- pools, and all noxious substances, shall, before their re- moval or exposure, be disinfected and rendered inof- fensive by the owner, lessee, or occupant of the premises where the same may be, or by the person or contractor who removes or is about to remove the same; and no part of the contents of any vault, privy, sink or cess- pool shall be removed without a permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 123. Xo boat, scow or other receptacle used in transporting garbage to Barren Island or the place of disposal shall be permitted to remain moored or be at any dock, wharf or place within the limits of the City of New York for a longer period than twenty -four hours from the time garbage is first delivered or placed thereon. Garbage shall be received on such boat, scow or other receptacle, and transported, in a manner ap- proved b}- the Board of Health. Diseased, Injured and Dead Animals. Sec. 124. Xo diseased cattle, swino, sheep, horses, dogs or cats, which are suffering from or have been ex- posed to any disease which is contagious among such animals, shall be brought into or kept in the City of 50 THE SAXITARY CODE. New York. All persons, corporations, or companies bringing milch cows into the City of New York shall furnish a certificate signed by a veterinarian who is a graduate of a recognized veterinary college, with the date of gi-aduation and the name of the college from which the degree was received, to the effect that said cows are free from tuberculosis as far as may be determined by physi- cal examination and the tuberculin test. Said certificate shall give a number which has been permanently attached to each cow, and a description sufficiently accurate for identification, stating the date (which must be not more than sixty days prior to the time they are brought into the city), the place of examination, the temperature of the cow or cows at intervals of three hours, for twelve hours before the subcutaneous injection of the tuber- culin, the preparation of tuberculin used, the location of the injection, the quantity injected, the temperatm'e at the tenth hour after the injection of the tuberculin and every three hours after the aforesaid tenth hour for twelve hours, or until the reaction is completed. No cow with a certificate which states that said cow gave a re- action of two degTees F. after the injection with 0.5 c. c. of the tuberculin prepared by the Department of Health of the City of New Y^ork (or its equivalent), diluted with ten times its volume of a 0.5 per cent, watery solu- tion of carbolic acid, shall be brought into the City of New York. Sec. 125. No person shall keep, or retain, or allow or cause to be kept or retained, at any place within the City of New Y'ork, any animal ha^dng the disease known as glanders, or farcy or any other contagious disease, but shall forthwith report the fact to the Department of Health of said city and under the direction of the Sani- THE SANITARY CODE. 51 tary Superintendent or Assistant Sanitary Superintend- ent shall destroy or cause to be destroyed, remove or cause to be removed and dispose of such animal or ani- mals in a manner designated by the Sanitary Superin- tendent or Assistant Sanitary Superintendent, and every person who destroys any such animal shall forthwith notify the Department of Health of such destruction, the place of destruction and the disposition of the body of such animal. Sec. 126, All dead horses, before they are placed in the street, must have a tag attached giving the name and address of the owner and the stable from which the horse was removed. Sec. 127. Every veterinary surgeon who is called to examine or professionally attend any animal within the City of New York having the glanders or farcy or any contagious disease shall report forthwith in ^^Titing to the Board of Health of said city the following facts, viz.: 1st, a statement of the location of such diseased animal; 2d, the name and address of the owner thereof; 3d, the type and character of the disease. Sec. 128. Xo person shall leave in or throw into any place or street, or public water, or offensively expose or bury, the body (or any part thereof) of any dead or fatally sick or injured animal; nor shall any person keep any dead animal or any offensive meat, bird, fowl, or fish in a place \\'hore the same may be dan^orous to ihv life or detrimental to the health of any person. See. 129. Any animal, being in any street or public place, within or adjacent to the built-up portion of New 52 THE SANITARY CODE. York City, and appearing in the estimation of any officer or inspector of this Department (and of two discreet citizens, called by such officer or inspector to view the same in his presence) injured or diseased past recovery, for any useful purpose, and not being attended and properly cared for by the owner or some proper person having charge thereof for such owner, or not having been removed to some private premises, or to some place designated by such officer or inspector, within one hour after being found or left in such condition, may be deprived of life by such officer or inspector, or as he may direct; and shall thereafter, unless at once removed by the o^vner or person, be treated as any other animal found on a street or place. Sec. 130. Any person having a dead animal or an animal past recovery, and not killed for and proper for use as food, or in any offensive condition, or sick with an infectious or contagious disease, on his premises in said city, and every person whose animal or any ani- mal in his charge or under his control in any street or place, may die or become or be in a condition past recov- ery, shall at once notify the Department of Health, and under the direction of the Sanitary Superintendent or an Assistant Sanitary Superintendent or an officer of the Police Department, remove or cause the removal of such animal, dead or alive, to such place as may be designated by such official. Sec. 131. Xo person other than the inspectors or offi- cers of this Department or the Police Department, or persons thereto authorized, shall in any way interfere with such dead, sick or injured animal in any street or THE SANITARY CODE. 53 place, and no person shall skin or wound such animal in such street or public place, unless to terminate its life as herein authorized, except that the owner or person having control of such animal may terminate the life thereof in the presence and by the consent of a police- man or an inspector or oflicer of this Department. Sec. 132. Every animal which shows symptoms of rabies and every animal that has been exposed to such disease shall, by the person owning the same or having possession thereof, be at once confined in some secure place for such length of time as to determine whether such di3ert^>c' exists or to show that sucli ex- posure has not given such animal said disease, and so as to avoid all danger to life or health. And such person shall also forthwith notify the Department of Health thereof and of the place where such animal is confined. Every animal which is mad or has rabies shall at once be killed by the owmer or person having possession thereof, or by the Department of Health, and the body of any animal that has died of such disease, or being suspected of such disease has been killed, shall be at once surrendered to the Department of Health to be by it disposed of. ' Should a dog bite any person it shall be the duty of the owner, or person having the same in his possession or under his control, to at once notify said Department thereof, and surrender said dog to said Department for inspection and observation; and such dog shall be re- turned to the person from whom the same shall have been received if found not rabid, and if found to be rabid, it shall be destroyed by said Department. When the police or other person or authorities destroy a dog for any of the causes herein mentioned, it shall 54 THE SANITAEY CODE. be his or their duty to immediately notify the said De- partment thereof and of the location of its body, so that the same may be obtained by the said Department; and if shall be unlawful to remove any such dog or the body of any such animal heretofore mentioned except as herein provided. Infectious Diseases. Sec. 133. It shall be the duty of every physician to report to the Department of Health, in .writing, the full name, age and address of every person suffering from any one of the infectious diseases included in the list appended, with the name of the disease, within twenty- lour hours of the time when the ease is first seen: A. — Contagious (very readily communicable) : Measles, rubella (rotheln), scarlet fever, small-pox, varicella (chicken-pox), typhus fever, relapsing fever. B. — Conwiunicahle : Diphtheria (croup), typhoid fever, Asiatic cholera, tuberculosis (of any organ), plague, tetanus, anthrax, glanders, epidemic cerebro- spinal meningitis, leprosy, infectious diseases of the eye (trachoma, suppurative conjunctivitis), puerperal sep- ticaemia, erysipelas, whooping cough. C. — Indirectly Communicable (through intermediary host) : Yellow fever, malarial fever. Note.— In this provisional classification of the infectious diseases, arranged for practical purposes, the most readily communicable of these diseases, em- bracing the exanthemata and typhus fever, have been placed in a group by THE SANITARY CODE. 66 themselves and called contagious. This Laa been done with a view to empha- sizing a distinction, which i.s not only of scientific signifloance, but of practical importance, in dealing with the sanitary features of adiniiiistration. ThlH distinction is furthermore of importance because it avoids the mimmderHtand- ing and alarm frequently cau.-ed by including in the same class the very readily communicable diseases (such as small-pox), and the nmch less cora- nmnicable diseases (such as tuberculosis), which require very different sanitary measures for their control. Sec. 134. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners or managers or the principal, superintendent, or physi- cian, of each and every public institution or dispensary, in this city, to report to the Department of Health, in writing, the full name, age and address of any person suffering from any one of the infectious diseases in- cluded in the list appended, with the name of the disease, within twenty -four hours of the time when the case ia first seen: A. — Communica'ble : Influenza, lobar pneumonia, bron- cho-pneumonia, infectious diseases of the gastro-intes- tinal canal (dysentery, cholera morbus, cholera infan- tum, summer diarrhoeas of infants). B. — Parasitic Diseases of the Ski^i: Scabies, tinea tonsurans, impetigo (contagious), favus. Note.— In this list of diseases reporting is leciuired by the Department of Health ill order that data may be obtained for general and special investiga- tion of the modes and sources of infection and as to the prevalence and dis- tribution of these diseases. The Department of Health does not purpose to ex- ercise a sanitary surveillance in these cases, but desires information with a view to the ultimate lemoval or improvement in the conditions which now foster them. Notification is required in certain of these diseases because of the liability to theii- extension among the children in schools. 5(5 THE SANITARY CODE. Sec. 135. It shall be the duty of every physician to report forthwith, in writing, to the Department of Health, the death of every person who dies from, or while suffering with, any infectious disease, and to state in such report the specific name and type of such dis- Sec. 136. It shall be the duty of every keeper of any boarding house or lodging house, and the proprietor of every lodging house or hotel, to report forthwith to the Department of Health all the known facts in regard to any person ill, in any house or hotel under his or her charge, and suffering from any one of the following in- fectious diseases: measles, diphtheria (croup), scarlet fever, small-pox, chicken-pox, epidemic cholera, typhus fever, rubella (rotheln), plague and whooping cough. Sec. 137. It shall be the duty of every person having knowledge of the existence of any person afflicted with any one of the following infectious diseases: measles, diphtheria ( croup ) , scarlet fever, small-pox, chicken-pox, epidemic cliolera, typhus fever, rubella (rotheln), plague and whooping cough, who he has reason to think re- quires the attention of the Department of Health, to at once report to the Department all facts in regard to the disease; and no person shall interfere with or obstruct the entrance, inspection or examination of any building or house, or the occupants thereof, by the inspectors and officers of this Department, when any case of one of the infectious diseases above specified has been reported as existing in such house or dwelling; nor shall any per- THE SANITARY CODE. 67 son interfoi'G with or obstruct, nmtilate or tear down any notices of this Department posted in or on any premises in the City of New York. Sec. 138. It sliall be the duty of the commissioners or managers, or the principal, superintendent or physician of each and ever}' public or private institution or dis- pensary in this city to report to the Department of Health, in writing, or to cause such report to be made by some proper and competent person, the name, age, .sex, occupation and hatest address of every person attiicted with tuberculosis, who is in their care or who has come under their observation, within one w^eek of such time. It shall be the duty of every person sick with this dis- ease and of every person in attendance upon any one sick with this disease, and of the authorities of public and private institutions or dispensaries, to observe and en- force all the sanitary rules and regulations of the Board of Health for preventing the spread of pulmonary tu- berculosis. Sec. 139. Whenever an Inspector of this Department shall report in writing that any person is sick of any infectious disease, under such circumstances that the continuance of such sick person in the place where he or she may be is dangerous to the lives of other persons residing in the neighborhood, the Sanitary Superintend- ent, an Assistant Sanitary Superintendent, or the Chief Inspector of the Division of Contagious Diseases, upon the report of a Medical Inspector of the Department, may cause the removal of such sick person to one of the hospitals under the charge of this Department or to a Hospital delegated by the Board of Health. 58 THE SATs^ITAEY CODE. Sec. 140. In every public hospital and dispensary in the City of New York there shall be provided and main- tained a suitable room or rooms for the temporary isola- tion of persons suffering from any of the following in- fectious diseases: measks, diphtheria (croup), scarlet fever, small-pox, chicken-pOx, epidemic cholera, typhus fever, rubella (rotheln), plague and whooping cough: and such persons shall immediately be separated from other persons at such dispensary or hospital. It shall be the duty of the physician or physicians, and of the officers and managers of every hospital or dispensary, to cause a report to be immediately made to the Department of Health of the City of New York of ev^ry person afflicted with any one of the infectious diseases herein specified who comes to their knowledge, and to have such persons properly isolated from other persons. Sec. 1-il. It shall be the duty of every undertaker having notice of the death of any person within the City of Xew York of small-pox, dij)htheria (croup), scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, Asiatic cholera, measles, or any other infectious disease dangerous to the general health of the community, or of the bringing of the dead body of any person who has died of any such dis- ease into such city, to give immediate notice thereof to this Department. No person shall retain or expose, or assist in the retention or exposure of the dead body of any such person except in a coffin or casket properly sealed; nor shall he allow any such body to be placed in any coffin or casket unless the body has been wrapped in a sheet saturated with a proper disinfecting solution and the coffin or casket shall then be immediately and permanently sealed. No undertaker shall assist in the public or church funeral of any such person. No under- THE SANITARY CODE. 69 taker shall use, or cause or allow to be used, at any funeral, or in any room where the dead body of any person shall be, any draperies, decorations, rugs or car- pets, belonging to or furnished by him or under hi;^ direction. Sec. 142. A public or church funeral sliall not be licid of any person who has died of small-pox, diphtlieria (croup), scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhus fever, Asiatic cholera, measles or plague; but the funeral of such person shall be private, and it shall not be lawful to invite, or permit at the funeral of any person who has died of any one of the above diseases, or of any infectious disease, or at any services connected therewith, any person whose attendance is not necessary, or to whom there is danger of contagion thereby. Sec. 143. No person shall within this city, without a permit from the Board of Health, carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed, any person sick Avith any infectious disease, or remove or cause to be removed, any such person from any building or vessel to any other building or vessel or to the shore, or to or from any vehicle in any part of the city. Nor sball any person, by any exposure of any individual sick of any infectious disease, or of the body of such person, or by any negligent act connected therewith, or in re- spect of the care or custody thereof, or by a needless ex- posure of himself, cause or contribute to, or promote the spread of disease from any such person, or from any dead body. Sec. 144. Every owTier, lessee, tenant and occupant of any dwelling or apartment in the City of New York shall forthwith report to the Department of Health in writing the removal of any person from such dwelling 60 THE SAlSriTARY CODE. cr apartment who shall be suffering from any of the following infectious diseases: measles, diphtheria (croup), scarlet fever, small-pox, chicken-pox, epidemic cholera, typhus fever, rubella (rotheln). plague, whoop- ing cough or tuberculosis (of any organ). Sec. 145. No principal or superintendent of any school, and no parent, master or custodian of any child or minor (having the power and authority to prevent) shall per- mit any child or minor having scarlet fever, diphtheria, (croup), small-pox or any dangerous, infectious or conta- gious disease, or any child in any family in which any such disease exists or has recently existed, to attend any public or private school until the Board of Health shall have given its permission therefor, nor in any manner to be unnecessarily exposed, or to needlessly expose any other person to the taking or to the infection of any contagious disease. Disinfection. Sec. 146. Adequate disinfection or cleansing and reno- vation of premises, furniture and belongings, deemed by the Department of Health to be infected by contagious or communicable diseases, shall immediately follow the recovery, death or removal of the person suffering from such disease, and such disinfection or cleansing and renovation shall be performed by the owner or occupant of said premises when ordered by the Board of Health. Vaccination, Antitoxin. See. 147. 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 THE SANITARY CODE. 61 person that could properly be used or exerted for such purpose) cause and procure such minor or individual to be so promptly, frequently, and eflfectively vaccinated, that such minor or individual shall not take, or be lia- ble to take the small-pox. Sec. 148. That no preparation of diphtheria antitoxin shall be ofl'ered or exposed for sale in tliis city un- less the receptacle containing such preparation bear a label on which is placed the name and the address of the producer, and upon such label, or upon a circular accompanying such receptacle and inclosed with it in a sealed package, shall be printed or written the date of production and the value of the contents in antitoxin, as measured by some generally recognized standard. Vessels and Seamen. Sec. 149. The master, chief officer, and consignee, of every vessel not being in quarantine, or within quarantine limits, but being within one-fourth of a mile of any dock, wharf, pier, or building of said city, shall daily report to the Department of Health, or cause to be reported, in writing, the particulars, and shall therein state the name, disease, and condition of any person being in or on such vessel, and sick of any infectious disease. . Sec. 150. The keepers, lessees, tenants, and owners of every boarding house and lodging house shall forthwith notify the Department of Health of the fact of any sea- faring man or person lately from any vessel li-^ing taken sick at such house, and shall in such notice state where such sick person may be found, and from what vessel, 62 THE SANITARY CODE. and when he came, to the best of the knowledge of the person or persons giving such notice. Sec. 151. Every master and chief officer of any vessel, and every physician of, or who practiced on, any vessel which shall arrive in the port of New York from any other port, shall at once report to this Department any facts connected with any person or thing on said vessel, or that came thereon, which he has reason to think may endanger the public health of this city; and he shall report the facts as to any person being or having been sick thereon, of an infectious disease, and as to there be- ing or having been, during the voyage or since her ar- rival, any infected person or articles thereon. Sec. 152. No master, charterer, owner, part owner or consignee of any vessel, or any other person, shall bring to any dock, pier, wharf, or building within one thou- sand feet thereof, in said city, or unload at any dock, building, or pier therein, or have on storage in the built- up portions of said city, any skins, hides, rags, or similar articles or materials having been brought from any for- eign country or any infected place, or from any points south of Norfolk, Virginia, without or otherwise than ac- cording to a permit from the Board of Health, and no person shall sell, exchange, remove, or in any way ex- pose any straw, bedding or other articles used by immigrants upon any vessel bringing immigrants to this port, until it has been adequately and properly cleansed or disinfected; and all straw, bedding or other articles that have been exposed on any vessel to con- tagion or infection of any contagious disease, or have been or are liable to communicate such disease, shall be destroyed by fire on said vessel. THE SANITARY CODE. 63 Sec. 153. No owner, agent, or consignee of any vessel, or cargo, and no officer of any vessel (in respect of either of which vessel or cargo a permit, according to any law, ordinance, or regulation shall or should have been obtained to pass quarantine, or to come up to the water-front of the City of New York) shall unload, or land, or cause to be unladen or landed, such cargo, or any part thereof, in said city, without having first re- ceived a permit from the Board of Health so to do. Sec. 154. No captain, officer, consignee, owner or other person in charge of any vessel (or 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 Health Officer of the port of New York, and into quarantine grounds and buildings only) any person sick of, or person that has been exposed to, and is liable very so9n to develop any infectious disease, or so remove or aid in removing any articles that may have been exposed to the contagion of any such disease, except in accordance with a permit from the Board of Health. \ Sec. 155. No master, charterer, consignee, or other person shall order, bring or allow (having power and authority to prevent the same) any vessel or person, or article therefrom, from any infected port, or any vessel, or person or article therefrom, liable to quarantine, ac- cording to the ninth section of the three hundred and fifty-eighth chapter of the Laws of 1863 (or under any other laws, and whether such quarantine has been made or suffered or not), to come or be brought to any point nearer than three hundred yards from any dock or pier, or to any building in said city without or otherwise than 64 THE SANITAEY CODE. according to a permit from the Board of Health. Nor shall any vessel, or person or thing therein or therefrom, having been in quarantine, come or be brought within the last-named distance of any last-named place, with- out the permit or assent of this Board. Sec. 156. Xo person shall bring into this city from any infected place, or land, or take therein, from any vessel lately from an infected port, or from any vessel or building in which had lately been any person sick of an infectious disease, any article or person whatso- ever, nor shall any such person land or come into said city, without a permit from the Board of Health; and it shall be no excuse that such person or article so offend- ing, or the occasion of offense, has passed through quar- antine, or has a permit from any other source than this Board. Sec. 157. Ko owner, part owner, charterer, agent, or consignee of any vessel, or any officer or person having charge or control of the same, shall allow to be cast therefrom, and no person shall cast therefrom, into any public waters of the City of New York, any straw, bed- ding, clothing, or other substance. Marriages, Births and Deaths. Sec. 158. It shall be the duty of the clergymen, mag- istrates and other persons who perform the marriage ceremony in the City of New York, to keep a registry of the marriages celebrated by them, which shall contain, as near as the same can be ascertained, the place and date of marriage, age, color, name and surname of the parties married, birthplace, residence, number of mar- THE SANITARY CODE. 65 riage and condition of each, whether single, widowed, or divorced, the occupation of the gi'oom, maiden name of the bride if a widow, the names of the parents of each and the maiden name of the mother of each. And every person authorized by law to perform the ceremony of marriage shall register his or her name and address in the office of the Bureau of Records. Sec. 159. It shall be the duty of the parents of any child born in said city (and if there be no parent alive that has made such report, then of the next of kin of said child born), and of every person present at such birth, within ten days after such birth, to report to the Department of Health, in writing, as far as known, the date, borough and street number of said birth, and the name, sex and color of such child born, and the names, residence, birthplace and age of the parents, the occupa- tion of the father and the maiden name of the mother. It shall also be the duty of physicians and professional midwives to keep a registry of the several births in which they have assisted professionally, which shall contain, as near as the same can be ascertained, the time and place of such birth, name, sex and color of the child, the name, residence, birthplace, and age of the parents, the occupation of the father and the maiden name of the mother, and to report the same within ten days to the Department of Health. Sec. 160. It shall be the duty of the next of kin of any person deceased, and of each person being with such deceased person at his or her death, to report, in writing, to the Department of Health, within five days after such death, the age, color, nativity, last 66 THE SANITAEY CODE. occupation and cause of death of such deceased per- son and the place of such person's death and last residence. Physicians who have attended deceased persons in their last illness shall make and preserve a registry of such death, stating the cause thereof and specifying the date, hour, place and street number of such death, and shall, in the report of the death of such persons, specify, as near as the same can be ascertained, the date of death, sex, name and surname, age, occupa- tion, term of residence in said city, place of nativity, condition of life, whether single, married, widowed or divorced, color, last place of residence, the names and birthplaces of the parents, the maiden name of the mother, and the cause of death of such deceased persons and the coroners of the city, in such cases as an inquest may have been held, shall, in their certificates, conform to the requirements of this section. Every physician in said city shall register his or her name and address in the office of the Bureau of Records of said Department. Sec. 161. It shall be the duty of every person re- quired to make or keep a registry of births, marriages or deaths, to present to the Bureau of Records, a copy of such registry signed by such parson, within ten days after the birth or marriage, and within thirty-six hours, after the death of any person to whom such registry may or should relate, Which shall thereupon be placed on file in the said Bureau. Sec. 162. No person shall make, prepare, deliver or issue any false certificate, statement or report of a birth, marriage or death, or any such certificate, statement or THE SANITARY CODE. 67 report, which is not in accordance with the facts of the birth, marriage or death; all certificates, statements and reports of births, marriages or deaths, sliall be signed by the person purporting to make the same, and no per- son shall sign or forge the name of another to any sucli certificate, statement or report. Transportation of Dead Bodies. Sec. 1G3. That no captain, agent, or person having charge of or attached to any ferry-boat, sailing, or other vessel, nor any person in charge of any car, stage, or other vehicle, or public or private conveyance, shall con- vey or alloAV to be conveyed thereon or by any means aforesaid, nor shall any person convey or allow to be carried or conveyed, in any manner, from, through, into or within the City of New York, the dead body of any human being, or any part thereof, without a permit therefor from the Board of Health. And the proper cou- pon for that purpose attached to any such permit, when issued, shall be preserved and returned to this Depart- ment, as its regulations may require, by the proper olli- cer or person on each boat or vessel, and by the proper person in charge of any train of cars or vehicle on which any such body may be carried from said city. Provided, however, that the same effect shall be given, under this section, to transit permits issued severally by Boards of Health of cities, towns or villages in the State of New York, or by Boards of Health that may be hereafter organized, pursuant to Laws of the State of New York, or when issued by the Health Officer of any such city, town or village, as to a transit permit issued from this Board, when the death of the person nanu-d in thi> permit shall have occurred in the city, town or village, from which such permit shall have been issued. 68 THE SA.NITAKY CODE. And provided that the same effect shall be given, un- der this section, to a transit permit issued under the laws of the State of New Jersey, as to a transit permit issued from this Board; subject, nevertheless, in every ease to all the care, precautions and diligence prescribed by the rules and regulations of this Depart- ment. And provided, that the same effect be given, un- der this section, to a transit permit issued under the laws of the State of Connecticut, as to a transit permit from this Board; subject, nevertheless, in every case, to all the care, precautions and diligence prescribed by the rules and regulations of this Department. Sec. 164. ISTo person shall retain, expose, or allow to be retained or exposed, the dead body of any human be- ing to the peril or prejudice of the life or health of any person. Sec. 165. No person shall allow to be retained un- buried the dead bodj^ of any human being for a longer time than four days or where death has resulted from small-pox, diphtheria (croup), scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhus fever, plagiie, Asiatic cholera or measles, for a longer time than twenty-four hours, after death of such person, without a permit from the Sanitary Superintendent or an Assistant Sanitary Superintend- ent, which permit shall specify the length of time during which such body may be retained unburied. This ordi- nance shall not apply to bodies retained in any public morgue in the City of New York. Sec. 166. It shall be the duty of every person who has discovered or seen the body of a dead human being, or any part thereof (if there is reason for such person to THE SANITARY CODE. GO think that the fact of the death, or the place of such body, or part thereof, is not publicly known), to im- mediately communicate to the Bureau of Records the fact of such discovery of such body, the place where, and time when, the same was discovered or seen, and where the same is or may be found, and any facts known by which said body may be identified, or the cause of death ascertained. Cemeteries. Sec. 167. No interment of the dead body of any hu- man being, or disposition thereof in any tomb, vault, crematory, or cemetery, shall be made within the City of New York, without a permit therefor granted by the Board of Health, nor otherwise than in accordance there- with, and said dead body shall be placed in a metallic or tin-lined box, or a box so constructed as to prevent the issuance of any liquids therefrom; and no sexton or other person shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any such interment, or aid or assist about preparing any grave or place of deposit for any such body, or assist in the cremation of the same, for which such permit has not been given authorizing the same. And it shall be the duty of every person who shall receive any such permit, to preserve and to return the same to this Department, as its regulations may require. Sec. 1G8. No new crematory, burying-ground, ceme- tery, tomb, or vault for dead human bodies shall be established, nor shall the remains of any dead body be placed in any existing burying-ground, vault, tomb, or cemetery in the City of New York, nor any of said re- ceptacles be opened, exposed, or disturb:xl, except ac- cording to the terms of a permit therefor given by the 70 THE SAIflTAEY CODE. Coaid of Health, and eveiy bodj' buried iu any such place shall be buried to the depth of six feet below the surface of the ground, and four feet below any closely adjacent street, except that in the Borough of Queens a body may be buried to the depth of three feet below the surface of the ground. No food, beverage or other article for human consump- tion shall be sold, exposed or offered for sale in any cemetery or burying-ground ^Aithin the City of New York. Sec. 169. Every person who acts as a sexton or un- dertaker in the City of New York, or has the charge or care of any crematory, vault, tomb, burying-gTOund, or cemetery for the reception of the dead, or where the bodies of any human beings are deposited, shall cause his or her name and residence, and the nature Of his or her charge and duties, to be registered with this De- partment. Sec. 170. Every sexton and other person having charge of any crematory, burying-ground, cemetery, tomb or vault in the City of New York, shall, before twelve o'clock on Monday of each week, make return to this Department of the bodies and persons buried or cremated since their last return, and in such form, and specifying such particulars, as the special regulations of this Department shall require. Coroners. Sec. 171. At least two hours before the holding of any inquest mthin the City of New York upon a dead body, the coroner who has been notified of any death, or who may propose or intend to hold such inquest, shall transmit and cause to be delivered to the Bureau of THE SANITARY CODE. 71 Records written notice containing the following facts so far as known or reported to any such coroner: 1. The fact of any such call for the holding of an in- quest, and by whom made, and when and from whom received by the coroner. 2. The place (giving the street and street number, and if there be none, then other particulars) where the body is. 3. What is reported to be the cause of the death. 4. "When and where the death took place, and where the body has since been. 5. When and where he proposes to hold the inquest, giving the street, the street number (or otherwise suffi- ciently designating such place), and the hour. 6. What physician, or physicians, or other profes- sional person last attended such deceased person, or at- tended such person within forty-eight hours of such decease. At any time after the commencement of any inquest, the coroner holding or who should hold, or who held such inquest, shall within twelve hours after the receipt of a written request so to do from the Sanitary Super- intendent, answer in ^ATiting such of the following or such other questions as may be propounded to him by the said Sanitary Superintendent to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief. Report of Coroner (here insert Coroner's name) upon the body of (here fill in name or description of de- ceased), on the (here fill in year, month, and day), at (here mention street and number). 1. ^^Hiat was the age, sex, and last occupation, resi- dence, and nativity of such deceased person? 72 THE SANITARY CODE. 2. At what house or place, and in or near what street or avenue, at what number therein did such deceased person die ? 3. If such deceased person died of any poison, when and where was the same administered, and what was the kind of poison? 4. If such deceased person died of violence, when and Avhere was the same committed, and upon what part of the body and organs, and of what did it consist? 5. ^ If such deceased person died of any other cause, state such cause, and when and where the cause took effect upon or was received by the deceased? 6. Who was last in care of or with such deceased person, and at what place and at what time before death, and when, giving the full name and residence of each such person? 7. What were the name and residence of the physician and persons who last attended, and of each physician and person who within forty-eight hours of such death attended upon such deceased person, and where did he so attend; and whether said physician was notified of or attended and was examined at such inquest? 8. The times, places, and dates, of holding the in- quest, and the names and residences by street number of the jurors and witnesses that attended, and dates of their attendance, and when and where the body of the deceased was present at such inquest? 9. Was any post-mortem examination made, and if so, when, where, and by whom, and who was present thereat ? THE SANITARY CODE. 73 It shall be the duty of all coroners in said city to make return to the Bureau of Records of all inquisitions by them taken, except when by law such 'inquests are required to be filed elsewhere, and such return shall in- clude the evidence taken on such inquest, and the verdict of the jury, and the full names and residences of the several jurymen. And in all cases where tho inquest nia}' he icquired by law to be filed elsewhere such coroner shall make return to said Bureau of a copy of such inquest, including a copy of such evidence and verdict; and all such returns shall be made within forty-eight hours after the holding of any and every inquest. Railroad Cars. Sec. 172. No railroad car constructed for or used in carrying passengers for hire on any line of railroad, either surface or elevated, in the City of New York, except cars run in trains and entering the City of New York from without the limits of said city, shall be used with cloth or cloth cushions on the seats or on the backs of seats, or with textile fabrics on the floor thereof. Sec. 173. Each and everj'- car used upon any railroad in the City of New York for the carrying of passengers shall, on each and every day on which it may be used, be carefully and thoroughly cleaned, so that all refuse, dirt and filth are removed from the inside of said car. Sec. 174. No person shall at any time carry or convey in or upon any passenger railroad car, nor shall any conductor or person in charge of any such railroad car 74 THE SANITAEY CODE. permit or allow to be carried or conveyed in or upon such car, except on the front platform thereof, any soiled or dii'ty articles of clothing or bedding. Sec. 175. Every car used for the carrying of pas- sengers in the City of New York shall be constructed so as to provide and secure at all times good, adequate and sufficient ventilation. Sec 176. Every company, corporation or person oper- ating a line of railroad cars for the carriage of pas- sengers for hire in the City of New York shall, in con- nection Avith the running and operation of cars as aforesaid, have and provide closed cars to be run on said railroad; and at all times shall have, provide and operate at least one closed car in every four cars so operated and run for the carriage of passengers as aforesaid. Sec. 177. No conductor, driver, gTipman or motorman of any railroad car or other vehicle running on tracks in the City of New York shall permit, allow or cause the same to be run, pulled, drawn or propelled on or around anj- curve on the surface of any public street or avenue of said city unless the means and appliances by which said car is operated and controlled are of such character and efficiency that the movement of said car is entirely and at all times under absolute control, so that the car can be stopped at will at any point of said curve, and be held motionless upon it or be moved upon it or around it at any desired rate of speed less than the maximum speed of operation; and no person, corporation, super- intendent, or other person who is interested in or who owns or has the management and control of any such THE SANITARY CODE. 7a car or vehicle, shall permit it to be so run, pulled, drawn or propelled, or placed in service, unless properly pro- vided with means and appliances as aforesaid. No con- ductor, driver, gripman or motorman of any railroad car or other vehicle running on tracks in the City of jSTew York, shall permit, allow or cause the same to be nin, pulled, drawn or propelled on or around any curve on the surface of any public street or avenue at a rate of speed which is dangerous or detrimental to life; and no person, corporation, superintendent or other person who is interested in or who owns or has the management and control of any siich car or vehicle shall permit it to be so run, pulled, drawn or propelled. Spitting. Sec. 178. Spitting upon the sidewalk of any public street, avenue, park, public square or place, in the City of New York, or upon the floor of any hall in any tene- ment house -svhich is used in common by the tenants thereof, or upon the floor of any hall or office in any hotel or lodging-house which is used in common by the guests thereof, or upon the floor of any theatre, store, factory, or of any building w^hich is used in common by the public, or upon the floor of any ferryboat, railroad car or other public conveyance, or upon the floor of any ferry house, depot or station, or upon the station plat- form or stairs of any elevated railroad or other common carrier, is hereby forbidden. The corporations or persons owning or having the management or control of any such building, store, factory, ferryboat, railroad car or other public convey- ance, ferry house, depot or station, station platform or stairs of any elevated railroad or other common carrier, 76 THE SAISTITAEY CODE. are hereby required to keep permanently posted in each of said places a sufficient number of notices forbidding spitting upon the floors and calling attention to the pro- visions of this section. The corporations or persons owning or having the management or control of such buildings, stores, fac- tories, ferryboats, ferry houses, depots, stations, station platforms or stairs of any elevated railroad or other common carrier are hereby required to provide sufficient and proper receptacles for expectoration, and also to pro- vide for the cleansing and disinfection of said receptacles at least once every twenty-four hours; and spitting into the street from the cars, stairs, or platforms of the elevated railroads is hereby forbidden. It is hereby made the duty of every corporation or person engaged in the manufacture of cigars, cigarettes or tobacco, or conducting the business of printing in the City of Xew York, where ten or more persons are em- ployed on the premises, to provide proper receptacles for expectoration. Such receptacles are to be in pro- portion of one for every two persons so employed, and they are to be cleansed and disinfected at least once every twenty-four hours. A copy of the preceding paragraph must be kept posted in a conspicuous place in every factory or print- ing office mentioned therein. Barber Shops. Sec. 179. Every barber shop in the City of New York shall be conducted in accordance with regulations adopted from time to time by the Board of Health. A copy of such regulations must be posted in a conspicuous place in every such barber shop. THE SANITARY CODE. 77 Noise. Sec. 180. No person owning, occupyin/r^ or having charge of any building or premises, shall keep or allow thereon or therein any animal or bird, which shall by noise disturb the quiet or repose of any person therein or In the vicinity, to the detriment of the life or health of any human being. 78 THE SANITAEY CODE. I, Eugene W. Scheffek, Secretary of the Board of Health of the Department of Health of the City of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing printed "Sanitary Code," viz.: from page 1 to 77, inclusive, consisting of 180 sections, is a true transcript from the minutes and from the record of the proceedings of the said Board of Health, and is a true Copy of the Sanitary Code and of the original ordinances thereof, now in force, and of the amendments thereto, and of the whole thereof, and that the same are now in full force and entitled to - full credence as such ordinances, and were duly adopted, enacted, published and confirmed by said Board of Health agreeably to the provisions of the law of the State of New York, entitled, "An act to reor- ganize the local government of the City of New York," passed April 30, 1873, as amended by an act entitled, "An act to amend chapter 335 of the Laws of 1873/' passed June 13, 1873, and to the provisions of chapter 636 of the Laws of 1874, and to the provisions of chap- ter 410; Laws of 1882, and to the provisions of chapter 378, Laws of 1897, and to the provisions of chapter 466, Laws of 1901. ,-/ In Witness Wepi^eof, I Imve hereunto set my hand and affixed thelSeai^f -|^ey/aid DepartmMit of Health this / / dav of ^X^, /! l^^^rJLy , A. D. 190 J' THE SANITAUY CODE. 79 CHAPTER 13 An Act to Simplify the Proof of the Siinilury Code in the City of New York. Passed April 19, 1880; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of Neio York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as folloics: Sec. 1. The Sanitary Code adopted and declared as such at a meeting of the Board of Health of the Healtli Department of the City of New York, held in the city on the second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, is hereby declared to be the Sanitary Code mentioned and described in section eighty-two of an act entitled, "An act to reorganize the local govern- ment of the City t)f New York," passed April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-thrre, and in all courts of justice or judicial proceedings proof of the said Sani- tary Code, and of the proceedings of such Board of Health, in relation thereto, by the production of the book of minutes of such meeting held as aforesaid, or a transcript of the record of such proceedings duly authen- ticated by the secretary of the said Board of Health, shall be held and taken as complete and valid evidence of the said Sanitary Code, its due adoption, enactment and iDublication ; and such Sanitary Code shall be deemed in full force and operative in the City of New York, save as duly modified or repealed bv tli.^ sai.l Board of Health. Sec. 2. This act shall take elTect immediately. 80 THE SANITAEY CODE. CHAPTER 378, LAWS OF 1897. SANITARY CODE. Sec, 1172. The sanitary code adopted and declared as such at the meeting of the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York, held in the city as formerly constituted and bounded on the second day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, as amended in accordance with law, is hereby declared to be binding and in force in the city consti- tuted by this act, and shall continue to be so binding and in force, except as the same may, from time to time, be revised, altered, amended and annulled by the Board of Health as herein provided. And it shall be the duty of said board, immediately upon organization under this act, to cause to be conformed to this title tlie sani- tary code of ordinances, adopted by the existing Depart- ment of Health, and the Departments and Boards of Health existing in the several parts of The City of New York before the passage of this act, which shall be called the "sanitary code." Said Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to add to or to alter, amend or annul any part of the said sanitary code, and may therein publish additional pro- visions for the security of life and health in the City of New York, and distribute appropriate powers and duties to the members and employes of the Department of Health, not inconsistent with the constitution or laws of this State. The Board of Health may embrace therein all matters and subjects to* which, and so far as, the power and authority of said Department of Health ex- tends, not limiting their application to the subject of health only. But no such revision, alteration or amend- ment shall take effect, or be binding or in force, until THE SANITARY CODE. 81 the same lias been published onco a week for two succes- sive weeks in the "City Record." The publication of ad- ditional provisions in, and of additional ordinances of the sanitary code once a week for two successive weeks in the "City Record" shall be sufficient, and render any further publication of the same in any other newspaper unnecessary. Any violation of said code or its amend- ments shall be treated and punished as a misdemeanor, and the offender shall also be liable to pay a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the Department of Health of the City of New York, before any justice or tribunal in said city, havinj? juris- diction of civil actions; and all such justices and tri- bunals shall take jurisdiction of such action. Copies of the record of the proceedings of said board, of its rules, regulations, ordinances, by-laws and books and papers constituting part of its archives, and the sanitary code, now or hereafter in force in said city, and the ordinances of the sanitary code added thereto and adopted by said Board of Health, when authenticated by its secretary, or secretary j^tro tempore, shall be presumptive evidence, and the authentication taken as presumptively correct in any court of justice, or judicial proceeding, when they may be relevant to the point or matter in controversy, of the facts, statements and recitals, therein contained. CHAPTER 466, LAWS OF 1901. SANITARY CODE. Sec. 1172. The sanitary code which shall be in force in the City of New York the first day of January, nine- teen hundred and two, and all existing provisions of law for fixing penalties for violations of said code are 82 THE SANITARY CODE. hereby declared to be binding and in force in the City of New York, and shall continue to be so binding and in force, except as the same may, from time to time, be re- vised, altered, amended or annulled as herein provided. Provided, however, that so much of this section as de- clares the sanitary code binding, and in force in the City of New York shall not be construed as limiting the storage of fertilizers or the keeping and slaughtering of fowls, cattle and other domestic animals upon premises used for farming in unimproved sections of the city, or as forbidding the ordinary use of country roads in driv- ing such fowls, cattle and other domestic animals. Said Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to add to and to alter, amend or annul any part of the said sanitary code, and may there- in publish additional provisions for the security of life and health in the City of New York, and confer ad- ditional powers on the Department of Health, not in- consistent with the constitution or laws of this state, and may provide for the enforcement of the said sanitary code by such fines, penalties, forfeitures, or imprison- ment as may by ordinance be prescribed. The Board of Health may embrace in said sanitary code all matters and subjects to which, and so far as, the power and authority of said Department of Health extends, not limiting their application to the subject of health only. Any violation of said sanitary code shall be treated and punished as a misdemeanor. Pecuniary penalties for violation of said sanitary code may be recovered in a civil action in the name of the Department of Health of the City of New York, before any justice or tribunal in said city, having jurisdiction of civil actions; and all such justices and tribunals shall take jurisdiction of such action. Copies of the record of the proceedings of THE SANITARY CODE. 83 said Board of Health, of its rules, regulations, ordi- nances, by-laws and books and papers constituting part of its archives, and the sanitary code, now or hereafter in force in said city, when authenticated by its secretary or secretary pro tempore, shall be presumptive evidence, and the authentication taken as presumptively correct in any court of justice, or judicial proceedings, when they may be relevant to the point or matter in contro- versy, of the facts, statements, and recitals, therein con- tained. INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 85 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. Sections Adulterations, etc 65, 67 Agents, to give Information GO Alcoholic spirits, distilling of U4 Animal food, age of 4:5 Animal matter, putrid, not to be thrown into streets, sewers, etc.. 102 Animals, dangerous or offensive 69, 74 " body not to be carted through the street unless covered.. 45 " not to be kept in infected places 71 slaughtering of 81, 90 slaughtering of, prohibited below Thirty-ninth street... 83 " not to be killed or dressed in market 81 dead, sick, and injured 124, 132 " . sick with contagious diseases to be reported 127 dead, entrails, etc., of 45 not taken to market till cool 45 " " not to be throv/n into streets, sewers, etc., 98, 102, 103, 12S not to be skinned in street 1-'>1 " " glue-making, etc., from 91 " duties of contractors for 9, 114 " mad l-^^ " noisy 180 age of, whose meat may be sold 43 ' ' dead, piers and docks for 113, 114, 115 " skinning, business of 90, 91 diseased or injured, to be reported 127, 130 diseased l-'- l*^- ^-^ " injured or diseased, how killed 129 «• " who may Interfere with 129 dead or past recovery to be removed 129 with hydrophobia or exposed thereto 132 Animal substance, deposit of 1^ Antitoxin ^*^ Apartments, when not to be occupied 18 Ash-boxes 108.109 Ash-carts, construction of !*• 'Ashes," meaning of 2 86 INDEX TO THE SANITAEY CODE, Sections Ashes, delivery of, to carts 110 " receptacles for 108 ' ' removing of 108 " not to be mixed with garbage 108 " not to be sifted in street 118 not to be thrown into streets or rivers 100 " persons engaged in removing 111,114,119, 121 from forges, etc 96 Asiatic cholera 133 Asses 69 Authorities — public and private to observe regulations preventing spread of pulmonary tuberculosis 138 Barber shops, to be conducted in accordance with regulations.... 179 Basins to have proper traps 33 Bath pipes not to be connected with water-closet pipes 83 Bath room, sleeping in 18 Bathing houses at seashore 26 Baths to be trapped 33 Bedding for vessels .152, 157 " " stables Ill Beverage, beer or drink 51 " not to be sold in cemeteries 168 Birds 42. 58 " not sound and fresh 42, 58 *' not sound, mode of treating 58 " mode of keeping 81 "^ offensive 128 " that died by disease or accident 42 " seizure of 58 " noisy 180 Births, deaths and marriages 158, 162 " '* " assistants at, duties of 159 " " " false certificates of 162 " " " forgeries of certificates 162 registry of 160, 161 report of, to be made 159,160, 161 who shall report .158,159,160 Blacksmiths 96 Blood not allowed to go into sewer 85, 103 Boats, for removal of garbage, not be moored more than 24 hours 123 "Board," meaning of 1 INDEX TO THE SANITAKY CODE. 87 Sections "Boarding-house," meaning of 3 keepers to report persons sick 13G Boarding-houses, no poisonous or unwholesome food or drinks In. 47 " " privies or water-closets for 20 " " not to be overcrowded 19 " " to be ventilated, etc 22 " " owners of, to provide for health 22 " " tenants in, lessees and owners of, to report per- sons sick at 150 Bone-boiling, forbidden 90 " burning, " 90 " grinding, " 91 Bones, deposit of..., 101 transporting permit 101 Breadstuffs, exposing in street 46 Brick in streets 113 Brine not to escape into street 102 Bronx, certain business prohibited without permit 91 Brooklyn, driving of cattle in 84 ' ' slaughtering animals in 82 " certain business prohibited without permit 91 Building, precautions to -be observed in 118 Buildings, construction of, etc 17,85,89, 91 " to be ventilated, sewered, etc.... 17 " when not to be let 17 " when to contain nothing offensive 107 " overcrowding of 19 definition 11 " for dwelling or lodging not allowed on same lot as slaughter-house 85 " manufacture of illuminating gas, plans to be approved 89 " for certain occupations, not to be erected without per- mit 92 " for slaughtering animals, construction, location, etc... 82 " contagious disease, persons sick or exposed not to be taken from 156 Burial, mode of 168 returns of, to be made 163 Burning material, not to be done without permit Ill Burying-places 1^8 " " persons in charge of 167, 170 88 INDEX TO THE SANITAKY CODE. Sections Business, dangerous or detrimental to health 88, 92 ' ' offensive, requiring permit 94 "Butcher," meaning of 7 Butchers require permits 82 " to allo-w inspection 60 " to keep places clean 85 Butchers' ice-boxes, refrigerators, etc 50 offal and garbage 103, 121 " refuse, manner of transporting 87 " to give information. 60 Butter, unwholesome 52 Calves, young, meat from 43 Canals, filth not to be discharged into 38 Candies and confectioneries 46 Carelessness, responsibility for '. 8 Cargo from quarantine 153 Cai-pets 118 Cars, railroad, cushions. 172 " " to be cleansed 173 " " one in four to be closed 176 " " no dirty clothing on 174 " " speed of, on curves 177 " " ventilators 175 Carts for night-soil, manure, etc., construction of 121 " " " " not to stand in the street... 120 " " " " nothing to escape from 121 Cats, permit to keep for sale 79 Cattle, horses, etc 69 "Cattle," meaning of 7 Cattle, overheated, diseased, or feverish 44 ' ' diseased, to be reported 44, 58 " diseased, to be removed from city 44 " dangerous 69, 74 " in vehicles 76 " not to run at large 69 ' ' permit to keep 71 yarding of 72 • ' diseased, not to be brought in 124 " place of keeping 69 " not to be unloaded in street 69 " unsound, mode of treating 58 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 89 Sections Cattle, how transported 70 " driving in street G!), 73, 81 mode of Iceeping and elauglitering 81 " not to be slaughtered south of Thirty-ninth street 8.'{ " not slaughtered without permit 82 unwholesome, seizure of G7 Cattle-yards require permit 72 Calves, slaughter of 82 Ceilings whitewashed 23 'Cellar," meaning of 3 Cellars 17, 18 " permit to occupy as stable 7G " sleeping in 18 Cemeteries 167 " persons In charge of 109, 170 " food not to be sold in 168 Cesspools 37 " not to be emptied except by permit 122 " contents of, not to be put into streets or rivers. 100, 104, 106 " contents of, not to come within two feet of top 104 " " " become offensive 104 removal of lOG, 122 " " " to be disinfected 122 " building and inspection of 37 " care in transporting contents of 120 " turning and stirring contents of Ill " offal, ashes, garbage, etc., not to be put into 105 not to be filled with dirt till filth Is removed 104 Cheese, unwholesome 52 Chickens, permit to keep live 78 Chief officers of vessels to report person sick 149, 151 Children, when not to attend school 145 Chimney flues not used as ventilators of sewers, etc 29 Cholera 133 Churches, duties of officers of 25 Cigar factories, spittoons to be provided 178 Cinders ^ from forges, factories, etc. Cisterns 96 104 "City," etc., meaning of 1 Clam shells. 112 90 INDEX TO THE SANITAEY CODE. Sections Clergymen to register marriages 161 ' ' to report marriages 158 performing marriages to register name and address.... 158 Coal, included in term ' 'ashes' ' 2 Coal-dust 96, 118 Coal-yards 96 Colts 69. 72. 125 Concert saloons 3 Condemnation of unsound food 43, 58 Confectionery 46. 67 Consignees of vessels to report persons sick 149 Contagious and infectious diseases, reports as to. 127, 133, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 151 "Contagious disease," meaning of 5 to be reported..: 133, 144, 151 persons sick with 140,143,154, 156 " " animals sick 124 " " articles exposed to 146 " " children sick witli, not to attend school... 145 " " needless exposure to 145 " " duties of undertakers in cases of 141 " " undertakers to report 141 " " hospitals 140 " " retaining body 165 "Contractor," meaning of 1 Contractors for night-soil, offal, garbage, etc., duties of 113, 114 " for cleaning streets 39 " to comply with Code 9 Coroners 171 Corpses ' 163, 167, 168 Cows 91, 124 " veterinary certificate required 124 Cream, adulterated 57 Crematories 167 Croton water not to be interfered with 64 Croup, a contagious disease 141 Curb-stones 41 Day nurseries 25 Dead bodies, interments, sextons .167, 168 " not to be exposed where death from contagious dis- ease 141, 143 " not to be buried without permit 167 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 91 Sections Dead bodies, to be reported 106, 170 " not to be transported without permit 163 " not to be unduly retained or exposed 164, 165 Dead animals not to be thrown into streets, etc 128 " to be removed 130 to be reported 130 certain to have tag 128 Deaths, marriages and births 158, 102 " " " false certificates of 162 " " " forgeries of certificates 102 " " " registry of 160, 161 " " " report of, to be made 159, 160, 161 " " " whose duty to report 158,159,160 Decoctions 65 Definitions 1, 7 "Department," meaning of 1 Diphtheria antitoxin 148 Diphtheria, a communicable disease 133 Dirt and filth 87,100, 111 "Dirt," meaning of 2 Dirt, where not to be deposited Ill not to lie piled or raked up in street 114 not to be thrown into streets or rivers 100 docks for 113, 115 in street 117 removal of 121 persons engaged in transporting 119 "Disease," contagious, meaning of 5 " infectious or pestilential 5 Disease, specific name and type of, to bo reported 135 " certain to be reported 133, 137 " infectious, contagious and communicable 133 " isolation rooms 140 " when persons sick to be removed 139 " contagious, persons sick of a, to be reported. .133, 134, 137 " contagious, persons sick of a, not to be exposed or re- moved 143 " contagious, articles exposed to 152, 154, 156 " " persons exposed to 143 " " exposure to 143, 145 Diseased animals 1-^" ^^ 92 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. Sections Diseased animals, to be reported 130 Disinfection of infected premises 146 Dispensary, to report certain diseases 134 " to " tuberculosis 138 Distilleries require permit 94 Docks for offal and nigbt-soil Ill, 113, 123 " " " vessels not to go to 115 Dogs, noisy 180 " biting any person to be surrendered 132 " permit to keep for sale 79 Drain pipes in relation to joints, connections, size of, etc. .30, 31, '62 Drain materials and connections not to be used or made 34, 35 Drainage, arrangement of 27 " to be adequate 27 " not to discharge into streams.' JJS Drink and food 42, 60 Drinks, poisonous, deleterious, or adulterated... 47 " dangerous or detrimental to life or health 51 Drinking-hydrants 64 Drugs, medicines, adulterations and poisons 65 — 68 Drugs 65, 66 ' • adulterated 68 " how marked and sold 65, 66 Ducks 78 Dust from factories, etc 96, 118 Dwellings, lodging houses and other buildings 16 — 26 Eggs 6 Elevated railroad stations and spitting in 178 Emigrant vessels, bedding from 152 Enforcement of ordinances 11, 12 Entrails of dead animals 45 Excavations 107, 116 Exposure to disease 143, 145 Factory refuse 38 False statements 15 Farcy, animals sick with 125 Fat 93 " only fresh, to be boiled or rendered 95 " not to be brought into city to be rendered 95 " rendering of 93 Fat-boiling 91 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 93 Sections Pat-boiling, to be in steam-tight vessels 95 " odors in, to be destroyed 95 " to be free from offense 05 Feathers 118 Feet of dead animals 45 Fence, for lots and excavations llfJ Fertilizers, manufacture of 91 Fevers 133 Filling grounds, etc 08 Filth and dirt.. 100,111, 122 Filth not to escape into street 102, 121 "Fish," meaning of 6 Fish-boiling 91 Fish when for sale 6 " not fresh or sound 48, 5.S " that died by disease or accident 41, 42 " mode of keeping 81 " not to be exposed, etc. , outside of shops 45 ' ' unsound, mode of treating 58 " false label or statement as to 48 " offensive 5S, 128 Flag-stones ; 40, 41 Food and drink 42 — GO ' ' unwholesome, meagre, or sickly 43, 47 " not to be made and sold under false name 65 " not to be sold in cemeteries 168 " not to be taken to market till cool 45 unwholesome, deleterious, or adulterated 67 " false label or statement as to 48 " unsound, mode of treating 58 Forges 06, 118 Foundries ^^ Fowls, not sound and fresh 58 " " mode of dealing with 58 " mode of keeping h 81 " offensive ^^' 1-^ " that died by disease or by accident 42 " permit to keep 78 Fruit 42,49, 58 Funerals — contagious diseases HI' 1*2 Furnaces to be smoke-consuming ^^ 94 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. Sections "Garbage," meaning of 2 Garbage, not to fall or be thrown into streets, rivers, etc 103 •where not to be deposited 98, 111 docks for 113, 115, 123 not to be heaped together in street 110 boxes 108, 109, 120, 121 receptacles not to be interfered with 109 to be received and transported as approved by Board of Health 123 not to be mixed with ashes, etc 108 how transported 123 removal of 110 delivery to carts 110 persons engaged in transporting 114, 119 duties of contractors for 9, 114 loading and unloading Ill turning and stirring Ill deodorization of 123 Garbage-carts, construction of 121 " how managed 120 Garbage-scows, construction of 123 Gas 89 " from factories, etc 89, 96 " offensive, dangerous, or prejudicial to life or health, not to be made 89 Gas-tar not to escape , 89 Gas-works 89 ' ' odors from, to be prevented 89 Geese 69, 78 Glanders 125, 127 Glue-making 91 Goats 69 Goods, damaged, not to be exposed for sale 118 Graves 168 Grease 99 Ground, what, and when, may be opened 99 Grounds, filling up 98 Gut-cleaning 91 Gut-fat 45 Gutters to be cleaned 39, 40 how to be cleaned 39 INUKX TO TIIK SAMTAIJY CODK. !»') Sections Gutters not to be obstructed 117 Gymnasiums 25 Hair lis Halls of worship, ventilation, etc 2b Harbor, filth not to be emptied into 38 Heads of dead animals 46 Heads of institutions to report sick persons 140 Health, duties in respect to 8 Hide-tanning, skinning, etc., establishments 88 Hides not to be unloaded without permit 152 Hogs, unloading in street 69 Horses G9, 72, 86 with glanders or farcy 125 " sick 124 " slaughtering of, for food, forbidden 86 " " forbidden without a permit 86 " skinning of 91 dead body of to have tag 131 Hospitals — contagious diseases 140 Hotel-keepers, to report sick persons 136 Hotels, tenants, lessees, owners, etc., of, to report sick persons in 136, 150 "House, tenement," m"eaning of 3 boarding, " 3 lodging, " ii House drain, to be kept in good repair 32 Hydrants <>* Hydrant waste pipes to be trapped 33 Hydrophobia ^-^^ Ice-box. See "Refrigerators." Infected places or vessels 156 premises, disinfection bt 146 Infectious disease 5, 133 Innkeepers to report sick persons 136 Inns, tenants, lessees, owners, etc., of, to report sick persons in.. 136 Inquests, coroners' 171 Inspection, obstructing 12 " to be permitted 137 Inspector may destroy adulterated milk 54 " may obtain information from butchers, milk dealers and others ^ Institutions to report sick persons l-*0 96 IXDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. Sections Interments, sextons, dead bodies 166, 167 require permits 167 Label — diphtheria, antitoxin — to be labeled 148 Lambs, young, meat from ., 43 Lampblack manufactory 94 Land, garbage not to be used for filling in 98 Lard, only fresh, to be rendered or melted 93, 95 " rendering, to be done in steam-tight vessels 95 " " odors in, to be destroyed 95 to be inoffensive 93 "' not to be brought into city for rendering, melting, etc 95 X,ard-boiling 95 Laws, compliance with 12 Leaders not to be used for certain purposes 35 construction of 35 Leather- dressing establishments 88 ■"Lessee," meaning of 1 duties of 10 Liability for violation of Code 13 Life, duties in respect to 8 Life lines for bathers 26 •"Light," meaning of 1 Lime 91, 118 Liquid, noxious or stinking 102 Ijiquid refuse not to be mixed with ashes or rubbish 108 " receptacles for 108 " removal of 108 " how transported 108 " " not to spill or leak 121 turning or stirring Ill ILiquids, offensive 88, 102, 104 not to be discharged into harbor, etc 38 false statement as to 48 Lobster-shells 112 " 'Lodging-house, ' ' meaning of 3 Lodging-houses 19, 21, 47 food in 47 not to be overcrowded 21 " privies for 20 " tenants, lessees, owners, etc., of, to report persons sick in 150 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 97 Sections Lodging-houses, walls and ceilings to be whitewashed 23 Lodging-house keepers to report sick persons 130 Lots, vacant, to be provided with proper tight board fence, etc... 116 Mad animals 132 Magistrates to report, etc., marriages 158 who perform marriages to register 158 "Manager," meaning of 1 Managers of institutions to report sick persons 134, 1.38 Manhattan, no cattle driving in 84 " slaughtering in 83 "Manufactory," meaning of 3 Manufactories 20, 21, 22, SO. 94 no overcrowding of 19 " water-closets for, to be provided 20 " temperature of 22 ' ' safeguards in 22 for certain purposes not to be established 94 ' ' refuse to be removed from 96 Manure not to be thrown into streets or rivers 100 Manure, persons engaged in transporting 97, 119 " carts, boxes, etc 120 " to be removed 97 " care in transporting 97, 121 " where not to be deposited 100, 111 " handling of 97 " loading and unloading Ill turning and stirring Ill docks for 113.115 "Market, private," meaning of 7 Markets, unsound and unwholesome articles not to be kept in 42 " to be kept cleanly 49 ' ' refrigerators in 50 " animals not to be killed or dressed in SI Marriages, births and deaths 158, 162 " " " false certificates of 162 " " " forgeries of certificates 162 •' persons who perform to register name and address 158 " report of, to be made 158, 161 ' * registry of 161 Masters of vessels to report 149. 151 Matter, filthy 102 98 IXDEX TO THE SAKITAEY CODE. Sections Measles a contagious disease 133 ' 'Meat, ' ' meaning of 6 when for sale 6 unsound or un-wholesome 42, 43, 48, 58 of animals that died by disease or accident 42 " not to go to market till cool 45 keeping and slaughtering, mode of 81 " not to be taken to market till certain things done 45 ' ' false statement of label as to 48 " to be kept clean and -n-holesome 49 ' ' offensive 128 " not to be hung, etc., in street 45 buildings where treated, how constructed 85 " unsound, mode of dealing with 58 Medicines 65, 66, 68 not to be sold under false name 65 poisonous 66 Merchandise, damaged, not to be exposed for sale 118 Midwives 5, 159 Milch-cows 124 Milk, condensed 55 Milk dealers to allow inspection and give information 60 Milk, false label or statement as to 48 unwholesome, impure and adulterated 52, 53, 55, 58 permits 56 seizure of adulterated 54 swill 52 Mineral waters, filing name of, etc 59 Misfeasance and nonfeasance 8 Mules 69 Negligence 8 Night-soil, docks and piers for 113, 115 ' ' contractors for 9, 114 ' ' handling of Ill ' ' care in removal of 114 ' ' not to run into streets or grounds 104 " " come within two feet of top 104 ' ' not to lie in street 114 " to be disinfected 122 " carts 121 " mode of using carts for 121 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 99 Sections Noises 180 Nonfeasance and misfeasance 8 Kotlce of change of sewer connection 2? Notices not to be torn down or mutilated 137 Nuisance 11, 42, 111 to be abated within time specified 13 not to be permitted 38, 111 Nurseries, day 26 Nurses 5, 159, 160 Obedience to ordinances 9 "Occupant," moaning of 1 liability of 13 Occupations detrimental to health, or dangerous 88, 89, 90 Odors and liquids, offensive 88, 99, 111 Offal, docks for 113 " " " vessels not to go to 115 " not to lie in streets 114 " contractors for 11-1 " loading and unloading Ill " handling of 8.'j, 87 boiling 90, 91 '■ not to be thro-ssrn into sewers, streets, rivers, etc 85, HXi how managed 120 " construction of carts, etc., for 121 where not to be deposited Ill care in transporting 120 " persons engaged in transporting 114, 119 " to be conveyed in tight vessels 87 Offensive material 88, 102, 103, 104, 105. 111. 120, 121. 122 " trades 8S "Officer," meaning of ^ Officers of vessels to report 149, 151, l."2, 15.i 94, '.5 Oil-boiling Omissions .9, 12 Orders to be observed 1^ Ordinances, obedience to ^. H- 1"* Overcrowding 19 "Owner," meaning of ^ duties of 10 Owner and tenant jointly and severally liable 13 Owners of vessels to report persons and articles from Infected places l-*9. 15^ 100 INDEX TO THE SAXITARY CODE. Sections Owners of boarding and lodging houses to report persons sick.136, 150 Oyster-shells 112 ' ' saloons 112 "Party," meaning of 1 "Permit," meaning of 1 Permit obtained by false statements 15 " to remove persons sick of contagious disease 143 '• " articles exposed to contagion 154 for burial 163, 165 Connecticut 163 " " New Jersey 163 " to remove bodies 163 " to deposit manure, offal, etc IH " to keep swine and goats 7ii " to yard cattle, swine, sheep, goats, and horses, ducks, geese or fowls 72, 78 " to occupy offal or night-soil dock. 115 " to transact certain kinds of business 88, 94 ' ' to keep cows 71 " for vessels or things from quarantine 152, 153, 154, 155 " for persons or articles from infected places 152. 156 " to land rags, hides, etc 152 for slaughter-houses 82 to occupy street or sidewalk IIT " for scavengers 119, 122 for persons engaged in transporting manure, swill, offal.. 119 " to empty vaults, sinks, privies, and cesspools 122 to unload cattle, etc., in streets 69 horses not to be slaughtered without 86 to transport offal or butchers' refuse 87 to inter dead 167 to open burying-ground 168 to open vault, etc 168 to use street sweepings for filling in lot, etc 98 " to open ground containing offensive matter 99 to collect bones, etc., and transport same 101 to stand cai's loaded with manure Ill to burn straw and other material Ill '• to deposit dirt, etc., in street 117 " to have offensive material deposited during accumulation. Ill ■ " to transport offensive matter 119 INDEX TO THE SANITAKY CODE. 101 Scctlonn Permit to remove contents of vault, etc 122 " to use well water (Cj to land and drive cattle (Cj ' ' to yard horses, sheep, etc 72 to lead cattle through street 7;{ " to drive sheep through street 73 " to keep live chiclcens 78 to keep cats, dogs or birds for sale 79 to keep pigeons in built-up portions of city SO " for lodging house Ul for smoke house KJ ' ' for day nursery 25 for bathing establishment 26 for mineral waters 51) " for slaughter houses 82 stable in cellar 75 ' ' false statement for 15 meaning 1 for sale of milk 56 "Person," meaning of 1 Person to report contagious disease 137 "Physician," meaning of 6 Physician, to keep registry of births and deaths 159 to report births and deaths 135, 161 " deaths by contagious disease 135 name and type of disease 135 what included in terra 6 to register name and residence 166 to report persons sick of contagious disease 133. 140 Piers, manure, etc., not to be deposited on Ill for offal, etc., not to be obstructed 113, 115 for night-soil 113 Pigeons, permit to keep, in built-up portions of city SO Pig-pens ^^ Pigs, young, meat of "^'^ Pigs not to run at large 69 ' ' unloading in street 69 ' ' slaughter of 82 " driving in street 69 Pipes, waste or soil, to be ventilated 36 waste, soil and vent, length, diameter, etc 30 In relation to joints, connections, etc 31, 32 102 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. Sections Platforms of elevated railroads, spitting on 178 Poisons 66, 67 Poultry, exposing in street 45 Fremises, disinfection of... 146 to have nothing offensive on them 107 Principals of institutions to report persons sick 140 Printing offices, spittoons to be provided 178 PriA'ies, contents of, not to be left in streets or rivers.. 100, 104, 106 " not to be emptied, except by permit 122 construction of 37 " not to be filled with dirt till cleaned 104 " contents of, not to run into streets or on grounds. . .104, 106 " " "to come within two feet of top 104 " " "to become offensive 104, 107 turning and stirring contents ot. Ill " to be disinfected 122 " ashes, garbage, offal, etc., not to be put into 105 tubs, etc., in, to be tight 106 to be provided in certain buildings 20 ' ' gases from 20 Public funeral 141, 143 ' 'Public place, ' ' meaning of 2 Quarantine, vessels, persons and articles that have been in, re- quire permit 153 Queens, driving cattle in, etc 84 " burying body in 168 " certain business in, prohibited without permit 91 Rags not to be unloaded without permit 152 Railroad cars, no cushions in 172 " " to be cleaned daily 173 " " one in four to be closed 176 " " no dirty clothing in 174 " " speed of, on curves 177 " " ventilators 175 . ' ' stations, spitting in 178 Rain water leaders 35 Rain water, not to enter building 24 Receptacles in privies, etc 106 ' ' for ashes to be of metal 108 ' ' for garbage, ashes, etc 108, 121 " " " " not to remain on sidewalk.. 108 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 103 Sectlona Refuse material 101 Refrigerators, drain pipe 34, 60 " certain connections not to be made 34 Registry of birtlis, marriages and deatlis 158, 159, 101 ' 'Regulation. ' ' meaning of 1 Regulations, special, to be observed 11 Relapsing fever contagious 133 Rendering 93, 95 to be of only fresh material 95 " to be in steam-tight vessels 96 " odors in, to be destroyed 95 " to be inoffensive 96 "Report," meaning of 1 Reports required ..125, 127, 130. 131, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 149, 150, 151, 158, 159, 166, 171 Reservoirs 61 Richmond, driving cattle, etc., in 84 certain business prohibited in without permit 91 Rivers, drainage into 38, 100 substances not to be thrown into 106 Roof, repair of 24 " straw, etc., not to be placed on Ill Rooms, when not to be occupied 18 " no offensive thing to be in 107 "Rubbish," meaning of 2 Rubbish not to be thrown into streets or rivers 100 " to be bundled or secured lOS " not to be mixed with garbage, etc... ICS " not to be piled or raked in street 114 " removal o'f 110 " turning and stirring Ill " delivery of, to carts 110 carts for, how managed 120 " " " construction of 121 contractors for 9. H* docks for 113.115 persons engaged in transporting 114, 119 boxes ^^^ Rubella, a contagious disease 133 "Saloon," meaning of ' Saloons, and persons connected therewith •*' 104 I2\DEX TO THE SAXITARY CODE. Sections Sand 118 Sanitary code, compliance with 12 Sanitary Superintendent, may give permit to retain body in case of death from contagious disease 165 " Superintendent may cause removal of sick person 139 " Superintendent condemning unwholesome food 58 Scarlet fever, a contagious disease 133 Scavengers, permits of 119 Schools 129 " sick children not to attend 145 School-sinks 37 Scouring establishments 88 Scows, garbage 123 Scrap 91, 93 Seashore, bathing regulations ■ 26 Sewage, where not to be discharged 38 Sewers, solid matter not to pass into 39, 89 " private, gases from •• 89 " connections 27 to be flushed 28 ' ' construction and care of 27 Sewer ventilation, materials and connections not to be used or made 29 Sextons — dead bodies — interments 167, 169, 170 " not to bury without permits 167 to make return 170 " to register 169 Sheep, not to run at large 69 " not to be yarded without permit 72 " sick, not to be brought in 124 driving in street. 69,73, 84 slaughter of 82, 83 Shell-burning 91 Shells, oyster and clam 112 Shops 96, 118 Sick persons, removal of 143, 154, 155 report of 133,151 Sidewalks 77 " ice and water not to be on 40 " not to be obstructed 41, 77 " no animal or vehicle to be on 77 to be kept in good condition 40, 41 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 1 0.3 Sections Sinks, contents of, not to be put Into streets or rivers.. 100, 105, 106 to have proper traps 33 not to be emptied, except by permit 37, 122 construction of 37 contents of, not to run into streets or grounds 100, 104 " " come within two feet of top 104 " " become offensive 107 to be disinfected 122 care in transporting contents of 87 turning and stirring contents of Ill not to be filled with dirt till emptied of filth 104 to have traps 33 offal, ashes, garbage, etc., not to be put Into 105 Skinning animals, business of 88 Skins 152 Skylight, repairing of 24 Slaughter-houses 82, 85 blood, etc., from 85,103 " must be clean 85 ' ' woodwork in 85 " construction of 85 " none spijth of Thirty-ninth street, west side 83 " not to be dwellings 85 ' ' require permit 82 " blood, offal, etc., in 85 " none below Forty-third street, east side, Manhat- tan &3 " approval of plans 85 Slaughtering cattle, mode of 81, 82 in Brooklyn 82 not to be done in market 81 below Thirty-ninth street 83 requires permit 82 of horses 86 Smal ■pox 133 Smoke-house 18 Smoke from factories, etc 96 Smoke-consumers 90 Soda water, syrup or liquids Bl Soil pipes in relation to joints, connections, size, etc., of 30, 31 •* not to be used as vent or drain pipes 33 " materials and connections not to be used or made.... 29 106 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. Sections Soil pipes, length and diameter, etc 30 " ventilation of 36 "Special regulations," meaning of 1 Special regulations to be observed 11, 12 Spirits, alcohclie, distilling of 94 Spitting upon floors of public buildings and places 178 in printing offices 178 cigar manufactories 178 ' ' on elevated railroads, etc 178 Stables 97 to be kept clean 71, 97 " animals In 180 ' • in cellar, permit for 75 • ' Infected, no animal to be kept in 71 Stairs of elevated railroads, spitting on 178 Stalls, etc., in market to be clean 49 Stations of elevated railroads, spitting on 178 Steam from factories 96 Straw from emigrant vessels 152 " used as bedding not to be placed in street or burnt Ill "Street," meaning of 2 Streets, certain articles not to be shaken or exposed in 101 " mode of cleaning 39 dirt, brick, etc., in 117 " offensive substances falling in to be replaced 121 offensive substances not to be deposited in 100, 102, 104 straw, etc.. not to be dried in Ill not to be obstructed 77 " dirt or rubbish not to lie piled or raked up in 114 Surf bathing 26 Swill not to escape into street 102 " persons engaged in transporting 119 " in what kind of vessels removed 120, 121 " vessels with, not to leak or spill 121 ' ' how transported 120 " turning and stirring of Ill " carts, construction of 121 " " mode of using 120 " boiling 91 Swill milk 52 ' ' butter and cheese from 62 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 107 Sections Swine not to go at large 68 " unloading in street 68 ' ' places where kept to be clean 97 " not to be yarded without permit 72 " sick, not to be brought in 124 " slaughter of 82 Tallow not to be brought into the city to be rendered 95 " rendering of 95 " only fresh, to be rendered 96 boiling 91, 95 " " to be in steam-tight vessels 95 " " odors in, to be destroyed 95 " " to be inoffensive 95 Tanks, certain connections not to be made 34 Tanning establishments 88 Tap, faucet, tank or fountain 51 Tar manufactory 94 Temperature of manufactories 22 " certain public places 25 "Tenant," meaning of 1 Tenant and owner, liability of 13 ' 'Tenement-house, ' ' meaning of 3 houses .- 19, 20 ' ' not to be overcrowded ly • ' ventilation, etc. , of 17 " water-closets for 20 " walls and ceilings lo be whitewashed 23 Tenement-house not to have smoke-house 16 "Theatres," meaning of 4 Tombs used only by permit 168 " persons in charge of, to register 169 Traps, location of 35 materials and connections not to be made or used 29 Trap pipe not to be used as a soil or drain pipe 33 Tuberculin test for milch cows 124 Tuberculosis to be reported 133, 138 Tubs in privies 106 construction of 106 ' • stationary, to have proper traps 33 Turpentine manufactory 94 Typhoid fever 133 Typhus " 133 lOS IXDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. Sections Undertakers to register 169 to report contagious diseases 141 duties in case of contagious disease 141 Unwholesome articles not to be brought to market 47 Urinals not to be trapped 33 Urine not to escape into the street 94 Vacant lots to be kept clean and fenced, etc 116 Vaccination 147 Varicella, contagious disease 133 Varnish factories 94 Vats 107 Vaults not to be emptied, except by permit 122 " construction of 37 " not to be offensive 104, 107 " contents of 104, 106, 107, 122 to be disinfected 122 contents of, not to be thrown into sewers, streets, rivers, etc. 106 " contents of, to be not less than two feet from top 104 turning and stirring contents of Ill not to be filled with dirt till emptied 104 ' ' care in transporting contents of 120 ashes, offal, etc., not to be put In 105 prices for cleaning 122 for burial 168 persons in charge of, to register •.. 169 "Vegetables," meaning of 6 Vegetables, not sound and fresh 42, 58 " decayed and unwholesome, not to be kept or brought into city, or offered for sale therein 42 ' ' false label or statement as to 48 ' ' unsound, mode of dealing with 58 " to be kept in wholesome place 49 Vegetable matter, putrid, not to be thrown into the streets, etc.. 103 Vent pipes, length, diameter, etc 30 not to be used 29 Ventilating of waste pipes 36 Ventilation 16, 25 " sewers, traps, drains, soil and waste pipes — mate- rials and connections not to be used or made 29 Vesbels, removals from and unloading of 152 reports of officers, owners, and consignees of 149. 150 INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODi:. 109 Sections Vessels, physicians on, to report 151 removal of sick from 154, 156 from quarantine 153, 155 nothing to be cast from 157 not to unload skins, rags, hides, etc., without permit... 152 " not to go to offal docks 115 Veterinary surgeons i 127 " certificate for milch cows 124 Wash trays, to be trapped ,'^3 Waste-pipe ventilation 36 Waste pipes, construction and connections .30, '•>! materials and connections not to be used or made... 29 length, diameter, etc 30 in relation to joints, connections, size, etc 31, 32 not to be used for a vent or soil pipe 33 ventilation of 36 Water from buildings not to pass on to walk 40 " reservoirs, pipes, etc., for, to be kept pure 61 " for human consumption 62, 63, 6i ' ' from wells, permit 63 " to flush sewers 28 offensive 88 " drinking ". 63 well 63 Water-closets 33 " pipes not to be connected with bath pipes 33 not to be offensive 104, 107 "to be provided in certain houses 20 " gases from 2 J " to be trapped 33 Waters, mineral, etc., filing name of, etc 59 Whitewashing walls and ceilings 23 Yarding cattle, sheep, horses, etc ' 72 Yards of slaughter houses to be cemented, etc 85 Yellow fever 1^ i^^i99^ DATE DUE s^mt-^^^n^m. 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