CHAPTER IV. SEC. 70. No person to allow offensive water to be permitted on his premises. No offensive business to be opened without permit. Such establishments to be kept clean. 71. Gas companies not to allow refuse matter to run into streets, &c. Offensive odors not to be allowed to escape from gas house. Proper means to be used to prevent escape of odor. 72. Water closets to have adequate construction for preventing the escape of offensive smells. Proper ventilation to be provided. 73. No offal boiling, etc., to be allowed without permit." 74. No offal boiling, etc., to be allowed without permit. How applications for permits shall be made, 75. Residuum from fat boiling to be rendered inoffensive. 76. No varnish factory, etc., to be erected without permit, 77. No animal substance to be deposited in vacant lots, etc., without permit. 78. No ground filled with offensive material to be opened at certain times without permit. 79. No fat, unless fresh, to be melted. All melting to be in steam tight vessels. Odors to be destroyed. No fat to be brought into city to be rendered. 80. Contents of privy or waste and refuse not to be thrown into streets or vacant lots. Nor into East River, or any canal. 81. No swill, etc., to be allowed to run upon street. 82. 83. No butcher's offal, etc., to be thrown on street, etc. Contents of privies not to be drawn off into any street. Contents not to be allowed to rise within two feet of top. Privies not to be filled with dirt until filthy contents removed. 84. No offal to be deposited into any sinks, etc. 85. Contents of tubs, etc., not to be allowed to become a nuisance. 88. 87. No dirt, brick or other material to obstruct free flowage along gutter. Sufficient receptacles for ashes and rubbish to be provided for every building, etc. Every tub to be lined with suitable metal. Separate vessels for ashes and garbage to be provided. No box, etc., to remain on sidewalk longer than necessary, 89. 90. Boxes, etc., to be placed as inspectors, etc. direct. No person to interfere with contents. Occupants may deliver ashes, etc., direct to proper carts. Provided such garbage be not offensive. 91. No lime to be sieved. No mats shaken in streets. No business to be conducted where particles therefrom shall pass into street. Precaution to be observed in building, etc. 92. Stable-manure to be removed. Removal in certain cases must be made within certain hours. Every stable, etc., to have vault of not less than sixty-four cubic feet capacity. Permits. 93. No vaults, etc., to be emptied without permit. 94. Contents of privies not to be removed at certain times unless in certain apparatus. 95. Driver of offal cart to give notice, etc. 96. No person to engage in business of scavenger without permit. 97. Carts, etc., to be constructed according to regulations. 98. Carts used in removing garbage, etc., not to occupy unreasonable time in loading. 99. Carts and boxes to be strong and tight, and not spill contents. 100. Emptying privies to be carefully conducted. 101. Liquid manure not to escape from carts. 102. Contents of privies to be disinfected before removed. 103. Privies not to be emptied without permit. 104. Accumulations of manure not to be allowed. Straw used as bedding. not to be dried on sidewalks. 105. Manure not to be accumulated. 106. Manure, etc., not to be turned. 107. Oyster saloon keepers to remove shells daily. 108. Hotel garbage not to be removed except in certain casks. Furnaces to be constructed so as to consume their own smoke. 112. 114. Bodies of dead animals not to be thrown into public streets. 116. Dead animals to be removed. 117. Notice of dead animals to be given. 118. Treatment of sick or injured animals in streets. 119. Offal docks not to be obstructed. 120. Offal and street contractors to act promptly. 121. Street dirt not to be left in heaps. 124. Physicians to report deaths of patients from contagious disease. 127. Masters of vessels to report persons sick of contagious diseases. 128. Duty to report persons sick of contagious diseases. 129. Boarding and lodging house keepers to report sick persons. 130. Masters of vessels arriving at docks of city to report. 131. Notice of persons sick on vessels. 132. Cotton to be reported. 133. Skins arriving not to be unloaded without permit. Straw from emigrant vessels exposed to contagion not to be sold, etc. 134. Vessels from quarantine not to unload without permit. 135. Persons sick of contagious diseases not to be removed from vessels. Articles exposed to contagion not to be removed. 136. Vessels from infected ports not to land without permit. 137. Articles or persons from the infected ports not to be brought into the city. 138. Straw from vessels from certain ports not to be thrown overboard. 139. Health officer to make weekly reports of persons sick. 140. Persons sick of contagious diseases not to be removed or exposed. 141. Parents to cause children to be vaccinated. 142. Parents not to allow children to be exposed to any disease. 143. Interments not to be made without permission. 144. New cemeteries not to be established. Graves not to be opened without permit. Depth of graves. 145. Sextons and undertakers to report names, etc. 146. Sextons to make returns. 147. Bodies not to be removed from city without permits. Effect to be given to permits from other boards, etc. 148. Dead bodies not to be retained unduly. 149. Dead bodies to be reported. 150. Dead bodies not to be retained, without permit, more than four days. Not to apply to Morgue. 151. Coroners to report before holding inquests. 152. Clergymen to keep registry of marriages. Physicians to keep registry of births and deaths. 153. Copy of registry to be sent to board. 154. Clerks to make entry of births, deaths and marriages. 155. Next of kin to report deaths. 156. 157. 158. 159. Cars to be thoroughly cleaned. Bundles of soiled clothes not to be carried in cars. Tenement houses to conform to code. Ventilation and windows. 160. Roof to be kept in repair. Ventilator in hall. 161. Water closets or privies. One to every twenty occupants. To be connected with sewer. To have traps and water. Obstructions, etc., to be prevented. Cesspools allowed only when unavoidable. Yard or area to be connected with sewer or street gutter. 162. Cellars not to be used as dwellings unless they conform to code. Must 163. No cellar to be occupied for lodging without permit. 164. Garbage boxes. Combustibles, unhealthy articles and animals not to be kept. 165. To be kept clean. To be cleaned to satisfaction of board of health. To 167. Buildings infected or unfit for human habitation may be vacated. of lot. 170. Height of rooms. Windows. Size of windows. Small rooms to have 171. Chimneys. Ashes and rubbish. Water. Cellar floor. Halls open at 172. Definition of tenement house. Definition of lodging-house. Definition of cellar. Church bells not to be rung without permission. 177. Cespools and privy vaults to be connected with sewer. 178. No premises to be used for business or amusement to detriment of 179. health. Agents, etc., to disclose names of owners. 180. No animals, etc., to be brought into city to detriment of health. 181. No building, vehicle, etc.. to be used if a detriment to health. 182. No nuisance of any kind permitted. 183. All ordinances, etc., to be obeyed. 185. Ambulances of the department to have the right of way in streets. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER IV. Meaning of the terms herein. DEFINITION OF TERMS. SECTION 1. That the terms "board," "this board," and "said board," shall be held to mean the "board of health of the city of Brooklyn;" that the word "department," wherever used herein, shall be held to mean the board of health of the city of Brooklyn; that the words "person," To what terms "Owner," tenant," "lessee," " occupant, contractor, apply. "party, manager," ," "board," and "officer," shall respec Meaning of Meaning of ** permit, report. "light." Meaning of "public place. bish," 99 66 gar 99 66 99.66 99 66 tively be held to apply to and include, both jointly and 2. That the word "street," when used in the sanitary street, code, shall be held to include avenues, sidewalks, gutters, ashes, rub- and public alleys; and the words "public place" shall be bage," dirt." held to include parks, piers, docks and wharves, and water and open spaces thereto adjacent; 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, coal, and everything that usually remains after 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 held to include every accumulation of both animal and CHAPTER IV. vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, decay, and dealing in or storage, of meats, fish, fowl, birds or vegetables; and the word "dirt" shall be held to mean natural soil, earth and stone. house," "lodg "cellar," board ufactory," §3. That a "tenement house" shall be taken to mean Meaning of and include every house, building, or portion thereof, tenement which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or ing house." is occupied, as the house, home or residence of more than ing house," three families living independent of one another, and doing "mantheir cooking upon the premises, or by more than two saloon." families upon a 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 occupied, or intended so to be, by any number of persons, exceeding ten, as boarders thereat. The word "manufac tory" 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 of the day or night, 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 selling meals, liquors, drinks or refreshments of any kind, shall be conducted, and includes "concert saloons." "theatre." § 4. That the term "theatre" shall be held to include Meaning of the building, rooms and place where any play, concert, opera, circus, trick of jugglery, show, gymnastic or other exhibition, masquerade, public dance, drill, lecture, address, or other public or frequent gathering or amusement, are, is, or may be held, given, performed or take place, and the approach or approaches to and appurtenances thereof. 66 physician." § 5. That the word " physician" shall include dentists, Meaning of and every other person who practices about the cure of the sick or injured, or who has charge of, or professionally prescribes for, any person sick, injured or diseased, and any * Contagious disease. CHAPTER IV. person who pursues the business of or acts as midwife; that the phrase "contagious disease" shall be held to include all persons sick, affected or attacked by a disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature (more especially, however, referring to the cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, diphtheria, ship or typhus, typhoid, spotted, relapsing and scarlet fevers), and also including any new disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by this board dangerous to the public health; and every physician in said city shall at all times cause his or her name, office and residence, and also his or her kind and class of practice, to be registered within the bureau of vital statistics, and in a manner according to the regulations prescribed by this board. Meaning of Meaning of Responsibility for careless ness, negli gion. § 6. That 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 consumption 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 fish and meat found therein shall be deemed to be therein, and held for such sale or consumption as such food, unless the contrary be distinctly proved. § 7. That the word "cattle" shall be held to include all animals except birds, fowl, and fish, of which 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 include every store, cellar, stand and place (not being part of a public market) at which the business is the buying, selling or keeping for sale, of meat, fish or vegetables for human food. MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE. § 8. That no person shall carelessly or negligently do, or advise or contribute to the doing, of any act or thing dangence and omis- gerous 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 benig. |