CODE 
OF 
SANITARY ORDINANCES 
OF THE 
Department of Health 
OF THE 
CITY OF BROOKLYN. 
Prepared by the Board of Health, and 
approved by the Common; Council, 
August 4, 1875. 
BEING 
CHAPTER IV. OF THE CITY ORDINANCES, 
WITH THE 
ACT ORGANIZING THE BOARD OF HEALTH, 
with 
Other Acts and Ordinances relating to the 
Health Department, and Regulations 
of the Board, made thereunder. 
NOVEMBER 22, 1882. 
BROOKLYN: 
Joseph Keller, Printer, No. 4 Myrtle Avenue. 
1882. CODE 
OF 
SANITARY ORDINANCES 
OF THE 
Department of Health 
OF the 
CITY OF BROOKLYN. 
Prepared by the Board of Health, and 
approved by the Common Council, 
August 4, 1875. 
BEING 
CHAPTER IV. OF THE CITY ORDINANCES, 
WITH THE 
ACT ORGANIZING THE BOARD OF HEALTH, 
with 
Other Acts and Ordinances relating to the 
Health Department, and Regulations 
of the Board, made thereunder. 
NOVEMBER 22, 1882. 
BROOKLYN: 
Joseph Keller, Printer, No. 4 Myrtle Avenue. 
1 882. SANITARY ORDINANCES. 
DEFINITION OF TEEMS. 
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 Brook- 
lyn ; that the words “person,” “owner,” “ tenant,” 
‘ ‘ lessee, ” ‘ ‘ occupant, ” ‘ ‘ contractor, ” “ party, ” 
“ manager,” “ board,” and “ officer,” shall respect- 
ively be held to apply to and include, both jointly 
and severally, each and all owners, part owners, 
tenants, lessees, occupants, managers, contractors, 
parties in interest, persons, officers, boards and 
corporations who may sustain the relations, or 
may be in like position of any one or more thereof 
referred to in any ordinance or regulation ; that 
every order, ordinance or regulation declared ap- 
plicable to the built-up portion of Brooklyn shall, 
so far as the subject-matter thereof is applicable 
(save as to interments), and so far as this board 
has authority to make the same, be held to include 
and apply to the built-up portion of said city ; 
that every word or phrase anywhere herein de- 
fined shall be held to include the same sense 
wherever used ; that the words “city,” or “ this 
city,” or “said city,”whenever used herein, shall 
be held to mean the city of Brooklyn ; that the 
word “regulation” shall be held to include 
“special regulation” (which latter will be from 
time to time issued, and will contain more de- 
tailed provisions than can be herein conveniently 
set forth); that the word “permit ” shall be con- 
strued to mean the permission in writing of this 
board, issued according to its by-law’s, rules, reg- 
ulations and sanitary code; and that every “re- 
port ” herein required shall be held to be a report 
in writing, signed by the person (and indicating 
his official position) who makes the same ; that 
the word “light,” or “lighted,” shall be held to 
refer to external light; and that all words and 
phrases herein defined shall also include their 
usual and natural meaning, as well as herein es- 
pecially given. 
§ 2. That the word “ street,” when used in the 
sanitary code, shall be held to include avenues, 
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; 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 4 
substance that attends use or decay, or which ac- 
cumulates from building, storing or cleaning ; the 
word “ garbage ” shall be held to include every 
accumulation of both animal and vegetable mat- 
ter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the prepara- 
tion, 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. 
§ 3. That 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 house, 
home or residence of more than three families 
living'independent of one another, and doing their 
cooking upon the premises, or by more than two 
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 in- 
clude 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 one 
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 in- 
clude every basement or lower story of any build- 
ing 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 “board- 
ing-house ” shall be held to include every building, 
and every story and portion thei’eof, which is at 
any time or usually used, leased or occupied, or 
intended so to be, by any number of persons, ex- 
ceeding ten, as boarders thereat. The word 
“manufactory” shall be held to include every 
building, and every story and portion thereof, in 
which any sort cf 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.” 
§ 4. That the term “theatre” shall be held to 
include 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 pub- 
lic 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. 
§5. That the word “ physician ” shall include 
dentists and every other person who practices 
about the cure of the sick or injured, or who has 
chai’ge of, or professionally prescribes for, any 
person sick, injured or diseased, and any person 
who pursues tiie business of or acts as midwife ; 5 
that the phrase “contagious disease” shall be held 
to include all persons sick, affected or attacked by 
a disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilen- 
tial 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 dis- 
ease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential 
nature, and also any other disease publicly de- 
clared 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. 
§6. That the word “meat” whenever herein 
used, includes every part of any land animal and 
eggs (whether mixed or not with any other sub- 
stance) ; 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 consump- 
tion 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 in- 
clude 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 en- 
gaged 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 buy- 
ing, selling or keeping for sale, of meat, fish or 
vegetables for human food. 
MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE. 
§ 8. That no person shall carelessly or negligent- 
ly do, or advise or contribute to the doing of any 
act or tiling dangerous or detrimental to the health 
of any human being ; or shall any person know- 
ingly 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 ade- 
quate reasons; nor shall an;/ 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. 
§ 9. That 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 those things, in respect of which 
these ordinances contain provisions and regula- 
tions, shall comply with these ordinances, to the 
OBEDIENCE TO ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS. 
* Measles added by a regulation adopted February 6, 1880. extent that any contract, obligation or duty re- 
quires or permits ; and no direction of any con- 
tractors or persons shall excuse him for non- 
compliance with any of said ordinances. 
£ 10. That every 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 herein- 
before or hereinafter contained, or contained in 
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. 
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES. 
§ 11. That the inspectors of this department 
and its proper officers and agents shall make the 
inspections and examinations required by law ; 
that the Board of Police of the city of Brooklyn 
do execute, and cause to be executed, all the or- 
ders of this Board when so specially ordered ; and 
all persons are hereby forbidden to interfere with 
or obstruct such inspection, examination or exe- 
cution. 
§ 12. That, except as herein specially or other- 
wise provided, or as may be hereafter provided, or 
as is otherwise made necessary by the laws of the 
State, the Board of Police of the Police Department 
shall, through its proper officers and men, and as 
near as may be according to its existing regulations 
or amendments to be made thereto, on advice with 
this Board, and subject to the supervision of this 
Board, carry into effect and exercise the sanitary 
powers heretofore exercised by the Board of 
Police ; and that said Board of Police shall keep 
this department regularly advised of its action in 
that behalf, and shall conform to these and all 
future ordinances, and to all special regulations 
of this Board. 
BILLS OP HEALTH. 
£13. That no person, officer, or board within 
said city (except this Board or its proper officers, 
or proper officers of any bureau of this depart- 
ment, and as the regulations of this Board shall 
provide) shall grant, sign or deliver any certificate 
or “bill of health.” 
MEDICINES, ADULTERATIONS AND POISONS. 
§ 14. That no doctor, druggist or other person, 
shall make, sell, put up, prepare or administer, 
any prescription, decoction or medicine under any 
deceptive or fraudulent name, direction or pre- 
tence ; nor shall any false or deceptive representa- 
tion be made by any person to any other as to the 
kind, quality, purpose or effect of any sucli or 
other drug, medicine, decoction, drink, or other 
article offered or intended to be taken as food or 
medicine. 
§ 15. That no poisonous medicine, decoction or 
substance shall be held for sale or sold, except for 
lawful purposes and with proper motives, and by 
persons competent to give the proper directions 7 
and precautions as to the use thereof; nor shall 
any bottle, box, parcel or receptacle thereof be de- 
livered to any person unless the same is marked 
“poison,” nor to any person whom the party de- 
livering the same to lias reason to think intends it 
for any illegal or improper use or purpose. 
§ 16. That no person shall make, offer or have 
for sale or keep at any place of sale, “ any poison- 
ous, unwholesome, deleterious or adulterated 
drugs, medicine or food,” or in respect thereto 
omit any act or thing required, or do any act for- 
bidden by any law or health regulation of this 
State, applicable to any part of said city. 
CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS, VENTILATION AND 
DRAINAGE. 
§ 17. That no person shall hereafter erect, or 
cause to be erected, or converted to a new pur- 
pose by alteration, any building or structure 
which, or any part of which, shall be inadequate 
or defective in respect to ventilation, light, sewer- 
age or any of the usual proper or necessary pro- 
visions or precautions for the preservation of 
health, nor shall the builder, lessee, tenant or oc- 
cupant of any such, or of any other building or 
structure (within the right or ability of either to 
remedy or prevent the same), cause or allow any 
matter or thing to be or to be done in or about 
any such building or structure dangerous or preju- 
dicial to health. 
§ 18. That no owner, agent or lessee of any 
building, or any part thereof, shall lease or let, or 
hire out the same, or any portion thereof, to be 
occupied by any person, or allow the same to be 
occupied as a place in which any one may dwell 
or lodge, except when said buildings or such parts 
thereof are sufficiently lighted, ventilated, pro- 
vided and accommodated, and are in all respects 
in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness 
for wdiich this code or any law of this State pro- 
vides, 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 curb- 
stone of any adjacent street, nor of which the 
floor is damp by reason of water from the ground, 
or which is impregnated or penetrated by any 
offensive gas, smell or exhalation prejudicial to 
health. But this section shall not prevent the 
leasing, renting or occupancy of cellars or rooms 
less elevated than as 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 apartment, or as a principal or sole 
dwelling apartment.* 
* As amended September 1, 1875. 8 
§ 19. That no person having the right and power 
to prevent the same, shall knowingly cause or 
permit any person to sleep or remain in any cel- 
lar, or in any place dangerous or prejudicial to 
health, by reason of a want of ventilation or drain- 
age, or by reason of the presence of any poisonous, 
noxious or offensive substance or otherwise. 
£ 20. That no owner, lessee or keeper cf any ten- 
ement-house, lodging-house, boarding-house or 
manufactory, shall 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 health. 
S 21. That no pei’son, being the lessee, manager, 
conductor or owner of any theatre, shall cause, 
permit or allow' the same, or any part or appurte- 
nance thereof to be so far overcrowaled, or inade- 
quate, faulty or insufficient in respect of cleanli- 
ness, ventilation, or in any other particular, as 
that thereby, or by reason thereof, any avoidable 
peril shall come or happen to, or be incurred or 
suffered by, any person being properly at or in 
such theatre. 
£ 22. That every person who shall be the owner, 
lessee or keeper or manager of any tenement-house, 
boarding-house, lodging-house, or manufactory, 
shall provide or cause to be provided for the ac- 
commodation thereof, and for the use of the ten- 
ants, lodgers, boarders and workers thereat, ade- 
quate privies or water-closets, and the same shall 
be so adequately ventilated, and shall qt all times 
be kept in such cleanly and wholesome condition 
as not to be offensive, or be dangei'ous or detri- 
mexital to health. And no offensive smell or gases 
from or through any outlet or sewer, or through 
any such privy or water-closet, shall be allowred 
by any pei'son aforesaid, to pass into such house 
or any part thei’eof, or into other house or 
building. 
§ 28. That every owner, lessee and tenant, and 
manager of any boarding-house ox- manufactory, 
shall cause every pai't thereof and its appurte- 
nances to be put, and shall thei’eafter cause the 
same to be kept in a clean and wholesome con- 
dition, and shall speedily cause every department 
thei’eof in which any pei’son may sleep, dwell or 
work, to be adequately lighted and ventilated ; 
and if the same be a manufactory, shall cause 
eveiy part thereof in which any person may woi’k 
to be maintained at such tempei’atui’e. and be pro- 
vided with such accommodations and safeguards 
as not, by any l’eason of the want thei’eof, or of 
anything about the condition of any such manu- 
factory or its appurtenances, to cause unnecessary 
danger or detriment to the health of any person 
being properly therein or thereat. 
§ 24. “That no keeper, or other officer or person 
having control or authority in any jail, prison or 9 
other place where any person may be kept or con- 
fined, shall needlessly or illegally cause or allow 
any peril or detriment to the health of any such 
person, by reason of too little or too much heat, 
or of a want of food, drink or ventilation, or from 
the want or neglect of any other reasonable care, 
protection or precaution. 
§ 25. That every person, when cleaning any 
street, shall clean, and every contractor shall 
cause to be cleaned, the gutters and parts of the 
streets along which the water will run, before 
using any water to wash the same ; and no sub- 
stance 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. 
§ 26. That it shall be the duty of every person 
using, making or having any drain, soil-pipe or 
passage, to connect with any sewer (or with either 
the East River and any canal) and any ground, 
building, erection or place of business, and in 
like manner the duty of the owner and tenant of 
all grounds, buildings and erections, and of the 
parties interested in such place of business, or the 
business thereat, and in like manner the duty of 
all boards, departments, officers and persons (to 
the extent of the right and authority of each), to 
cause and require that such drain, soil-pipe, 
passage and connection shall at all times be ade- 
quate for its purpose, and such as shall convey 
and allow freely and entirely to pass whatever 
enters or should enter the same. 
§ 27. That it shall be the duty of all boards, de- 
partments, officers and persons having power and 
authority so to do or require (and to the extent 
thereof) to cause to be used sufficient water, and 
other adequate means to be taken, so that what- 
ever substances may enter any sewer shall pass 
speedily along and from the same, and sufficiently 
far into some water or proper reservoir, so that no 
accumulations shall take place, and no exhalations 
from thence proceed, dangerous or prejudicial to 
health. 
§ 28. That the proper officers and authorities 
shall, to the extent of their power and ability, 
cause the sewers and drainage of said city to be so 
well located and constructed, so adequate in size, 
and to be so kept in repair and cleaned, and so 
adequately supplied with water, and with such 
proper arrangements and constructions in every 
particular, that life and health shall not be need- 
lessly exposed, or suffer unnecessary peril or 
detriment by their neglect, or by reason of the 
defects or deficiencies of any sewers or drainage, 
or the want thereof. 
FOOD AND DRINK. 
§ 29. That no meat, fish, birds or fowl, or vege- 
tables, nor any milk, not being then healthy, fresh, 
sound, wholesome and safe for human food, nor 
any meat or fish, that died by disease or accident. 10 
shall be brought within said city, or offered or 
held for sale in any public or private market, as 
such food, anywhere in said city. 
§ 30. That no calf, pig or lamb, or the meat 
thereof, shall be brought, held or offered for sale, 
as such food, in said city, which, at the date of 
its death (being a calf), was less than four weeks 
old; or (being a pig) was, when killed, less than 
five weeks old; or (being a lamb) was, when killed, 
less than eight weeks old. Nor shall any meagre, 
sickly or unwholesome fish, birds or fowl be 
bought, held, sold or offered for sale, as such 
food, in said city. 
§ 31. That no cattle shall be killed for human 
food while in an overheated, feverish or diseased 
condition; and all such diseased cattle, in the city 
of Brooklyn, and the place where found, and their 
disease, shall be at once reported to this Board by 
the owner or custodian thereof, that the proper 
order may be made relative thereto, or for the re- 
moval thereof from said city. 
§ 32. That no meat, or dead animal above the 
size of a rabbit, shall be taken to any public or 
private market for food until the same shall have 
fully cooled (and all blood shall have ceased drip- 
ping therefrom) after its killing, nor until the 
entrails, head (unless the same be skinned), hide, 
horns and feet shall have been removed. Nor 
shall gut-fat, or any unwholesome or offensive 
matter or thing be brought to or near any such 
market. 
§ 33. That no person shall, in the built-up por- 
tion of the city of Brooklyn, or adjacent thereto, 
sell, or have for sale, any fish in or from any 
vehicle, or in any street or public place, from 
which all parts which are not usually cooked for 
food have not been removed. 
§ 34. That no decayed or unwholesome vegeta- 
bles shall knowingly be brought into said city, to 
be consumed or offered for sale for human food, 
nor shall any such articles be kept or stored 
therein. 
§ 35. That 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 drank, any 
poisonous, deleterious or unwholesome substance, 
nor allow anything therein to be done or to occur 
prejudicial to health. 
§ 36. That no cased, blown, plaited, raised, 
stuffed, putrid, impure or unhealthy or unwhole- 
some meat or fish, bird or fowl, shall be held, 
bought or sold or offered for sale for human food, 
or held or kept in any market, public or private, 
or any public place in said city. 
And that no turkeys or chickens shall be held, 
bought or sold, or offered for sale for human food, 
in this city, unless the crops of such turkeys or 
chickens are free from food or other substance 
and shrunken close to their bodies. 11 
§ 37. That no meat, fish, vegetables or milk, or 
unwholesome liquid, shall knowingly be bought, 
sold, held, offered for sale, labelled, or any repre- 
sentation made in respect thereof under a false 
name or quality, or as being what the same is not, 
as respects wholesomeness, soundness or safety 
for food or drink. 
§ 38. That every person being the owner, lessee, 
or occupant of any room, stall or place where any 
meat, fish 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 
clean and wholesome condition ; 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, birds, fowl 
or vegetables designed for human food, shall put 
and preserve the same in a clean and wholesome 
condition, and shall not allow the same, or any 
part thereof, to be poisoned, infected or rendered 
unsafe or unwholesome for human food. 
§ 39. That no butcher or dealer shall keep in 
any market any refrigerator or ice box, unless the 
same shall be lined with lead or some proper 
metallic substance, so as to be water-tight, nor 
unless the same be provided with a pipe of lead, 
zinc or copper leading therefrom to the nearest 
gutter or proper waste pipe. 
§ 40. That it shall be the duty of every person 
knowing of any fish, meat, fowl, birds or vege- 
tables being bought, sold or offered or held for 
sale as food for human beings, or being in any 
market, public or private, in said city, and not 
being sound, healthy or wholesome for such food, 
to forthwith report such facts, and the particulars 
relating thereto, to this Board, or to one of its 
officers or inspectors. 
§ 41. That no person shall, without consent of 
this Board, bring into said city for use as a drink 
for human beings, or offer or have for sale in said 
city, as such drink, any poisonous or deleterious 
liquid. 
§ 42. That upon any cattle, meat, birds, fowl, 
fish or vegetables being found by any inspector, 
or other officer of this department, in a condition 
which is 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 for- 
bidden, he shall cause the same to be examined 
by two reputable persons, reasonably competent 
to judge in respect thereto, whom lie may con- 
veniently find ; and if both said persons disagree 
with him in opinion in respect thereto, he shall 
take no action and give no order relative to the 
same, till he has been instructed by the Sanitary 
Superintendent; and if one or both of said persons 
agree with him in respect to said articles, then 
said inspector or officer may forbid the same being 
offered or exposed for sale, or being sold for human 12 
food, till the owner or party in charge or other 
proper person has obtained the consent of the 
Sanitary Superintendent or of this Board, to their 
being so offered, used or sold. And if both such 
persons agree with him in opinion, he may order 
the same to be removed ; and thereupon, or if this 
Board shall have approved the judgment of said 
inspector, it shall be the duty of the owner or 
party in charge to speedily remove such articles 
from any market, street or public place, and not 
to sell or dispose, or offer to sell or dispose thereof 
for the purpose of human food. And in default 
of such removal, and also in case of disobedience 
of such order, and also in all cases where, in his 
opinion, such articles, by reason of their being in a 
decayed or offensive condition, would if allowed 
longer to remain, be dangerous to health, the same 
(as this Board may provide) may be caused to be 
removed by any inspector, police officer or officer 
of this department, to some suitable place, at the 
expense of the party who should have removed 
the same, and the owner and party in interest 
must take notice thereof. 
§ 43. That no person shall sell or give to any 
other person, or permit such other person to get 
(having the right and ability to prevent the same) 
any drink, when such first-named person may 
have reason to think or believe that such drink 
may cause danger or detriment to life. 
§ 44. That no distiller or brewer, or other per- 
son, shall manufacture, or have or keep for sale, 
any liquid designed for drink or beverage for 
human beings which would be. if used, danger- 
ous or detrimental to life or health. 
§ 45. That no person shall sell or deliver, or have 
for sale or otherwise, in the city of Brooklyn, any 
milk from cows or other animals, without a per- 
mit therefor, in writing, from this Board. No 
person shall have at any place where milk, butter 
or cheese is kept for sale, nor shall at any place 
sell, or deliver, or offer, or have for sale, or keep 
for use, nor shall any person bring or send to said 
city any unwholesome, skimmed, watered or adul- 
terated milk, 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 such milk, or any unwhole- 
some butter or cheese. Nor shall any person sell 
or deliver, nor have for sale, nor keep in said city, 
any milk of a less specific gravity thanl029 (dis- 
tilled water being 1000), at a temperature of 60 
degrees Fahrenheit.* 
§ 46. That no person shall throw, or allow to 
run or pass into any public reservoir, wrater-pipe, 
or aqueduct or into or upon any border or margin 
thereof, or excavation or stream therewith con- 
nected, any animal, vegetable, or mineral sub- 
stance whatever ; nor shall any person allow the 
* As amended June 4, 1877. 13 
same to be done (having power or right to prevent 
the same); nor shall any person do or permit to 
be done (having right or power to prevent the 
same), any act or thing that will impair or imperil 
the purity or wholesomeness 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 public duty, put) any part of 
his pei’son into such water, nor shall any un- 
authorized person open any erection or unscrew 
any hydrant holding such water. 
$ 47. That it shall be the duty of every person, 
officer, department and board, having any author- 
ity and control in regard to any water designed 
for human consumption (and within the proper 
sphere of the duty of each thereof), to take all 
usual and also all reasonable measures and pre- 
cautions to secure and preserve the purity and 
wholesomeness of such water. 
§ 48. That no person shall destroy nor in any- 
wise injure or impair any drinking-hydrant, or 
part thereof, in the said city ; nor shall any person 
interfere with the use of or enjoyment of the 
water therin, or therefrom, or interrupt the 
flow thereof, for, or as a drink; nor shall any 
person put any dirty, poisonous, medicinal, or 
any noxious substance into or near said water or 
hydrant whereby such water is made or may be 
regarded as dangerous or unwliolsesome as a drink. 
§ 49. That no cattle, sheep, horse, goat, goose or 
mule, or any dangerous or offensive animal, shall 
be allowed by any owner, or by any person having 
charge of, or who shall have charge of the same, 
to go at large in any street or public place in the 
city of Brooklyn. And no pigs, swine or cattle 
shall be unloaded from any cars upon any street 
or public place in the city of Brooklyn, except 
pursuant to a written permit from this Board. 
Nor shall any cattle, hogs or sheep be driven to 
any slaughter-house in the city of Brooklyn, ex- 
cept 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 hogs, or more than one hunded 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 Board of Health 
may designate ; provided, that when the landing 
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 herein designated.* 
§ 50. That no person shall allow any pig, swine 
or goat to run at large in said city, and no person 
shall, within the limits of said city, keep or permit 
CATTLE, HORSES, ETC. 
* As amended October 14,1878. 14 
§ 50. That no person shall allow any pig, swine 
or goat to run at large in said city, and no person 
shall, within the limits of said city, keep or permit 
to be kept, any pig, swine or goat, without a per- 
mit to do so from this Board. 
£ 51. That no cattle shall be kept in any place 
of which the water, ventilation and food are not 
sufficient and wholesome for the preservation of 
their health, safe condition and wholesomeness of 
food. 
§ 52. That no person shall keep or allow to be 
kept, in any building or any premises, or on 
grounds of which he may be the owner, lessee, 
tenant or occupant, more cows or other cattle 
than at the rate of fifteen to an acre, or, on an 
average, one to a city lot (in or near the built-up 
portions of said city), without a permit from this 
Board. And every such person shall cause every 
stable and place where any cows, horses or other 
animals may be, to be kept at all times in a clean 
and wholesome condition, and shall not allow any 
animal to be therein, while infected with any dis- 
ease, contagious or pestilential, among such ani- 
mals, without a permit from this Board. 
§ 53. That no cattle, swine, pigs or sheep, geese, 
goats or horses, shall be yarded within or adjacent 
to the built-up portions of the city of Brooklyn, 
without the permit of this Board, or otherwise 
than according to its regulations. 
§ 54. That 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. 
SLAUGHTERING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. 
§ 55. That 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 wholesomeness as food. The slaughter- 
ing of cattle shall not be permitted or conducted 
at any place in the city of Brooklyn, without a 
special written permit from this Board. 
§ 56. That every butcher and every person 
owning, leasing or occupying any place, room or 
building where any cattle have been, or are killed 
or dressed, and every person being the owner, 
lessee or occupant of any room or stable where 
any cattle may be kept, or market, public or pri- 
vate, and having power and authority so to do, 
shall cause such place, room, building, stall (and 
market, being private), and their yards and appur- 
tenances to be thoroughly cleansed and purified, 
and all offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and un- 
wholesome or offensive matter to be therefrom 
removed at least once in every twenty-four hours 
after the use thereof for any of the purposes liere- 15 
in referred to ; and shall, also, at all times (unless 
some public authority prevents), keep all wood- 
work, save floors and counters, in any building, 
place or premises aforesaid, thoroughly painted or 
whitewashed. 
§ 57. That no cattle shall be slaughtered, dressed 
or hung, or the meat, or any part thereof, within 
said city, wholly or partly, within any street, 
avenue or sidewalk, or public alley or place ; nor 
shall any blood, or dirty water, or other substance 
from such cattle, meat, or place of killing, or the 
appurtenances thereof, be allowed to run, fall, or 
to be in any such street, avenue, sidewalk, alley 
or place. 
£ 58. That no building, occupied wholly or partly 
as a slaughter-house, or any part thereof, or any 
building on the same lot, shall, without a special 
permit from this Board, be occupied for a dwell- 
ing or lodging place; that every such building 
shall at all times be kept adequately and thorough- 
ly ventilated ; that no blood shall be allowed to 
remain therein over night; that adequate under- 
ground connections shall be made from every 
such building with a public sevrer, and the floor 
of such building on which the slaughtering is 
done, and the yard, shall be cemented and paved 
so as not to absorb blood, and so as to carry all 
liquid into the sewers. 
§ 59. That neither the business of slaughtering 
cattle, nor the keeping of any slaughter-house, nor 
the yarding of cattle, shall be begun or undertaken 
at any new or additional place within the city of 
Brooklyn, except pursuant to a permit from this 
Board ; nor shall any person or corporation keep 
any slaughter-house or yard, or any cattle therein, 
hereafter, without a permit from this Board. 
§ 60. That no person shall kill or dress any ani- 
mal or meat in any market, nor have, or permit 
to escape therein, or within one hundred feet 
thereof, any poisonous, noxious, or offensive sub- 
stance. 
§ 61. That no person shall become or continue, 
or engage as, or in the business of, a butcher, at 
or in any public or private market or stand in the 
city of Brooklyn, without a permit therefor from 
this Board. 
§ 62. That every butcher and milk dealer, and 
their agents, shall allow the parties authorized by 
this Board, to freely and fully inspect their cattle 
and meats, fish and vegetables, held, offered, 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 articles may be. 
§ 63. That no offal or butcher’s refuse shall be 
conveyed through any street or avenue of the city 
of Brooklyn between the hours of 10 o’clock 
A. M. and 10 o’clock P. M., and that no offal or 
refuse shall be conveyed at any time unless the 
same be in tight boxes, barrels or vessels, from 
which no odor shall escape. 16 
SIDEWALKS. 
§ 64. That no person engaged in the selling or 
keeping for sale of any fish, meat, birds, fowl or 
vegetables, shall, without a permit from this 
Board, expose the same upon any portion of any 
street or sidewalk, or public place in the city of 
Brooklyn. 
§ 65. That no person being owner, lessee or 
tenant of any house or building, shall allow any 
water or other liquid to run from or out of his 
building or ground upon or across any sidewalk 
or curbstone, and if such substance is allowed by 
this Board to pass upon any street it must reach 
the same by a passage, to be kept at all times 
adequate and in repair by such person, under such 
flagstone or through such curbstone ; and no such 
water or other liquid, or ice therefrom, shall be 
allowed to gather or remain on the upper surface 
of such curb, flagstone or passage ; nor shall such 
person allow any accumulation 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. 
§ 66. That every owner, lessee, tenant and oc- 
cupant of any building or lot in the built-iip por- 
tions of the city of Brooklyn, shall, within twro 
hours after the fall of any snow exceeding one 
inch in depth, and within two hours after the 
forming of any ice on the sidewalk or in the 
gutter, in front of or against the side of any such 
building or lot, remove or cause the same to be 
removed, from such sidewalk and gutter, or in 
case of great difficulty in removing such ice, that 
every such person do sprinkle or cause to be 
spinkled thereon sand or ashes, so that traveling 
thereon shall not be perilous ; but that where said 
snow falls or ice forms between the hours of eight 
o’clock of the evening and daylight in the morn- 
ing, this ordinance will be complied with by re- 
moving or sprinkling the same with sand or ashes 
within two hours after the sunrise succeeding the 
fall of such snow or the formation of such ice. 
£ 67. That no keeper of any public pound in the 
city of Brooklyn shall allow the same, or any 
animal therein, by reason of any want of care, 
food, ventilation or cleanliness, or otherwise, to 
be or become dangerous or detrimental to human 
health. 
§ 68. That no person shall take or call any dog 
into, or allow any dog to go into any street or 
public place in the city of Brooklyn, unless such 
dog is properly and securely muzzled ; and any 
police officer finding any dog in any street or 
public place in violation of this ordinance shall 
immediately kill such dog.* 
DOGS, ETC. 
* As amended May 12,1879. § 69. That every animal which is mad, or has 
the hydrophobia, or shows symptoms thereof, 
shall, by the person owning the same, or having 
the possession, charge or control thereof, be at 
once killed ; and every animal that has been ex- 
posed to such disease shall be at once confined in 
some secure place for such length of time as to 
show that such exposure has not given such ani- 
mal said disease and so as to avoid all danger to 
life or health. And the dead body of any animal 
that died of such disease shall be at once, by such 
person, buried not less than three feet under 
ground, at some place not within one thousand 
feet of any residence. 
OFFENSIVE ODORS AND LIQUID. 
§ 70. That no person shall permit or have any 
offensive water or other liquid or substance on his 
{iremises or grounds to the prejudice to life or 
lealth, 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 or established in the city of Brook- 
lyn without a permit from this Board. And every 
such establishment now existing shall be kept 
cleanly and wholesome, and be so conducted in 
every particular as not to be offensive or preju- 
dicial to life or health. 
§ 71. That no person or company, being a manu- 
facturer of gas, or engaged about the manufacture 
thereof, shall throw or deposit, or allow to run, or 
having the right or power to prevent the same, 
shall permit to be thrown or deposited in any 
public waters, river or stream, or into any sewer 
therewith connected, or into any street or public 
place, any gas-tar, or any refuse matter of or from 
any gas-house, works or manufactory ; nor shall 
any such person or company allow any substance 
or odor to escape from such house, works or man- 
ufactory, or make any gas of such ingredients or 
quality that any substance shall escape therefrom 
or be formed in the process of burning any gas, 
which shall be offensive or dangerous, or preju- 
dicial to life or health. Nor shall any such person 
or company fail to use the most approved or all 
reasonable means for preventing the escape of 
odors. 
£ 72. That no water-closet, sink, tub, vat or 
other structure shall hereafter be constructed 
within the city of Brooklyn, having connection 
with, or by any sewer or underground passage, 
unless the same is provided with adequate or the 
best generally approved constructions and pre- 
cautions for preventing gases and other offensive 
currents, substances and smells from passing up 
or out through such connection from such sewer 
or passage ; nor shall any such water-closet or 
privy be constructed without adequate provisions 
for the effectual and proper ventilation and cleans- 
ing thereof. 
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§ 73. That no person shall boil any offal, swill, 
bones or fat in the built-up portions of said city, 
save in ordinary cooking ; nor shall the business 
of bone crushing, bone boiling, bone grinding, 
bone burning, shell burning, fat boiling, gut clean- 
ing, nor the skinning or making of glue from any 
dead animals or parts thereof, nor any other occu- 
pation that is dangerous or detrimental to life or 
health, be hereafter established within said city ; 
and no business or pursuit of the kind in this 
section named shall be carried on anywhere in 
said city unless the same shall be allowed by a 
permit of this Board. 
§ 74. That no person shall boil any offal, swill 
or bones, nor any fat, tallow, or lard (except at 
once upon the same being taken from the animal, 
and while the same is fresh and otherwise inof- 
fensive) ; nor shall the business of bone crushing, 
bone boiling, bone grinding, bone burning, shell 
burning, gut cleaning, nor the skinning of or mak- 
ing of glue from any dead animal or part thereof, 
nor the storage or keeping of scrap, fat or grease, 
or offensive animal matter, be permitted or con- 
ducted at any place in the city of Brooklyn ; nor 
shall any business hereinbefore mentioned be 
conducted at any place in the city of Brooklyn, 
without a special permit from this Board ; nor 
shall the business of boiling or rendering the fresh 
lard fat, or tallow aforesaid, be conducted within 
said city, without a like special permit from this 
Board ; and such permit must be applied for in 
writing, specifying the nature and precise location 
of the proposed business, and such application will 
not be acted upon until the second regular meeting, 
two weeks after such application. 
§ 75. That all persons engaged in the business 
of boiling or rendering of fat, lard, or animal 
matter, shall cause the scrap or residuum to be so 
dried or otherwise prepared as effectually to de- 
prive such material of all offensive odors, and to 
preserve the same entirely inoffensive immediately 
after the removal thereof from the receptacles in 
which the rendering pi*ocess may be conducted. 
§ 76. That no person shall hereafter erect, start, 
or establish in said city, without the consent of 
this Board, 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 lamp-black, turpentine or tar, or for conduct- 
ing any other business that will or does generate 
any unwholesome, offensive or deleterious gas, 
smoke, deposit or exhalation, or any business that 
is or would be dangerous to life or detrimental to 
health. 
§ 77. That no animal or vegetable substance, 
nor street sweepings, muck or silt, nor dirt 
gathered in cleaning yards, buildings, docks or 
slips, nor waste of mills or factories, nor any 
materials which are offensive, or tend by decay to 
become putrid, or to render the atmosphere impure or unwholesome, 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 said city, or any 
ground filled for the purpose of building thereon, 
unless pursuant to a special permit from this 
Board. 
§ T8. That no ground or material filled with 
offensive matter or snbstance, or that will emit or 
allow to arise through or from the same any 
offensive smell or deleterious 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 
according to permit first therefpr obtained from 
this Board. 
§ 79. That no fat, tallow or lard shall be melted 
or rendered except when fresh from the slaugh- 
tered animal, and taken directly from the place 
of slaughter in the city of Brooklyn, and in a con- 
dition free from sourness and taint and all other 
cause of offence at the time of rendering, and that 
all melting and rendering are to be in steam-tight 
vessels, the gases and odors therefrom to be 
destroyed by combustion or other means equally 
effective, and according to the best and most im- 
proved means and processes; and everything pre- 
ceding, following and in connection with such 
melting and rendering, and the premises -where 
the same shall be conducted, 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 Brooklyn to be rendered 
or melted, and none is to be rendered or melted 
that has come from any place outside of said city, 
except as part of the living animal. 
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FILTH-DIRT, 
§ 80. That no part of the contents of, or sub- 
stances from any sink, privy or cess-pool, nor any 
manure, ashes, garbage, offal, rubbish, dirt, nor 
any refuse or waste or thing which by its decom- 
position could or would become offensive to human 
beings, or detrimental to health, or create or tend 
to create a nuisance, shall be by any person 
thrown, deposited or placed upon any street or 
public place, nor upon any vacant lot of land 
or vacant place upon the surface of nny lot of 
land, within the city of Brooklyn, whether such 
lot be enclosed or otherwise, without the written 
permission of the Board of Health, nor shall any 
of said substances be allowed by any person to 
run or drop from the premises occupied by such 
person into or upon any street or public place, nor 
upon any vacant lot of land, or vacant place upon 
the surface of any lot of land in said city, nor 
shall the same be thrown, deposited or placed by 
any person, or allowed to fall or run from the 
premises occupied by such person into the East 
River, or any canal, save through the proper underground connection ; and it shall be the duty 
of every person knowing of the violation of this 
ordinance to report the same, and, if known, the 
name of the person violating it, together with the 
residence of such person and the facts concerning 
such violation, to the Board of Health, within 
forty-eight hours after the knowledge of such 
violation.* 
§ 81. That no swill, brine, urine of animals, or 
other offensive animal substance, nor any stink- 
ing, noxious liquid or other filthy matter of any 
kind, shall by any person be allowed to run or 
fall from out of any building, vehicle or erection 
into or upon any street or public place, or to be 
taken or put therein, save as herein elsewhere 
provided. » 
§ 82. That no butcher’s offal or garbage, nor 
any dead animals, nor any putrid or stinking 
animal or vegetable 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 excavation, or 
upon any ground or premises in the built-up por- 
tions of said city. 
§ 88. That no person shall draw-off or allow to 
run into any ground, street or place of said city, 
the contents (or any part thereof) of any vault, 
privy, cistern, cesspool or sink ; nor shall any 
owner, tenant, or occupant of any building to 
which any vault, sink, privy or cesspool shall 
appertain, or be attached, permit the contents, or 
any part thereof, to flow therefrom, or to rise 
within two feet of any part of the top, or said 
contents to become offensive ; nor shall any privy 
or other erection in this section mentioned be 
filled with or covered -with dirt till its filthy con- 
tents shall be emptied. 
§ 84. That no 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 appro- 
priate receptacle ; nor shall any slops or kitchen 
waste be permitted to run into any privy or 
cesspool, except the same be connected with the 
sewer. 
§ 85. That neither the contents of any such tub, 
or of any receptacle, cesspool, privy, vault, sink, 
or water-closet, cistern, nor anything in any 
room, excavation, vat, building, premises, or 
place, shall be allowed to become a nuisance, or 
offensive, so as to be dangerous or prejudicial to 
health. 
§ 86. That every tub or other receptacle in any 
necessary house, sink or privy (or placed, or 
allowed to stand therein, 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 
* As amended February 7, 1876. 21 
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 relative 
to emptying cesspools, and to throwing any sub- 
stance therein, shall apply to said tubs and 
receptacles as if here repeated and applied thereto, 
And no person shall throw, drop or allow to fall 
into the East River, any canal, 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. 
§ 87. That no person shall deposit upon any 
street or public place within the generally built- 
up portion of the city of Brooklyn, or upon any 
paved street, any dirt or brick, or other material 
or dirt taken from any ground therein, in such 
manner as to obstruct the free flow age along any 
gutter. 
§ 88. That 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 Brooklyn, forth- 
with to provide, or cause to be provided, and all 
times thereafter to keep, and be kept and provided, 
within such building or place of business, suitable 
and sufficient boxes, barrels or tubs for receiving 
and holding, without leakage, and without being 
filled to within four inches of the top thereof, all 
the ashes, rubbish, garbage and liquid substances, 
of whatever kind, 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 occu- 
pant ; and every such box, barrel and tub de- 
signed to hold ashes shall be made of or lined with 
some suitable metal. That a separate vessel shall 
be provided for ashes and rubbish, and another for 
garbish and liquid substances; and ashes and 
rubbish shall uot be placed or kept in the same 
vessel with garbage and liquid substances; and 
all ashes, rubbish, garbage and liquid substances 
that should be removed from such building and 
place of business, or from that part for which 
said receptacles were provided, and none other 
(without the proper consent) shall be placed there- 
in, and no such box, barrel or tub shall remain on 
any sidewalk, or in any public place, longer than 
may be needful for the removal of the contents 
thereof. 
§ 89. That such boxes, tubs and barrels shall be 
placed and kept in such position (unless kept 
within or upon private grounds, within the side- 
walks) as the inspectors or agents of this Board 
shall provide or direct; and no person, not for 
that purpose authorized, shall interfere therewith 
or with the contents thereof. 
S 90. That 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 ; provided that such 
garbage or rubbish be not highly filthy or offen- 
sive ; and in the latter case, the same shall not be 
so delivered or received during the period from 
seven o’clock A. M. of any day till ten o’clock of 
the evening of the same day. 
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§ 91. That 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, or agitated, or exposed, nor shall any mat, 
carpet or cloth be shaken or beaten, nor any 
cloth, yarn, garment or material, or substance, be 
scoui'ed, cleaned or hung, nor any business be 
conducted over or in any street or public place, or 
where it, or particles therefrom, or set in motion 
thereby, will pass into any such street or public 
place, or into any occupied premises. That neither 
any usual nor any reasonable precaution shall be 
omitted by any person to prevent fragments or 
other substances from falling, to the peril of life, 
or dust and light material flying into any street, 
place or building, from auy building or erection, 
while the same is being altered, repaired or de- 
molished, or otherwise. 
§ 92. That every owner, lessee, tenant and occu- 
pant of any stali, stable or apartment in which 
any horse, cattle or swine, or any other animal 
shall be kept, or of any place in which manure or 
any liquid discharge of such animals shall collect 
or accumulate, within the built-up portion of said 
city, shall cause said liquid or manure to be at once 
removed to some proper place, and shall at all 
times keep or cause to be kept such stalls, stables 
and apartments, and the drainage, yard, and ap- 
purtenances thereof in a cleanly and wholesome 
condition, so that no offensive smell shall be 
allowed to escape therefrom ; and when within 
three hundred feet of any occupied dwelling- 
house, or of any manufactory where more than 
five persons are,employed, the removals from the 
stable shall not be made, nor shall the manure or 
refuse from the stable be allowed to remain on any 
street or place near such stable, any time between 
eight o’clock A. M. and six o’clock P. M., without 
a permit from this Board. Every sticli stall, stable 
or apartment, where horses or cattle are kept, 
shall have a properly covered water-tight manure 
vault or box, which shall not be allowed to become 
filled. But the Sanitary Superintendent is author- 
ized to issue permits, to be regularly reported to 
this Board, regulating such removal within said 
\hours. 
£ 93. That no person shall empty, or attempt to 
empty, any vault, sink, privy, or cesspool in the 
city of Brooklyn, except pursuant to a permit 
therefor first received from this Board. 
§ 94. That no part of the contents of any privy, 
vault, sink, cesspool, except substances other than , 23 
excrements insoluble in water, or any accumula- 
tion of any offensive fluid, liquid, or semi-liquid 
substance or material, being in any excavation, 
cellar or place, within the limits of the city of 
Brooklyn, shall be x’emoved therefrom, nor shall 
the same be transported through any of the streets 
or avenues of said city, unless and except the 
same shall be removed and transported by means 
of an air-tight apparatus, or in such manner as 
shall prevent entirely the escape of any noxious 
or offensive odors therefrom, and by a permit 
from this Board. 
§ 95. That the drivers of all carts for the re- 
moval of any garbage, offal, rubbish, or dirt from 
any building or premises, shall give adequate 
notice to those dwelling in any street whose build- 
ings or premises such cart is about to or should 
approach for the removal of any substance afore- 
v said. 
§ 96. That no person shall engage in the busi- 
ness of a scavenger, or of transporting manure, 
swill, ashes, offal, rubbish or garbage, or any 
offensive or noxious substance, or in driving any 
cart for such purpose, in the city of Brooklyn 
(except the persons acting under the street-clean- 
ing commissioners, or the contractors for cleaning 
the streets, and as this Board may provide), until 
he shall have first received a permit from this 
Board of such form and effect as the regulations 
of the Board shall provide, authorizing such per- 
son so to engage. 
§ 97. That eveiy cart and other vehicle hereafter 
constructed for or engaged about any business, or 
intended to be loaded with any matter or sub- 
stance, in the last section mentioned, shall be 
constructed according to this code, and to the 
regulations and orders of the Board of Health. 
§ 98. That no cart or other vehicle for carrying 
any offal,, swill, garbage, or rubbish, or the con- 
tents of any privy, vault, cesspool or sink, or 
having upon it or in anything on such cart any 
manure, or other nauseous or offensive substance, 
shall, without necessity therefor, stand or remain, 
nor shall a needless number gather before or near 
any building, place of business, or other premises 
where any person may be ; nor shall any such cart 
or vehicle occupy an unreasonable length of time 
in loading or unloading, or in passing along any 
street or through any inhabited place or ground ; 
nor shall any such cart or vehicle, or the driver 
thereof, or anything thereto appertaining, be (or 
by any person having a right to control the same, 
be allowed to be) in a condition needlessly filthy 
or offensive; and when not in use, all such carts, 
vehicles, and all implements used in connection 
therewith, shall be stored and kept in some place 
where no needless offense shall be given to any of 
the people of said city. 
§ 99. That all carts and vehicles in the last section mentioned, and boxes, tubs, and recep- 
tacles thereon, in which any substance in said 
section referred to may be or 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 that when, in opinion of this Board, it is 
necessary to prevent the contents of such carts or 
vehicles, tubs or boxes, or receptacles from being 
offensive, each of such .carts, tubs, boxes and 
receptacles shall be adequately and tightly cov- 
ered, as the orders or regulations of this Board 
may provide or direct. 
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§ 100. That no driver of such cart or vehicle, 
nor any person having undertaken or being en- 
gaged about the loading or unloading thereof, nor 
any person or persons engaged about the cleaning 
or emptying, or having undertaken to empty or 
remove any manure, garbage, offal, or the con- 
tents of any vault, sink, privy, cesspool, or any 
noxious or offensive substance, shall do or permit 
to be done about the same, or in connection there- 
with, that which shall be needlessly offensive or 
filthy in respect to any person, street, place, build- 
ing, or premises, and all carts or vehicles shall be 
thoroughly disinfected and put in an inoffensive 
condition when not in use. 
§ 101. That no person shall allow (and it shall be 
the duty of every contractor and person who has 
ordered or procured, or is having any of the fol- 
lowing articles carried, or who is driving the 
same, to prevent) any cart or vehicle to be so 
fully loaded, or being in such bad condition of re- 
pair, or of such faulty construction, or being so 
improperly driven or managed, that any offensive 
liquid, or any manure, garbage, rubbish, offal, 
dirt, or material thereon, shall fall upon or in any 
place, street, or premises; and it shall be the duty 
of every such person to at once replace on such 
vehicle and remove what has so fallen. 
§ 102. That all putrid and offensive matter, and 
all night-soil, and the contents of sinks, privies, 
vaults and cesspools, and all noxious substances, 
in the built-up portion of said city, shall, before 
their removal or exposure, be disinfected and 
rendered inoffensive by the owner, lessee, or occu- 
pant of the premises where the same may be, or 
(in default of the same being so done) by the 
person or contractor who removes or is about to 
remove the same ; and for all such matter so dis- 
infected and rendered inoffensive, the person (not 
being such tenant, owner, or occupant) who shall 
so disinfect and remove the same, shall be entitled 
to demand and receive a compensation to be fixed 
by the Board of Health, not exceeding twelve 
cents per cubic foot for making such disinfection 
and removal, to be paid by such tenant, owner or 
occupant. 
§ 103. That neither the owner, tenant, nor occu- 
pant of any building or premises, in the built-up 25 
portions of the city of Brooklyn, shall employ, 
cause, or permit any part of the contents of any 
vault, privy, sink, or cesspool (being thereon, and 
of which lie has control) to be removed, unless 
according to a permit or the regulations of the 
said Board. 
£ 104. That no pile or deposit of manure, offal, 
dirt or garbage, or any accumulation of any 
offensive or nauseous substance, shall be made 
within the built-up portions of the city of Brook- 
lyn, or upon any open space inclosed within any 
portions thereof, or upon the piers, docks, or 
bulkheads adjacent thereto, or upon any open 
grounds near (or upon any vessel or scow other 
than those to be speedily, and according to the 
duty of any person, removed, lying at) any such 
pier, wharf, or bulkhead, except according to a 
resolution of this Board especially authorizing the 
same, and a permit obtained from this Board, and 
according to its regulations. And no person shall 
contribute to the making of any such accumula- 
tions. Nor shall any straw, hay or other sub- 
stance, 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 
such straw, hay or substance be deposited, nor 
shall accumulation thereof be made, within two 
hundred feet of any street, without a permit from 
this Board. 
§ 105. That no pile or deposit of manure, offal, 
or garbage, nor accumulation of any offensive or 
nauseous substance, shall be made within the 
limit of said city ; nor shall any person or corpora- 
tion unload, discharge or put upon or along the 
line of any railroad, street, or highway, or public 
place within said city, any manure, offal, garbage, 
or other offensive or nauseous substance; nor 
shall cars or flats 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 the limits of said city within 
three hundred feet of any inhabited dwelling. 
All manure vaults attached to stables where more 
than two horses are kept, shall, between April and 
November in each year, be emptied twice in each 
week, and such vault shall in no case be permitted 
to become a nuisance. 
§ 106. That no manure, garbage or other ma- 
terial that is liable to emit an offensive exhalation 
shall, in or adjacent to the built-up portions 
of the city of Brooklyn, be turned or stirred 
(except about its removal), in such way as to be 
liable, by reason thereof, to increase such exhala- 
tions. 
£ 107. That every proprietor, lessee, tenant, and 
occupant of any oyster-house, oyster-saloon, or 
other premises 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. 
§ 108. That no hotel or house swill or garbage, 
or offensive material of a liquid nature, or partly 
liquid nature, not removed or required to be 
moved by the contractors for street cleaning, shall 
be transported through or along any street in the 
city of Brooklyn, except in tightly covered and 
bound casks or boxes, and none of the contents of 
such casks or boxes shall be allowed to fall, or 
leak, or spill therefrom. 
§ 109. That the owners, lessees, tenants and 
managers of every blacksmith or other shop, 
forge, coal-yard, foundry, manufactory and prem- 
ises where any business is done, 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 appurtenances 
thereof, nor the same become filthy or offensive. 
Nor shall any smoke, cinders, dust, gas or offen- 
sive odor be allowed to escape from any such 
building, place or premises to the detriment or 
annoyance of any person not being therein or 
thereupon engaged. 
§ 110. That every furnace employed in the 
working of engines by steam, or in any mill, fac- 
tory, printing-house, dye-factory, iron-foundry, 
glass-house, distillery, brew-house, sugar-refinery, 
bake-house, gas-works, or in any other buildings 
used for the purpose of trade or manufacture, 
shall be so constructed as to consume or burn the 
smoke arising therefrom, unless a permit to the 
contrary be obtained from this Board. 
§ 111. That no vault, privy, sink, cistern or cess- 
pool shall hereafter be made or rebuilt in the city 
of Brooklyn, except in accordance with the regu- 
lations of this Board ; and no privy shall be built 
within two feet of the line of any lot. 
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DISEASED ANIMALS. 
§ 112. That no diseased or sickly horse, cattle, 
swine, sheep, dog or cat, or other animals, nor any 
that have been exposed to any disease that is con- 
tagious among such animals, shall be brought into 
the city of Brooklyn. 
§ 113. That no person shall keep, retain or allow 
or employ to be kept or retained, at any place 
within or adjacent to the built-up portions of the 
city of Brooklyn, any horse, ass or colt, having 
the disease known as glanders or farcy. 
DEAD, SICK AND INJURED ANIMALS. 
§ 114. That no 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 ani- 
mal ; nor shall any person keep any dead animal, 
or any offensive meat, bird, fowl or fish in a place where the same may be dangerous to the life or 
detrimental to the health of any person. 
§ 115. That any animal, being in any street or 
public place, within or adjacent to the built-up 
portions of Brooklyn city, and appearing in the 
estimation of any officer or inspector of this Board 
(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 to 
have cl large thereof for the 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 con- 
dition, may be deprived of life by such officer or 
inspector, or as he may direct, and shall thereafter, 
unless at once removed by the owner or proper 
person, be treated as any other animal found on a 
street or place. 
§ 116. That any person having a dead animal, or 
an animal past recovery, and not killed for and 
proper for use as meat or fish, or in an offensive 
condition, or sick with an infectious or contagious 
disease, on his premises in said city, and every 
person whose animal, or any animal in his charge, 
or under his control, in any street or place, may 
die, or become, or be in a condition past recovery, 
shall at once remove or cause the removal of such 
animal, dead or alive, to some proper place ; and 
when such place may be designated by this Board, 
to the place so designated. 
g 117. That every person having within his 
possession or control, or upon any premises occu- 
pied or owned by him, any dead animal, not proper 
for food and liable to become noxious and detri- 
mental to health, shall at once give notice thereof 
to the officer in charge of the nearest police station, 
and such officer shall at once cause notice thereof 
to be given to this Board. 
§ 118. That no person other than the inspectors 
or officers of this Board, or the Board of Police, 
or persons thereto authorized, shall in any way 
interfere with such dead, sick or injured animal 
in any street or 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 policeman or an 
inspector or officer of this Board. 
§ 119. That no person shall obstruct, delay or 
interfere with the proper and free use, for the 
purposes for which they may be, and should be, 
set apart and devoted, of any dock, pier or bulk- 
head, 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. 
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tractor and person (his agents and employes) who 
has contracted or undertaken to remove any dis- 
eased or dead animal, offal, rubbish, garbage, dirt, 
street sweepings, night-soil, or other filthy, offen- 
sive or noxious substance, or is engaged about any 
such removal, or in loading or unloading of 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 preju- 
dice to life and health as possible. 
§ 121. That no street sweepings or other noxious 
material shall lay piled up, or partially raked to- 
gether, in any street or place before the removal 
thereof, more than a reasonable time, nor for 
more than four hours in the daytime, under any 
circumstances. 
§ 122. That no ship, boat or other vessel or 
article 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 to be placed thereon), 
set apart or appropriated for the use or purpose of 
the shipment or removal of any offal, garbage, 
rubbish, dirt, or dead animals, or for the use of 
any contractor about the removal of any of the 
foregoing substances, without a permit from this 
Board. 
REPORTS AS TO CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS 
DISEASES. 
§ 123. That every physician shall report to the 
sanitary bureau, in writing, every person having 
a contagious disease (and the state of his or her 
disease, and his or her place of dwelling and name, 
if known), which such physician lias prescribed 
for or atterftled for the first time since having a con- 
tagious disease, during any part of the preceding 
twenty-four hours ; but not more than two reports 
shall be required in one week concerning the same 
person ; but every attending or practising physi- 
cian thereat must at his peril see that such report 
is or has been made by some attending physician. 
§ 124. That it shall be the duty of each and 
every practising physician in the city of Brooklyn 
to report, in writing, to the Board of Health, the 
death of any of his patients who shall have died 
in said city, of contagious or infectious diseases, 
within twenty-four hours thereafter, and to state 
in such report the specific name and type of such 
disease. 
§ 125. That every keeper of any boarding-house 
or lodging-house, and every inn-keeper and hotel- 
keeper, shall, within twenty-four hours, report in 
writing to the sanitary bureau, the same particu- 
lars in the last section required of any physician 
concerning any person being at any of the afore- 
said houses and hotels, and attacked with any 
contagious disease. 
§ 126. That the commissioners, managers, prin- 
cipals. or other proper head officer of each and every public or private institution in said city 
shall twice in each week report in writing (or 
cause such report by some proper and competent 
person to be made twice in each week) to the sani- 
tary bureau, and state therein the name, if 
known, and condition and disease of any and 
every person being thereat, and sick of contagious 
disease. 
§ 127. That the master, chief officer and con- 
signee, or one of them, 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 sanitary bureau, or cause to be re- 
ported, in writing, the particulars, and shall therein 
state the name, disease and condition of any per- 
son being in or on such vessel, and sick of any 
contagious disease. 
§ 128. That it shall be the duty of every person 
knowing of any individual in said city sick of any 
contagious disease (where such person shall have 
reason to regard such individual as neglected or 
not properly cared for, and to avoid giving said 
disease to others), and the duty of every physician 
hearing of any such sick person, who he shall 
have reason to think requires the attention of this 
Board, to at once report the facts to the sanitary 
bureau, in regard to the disease, condition and 
dwelling-place or position of such sick person. 
§ 129. That the keepers, lessees, tenants and 
owners of every boarding-house and lodging-house 
shall within six hours after the fact shall come to 
his or her or their knowledge, notify the sanitary 
bureau, in writing, of the fact of any seafaring 
man or person, lately from any vessel, being taken 
sick at such house, and shall in such notice state 
where such sick person may be found, and from 
what vessel, and when he came, to the best of the 
knowledge of the person or persons giving such 
notice. 
§ 180. That every master and chief officer of any 
vessel, and every physician of, or who practiced 
on, any vessel which shall arrive at any dock or 
wharf in the city of Brooklyn, from any other 
port, shall at once report to this Board any facts 
connected with any person or thing on said ves- 
sel, 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 a contagious 
disease, and as to there being or having been 
daring the voyage or since her arrival, any in- 
fected person or articles thereon. 
§ 131. That every master, charterer, owner, 
part-owner and consignee of any vessel, or of the 
cargo thereof, which shall be in the water of said 
city, unless detained in quarantine, shall at once 
give, or cause to be given, to the Sanitary Super- 
intendent, written notice of any infected article 
or person, and of every person sick of a contagious 
disease, being or having within ten days been on 30 
board said vessel; and also of each and every fact 
and thing relative to said vessel, sick person or 
cargo, or to the crew of such vessel, which any of 
the first-mentioned persons shall have reason to 
think may be useful for this Board to know, or be 
or become dangerous or prejudicial to life or 
health in said city. 
REMOVAL FROM, AND UNLOADING OF VESSELS. 
§ 132. That every master, owner, charterer, part- 
owner and consignee of any vessel that shall bring 
any cotton into the city of Brooklyn between the 
first day of May and the first day of November of 
each year, shall at once report to this Board, or 
cause to be made, in writing, a report to this Board 
of the fact of any such cotton being in a dangerous, 
infected, or unsound condition or having been 
exposed to any infection. 
$ 133. That np 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 thousand feet thereof, in said 
city, or unload at any dock, building or pier 
therein, or have on storage in the built-up portion 
of said city any skins, hides, rags or similar 
articles or materials, having been brought from 
any foreign country, or any infected place, or 
from any point south of Norfolk, Virginia, with- 
out, or otherwise than according to, a written 
permit so to do from this Board ; and no person 
shall sell, exchange, or in any way make any 
exposure of any straw, bedding, or articles that 
have been exposed to the contagion or infection 
of any contagious disease, or have been or are 
liable to communicate such disease, or have lately 
been on any emigrant vessel, till after the same 
have been adequately cleansed or disinfected. 
§ 134. That 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 regu- 
lation, shall or should have been obtained to pass 
quarantine, or to come up to the water-front of 
the city of Brooklyn), shall unlade or land, or 
cause to be unladen or landed, such cargo, or any 
part thereof, in said city, without having first 
received the written permit of this Board so 
to do. 
§ 135. That no captain, officer, consignee, owner 
or other person in charge of any vessel (or having 
right and authority to prevent the same) shall re- 
move or aid in removing from any vessel to the 
shore (save as legally authorized by this Board, 
and into quarantine grounds or building only) 
any person sick of, or person that has been ex- 
posed to and is liable very soon to develop, any 
contagious disease, nor so remove or aid in remov- 
ing any articles that have been exposed to the 
contagion of any such disease, except in accord- 
ance with a permit of this Board, or with its 
special regulations. 31 
§ 136. That no master, charterer, consignee, or 
other person, shall order, bring or allow (having 
power and authority to prevent) any vessel or 
person, or article therefrom, from any infected 
port, nor any vessel, or person, or article there- 
from, liable to quarantine, according 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 of 
any dock or pier, or to any building in said city, 
without or otherwise than according to a permit 
of this Board. Nor shall any vessel, or person, or 
thing therein or therefrom, having been in quar- 
antine, come or be brought within the last named 
distance of any last named place, without the per- 
mit or assent of this Board. 
§ 137. That no person shall bring into this city, 
from any infected place, or land, or take therein, 
from any vessel lately from any infected port, 
or from any vessel or building in which had lately 
been any person sick of a contagious disease, any 
article or person whatsoever, nor shall any such 
person land or come into said city without a 
permit of this Board ; and it shall be no excuse 
that such person or article so offending, or the 
occasion of offense, has passed through quaran- 
tine, or has a permit from any other source than 
this Board. 
§ 138. That no owner, part owner, charterer, 
agent or consignee of any vessel, or any other 
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 Brooklyn, any straw, bedding, 
clothing or other substance, from any incoming 
vessel, from any foreign port, or port south of 
Cape Henlopen, withont a permit from this Board, 
except as allowed by the quarantine authorities. 
* Sec. 9, chap. 358, laws of 1863: “Vessels arriving’ at the 
port of New York shall be subject to quarantine, as follows: 
First, all vessels from any place where disease subject to 
quarantine existed at the time of their departure, or which 
shall have arrived at any such place and proceeded thence to 
New York. or on board of which, during the voyage, any case of 
such disease shall have occured, arriving between the first day 
of April and the first day of November, shall remain at quaran- 
tine for at least thirty days after their arrival and at least 
twenty days after their cargo shall have been discharged, and 
shall perform such and further quarantine as the quarantine 
commissioners may prescribe. * * . * . * 
Second,from any place (including islands) in Asia, Africa or 
the Mediterranean, or from any of the West Indies, Bahama, 
Bermuda or Western Islands, or from any place in America 
in the ordinary passage from which they pass south of Cape 
Henlopen, and all vessels on board of which, during the voy- 
age or while at the port of their departure, any person shall 
have been sick, arriving between the first day of April and the 
first day of November, and all vessels from a foreign port, not 
embraced in the first subdivision of this section, shall, on 
their arrival at the quarantine ground, be subject to visitation 
by the health officer. ****** 
Third, all vessels embraced in the foregoing provisions which 
are navigated by steam, shall be subject only to such length 
of quarantine and regulations as the health officer shall en- 
join.” * * * 32 
§ 139. That the Health Officer of the Port of 
New York, his assistants and deputies, shall at all 
times keep this Board informed, by weekly 
written reports, of the number of vessels in quar- 
antine, of the number of persons sick in the 
floating or other hospitals thereat, and of the 
diseases with which they are severally afflicted; 
he and they shall also receive into the floating 
hospital all cases of yellow fever found in this 
city and the port aforesaid; he or they shall not 
send or allow to return to the vicinity of said city, 
without the permit of the Sanitary Superintend- 
ent, any person, vessel or article which this Board 
has ordered to quarantine. 
HEALTH OFFICER. 
§ 140. That no person shall, within the built-up 
portions of the city, without a permit from this 
Board, carry or remove from one building to any 
other, or from any vessel to the shore, any person 
sick of any contagious disease. Nor shall any 
person, by any exposure of any individual sick of 
any contagious disease, or of the body of such 
person, or by any negligent act connected there- 
with, or in respect of the care or custody thereof 
or by a needless exposure of himself, cause or 
contribute to, or promote the spread of disease 
from any such person, or from any dead body. 
VACCINATION. 
}5 141. That every person, being the parent or 
guardian, or having the care, custody, or control 
of any minor, or other individual, shall (to the 
extent of any means, power and authority of 
said parent, guardian, or other person, that could 
properly be used or exerted for such purpose) 
cause and procure such minor or individual to be 
so promptly, frequently, and effectively vacci- 
nated, that such minor or individual shall not 
take, or be liable to take, the small-pox. 
REMOVAL OF SICK PERSONS. 
§ 142. That 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 permit any child or 
minor having scarlet fever, diphtheria, small-pox, 
or any dangerous infectious or contagious disease, 
or any child residing in any house 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.* 
DEAD BODIES—INTERMENTS—SEXTONS. 
§ 148. That no interment of the dead body of 
any human being, or deposition thereof in any 
EXPOSURE TO DISEASE. 
* As amended February 24, 1879. tomb, vault, or cemetery, shall be made within 
the city of Brooklyn, without a permit therefor 
granted by this Board, nor otherwise than in 
accordance therewith, and no sexton or other 
person shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any 
such interment, or aid or assist about prepar- 
ing any grave or place of deposit for any such 
body, 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 Board, 
as its regulations may require. 
§ 144. That no new burying-ground, cemetery, 
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 Brooklyn, 
nor any of said receptacles be opened, exposed or 
disturbed, except according to the terms of a 
permit therefor given by this Board ; and every 
body buried in any such place shall be buried to a 
depth of six feet below the surface of the ground, 
and four feet below any closely adjacent street. 
§ 145. That every person who acts as a sexton 
or undertaker in the city of Brooklyn, or has 
charge or care of any vault, tomb, burying-ground 
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 Board. 
i? 146. That every sexton and other person 
having charge of any burying-ground, cemetery, 
tomb, or vault, in the city of Brooklyn, shall, 
before twelve o’clock of Monday of each week, 
make return to this Board of the bodies and 
persons buried since their last return, and in such 
form, and specifying such particulars, as the 
special regulations of this Board shall require. 
§ 147. That no captain, agent, or person having 
charge of, or attached to, any ferryboat, sailing or 
other vessel, nor any person in charge of any car, 
stage or other vehicle, or public or private con- 
veyance, shall convey or allow 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 or in the city of Brooklyn, 
the dead body of any human being, or any part 
thereof, without a permit therefor from this 
Board. And the proper coupon for that purpose 
attached to any such permit, when issued, shall 
be preserved and returned to this Board, as its 
regulations may require, by the proper officer or 
person on such 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 a burial or 
transit permit issued by the health officer, or 
Board of Health of the city of New York, as to a 
burial or transit permit issued from this Board, 
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when the death of the person named in the 
permit shall have occurred in the city of New 
York; and provided that the same effect shall be 
given under this section to a burial or transit 
permit issued by the Board of Health and of Vital 
Statistics of Richmond County, as to a burial 
permit from this department, when the death of 
a person named in the permit shall have occurred 
in Richmond County; and provided that the 
same effect shall be given under this section to a 
burial or transit permit issued by the Board of 
Health, or health officer, of Long Island City, as 
to a burial or transit permit issued from this 
Board, when the death of the person named in 
the permit shall have occurred in Long Island 
City; and provided that the same effect shall be 
given under this section to a burial or transit 
permit issued by the Board of Health, or health 
officer, of Morrisania, as to a burial or transit 
permit issued by this Board, when the death of 
the person named in the permit shall have 
occurred in Moi’risania. 
§ 148. That no person shall retain, expose, or 
allow to be retained or exposed, the dead body of 
any human being, to the peril or prejudice of the 
life or health of any person. 
§ 149. That 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 think that the fact 
of the death, or the place of such body, or part 
thereof, is not publicly known), to immediately 
communicate to this Board the fact of such dis- 
covery 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 maybe identified, or the cause 
of death ascertained. 
§ 150. That no person shall allow to be retained, 
unburied, the dead body of any human being for 
a longer time than four days, or, where death has • 
been caused by a contagious disease, for a longer 
time than twenty-four hours, after the death of 
such person, without a permit from this Boai’d, 
which permit shall specify the length of time 
during which such body may be retained un- 
buried; and when death has been caused by a 
contagious disease the body shall be immediately 
thereafter disinfected in such manner as may be 
directed by the Board of Health, and enclosed in 
a tightly sealed coffin, which shall not thereafter 
be opened, and the funeral of such person shall 
be strictly private, and in the removal thereof 
for burial or otherwise hearses only shall be em- 
ployed.* 
CORONERS. 
§ 151. It shall be the duty of every Coroner, 
within forty-eight hours after having held an 
* As amended February 24, 1879. 35 
inquest upon any dead body, to file a certificate 
with the Board of Health containing the date of 
said inquest, and so far as can be ascertained, the 
name and age of the deceased; where said body 
was found; the occupation of said deceased, when 
living; the length of time said deceased had re- 
sided in the city of Brooklyn, and where, previous 
to death, and also the verdict of the jurors upon 
such inquest; said certificate to be signed by the 
Coroner holding such inquest. 
§ 152. That every clergyman, magistrate and 
other person who may perform a marriage cere- 
mony, shall make and keep a registry of the mar- 
riage celebrated, and therein enter the full names 
of the parties married, and the residence, age and 
condition of each ; and every physician, midwife, 
and other person who may professionally assist or 
advise at any birth, shall make and keep a regis- 
try of every such birth, and therein enter the time 
and place, ward and street number of such birth, 
and the sex and color of every child born, and the 
names and residence of each of the parents (so far 
as the foregoing facts can be ascertained); and 
every physician and professional adviser who has 
attended any person during a last illness, or has 
been present by request at the death of any per- 
son, shall make and preserve a registry of deaths, 
stating the cause thereof, and specifying the date, 
hour, place and street number of the place of such 
death. 
§ 153. That it shall be the duty of every person 
mentioned in the last section, or required to make 
or keep any such register, to present to this Beard 
a copy of such register, signed by such person, or 
a written statement, by him signed, of all the facts 
in said register required to be entered, within five 
days after the birth or marriage, and within thirty- 
six hours after the death of any person to whom 
such registry may or should relate, which shall 
thereupon be placed on file with this Board. 
8 154. That every clerk, officer and person within 
said city, required by the one hundred and fifty- 
second chapter of the laws of 1847, or by the three 
hundred and eightieth chapter of the laws of 1864, 
to make or preserve an entry, registry, record or 
certificate as to births, deaths or marriages, shall 
send or cause to be sent to this Board, within five 
days after knowledge of the birth, death or mar- 
riage, a full, or true statement in writing, con- 
taining all the particulars in respect thereto (so 
far as reasonably ascertainable) which, in any 
other section hereof, are required to be stated by 
any person relative to any birth, death or mar- 
riage, which shall thereupon be placed on file in 
said bureau. 
§ 155. That every person therein referred to 
within the city of Brooklyn shall perform the 
acts required in the following provisions (so far as 
the same are applicable to said city) of section 13 
MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS. 36 
of chapter 74 of the laws of 1866, to wit: “ It shall 
be the duty of the next of kin of any person de- 
ceased, and of each person being with such de- 
ceased person at his or her death, and of the 
person occupying or living in any house or 
premises in or on which any person may die, 
and of the parents of any child born in said dis- 
trict (and if there be no parent alive that has 
made such report, then of the next of kin of such 
child born), and of every person present at such 
birth, within five days after such birth or death, 
to report to said Board in writing, so far as 
known, the date, ward and street number of said 
birth, and the sex and color of such child born, 
and the names of the parents, and the age, color, 
nativity, last occupation, and cause of death, of 
such deceased person, and the ward and street, 
and place of such person’s death, and last resi- 
dence.” 
RAILROAD CARS. 
§ 156. That each and every car used upon any 
railroad in the city of Brooklyn for the carrying 
or transportation of passengers shall, on each and 
every day on which it may be used for the carry- 
ing or transportation of passengers, be carefully 
and thoroughly washed and cleaned, so that all 
filth and dirt are removed from the inside of said 
car. 
§ 157. That 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 raiiroad car, allow to be carried or conveyed 
in or upon such car except on the front platform, 
any soiled or dirty articles of clothing or bedding, 
in baskets or bundles. 
§ 158. No house, building, or portion thereof, in 
the city of Brooklyn,shall be used, occupied, leased 
or rented for a tenement or lodging-house, unless 
the same conforms in its construction and appur- 
tenances to the requirements of this code of ordi- 
nances. 
§ 159. Every house, building or portion thereof, 
in the city of Brooklyn, designed to be used, occu- 
pied, leased or rented, or which is used, occupied, 
leased or rented, for a tenement or lodging-house, 
shall have in every room which is occupied as a 
sleeping room, and which does not communicate 
directly with the external air, a ventilating or 
transom window, having an opening or area of 
three square feet, over the door leading into and 
connected with the adjoining room, if such ad- 
joining room communicates with the external air, 
and also a ventilating or transom window of the 
same opening or area, communicating with the 
entry or hall of the house, or where this is, from 
the relative situation of the rooms, impracticable, 
such last mentioned ventilating or transon win- 
dow shall communicate with an adjoining room 
TENEMENT HOUSES. that itself communicates with the entry or hall. 
Every such house or building shall have in the 
roof, at the top of the hall, an adequate and 
proper ventilator, of a form approved by this 
Board. 
§ 160. The roof of every such house shall be 
kept in good repair, and so as not to leak, and all 
rain-water shall be so drained or conveyed there- 
from as to prevent its dripping on the ground, or 
causing dampness in the walls, yard or area. 
§ 161. Every such building shall be provided 
with good and sufficient water-closets or privies, 
of a construction approved by the Board of Health, 
and shall have proper doors, traps, soil-pans, and 
other suitable works and arrangements, so far as 
may be necessary to insure the efficient operation 
thereof. Such water-closets or privies shall not 
be less in number than one to every twenty occu- 
pants of said house ; but water-closets or privies 
may be used in common by the accupants of any 
two or more houses, provided the access is con- 
venient and direct, and provided the number of 
occupants in the houses for which they are pro- 
vided shall not exceed the proportion above re- 
quired for every privy or water-closet. Every 
such house, situated upon a lot or street in which 
there is a sewer, shall have the wTater-closets or 
privies furnished with a proper connection with 
the sewer, wdiich connection shall be in all parts 
adequate for the purpose, as to permit entirely 
and freely to pass whatever enters the same. 
Such connection with the sewer shall be of a 
form approved by the Board of Health. All 
such water-closets and vaults shall be provided 
with the proper traps and connected with the 
house sewer by a nroper tight pipe, and shall be 
provided with sufficient water and other proper 
means for flushing the same ; and every owner, 
lessee and occupant shall take adequate measures 
to prevent improper substances from entering 
such water-closets or privies or their connections, 
and to secure the prompt removal of any im- 
proper substances that may enter them, so that 
no accumulation shall take place, and so as to pre- 
vent any exhalation therefrom, offensive, danger- 
ous or prejudicial to health, and so as to prevent 
the same from being or becoming obstructed. No 
cesspool shall be allowed in or under or connected 
with any such house, except when it is unavoid- 
able, and in such case it shall be constructed in 
such situation and in such manner as the Board 
of Health may direct. It shall in all cases be 
water-tight, and arched or securely covered over, 
and no offensive smell or gases shall be allowed 
to escape therefrom, or from any privy or privy 
vault. In all cases where a sewer exists in the 
street upon which the house or building stands, 
the yard or area shall be so connected with the 
same that all water, from the roof or otherwise, 
and all liquid filth shall pass freely into it. Where 
no sewer exists in the street, the yard or area shall 
be so graded that all water, from the roof or other- 
37 38 
wise, and all filth shall flow freely from it and all 
parts of it into the street gutter, by a passage be- 
neath the sidewalk, which shall be covered by a 
permanent cover, but so arranged as to permit 
access to remove obstructions or impurities. 
§ 162. It shall not be lawful, without a permit 
from the Board of Health, to let, or to continue to 
be let, or to occupy, or suffer to be occupied sep- 
arately as a dwelling, any vault, cellar, or under- 
ground room whatsoever, unless the same be in 
every part thereof at least seven feet in height, 
measured from*the floor to the ceiling thereof, 
nor unless the same be for at least one foot of its 
height above the surface of the street or ground 
adjoining or nearest to the same, nor unless there 
be outside of and adjoining the said vault, cellar 
or room and extending along the entire frontage 
thereof, and upwards from six inches below the 
level of the floor thereof up to the surface of the 
said street or ground, an open space of at least 
two feet and six inches wide in every part, nor 
unless the same be well and effectually drained 
by means of a drain, the uppermost part or which 
is one foot at least below the level of the floor of 
such vault, cellar or room, nor unless there is a 
clear space of not less than one foot below the 
level of the floor, except where the same is ce- 
mented, nor unless there be appurtenant to such 
vault, cellar or room the use of a water-closet or 
privy kept and provided as in this act required, 
nor unless the same have an external window 
opening of at least nine superficial feet clear of 
the sash frame, in which window opening there 
shall be fitted a frame filled in with glazed sashes, 
at least four and a half superficial feet of which 
shall be made so as to open for the purpose of 
ventilation, Provided, however, that in the case 
of an inner or back vault, cellar or room, let or 
occupied along with a front vault, cellar or room 
as part of the same letting or occupation, it shall 
be a sufficient compliance with the provisions of 
this code if the front room is provided with a 
window, as hereinbefore provided, and if the said 
back vault, cellar or room is connected with the 
front vault, cellar or room by a door and also by 
a proper ventilating or transom window, and, 
where practicable also, connected by a proper 
ventilating or transom window, or by some hall 
or passage communicating with the external air. 
Provided, always, that in any area adjoining a 
vault, cellar or underground room there may be 
steps necessary for access to such vault, cellar or 
room, if the same be so placed as not to be over, 
across, or opposite to the said external window, 
and so as to allow between every part of such 
steps and the external wall of such vault, cellar or 
room, a clear space of six inches at least, and if 
the rise of said steps is open ; and provided further, 
that over or across any such area there may be 
steps necessary for access to any building above 
the vault, cellar or room to which such area ad- 39 
joins, if the same be so placed as not to be over, 
across or opposite to any such external window. 
§ 163. No vault, cellar or underground room 
shall be occupied as a place of lodging or sleeping 
except the same shall be approved, in writing, 
and a permit given therefor by the Board of 
Health. 
§ 164. Every tenement or lodging-house shall 
have the proper and suitable conveniences or re- 
ceptacles for receiving garbage and other refuse 
matter. No tenement or lodging-house, nor any 
portion thereof, shall be used as a place of storage 
for any combustible article, or any article danger- 
ous or detrimental to health ; nor shall any horse, 
cow, calf, swine, pig, sheep or goat be kept in 
said house. 
§ 165. Every tenement or lodging-house, and 
every part thereof, shall be kept clean and free 
from any accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage, or 
other matter in or on the same or in the yard, 
court, passage, area or alley connected with or 
belonging to the same. The owner or keeper of 
any lodging-house, and the owner or lessee of any 
tenement house or part thereof, shall thoroughly 
cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, win- 
dows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, cesspools and 
drains thereof of the house or part of the house 
of which he is the owner or lessee, to the satisfac- 
tion of the Board of Health, so often as shall be 
required by or in accordance with any regulation 
or ordinance of said Board, and shall, well and 
sufficiently, to the satisfaction of the said Board, 
whitewash the walls and ceilings thereof twice at 
least in every year, and in the months of April 
and October, unless the said Board shall otherwise 
direct. Every tenement or lodging-house shall 
have legibly posted or painted on the wall or door 
in the entry, or some public accessible place, the 
name and address of the owner or owners, and of 
the agent or agents, or any one having charge of 
the renting and collecting of the rents for the 
same. 
§ 166. The keeper of any lodging-house, and 
the owner, agent of the owner, lessee and occu- 
pant of any tenement house, and every other 
person having the care or management thereof, 
shall, at all times, when required by an officer of 
the Board of Health, or by any officer upon whom 
any duty or authority is conferred by this act, 
give him free access to such house and to every 
part thereof. The owner or keeper of any lodging- 
house, and the owner, agent of the owner, and the 
lessee of any tenement house or part thereof, 
shall, whenever any person in such house is sick 
of fever, or of any infectious, pestilential or con- 
tagious disease, and such sickness is known to 
such owner, keeper, agent, or lessee, give imme- 
diate notice thereof to the Board of Health, or to 
some officer of the same, and thereupon said 40 
Board shall cause the same to be inspected, and 
may if found necessary cause the same to be im- 
mediately cleaned or disinfected at the expense 
of the owner in such manner as they may deem 
necessary and effectual. 
And all rooms or apartments occupied by any 
person sick of any contagious disease, shall imme- 
diately, upon the death or recovery of such person, 
be, by the person having charge or custody of 
such rooms or apartments, thoroughly fumigated 
by the burning of sulphur, or otherwise, in such 
manner as may be required by the Board of 
Health; and all clothing, beds, bedding or in- 
fected articles used by or in caring for such sick 
person, shall be likewise fumigated or disinfected, 
or, in extreme cases, destroyed, as the Board of 
Health may direct.* 
§ 167. Whenever it shall be decided by the Board 
of Health that any building, or part thereof, is 
unfit for human habitation by reason of its being 
so infected with disease as to be likely to cause 
sickness among the occupants, and notice of such 
decision shall have been affixed conspicuously 
on the building or part thereof so decided to be 
unfit for human habitation, and personally served 
upon the owner, agent, or lessee, if the same can 
be found in the State, requiring all persons therein 
to vacate such building or part thereof, for the 
reasons to be stated therein, as aforesaid, such 
building or part thereof shall, within ten days 
thereafter, be vacated, or within such shorter 
time, not less than twenty-four hours, as in said 
notice may be specified. 
§ 168. No house hereafter erected shall be used 
as a tenement house or lodging-house, and no 
house heretofore erected and not now used for 
such purpose, shall be converted into, used, or 
leased for a tenement or lodging-house, unless, in 
addition to the requirements hereinbefore con- 
tained, it conforms to requirements contained in 
the following sections. 
g 169. It shall not be lawful hereafter to erect 
for, or convert to, the purpose of a tenement or 
lodging-house, a building on the front of any lot 
where there is another building on the rear of the 
same lot, unless there is a clear, open space, exclu- 
sively belonging thereto, and extending upwards 
from the ground of at least ten feet between said 
buildings, if they are one story high above the 
level of the ground; if they are two stories 
high, the distance between them shall not be less 
than fifteen feet; if they are three stories high, 
the distance between them shall be twenty feet, 
and if they are more than three stories high, the 
distance between them shall be twenty-five feet. 
At the rear of every building hereafter erected 
for, or converted to the purpose of a tenement or 
* As amended February 34. 1879 ; by a regulation adopted 
December 31, 1879, this section was made to apply to all 
dwellings. 41 
lodging-house on back part of any lot, there shall 
be a clear, open space of ten feet between it 
and any other building. But vdien thorough 
ventilation of such open spaces can be otherwise 
secured, said distances may be lessened or modi- 
fied, in special cases, by a permit from the Board 
of Health. 
§ 170. In every such house hereafter erected or 
converted, every habitable room, except rooms in 
the attic, shall be in every part not less than eight 
feet in height from the floor to the ceiling; and 
every habitable room in the attic of any such 
building shall be at least eight feet in height from 
the floor to the ceiling, throughout not less than 
one-half the area of such room. Every such room 
shall have at least one window, connecting with 
the external air, or over the door a ventilator of 
perfect construction, connecting it with a room or 
hall which has a connection with the extei’nal air, 
and so arranged as to produce a cross current of 
air. The total area of window or windows in 
every room communicating with the external air, 
shall be at least one-tenth of the superficial area 
of every such room ; and the top of one, at least, 
of such windows, shall not be less than seven feet 
and six inches above the floor, and the upper half, 
at least, shall be made so as to open the full width. 
Every habitable room of a less area than one 
hundred superficial feet, if it does not communi- 
cate directly with the external air, and is without 
an open fire-place, shall be provided with special 
means of ventilation by a separate air-shaft ex- 
tending to the roof, or otherwise, as the Board of 
Health may prescribe. 
§ 171. Every such house hereafter erected or 
converted shall have adequate chimneys running 
through every floor, with an open fire-place or 
grate, or place for a stove, properly connected, 
with one of said chimneys, for every family and 
set of apartments. It shall have proper conveni- 
ences and receptacles for ashes and rubbish. It 
shall have Ridgewood water furnished at one or 
more places in such house, or in the yard thereof, 
so that the same may be adequate and reasonably 
convenient for the use of the occupants thereof. 
It shall have the floor of the cellar properly ce- 
mented, so as to be water-tight. The halls of each 
floor shall open directly to the external air. with 
suitable windows, and shall have no room or other 
obstruction at the end, unless sufficient light or 
ventilation is otherwise provided for said hall in a 
manner approved by the Board of Health. 
172. A tenement house, within the meaning 
of these ordinances, shall be taken to mean and 
include every house, building or portion thereof 
which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be oc- 
cupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of 
more than three families living independently of 
one another, and doing their cooking upon the 
premises, or by more than twTo 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 base- 
ment or lower story of any building, or house of 
which one-lialf or more of the height from the 
floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street 
adjoining. 
GENERAL SUBJECTS. 
§ 173. That no master, or teacher or manager of 
or in any school, public or private, or of or in any 
Sunday-school or gymnasium, nor the officers or 
managers thereof, nor officers or managers, or 
persons having charge of any place of public 
worship, shall so far omit or neglect any duty or 
reasonaole care or precaution respecting the safety 
or health of any scholar, pupil or attendant, or 
respecting the temperature, ventilation, or clean- 
liness 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 health of any person shall suffer or 
incur any avoidable peril or detriment. 
§ 174. That no person shall take, carry, expose, 
or place (or induce any ether person so to do) in 
or upon any street or public place, any substance, 
animal or thing, which shall imperil the health of 
any person who is or may properly be in.such 
street or place. 
§ 175. That no person owning or occupying or 
having charge of any stable or other premises, 
shall keep or allow thereon or therein any dog or 
other animal which shall by noise disturb the 
quiet or repose of those or any one therein or in 
the vicinity, to the detriment of the life or health 
of any human being. 
§ 176. That no lai*ge, or church bell, shall be 
rung or tolled at any funeral in said city without 
a permit therefor from this Board, nor shall such 
bell be iu lg or tolled at any other time therein to 
the prejudice or peril of the life or health of any 
human being. 
§ 177. That all cesspools or privy vaults shall be 
water-tight, and when on lots adjacent to sewers 
shall be connected with the same, in the manner 
required by the regulations of the Board of City 
Works. 
§ 178. That no person owning or occupying amr 
building or premises shall use the same, or permit 43 
the use of the same, or rent the same to be used 
for any business or employment, or for any pur- 
pose of pleasure or recreation, if such use shall, 
from its boisterous nature, disturb or destroy the 
peace of the neighborhood in which such building 
or premises are situated, or be dangerous or detri- 
mental to health. 
§ 179. That every agent or other person having 
the charge, control or management, or who collects 
or receives the rents of any lands, premises or 
other property in the city of Brooklyn, shall dis- 
close the name or names of the owner or owners of 
sucli land, premises or property, or the name or 
names of the j>erson or persons for whom such 
agent or other person is acting to this Board, upon 
application being made therefor by any inspector, 
agent or officer of this Board. 
180. That no person shall bring into the city 
of Brooklyn, or keep therein for sale or otherwise, 
either for food or for any other purpose or pur- 
poses whatever, any animal, dead or alive, matter, 
substance or thing, which shall be, or which shall 
occasion a nuisance in said city, or which may or 
shall be dangerous or detrimental to health. 
§ 181. That no building, vehicle, structure, re- 
ceptacle or thing used or to be used for any pur- 
pose whatever, shall be made, used, kept, main- 
tained or operated, in the city of Brooklyn, if the 
use, keeping, maintaining or operating of such 
building, vehicle, structure, receptacle or thing, 
shall be the occasion of any nuisance, or danger- 
ous or detrimental to health. 
§ 182. That no substance, matter or thing, of 
any kind whatever, which shall be dangerous or 
detrimental to health, shall be permitted to exist 
in connection with any permitted business, or be 
used therein, or to exist in connection with, or be 
used in any work or labor, carried on or to be 
carried on or prosecuted in the city of Brooklyn, 
and that no nuisance shall be permitted to exist in 
connection with any business, or in connection 
with any such work or labor. 
§ 183. That every person shall obey the ordi- 
nances, rules, regulations and orders of this Board, 
made or to be made in pursuance of the act of the 
Legislature of the State of New York, under which 
these ordinances are adopted. 
§ 184. That any person who omits, neglects or 
refuses to comply with, or who resists any of the 
provisions of the foregoing ordinances, or who 
refuses or neglects to obey any of the rules, 
orders or sanitary regulations of the Board of 
Health of the city of Brooklyn, or who omits, 
neglects or refuses to comply with, or who re- 
sists any order or special regulation of the said 
Board of Health of the city of Brooklyn, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to arrest, suit 44 
and prosecution therefor, and upon conviction of 
such offense, shall be punished by imprisonment 
in the county jail, not to exceed thirty days, and 
by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor 
less than ten dollars, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment. 
§ 185. The ambulances of the Department of 
Health, while engaged in going for or in carrying 
sick or wounded persons to or from the hospitals, 
shall have the right of way in the streets of the 
city, as against any person, carriage or incum- 
brance put, driven or being in said streets, and no 
person shall obstruct said ambulances while so 
engaged if there shall be an opportunity to get 
out of the way of the same, under a penalty of ten 
dollars for each offense. It shall be the duty 
of the police to enforce the provisions of this 
section.* 
§ 186. That no person or persons or corporations 
shall hereafter erect, conduct or maintain within 
the limits of the city of Brooklyn, any hospital or 
other institution having the care of sick or dis- 
eased persons, without first obtaining a written 
permit from the Health Department of said 
city.f 
* Adopted by Common Council November 19, 1977. 
+ Adopted by Common Council October 18, 1880. REGULATIONS. 
[The following regulations pertaining to the enforcement of 
the sanitary ordinances were adopted at various times, and 
are numbered merely for convenience of reference.] 
PHYSICIANS’ CERTIFICATES—BURIAL PERMITS. 
[Under section 4, title 12. City Charter.] 
1. All persons required by any law or ordinance 
to report deaths, births or marriages to this De- 
partment, shall use the forms of blanks prescribed 
and furnished by this Department.—January 3, 
1883. 
[Under section 143 of the Sanitary Code.] 
2. That no permits be granted for burial upon 
returns for still-births unless said returns are 
certified by a registered physician.—December 27, 
1876. 
[Under section 4, title 12, of City Charter.] 
3. That in all reports made to this Department, 
whether by certificate or otherwise, the terms used 
be the terms recommended by the International 
Statistical Congress for the purposes of public reg- 
istration.—September 5, 1876. 
[Under section 143 of Sanitary Code.] 
4. That every permit for the burial of a dead 
body shall be immediately returned to the Regis- 
ter when demand for the same is made by the 
Board of Health or the President thereof.—Septem- 
ber 7, 1877. 
[Under section 123 of Sanitary Code, and section 4, title 
12, of the City Charter.] 
5. That all cases of contagious diseases required 
by ordinance to be reported to the Board of Health 
or to the Sanitary Superintendent, shall hereafter 
be reported by the persons required to make such 
report, to the Sanitary Inspector or Assistant In- 
spector of the Department having charge of the 
district in which the cases occur.—February 11, 
1881. 
TRANSCRIPTS—RECORDS. 
[Under section 4, title 12, City Charter.] 
6. Transcripts of the records of births, marriages 
and deaths shall be made for any party applying 
therefor upon the payment of a fee of $2.00. 
Searches of such records may be made by an 
officer or clerk of the Department, for which fees 
shall be paid as follows: For each search of a 
registry extending over a period not exceeding a 
year, 50 cents ; and 50 cents for each additional 
year or part thereof; provided that no charge 
shall be made for a search not extending over four 
years in cases "where transcripts are issued.—As 
amended September 7, 1880. 46 
No charge shall be made for transcripts required 
to be used in the case of any pensioner whose 
friends have been killed during the late war, or 
who died from the effect of sickness contracted 
in the military or naval service of the United 
States. 
Applications for transcripts or for searches of 
the records must be made to the Secretary, who 
may give the applicant an order upon the Register, 
stating the name to be searched for, or the record 
of which a transcript is required, the year or years, 
and other necessary particulars, with the amount 
of fees paid or to be paid. The fees for searching 
shall be paid upon application for the search, and 
for transcripts upon the sealing and delivery of 
the certificate. 
An account of the fees collected shall be kept by 
the Secretary, a monthly report of the same made 
to the Board, and said fees shall be paid to the 
Cikj Treasurer and his receipt taken therefor.— 
Aust 15. 1878. 
UURIALS AND TRANSITS. 
[To enforce sections 140 and 142, Sanitary Code.] 
7. That in every case where death occurs from 
diphtheria, scarlet-fever, or measles, the body of 
deceased shall be thoroughly disinfected and en- 
closed in a tight (when possible metallic) burial 
case, which shall not thereafter be opened ; that 
the funeral of such person shall be strictly private, 
and in no case shall children be allowed to attend 
thereat; and that the room in which deceased 
person was, and the clothing and bedding used 
during sickness, shall be thoroughly disinfected.— 
August 16, 1877. 
[For the enforcement of sections 140 and 142 of Sani- 
tary Code.] 
8. That in the removal of dead bodies, or of 
those who have died from a contagious disease, 
hearses must be employed. In no case will it be 
permitted to use coaches or wagons for this pur- 
pose. All violations of this regulation will subject 
the person offending to a prosecution for aiding in 
the spread of disease.—May 18, 1878. 
[Under sections 4 and 8, title 12, of the City Charter.] 
9. Hereafter no dead body of a person having 
died from a contagious disease shall be removed 
from Brooklyn (except when taken in a hearse 
direct for burial in a cemetery adjacent to the 
city), unless said body is hermetically sealed in a 
metallic case ; and no such body shall be brought 
into or through Brooklyn (except in a hearse direct 
from the place of death adjacent to the city for 
burial in the city or an immediately adjacent 
cemetery), unless said body is similarly enclosed. — 
January 18, 1882. 
DISINTERMENTS. 
[Under section 144 of Sanitary Code.] 
10. No burying-ground, cemetery, tomb or vault 
for dead human bodies shall be opened, exposed 
or disturbed except according to the terms of a 
permit therefor given by this Board. 47 
Permission to disinter or remove any dead body 
from a vault, tomb or cemetery shall be given 
only between November 1 and May 1, and when 
such body has been buried one year or more ; pro- 
vided. however, that permits may be given at the 
discretion of the President for the removal at any 
time of bodies that are not infected with conta- 
gious disease when they are in hermetically sealed 
cases, or are placed in such before being taken 
from the vault or place of burial. 
No permit to remove the body of a person who 
has died from small-pox shall be given at any 
time, unless said body was interred in a metallic 
case, hermetically sealed, nor of a person who 
has died from any contagious disease, unless said 
body is enclosed in such case before removal.— 
November 22, 1877. 
PRODUCTION AND SALE OF MILK. 
[Under sections 39, 43, 53 and 53 of the Sanitary Co'eJ 
11. 1. All stables, sheds or buildings in ndiich 
cows are kept for the production of milk, shall be 
provided with a separate stall, not less than three 
feet in width, for each cow, and ventilators of 
such size and so located as to give through and 
through ventilation to the said stables or buildings. 
2. .When the said stables or buildings are 
7 '“on a street where a public sewer exists, they shall 
be connected with the sewer. If there is no sewer 
in the street, they shall be connected with water 
tight cess-pools of proper size and construction, 
which shall at all times be kept in a cleanly and 
inoffensive condition. The flooring of the said 
stables shall be water-tight, and so laid that all 
liquids may run into the sewer connection or cess- 
pool. 
8. Distillery waste, commonly known as ‘ ‘ dis- 
tillery swill,” shall not be used as food for cows; 
nor shall brewery grains in a condition of fermen- 
tation be used as food for cows; nor shall such 
brewery grains, whether in a condition of fermen- 
tation or otherwise, be the sole food of any cow 
whose milk is used for human food. 
4. All cows that are being milked shall, in mild 
and pleasant weather, have at least four hours’ 
exercise in the open air. 
5. No permits will be granted for the establish- 
ment of new cow stables within the city limits, and 
all permits now in force will be revoked and an- 
nulled if the Rules and Regulations or the Ordi- 
nances of the City are violated by those to whom 
such permits have been granted.—October 15,1883. in that part of the Eighteenth Ward commencing 
at Ivy street and Broadway, running thence 
through Central avenue, Bushwick avenue, Ever- 
green avenue and Flushing avenue, to Broadway ; 
in that part of the Twenty-second Ward north and 
west of Seventh avenue, Fourth street, Eighth 
avenue, First street and Ninth avenue ; in that 
part of the Twenty-fourth Ward north and west 
of the Boulevard," Schenectady avenue, Warren 
street and Rochester avenue ; and in that part of 
the Twenty-fifth Ward south and west of Saratoga 
avenue, Sumpter street and Ralph avenue, and 
north and west of Ralph avenue and Madison 
street.—March 19, 1879, and June 20, 1879. 
[To carry out section 45 of Sanitary Code.] 
18. That permits to sell milk shall be granted to 
all parties applying for the same, in the form and 
manner provided, and upon the following con- 
ditions : 
That every dealer in milk shall exhibit the per- 
mit of this Board when so requested by any cus- 
tomer or by any officer of the Board of Health or 
of the Police Department. 
That all carriages or vehicles from which milk 
is vended or delivered shall have conspicuously 
marked on each side thereof the locality from 
which the milk is obtained, and the name of the 
owner or dealer. 
All permits to sell milk shall remain in force 
only during the pleasure of the Board, and may 
be at any time revoked. 
Applications for permits shall be in writing and 
accompanied by a sworn statement as to the busi- 
ness of the applicant.—November 2, 1877. 
[Under section 45 of Sanitary Code.i 
14. That milkmen be required to have Ridge- 
wood water on their premises when the pipes are 
in the street, and to discontinue the use of pump 
water, for the purpose of washing their cans.— 
January 28, 1879. 
DRIVING CATTLE. 
[Under section 49 of Sanitary Code.' 
15. That the route for driving cattle to the Hud- 
son avenue slaughter-house be and the same is 
hereby designated and fixed as follows : From the 
foot of Washington avenue, through Washington 
avenue, Flushing avenue, Nassau street and Hud- 
son avenue to said slaughter-houses.—May 13,1879. 
16. In the Eastern District : From the foot of 
North Ninth street, through North Ninth street. 
Withers street, Smith street, Metropolitan avenue, 
and Bushwick avenue to the slaughter-houses on 
Johnson avenue.—October 28, 1875." 
TRANSPORTING OFFAL AND GARBAGE. 
[Under provisions of sections 9G and 97.1 
17. That all fat (except fat fresh from slaughter- 
houses), bones, offal, swill and garbage collected 
in or conveyed from or through the city of Brook- 
lyn shall be first placed in water-tight barrels or 
48 tubs constructed with rubber flanges and air-tight 
covers, and so arranged that no offensive odors 
can escape therefrom. Said barrels or tubs shall 
at all times be kept closely and tightly covered 
except when receiving the said materials, and 
shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected daily, 
and not more than one tub or barrel shall be open 
at one time in any wagon or vehicle used in the 
collection of such fat, bones, offal, swill or gar- 
bage.—July 10, 1878. 
Bones that are perfectly dry and inoffensive 
and free from fat may be transported in and 
through the city in wagons that are tightly cov- 
ered.—May 25, 1882. 
All wagons, barrels, boxes or tubs shall be sub- 
mitted for inspection, and shall be approved by 
the said Board, before being used. And no permit 
shall be granted to cart any of said materials 
except in vessels constructed in accordance with 
this regulation.—July 10, 1878; amended January 
8, 1888. 
[Under section 99 of the Code.] 
18. That all carts, wagons, or other conveyances 
used for the removal of stable and other manure 
and garbage shall, when loaded or filled, be ade- 
quately and closely covered with a wooden, can- 
vas or cloth cover.—March 14, 1876. 
REMOVAL OF NIGHT SOIL. 
[Under sections 96, 97, Sanitary Code.] 
19. That no part of the contents of any privy 
vault, sink or cesspool within the limits of the 
city of Brooklyn shall be removed therefrom, nor 
shall the same be transported through any of the 
streets, avenues, alleys or other public places of 
said city except the same be removed and trans- 
ported in an entirely inoffensive and odorless 
manner, and so as to prevent the contents of said 
privy vault, sink or cesspool from being agitated 
or exposed in the open air during the process of 
removal or transportation as aforesaid ; that the 
apparatus employed in and permitted to do the 
said work shall be competent to remove all of the 
contents of privies, vaults, sinks and cesspools, 
both fluids and solids, without the escape of 
offensive odors, and all of said work shall be done 
in the daytime ; and further, that no person or 
persons or corporation shall be permitted to en- 
gage in or receive a permit to do any such work 
or to engage in the business of a scavenger unless 
the apparatus and carts to be used be first sub- 
mitted in practical operation to this Board, and 
approved thereby, and that they fulfill all the 
preceding requirements. 
That all permits given under sections 93, 94, 96 
and 103, and every cart or vehicle or apparatus, 
engaged in the removal of night-soil and required 
by section 97 to be constructed according to the 
regulations of the Board of Health, shall be in 
accordance with the provisions of the foregoing 
resolution.—September 20, 1877. 
49 [Under section 9G of Sanitary Code.] 
20. That no scavenger be granted permits to 
clean privy vaults except upon presentation of the 
order of the owner or agent of the premises to be 
cleaned.—October 8, 1878. 
[Under section 102 of Sanitary Code.] 
21. That the Board of Health hereby fixes the 
compensation which may be demanded and re- 
ceived for the disinfection and removal of the 
contents of sinks, privies, vaults and cesspools, in 
accordance with the provisions of section 102 of 
the sanitary code, at not exceeding 12 cents per 
cubic foot, and that any scavenger detected in 
charging more than the established rate per foot 
be suspended from work and prosecuted for vio- 
lation of the code.—October 30, 1878. 
PROSECUTIONS. 
[Under section 5, title 12, City Charter,] 
22. That all cases of violation of sections 152, 
153 of the sanitary code of ordinances, in reference 
to the return of births, marriages and deaths, 
coming to the knowledge of this Board be referred 
to the counsel, who is hereby directed to prosecute 
the person so violating for penalties provided in 
section 184 of said code.—December 27, 1876. 
[Under section 5, title 12, City Charter.] 
23. That the counsel to the Board be instructed 
to draw warrants against offenders in cases of 
non-compliance with the orders of the Department 
referred to him, and to take charge of such cases 
and prosecute the parties implicated, when arrest- 
ed, in the courts.—September 5, 1876. 
AMBULANCE SERVICE. 
[Under sections 4 and 8, title 12, of the City Charter.] 
24. The city is divided into three Ambulance 
Districts, as follows :• 
1. Western District, comprising the 1st, 2d, 3d, 
8th, 8th-sub and 11th Police Precincts, bounded 
by East River, Navy Yard, Nevins street, Second 
avenue, Third street, and city line. Ambulance 
stationed at the Long Island College Hospital, 
corner of Henry and Pacific streets. 
2. Eastern District, comprising the 5th, 6tli, 7th 
and 13th Police Precincts, bounded by Newtown 
Creek, East River, Wallabout Canal, Hewes street, 
Wythe avenue, Franklin avenue, Myrtle avenue, 
and Jefferson street. Ambulance stationed at the 
Eastern District Hospital, on Fourth and South 2d 
streets, E. D. 
3. Central District, comprising the 4th, 10th, 9tli, 
9th-sub and 12th Police Precincts, bounded by 
East River, Navy street, Nevins street, Third 
street, city line, Jefferson street, Myrtle avenue, 
Franklin avenue, Wythe avenue, Hewes street 
and Wallabout Canal. Ambulance stationed 
at the Homeopathic Hospital, 109 Cumberland 
street.—April 26, 1881. 
4. The term of service of ambulance surgeon 
shall not exceed one year. 
50 5. The surgeon when appointed shall agree in 
writing to serve one year. 
6. The surgeon shall be always on duty ; he may 
however be relieved by a substitute l'egularly ap- 
pointed by the Board. 
7. The ambulance shall never attend a call unless 
accompanied by the surgeon or by a regularly ap- 
pointed substitute. 
8. No expense either in purchase of material or 
in the repair of the ambulance, shall be incurred 
unless authorized by the Board. 
9. The ambulance when on duty shall at all 
times be under the direction of the surgeon in 
charge. 
10. The ambulance must under no circum- 
stances be driven faster than is permitted by city 
ordinances—five miles an hour. The bell attached 
to the ambulance is only to be rung in crowded 
thoroughfares, and when it becomes necessary to 
clear the way. 
11. The surgeons are constantly to bear in mind 
that the service is one of emergency, and that 
they are not to treat patients, except so far as 
the immediate necessity demands. Dislocations 
are not to be reduced, nor fractures permanently 
dressed. 
12. When no emergency exists, the surgeon is 
neither to take the place of the police surgeon nor 
of the attending physician. His duty is simply to 
convey patients to their homes or to the hospitals 
as expeditiously and as comfortably as possible.— 
June 12, 1878. 
The following rules for removal of patients will 
be observed so far as practicable : 
13. All calls for the use of the ambulance must 
be sent to the ambulance of the district in which 
the case occurs. If the ambulance is out the call 
must be sent to the ambulance station of the ad- 
joining district nearest to the case requiring its 
use. 
14. Patients will be taken home when they so 
request. 
15. When not taken home they will be conveyed 
to hospitals, as follows : 
From the Eastern District, to the E. D. Hospital, 
St. Catharine’s Hospital, or the City Hospital, 
according to the location of the case. 
From the Western District, all cases easterly of 
Fulton street, to the City Hospital; westerly of 
Fulton street, alternately to the Long Island Col- 
lege Hospital and St. Peter’s Hospital. 
From the Central District, alternately to the 
Homeopathic Hospital and City Hospital. 
16. When patients request to be conveyed to 
hospitals otherwise than in accordance with the 
foregoing regulations, the request shall be observed 
if it can be done without detriment to the patient 
or the interests of the service.—April 26, 1881. 52 
CONSTRUCTION OF DRAINS, SOIL-PIPES AND PLUMB- 
ING OF NEW BUILDINGS. 
[Under section 3, of chapter 450, Laws of 1881.] 
Plans and Specifications. 
25. 1. All plans must be legibly drawn in ink 
on heavy white paper, or on tracing linen. 
2. The size of the paper or linen must be 8 by 12| 
inches, or 124 by 15 inches, and the drawing so 
made as to leave not less than an inch margin 
outside thereof. The former size is preferred, and 
should be used whenever practicable. 
3. One vertical drawing will be sufficient for a 
building when it can be made to show all the work. 
If the work is intricate, and cannot be shown by 
one drawing, two or more should be made. 
4. One plan will be sufficient to show the work 
of any number of houses, if built alike, at one 
time and situated together. 
5. Every plan must be accompanied by a clear 
description thereof, or abstract of the specifica- 
tions, on a blank prescribed and supplied for this 
purpose, showing size, kind and weight of pipes 
and kind of traps, closets and fixtures to be 
used. 
6. A duplicate on tracing linen of each plan, as 
approved, must be furnished for the use of the 
inspector before the first inspection. Tracing 
paper will not be accepted. 
7. Plans and specifications will be approved or 
rejected within ten days from the time of filing. 
8. This Department must be notified when any 
work is ready for inspection, and all work must 
be left uncovered and convenient for examination 
until inspected and approved. 
9. After a plan has once been approved, no 
alteration of the same will be allowed except on 
the written application of the owner. 
For the Construction of Works. 
10. The main sewer-pipe must be of iron. It 
must extend from a point at least five feet outside 
the front wall to the end of the service, with a 
fall of at least one-half inch to the foot. When 
practicable it must run on the cellar wall, securely 
fastened thereto. When this is impracticable it 
may be laid in a trench beneath the basement or 
cellar floor, which trench must remain open until 
permission to close it is given by this Depart- 
ment. 
11. The main sewer must be trapped with an 
iron running-trap of the same size as the sewer- 
pipe, located inside the front wall of the building. 
No connection with the house sewer for the dis- 
charge of sewage or rain-water shall be made on 
the street side of said trap. The trap must be 
provided with a hand-hole, for convenience in 
cleaning. There must be a fresh air inlet-pipe 
entering the sewer-pipe inside and close to the 
said trap, of a diameter not less than three inches, 
leading to the outer air, and opening at any con- 
venient place away from windows. 12. All waste-pipes must be continued, full-bore, 
above the roof, without return bend, and provided 
with a wire screen at top. Lead pipe may be used 
for horizontal lines two inches or less in diameter. 
All other waste-pipes two or more inches in di- 
ameter must be of iron. The term waste-pipe 
includes all branches taken off the main lines and 
continued, vertically or horizontally, seven or 
more feet. The size of waste-pipes shall be as 
follows: Those that receive the discharge from 
eight sinks or basins shall be 3 inches in diameter 
at least; those that receive the discharge from 
three to seven sinks or basins shall be 2 inches in 
diameter at least, and those that receive the dis- 
charge from one or two sinks shall be not less 
than 1% inch. Waste-pipes from safes under 
wash-basins or other fixtures, must not connect 
directly with any sewer, soil-pipe or other -waste- 
pipe. Waste-pipes from refrigerators, if carried 
to the sewer, must first discharge into a drip-pan, 
and be provided with a trap and stop-cock between 
said drip-pan and sewer. 
13. All pipes receiving the discharge from water- 
closets must be of cast iron, continued of undimin- 
ished size at least two feet above the roof, without 
return bend, and provided with a cap, grating or 
screen at the top. 
14. Air-pipes must be of iron or lead (sheet metal 
will not be permitted), and must not terminate in 
chimney-flues. They must be carried up inside of 
the house. When more than one water-closet 
discharges in the same vertical line of soil-pipe, a 
separate air-pipe connection, not less than two 
inches in diameter, must be provided for the trap 
of each, whioli pipe may connect with the soil- 
pipe above the upper water-closet. When the 
trap of the water-closet is set two or more feet 
from the vertical line of soil-pipe, a return con- 
nection must in all cases be provided, even where 
there is but one water-closet on the line. Air- 
pipes from several traps may be combined by 
branching together, and then carried into a soil- 
pipe above the inlet from the highest fixture, or 
continued above the roof. 
ft. All rain-water conductors, which are carried 
up within the walls of a building, must be of iron. 
Soil-pipes may be used as rain-water conductors 
when separate air-pipes are provided for all traps 
connected therewith. 
16. Every wash-basin, bath-tub, sink, urinal, 
water-closet, or other fixture connected with the 
sewer-pipe of any building, shall be separately 
trapped as close to the fixture as possible. Water- 
sealing traps of any pattern may be used when 
separate air-pipe connections from the top of the 
same are provided ; where separate air-pipe con- 
nections are not provided, traps which will not 
unseal must be used. A trap will be considered 
as unsealed if, when siphoned, it shows a water- 
seal less than three-quarters of an inch in depth. 
This rule does not apply to traps of water- 
closets. 
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17. Water-closets must not be located in the 
cellar of any building, nor in any room or apart- 
ment which has not direct communication with 
the external air either by a window or an air- 
shaft having an area to the open air of at least 
four square feet. All water-closets must be fur- 
nished with an adequate supply of water to keep 
them at all times clean. Where a sewer exists in 
the street, water-closets must be provided ; privy- 
vaults will not be permitted.* 
18. All water-closets located above the first story 
must be supplied from a tank. 
19. All joints in iron pipe must be filled with 
lead and securely calked. All connections of lead 
with iron pipe must be made by soldering the 
lead pipe to a brass or other approved thimble, or 
ferrule, with wiped or overcast bolted joints, and 
calked into the hub of the iron pipe. Cement and 
putty joints and cast iron ferrules will not be per- 
mitted. 
20. No opening shall be provided in the sewer- 
pipe of any building for the purpose of receiving 
the surface drainage of the cellar, unless special 
permission is granted, and any opening so made 
must be immediately and permanently closed 
when directed by this Department. — Adopted 
November 1. 1881 ; amended May 10 and June 
22, 1882. 
* Amendment adopted June 22, 3882. .A-UST ACT 
ORGANIZING THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
CHAPTER 633. 
An Act to amend the charter of the city of Brook- 
lyn, being the act for that purpose passed June 
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
three, and the act for that purpose passed June 
first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. 
Passed June 21st, 1875 ; three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented 
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. Section two of title two of the act 
entitled “AnAct to amend the charter of the city 
of Brooklyn, and the various amendments there- 
of,” passed June twenty-eighth, one thousand 
eight hundred and seventy - three, is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows : 
§ 7. Title twelve of said act is hereby repealed, 
and the following enacted in lieu thereof: 
Title XII. 
§ 1. There shall be a department of health, which 
shall be known as the board of health of the city 
of Brooklyn, which shall have jurisdiction over 
said city. 
$ 2. The management and control of said de- 
partment shall be vested in a board of health, to 
be composed of the president of the board of 
aldermen, the president of the board of police, 
and one physician, who shall have been ten years 
in active practice and five years a resident of the 
city of Brooklyn immediately prior to his appoint- 
ment. 
§ 3. Within five days after the passage of this 
act (and on the first Monday in May, eighteen 
hundred and seventy-seven, and every two years 
thereafter) the-may or shall nominate, and, with 
the consent of the board of aldermen, appoint 
one physician, who is eligible to the office, as a 
member of the said board of health, who shall 
be president thereof, and shall hold office until 
his successor shall have duly qualified; and the 
said physician, after having duly qualified, to- 
gether with the president of the board of police 
and the president of the board of aldermen, 
shall constitute the board of health for the city of Brooklyn, and thereupon the powers and duties 
of the existing board of health shall cease, and 
be no longer operative, and the commissioners 
appointed under this act shall in all things super- 
sede and take the place of the said existing board 
of health of the city of Brooklyn. In case of 
death, resignation, removal from office, or other 
inability to serve, of the physician so appointed, 
the vacancy shall be filled for the vacancy of the 
unexpired time by the mayor and common coun- 
cil, in the manner herein provided for appoint- 
ment under this act. The salary of said physician 
shall be five thousand dollars per annum.* 
§ 4. Said board of health, as thus constituted, 
and its successors, shall have power to act as a 
legislative body in regard to, and shall have and 
exercise exclusive power in said city of Brooklyn 
over all matters pertaining to public health, the 
removal and burial of the dead, the maintenance 
and operating of an ambulance service for the 
speedy removal of sick and injured persons, the 
registration of marriages, births and deaths, and 
to the registration of vital statistics in the said 
city, and to make such rules and regulations, and 
such appointments of officers and employees as it 
may deem necessary for the proper carrying out 
and enforcement of all laws, ordinances and codes 
that may be prescribed for its government, for 
the protection of the public health, and for the 
proper care and registration of such statistics. 
The record and registration of marriages, births 
and deaths, and all other matters relating to vital 
statistics as they now are, and all records and 
registration • of marriages, births and deaths, and 
all other matters relating to vital statistics here- 
after made, and the record of the acts and doings 
of said board now made, or hereafter to be made, 
are hereby declared to be a public record, and as 
such shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the 
facts and things therein stated, and shall be so 
received by all courts, boards and tribunals, public 
officers and departments in this State. Such 
records made or to be made, shall be under the 
exclusive care, custody and control of said board. 
Sucli board shall have a seal of such design and 
56 
* Chap. 377, Laws 1880. 
§ 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the 
mayor and comptroller shall * * appoint * * a proper per- 
son who shall be the head of the department of health, and 
designated as the commissioner of said department; and 
the president of the department of police and excise and 
the president of the board of aldermen shall thereupon 
cease to he members of the board of health of said city. 
* * * The person so appointed shall take and hold the office 
to which he shall have been so appointed, until the first day 
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. * * * And 
upon the making of the appointments provided for in this 
section, the term of office of the present presidents * * * 
shall cease and determine, and thereafter all the powers, 
duties, obligations, rights and privileges of the heads of the 
said several departments, as now prescribed by law. shall 
devolve upon the heads of such departments respectively 
appointed under this act. 
§ 3, fixes the salary of said commissioner at four thousand 
dollars per annum. 57 
character as it may deem proper. And a copy of 
its records or any part thereof, certified by its 
secretary and attested by its official seal, shall be 
received in evidence by all boards, courts, tribu- 
nals, public officers and departments in this State, 
with the like force and effect as if the original 
thereof had been produced.—As amended June 4, 
1880, chap. 545. 
£ 5. The said board of health is hereby author- 
ized and directed to prepare such ordinances as it 
shall deem to be required for the protection of 
the public health, and for securing the proper 
registration of births, marriages and deaths, and 
such other statistical information necessary for 
efficient working of the department, with penal- 
ties for their violation, which ordinances shall be 
by said board submitted to the common council, 
and when approved by said common council shall 
have and possess the same power and effect as 
other ordinances of said city, and shall be carried 
out and executed by said board of health. Every 
violation of any ordinance so prepared and ap- 
proved, or any part thereof, is hereby declared to 
be a misdemeanor. No ordinance so prepared and 
approved shall be repealed or amended without 
the approval of said board.—As amended June 4, 
1880, chap. 545. 
S 6. Said board of health shall have exclusive 
power to appoint a secretary, sanitary superin- 
tendent, register of records, inspectors, and such 
other officers and employes as it may deem proper 
and necessary to the efficient, safe and economical 
discharge of the duties by this act devolved on 
said board, and to fix their compensation; pro- 
viding, however, that the whole expense of ad- 
ministering said department shall not exceed the 
sum appropriated therefor by the board of esti- 
mate, and all expenditures so incurred, for what- 
ever purpose, shall be made and met in such 
manner as is provided for in other departments 
of the city government. It shall be the duty of 
the board of police to execute the orders of the 
board of health when so requested by said board 
of health.* 
* Chap. 377, Laws 1880. 
Sec. 4. * * The head of said department shall have power 
to designate and appoint, and at pleasure remove, a person 
in his department as his deputy or first assistant, and the 
person so designated as deputy or first assistant, shall, 
during the absence or inability of the head of the depart- 
ment by whom he was appointed, have power to perform all 
the ordinary duties of such head of department, except the 
power to make appointments, subject, however, to such 
restrictions or regulations as may be provided by the head 
of the department so appointing him. All official business 
of the said several departments shall be transacted at the 
offices of the said departments, and a continuous record or 
minute shall be kept at the said offices, respectively, of such 
business. 
Sec. 7. The officer or officers at the head of any depart- 
ment may appoint and remove his or their clerks and assist- 
ants and other subordinates, and fix their salaries ; provided, 
however, that on and after the expiration of thirty days 
from the time when a new officer or officers shall have been 
appointed as such head of department, he or they may re- 
move clerks or assistants only upon filing in writing the 
reasons for any removal with the city clerk, which reasons 
shall not be questioned in any other place. * * 58 
g 7. In the presence of great and eminent peril 
to public health of the city of Brooklyn, by reason 
of impending pestilence, it shall be the duty of 
said board to take such measures, and do and 
order and cause to be done such acts, and to make 
such expenditures (beyond those duly estimated 
for as provided) for the preservation of the public 
health from such impending pestilence, as it may, 
in good faith, declare the public safety and health 
to demand, and the mayor of said city and the 
president of the medical society of Kings county 
shall also in writing approve. And such peril 
shall not be deemed to exist except when and for 
such period of time as the mayor, pi'esident of the 
medical society and board of health shall by pro- 
clamation declare. 
§ 8. The said department of health shall have 
full power to enforce and carry out all ordinances, 
rules or regulations for the preservation of the 
public health, the removal and burial of the dead, 
the maintenance of an ambulance service, and for 
the registration of vital statistics, as may be here- 
after enacted by the common council of the city 
of Brooklyn, or in the manner prescribed by this 
act, and to prohibit in said city any business or 
practice which said board of health shall declare 
to be detrimental or dangerous to the public health. 
But no established business or the rights to proper- 
ty of any person shall be interfered with or pro- 
hibited, until the offender or offenders therewith 
charged shall have been duly summoned by notice 
of not less than five days to appear before said 
board to show cause why such declaration or 
order of prohibition shall not be enforced against 
the said party or parties charged, nor until they 
shall have an opportunity to be heard. And upon 
the rendition of the decision of the said board of 
health that said business or practice is detrimen- 
tal to the public health, the said person or persons 
so charged shall have the right of appeal from 
such decision to the city court of the city of 
Brooklyn, upon petition reciting the said charges 
and decision directed to the said city court of 
Brooklyn, a copy of which petition shall be duly 
served upon tlie said board of health within five 
days from the rendition of said decision ; and the 
said city court shall proceed to a hearing and de- 
termination of such matter, which hearing shall 
be by trial of the issues embraced in the said petition 
before said court, upon such a day as the said 
court shall fix at its then existing or first term 
thereafter; and the decision of said city court 
in said matter shall be final. But no sucli appeal 
shall be had or taken until a bond, to be approved 
by the court, shall have been duly filed with the 
court, conditioned in the sum of five hundred 
dollars, that the said appellant will pay to the 
board of health of said city all costs which may 
be awarded against said appellant in case the said 
decision rendered by the said board of health 
and appealed from, shall be affirmed by final 59 
judgment. Such appeal shall be heard at a general 
term of said city court, whose judgment therecn 
shall be given within twenty days after the final 
submission thereof.—As amended June 4, 1880, 
chap. 545. 
§ 9. The department of city works, in conjunc- 
tion with the department of health, shall have 
full and exclusive power to make contracts for the 
removal of all offal, dead animals, night soil, gar- 
bage or other refuse matter from the city of 
Brooklyn for a period not exceeding five years, 
and to require and receive bonds, in such form 
and amount as the said departments jointly may 
approve, for the faithful performance, by the 
person or persons to whom such contracts may by 
said departments in their discretion have been 
awarded, of all and every of the provisions of such 
contracts, and to cancel and revoke all contracts 
made by them, or which may be entered into 
under this section, as well as all existing contracts 
for the removal of the matters aforesaid, when- 
ever the contractor shall refuse or neglect to per- 
form any of the stipulations of such contract. 
§ 10. All contracts shall be signed by the presi- 
dents of the two boards, and no contract shall be 
made or terminated except by the affirmative vote 
of a majority of the members of the conjoint 
boards of health and city works. All contracts 
when so made, shall be carried out and executed 
under the supervision and control of the board of 
city works, but cognizance shall be always taken 
of any complaint of neglect of duty on the part of 
a contractor when made by the board of health, 
and the president of said board of health may, at 
any time, convene a joint meeting of the two said 
boards whenever, in the opinion of the board of 
health, any contract entered into by such boards 
is not being properly carried out or executed. 
§ 11. All laws and parts of laws heretofore en- 
acted, in so far as they create, govern, empower 
or define the duties of the health department or 
board of health of the city of Brooklyn, are here- 
by repealed. 
Aii Act in Relation to Silewalto 
CHAPTER 855. 
An Act to provide for the Relaying, Reflagging 
or Repairing of Sidewalks in the City of Brook- 
lyn. 
Passed June 28, 1873 : three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented 
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
Section 1. Whenever the Board of Health of the 
city of Brooklyn shall declare, in writing, to the 
Commissioners of City Works of said city, that 
the sidewalks in front of any premises on any 60 
street, avenue or public place in said city of 
Brooklyn, is in an unsafe condition for public 
travel, said Commissioners of City Works shall 
give ten days' notice in the corporation papers of 
the intention of said Commissioners of City Works 
to reflag, relay or repair the same; and in case the 
owner or owners thereof does not, before the expir- 
ation of said ten days, cause the same to be re- 
flagged, relaid or repaired, as the case may be, then 
the said Commissioners of City Works shall cause 
the same to be relaid, reflagged or repaired, and 
the expense thereof shall be a lien on the pro- 
perty so benefitted ; the cost of said improvement 
shall in each case be paid for by said Commis- 
sioners of City Works, in the same manner that 
they are authorized to pay for the regrading and 
repaving of streets under existing laws, prior to 
the levying of assessments therefor. 
§ 2. The Commissioners of City Works shall 
cause a diagram of the property to be assessed 
for work done under the foregoing section to be 
furnished to the Board of Assessors, together with 
the name or names of the owner or owners thereof, 
so far as known, with the amount to be assessed 
thereon, and the proper boards and officers of said 
city shall proceed to assess and levy and collect 
such sum upon the adjacent property, in the 
manner now provided by law in relation to laying 
the assessment for regrading and repaving of 
streets in the city of Brooklyn. 
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 
All Act to Organize t&e Niglit Medical Service, 
An Act to Organize a Night Medical Service in 
the City of Brooklyn, and to provide medical 
assistance in cases of sudden sickness or acci- 
dent during the night time. 
Passed May 7, 1881 ; three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State ofNeiv York, represented 
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. On and after the passage of this act, 
and upon receipt of a copy thereof, duly signed 
and certified, it shall be the duty of the head of 
the Department of Police of the city of Brooklyn 
to direct the captain of each police precinct in 
said city to register in a book provided for that 
purpose the names and addresses of all physicians 
in good and regular standing within said precinct 
who shall make application for such registry, and 
shall thereby pledge themselves to respond to any 
call for medical attendance made as hereinafter 
described. Each name thus registered shall be 
submitted to the Registrar of Vital Statistics of 
the Board of Health of the city of Brooklyn, whose 
duty it shall be to ascertain and report whether 
said physician is in good and regular standing, 
CHAPTER 221. and to transmit a certificate to such effect to the 
captain of said precinct, and only upon receipt of 
such certificate shall it be lawf ul for the captain of 
the said precinct to employ such physicians as here- 
inafter named. The names and addresses of such 
physicians as have been duly certified by the Reg- 
istrar of Vital Statistics, shall be plainly and legi- 
bly written or printed upon a bulletin provided 
for that purpose, which bulletin shall be placed at 
a convenient point near the captain’s desk and 
kept open to the inspection of all persons within 
the precinct desiring to see the same. 
§ 2. Upon the application of any person residing 
within the said precinct, whose name and address, 
together with the name and address of the said 
person desiring and needing such attendance, and 
the date of the application, be duly registered in a 
book kept open for that purpose, it shall be the 
duty of the captain, or other officer at the desk, 
in the absence of any expressed preference by the 
applicant, to select from the list of physicians 
thus registered the name of the physician residing 
nearest to the residence of the said patient in 
whose behalf application is made, and to notify 
him without delay of the existence of such appli- 
cation. 
§ 3. It. shall be the duty of the captain, sergeant 
or other officer at the desk in such police precinct, 
as before specified, upon registry of any application 
as described in the preceding section, immediately 
to detail an officer, whose duty it shall be to cail 
upon such physician without delay, and to conduct 
him to the residence of the patient; also, to verify 
by personal inspection or inquiry the name and 
address of such patient as registered by his su- 
perior officer. Every officer thus detailed as mes- 
senger shall be furnished with a blank certificate 
upon which the name and address of the physician 
responding to the call, the name and address of 
the patient attended, and the date and hour of the 
visit, shall be written by him after he has con- 
ducted the physician to the patient’s residence and 
verified the genuineness of the applicatiou. Such 
certificate shall be signed by him and given to the 
physician, and shall specify upon its face that the 
physician therein named is entitled to the sum of 
three dollars from the public funds, upon presenta- 
tion thereof to the proper officer, and indorsement 
thereof in writing with the name of the captain 
of the precinct. But it shall be the duty of the 
physician making such visit to present such cer- 
tificate to the patient or his or her agent or attend- 
ant, and to request payment of the sum specified ; 
and in case of such payment being made said 
physician shall surrender such certificate to the 
person or persons making it, and it shall cease to 
be a claim upon the public treasury. In default of 
the immediate payment of the said fee specified 
in the said certificate by the patient or his or her 
attendant, it shall be the duty of the captain of 
the police precinct in which the visit was made to 
61 indorse it with his name ; and after having been 
indorsed by the head of the Department of Health 
or his deputy, it shall be the duty of the Comp- 
troller of the said city to pay at sight the fee 
aforesaid, and to enter the payment in a bock pro- 
vided for that purpose and take up the certificate. 
And all certificates thus redeemed shall be valid 
debts to the amount therein named against the 
patients therein named or their guardians, which 
the said Board of Health of said city may order 
collected by due process of law ; provided that no 
prosecution shall be instituted in cases where it is 
satisfactorily shown that the patient is without 
sufficient means for the payment thereof. 
§ 4. It shall be the duty of every physician thus 
called to the medical assistance of any person 
within the police precinct in which he is regis- 
tered, to transmit to the Registrar of the Board of 
Health of the city of Brooklyn, within twenty-four 
hours after the call shall have been answered, a 
full and accurate statistical exhibit of the case, 
specifying therein the age and sex, and the em- 
ployment, profession or business of the patient, 
the nature of the disease, the hour of the attack 
when practicable, the date and the police precinct 
and ward in which the case occurred ; the same 
shall be signed with the full name and address of 
the physician rendering it. but the name and 
address of the patient shall always be omitted ; 
and it shall be the duty of the Board of Health of 
the city of Brooklyn to provide all physicians thus 
registered for night medical service with appro- 
priate blanks for the said purpose, upon their 
application therefor. 
§ 5. Any policeman who shall be detailed as 
messenger according to the provisions hereinbefore 
specified, shall, in the absence of preference ex- 
ptessed in the application, call the physician 
nearest and most convenient to the patient’s resi- 
dence, or, in the absence or refusal from any cause 
of the latter, the physician next nearest, and so 
on, and there shall be no delay or waiting for such 
physician to return ; and any member of the force 
neglecting to comply with this provision shall be 
subject to trial and fine or dismissal from the 
service, by the head of the Police Department of 
the city of Brooklyn, in the same manner as for 
other offences cognizable by the said body ; and 
any physician thus registered who shall twice re- 
fuse or neglect, without reasonable excuse, to 
answer a call made according to the provisions of 
this act. shall be subject to have his name erased 
from the list, upon proper evidence thereof sub- 
mitted to an executive officer who shall be ap- 
pointed by the Registrar of Vital Statistics of the 
Board of Health, and shall be under his immedi- 
ate supervision. 
§ 6. The captains of the several police precincts 
if. in their judgment, it shall be necessary to the 
public convenience, may cause the bulletins of 
physicians herein specified to be posted in any 63 
public place or store within their respective pre- 
cincts, as they shall deem advisable, under the 
directions of the head of the Police Department; 
but any applicant desiring the service of any mes- 
senger other than a member of the police force 
detailed for the purpose, shall employ such mes- 
senger at his own expense, and shall be liable for 
any expenses incurred in communicating with the 
police precinct. 
§ 7. The time during which the physicians reg- 
istered under this act shall be held to be subject to 
call shall be between the hours of ten in the even- 
ing and seven in the morning, from October first 
to March thirty-first, inclusive, and between the 
hours of eleven in the evening and six in the 
morning from April first to September thirtieth, 
inclusive. 
§ 8. The members of the Board of Estimate of 
the city of Brooklyn are hereby authorized and 
directed to apportion and insert in their estimate 
of the expenses of said city, in each year, an 
amount necessary for the support of the aforesaid 
night medical service, when its organization shall 
have been established by the Board of Health of 
said city; but in no case shall the sum so appor- 
tioned exceed three thousand dollars for any one 
year; and the amount so apportioned shall be 
inserted in the tax levy of said city. 
§ 9. This act shall take effect immediately. 
An Act Regelating PlnmMng and Drainage. 
CHAPTER 450. 
An Act to secure the Registration of Plumbers, 
and the Supervision of Plumbing and Drainage, 
in the Cities of New York and Brooklyn. 
Passed June 4, 1881; three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represen ted 
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. On or before the first day of March, 
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, every master 
or journeyman plumber, carrying on his trade in 
the cities of New York and Brooklyn, shall under 
such rules and regulations as the respective Boards 
of Health of the Health Departments of said cities 
shall respectively prescribe, register his name and 
address at the Health Department of the said city; 
and after the said date it shall not be lawful for 
any person to carry on the trade of plumbing in 
the said cities unless his name and address be 
registered as above provided. 
§ 2. A list of the registered plumbers of the city 
of New York shall be published in the City Record 
at least once in each year. 
§ 3. The drainage and plumbing of all buildings, 
both public and private, hereafter erected in the 
city of New York or in the city of Brooklyn, shall be executed in accordance with plans previously 
approved, in writing, by the Board of Health of 
the said Health Departments of said cities respec- 
tively. Suitable drawings and desciiptions of the 
said plumbing and drainage shall in each case be 
submitted and placed on file in the Health Depai’t- 
ment. The said Boards of Health are also author- 
ized to receive and place on file drawings and 
descriptions of the plumbing and drainage of 
buildings erected prior to the passage of this act 
in their respective cities. 
§ 4. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
of the city of New York shall add six thousand 
dollars to the apportionment of the Health Depart- 
ment for the year eighteen hundred and eighty- 
one, and shall insert the same in the tax levy, to 
provide for carrying out the provisions of this act, 
so far as it relates to the city of New York. 
§ 5. Any court of record in said cities respective- 
ly, or any Judge or Justice thereof, shall have 
power at any time after the service of notice of the 
violation of any of the provisions of this act, and 
upon the affidavit of one of the Commissioners of 
Health of the said cities, to restrain by injunction 
order the further progress of any violation named 
in this act, or of any work upon or about the 
building or premises upon which the said violation 
exists, and no undertaking shall be required as a 
condition to the granting or issuing of such injunc- 
tion, or by reason thereof. 
§ 6. Any person violating any of the provisions 
of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor. 
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§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Ail Ordinance of tie City of Brooklyn Relating 
to tie Fencing of Lots. 
CHAPTER 5. 
Section 14. Any owner of a vacant lot or lots in 
the city, who shall refuse or neglect to fence the 
same, after having received ten days notice of the 
adoption by the Common Council of an ordinance 
directing him to fence the same, in pursuance 
of an order of the Department of Health, declar- 
ing the same necessary to abate a nuisance, shall 
incur a penalty of five dollars, and of five dollars 
for every ten days thereafter, that such lot or lots 
continue unfenced.—Adopted June 20, 1881. INDEX TO ORDINANCES. 
Adulterations of food and medicine, 14, 15,16. 
Agents, must disclose names of owners, 179. 
Ambulances, have right of way, 185. 
Animals, slaughtering of, 55, 57; not to run at large, 49; creat- 
ing nuisance, not allowed, 180; dead, not to be thrown in 
street, 114; not to be kept, 114; sick, may be killed, 115; to 
be removed, 116; how may be killed, 118; dangerous, not 
allowed in street, 174; diseased, not to be brought in city, 112; 
not to be kept in tenement houses, 164. 
Ashes, receptacles for to be provided, 88, 171; not to be 
dumped in lots, 77, 80. 
Ashes and garbage, to be kept separate, 88; barrels must not 
remain on sidewalks, 88; must be kept where inspectors 
direct, 89; may be delivered to carts direct, 90. 
Bedding, not to be dried on sidewalk, 104; infected, to be 
fumigated or destroyed, 166. 
Bells, church, not to be rung, 176. 
Bills of Health, 13. 
Births, must be reported, 153, 154, 155. 
Blacksmith shop, ashes from, 109. 
Boarding-houses, must be kept clean, 23; keepers of, to report 
contagious diseases, 125; to report sick from vessels, 129. 
Boisterous business prohibited, 178. 
Bone boiling prohibited, 73, 74. 
Buildings, improper, must not be let, 18; damp, not to be 
occupied, 18; creating a nuisance, prohibited, 181; must be 
adequate, 17, 18. 
Burial of the dead, permits required, 143; permits for, must 
be returned to board, 143; no new burying-ground to be 
established, 144; graves not to be opened without permit, 
144; undertakers must be registered, 145; sextons must 
make returns of permits, 146; permits for transit, 147; per- 
mits of New York, Richmond County, Morrisania and Long 
Island City received, 147; dead bodies must not be exposed, 
148; persons must report dead bodies seen, 149; must not 
be retained over four days, 150; contagious disease, not 
over 24 hours, 150. 
Business, no nuisance allowed in connection with, 182. 
Butcher shops, must be kept clean, 38. 
Butchers, must have permits, 61; must allow stock to be in- 
spected, 62. 
Butter, unwholesome, 45. 
Calves, must be of certain age, 30. 
Cars, railroad, must be kept clean, 156; soiled clothing not 
permitted on, 157. 
Cargo, permit to discharge, 134. 
Carpets, not to be beaten, 91. 
Carts, garbage and offal, must be constructed according to 
Code, 97, 99; must be kept clean, 98; must not occupy un- 
reasonable time in streets, 98; must be covered, 99. 
Cattle, how may be transported, 54; not to be killed when 
diseased, 31; diseased must be reported, 31; not to be hung 
in street, 57; must be kept with proper care, etc., 51; not to 
run at large, 49; not to be unloaded without permit, 49; 
route for driving to be fixed, 49; hours for driving, 49. 
Cellars, not to be occupied, 18, 19, 162; if occupied must be 
approved by Board, 163; must be cemented, 171. 
Cesspools, when not allowed, 161: must be approved by 
Board, 161; must be water-tight, 177. 
Chimneys, adequate, to be provided, 171. 
Church bells, not to be rung, 176. 
Churches, to be kept clean, ventilated and heated, 173. Clergymen to keep registry of marriages, 152; must report, 
153, 154, 155. 
Clothing, infected, to be fumigated or destroyed, 166. 
Coal-yards, dust from, 109. 
Combustibles, not to be stored in tenement houses, 164. 
Contagious diseases defined, 5; to be reported by physicians, 
123; by boarding house keepers, 125,129; by institutions, 126; 
by masters of vessels, 127, 130, 131; by everybody, 128; on 
vessels, 133, 135, 137; not to be removed, 140; exposure to, 
142; in tenement houses to be reported, 166; in schools, 
142; children from infected houses not to attend school, 
142; persons dying from, to be buried within 24 hours, 
143; private funerals, 150; hearses to be used, 150; rooms 
where persons have been sick to be fumigated, 166; cloth- 
ing and bedding to be destroyed, 166. 
Contractors, must obey ordinances, 9; how they are to clean 
streets, 25 ; must act promptly, 120. 
Coroners, to report details of inquests, 151. 
Cow stables, must be properly built, 51; must be kept clean, 
52. 
Cows, permits to keep, 52; one to city lot may be kept, 52; 
infectious diseases among, 52. 
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Dead, permits to bury, 143: permits to disinter, 144; trans- 
portation of, 147; from other cities, 147; not to be exposed, 
148; bodies seen to be reported, 149; must not remain un- 
buried over four days, 150; in cases of contagious disease, 
not over 24 hours, 150; coroners to report inquests, 151. 
Dead animals, must be removed, 116: notice of, to be given, 
117; removal of, not to be obstructed, 119; contractors must 
remove promptly, 120. 
Deaths must be reported, 153, 154, 155. 
Detrimental to health, any act, 8 
Definition of tenement house, 172; of lodging house, 172; of 
cellar, 3, 172; of various terms, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 
Dirt, not to lay piled up in street, 121: not to be thrown in 
streets or river, 80. 
Diseased animals, not to be brought in city, 112; not to be 
kept, 114; how disposed of, 115; may be killed, 118. 
Disinfected, privies, before emptying, 102. 
Distilleries, must have permits, 76. 
Dogs, not to run at large unmuzzled, 68; in street, must be 
killed, 68; mad, to be killed and buried, 69; noisy, not al- 
lowed, 175. 
Drains, adequate, to be provided, 26. 
Drink, deleterious, not to be sold, 41; not to be given, 43; not 
to be made, 44. 
Drivers of garbage and ash carts, to give notice, etc., 95. 
Dust, business creating, regulated, 91. 
Dwellings, water-closets in, 22. 
East river, substances must not be thrown into, 80, 86. 
Enforcement of ordinances, 11. 
Exposure to disease, from dead bodies, 148; from sick, 140, 
142. 
Factories, must consume smoke, 110. 
False representations as to articles of food, 37. 
Fat, boiling, prohibited, 73, 74; scrap from, 75; rendered, 
must be fresh, 79; must be rendered in tight tanks, 79; not 
to be brought into cit3' for rendering, 79. 
Fish, must be cleaned before sold, 33; must not be exposed 
on sidewalk, 64. 
Food, adulteration of, 14, 16; unsound, must not be brought 
to city, 29, 30, 36; false representations in reference to, 37; 
unwholesome, must not be served, 35; unwholesome, must 
be reported, 40; unsound, how condemned, 42. 
Fumigation in infected houses, 166. 
Funerals, church bell not to be rung at, 176; of cases of con- 
tagious diseases must be private, 150; hearses only to be 
used, 150. 
Garbage, not to be put on lots, 80; must not be thrown into 
East river, 80; receptacles for, to be provided, 88; collectors 
of, to give notice of approach, 95; permits to cart, 96; carts 
must be kept clean, 98; must be removed inoffensively, 100; 
must be removed in tight vessels, 108; must not leak on 
ground, 108; must be removed promptly, 120. 
Garbage-boxes for tenement houses, 164. 
Gas manufactories, 71; offensive odors from, 71; refuse from. 
71. 67 
Glanders, horses with, 113. 
Glue making prohibited, 73, 74. 
Goats, not to run at large, 49; not to be kept without permit, 
50. 
Ground, filled with offensive material not to be opened, 78. 
Gut-fat, not to be taken to market, 32. 
Gutters, street, must not be obstructed, 87. 
Halls must be ventilated, 171. 
Hides, permits to land, 133; tanning of, 70. 
Horses with farcy, 113. 
Hospitals, to obtain permits, 186. 
Hydrants not to be broken or interfered with, 48. 
Hydrophobia, 69. 
Ice on sidewalks, 65, 66. 
Ice-boxes, how constructed, 39. 
Inspectors, to make inspections, 11; no person shall interfere 
with, 11. 
Jails must be properly kept, 24. 
Leather dressing, permits for, 70. 
Light, 17, 18. 
Liquid manure, not to escape from carts, 101. 
Liquor, deleterious, not to be made, 44. 
Manufactories, must be kept clean, 23; must be ventilated, 
23; water closets in, 22; definiton of, 3. 
Manure, permits to cart, 96; piles of, not allowed, 104, 105; 
shall not be turned or stirred, 106; must be moved inoffen- 
sively, 100; vaults to be emptied twice a week, 105. 
Markets must be kept clean, 38. 
Marriages must be reported, 153, 154. 
Masters of vessels, to report contagious diseases, 127; to re- 
port sickness on board, 130, 131; must not unload without 
permits, 133, 134,136; must report cotton in dangerous con- 
dition, 132; must not remove sick persons from vessel, 135; 
from infected ports, 136; must not cast bedding or straw 
into East river, 138. 
Meat, diseased, 29, 36; not to be taken to market until cool, 
32; unsound, to be reported, 40; unsound, how condemned, 
42; not to be hung in street or on sidewalk, 57, 64. 
Meaning of terms—-board, department, owner, tenant, lessee, 
occupant, contractor, party, manager, officer, city, regula- 
tion, report, light, 1; street, public place, asbes, rubbish, 
garbage, dirt, 2; tenement house, 3, 172; lodging house, 
cellar, boarding house, manufactory, saloon, 3; theatre, 4; 
physician, contagious disease, 5; meat, fish, vegetable, 6; 
cattle, butcher, private market, 7. 
Medicines, adulteration and sale, 14, 15, 16. 
Milk, unwholesome, 29; permit to sell, 45; adulterated, not to 
be sold, 45; specific gravity of, 45; skimmed, 45. 
Milk dealers must allow stock to be inspected, 62. 
Night soil, receptacles for, how constructed, 86, 94; must not 
be thrown in East river, 80, 86; must be conveyed in air-tight 
apparatus, 94; cannot be removed without permit, 96; 
price fixed for removal, 102; removal of, must not be ob- 
structed, 119. 
Noisy occupations restricted, 178. 
Nuisance, nothing must become, 85; nothing creating, to be 
brought in city, 180; nothing creating, to be allowed, 181; 
prohibited in connection with any business, 182. 
Obedience to ordinances, 10, 183; to orders and regulations, 
10, 183. 
Obstructions in street gutters, 87. 
Offal, butchers, conveyed at certain hours, 63; must be cart- 
ed in tight vessels, 63; must not be thrown into street or 
river, 82; boiling of, prohibited, 73, 74. 
Offal dock, must not be obstructed, 119; vessels must not lie 
at, 122. 
Offensive, pursuits, must have permit, 70, 74, 76; liquids, or 
substances, prohibited, 70; odors from gas works, 71 ; 
odors from water-closets and privies, 72 ; materials not to 
be dumped on lots, 77, 80 ; ground, permit required to open, 
78; substances must not run from vehicles on street, 81; 
transportation of, 81, 100. 
Officers of Board, to have access to tenement houses, 166; 
must not be obstructed, 11. Oil refineries, permits for, 76. 
Omission to do any necessary act, 8. 
Orders of Board must be obeyed, 10. 
Ordinances, must be obeyed, 183 ; penalties for violation, 184. 
Overcrowding, not allowed, 20 ; of theatres, 21. 
Owner’s names must be given by agents, 179. 
Oyster, saloons to be kept inoffensive, 107; shells to be re- 
moved daily, 107. 
Penalties, for violation of ordinances, 184; for obstructing 
ambulances. 186. 
Permits, for offensive business, how applied for, 74 ; to re- 
move contagious disease, 140; to remove articles exposed 
to contagion, 135; for burial. 143; for burial from other 
counties, 147 ; to remove bodies, 147 ; to engage in certain 
occupations. 75, 76 ; to deposit manure, 104 ; to keep swine, 
50, 53 ; to sell milk, 45 ; to yard cattle, sheep, geese, goats 
and horses. 52, 53 ; to occupy offal dock, 122 ; to keep cows, 
51. 52, 53; to ring bells, 176; for vessels from quarantine, 
133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138; to land rags or hides. 133; to 
butchers, 61 ; to slaughter houses, 59 ; to have cattle yards, 
59 ; for scavengers. 94. 96 ; to cart manure, swill, offal, etc., 
96 ; to empty vaults, sinks and cesspools, 93, 94, 96, 103 ; to 
unload cattle, 49. 
Physicians, to report contagious diseases, 123; to report 
deaths from contagious diseases, 124 ; must keep record of 
births and deaths, 152 ; must report the same, 153, 155. 
Police, to execute orders of Board. 11; shall exercise former 
powers, 12 ; shall conform to regulations, 12. 
Policemen, must kill unmuzzled dogs, 68. 
Poisons, how sold, 14, 15, 16. 
Pounds, how to be kept. 67. 
Price for removing night-soil, 102. 
Privies, must be ventilated, 72 ; contents of, not to be drawn 
off into street, 83; contents not to rise within two feet of 
top. 83; not to become offensive, 83; not to be filled till 
emptied, 83; no offal, ashes or garbage to be thrown into, 
84 ; must not become a nuisance, 85 ; not to receive house 
drainage. 84; must be carefully emptied, 100; contents 
must be disinfected, 102 ; price fixed for emptying, 102; to 
be built according to regulations, 111: not to be within two 
feet of line, 111; contents must not be thrown into East 
river, 86. 
Privy vaults, must be approved by Board, 161; must be water- 
tight, 177; must be connected with sewer, 177; not to be 
emptied without permit, 93, 103 ; contents to be removed in 
odorless apparatus, 94. 
Quarantine officers, to report vessels in quarantine wreekly, 
139 ; shall not allow vessels to return to city, 139. 
Rags, permits to land, 133. 
Railroad cars, must be washed daily, 156; soiled clothing 
on, 157. 
Receptacles for night soil, how constructed, 86, 94. 
Refrigerators, how kept, 39. 
Rendering, 73, 74, 79. 
Roofs, to be kept in repair, 160 ; drainage from, 160. 
Saloons, unwholesome food in, 35. 
Scavengers, must have permits. 96. 
Schools, children from infected houses not to attend, 142; 
principals must not admit children without permit, 142. 
School-houses, to be kept ventilated, heated and clean, 173. 
Sewer, tenement houses must be connected with, 161; con- 
nections, to be approved by Board, 161. 
Sewer gas, must not escape, 72. 
Sewers, to be kept clean. 27 ; of city, must be adequate, 28 ; 
yards must be connected with, 161. 
Sewerage of buildings, must be adequate, 17, 18. 
Sextons, must be registered, 145 ; must return permits, 146. 
Shells, to be removed from saloons daily, 107; burning of, 
prohibited, 74. 
Sidewalks, permits to display food upon. 64; must be kept 
clean, 65 ; liquids not to run across, 65 ; ice upon, 65 ; snow 
to be removed from, 66. 
Slaughter houses, must be kept'clean, 56 ; must not be used 
for dwellings, 58; must be ventilated, 58; blood must not 
remain in. 58; must be sewered, 58; no new ones to be 
erected without permit, 59. Slaughtering, must be in best manner, 55; permit required, 
55; at no new place without permit, 59; in market, pro- 
hibited, GO. 
Smoke, factories must consume, 110; cinders and dust not to 
escape, 109. 
Snow, to be removed from sidewalks, 66. 
Soil pipes, must be adequate. 26. 
Stables, must be kept inoffensive, 92; time for removing 
manure from, 92 ; must have manure boxes, 92. 
Straw, from stables, on sidewalks, 104 ; from infected ves- 
sels, 133 ; must not be thrown overboard, 138. 
Streets, how cleaned, 25; dirt nor offensive materials must 
be allowed to drop into, 101; offal must not be thrown into, 
82 ; nothing dangerous to health to be carried in, 174. 
Street-manure, not to be dumped upon lots, 77, 80. 
Street-sweepings, not to remain piled up, 121. 
Swill, brine, etc., must not run upon street, 81. 
Swine, not to go at large, 50; not to be kept without 
permit, 50. 
Tanning, permits for, 70. 
Tenement houses, not to be overcrowded, 20; water closets 
in, 22 ; proper construction of, 158 to 172 ; must conform to 
Code, 158, 168; ventilation of, 159; roof to be kept in repair, 
160; drainage from roof, 160 ; must be provided with water- 
closets, 161; construction of water-closets in, 161; water- 
closets must be properly trapped, 161 ; cesspools, 161; yard 
must be connected with sewer, 161 ; garbage receptacles 
for, 164 ; combustible articles in, 164 ; no animals to be kept 
in, 164 ; must be kept clean, 165 ; to be whitewashed twice a 
year, 165 ; owner’s name must be posted in, 165 ; officers to 
have access to, 166 ; sick persons in, to be reported, 166 ; to 
be fumigated, 166 ; open space between front and rear. 169 ; 
construction and size of rooms, 170 ; chimneys, 171 ; recepta- 
cles for ashes, 171; must have Ridgewood water, 171; cellars 
to be cemented, 171; ventilation of halls, 171; definition of, 
172. 
Theatres, 21. 
Turkeys, gorged, not to be sold, 36. 
Undertakers must be registered, 145. 
Unwholesome food, to be reported, 40. 
Vacant lots, offensive materials not to be dumped upon, 77, 
80. 
Vaccination to be enforced by parents, 141. 
Varnish factories, permits for, 76. 
Vaults, to be built according to regulations, 111; not to be 
emptied without permits, 93, 94, 103; to be built according 
to regulation, 72, 111; not to be within two feet of line, 111; 
contents not to run in street or ground, 80, 83, 86; not to 
come within two feet of surface. 83; not to become offen- 
sive, 80, 85; price for cleaning, 102. 
Vegetables, unsound, not to be sold, 34. 
Ventilation, 17,18; of theatres, 21; of privies, 72; of tene- 
ment houses, 159, 171; between tenement houses, 169; of 
school-houses, churches, etc., 173. 
Vessels, must not lie at offal dock, 122; sickness on board, to 
be reported. 127, 130, 131; cotton upon, in unsound condi- 
tion, 132; with certain cargoes, not to come to docks with- 
out permit, 133; not to discharge without permit, 134; sick 
persons not to be removed from, 135, 140; from infected 
ports must not come to docks without permit, 136; articles 
from infected ports not to be discharged, 137; articles from, 
not to be thrown overboard, 138. 
Water, purity of, not to be impaired, 46, 47, 48; must not run 
on sidewalk, 65; must be supplied to tenement houses, 171. 
Water closets, or privies must be supplied. 22; must be ven- 
tilated, 22, 72; gases must not escape from, 72; must not 
become a nuisance, 85; to be approved by Board of Health, 
161; must have proper traps, 161; one to every twenty 
inhabitants, 161; must be flushed, 161. 
Yarding of cattle, swine, geese, goats, not allowed without 
permit, 53. 
Yards must be connected with sewer, 161. 70 
INDEX TO REGULATIONS. 
Ambulance service, 24; rules for, 24. 
Barrels for offal, to be water-tight, 17. 
Bones, carting, 17; dry, how transported, 17. 
Boxes for fat, bones and garbage to be inspected, 17. 
Brewery grains, as food for cows, 11. 
Burial permits, to be returned when called for, 4. 
Burials, cases of contagious diseases, 8, 9 ; use of hearses, 8. 
Cattle driving, routes fixed, 15,16. 
Certificates, of death, form to be used, 1; of still births, from 
mid-wives not accepted, 2; terms of International Statisti- 
cal Congress to be used, 3. 
Construction of drains in new buildings, 25. 
Contagious diseases, burials, in metallic cases, 7, 9; hearses 
only to be used, 8; funerals must be private, 7; children 
must not attend funerals, 7 ; bedding and rooms to be dis- 
infected, 7: bodies of dead by, how to be removed from 
city, 9; reports to be made to the sanitary inspectors, 5. 
Cow-stables, how built, 11; limits, 12. 
Cows, must not be fed upon swill, 11; must have exercise, 11. 
Disinterments, 10. 
Distillery swill, cows not to be fed upon, 11. 
Fat, transportation of. 17. 
Funerals, contagious diseases, to be private, 7; children not 
to attend thereat, 7; hearses must be used, 8. 
Garbage, transportation of, 17. 
Manure wagons must be covered, 18. 
Milk, production of. how cows are to be kept, 11; permits to 
sell, 13. 
Milkmen must have Ridgewood water on premises, 14. 
Night soil, must be removed in odorless manner, 19; carts, 
must be approved, 19 ; removals must be on order of owner, 
20 ; compensation for removing, 21. 
Offal, transportation of, 17. 
Permits, for burial, to be returned, 4; for burial of still 
births, 2 ; for disinterments, 10 ; to sell milk, 13 ; for trans- 
portation of fat, bones, offal, etc., 17; for removal of night 
soil, 19; to be given on order of owners, 20; to cart offal, 
how granted, 17. 
Physicians, to use form of blank prescribed. 1; terms of 
International Statistical Congress to be used by, 3; counsel 
to prosecute for failure to report, 22. 
Plumbing, in new buildings, 25. 
Prosecutions by counsel, 22, 23. 
Ridgewood water on premises of milk dealers, 14. 
Scavengers, compensation for removing night soil. 21; to be 
suspended for overcharging, 21. 
Still births, permits to bury, not given on mid-wives’ certifi- 
cates, 2. 
Transcripts, regulations for issuing, 6. 
Wagons, for bones, offal, etc., to be approved by the depart- 
ment, 17.