COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
Organization, constitution, 
BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS 
OF THE 
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS. 
Extracted from the Twelfth Annual Report of the Board, 
For the Year 1896. 
STATE PRINTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
CLARENCE M. BUSCH, 
1897. ORGANIZATION, BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS 
OF the: 
State Board of Health 
AND 
VITAL STATISTICS. 
Officers and Members. 
President, Pemberton Dudley, M. D., of Philadelphia. 
Secretary, Benjamin Lee, M. D., of Philadelphia. 
Members, Pemberton Dudley, M. D., of Philadelphia; John Fulton, 
C. E.-, Johnstown; J. H, McClelland, M. D., Pittsburgh; George G. 
Groff, M. D., Lewisburg; Hon. Samuel T. Davis, M. D., Lancaster; 
Richard Y. Cook, Esq, Philadelphia; Benjamin Lee, M. D., 1532 
Pine street, Philadelphia. 
Place of meeting—Office of the Board, State Capitol, Harrisburg 
(unless otherwise ordered.) Janitor—John Harrier, 1417 North Third 
street, Harrisburg. 
Time of Meeting—Second Thursday in May, July and November,, 
at 4 p. m. 
Standing Committees. 
1. Executive Committee—Richard Y. Cook, chairman; Pemberton 
Dudley, M. D., and Benjamin Lee, M. D., secretary. Place of meet- 
ing, executive office, 1532 Pine street, Philadelphia. Secretary’s ad- 
dress, 1532 Pine street, Philadelphia. 
11. Committee on Registration and Vital Statistics—Dr. Benjamin 
Lee and Dr. Samuel T. Davis. Bureau of Registration of Vital Sta- 
tistics. Department of Internal Affairs, State Capitol. Harrisburg. 
State Superintendent of Registration of Vital Statistics, Benjamin 
Lee, M. D. Registrars of Marriages, Births and Deaths, all clerks 
of Orphans’ Courts. Registrars of Practitioners of Medicine and 
Surgery, all Prothonotaries. 
111. Committee on Preventable Diseases, Disinfection and Super- 
vision of Travel and Traffic—George G. Groff. M. I)., chairman; Sam- 
uel T. Davis, M. D., and John Fulton, C. E. 2 
IV. Committee on Water Supply, Drainage, Sewerage, Topogra- 
phy and Mines—John Fulton, C. E., chairman, and J. H. McClelland, 
M. 1). 
V. Committee on Public Institutions and School Hygiene—S. T. 
Davis, M. D., chairman, and George G. Groff, M. D. 
VI. Committee on Adulterations, Poisons, Explosives, and Other 
Special Sources of Danger to Life and Limb—Pemberton Dudley, 
M. D., chairman, and Richard Y. Cook. 
James H. McClelland, M. D., chairman, and Benjamin Lee, M. D. 
VII. Committee on Sanitary Legislation, Rules and Regulations— 
The President is a member ex-officio of all committees, 
County Medical Inspectors. 
County. 
Inspectors. 
P. O. Address. 
Adams, J. B. Scott, M. D. 
Gettysburg. 
Allegheny S. M. Rhinehart, M. D., 
Armstrong, S. A. S. Jessop, M. D., 
Allegheny. 
Kittanning. 
Beaver, ..11. S. McConnel, M. D., 
New Brighton. 
Bedford, A. Enfield, M. D. 
Bucks, A. M. Cooper, M. I)., 
Bedford. 
Point Pleasant. 
Blair, C. B. Dudley, M. D., 
Altoona. 
Bradford, S- M. Woodburn, M. D. 
Berks, D. Longaker, M. D., 
Tovvanda. 
Reading. 
Butler, S. Graham, M. D., 
Butler. 
Cambria, W. E Matthews, M. D. 
Cameron, E. O. Bardwell, M. D., 
Johnstown. 
Emporium. 
Carbon, J. B. Tweedle, M. D., 
Weatherly. 
Centre, G. F. Harris, M. D., 
Chester, I. Massey, M. D., 
Bellefonte. 
West Chester. 
Clarion, H. N. Hess, M. D., 
Clarion. 
Clearfield, S. M. Free, M. D., 
Clinton, R. B. Watson, M. D., 
Dußois. 
Lock Haven. 
Columbia, 
Crawford, W. G. Johnston, M. D,, 
Cumberland, . . ..R. L. Sibbet, M. D. 
Titusville, 
Carlisle. 
Dauphin, P, A. Hartman, M. 1). 
Harrisburg. 
Delaware, R. S. Maison, M. D., 
Elk, W. L. Williams, M. I)., 
Chester. 
Ridgw.i y. 
Erie, C. B. Kibler, M, D., 
Corrv, 
Fayette, 
Forest, J. W. Morrow, M. D., 
Tionesta. 
Franklin .P. B. Montgomery, M. D 
Ohambersburg. 
Fulton, A. D. Dalbey, M. D. 
Greene, J. T. Adams, M. I)., 
McConnellsbarg. 
Waynesburg, 
Huntingdon, . . ..A, B. Brumbaugh. M. D. 
Huntingdon. 3 
County. 
Inspectors. 
P. O. Address. 
Indiana, N. Frank Ehrenfeld, M. D., 
Indiana. 
Jefferson, A. F. Balmer, M. 1)., 
Juniata, W. H. Banks, M. U., 
Brookville. 
Mifflintown. 
Lackawanna, . , .H. V. Logan, M. D., 
Scranton. 
Lancaster, W. Blackwood, M. D., 
Lawrence, 
Lancaster. 
Lehigh, M. F. Cawley, M. D., 
AllentoAvn, 
Lebanon, S. P. Heilman, M. D., 
Luzerne, C, P. Knapp, M. D., 
Heilmandale. 
Wyoming. 
Lycoming, A. Richter, M. D 
Williamsport. 
McKean, B, Chadwick, M. I) 
Mercer, T. M. Cooley, M. I)., 
Smethport. 
Sandy Lake. 
Mifflin, A. T. Hamilton, M. D., 
Lewistown. 
Monroe, W. E. Gregory, M. D,, 
Montgomery, ... H. H. Whitcomb, M. D., 
Stroudsburg. 
Norristown. 
Montour, E. A. Curry, M. D., 
Danville. 
Northampton, . ~T. C. Zulick, M. D., 
Northumberland,A. C. Clark, M. D., 
Easton. 
S unbury. 
Perry, A. R. Johnston, M. D., 
New Bloomfield. 
Philadelphia, ... W. B. Atkinson, M. D., 
Pike, E. B. Wenner, M. D., 
Philadelphia. 
Milford. 
Potter, E. H. Ashcraft, M. D., 
Coudersport. 
Schuylkill, A. II Halberstadt, M. D., 
Snyder, F. J. Wagenseller, M. D., 
Pottsville. 
Selinsgrove. 
Somerset, H. Garey, M. D., 
Berlin. 
Sullivan, W. Waddell, M. D. 
Tioga, . C. S. Logan, M. D., 
Dushore. 
Arnot. 
Union, W. Leiser, M. D., 
Lewisburg, 
Washington, .. ..C. B. Wood, M. D., 
Wayne, H. A. Plum, M. D., 
Monongahela. 
Hawley. 
Westmoreland, .R. B. Hammer, M. D. 
Greensburg. 
Wyoming, B, E. Bidleman, M. D., 
York, I. C. Gable, M. D., 
.Tunkhannock. 
York. 
Eastern District—William H. Boardman, C. E., Philadelphia. 
Engineer Inspectors 
Western District—Northern Division, James H. Harlow, C. E., 
Edge wood. 
Western District—Southern Division, Thomas P. Roberts, C. E., 
Pittsburgh 
Bacteriologist. 
Professor W. M. L. Coplin, M. D., Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia. 4 
Assistant Bacteriologists. 
Eastern District—Robert L. Pitfleld, M. D., Philadelphia. 
Monroe County—Richard Slee, M. D., Swiftwater. 
Union County—Nelson F. Davis, Lewisburg. 
Chemists. 
Eastern District—Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Pennsyl- 
vania, Philadelphia. 
Western District—Professor F. C. Phillips, Western University 
of Pennsylvania, Allegheny. 
Constitution. 
The constitution of the State Board of Health and Vital Statis- 
tics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the act of Legislature 
establishing- the board, approved June 3, 1885, of which the follow- 
ing is the correct text. 
AN ACT 
To establish a State Board of Health for the better 
protection of life and health, and to prevent the 
spread of contagions and infectious diseases in this 
Commonwealth. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
vania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby en- 
acted by the authority of the same, That the Governor 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
shall appoint six persons, a majority of whom shall 
be physicians of good standing, graduates of regularly 
chartered and legally constituted medical colleges, 
and of not less than ten years’ experience in the prac- 
tice of their profession, and one of whom shall be a 
civil engineer, who, together with the secretary, the 
mode of whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, 
shall constitute and be designated as the State Board 
of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania, Of the six persons first appointed 
two shall serve for two years, two for four years and 
two for six years, from the first day of July next fol- 
lowing their confirmation; and the Governor shall 
thereafter biennially appoint, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate, two persons of the same 
professions as those whose terms of office have just ex- 
Manner of appoint- 
ment. 
Number of mem- 
bers. 
Term of service. 5 
pired, to be members of said board, to hold their offices 
for six years from the first day of July next following 
their confirmation, and until their successors are ap- 
pointed, excepting the secretary, who shall continue 
in office as hereinafter provided; but any member may 
be reappointed. Any vacancy occurring in said board 
during a recess of the Legislature shall be filled by 
the Governor until the next regular session of the same. 
Section 2. As soon as possible after the appoint- 
ment of the first six persons as aforesaid, they shall 
meet in the office of the Secretary of the Common- 
wealth, and shall proceed, under the direction of the 
latter officer, to determine, by lot, which of them shall 
serve for the respective terms of two, four and six 
years. Before entering upon the duties of the office 
they shall take the oath prescribed for State officers 
by the Constitution of the State, and shall file the 
same in the office of the Secretary of the Common- 
wealth, who, upon receiving the said oath of office, 
shall issue to each a certificate of appointment for his 
respective term of office determined as aforesaid; upon 
receiving which they shall possess and exercise the 
powers and perform the duties of said board as de- 
fined in this act. Immediately after having taken the 
oath of officethey shall organize by electing one of their 
number to be president, and by appointing a proper 
person, who shall be a physician of good standing, of 
not less than ten years’ professional experience, and 
a graduate of a legally constituted medical college, 
to be secretary of said board, who shall hold his ap- 
pointment until removed by the appointment of his 
successor or otherwise. The board may elect one of 
its own members secretary, in which case the vacancy 
thus created shall be filled by the Governor in the 
same manner as a vacancy caused in any other way. 
The president shall be elected annually. No member 
of the board, except the secretary, shall, as such, re- 
ceive any salary; but the actual traveling and other 
expenses of any member wirile engaged on the actual 
duties of the board, shall be allowed and paid on 
presentation to, and approval by the Auditor General 
of an itemized account, with vouchers annexed. 
Manner of organi- 
zation. 
Appointment of 
secretary. 
Actual expenses of 
members to be paid. 
Section 3. The secretary shall be the executive 
officer of the board, and shall have all the powers and 
privileges of a member of said board, except in regard 
to voting upon matters relating to his own office and 
Duties of Secretary. 6 
Salary of Secretary. 
duties as secretary. He shall receive an annual salary 
of two thousand dollars, which shall be paid him 
in the same manner that salaries of other State 
officials are paid; and such necessary expenses as the 
Auditor General shall audit, on presentation of an 
itemized account with vouchers annexed and the cer- 
tificate of the board, shall be allowed him. 
Section 4. The said board shall meet at least once 
every six months, and may also hold special meetings 
as frequently as the proper and efficient discharge of 
its duties shall require, in the Capitol building at Har- 
risburg (unless otherwise ordered), and the rules and 
by-laws of the board shall provide for the giving of 
proper and timely notice of all such meetings to every 
member of the board. The Secretary of Internal Af- 
fairs shall provide and furnish such apartments and 
stationery as said board may require in the discharge 
of its duties. A majority of the members of the board 
shall, at any regular, called or adjourned meeting, or- 
ganize and constitute a quorum for the transaction of 
business. 
Section 5. The State Board of Health and Vital Sta- 
tistics shall have the general supervision of the in- 
terests of the health and lives of the citizens of the 
Commonwealth, and shall especially study its vital 
statistics. It shall make sanitary investigations and 
inquiries respecting the causes of disease, and es- 
pecially of epidemic diseases, including those of do- 
mestic animals, the sources of mortality, and the ef- 
fects of localities, employments, conditions, habits, 
food, beverages and medicine on the health of the 
people. It shall also disseminate information upon 
these and similar subjects among the peo- 
ple. It shall, when required by the Governor or 
the Legislature, and at such other times as it deems 
it important, institute sanitary inspections of public 
institutions or places throughout the State. It shall 
codify and suggest amendments to the sanitary laws 
of the Commonwealth and shall have power to enforce 
such regulations as will tend to limit the progress of 
epidemic diseases. 
Section 6. In cities, boroughs, districts and places 
having no local boards of health, or in case the sani- 
tary laws or regulations in places where boards of 
health or health officers exist should be inoperative, 
the State Board of Health shall have power and au- 
Time and place of 
meetings. 
Duties and func- 
tions of board de- 
fined. 
owers of board. 7 
thority to order nuisances, or the cause of any special 
disease or mortality to be abated and removed, and 
to enforce quarantine regulations as said board shall 
direct. 
Any person who shall fail to obey, or shall violate, 
such order shall, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a 
fine of not more than one hundred dollars at the dis- 
cretion of the court. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion and neglect. 
Section 7. It shall be the duty of the State Board 
of Health and Vital Statistics to have general supervi- 
sion of the State system of registration of births, mar- 
riages and deaths, of prevalent diseases,, and of prac- 
titioners of medicine and surgery, to prepare the 
necessary methods, forms and blanks for obtaining 
and preserving such records, and to insure the faithful 
registration of the same in the several counties and in 
the Central Bureau of Vital Statistics at the Capitol 
of the State. The said board shall recommend such 
forms and amendments of laws as shall be deemed to 
be necessary for the thorough organization and effi- 
ciency of the registration of vital statistics through- 
out the State. The secretary of the State Board of 
Health and Vital Statistics shall be the superintend- 
ent of registration of vital statistics as supervised by 
said board; the clerical duties and safe keeping of the 
bureau of vital statistics thus created shall be pro- 
vided for by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who 
shall also provide and furnish such apartments and 
stationery as said board shall require in the discharge 
of such duties. 
Functions of board 
in registration. 
Secretary of Inter- 
nal Affairs to pro- 
vide stationery and 
apartments. 
Section S. It shall be the duty of all health officers 
and boards of health in the State to communicate to 
said State Board of Health copies of all their reports 
and publications and also such sanitary information 
as may be requested by said Board. And said Board 
is authorized to require reports and information 
(at such times and of such facts, and, generally, of 
such nature and extent as its by-laws or rules may 
provide) from all public dispensaries, hospitals, asy- 
lums. infirmaries, prisons and schools, and from the 
managers, principals and officers thereof, and from 
all other public institutions, their officers and man- 
agers. and from the proprietors, managers, lessees and 
occupants of all places of public resort in the State; 
but such reports shall only be required concerning 
matters or particulars in respect of which it may, in 
Local boards of 
health and Institu- 
tions to report to 
board. 8 
its opinion, need information for the proper discharge 
of its duties. 
Scientific investiga- 
tions. 
Section 9. Said board may, from time to time, en- 
gage suitable persons to render sanitary service or to 
make or supervise practical and scientific investiga- 
tions and examinations requiring expert skill, and to- 
prepare plans and reports relative thereto. But no 
more than two thousand dollars shall be expended in 
any one year for such special sanitary service. 
Annual report. 
Section 10. It shall be the duty of said board, on 
or before the first Monday of December, in each year, 
to make a report in writing to the Governor of this 
State upon the sanitary condition and the prospects 
of the State, and such report shall set forth the action 
of the said board and its officers and agents, and 
the names thereof, for the past year, and may contain 
other useful information pertinent to the objects for 
which it was created, and shall suggest any further 
legislative action or precaution deemed proper for 
the better protection of life and health; and the an- 
nual report of said board shall also contain a detailed 
statement of the (State) Treasurer of all moneys paid 
out by or on account of said board, and a detailed 
statement of the manner of its expenditures during 
the year last past, but its total expenditures shall not 
exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one 
year. 
So in P.L., probably 
a mistake ot tran- 
scriber. 
Appropriation. 
Section 11. The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) 
is hereby appropriated from the Treasury for the pur- 
poses of this act and the expenditures properly in- 
curred by the authority of said board and verified by 
affidavit, subject, however, to the limitations herein 
before imposed, and shall be paid by the Treasurer 
upon the warrant of the Auditor General. 
Section 12. This act shall take effect immediately, 
and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith 
shall be and are hereby repealed. 
Approved June 3, 1885. 
ROBERT E. PATTISON. 9 
BY-LAWS. 
Tlu‘ By-Laws of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of 
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are as follows: 
Article I. 
Officers of the Board. 
Section J. The officers of the Board shall be a President and Sec- 
retary as directed by section two of the act establishing the Board. 
Section 2. All elections shall be by ballot. 
Article 11. 
Duties of Officers. 
Section i. The President shall preside at the meetings of the 
Board, preserve order, and perform such other duties as custom and 
parliamentary usage require. He shall be, ex-officio, a member of 
all committees. 
Section 2. The Secretary shall keep the records and conduct the 
correspondence of the Board. He shall be custodian of all books, 
documents, furniture and other property belonging to the Board. He 
shall give proper and timely notice, in writing, of every regular and 
called meeting, to each member of the Board, and shall, as execu- 
tive officer, perform such other duties as are assigned by the act es- 
tablishing the Board, or by these by-laws, as the Board may from 
time to time direct. All communications from the Secretary to the 
Board shall be in writing. 
Article 111. 
Meetings. 
Section i. The regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the 
second Thursday in May, July and November, at Harrisburg (unless 
otherwise ordered). At the meeting in July the election of officers 
shall be held. At the meeting in November the annual report shall 
be adopted, and at the meeting in May a public address on some 
sanitary topic shall be delivered. 
Section 2. Special meetings shall be called by the President, at 
such time and place as he shall designate, whenever requested in 
writing by three members of the Board, one of whom shall be the 
Secretary. 
Section 3, A majority of the members of the Board shall at any 
regula", called or adjourned meeting, organize and constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business. 10 
Article IY. 
Order of Business, 
Section 1. All meetings of the Board shall be called to order at 
the appointed hour by the President. In the event of his absence a 
chairman pro tempore shall be appointed. 
Section 2. At regular meetings the business shall be conducted 
as follows: 
1. The Secretary shall register the names of the members present.. 
2. The minutes of the last regular meeting shall be read. 
3. The minutes of special meetings held since the last regular 
meeting shall be read. 
4. Report of the Secretary. 
5. Reports of standing committees. 
(i. Reports of special committees. 
7. At the meeting in July, nomination and election of a president 
for the ensuing year; at the meeting in November, appointment of 
standing committees. 
8. Unfinished business. 
9. New business. 
10. Adjournment. 
Section 3. At special meetings the following shall be the order of 
business: 
1. Registration of names of members present. 
2. Reading of minutes, if called for. 
3. Presentation of special subject. 
4. Presentation of accounts. 
5. Adjournment. 
Annual Report of the Secretary. 
Article V. 
The Secretary shall, at the meeting in November, make a full re- 
port of his official acts during the year ending October 1, preceding, 
and accompany the same with recommendation of such measures as 
he shall deem necessary for the preservation of the public health and 
the faithful execution of the law, and this report shall constitute the 
basis of the report of the Board to be presented to the Governor on 
or before the first Monday of December in each year, in accordance 
with the requirements of section ten of the act constituting this* 
Board. 
Standing Committees. 
Article VI. 
Section 3. The following standing committees shall be appointed 
by the President of the Board at the meeting in November: 
1. An executive committee. 
2. A committee on registration and vital statistics. 11 
3. A committee on preventable diseases, disinfection and supervi- 
sion of travel and traffic. 
4. A committee on water supply, drainage, sewerage, topography 
and mines. 
5. A committee on public institutions and school hygiene. 
(>. A committee on adulterations, poisons, explosives and other 
special sources of danger to life and limb. 
7. A committee on sanitary legislation, rules and regulations. 
Section 2. Such papers, communications, or other matter received 
by the Secretary as he may deem proper for the purpose, he shall 
forward to the chairman of the appropriate committee, after filing 
the titles and memoranda, which shall be recorded in the Secretary’s 
office. 
Section 3. All reports of committees shall be in writing. 
Article VII. 
Section 1. All accounts against the Board shall be filed with the 
Secretary, and may be presented at any meeting of the Board, when 
they shall be acted on in open session; and all accounts allowed shall 
be endorsed “Approved by order of the State Board of Health and 
Vital Statistics,” and shall be endorsed by the President and Secre- 
tary. 
Finances. 
Section 2. The Secretary shall record in a book reserved for that 
purpose, all accounts of expenditures ordered or made by the Board 
and its several members, and shall, before presenting any bill, ac- 
count or voucher to the Auditor General, cause a copy of the same 
to be recorded, and shall have stamped upon such voucher, account 
or bill the audit and date, as the executive committee shall provide. 
Executive Committee. 
Article VIII. 
Section 1. The executive committee shall consist of not less than 
three nnn bers, including the Secretary of the Board, who shall be 
of the committee. 
Section 2. It shall have the general supervision of the finances, 
purchases, expenses and publications of the Board. 
Section 3. Its office shall be in the city of Philadelphia until other- 
wise ordered. 
Section 4. It shall hold meetings at least quarterly, and as much 
often r as it shall deem necessary, and shall meet on the call of 
the chairman. 
Section 5. With the approval of the Board or of the executive com- 
mittee, the Secretary shall make a requisition upon the Secretary of 
Internal Affairs for such stationery, printed forms, clerical labor, 
apartments and furniture as shall be needed for the use of the 
Board. 12 
Section 0. No purchases shall be made or expenses incurred ex- 
cept by order of the Board or of the executive committee; and the 
executive committee shall not have power to incur any indebtedness 
beyond the amount appropriated by law. 
Article IX. 
Rules of Order. 
In conducting the business of the meetings of the Board, the par- 
liamentary rules governing the Legislature of the State of Pennsyl- 
vania shall be adopted so far as they are applicable to its delibera- 
tions. 
Article X. 
The seal of the Board shall be circular in shape, bearing on the 
circumference the words, “State Board of Health. Pennsylvania. 
1885. Salus Populi Suprema Lex,” and in the centre the coat-of-arms 
of tlm Commonwealth. 
Seal, 
Article XI. 
Amendments. 
These by-laws may be altered or amended at any regular meeting 
of the Board by a two-thirds vote of the members present. 
REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD. 
(R. I.) 
Whenever a complaint is made in writing to the Secretary of the 
Board of the existence of a nuisance, he shall forthwith, as execu- 
tive officer of the Board, investigate the matter and shall determine 
whether the alleged nuisance is detrimental to the public health, or 
the cause of any special disease or mortality; and in case he shall 
so find, then he shall notify the owner, agent or occupier of said 
premises, in writing, of such finding, and the executive officer shall 
thereupon order and direct the abatement and removal of the same 
within days; and in the event of the failure of said owner, 
agent or occupier of said property to abate and remove the nuisance, 
then the executive officer may proceed to abate and remove the same, 
and may employ all the force necessary to do so, and shall proceed 
by warrant, arrest and indictment, to convict the party failing to 
obay said order of abatement and removal. 
Regulation in Regard to the Abatement and Removal of Nuisances. (R. II.) 
Provisional Regulations for Preventing House Yards, Streets, Slaughter 
Houses, Stock Yards, Hog Pens, Bone-Boiling and Fat- Rendering and 
Other Similar Establishments From Being or Becoming Prejudicial 
to the Public Health. 
Nuisances Defined. 
1. Whatever is dangerous to human life or health, and whatever 
renders soil, air, water or food impure or unwholesome, are declared 
to be nuisances and to be illegal, and every person having aided in 
creating or contributing to the same, or who may support, continue 
or retain any of them, shall be dbemed guilty of a violation of these 
regulations. 
House Refuse, Garbage, Etc. 
2. No house refuse, offal, garbage, dead animals, decaying vegeta- 
ble Hi after, or organic waste substance of any kind, shall be thrown 
upon any street, road, ditch, gutter or public place, and no putrid or 
decaying animal or vegetable matter shall be kept in any yard, 
house, cellar or adjoining out-buildings for more than twenty-four 
hours. 
Noxious Trades. 
3 No person or company shall erect or maintain any manufactory 
or place of business dangerous to life or detrimental to health, or 
where unwholesome, offensive or deleterious odors, gas, smoke, de- 
posit or exhalations are generated, within one mile of the limits of 
any city or borough, without the permit of the board of health of 
said city or borough, and all such establishments shall be kept 
clean and wholesome so as not to be offensive or prejudicial to 
public health, nor shall any offensive or deleterious waste-substance, 
refuse or injurious matter be allowed to accumulate upon the 
premises or be thrown or be allowed to run into any public waters, 
stream, water course, street, road or public place. And every 
person or company conducting such manufacture or business shall 
use the best approved and all reasonable means to prevent the escape 
of smoke, gases and odors, and to protect the health and safety of 
all operatives employed therein. 
4. The business of bone and horse boiling shall not be allowed, 
unless conducted under cover, the building to be provided with 
smoke consumers, and a due regard to be had to cleanliness in the 
disposition of the offal. No bone boiling establishment or depository 
of dead animals shall be kept or erected in any part of this Com- 
monwealth which is not under the jurisdiction of the local board of health, without a permit from the board of health of the nearest 
city or borough. 
5. No permit shall be granted to any person or persons to carry 
on the business of boiling bones of dead animals until after a care- 
ful inspection of the locality, buildings and apparatus, and of the 
plans for conducting the business, by an accredited inspector of the 
State Board of Health, or, if such inspector be not accessible, then 
by an inspector appointed for the purpose by the board of health 
of the nearest city or borough. 
6. No bone-boiling establishments or depositories of dead animals 
shall be kept or erected in or near a thickly inhabited neighbor- 
hood. 
7. The floors of all bone-boiling establishments and depositories 
of dead animals shall be paved with asphalt or with brick or stone, 
well laid in cement, or with some other impervious material, and 
shall be well drained. All such establishments shall have such an 
adequate water supply as will enable thorough cleanliness to bt? 
maintained. 
8. The boiling of bones and dead animals, etc., shall be conducted 
in steam-tight kettles, boilers or caldrons, from which the foul 
vapors shall first be conducted through scrubbers or condensers, 
and then into the back part of the ash-pit of the furnace fire, to be 
consumed, or by other apparatus equally efficient in preventing or 
counteracting the offensive effluvia. 
9. When bones are being dried after boiling, they shall be placed 
in a close chamber, through which shall be passed, by means of 
pipes, large volumes of fresh air, the outlet pipe terminating in the 
fire-pit. 
10. All proprietors of bone-boiling establishments not having, on 
the first day of July, 1886, permits to carry on the business, and 
violating these regulations, shall be liable to prosecution for failing 
to obey this order and also to an indictment at common law for 
creating and maintaining a nuisance. 
11. The permit clerk of each local board of health shall have 
provided a book in which to enter the names of all persons engaged 
in the business of boiling bones and having depositories of dead 
animals; also, the location of works and appliances as reported by 
the inspector, whether licensed or not, the number and date of 
permit, and remarks. 
12. No person or persons, without the consent of the board of 
health of the nearest city or borough, shall build or use any slaugh- 
ter house within the limits of this Commonwealth; and the keeping 
and slaughtering of all cattle, sheep and swine, and the preparation 
and keeping of all meats, fish, birds or other animal food, shall be 
in the manner best adapted to secure and continue their whole- 15 
someness as food; and every butcher or other person owning, leasing 
or occupying any place, room or building wherein any cattle, sheep 
or swine have been or are killed or dressed, and every person being 
the owner, lessee or occupant of any room or stable wherein any 
animals are kept, or of any market, public or private, shall cause 
such place, room or building, stable or market, to be thoroughly 
cleansed and purified, and all offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and 
unwholesome and offensive matter to be removed therefrom at least 
once in every twenty-four hours after the use thereof for any of the 
purposes herein referred to, and shall also at all times keep all wood- 
work. save floors and counters, in any building, place or premises 
aforesaid, thoroughly painted or whitewashed; and the floors of 
such building, place or premises shall be so constructed as to pre- 
vent blood or foul liquids or washings from settling in the earth 
beneath. 
13. No blood-pit, dung-pit, offal-pit or privy well shall remain or 
be constructed within any slaughter house. Any one offending 
against this rule shall be guilty of creating and maintaining a nui- 
sance prejudicial to the public health, and shall be required to re- 
move the notice within ten! days from the date of notice. 
14. The owners, agents, or occupiers of all slaughter houses are 
required, during the months of June, July, August and September, 
to distribute twice in each week not less than twenty-five pounds 
of chloride of lime about the premises, and also to remove the con- 
tents of any manure-pit or manure pile on the premises once in each 
week, the said premises and contents of manure-pits being hereby 
declared to be nuisances prejudicial to the public health, unless sub- 
ject to frequent disinfection and cleaning as herein indicated. 
15. All constables and supervisors are enjoined, and all citizens 
are respectful ly desired, to give information to the State Board of 
Health of any violation of the health laws, or of the regulations of 
the board, so that the sanitary measures adopted by the latter to 
ensure the health of the people may be fully carried out, and all 
offenders promptly punished. 
Note.—Section six of the act of June 3, 1885, confers upon the State Board of Health power and 
authority to order nuisances to be abated and removed in cities, boroughs. districts and places having 
no local board of health. Any person violating or failing to obey such order becomes liable, on convic- 
tion, to a fine of one hundred dollars. 
Regulations in Regard to the Sanitary Supervision of Travel and, 
Traffic. 
(R. III.) 
Upon satisfactory information of the approach to, or transit 
through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, of infected persons or 
goods, it shall be the duty of the secretary, as executive officer of the 
board, to cause the same to be stopped at the State line, or, if found 16 
within the limits of the State, to cause such persons or goods to be 
removed from cars, stages, vessels, boats or other conveyances, and 
securely isolated and disinfected; and he may, if, in his judgment, 
the emergency is such to demand it, call a meeting of the committee 
on travel and traffic, to which his action shall be submitted, with 
his reasons therefor, in writing. But, in cases coming under the 
jurisdiction of national or municipal quarantine authorities, he shall 
co-operate with said authorities in all such action. 
(R. IV.) 
REGULATION OF TRAVEL AND TRAFFIC. 
Regulations in Regard to Disinterment and Transportation of Dead 
Bodies. 
Disinterment of Bodies. 
Rule I. The removal of any body from its place of original inter- 
ment is declared to be a nuisance dangerous to the public health, 
and is prohibited unless the same be done under the direction, and 
by permission of the State or local board of health. 
Rule 11. The above rule applies as well to the removal of a body 
from one grave or vault to another in the same cemetery as to its 
removal to another burial ground or place. 
Rule 111. The removal of dead bodies from any burial ground: 
situated within the built-up portion of any city or borough is forbid- 
den between April 1 and October 15. 
Rule IV. The disinterment of the body of any person who died of 
any contagious or infectious disease is strictly prohibited, unless 
by special authority, and upon such conditions as the State or local 
board of health may impose. 
Rule V. The disinterment of bodies of persons who have died of 
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis 
or spotted fever, small-pox or varioloid, diphtheria, or 
membranous croup, relapsing fever, typhus or ship fever, or scar- 
let fever, is prohibited except by special permission of the State or 
local board of health; provided, however, that no such permit shall 
be granted within ten years after the interment of such person. 
Rule VI. When a body dead of any of the diseases mentioned in 
the preceding rule is to be disinterred the following precautions 
shall be strictly observed: (a) No one shall be present at the dis- 
interment but those necessary to perform the labor and one male 
relative of the deceased, (b) A hermetically sealed zinc-lined box 
sufficiently large to contain the box, coffin or casket already in the 
grave shall be in readiness to receivp the Tatter, (c) When within 17 
six inches of the top of the receptacle containing the body, the earth 
shall be saturated with one-fifth per cent, solution (1-500) of the 
bichloride of mercury, (d) The receptacle containing the remains 
shall on no account be opened, but shall be at once placed in the 
box provided as above and hermetically sealed, and. said box shall 
not be opened on arriving at the place of destination. 
Transportation of Bodies. 
Rule I. The transportation of bodies of persons who shall have 
died from small-pox, Asiatic cholera, typhus fever, diphtheria or 
yellow fever is strictly forbidden. 
Rule 11. From October 15 to April 1, all other dead bodies may be 
transported without restriction, except those who shall have died of 
scarlet fever, typhoid fever or measles, which must be enclosed, as 
prescribed in Rule 111. 
Rule 111. From April 1 to October 15 all dead bodies, when pre- 
sented for transportation, must be enclosed in air-tight zinc, copper 
or lead-lined wooden boxes, or in air-tight iron caskets; or if in 
any other form of coffin, said coffin must be in a hermetically sealed 
box, enclosed in a manner satisfactory to the local board of health 
or health officer. 
Rule IV. No person or article which has been exposed to the con- 
tagion can accompany the body. 
Rule V. Every dead body must be accompanied by a physician's 
certificate of death, and a certificate from the shipping undertaker 
that the body has been prepared for transportation in accordance 
with the rules of the State Board of Health of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania. 
Rule VI. In receiving any dead body which has been shipped from 
beyond or within the States of Newr York, New Jersey, Delaware, 
Maryland, West Virginia or Ohio, or the Province of Ontario, the 
rules of the State or provincial boards of health of the same must be 
respected, and their transit permits will be honored without sub- 
jecting the body to delay, providing such rules do not conflict with 
any of the preceding rules in these regulations. 
Rule VII. The following shall be the form of a transit permit for 
the transportation of a dead body within, into, or out of the limits 
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 
Note.—The rules and regulations of the State Board of Health are laws to he obeyed by every In- 
dividual In the State. 18 
(Name.) 
Coupon No. 1, to Transit Permit of 
who died at 
Before this body leaves the. Carrier or Trans- 
portation Agent will tear off and keep this Coupon. If 
otherwise detached from the permit the Coupon must 
not be received. (See back of Permit.) 
TRANSIT PERMIT. 
Issued at Co., Fa. 
Issued by, 
To whom issued, 
Name of Deceased, 
Date of Death. 
Name of person or Carrier in charge, 
Date of Transit, 
(Name.) 
Coupon No. 2, to Transit Permit of 
who died at 
Before this body leaves the Carrier or Trans- 
portation Agent will tear off this Coupon. If otherwise 
detached from the permit the Coupon must not be re- 
ceived. (See back of Permit.) 
FOrtM 7 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 
[To be issued by.any State or Local Health Official.] 
Transit' Permit. [";°ar™;c] 
-i r, r. Agents and Office of. Coun/y 
all Other Carriers see 
I Back of Permit. , jgg 
Permission is hereby given to remove the remains of 
aged , who dud at 
(City, borough, or township and county.^ 
on the day of 189 ; the cause of death being.. 
and a Transit Permit being asked for burial at 
in the State of. 
(Signed by) 
Name of Undertaker or person ) ..... 
in charge of the Transit. (_ (official title.) 
I (P. O. address.) 
Railroad and Steamboat Agents, Ferry-Masters and all Carriers that convey the remains over 
the limits*of--'the county where the death occurred will retain one of the Coupons hereto attached, 
and deliver the body only to the persons holding this permit. The name of the deceased must ap- 
pear on the Coupons, which will be returnable to the city or place through or out of which the body 
is firshconveyed, or to such authority as may be directed by the person who issued the Permit. 
The Ist Coupon should be taken by the carrier who transports the body from the county where the 
death occurred; and the 2d should be taken by Cartier or Agent of Transportation upon the route be- 
yond said county, and it may be so taken at either terminus of the distance over which the second stage of 
transportation extends, as the local sanitary regulations may require; but whoever detaches and takes 
said 2d Coupon must write across the back of the Permit, as well as upon the 2d Coupon itself in the space 
at the left of these directions, as follows ; 
2d Coupon taken at, .. . ...... by, 
Such an indorsement will answer instead of further coupons wherever the body is conveyed; and the 
Permit is to be surrendered at the place of burial. It, as well as every Coupon, should be preserved. 
( ' h - si e Cf (his Permit without the stub is 10x4 inches.j 
(BACK OF ABOVE PERMIT.) 
permit must in all cases accompany 
THE BODY TO ITS DESTINATION. 
TRANSIT. 
[Gtiibto be retained by official issuing' Permit.] 
TRANSIT PERMIT. 
1. Issued to, 
2. Name of Deceased 
(Ka minor, give parents' names.) 
j. Interment at, 
4. Date oj Death, Age, 
5. Place of Death 
6. Cause of Death, 
7. Certified by 
M. D. 
2d Coupon taken at, 
by, 
SECOND taken at. 
COUPON, f by, 
FIRST COUPON 19 
(K. V.) 
Regulation in Regard to the Inter-State Notification of the Existence of 
Infectious and Contagious Diseases. 
The following are the resolutions adopted by the International 
Conference of Boards of Health, at Toronto, October 6, 1886, with 
slight verbal modifications: 
Whereas, It is necessary for the protection and preservation of 
the public health that prompt information should be given of the 
existence of cholera, yellow fever or small-pox; be it Resolved— 
1. That it is the sense of the National Conference of State Boards 
of Health, that it is the duty of each state and provincial board of 
health within whose jurisdiction any of said diseases may occur to 
furnish immediate information of the existence of such disease to 
boards of health of neighboring states and provinces, and to local 
boards in such states as have no central board, in which the duty of 
notification shall lie upon the local boards. 
That upon the prevalence of rumor of the existence of pestilen- 
tial disease in any state or province, if positive definite information 
thereon be not obtainable from the proper health authorities, this 
conference holds that the health officials of another state are justi- 
fied in entering the before-mentioned state or province for the pur- 
pose of investigating and establishing the truth or falsity of such 
ports. 
3, That whenever practicable, the investigations undertaken under 
the preceding section shall be made with the co-operation of the 
state or local health authorities. 
4, That any case which presents symptoms leading to serious sus- 
picion of the existence of one of the aforenamed diseases shall be 
treated as suspicious, and reported as provided for in cases in which 
the diagnosis is certain. 
5. That any case respecting which reputable and experienced phy- 
sicians disagree as to whether the disease is or is not pestilential, 
shall be reported as suspicious. 
6. That any suspected case respecting which efforts are made to 
conceal its existence, full history and true nature, shall be deemed 
suspicious and so reported. 
7. That in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing resolu- 
tions, the boards of health of the United States and Canada repre- 
sented at this conference, do pledge themselves to an interchange of 
information as herein provided. 
Addendum, to regulation in regard, to the inter-state notification of 
contagious and infectious diseases, adopted by the National Confer- 
ence of State Boards of Health at Washington. September 8. 1887. 
and by the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania, November 9.1887. 
1. AIP communicable diseases hereinafter mentioned, prevalent in 
certain areas, or which tend to spread along certain lines of travel 20 
shall be reported to all state and provincial boards of health within 
said areas or along said lines of communication. 
2. In the instance of small-pox, cholera, yellow fever and typhus, 
reports shall be at once forwarded, either by mail or telegraph, as 
the urgency of the case may demand. 
3. In the instance of diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, an- 
thrax or glanders, weekly reports, when possible, shall be supplied 
in which shall be indicated as far as known the places implicated 
and the degree of prevalence. 
Regulation for the Better Preservation of the Public 
Health, and to Limit the Progress of Epidemic (Con- 
tagious and Infectious) Diseases. 
(R. VI.) 
In virtue of the powers conferred by the act of As- 
sembly, of June 3, 1885, section five and six, P. L. 56 of 
the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be it 
ordered by the State Board of Health and Vital Sta- 
tistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and it 
is hereby ordered by the authority of the same: 
Nuisances defined 
Section 1. That whatever is dangerous to human life 
or health, whatever renders the air or food or water 
or other drink unwholesome, and whatever building 
erection or part of cellar thereof is overcrowded, or not 
provided with adequate means of ingress and egress 
or is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, 
drained, cleaned or lighted, are declared to be nui- 
sances, and to be illegal; and every person having aid- 
ed in creating or contributing to the same, or who may 
support, continue or retain any of them shall be deem- 
ed guilty of a violation of this regulation, and shall be 
liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred dol- 
lars. 
House refuse, gar- 
bage, etc., not to 
be exposed. 
Sec. 2, No house refuse, offal, garbage, dead animals, 
decaying vegetable matter or organic waste substance 
of any kind shall be thrown on any street, road, ditch, 
gutter or public place, and no putrid or decaying ani- 
mal or vegetable matter shall be kept in any yard, 
house, cellar or adjoining out building or grounds for 
more than twenty-four hours. 
Pig pens to be 
properly con- 
structed and kept 
clean. 
Sec. 3. No pig pen shall be built or maintained with- 
in one hundred feet of any well or spring of water used 
for drinking purposes, or within thirty feet of any 21 
street or any inhabited house, or unless constructed 
in the following manner, viz; So that the floor or 
floors of the same shall be not less than two feet from 
the ground, in order that the filth accumulating under 
the same may be easily removed. 
Sec. 4. No privy vault, cess-pool, or reservoir into 
which a privy water-closet, cess-pool, stable or sink is 
drained, unless it is water tight, shall be constructed, 
dug or permitted to remain within one hundred and 
fifty feet of any well, spring or other source of water 
used for drinking or culinary purposes; unless the sur- 
face of such vault, cess-pool or reservoir is at a lower 
level than the bottom of such well. Earth privies and 
earth closets, with no vault, pit or depression below 
the surface of the ground, shall be excepted from this 
regulation, but sufficient dry earth or coal ashes must 
be used to absorb all the fluid part of the deposit. 
Privies not to re- 
main near wells of 
drinking water. 
Sec. 5. All sewer drains shall be water tight. 
Sec. 6, No sewer drain shall empty into any lake, 
pond, dam, reservoir, or other collection of water used 
for drinking purposes, or into any standing water. 
Sewer-drains not 
to contaminate 
water supply. 
Sec. 7, All pipes connecting a water closet with a 
soil pipe shall be trapped, each separately. All waste 
pipes shall be trapped, each separately, and close to 
the connections with each bath, sink, bowl or other 
fixture, unless adequate provision is made for down- 
ward ventilation through said water-pipes, in which 
case one trap may serve for several fixtures. 
Sec. 8. All soil pipes shall be carried at their full 
size through the roof and left open. A provision shall 
also be made for admitting air to the house-drain side 
of the main trap, if such trap exists. 
Sec, 9. The joints in vitrified pipes shall be carefully 
cemented under and around the pipe, and the joints in 
cast iron pipes shall be run and calked with lead. 
Sec. 10. All changes in direction shall be made with 
curved pipes. All joints and pipes shall be made air- 
tight. 
Sec. 11. The following named diseases are declared 
to be communicable and dangerous to the public 
health viz: Small-pox (variola, varioloid), cholera (Asi- 
atic or epidemic), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet 
rash,) measles, diphtheria (diphtheritic croup, diph- 
thretic sore throat), typhoid fever, typhus fever, yel- 
low fever, spotted fever (cerebro-spinai meningitis), re- 
Diseases dan- 
gerous to public 
health enumerated 22 
lapsing fever, epidemic dysentery, hydrophobia, 
(rabies), glanders (farcy), tuberculosis (consumption), 
and leprosy, and shall be understood to be included in 
the following regulations, unless certain of them only 
are specified. 
Householders re- 
quired to report. 
Sec. 12. Whenever any householder knows that any 
person within his family or household has a communi- 
cable disease, dangerous to the public health, he shall 
immediately report the same to the school board, giv- 
ing the street and number, or location of the house. 
Physicians re- 
quired to report. 
Sec. 13. Whenever any physician finds any per- 
son whom he is called upon to visit has a communi- 
cable disease, dangerous to the public health, he or she 
shall immediately report the same to the school board 
giving the street and number or location of the house, 
on the receipt of which report the said board shall im- 
mediately notify the teacher or principal of every 
school in the district, instructing said teachers or 
principals to dispense with the attendance of all pupils 
residing in the family in which such disease exists. 
No physician who may, in good faith in obedience to 
this regulation, report a case as one of communicable 
diseases which subsequently proves not to be such, shall 
be liable to a suit for damages for such error in report- 
ing, It shall be the duty of such physician and of all 
other attendants upon persons affected with such dis- 
eases to avoid exposure to the public of any garments 
or clothing about their own persons that may have 
been subjected to the risk of infection. 
School teachers to 
be notified. 
Physicians not to 
be sued for mis- 
takes In obeying 
this regulation. 
Exposure of in- 
fected persons or 
things forbidden. 
Sec. 14. No person shall, unless by permit of a board 
of health, carry or remove from one building to an- 
other any patient affected with any communicable dis- 
ease, dangerous to the public health. Nor shall any 
person, by any exposure of any individual so affected, 
or of the body of such individual, or of any article 
capable of conveying contagion or infection, or by any 
negligent act connected with the case or custody there- 
of, or by a needless exposure of himself or herself, 
cause or contribute to the spread of disease from any 
such individual or dead body. 
Funeral after In- 
fectious diseases 
forbidden. 
Sec. 15, There shall not be a public or church funeral 
of any person who has died of Asiatic cholera, small- 
pox, typhus fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, scarlet 
fever or measles, and the family of the deceased shall 
in all such cases limit the attendance to as few as pos- 
sible, and take all precautions possible to prevent the 23 
exposure of other persons to contagion or infection; 
and the person authorizing the public notice of death 
of such person shall have the name of the disease 
which caused the death appear in such public notice. 
Public notice of 
cause of death re- 
quired. 
Sec. 16. No person suffering from or having very re- 
cently recovered from, small-pox. scarlet fever, diph- 
theria, yellow fever or measles shall expose himself, 
nor shall any one expose a person under his charge in 
a similar condition, in any public conveyance, without 
having previously notified the owner or person in 
charge of such conveyance of the fact of such condi- 
tion as above stated. And the owner or person in 
charge of such conveyance must not, after the entry 
of any person so infected into his conveyance, allow 
any other person to enter it without having sufficiently 
disinfected it. 
Public conveyances 
not to be infected. 
Infected convey- 
ances not to be 
used until disin- 
fected. 
Sec. 17. No person shall let or hire any house or 
room in a house in which a communicable disease, dan- 
gerous to the public health, has recently existed, until 
the room or house and premises therewith connected 
have been disinfected and for the purpose of this sec- 
tion. the keeper of a hotel, inn or other house for the 
reception of lodgers, shall be deemed to let or hire part 
of a house to any person admitted as a guest into such 
hotel, inn or house. 
Infected bouses or 
rooms not to be let. 
Sec. 18. Members of any household in which small- 
pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or measles exist shall 
abstain from attending places of public amusement, 
worship or education, and, as far as possible, from 
visiting other private houses. 
Isolation of fami- 
lies required. 
Sec. 19. The clothing, bed-clothing and bedding of 
persons wffio have been sick with any communicable 
disease, dangerous to the public health, and the rooms 
which they have occupied during such sickness, to- 
gether with their furniture, shall be disinfected as di- 
rected in the circulars of this Board. 
Disinfection re- 
quired. 
Sec. 20. No animal affected with a communicable 
disease, dangerous to the public health, shall be 
brought within the limits of this Commonwealth, and 
the bodies of such animals dead of such disease or 
killed on account thereof, shall be buried with quick- 
lime under four feet of earth or burned, but shall not 
be buried within five hundred feet of any residence, or 
of any source of w7ater supply. 
Infected animals 
to be excluded. 
Sec. 21. No milk which has been watered, adulter- 
ated, reduced or changed in any respect from its nat- 
Milk not to be 
adulterated. 24 
Ural condition by the addition of any foreign sub- 
stance, shall be held, kept or offered for sale. 
No unwholesome 
food to be sold. 
Sec. 22. No meat, fish, birds, fowls, fruit, vegetables, 
milk, and nothing for human food, not being then 
healthy, fresh, sound, wholesome, fit and safe for such 
use, nor, any animal or fish that died by disease, and 
no carcass of any calf, pig, or lamb, which at the time 
of its death was less than three weeks old, and no 
meat therefrom shall be brought within the limits of 
this Commonwealth or offered or held for sale as food. 
Sec. 23. It shall be the duty of the occupant of every 
house, in the month of May, in each and every year, to 
clean the cellars thereof of all dirt, vegetables and 
other impure matter calculated to engender disease, 
and to cause them to be thoroughly whitewashed with 
fresh lime. 
Cellars to be 
cleaned. 
Vaccination of 
school children re- 
quired. 
Sec. 24. No pupil shall be allowed to attend the put 
lie schools in this CommonwTealth who has not been 
vaccinated successfully within seven years. 
Period of isolation 
established for 
school children. 
Sec. 25. No parent, guardian or master, in whose 
house or family there shall have been a communicable 
disease, dangerous to the public health, shall permit 
any child residing in said house or family to attend 
any public, private or Sunday school, after the cessa- 
tion of said disease, within a period of ten days after 
the house shall have been thoroughly disinfected and 
cleaned. And it shall be the duty of school boards to 
have this section printed on cards, mentioning the 
names of diseases declared communicable and danger- 
ous to the public health in section thirty-one of this 
regulation, and posted in every school room, and it 
shall be the duty of each teacher to read the section to 
the school at least once a month and whenever any 
epidemic shall appear. 
Children to be in- 
structed in regard 
to danger of infec- 
tion. 
Sextons, cemetery 
keepers, etc. 
Sec. 26. Every person who acts as a sexton or under- 
taker, or cemetery keeper, or has the charge of any 
tomb, vault, burying ground or other place for the re- 
ception of the dead, or where the bodies of any human 
beings are deposited, shall so conduct his business 
and so care for any such place above named, as to 
avoid detriment or danger to public health; and every 
person undertaking preparations for the burial of a 
body dead from communicable diseases as hereinbe- 
fore enumerated, shall adopt the precautions pre- 
scribed in regulation IV of this Board. No dead body 
shall be exhumed and removed between the months of 25 
May and October inclusive and nobody dead from any 
contagions or infectious disease shall be exhumed and 
removed unless by special authority and upon such 
conditions as the State Board of Health may impose. 
Sec. 27. Every person violating any section of this 
regulation is liable for every such offense', upon convic- 
tion before any court, to a fine of not more than one 
Penalties to be in- 
flicted. 
hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court. 
(R. VII.) 
Whenever, in any city, borough, village or place in this State hav- 
ing no health authority of its own, any nurse, midwife or other per- 
son. not a legally qualified practioner of medicine, shall notice in- 
flammation of the eyes or redness of the lids in a new born child un- 
der his or her care, it shall be the duty of such person to report the 
same to some legally qualified practioner of medicine, within twelve 
hours of the time the disease is first noticed. 
Regulation for the Prevention of Blindness. 
Regulation for the Enforcement of Domiciliary Quarantine and Clos- 
ure of Schools. 
(R. VIII.) 
Whenever the Secretary shall have satisfactory information that 
any of the following diseases, viz; small-pox, varioloid, scarlet fever, 
diphtheria, yellow fever, typhus fever or Asiatic cholera is epidemic, 
or threatens to become epidemic in any city, borough, district or 
place having no local board of health, or in which the sanitary laws 
or regulations are inoperative, he shall have authority, as executive 
officer of the Board, to issue a proclamation in the name of the 
Board declaring such disease epidemic, and to order and enforce 
such measures in the way of quarantine, isolation of the sick, vacci- 
nation. disinfection and the closure of schools, public and private, 
religious and secular, as in his judgment may be necessary to stamp 
out the infection. 
(R.IX.) 
Regulation Authorizing the Secretary to Place, or Cause to he Placed, 
Placards Upon Houses in Which Certain Communicable Diseases 
Exist. 
Section 1. Whenever the Secretary shall have satisfactory infor- 
mation that any of the following diseases: cholera, small-pox (variola 
or varioloid), scarlet fever (scarlatina), typhus fever, yellow fever, re 26 
lapsing fever, diphtheria (diphtheritic croup) membranous croup or 
leprosy exists in any city, borough, district or place having no local 
board of health, or in which the sanitary laws or regulation are in- 
operative, he shall have authority to place or cause to be placed, in 
a conspicuous place or places upon or near the house or premises in 
which, said case may be located a placard or placards upon which 
shall be printed in large letters the name of the disease from which 
the person or persons in said house or premises may be suffer- 
ing, as aforesaid, as hh)e case may be: Provided, That 
variola or varioloid shall be placarded as smallpox, and 
that diphtheritic croup and membranous croup shall be 
placarded as diphtheria, and that scarlatina shall be pla- 
carded as scarlet fever, and said placard or placards shall re- 
main thereon until such time as the rules and regulations established 
by this Board regarding the destruction or disinfection of infected 
bedding, clothing or other articles which have been exposed to in- 
fection, and the disinfection of houses and premises have been fully 
complied with; Provided, That, in addition to the placarding afore- 
said, or in lieu of the same, the Secretary may place or cause to be 
placed a guard or guards upon said house or premises. 
Sec, 2. The head of the family occupying any house or premises 
upon or near which said placard or placards aforesaid may be placed, 
shall, upon conviction before any mayor, burgess, alderman ,police 
magistrate or justice of the peace of the city, borough or township in 
which said offense was committed be liable for the fine or penalty 
provided by the act of Assembly of June 18, 1895, in any case where 
such placard or placards are removed, disturbed, covered up, taken 
down or destroyed with his or her knowledge or consent before the 
time provided by section one of this regulation; said fine to be not 
less than five nor more than one hundred dollars in default of pay- 
ment whereof such person or persons so convicted shall undergo an 
imprisonment in the Jail of the proper county for a period not ex- 
ceeding sixty days. 
(R. x.) 
Regulation Requiring Burials to he at a Certain Depth Below the Sur- 
face of the Ground. 
Section 1. The burial of a body at an insufficient depth below the 
surface of the ground is hereby declared to be a nuisance prejudi- 
cial to the public health. 
Sec. 2. In all cities, boroughs, districts and places having no local 
board of health, no body shall be buried at a less depth than six feet 
below the surface of the ground in populous districts, or less than 
four feet below the surface of the ground in rural districts. (R. XL) 
Regulation for the Disinfection of the Persons, Excreta, Effects and 
Dwellings of those Sick with Communicable (Contagious and Infec- 
tious) Diseases. 
To Disinfect in the Sick-room. 
L All glasses, cups or other vessels used by tbe patient shall be 
cleansed in boiling water before being used by others. And all foods 
and drinks touched and not consumed by the sick shall be burned 
or buried. 
2. The discharge from the bowels and from the kidneys shall be 
received on their very issue from the body into vessels charged with 
disinfectants, and, after thorough disinfection, emptied into a closet 
connecting with a sewer or, in the country, buried at least one hun- 
dred feet from any well or running stream. In no case shall they 
be thrown on the surface of the ground or into a running stream of 
water. Rags and paper which have become contaminated with any 
discharge shall be burned at once in a strong fire. It is well, in all 
contagious diseases, to place a piece of rubber cloth under the pa- 
tient to prevent the discharges from soaking into the bed. 
3. All articles of the patient’s clothing, all sheets, towels, napkins, 
bandages or sponges used about the sick, must, before being taken 
from the sick room, be thrown into a tub containing several gallons 
of solution of chloride of lime (standard solution No. 1), and remain 
in it three hours. Never carry any dry clothes from the sick room 
without disinfection. After disinfection they must be thoroughly 
boiled. 
5. After death the body must at once be wrapped in a sheet satu- 
rated Avith a solution of corrosive sublimate (standard solution No. 2) 
and buried as soon as possible. 
G. Burn as many of the articles which have been about the sick as 
possible. 
7. Standard Disinfecting Solution,, Recommended by the State 
Board of Health. 
1. Standard Solution No. I,—Dissolve chloride of lime or bleaching 
powder of the best quality (containing at least twenty-five per cent, 
of available chlorine) in soft water in the proportion of four ounces 
(a quarter of a pint) to the gallon. 
*2. Standard Solution No.2.—Dissolve corrosive sublimate and per- 
manganate of potash in soft water in the proportion of two drachms 
(a heaping teaspoonful) of each to the gallon. 
3. Standard Solution No. 3.—To one part of hypochlorite of soda 
add five parts of soft water. 
*Note.—-This solution is highly poisonous. 2. It requires a contact of one hour to be efficient. 3. 
destroys lead pipes. 4. It Is without odor. 
Corrosive sublimate solution should be kept in wooden or crockery vessels. 28 
4. Standard Solution No. 4.—Dissolve corrosive sublimate in water 
in the proportion of four ounces to the gallon. One fluid ounce (two 
tablespoonsful) of this solution to the gallon of water is sufficiently 
strong. Articles should be left in it for two hours. One gallon of 
standard solution No. 1, may also be mixed with nine gallons of 
water, and used in the same way. No article should be allowed to 
leave the infected room until it has been either disinfected or boiled. 
8. To Disinfect Discharges from the Patient. 
Use standard solutions, Nos. 1, 2 or 3, keeping a pint of the solu- 
tion used constantly in the vessel ready for any emergency. Let the 
discharge be passed directly into the solution, then let a pint more of 
it be added, and let the whole stand sometime to be thoroughly acted 
upon before being thrown into the sewer or being buried. Ordinary 
whitewash, freshly made or preserved by pouring a thin film of coal 
oil on its surface, is also very useful for this purpose. These dis- 
charges should never be thrown into a privy or cess-pool, nor into 
a running stream, nor on the surface of the ground. 
9. To Disinfect Clothing, Towels, Napkins, Bedding and Such Textile 
Fabrics as can be Washed. 
Burn as much as possible. Use standard solution No. 4, one ounce 
to the gallon of water, or use one gallon of solution No. 1 in nine gal- 
lons of water. Let the goods soak in the solution for at least three 
hours before they leave the room. Stir them up so that the solution 
may get all through the goods. After disinfection boil the goods 
thoroughly. 
10. To Disinfect Water Closets, Urinals, Sinks and Cess-Pools. 
5. Carbolic Acid Solution.—Mix one pint of carbolic acid with two 
and a-half gallons of water. 
Standard Solution No. 4, diluted with three parts of water, may 
also be used in the proportion of one gallon (of the solution) to every 
four (estimated) of the contents of the vault. Standard solution No. 
1 would require to be used gallon for gallon of the material to be 
disinfected. Dry chloride of lime may be sprinkled over the contents 
of a privy, or standard solution No, 2 may be made up by the barrel, 
and four or five gallons be applied during an epidemic. 
To Disinfect the Room After Death or Recovery, 
The room must be vacated. The paper should be carefully scraped 
from the walls. Thorough ventilation for several days, and thor- 
ough washing of all surfaces with one of the disinfecting solutions, 
say, one pint of standard solution No. 4 to four gallons of water, or 
a quarter of a pint of solution of hypochlorite of soda to a gallon of 29 
water must be effected. The walls and ceiling-, if plastered, should be 
washed with this solution and then whitewashed. All dust must be 
carefully washed (not brushed or swept) away from ledges, cracks, 
corners and crevices. 
Sulphur Fumigation, 
To use this effectively, two pounds of sulphur should be burned in 
a room ten feet square. Every opening- in the room—flues, doors, 
windows, cracks and crevices—must be closed, except the door by 
which the disinfector is to escape; closet doors and bureau drawers 
should be opened wide, and all woolen articles which have been in 
the room during the sickness hung on lines, being spread out and 
opened up as much as possible. The sulphur is to be burned in an 
iron kettle or other vessel set in a tub containing a little water to 
guard against fire. A small quantity of water should be evaporated 
at the same time. A little alcohol or kerosene must be poured upon 
the sulphur, by means of which it may be ignited. Leave the room 
quickly, for the fumes are highly poisonous when breathed, and close 
the door tightly. Let the room remain closed twenty-four hours or 
more. Then air thoroughly for at least twenty hours. 
(R. XII.) 
Regulation for the Control and Management of Piggeries in the State 
of Pennsylvania. 
2. Hog yards and piggeries will not be permitted within 200 feet 
of any natural stream or water-course, and the drainage of a piggery 
shall in no case be permitted to reach any natural stream until said 
drainage has been purified. 
1. This Board declares the keeping of pigs an offensive industry. 
3. All pig pens shall be constructed with water-tight floors, either 
of plank or cement, which must be elevated at least ten inches above 
the ground. 
4. The feeding of animals dead from natural causes to pigs will 
not be allowed. Offal should not be fed to pigs for at least a month 
before they are killed. The animals to be killed should be removed 
from the pen where offal is fed and should be fattened on grain. 
Offal from hogs should not be fed to hogs, as disease is liable to be 
communicated to sound animals in this way. Offal from hogs must 
be burned or buried. 
5. All pig-pens must be daily cleansed and thus kept free from 
all offensive odors. 30 
6. Where offal from slaughter-houses is fed to pigs, the yards 
should be cleaned at least twice each week, the refuse being buried 
or burned. 
7. Where garbage or offal is fed to pigs, the troughs, basins or 
boxes should be cleansed and dried as often as is necessary to pre- 
vent unwholesome odors from arising. 
8. No hog-ranch or piggery for garbage or offal feeding, where 
more than fifty head of swine are kept, shall be established or main- 
tained without a permit from a health authority. 
(R. XYI.) 
Regulation Forbidding the Dumping of Fight-Soil in Public Waters. 
The dumping of night soil in any river, stream, lake, pond or other 
public water in this Commonwealth constitutes a nuisance prejudi- 
cial to the public health and is hereby forbidden.