SANITARY CODE 
OF THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
OF THE 
Health Department 
OF THE 
CITY OF NEW YORK. 
1880. 
SEC. 82, CHAP. 335, LAWS OF 1873. 
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NEW YORK: 
JOHN ;F. HAHN, PRINTER, 
8 9 BOWERY. 
1880. THE SANITARY CODE. 
The Sanitary Ordinances adopted by the Department of 
Health, called the Sanitary Code, and conformed to 
Article XI. of Chapter 335, of the Laws of 1873, by 
the Board of Health, June 2, 1873, with the amend- 
ments and additional provisions pursuant to Section 
82 of said article, added and published to 
DEFINI'TIONS OF TEEMS. 
Section 1. That the tei-ms “Board,” “this Board,” 
and “said Board’’shall beheld to mean the “Board of 
Health of the Health Department of the City of New 
York;” that the word “Department,” wherever used 
herein, shall be held to mean the Health Department of 
the City of New York; that the words “person,” 
“owner,” “tenant,” “lessee,” “occupant,” “contrac- 
tor,” “party,” “manager,” “board,” and “ officer,” shall 
respectively be held to apply and to include, both jointly 
and severally, each and all owners, part-owners, tenants, 
lessees, occupants, managers, contractors, parties in inter- 
est, persons, officers, boards, and corporations, who may 
sustain the relations, or may be in like position of any 
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lation ; that every order, ordinance, or regulation declared 
applicable to the built-up portion of New York, 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 portions of said city ;■ that every word or phrase 
anywhere herein defined shall be held to include the 
same sense whenever used; that the words “city,” or 
“this city,” or “said city,” whenever used herein, shall 
be held to mean the City of New Y’ork; that the word 
“regulations” shall be held to include “special regula- 
tions ” (which latter will be from time to time issued, and 
will contain more detailed provisions than can be herein 
conveniently set forth); that the word “ permit” shall be 
construed to mean the permission in writing of this 
Board, issued according to its by-laws, rules, regulations, 
and Sanitary Code; and that every “report” herein 
required shall be held to be a report in writing, signed by 
the person (and indicating his official position) who 
makes the same; that the word “ light” or “ lighted,7’ 
shall be held to refer to natur 1, external light; and 
that all words and phrases herein defined shall also 
include their usual and natural meanings, as well as 
those herein especially given. 
Sec. 2. That the word “street,” when used in the 
Sanitary Code, shall be held to include avenues, side- 
walks, gutters, aud public alleys; and the words “ public 
place ” shall be held to include parks, piers, docks, and 
wharves, and water and open spaces thereto adjacent, 
and also public yards grounds, and areas, and all open 
spaces between buildings and streets, and in view of 
such streets; the wTord “ashes” shall be held to include 
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fires; the word “rubbish” shall be held to include all 
the loose and decayed material and dirt-like substance 
that attends use or decay, or which accumulates from 
building, storing, or cleaning ; the word “garbage” shall 
be held to include every accumulation of both animal and 
vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the 
preparation, decay, and dealing in, or storage of meats, 
fish, fowls, birds, or vegetables; and the word “dirt” 
shall be held to mean natural soil, earth, and stone. 
Sec. 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 independently 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, stair- 
ways, 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 per- 
sons are harbored or received, or lodged for hire for a 
single night, or for less than one week at a time, or any 
part of which is let for any persons to sleep in for any 
term less than a week. A “ cellar ’’ shall be taken to 
mean and include every basement or lower story of any 
building or house of which one-half or more of the height 
from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the 
street adjoining. The phrase “ boarding-house ” shall be 
held to include every building and every story and por- 
tion • thereof, which is at any time or usually used, leased, 
or occupied, or intended so to be, by any number of per- 
sons exceeding ten, as boarders thereat. The word 4 
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“manufactory” shall be held to include every building, 
and every story and portion thereof, in which any sort of 
labor or work is done, which calls for the contiunal 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.” 
Sec. 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 public or frequent gathering or amusement, are, 
is, or may be held, given, performed, or take place, and 
the approach or approaches thereto and appurtenances 
thereof. 
Sec. 5. That the word “ physician ” shall include den- 
tists, and every other person who practises about the cure 
of the sick or injured, or who has the charge of, or profes- 
sionally prescribes for, any person sick, injured, or dis- 
eased, and any person who pursues the business of or acts 
as midwife; that the phrase “ contagious disease” shall be 
held to include all persons sick, affected, or attacked by 
or of a disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential 
nature (more especially, however, referring to cholera, 
yellow fever, small-pox, diphtheria, ship or typhus, ty- 
phoid, spotted, relapsing, and scarlet fevers), aud also 
including any new disease of an infectious, contagious, or 
pestileatial nature, and also any other disease publicly 
declared by this Board dangerous to the public health; THE SANITAEY CODE. 
and every physician in sdd 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. 
Sec. 6. That the word ‘ ‘ meat, ” whenever herein used, 
includes every part of any land animal and eggs (whether 
mixed or not with any other substance); and the word 
“fish,” includes every part of any animal that lives in 
water, or the flesh of which is not meat; and the word 
“• vegetable ” includes every article of human consumption 
as food, which (not being meat, or fish, or milk) is held, 
or offered, or intended for sale or consumption, as food for 
human beings, at any place in said city; and all fish and 
meat found therein shall be deemed to be therein, and 
held for such sale or consumption as such food, unless 
the contrary be distinctly proved. 
Sec. 7. That the w'ord “ cattle” shall be held to include 
all animals, except birds, fowl, and fish, of which any part 
of the body is used as food; the word “ butcher ” shall be 
held to include whoever is engaged in the business of keep- 
ing, 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 mar- 
ket) at which the business is the buying, selling, or 
keeping for sale, of meat, fish, or vegetables for human 
food. 
MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE. 
Sec. 8. That no person shall carelesbly or negligently 
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dingerous to the life, or detrimental to the health of any 
human being; nor shall any person knowingly do or advise 
or contribute to the doing of any such act or thing (not 
actually authorized by law), except with justifiable 
motives and for adequate reasons; nor shall any person 
omit to do any act, or to take any precaution, reasonable 
and proper, to prevent or remove danger or detriment to 
the life or health of any human being. 
OBEDIENCE TO ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS. 
Sec. 9. That every contractor in these ordinances refer- 
red to, and every person who has contracted, or under- 
takes, or is bound to do, or is engaged in doing any one 
of these things, in respect of which these ordinances con- 
tain provisions or regulations, shall comply with these 
ordinances, to the extent that any contract, obligation, or 
duty requires or permits; and no direction of any con- 
tractors or persons shall excuse him for a non-compliance 
with any of said ordinances. 
Sec. 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 hereinbefore or hereinafter 
contained, or any law of this State, or otherwise, whether 
issued directly by the Board, or promulgated by any 
Bureau charged therewith, as if the same had been herein 
inserted at length. 
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES. 
Sec. 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 7 
the City of New York do execute and cause to be executed 
all the orders of this Board when so specially ordered; and, 
all persons are hereby forbidden to interfere with or 
obstruct such inspection, examination, Or execution. 
Sec. 12. That except as herein specially or otherwise 
provided, or 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 
existing regulations, or amendments to be made thereto, 
on advice of this Department, and subject to the supervi- 
sion of this Department, carry into effect and exercise the 
sanitary powers heretofore exercised by fhe 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 Department. 
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BILLS OP HEALTH. 
Sec. 13. That no person, officer, or board within said 
ciiy (except this Board or its proper officers, or proper 
officers of any bureau of this Department, and as the 
regulations prescribed by this Board shall provide), 
shall grant, sign, or deliver any Certificate or “Bill of 
Health.” 
MEDICINES, ADULTERATIONS AND POISONS. 
Skc. 14. That no doctor, druggist or other person shall 
make, sell, put up, prepare, or administer any prescrip- 
tion, decoction, or medicine under any deceptive or 
fraudulent name, direction, or pretence; nor shall any 8 
false or deceptive representation be made by any person 
to any other, as to the kind, quality, purpose, or effect 
of any such other drug, medicine, decoction, drink, or 
other article offered or intended to be taken as food or 
medicine. 
Sec. 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 com- 
petent to give the proper directions and precautions as to 
the use thereof; nor shall any bottle, box, parcel, or recep- 
tacle thereof be delivered to any person unless the same is 
marked “ Poison,” nor to any person who the party deliv- 
ering the same has reason to think intends it for any illegal 
or improper use or purpose. 
Sec. 16. That no person shall make, offer, or have for 
sale, or keep at any place of sale any “poisonous, un- 
wholesome, deleterious, or adulterated drugs, medicines, 
or food,” or in respect thereto omit any act or thing 
required, or do any act forbidden by any law or health 
regulation of this State applicable in any part of said 
city. 
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CONSTRUCTION OE BUILDINGS, VENTILATION AND 
DRAINAGE. 
Sec. 17. That no person shall hereafter erect, or cause 
to be erected, or converted to a new purpose by alteration, 
any building or structure which, or any part of which, 
shall be inadequate or defective in respect to strength, 
ventilation, light, sewerage, or of any other usual, proper, 
or necessary provision or precaution; nor shall the builder 
lessee, tenant, or occupant of any such, or of any other 
building or structure (within the right or ability of either 9 
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 prejudicial to 
life or health. 
Sec. 18. That no owner 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, or for 
any one, to dwell or lodge, except when said buildings or 
such parts thereof are sufficiently lighted, ventilated, 
provided, and accommodated, and are in all respects in 
that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness, for 
which this Code or any law of this State provides, or in 
which they or either of them require any such premises 
to be kept. Nor shall any such person rent, let, hire 
out, or allow, having power to prevent the same to be 
used as or for a place of sleeping or residence, any 
portion or apartment of any building, which apartment 
or portion has not at least two feet of its height and 
space above the level of every part of the sidewalk and 
curbstone bf 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 exhalat:on prejudicial to health. But this section 
shall not prevent the leasing, renting, or occupancy of 
cellars or rooms less elevated than aforesaid, and as a 
part of any building rented or let, when they are not let 
or intended to be occupied or used by an}7 person as a 
sleeping apartment, or as a principal or sole dwelling 
apartment. 
Sec. 19. That no person having the right and power 
to prevent the same, shall knowingly cause or permit 
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any person to sleep or remain in any cellar, or in any 
place dangerous or prejudicial to life or health, by reason 
of a want of ventilation or drainage, or by reason of the 
presence of any poisonous, noxious, or offensive sub- 
stance, or otherwise. 
Sec. 20. That no owner, lessee, or keeper of any 
tenement-house, lodging-house, boarding-house, or manu- 
factory, shall cause or allow the same to be over- 
crowded, or c iuse 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 deteriment to 
life or health. 
Sec. 21. That no person, being the lessee, manager, 
conductor, or owner of any theatre, shall cause, or 
permit, or allow the same, or any part or appurtenance 
thereof, to be so far overcrowded, or inadequate, faulty, 
or insufficient, in respect of strength, ingress or egress, 
cleanliness, 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 any such theatre. 
Sec. 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 accommodation 
thereof, and for the use of the tenants, lodgers, boarders, 
and workers thereat, adequate privies or water-closets, 
and the same shall be so adequately ventilated, and 
shall at all times be kept in such cleanly and wholesome 
condition as not to be offensive, or be dangerous or 
detrimental to life or health. And no offensive smell or 
gases, from or through any outlet or sewer, or through 
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any such privy or water-closet, shall be allowed by any 
person aforesaid to pass into such house or any part 
thereof, or into any oiher house or building. 
Sec. 23. That every owner, lessee, and tenant and 
manager of any boarding-house or manufactory, shall 
cause every part thereof and its appurtenances to be put, 
and shall thereafter cause the same to be kept, in a 
cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall speedily 
cause every department thereof in which any person 
may sleep, dwell, or work, to be adequately lighted and 
ventilated; and, if the same be a manufactory, shall 
cause every part thereof in which any person may work, 
to be maintained at such temperature, and be provided 
with such accommodations and safeguards as not, by 
reason of the want thereof, or of anything about the 
condition of any sueh manufactory or its appurtenances, 
to cause unnecessary danger or detriment to the life or 
health of any person being properly therein or thereat. 
Sec. 24. That no keeper, or other officer or person 
having control or authority in any jail, prison, or other 
place where any person may be kept or confined, shall 
needlessly or illegally cause or allow any peril or detri- 
ment to the life or 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. 
Sec. 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 substance that could be before scraped 
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away shill be washed or all >wed to be carried or be 
put into the sewer, or into any receptacle therewith 
connected. 
Sec. 26. That it shall be the duty of every person 
using, making, or having any drain, soil-pipe, passage, or 
connection between any sewer (or with either the North 
or East River) 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 erec- 
tions, and of the parties interested in such place of busi- 
ness 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 connec- 
tion shall at all times be adequate for its purpose, and 
shall convey and allow freely and entirely to pass what- 
ever enters or should enter the same. 
Sec. 27. That it shall be the duty of all boards, depart- 
ments, officers, and persons having power and authority 
so to do or require (and to the extent thereof), to cause 
to be used sufficient water, and other adequate means 
to be taken, so that whatever 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 life or health. 
Sec. 28. That the proper officers and authorities shall, 
to the extent of their power and ability, cause the sewers 
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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 deficien- 
cies of any sewers or drainage, or the want thereof. 
FOOD AND DEINK. 
Sec. 29.* That no meat, fish, birds or fowl, fruit, or 
vegetables, nor any milk, not being then healthy, fresh, 
sound, wholesome, anrl safe for human food, nor any 
meat or fish that died by disease or accident, 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. 
Sec. 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, not more than five weeks old; or (being a lamb) 
was, when killed, not more than eight weeks old. Nor 
shall any meagre, sickly, or unwholesome fish, birds, or 
fowl be brought, held, sold, or offered for sale, as such 
• food, in said city. 
Sec. 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 New York, 
and the place where found, and their disease, shall be at 
once reported to this Department by the owner or custo- 
dian thereof, that the proper order may be made relative 
thereto, or for the removal thereof from said city. 
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Sec. 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 dripping therefrom) after its kill- 
ing, 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. 
Sec. 33. Annulled February 8, 1878. 
Sec. 34.* That no decayed or mrwholesome fruit or 
vegetables 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. 
Sec. 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 un- 
wholesome substance, nor allow anything therein to be 
done or to occur, dangerous to life or prejudicial to 
health. 
Sec. 36. That no cased, blown, plaited, raised, stuffed, 
putrid, impure, or unhealthy or unwholesome meat or 
ffsh, birds, 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 in any public place in said 
city. 
Sec. 37.f That no meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, or milk, 
or unwholesome liquid shall knowingly be brought, sold, 
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held, offered for sale, labelled, or any representation 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. 
Sec. 38.* That every person, being the owner, lessee 
or occupant of any room, stall or place where any meat, 
fish, fruit, or vegetables designed or held for human food, 
shall be stored or kept, or shall be held or offered for sale, 
shall put and keep such room, stall, and place, and its 
appurtenances, in a cleanly and ivholesome 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, fruit, birds, 
fowl, or vegetables, designed for human food, shall put 
and preserve the same in a cleanly and wholesome condi- 
tion, and shall not allow the same, or any part thereof, to 
be poisoned, infected, or rendered unsafe or unwholesome, 
for human food. 
Sec. 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. 
Sec. 40.f That it shall be the duty of every person 
knowing any fish, meat, fowl, birds, fruit, or vegetables 
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, 
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and the particulars relating thereto, to this Department, 
or to one of its officers or inspectors. 
Sec. 41. That no person shall, without consent of this 
Department, 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. 
Sec. 42.* That upon any cattle, meat, birds, fowl, fish, 
fruit, 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 Aveight or qualify in this code con- 
demned or forbidden, he shall cause the same to be ex- 
amined by two reputable persons, reasonably competent 
to judge in respect thereto, whom he may conveniently 
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 such inspector or officer may forbid the 
same being offered or exposed for sale, or being sold, 
for human 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 and party in charge to speedily 
remove such article from any market, street, or public 
place, and not to sell or dispose or offer to sell or dispose 
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thereof for the purpose of human food. And in default 
of such removal, and also in case of disobedience to 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 danger- 
ous 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. 
Sec. 43. That no person shall sell or give to any other 
person, or permit such other persons 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. 
Sec. 44. That no distiller or brewer, or other person, 
shall manufacture, or have or keep for sale, any liquid 
designed as a drink or beverage for human beings which 
would be, if used, needlessly dangerous or detrimental to 
life or health. 
Sec. 45. That no person shall have at any place where 
milk, butter, or cheese is kept for sale, nor at any place 
offer or have for sale, nor shall any person bring or send 
to said city any unwholesome, watered, or adulterated 
milk, or milk known as swill-milk, or milk from cows or 
other animals that for the most part lived in stables or 
that feed on swill, garbage, or other like substances; nor 
any butter or cheese made from any such milk, nor any 
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Sec. 46. That no person shall throw or allow to run or 
pass into any public reservoir, water-pipe, or aqueduct, 
or into or upon any border or margin thereof, or excava- 
tion or stream therewith connected, any animal, vegetable, 
or mineral substance whatever; nor shall any person 
allow the 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 peril 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 a public 
duty put) any part of his person into such water; nor shall 
any unauthorized person open any erection or unscrew 
any hydrant holding such water. 
Sec. 47. That it shall be the duty of every person, 
officer, department, and board, having any authority and 
control in regard to any water designed for human con- 
sumption (and within the proper sphere of the duty of 
each thereof), to take all usual and also all reasonable 
measures and precautions to secure and preserve the 
purity and wholesomeness of such water. 
Sec. 48. That no person shall destroy nor in anywise 
injure or impair any drinking-hydrant, or part thereof, in 
the said city; nor shall any person interfere with the use 
or enjoyment of the water therein, or therefrom, or inter- 
rupt the flow thereof, for, or as a drink; nor shall any 
person put any dirty, poisonous, medicinal, or any noxi- 
ous substance into or near said water or hydrant, whereby 
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CATTLE, HOKSES, ETC. 
Sec. 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 New York. 
And no pigs, swine, or cattle shall be unloaded from 
any cars upon any street or public place in the city of 
New York, except pursuant to a written permit from 
this Department. 
Sec. 50. That no person shall allow any swine or goat 
to run at large in said city, and no person shall, within 
the built-up portions of said city, or within one thousand 
feet of any residence or place of business or street there- 
of, keep any swine or goat, without a permit so to do 
from this Department. 
Sec. 51. That no cattle shall be kept in any plaee to 
which the water, ventilation, and food are not sufficient 
and wholesome for the preservation of their health, safe 
condition, and wholesomeness for food. 
Sec. 52. That no person shall keep or allow to be kept in 
any building, or on 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 (in or near the built-up portions of said city), with- 
out a permit from this Department. 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 cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall not al- 
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disease contagious or pestilential among such, animals; 
without a permit from this Department. 
Sec. 53. That no cattle, swine, or sheep, geese, goats, 
or horses, shall be yarded within or adjacent to the 
built-up portions of the city of New York, without the 
permit of this Department, or otherwise than according 
to its regulations. 
Sec. 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 al- 
lowed freely to stand in such vehicle when transported, 
and while being therein. 
Sec. 55.* That on and after the fifth day of May, 1877, 
no cattle, swine, pigs, calves, or sheep shall be driven on 
or between Eleventh and Second Avenues south of 
Sixtieth Street, nor on any other streets or avenues, ex- 
cept as hereinafter mentioned. 
1st. On First Avenue, and the cross streets east of First 
Avenue, between Forty-second and Forty-eighth Streets 
inclusive. 
2d. On the cross streets west of Eleventh Avenue, be- 
tween Thirty-ninth and Forty-third Streets, inclusive. 
3d. On the cross streets west of Eleventh Avenue, be- 
tween Forty-fifth and Forty-ninth Streets, inclusive. 
4th. From the cattle-yards on Sixtieth Street to Tenth 
Avenue ; thence through Tenth Avenue to Sixty-fourth 
Street, Sixty-fourth Street to Eighth Avenue, Eighth Ave- 
nue to Ninety-seventh Street, Ninety-seventh Street to 
Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue to One Hundred and Eighth 
Street, One Hundred and Eighth Street to Second Avenue, 
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Second Avenue to One Hundred and Sixth Street, One 
Hundred and Sixth Street to the East River, between 
midnight and 6 o’clock, a. m. 
5th. From the cattle-yards by the fourth route to 
Second Avenue, on Second Avenue to One Hundred and 
Twenty-ninth Street, on One Hundred and Twenty-ninth 
Street to Third Avenue, across Harlem Bridge, up Third 
Avenue to the slaughter-houses in Morrisania, between 
midnight and 6 o’clock, a. m. 
6th. From the cattle-yards on Sixtieth Street to Tenth 
Avenue, on Tenth Avenue to Sixty-fourth Street, on 
Sixty-fourth Street to Eighth Avenue, on Eighth Avenue 
to One Hundred and Twenty-first Street, on St. Nicholas 
Avenue and the Kingsbridge Road to the slaughter- 
houses north of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, between mid- 
night and 6 o’clock, a. m. 
7th. From the cattle-yards on Sixtieth Street down 
Eleventh Avenue to Thirty-ninth Street, between mid- 
Eight and 6 a. m. 
8th. From the cattle yards on Sixtieth Street to Tenth 
Avenue, on Tenth Avenue to Sixty-fourth Street, on Sixty- 
fourth Street to Eighth Avenue,' ont Eighth Avenue to 
Sixty-fifth Street, through Central Park by transverse 
road to Fifth Avenue, on Fifth Avenue to Sixty-Seventh 
Street, through Sixty-seventh Street to Fourth Avenue, 
on Fourth Avenue to Sixty-eight, Street, through Sixty- 
eighth Street to First Avenue and down First Avenue to 
slaughter-houses upon the express condition, however, 
that the cattle shall not leave the yards before midnight, 
or after 5 o’clock a. m. ; that the drivers shall be orderly 
and quiet, and that the cross-walks shall be cleaned each 
morning before 8 o’clock. Permits under this subdivi- 
sion shall be revoked by the Sanitary Superintendent 
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9th. The Sanitary Superintendent may, in special cases, 
with the approval of the Board, give temporary permits 
to drive animals on other routes than those herein 
designated. 
SLAUGHTERING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. 
Sec. 56.* 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. Neither the slaughtering nor the driving of cattle 
shall be permitted or conducted at any place in the city of 
New York south of Fortieth Street, nor shall the slaughter- 
ing of cattle be conducted at any place in the city of 
New York north of said street, without a special written 
permit from this Department; unless the same shall be 
done in buildings located directly upon the water front, 
each having a capacity sufficient for the yarding and 
slaughtering daily of one-half of the entire number of 
cattle or hogs, or small stock (all or separately, according 
to the particular object of each abattoir) slaughtered in 
this city, at the time the application for the permit for 
such abattoir shall be made; and so constructed as to 
receive all stock deliverable thereat, directly from cars or 
transports; and to discharge therefrom all liquid refuse 
below low-water mark, and to secure the proper care and 
disposition of all parts of the slaughtered animals upon 
the premises, or the immediate removal thereof by means 
of boats. 
Sec. 57. That every butcher and every person owning, 
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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, , pub- 
lic or private, and having power and authority so to do, 
shall cause such place, room, building, stall (and market 
being private), and their yards and appurtenances to be 
thoroughly cleansed and purified, and all offal, blood, 
fat, garbage, refuse, and unwholesome or offensive matter 
to be therefrom removed, 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 (unless 
some public authority prevents), keep all wood-work, 
save floors and counters, in any building, place, or 
premises aforsaid, thoroughly painted or whitewashed. 
Sec. 58. 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 allow- 
ed to run, fall, or to be in any such street, avenue, or 
side-walk, alley or place. 
Sec. 59. 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 
Department, be occupied for a dwelling or lodging place; 
that every such building shall at all times be kept ade- 
quately and thoroughly ventilated; that no blood shall 
be allowed to remain therein over night, that adequate 
underground connection shall be made from every such 
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mg on which such slaughtering is done, and the yard 
shall be cemented and paved so as not to absorb blood, 
and so as to carry all liquids into the sewers. 
Sec. 60. 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 New York, 
except pursuant to a permit from this Department; nor 
shall any person or corporation keep any slaughter-house 
or yard, or any cattle therein, hereafter, without a permit 
from this Department. 
Sec. 61. That no person shall kill or dress any animal 
or meat in any market, nor have, or permit to escape 
therein, or within one hundred feet thereof, any poison- 
ous,hioxious, nauseous, or offensive substance. 
Sec. 62. Annulled February 8, 1878. 
Sec. 63. That every butcher or milk-dealer, and their 
agents, shall allow the parties authorized by this Depart- 
ment, to freely and fully inspect their cattle and meats, 
fish and vegetables, held, offered, or intended for sale, 
and will be expeeted to answer all reasonable and 
proper questions asktd by such persons relative to the 
condition thereof, and of the places where such articles 
may be. 
Sec. 64. That from and after the first day of Decem- 
ber, 1870, the slaughtering of animals shall not be al- 
lowed or conducted at any place between Second (2d) 
Avenue and Tenth (10th) Avenue in the city of New 
York. Sec. 65.* That no offal or butchers’ refuse shall be 
conveyed through any street or avenue of the city of 
New York between the hours of 10 o’clock, a. m. and 10 
o’clock, p. m. ; and that no offal, fat, or refuse shall, at 
any time, be brought into the city, or conveyed over any 
ferry except in accordance with the terms of a written 
permit, first obtained therefor from this Department; 
nor shall any such substance be conveyed through any 
street and avenue, unless the same be in tight boxes, 
barrels, or vessels, and covered over so that no odor 
therefrom shall escape. 
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SIDEWALKS. 
Sec. 66. Annulled February 8, 1878. 
Sec. 67. 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 curb-stone, and if such sub- 
stance is allowed 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 or through such flag- 
stone or curb-stone; and no such water or other liquid, 
or ice therefrom, shall be allowed to gather or remain on 
the upper surface of such curb, flag-stone, or passage; 
nor shall such person allow any accummulation of such 
water or liquid, or the ice therefrom, upon any street or 
place, but shall at all times cause the same to be re- 
moved, or to pass along the gutter or some proper pas- 
sage to one of the rivers or into a sewer. 
Sec. 68. That every owner, lessee, tenant, and occu- 
pant of any building or lot in the built-up portions of 
* As amended, May 5, 1874. 26 
the city of New York, shall, within two hours after the 
fall of any snow exceeding one inch in depth, and with- 
in 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 re- 
moved 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 sprinkled thereon, sand or 
ashes, so that travelling 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 
morning, this ordinance will be complied with by remov- 
ing or sprinkling the same within two hours after sunrise 
of the morning succeeding its fall or formation. 
Sec. 69. That every owner, tenant, lessee, and occu- 
pant of any building or lot vwhether vacant or occupied) 
within or near the built-up portions of said city, shall 
keep, and cause to be kept, the sidewalk, and flagging, 
and curb-stone in front thereof in good repair and con- 
dition; and that every such person shall keep and cause 
every such sidewalk to be kept free from obstructions, 
as well as also free from any incumbrance, and free 
from all substances of every kind. 
Sec. 70. That no person shall take, or allow to go or 
be taken (having the right and ability to prevent the 
same), any horse or other animal, nor any vehicle, upon 
any sidewalk or foot-path in front of any building, to the 
peril of any person; nor shall any person block up or 
obstruct any street or place, or contribute thereto. 
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of any public pound in the city of New York, except 
pursuant to a permit from this Department. 
Sec. 72. That no keeper of any such pound shall al- 
low the same, or any animal therein, by reason of any 
want of care, food, ventilation, or cleanliness or other- 
' wise, to be or become dangerous or detrimental to human 
life or health. 
Sec. 73. That every such pound-keeper shall, from 
time to time, report to this Department, as its special 
regulations may require, and shall obey and conform to 
all such regulations; and that in the meantime such 
pounds shall, in the particulars not herein mentioned, 
be regulated by the rules heretofore enacted by the 
proper authorities of said city. 
HYDEOPHOBIA. 
Sec. 74. Annulled June 1G, 1874. 
Sec. 75. 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 exposed 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 
animal 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 ODOES AND LIQUIDS. 
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fensive water or other liquor or substance on his prem- 
ises or grounds, to the prejudice of life or health, whether 
for use in any trade or otherwise; and no establishment 
or place of business for tanning, skinning, or scouring, 
or for dressing hides or leather, or for carrying on any 
offensive or noisome trade or business, shall hereafter be 
opened, started, or established in the city of New York, 
without a permit of this Board. And every such estab- 
lishment now existing shall be kept cleanly and whole- 
some, and be so conducted in every particular as not to 
be offensive, or prejudicial to life or health. 
Sec. 77. That no person or company being a manu- 
facturer of gas, or engaged about the manufacture there- 
of, 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 into 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 manufactory 
or make any gas of such ingredients or quality that any 
sixbstance shall escape therefrom, or be formed in the 
process of burning any gas, which shall be offensive ox- 
dangerous, or prejudicial 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. 
Sec. 78. That no water-closet, sink, tub, vat, or other 
structure shall hereafter be constructed within the city 
of New York, having connection with, or by any sewer 
or underground passage, unless the same is provided 
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tions and precautions for preventing gases and other 
offensive currents, substances, or 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 cleansing thereof. 
Sec. 79. 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 crush- 
ing, bone boiling, bone grinding, bone burning, shell 
burning, fat burning, gut clearfing, nor the skinning or 
making of glue from any dead animals or parts thereof, 
nor any other occupation that is dangerous or detrimen- 
tal 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 be allowed by a permit of this Board. 
Sec. 80.* That no person shall boil, heat, dry, keep, 
store, or manufacture any offal, swill, blood, bones, fat, 
tallow, or lard, or any decaying animal, or vegetable mat- 
ter ; nor shall the business of bone crushing, bone boil- 
ing, bone grinding, bone or shell burning, lime making, 
gut cleaning, skinning, or making glue from any part 
of dead animals, heating, drying, storing, shipping, or 
transporting any blood, scrap, fat, grease, or offensive 
animal or vegetable matter or manufacturing materials 
for manure, be allowed or conducted in the city of New 
York, or in its waters, without a special permit from 
this Board, to be applied for in writing, specifying the 
nature and precise location of the proposed business. 
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Sec. 81. That all persons engaged in the business of 
boiling or rendering fat, lard, or animal matter, shall 
cause the fat or residuum to be so dried or otherwise 
prepared as effectually to deprive such material of all 
offensive odors, and to preserve the same entirely inof- 
fensive immediately after the removal thereof from the 
receptacles in which the rendering process may be 
conducted. 
Sec. 82. 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, turpen- 
tine, or tar, or for conducting any other business that 
will or does generate any unwholesome, offensive, or 
deleterious gas, smoke, deposite or exhalation, or any 
business that is or would be dangerous to life or detri- 
mental to health. 
Sec. 83. That no animal or vegetable substance, nor 
street-sweepings, muck, or silt, nor dirt gathered in 
cleaning yards, building 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 unwholsome, 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. 
Sec. 84. That no ground or material filled with of- 
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to arise, through or from the same, any offensive smell 
or deleterions 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 therefore obtained from this 
Board. 
Sec. 85. That no petroleum oil, kerosene oil (or 
other liquid having like composition or qualities as a 
burning fluid as said oil) shall be kept or exposed or 
offered for sale as a burning fluid for lamps or any re- 
ceptacle for the purpose of illumination, nor shall such 
oil or fluid or any description thereof be sold or kept or 
exposed or offered for sale, or given away for use, or be 
used as a burning fluid for any such lamp or receptacle, 
or be kept for such use, unless such oil or fluid shall be 
of such quality and ingredients that it shall stand and 
be equal to the following test and conditions, to wit : 
It shall not evolve an inflammable vapor at a tempera- 
ture below one hundred (100) degrees of the Fahrenheit 
thermometer. 
Sec. 86.* That no fat, tallow, or lard shall be melted 
or rendered, except when fresh from the slaughtered 
animal, and taken directly from the places of slaughter 
in the city of New York, and in a cofidition 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 
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improved means and processes ; and everything preced- 
ing, 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 New 
York to be rendered or melted, and none is to be render- 
ed or melted that has come from any place outside of 
said city, except as part of the living animal, unless in 
accordance with the terms of a special permit in writing 
from this Board. 
FILTH—DIRT. 
Sec. 87. That no part of the contents of or substances 
from any sink, privy, or cess-pool, nor any manure, 
ashes, garbage, rubbish, or dirt, shall be by any person 
flung or allowed to run or drop into or remain in any 
street or public place, except as herein elsewhere speci- 
fied ; nor shall the same he thrown or allowed to fall or 
run into the North or East River, save through the 
proper underground connection. 
Sec. 88. That no swill, brine, urine of animals or 
other offensive animal nuisance, nor any stinking, nox- 
ious liquid, or other filthy matter of any kind, shall by 
any person he allowed to run or fall from out of any 
bpilding, vehicle, or erection into or upon any street or 
public place, or be taken or put therein, save as herein- 
elsewhere provided. 
Sec. 89. That no butchers’offal or garbage, nor any 
dead animals, nor any putrid or stinking animal or 
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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 portions of said city. 
Sec. 90. That no person shall draw off, or allow to 
run off into any ground, street, or place of said city, the 
contents (or any part thereof) of any vault, privy, cistern, 
cess-pool, or sink; nor shall any owner, tenant, or occu- 
pant of any building to which any vault, sink, privy, or 
cess-pool 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 permit 
said contents to become offensive; nor shall any privy 
or other erection in this section mentioned be tilled with 
or covered with dirt till its filthy contents shall be 
emptied. 
Sec. 91. That no person shall throw into, or deposit 
in any vault, sink, privy, or cess-pool, any offal, ashes, 
meat, fish, garbage, or other substance, except that of which 
any such place is the appropriate receptacle. 
Sec. 92. That neither the contents of any such tub, or 
of any receptacle, cess-pool, 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 life or health. 
Sec. ,93. 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, 34 
perfectly tight, and adequately provided with a strong 
cover and with hoops and handles; shall not be allowed 
to be filled to within four inches of any part of the top 
and shall not be allowed (or its contents) to be offensive. 
And the provisions of this Code relative to emptying 
cess-pools, and to throwing any substance 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 North or East Eiver, or into any street or place, any 
substance being, or having been part of, the contents of 
any such vault, cess-pool, privy, sink, tub, or receptacle, 
or any offal. 
Sec. 94. That no person shall deposit upon any street 
or public place within the generally built-up portion of 
the City of New York, or upon any paved street, any 
dirt or brick, or other material or dirt taken from any 
ground therein, in such manner as to occupy more than 
one hundred square feet of surface of any street or placo 
(and the same shall be compact and at one side), nor 
allow the same to remain more than twelve hours, without 
a permit from this Department, or unless such occupancy 
shall be otherwise duly authorized by paramount authority. 
Nor shall any such substance be so deposited or allowed 
to remain, by any person, as to obstruct the free flowage 
along any gutter. 
Sec. 95. 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 New York, forthwith to provide or cause to be 
provided, and at all times thereafter to keep and cause 
to be kept and provided, within such building or place 
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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 occupant; and every such box, barrel, 
and tub designed 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 garb- 
age and liquid substances; and ashes and rubbish shall 
not be placed or kept in the same vessels with garbage and 
liquid substances; and all ashes, rubbish, garbage, and 
liquid substances that should be removed from such build- 
ing and place of business, or from that part for which said 
receptacles were provided, and none other (without the 
proper consent), shall be placed therein, and no such box, 
barrel, or tub shall remain on any sidewalk, or in any 
public place, longer ihan may be needful lor the removal 
of the contents thereof. 
Sec. 96. That such boxes, tubs, and barrels shall be 
placed and kept in such a position (unless kept within or 
upon private grounds, within the sidewalks) as the in- 
spectors or agents of this Department shall provide or 
the police direct; and no person, not for that purpose 
authorized, shall interfere therewith, or with the contents 
thereof. 
Sec. 97. That all occupants, so preferring, may de- 
liver their ashes, garbage and rubbish directly to the 
proper carts, to be taken away at any hour of the day 
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such articles from receptacles delivered at any such hour; 
provided, that such garbage or rubbish be not highly filthy 
or offensive; and in the latter case, the same shall not be 
so delivered or received during the period from seven 
o’clock, a. m., of any day till ten o’clock of the evening of 
the same day. 
Sec. 98.* 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 agi- 
tated or exposed, nor shall any mat, carpet, or cloth be 
shaken or beaten, nor any cloth, yarn garment, or ma- 
terial, or substance be scoured, cleaned, or hung, nor 
any business be conducted over, or any rags, damaged 
merchandise, wet, broken, or leaking casks, barrels, or 
boxes, or broken bales of merchandise or goods, be 
placed, kept, or exposed for sale 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 fall- 
ing, to the peril of life, or dust or lighted material flying 
into any street, place, or building, from any building or 
erection, while the same is being altered, repaired, or 
demolished, or otherwise. 
Sec. 99. That every person who shall have paved, or 
caused to be paved, any street or place, shall cause all 
rubbish, dirt, and whatsoever else he has deposited or 
allowed to be deposited on such pavement, to be removed 
from the several parts of such pavement within five 
days from the time of the same being deposited thereon. 
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And every person who has removed any flag-stone, curb- 
stone, pavement stone, or other stone, or dirt, or iron, 
in or from any street, sidewalk, or place, for the purpose 
of repairs, or for the purpose of paving, flagging, or 
curbing, or repairing, recurbing, or reflagging, or mak- 
ing any repairs or changes, or ortherwise, shall cause the 
same, or a proper substitute therefor, to be placed or re- 
placed and completed as soon as the same can reasonably 
be done. 
Sec. 100.* That every owner, lessee, tenant, and oc- 
cupant of any stall, 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 and 
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 
appurtenances thereof, in a cleanly and wholesome con- 
dition, so that no offensive smell detrimental to health 
shall be allowed to escape therefrom; and when within 
three hundred feet from any occupied dwelling-house, or 
of any manufactory where more than five persons are 
employed, the removals from the stables 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 10 o’clock a. m. and 6 o’clock 
n. m. , without a permit from this Board. Every such 
stall, stable, or apartment, where horses or cattle are 
kept, shall have an underground and properly covered 
manure vault of not less than sixty-four cubic feet capa- 
city. But the Sanitary Superintendent is authorized 
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to issue permits to be regularly reported to tbis Board, 
regulating such removal within said hours. 
Sec. 101. That no person shall empty or attempt to 
empty any vault, sink, privy, or cess-pool in the city of 
New York, except pursuant to a permit therefor first 
received from this Department. 
Sec. 102. That from and after the first day of Septem- 
ber, 1872, no part of the contents of any privy, vault, 
sink, or cess-pool, except substances other than excre- 
ments, insoluble in water, or any accumulation of any 
offensive fluid, liquid, or semi-liquid substance or ma- 
terial, being in any excavation, cellar or place within 
the limits of the city of New York, shall be removed 
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 
Department. 
Sec. 103. That the drivers of all carts for the removal 
of any garbage, offal, rubbish, or dirt from any building 
or premises, shall give adequate notice to those dwelling 
in any street whose buildings or premises such cart is 
about to or should approach for the removal of any sub- 
stance aforesaid. 
Sec. 104. That no person shall engage in the business 
of a scavenger, or of transporting manure, swill, ashes, 
offal, rubbish, or garbage, or any offensive or noxious 
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the city of New York (except the persons acting under 
the street-cleaning commissioners, or the contractor for 
cleaning the streets, and as this Department may pro- 
vide), until he shall have first received a permit from 
this Department of such form and effect as the regula- 
tions of the Board shall provide, authorizing such per- 
son so to engage. 
Sec. 105. That every cart and other vehicle hereafter 
constructed for or engaged about any business, or in- 
tended to be loaded with any matter or substance in the 
last section mentioned, shall be constructed according 
to this Code, and to the regulations and orders of the 
Board of Health of the Health Department. 
Sec. 106. That no cart or other vehicle for carrying any 
offal, swill, garbage, or rubbish, or the contents of any 
privy, vault, cess-pool, 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 connec- 
tion therewith, shall be stored and kept in some place 
where no needless offence shall be given to any of the 
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Sec. 107. That all carts and vehicles in the last 
section mentioned, and boxes, tubs, and receptacles 
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 the 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, or boxes, and 
receptacles shall be adequately and tightly covered, as 
the orders or regulations of this Department may pro- 
vide or direct. 
Sec. 108. That no driver of such cart or vehicle, nor 
any person having undertaken or being engaged about 
the loading or unloading thereof, nor person engaged 
about the cleaning or emptying, or having undertaken 
to empty or remove any manure, garbage, offal, or the 
contents of any vault, sink, privy, cess-pool, or any nox- 
ious or offensive substance, shall do or permit to be 
done about the same, or in connection therewith, that 
which shall be needlessly offensive or filthy in respect 
to any person, street, place, building, or premises. 
Sec. 109. 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 following 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 repair, or of such faulty construction, or 
being so improperly driven or managed, that any 
offensive liquid, or any manure, garbage, rubbish, offal, 
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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. 
Sec. 110. That all putrid or offensive matter, and all 
night-soil, and the contents of sinks, privies, vaults, and 
cess-pools, and all noxious substances, in the built-up 
portion of said city, shall, before their removal or expo- 
sure, be disinfected and rendered inoffensive by the 
owner, lessee, or occupant 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 disinfected 
and rendered inoffensive, the persons (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 of the Health Department, not exceeding twelve 
cents per cubic foot for making such disinfection and 
removal, to be paid by such tenant, owner, or occupant. 
Sec. 111. That neither the owner, tenant, nor occu- 
pant of any building or premises, in the built-up portions 
of the city of New York, shall employ, cause, or permit 
any part of the contents of any vault, privy, sink, or 
cess-pool (being thereon, and of which he has control) 
to be removed, unless according to a permit or the regu- 
lations of the said Department. 
Sec. 112.* That no pile or deposit of manure, offal, 
dirt, or garbage, nor any accumulation of any offensive 
or nauseous substances, shall be made within the built-up 
portions of the city of New York, or upon any open 
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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 
these to he speedily, and according to the duty of any 
person, removed, lying at) any such pier, wharf, or bulk- 
head, except according to a resolution of this Board 
specially authorizing the same, and a permit obtained 
from this Department, and according to its regulations. 
And no person shall contribute to the making of any 
such accumulations. Nor shall any straw, hay, or other 
substance which has been used as bedding for animals, 
be placed or dried upon any street, sidewalk, or roof 
of any building, nor shall any straw, hay, or other sub- 
stance, or the contents of any mattress or bed, be de- 
posited or burnt, nor shall accumulation thereof be 
made within two hundred feet of any street, without a 
permit from this Board. 
Sec. 113. That no pile or deposit of manure, offal, or 
garbage, nor any accumulation of any offensive or nau- 
seous substance, shall be made within three hundred feet 
of any church or place of worship, nor within the limits 
of said city within three hundred feet of any inhabited 
dwelling ; nor shall any person or corporation 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, within three hundred feet of any inhabited 
dwelling; 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. 
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that is liable to emit an offensive exhalation, shall, in or 
adjacent to the built-up portions of the city of New York, 
be turned or stirred (except about its removal), in such 
way as to be liable, by reasons thereof, to increase such 
exhalations. 
Sec. 115. 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 or shells thereof accumulate, shall 
daily cause all such shells, offal, or refuse matter to be 
removed therefrom to some proper place, and shall keep 
his house, saloon, and premises at all times free from 
any offensive smells or accumulations. 
Sec. 116. 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 con- 
tractors for street 'cleaning, shall be transported through 
or along any street of the city of New York, except in 
tightly-covered iron-bound casks or boxes, and none of 
the contents of such casks or boxes shall be allowed to 
fall, or leak, or spill therefrom. 
Sec. 117. That the owners, lessees, tenants, and mana- 
gers of every blacksmith or other shop, forge, coal-yard, 
foundry, manufactory, and premises 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, cin- 
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from any such building, place, or premises to the detri- 
ment or annoyance of any person not being therein or 
thereupon engaged. 
Sec. 118. That from and after the 1st day of June, 
1870, every furnace employed in the working of engines 
by steam, or in any mill, factory, 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 Department. 
Sec. 119. That no vault, privy, sink, cistern, or cess- 
pool shall hereafter be made or rebuilt in the city of 
New York, except in accordance with the regulations, 
and pursuant to a permit first obtained from this Depart- 
ment; nor shall any erection or cover be made or put 
upon, or over the same, until the same has been in- 
spected by the Sanitary Superintendent, or any officer 
detailed by him, and been found to correspond to such 
permit and regulations ; and no privy shall be built 
within two feet of the line of any lot. 
DISEASED ANIMALS. 
Sec. 120. 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 contagions 
among such animals, shall be brought into the city of 
New York. 
Sec. 121.* That no person shall keep, retain, or allow 
or employ to be kept or retained, at any place within or 
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adjacent to the built-up portions of the city of New 
York, any horse, ass, or colt having the disease known 
as glanders or farcy, but shall at once report the fact to 
the Board of Health of said city, and under the direction 
of the Sanitary Superintendent shall remove such ani- 
mal in the manner designated by such Sanitary Super- 
intendent. No animal having glanders or farcy, or any 
contagious disease, or that shall die thereof, shall be 
removed, disposed of, or exposed in any street or public 
place in said city, without a written permit from said 
Board of Health, and then only in accordance with the 
terms of such permit. 
BEAD, SICK, AND INJURED ANIMALS. 
Sec. 122. That no person shall leave in or throw into 
any place or street, or public water, nor offensively ex- 
pose or bury, the body (or any part thereof) of any dead 
or fatally sick or injured animal ; nor shall any person 
keep any dead animal or any offensive meat, bird, fowl, 
or fish in a place where the same may be dangerous to 
the life or detrimental to the health of any person. 
Sec. 123. That any animal, being in any street or 
public place, within or adjacent to the built-up portions 
of New York city, and appearing in the estimation of 
any officer or inspector of this Department (and of two 
discreet citizens, called by such officer or inspector to 
view the same in his presence), injured or diseased past 
recovery, for any useful purpose, and not being attended 
and properly cared for by the owner or some proper per- 
son to have charge thereof for such owner ; or not hav- 
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hour after being found, or left in such condition, may 
be deprived of life by such officer or inspector, or as he 
may direct; and shall hereafter, unless at once removed 
by the owner or person, be treated as any other animal 
found on a street or place. 
Sec. 124. That any person having a dead animal or 
any animal past recovery, and not killed for and proper 
for use as meat or fish, or in any offensive condition, or 
sick with an infectious or contagious disease, on his pre- 
mises 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 the Sanitary 
Superintendent of this Department, to the place so 
designated. 
Sec. 125. That it shall be the diity of the owner, and 
of the person that last had or then having charge of any 
animal, so dead or injured or diseased, and being in any 
street or public place, to at once give notice thereof, and 
of the nearest street and avenue where it may be, to 
some inspector or officer of this Department, or of the 
Sanitary Bureau, unless such animal is at once removed 
by some proper person. 
Sec. 126. That no person other than the inspectors 
or officers of this Department 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 
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herein authorized, except that the owner or person hav- 
ing 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 Department. 
Sec. 127. That no person shall obstruct, delay, or in- 
terfere 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 bulkhead set apart for the use of 
any contractor or person engaged in removing any offal, 
garbage, rubbish, dirt, dead animal, night-soil, or other 
like substances, or with the proper performance of such 
contracts. 
Sec. 128. That it shall be the duty of every contrac- 
tor and person (his agent and employees) who has con- 
tracted or undertaken to remove any diseased or dead 
animal, offal, rubbish, garbage, dirt, street-sweepings, 
night-soil, or other filthy, offensive, or noxious substance, 
or is 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. 
Sec. 129. That no matter or material in the section 
last mentioned shall lay piled up, or partially raked 
together, in any street or place before the removal 
thereof, more than a reasonable time, not for more than 
four hours in the day-time, under any circumstances. 
Sec. 130.* That no ship, boat, or other vessel or 
article, shall be taken or allowed by any person to come 
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into or lay to, or at, or within any dock, pier, bulkhead, 
or slip, or to be placed thereon for the purpose of the ship- 
ment or removal of any offal, garbage, rubbish, blood, 
or offensive animal or vegetable matter, 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 Department. 
KEPOETS AS TO CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS 
DISEASES. 
Sec. 131. 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 has prescribed for or attended for 
the first time since having such a contagious 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 physician thereat must, at his peril, see 
that such report is or has been made by some attending 
physician. 
Sec. 132. That it shall be the duty of each and every 
practising physician in the city of New York to report, 
in writing, to the Board of Health, the death of any of 
his patients who shall have died in said city of conta- 
gious or infectious disease, within twenty-four hours 
thereafter, and to state in such report the specific name 
and type of such disease. 
Sec. 133. That every keeper of any boarding-house, 
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shall, within twenty-four hours, report in writing to the 
Sanitary Bureau the same particulars in the last session 
required of any physician, concerning any person being 
at any of the aforesaid houses or hotels, and attacked 
with any contagious disease. 
Sec. 134. That the commissioners, managers, 'princi- 
pal, 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 or competent personjto be" made twice in each 
week) to the Sanitary Bureau, and state therein the 
name, if known, and condition and disease of any and 
every person being thereat, and sick of any contagious 
disease. 
Sec. 135. That the master, chief officer, andn con- 
signee, or one of them, of every vessel not being in 
quarrantine, or within quarrantine limits, but being 
within one-fourthTof a'jmile of any dock, wharf, pier, or 
building of said city, shall daily report to the Sanitary 
Bureau, or cause to be reported, in writing, the particu- 
lars, and shall therein state the name, disease, and con- 
dition of any person being in or on such vessel and sick 
of any contagious disease. 
Sec. 136. That it shall be the duty of every person, 
knowing of any individual in said city sick of any conta- 
gious 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 Department, to at once report the facts to the 
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Sanitary Bureau in regard to the disease, condition, and 
dwelling-place or condition of such sick person. 
Sec. 137. 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 writ- 
ing, 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. 
Sec. 138. That every master and chief officer of any 
vessel, and every physician of, or who practised on, any 
vessel which shall arrive in the port of New York from 
any other port, shall at once report to this Department 
any facts connected with any person or thing on said 
vessel, or that came thereon, which he has reasons 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 during the voyage or since her 
arrival, and infected persons or articles thereon. 
Sec. 139. 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 Superintendent, written notice of 
any infected article or person, and of every person sick 
of a contagious disease, being or having within ten days 
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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 Department to know, or be or become 
dangerous or prejudicial to life or health in said city. 
REMOVALS FROM, AND UNLOADING OF, VESSELS. 
Sec. 140. That every master, owner, charterer, part- 
owner, and consignee of any vessel that shall bring any 
cotton into the port of New York and within the limits 
of the city of New York, between the first day of May 
and the first day of November of each year, shall at 
once report to this Department, or cause to be made, in 
writing, a report to this Department of the fact of any 
such cotton being in a dangerous, infected, or unsound 
condition, or having been exposed to any infection. 
Sec. 141. That no master, charterer, owner, part- 
owner, or consignee of any vessel, or any other person, 
shall bring to any dock, pier, wharf, or building within 
one thousand feet thereof, in said city, or unload at any 
dock, building, or pier therein, or have on storage in the 
built-up portions of said city, any skins, hides, rags, or 
similar articles or materials, having been brought from 
any foreign country or any infected place, or from any 
points south of Norfolk, Virginia, without or otherwise 
than according to written permit so to do from this 
Department; and no person shall sell, exchange, or in any 
way make exposure of any straw, bedding, or other arti- 
cles 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 has been adequately 
cleansed or disinfected. 52 
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Sec. 142. That no owner, agent, or consignee or any 
vessel or cargo, and no officer of any vessel (in respect of 
either of which vessel or cargo a permit, according to 
any laAV, ordinance, or regulation shall or should have 
been obtained to pass quarrantine, or to come up to the 
water-front of the city of New York) shall unlade or 
land, or cause to be unladen or landed, such cargo, or 
any part thereof, in said city, without having first re- 
ceived the written permit of this Department so to do. 
Sec. 143. That no captain, officer, consignee, owner, 
or other person in charge of any vessel (or having right 
and authority to prevent the same) shall remove or aid 
in removing from any vessel to the shore (save as legally 
authorized by the health officer of the port of New 
York, and into quarantine grounds or buildings only) 
any sick person of, or person that has been exposed to 
and is liable very soon to develop any contagious dis- 
ease, nor to remove or aid in removing any articles that 
have been exposed to the contagion of any such disease, 
except in accordance with a permit of this Department, 
or with its special regulations. 
Sec. 144. 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 therefrom liable to quarantine, ac- 
cording to the ninth section of the three hundred and 
fifty-eighth chapter of the Laws of 1863 (or under any 
other laws, and whether such quarantine has been made 
or suffered, or not), to come or be brought to any point 
nearer than three hundred yards of any dock or pier, or 
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according to a permit of this Department. Nor shall any 
vessel, or person or thing therein or therefrom, having 
been in quarantine, come or be brought within the last- 
named distance of any last-named place, without the per- 
mit or assent of this Department. 
Sec. 145. 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 ves- 
sel 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 Department; and it shall be no 
excuse that such person or article so offending, or the 
occasion of offence, has passed through quarantine, or 
has a permit from any other source than this Depart- 
ment. 
Sec. 146. That no owner, part-owner, charterer, agent, 
or consignee of any vessel, nor any officer or person hav- 
ing charge or control of the same, shall allow to be cast 
therefrom, and no person shall cast therefrom, into any 
public waters of the city of New York, any straw, bed- 
ding, clothing, or other substance, from any incoming 
vessel, from any foreign port, or port south of Cape 
Henlopen, without a permit from this Board, except as 
allowed by the quarantine authorities. 
HEALTH OFFICES. 
Sec. 147. That the Health Officer of the Port of New 
York, his assistants and deputies, shall at all times keep 
this Department informed, by weekly written reports, of 
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persons sick in the floating or other hospitals thereat, 
and of the diseases with which they were severally afflict- 
ed ; he and they shall also receive into the floating hos- 
pital 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 Superintendent, any person, vessel, or 
article which this Department has ordered to quaran- 
tine. 
REMOVALS OE SICK PERSONS. 
Sec. 148. That no person shall, within the built-up 
portion of this city, without a permit from this Depart- 
ment, carry or remove from one building to any other, or 
from any vessel to the shore, any person sick of any con- 
tagious 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 con- 
nected therewith, or in respect of the care or custody 
thereof, or by needless exposure of himself, cause or 
contribute to, or promote, the spread of disease from 
any such person, or from any dead body. 
VACCINATION. 
Sec. 149. 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 effectually vaccinated, 
that such minor or individual shall not take, or be liable 
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EXPOSURE TO DISEASE. 
Sec. 150. That no parent, master, or custodian of any 
child or minor (having power and authority to prevent) 
shall permit any such child or minor 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. 
Sec. 151. That no interment of the dead hody of any 
human being, or disposition thereof in any tomb, vault, 
or cemetery, shall be made within the city of New York, 
without a permit therefor granted by this Department, 
nor otherwise than in accordance therewith, and no sex- 
ton or other person shall assist in, or assent to, or allow 
any such interment, or aid or assist about preparing any 
grave or place of deposit for any such body, for which 
such permit has not been given ’authorizing the same. 
And it shall be the duty of every person who shall re- 
ceive any such permit, to preserve and to return the 
same to this Department, as its regulations may require. 
Sec. 152. 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 New York, nor any of said receptacle be opened, 
exposed, or disturbed, except according to the terms of a 
permit therefor given by this Department; 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. 
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•undertaker in the city'of New York, or has the 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 Department. 
Sec. 154. That every sexton and other person having 
charge of any burying-ground, cemetery, tomb, or vault 
in the city of New York, shall, before twelve o’clock of 
Monday of each week, make return to this Department 
of the bodies and persons buried since their last return, 
and in such form, and specifying such particulars, as 
the special regulations of this Department shall require. 
Sec. 155.* That no captain, agent, or person having 
charge of, or attached to any ferry-boat, sailing or other 
vessel, nor any person in charge of any car, stage, or 
other vehicle, or public or private conveyance, shall con- 
vey or allow to be conveyed thereon, or by any means 
aforesaid, nor shall any person convey or allow to be car- 
ried or conveyed, in any manner, from or in the city of 
New York, the dead body of any human being, or any 
part thereof, without a permit therefor from this De- 
partment. And the proper coupon for that purpose 
attached to any such permit, when issued, shall be 
preserved and returned to this Department, as its regu- 
lations 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 office, or 
* As amended, June 5, 1877, and June 25, 1878. 57 
Board of health, of the city of Brooklyn, as to a burial or 
transit permit issued from this Department, when the 
death of the person named in the permit shall have oc- 
curred in the city of Brooklyn ; and provided that the 
same elfect shall be given, under this section, to a burial 
or transit permit issued by the Board of Health of the 
Vital Statistics of Richmond County, as to a burial per- 
mit from this Department, when the death of the 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 
Department, 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 the city of Yonkers, as to 
a burial or transit permit issued from this Department, 
when the death of the person named in the permit shall 
have occurred in said city of Yonkers. 
And provided that the same effect shall be given, under 
this section, to a burial or transit permit issued under 
the laws of the State of New Jersey, and especially pur- 
suant to provisions of an act of said State, entitled “An 
act concerning the registry and returns of marriages, 
births, and deaths,” passed April 5, 1878, as to a burial 
or transit permit issued from this Department; subject, 
nevertheless, in every case to all the care, precautions; 
and dilligence prescribed by the rules and regulations of 
this Department. 
Sec. 156. That no person shall retain, expose, or 
allow to be retained or exposed, the dead body of any 
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human being, to the peril or prejudice of the life or 
health of any person. 
Sec. 157. 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 per- 
son 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 the Bureau of Vital Statis- 
tics the fact of such discovery of such body, the place 
where, and time when, the same was discovered or seen, 
and where the same is or may be found, and any facts 
known by which said body may be identified, or the 
cause of death ascertained. 
Sec. 158. That no person shall retain or allow to be 
retained unburied the dead body of any human being for 
a longer time than four days after the death of such per- 
son, without a permit from this Department, which per- 
mit shall specify the length of time during which such 
body may be retained unburied. This ordinance shall 
not apply to bodies retained in the public Morgue at 
Bellevue Hospital during the time of such detention. 
COEONEBS. 
Sec. 159. That at least two hours before the holding 
of any inquest within the city of New York upon a 
dead body, the coroner who has been notified of any 
death, or who may propose or intend to hold such in- 
quest, shall transmit and cause to be delivered to the 
Bureau of Vital Statistics a written notice containing 
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1. The fact of any such call for the holding of an in- 
quest, and by whom made, and when and from whom 
received by the coroner. 
2. The place (giving the street and street number, 
and if there be none, then other particulars) where the 
body is. 
3. What is reported to be the cause of the death. 
4. When and where the death took place, and where 
the body has since been. 
5. When and where he proposes to hold the inquest, 
giving the street, the street number (or otherwise suffi- 
ciently designating such place), and the hour. 
6. What physician, or physicians, or other professional 
person last attended such deceased person, or attended 
such person within forty-eight hours of such decease. 
At any time after the commencement of any inquest, 
the coroner holding, or who should hold, or wTho held 
such inquest, shall w'ithin twelve hours after the receipt 
of a written request so to do from the Sanitary Superin- 
tendent, answer in writing such of the following or such 
other questions as may be propounded to him by the 
said inspector to the best of his knowledge, informa- 
tion, and belief. 
Report of Coroner [here insert Conor's name], upon 
the body of [here Jill in name or description of deceased], 
on the [here fill in year, month, and day], at [here mention 
street and number], 
1. What was the age, sex, and last occupation, resi- 
dence, and nativity of such deceased person ? 
2. At what house or place, and in or near what street 
or avenue, and at what number therein did such 
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3. If such person died of any poison, when and where 
was the same administered, and Avhat was the kind of 
poison ? 
4. If such person died of violence, when and where 
was the same committed, and upon what part of the 
body and organs, and of what did it consist? 
5. If such person died of any other cause, state such 
cause, and when and where the cause took effect upon 
or was received by the deceased ? 
6. Who was the last in care'of or with'such'deceased 
person, and at what place and at Avhat time before 
death, and Avhen, giving the full name and residence of 
each such person V 
7. What Avas the name and residence of the physician 
and persons Avho last attended, and of each physician 
and person Avho Avithin forty-eight hours of such death 
attended upon srrch deceased person, and Avhere did he 
so attend ; and whether said physician Avas notified of 
or attended and Avas examined at such inquest ? 
8. The times, places, and dates of holding the inquest, 
and the names and residences by street number of the 
jurors and Avitnesses that attended, and dates of their 
attendance, and Avhen and where the body of the deceas- 
ed Avas present at such inquest? 
9. Was any post-mortem examination made, and if so, 
Avhen, Avhere, and by Avhom, and Avho Avas present 
thereat ? 
It shall be the duty of all coroners in said city to make 
return to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of all inquisi- 
tions by them taken, except when, by law, such inquests 
are required to be filled elsewhere, and such return shall 
include the evidence taken on such inquest, and the 
verdict of the jury, and the full names and residences 
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And in all cases where the inquest may be required by 
law to be filed elsewhere, such coroner shall make re- 
turn to said Bureau of a copy of such inquest, including 
a copy of such evidence and verdict ; and all such re- 
turns shall be made within forty-eight hours after the 
holding of any and every inquest. 
Sec. 160. That every clergyman, magistrate, and 
other person who may perform a marriage ceremony, 
shall make and keep a registry of the marriage cele- 
brated, 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 registry 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 at a last illness, or has been present by 
request at the death of any person, shall make and 
preserve a registry of such death, stating the cause 
thereof, and specifying the date, hour, place, and street 
number of such death. 
Sec. 161. 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 the Bureau of Vital 
Statistics a copy of such register, signed by such per- 
son, 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 
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hours after the death of any person to whom such 
registry may or should relate, which shall thereupon he 
placed on file in the said Bureau. 
Sec. 162. 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 any entry, registry record, or certificate, as to 
births, deaths, or marriages, shall send, or cause to be 
sent, to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of this Depart- 
ment, within five days after the knowledge of the birth, 
death, or marriage, a full and true statement in writing, 
containing 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 marriage, which shall thereupon 
be placed on file in said Bureau. 
Sec. 163. That every persontherein referred to within 
the city of New York shall perform the acts required 
in the following provisions (so far as the same are ap- 
plicable to said city) of section 13 of chapter 74 of the 
Laws of 1866, to wit : 
“ It shall be the duty of the next of kin of any person 
deceased, and of each person being with such deceased 
person at his or her death, 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 chiid born in 
said district (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 
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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, the cause of death 
of such deceased person, and the ward and street, and 
place of such person’s death and last residence.” 
EAILEOAD CAES. 
Sec. 164. That no railroad car, or vehicle constructed 
for or engaged in the business of carrying passengers on 
any line of railroad in the city of New York, and which 
car is propelled by horse-power, and not by steam- 
power, shall be used with cushions on the seats, or on 
the backs of the seats thereof. 
Sec. 165. That each and every car used upon any 
railroad in the city of New York for the carrying or 
transportation of passengers, shall on each and every 
day on which it may be used for the carrying or trans- 
portation of passengers, be carefully and thoroughly 
washed and cleaned, so that all filth and dirt are removed 
from the inside of the car. 
Sec. 166.* That no straw or hay shall at any time 
be used or placed on the floor of any railroad car en- 
gaged or used in the business of carrying or transport- 
ing passengers within the city of New York, unless the 
whole of such material shall be entirely fresh, clean, and 
inoffensive in the morning of each day during which the 
same shall be used or placed on such railroad car, and 
such straw or hay, when used for the purposes herein- 
before mentioned, shall be wholly renewed at least once 
each day. 
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Sec. 167. 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 railroad 
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. 
Sec. 168.* That every car used for the transportation 
of passengers in the city of New York, shall be so con- 
structed as at all times to provide and secure good 
ventilation. 
GENERAL SUBJECTS. 
Sec. 169. 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 there- 
of, nor officers or managers, or persons having charge of 
any place of public worship, shall so far omit or neglect 
any duty or reasonable care or precaution respecting 
the safety or health of any scholar, pupil, or attendant, 
or respecting the temperature, ventilation, or cleanliness 
or strength of any church, hall of worship, school-house, 
school-room, or place of practice or exercise, or relative 
to anything appurtenant thereto, as that by reason of 
such neglect or omission, the life or health of any person 
shall suffer or incur any avoidable peril or detriment. 
Sec. 170. That no owner, part-owner, tenant, or occu- 
pant of any building or erection shall allow' any part 
thereof, or any substance therein, or anything thereto 
attached, and which any such person can control or 
remove, to continue or remain in a position or condition 
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that shall imperil the life or safety of any person thereat 
or therein; or who is or may properly he in any street or 
place. 
Sec. 171. That no person shall take, carry, expose, 
or place (or induce any other person so to do) in or upon 
any street or public place, any substance, animal, or 
thing, which shall imperil the life or health of any 
person who is or may properly be in such street or 
place. 
Sec. 172. That no person owning, occupying, or hav- 
ing 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. 
Sec. 173. That no person shall race or run or rapidly 
drive any horse or other animal in a public street or 
place, or allow the same so to move, or throw or send up 
any kite, stone, or other substance, or burn or set off 
any fireworks, fire-crackers, or other substance, whereby, 
or by reason of which, any human life may be put in 
danger or peril. 
Sec. 174. That no person shall engage in or encourage 
any fight, or the dealing of any blow by any human be- 
ing, in said city, against any other human being; nor 
shall any person permit such fight, having power and 
authority to prevent the same. 
Sec. 175. Annulled January 28, 1879. 
Sec. 176. That no person shall sell, loan, or give to 
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or other deadly or dangerous weapon, tvhen there shall 
be any reason for such first-named person to think or 
believe that any danger to life may illegally result from 
the giving, loaning, selling, or from the use of such arm 
or weapon. 
Sec. 177. That no large or church bell shall be rung 
or tolled at any funeral in said city, without a permit 
therefor from this Department, nor shall such bell be 
rung or tolled at any other time therein to the prejudice 
or peril of the life and health of any human being. 
Sec. 178. That every person who omits or refuses to 
comply with, or who resists any of the provisions of the 
Sanitary Code, or any of the rules, orders, sanitary regu- 
lations, or ordinances established or declared by this 
Board, or any of the provisions of said seventy-fourth 
chapter of the Laws of 1866, or of chapter six hundred 
and eighty-six of the Laws of 1866, or of chapter nine 
hundred and fifty-six of the Laws of 1867, in so far as 
the same are now in force and applicable to the city of 
New York, or the execution of any order or special reg- 
ulation of this Department, will be liable to the arrest, 
suit, penalty, fine, and punishment in said laws pro- 
vided and declared; of all Of whieh notice must be taken. 
ADDITIONAL OEDINANCES OF THE SANITAEY CODE. 
Sec. 179.* No adulterated or deleterious coffees, teas, 
or other preparations from which drinks are made shall 
be bought, sold, held, or offered for sale. 
Sec. 180. f That no offal, blood, scrap, guts, gut-fat, 
or refuse of slaughter-houses shall be transported 
* As adopted, July 29, 1873. 
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through, brought in, or allowed to be between Second 
Avenus and Tenth Avenue in the city of New York 
without a special written permit from this Department. 
Sec. 181. Annulled Jan. 16, 1877. 
Sec. 182.* That the owners, lessees and occupants of 
any building in the city of New York, in which hatch- 
ways or well-holes exist, or shall hereafter be con- 
structed, shall cause the same to be effectually barred 
or inclosed by railing, gates, or by other contrivances 
approved by the Board of Health, for the prevention of 
accidents therefrom. 
Sec. 183. f That no person shall place or deposit gar- 
bage, rubbish, or liquid substance of any kind in any 
box, barrel, tub, cart, wagon, or any receptacle whatever, 
used for the reception, the holding, or the transporta- 
tion of ashes; nor shall any one put ashes in or upon 
garbage, rubbish, or liquid substances, or in any way 
place together, mix, or have in the same receptacle 
ashes and garbage in the city of New York. 
Sec. 1844 That on and after the fourth day of July, 
1876, the business of slaughtering animals in the city 
of New York shall not be conducted south of One 
Hundred and Tenth Street, unless the same shall be 
done in buildings located directly upon the water front, 
each having a capacity sufficient for the yarding and 
slaughtering daily of one-half of the entire number of 
cattle, or hogs, or small stock (all or separately, according 
to the particular object of each abattoir) slaughtered in 
* Adopted October 14, 1873. 
f Adopted April 28, 1874. 
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this city at the time this ordinance shall go into effect, 
and so constructed as to receive all stock deliverable 
thereat directly from cars or transports; and to discharge 
therefrom all liquid refuse below low-water mark; and 
to secure the proper care and disposition of all parts of 
the slaughtered animals upon the premises, or the im- 
mediate removal thereof by means of boats; and on and 
after the fourth day of July, 1876, no cattle, sheep, 
hogs, or calves shall be driven in the streets of such city 
below One Hundred and Tenth Street; nor shall any 
offensive business growing out of that slaughtering, as 
fat-melting, hide-curing, gut-cleaning, bone-boiling, 
glue-making, etc., etc., be conducted, except on the 
premises constructed and prepared as herein required, 
and devoted to the slaughtering and the disposing 
thereof of all parts of the slaughtered animals as afore- 
said; nor shall any fat, hides, hoofs, or entrails, or 
other refuse parts of slaughtered animals (except fat or 
tallow attached to meat exposed for sale, or collected by 
licensed dealers) be transported in said streets; nor 
shall any buildings be erected or converted into or 
used as a slaughter-house until the plans thereof have 
been duly submitted to the Board of Health, and ap- 
proved in writing by the said Board. 
Sec. 185.* That every veterinary surgeon who is called 
to examine or professionally attend any animal within 
the city of New York, having the glanders or farcy, or 
any contagious disease, shall, within twenty-four hours 
thereafter report in writing to the Board of Health of 
such city the following facts, viz. : 1st, a statement of 
the location of such diseased animal; 2d, the name and 
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address of the owner thereof; 3d, the type and charac- 
ter of the disease. 
Sec. 186.* No milk which has been watered, adulter- 
ated, reduced, or changed in any respect by the addi- 
tion of water or other substance, or by the removal of 
cream, shall be brought into, held, kept, or offered for 
sale at any place in the city of New York ; nor shall any 
one keep, have, or offer for sale in the said city any such 
milk. 
Sec. 187. f That every person who omits or refuses to 
comply with, or who resists any of the provisions of the 
Sanitary Code, or any of the rules, orders, sanitary reg- 
ulations, or ordinances established or declared by this 
Board under or pursuant to any of the provisions of the 
seventy-fourth chapter of the Laws of 1866 ; or of chap- 
ter six hundred and eiglity-six of the Laws of 1866 ; or 
of chapter nine hundred and fifty-six of the Laws of 
1867 ; or of chapter three hundred and thirty-five of the 
Laws of 1873 ; or of chapter seven hundred and fifty- 
seven of the Laws of 1873 ; or of chapter six hundred 
and thirty-six of the Laws of 1874 ; or refuses or neglects 
to comply with any of the provisions of the said laws 
in so far as the same are now in force and applicable to 
the city of New York ; or omits or refuses or neglects 
the execution of any order or special regulation of this 
Department, will be liable to the arrest, suit, penalty, 
fine, and punishment in said laws provided and de- 
clared ; of all of which, notice must be taken. 
Sec. 1884 That hereafter no Texas, Colorado, or other 
February 28,1ST6. 
t Adopted June 12, 1877. 
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dangerous cattle shall he driven through or along the 
public streets, except in those cases only where the 
cattle shall be landed at the foot of the street leading to 
the slaughter-house to which such cattle shall be des- 
tined, and where the street shall be effectually barred or 
closed, so as to prevent the escape of such cattle during 
the transfer from the dock to such slaughter-house, and 
no such cattle shall be landed except in accordance with 
the provisions and restrictions of this ordinance. 
Sec. 189.* Whenever a nuisance in any place at or 
upon any premises in the city of New York shall have 
been found or declared by resolution of the Board of 
Health to exist, and an order shall have been made 
directing the owner or lesese of such premises to make 
suitable and necessary repairs or improvements, or to 
abate the said nuisance, such repairs or improvements 
shall be made, and such nuisance shall be fully abated 
in the manner directed by the Board of Health within 
five days after notice thereof. 
Sec. 190. f All sinks, basins, and stationary tubs in 
every hotel, lodging, tenement, boarding-house, or other 
dwelling in the city of New York, shall be provided 
with proper stench traps directly under each sink, basin, 
or stationary tub, so connected with the waste or soil 
pipe, and so constructed as directed or approved by the 
Board of Health, and with the traps so adjusted as to 
prevent the escape therefrom of foul odors and gases. 
Sec. 191.{ All privy vaults in the yard of any house 
in the city of NeAV York, within twenty feet of any 
* Adopted October 9, 1877. 
t Adopted Oct. 9, 1877, and amended Nov. 27,1877. 
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dwelling, shall he ventilated by means of an eight-inch 
earthenware pipe, laid at least six inches below the sur- 
face of the yard, from the said vault to the nearest wall 
of the building of the greatest altitude at or upon said 
premises, and there connected with a vertical metallic 
shaft of like diameter, extending not less than two feet 
above the roof of such building. And every privy vault 
in the city of New York shall he ventilated in this way, 
unless a permit in writing specially excepting such vault 
from the requirements of this ordinance he granted, and 
it he otherwise ordered by the Board of Health. 
Sec. 192.* Privy vaults shall be ventilated and shall 
be constructed or repaired ; and manure vaults shall be 
covered, provided with drains, and built or repaired in 
the city of New York, in accordance with directions from 
and orders made therefor by the Board of Health. 
Sec. 193. f The waste or soil pipe in every tenement, 
lodging-house, or other dwelling in the city of New 
York shall be ventilated by extending the same by 
means of a pipe of the same size to a height of not less 
than two feet above the roof of the building, or pursuant 
to the terms of a permit in writing from the Board of 
Health. 
Sec. 194.J That no cattle shall be unloaded from boats, 
or shall be driven or allowed in the streets, avenues, or 
public places in said city, unless distinctly and legibly 
marked with a letter, sign, or symbol plainly represent- 
ing the ownership of such animals, which letter, sign, or 
* Adopted Oct. 9, 1877. 
t Adopted Oct. 9, 1877, and amended Nov. 27, 1877. 
t Adopted Nov. 13, 1877. 72 
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symbol shall have been previously registered in the office 
of the Sanitary Superintendent, approved by him, and 
written upon the face of the permit for driving cattle, 
issued from time to time to the owner of such cattle, un- 
der the rules, regulations, and ordinances of this Board. 
Sec. 195.* That no permit for driving cattle in the 
city of New York shall be granted to any person, save 
upon the condition that all such cattle shall be distinctly 
and legibly marked with a mark, sign, or symbol, ap- 
proved by the Sanitary Superintendent, so as clearly to 
indicate the ownership thereof, and it shall be the duty 
of every person applying for or using a permit to drive 
cattle in said city, to file with the Sanitary Superinten- 
dent a correct statement of the mark, sign, or symbol 
employed by him under the provisions of this ordinance. 
Sec. 196. f That it shall be the duty of every owner, 
lessee, or tenant of any vacant, sunken, or excavated lot 
in the city of New York to keep the same at all times 
clean and inoffensive, and to provide around the same 
a proper fence, so as to effectually prevent the throwing 
or depositing therein or thereupon any garbage or of- 
fensive thing whatsoever, and also to prevent persons 
passing from falling into such excavation. 
Sec. 1974 That no live geese, ducks, or other fowls 
shall be kept in any yard, area, celler, coop, building, or 
other place within the built-up portion of the city of 
New York, excepting in the public markets, without a 
permit in writing from this Department. 
* Adopted Nov. IS, 1877. 
t Adopted Nov. 20, 3877, and amended June 11, 1878. 
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Sec. 198.* That on and after the 10th day of May, 1878, 
no cows or cattle shall be led or driven through or along 
any of the streets of that portion of the city of New York 
bounded by Fifty-seventh and Sixty-fourth Streets, Tenth 
and First Avenues, exclusive of these boundary streets 
and avenues, without a permit in writing from this 
Department, and in strict accordance with the routes, 
hours, and terms prescribed and designated therein. 
Sec. 199. f That no deposit of bones, decayed fish, or 
other animal substance, nor any accumulation of bones, 
offensive fish, or other animal substances, shall be made 
in any tenement or dwelling-house, or in the cellars 
thereof, in the city of New York. 
Sec. 200. | No cow shall be kept within the built-up 
portions of the city of New York, without a permit in 
writing therefor from the Health Department. 
Sec. 201. § That for all lodging-houses in which beds 
are let for lodgers, containing four or more beds in any 
apartment therein for the use of lodgers, a permit in 
writing from this Department shall be required, and no 
person in the city of New York shall have, lease, let, or 
keep any such lodging-house or the lodgings therein, or 
assist in the keeping, hire or assist in hiring, or conduct 
the business of any such lodging-house, or the lodgings 
therein, except pursuant to the terms and conditions of 
a permit in writing previously obtained therefor from 
this Department, an application for which shall be made 
in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Board 
♦Adopted April 23, 1878, and amended June 11,1878. 
t Adopted July 2,1878. 
$ Adopted Oct. 15, 1878. 
§ Adopted Jan. 14, 1879- 74 
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of Health by the person or persons who propose to use 
the same. The air space allotted to each person in such 
lodging-houses shall he not less than three hundred 
cubic feet, unless methods for free and adequate venti- 
lation exist in such houses, approved by the said Board 
of Health. 
Sec. 202.* Any cattle, meat, birds, fowl, fish, fruits, 
or vegetables, found by any inspector or officer of this 
Department in a condition which is, in his opinion, 
unwholesome or unfit for use as human food, shall, upon 
the order of the Sanitary Superintendent, be removed 
from any market, street, or public place, and the owner 
or person in charge thereof, when so directed by the said 
inspector or by such order of the Sanitary Superinten- 
dent, shall remove, or cause the same to be removed, to 
the place designated by the Sanitary Superintendent, or 
to the offal dock, and shall not sell, or offer to sell, or 
dispose of the same, for human food. And when, in the 
opinion of the Sanitary Superintendent, any such meat, 
fish, fruits, or vegetables shall be unfit for human food, 
or any such animal, cattle, sheep, swine, or fowls, by 
reason of disease, or exposure to contagious disease, shall 
be unfit for human food, and improper or unfit to re- 
main near other animals or to be kept alive, the Board 
of Health may direct the same to be destroyed, as dan- 
gerous to life and health, and may order any such ani- 
mals, sheep, swine, or fowls to be removed by any in- 
sxjector, police officer, officer, or agent of this Department 
and to be killed and taken to the offal dock. 
Sec. 203. f That hereafter no person shall gather, col- 
lect, accumulate, store, expose, carry, or transport in 
any manner through the streets and public places of this 
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75 
city or in or to any tenement-house, cellar, or house in 
said city, any bones, refuse, or offensive material, with- 
out a special permit in writing, from the Board of Health, 
in accordance with the conditions and subject to the 
limitations thereof, and in such manner as not to cause 
offensive odors or any nuisance whatsoever. 
I, Emmons Clark, Secretary of the Board of Health of 
the Health Department of the city of New York do hereby 
certify that the foregoing printed “Sanitary Code,” viz.: 
from pages 1 to 75, both inclusive, is a true copy of the 
original ordinances and amendments thereto on file in my 
office and the whole thereof, and that the same are now 
in full force and effect and entitled to full credence as 
such ordinances and amendments, and were duly adopt- 
ed, enacted, published, and confirmed by said Board of 
Health, agreeably to the provisions of the Law of the 
State of New York entitled “An Act to reorganized the 
local government of the city of New York,” passed April 
30, 1873, as amended by an act entitled “An Act to amend 
clnvp. 335 of the Laws of 1873,” passed June 13, 1873. 
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my official 
hand and affixed the Great Seal of said Health Depart- 
ment this day of , a. d., 188 . 
Secretary. 
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An Act to simplify the proof of the Sanitary Code in 
the city of New York. 
Passed April 19,1880; three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. The Sanitary Code adopted and declared 
as such at a meeting of the board of health of the 
health department of the city of New York, held in the 
city on the second day of June, one thousand eight 
hundred and seventy-three, is hereby declared to be 
the Sanitary Code mentioned and described in section 
eighty-two of an act entitled “ An act to reorganize the 
local government of the city of New York,” passed April 
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and in 
all courts of justice or judicial proceedings proof of the 
said Sanitary Code, and of the proceedings of such 
board of health in relation thereto, by the production 
of the book of minutes of such meeting held as aforesaid, 
or a transcript of the record of such proceedings duly 
authenticated by the secretary of the said board of 
health, shall be held and taken as complete and valid 
evidence of the said Sanitary Code, its due adoption, 
enactment and publication ; and such Sanitary Code 
shall be deemed in full force and operative in the city 
of New York, save as duly modified or repealed by the 
said board of health. 
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
CHAPTER 135. INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE. 
SECTIONS 
Adulterations, eto 14,15,10 
Alcoholic spirits, distillery of 82 
Auimal matter, putrid, not to be thrown into streets, sewers, 
etc 89 
Animal food, age of 30 
Animals, dangerous or offensive 49, 202 
“ slaughtering of 56, 184 
“ slaughtering of, prohibited below Fortieth street.. 56, 384 
“ “ between Second & Tenth Avs. 64 
“ not to be killed or dressed in market 61 
“ dead, sick, and injured 120, 121, 122 
“ 11 entrails, etc., of 32 
“ “ not taken to market till cool 32 
“ “ not to be thrown into streets, sewers, etc... .89,122 
“ “ not to be skinned in street 126 
“ “ glue-making from 79,80,184 
“ “ duties of contractors for 9,128 
“ mad 75 
“ noisy 172 
“ age of, whose meat may be sold 30 
“ dead, piers and docks for 127, 130 
“ “ skinning, business of 79, 80 
“ diseased or injured, to be reported 125 
diseased 120,121 
“ injured or diseased, how killed 123 
“ “ who may interfere with 126 
“ dead or past recovery to be removed 124, 129 
“ with hydrophobia or exposed thereto 75 
Animal substance, deposit of 199, 203 
Apartments, when not to be occupied ; 19 78 
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SECTIONS 
Ash-boxes ,95, 96 
Ash-carts, construction of 1C5, 107 
“ Ashes,” meaning of 2 
Ashes, delivery of, to carts 97 
“ removing of 95 
“ not to be mixed with garbage 95,183 
“ not to be sifted in street 98 
“ not to be thrown into streets or rivers 87 
“ persons engaged in removing 103,104, 108, 109, 112 
“ from forges, etc 117 
“ sprinkled on walks 68 
Asses 49, 53, 121 
Basins t o have proper traps 190 
Bedding from vessels 141, 14G 
“ “ stables 112 
Bells 177 
Bill of Health, authority to give 13 
Birds, unsound, to be reported 40, 202 
“ not som ind fresh 29,36 
“ not soul d, mode of treating 42 
‘‘ mode of keeping 56 
“ offensive 122 
“ that died by disease or accident 29 
Births, deaths, and marriages 160, 163 
“ assistants at, duties of 160 
“ registry of : 160 
“ report of, to be made 161,163 
“ who shall report 163 
“ statement of, by clerks and officers as to 162 
Blasting 175 
Blacksmiths 98, 117 
Blood, transporting of 80, 180 
“ Board,” meaning of 1 
Board of Police, duties of 11 
“ “ to enforce Code 12 
“ Boarding-house,” meaning of 3 
“ “ keepers to report persons sick 133,137 
Boarding-houses, no poisonous or unwholesome food or drinks 
in 35 
Boarding-houses, privies or water-closets for 22, 190 
“ “ not to be overcrowded 20 INDEX TO THE SANITABY CODE. 
79 
SECTIONS 
Boarding-houses, to be ventilated, etc 23 
“ “ owners of, to provide for health 23 
“ tenants in, lessees and owners of, to report 
persons sick at 137 
Bone-boiling forbidden without permit 79, 80, 181 
“ burning “ " “ 79, 80, 184 
“ grinding “ “ “ 79, 80, 184 
Bones, deposit of 199, 203 
Brick in streets 94 
Brine not to escape into street 88 
Brooklyn burial and transit permits 155 
Building, precautions to be observed in. 98 
Buildings, construction of, etc 17 
“ dangerous to occupants or passers 170 
to be ventilated, sewered, etc 17, 193 
“ when not to be let 18 
“ when to contain nothing offensive. 92 
“ unfit for dwellings 20 
“ Built-up portions,” meaning of 1 
Burial, mode of 1 152 
“ returns of, to be made 155 
“ permits cf Brooklyn Health officer 155 
Burning-fluid, kept or sold 85 
Burying-p laces 152 
“ persons in charge of 151, 154, 156 
Business, dangerous or detrimental to health 79 
“ Butcher,” meaning of. 7 
Butchers require permits 60, 62 
“ to allow inspection 63 
” to keep places clean 57 
Butchers’ ice-boxes, refrigerators, etc 39 
“ offal and garbage 89, 116 
“ refuse, manner of transporting 116 
Butter, unwholesome 45 
Calves, young, meat from 30 
Carelessness, responsibility for 8 
Cars, railroad, cushions 164 
“ “ to be cleansed 165 
“ “ no straw in 166 
“ *' no dirty clothing on 167 
" “ ventilators..,.,,...,..,,.,..,,, ,,,, 168 80 
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SECTIONS 
Cargo from quarantine 142 
Carpets 98 
Carts for night-soil, manure, etc., construction of 105, 107 
“ “ “ “ not to stand in the street.... 106 
“ nothing to escape from 109 
Carts for garbage, etc., to give notice 103 
Cats, diseased 120 
Cattle, horses, etc 49, 55 
“ Cattle,” meaning of 7 
Cattle, overheated, diseased, or feverish 31, 120 
“ diseased, to be reported 31, 202 
“ diseased, to be removed from city 31 
“ Texas and Colorado, dangerous 188 
“ in vehicles 30 
“ not to run at large ' 49 
“ number kept 52 
“ yarding of 53, 60 
“ diseased, not to be brought in. 120 
'■ place of keeping ; 51 
“ not to be slaughtered, dressed, or hUDg in street 58 
“ not to be unloaded in street 49 
“ unsound, mode of treating 42 
“ how transported 54 
“ driving, in street 55, 56, 188, 194, 195, 198 
“ number of, that may be driven through streets 55 
" mode of keeping and slaughtering 56 
" not to be slaughtered or driven south of Fortieth st. .55, 56 
“ not to be slaughtered or driven between Second and 
Tenth Avenues 64 
“ not slaughtered without permit 56 
“ number of drovers to 55 
“ when may be driven out of horns fixed by Code 55 
“ to be marked 194. 195 
Cattle-yards require permits 53, 60 
“ Cellar,” meaning of 3 
Cellars 18, 19 
Cemeteries 152 
“ persons in charge of 151, 154, 156 
Cess-pools, price for cleaning 110 
'* not to be emptied except by permit 101, 111 
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SECTIONS 
Cess-pools, contents of, not to come within two feet of top 90 
“ “ “• become offensive... 90, 92 
“ “ removal of 93, 111 
“ “ to be disinfected 110 
“ building and inspection of 119 
“ care in transporting contents of .■ 106, 108, 116 
“ turning and stirring contents of 114 
“ offal, ashes, garbage, etc., not to be put into 91 
“ not to be filled with dirt till filth is removed 90 
Cheese, unwholesome 45 
Chief officers of vessels to report person sick 135, 138 
Cholera 5 
Churches, duties of officers of 169 
Church bells 177 
Cinders , 2, 87 
“ from forges, factories, etc 117 
Cisterns........ 90, 92, 115 
“ City.” etc , meaning of 1 
Clam shells 115 
Clergymen to register marriages 160 
“ to report marriages 161 
Coal, included in term - ‘ashes ” 2 
Coal-dust 98, 117 
Coal-yards 117 
Coffees, deleterious 179 
Colts ....49. 53, 121 
Concert saloons 3 
Consignees of vessels to report persons sick. 135, 139 
Contagious and infectious diseases, reports as to 131, 139 
“ Coutagious disease,” meaning of 5 
“ “ to be reported 131, 139 
“ “ persons sick with 143, 148 
“ “ articles exposed to 143 
“ “ needless exposure to 150 
” Contractor,” meaning of 1 
Contractors for night-soil, offal, garbage, etc., duties of 9, 128 
“ for cleaning streets 25 
“ to comply with Code 9 
Coroners 159 
Corpses 151, 155, 157 
Cotton, unsound or infected 140 82 
SECTIONS 
Cows 52, 200 
Curb-stones 69, 99 
Decoctions 14, 15 
Dead bodies, interments, sextons 151, 157 
“ “ not to be buried without permit 151 
“ “ to be reported 157 
" “ not to be transported without permit 155, 158 
“ “ not to be unduly retained or exposed 156 
Dead animals not to be thrown into streets, etc 113, 122 
“ “ to be removed 124 
“ “ to be reported 125 
Deadly weapons 176 
Deaths, marriages and births 160 163 
registry of 160 
“ report of, to be made 161, 163 
“ whose duty to report .. 163 
“ statement of clerks and officers as to 162 
Definitions 1_7 
Dentist included in term “ physician ” 5 
“ Department,” meaning of 1 
Diphtheria a contagious disease • 5 
Dirt and filth 87, 114, 116, 119 
“ Dirt/’meaning of 2 
Dirt, where not deposited 112 
“ not to lie piled or raked up in street 129 
“ not to be thrown into streets or rivers 87 
“ docks for .127, 130 
“ in street 94, 99 
“ removal of 109 
“ persons engaged in transporting 9, 128 
“ Disease,” contagious, meaning of 5 
“ infectious or pestilential 5 
“ specific name and type of, to be reported 132 
“ . contagious, persons sick of a, to be reported 131, 139 
“ contagious, persons sick of a, not to be exposed or 
removed 148 
“ contagious, articles exposed to 141, 143,145 
persons exposed to 143, 145 
exposure to 148, 150 
Diseased animals 120, 121 
“ to be reported 125 
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SECTIONS 
Distilleries require permit 82 
Docks for offal and night-soil 127, 130 
“ " “ vessels not to go to 132 
Dogs, noisy 172 
Drainage, arrangement of 28 
“ to be adequate 26 
Drink and food 29-4S 
Drinks, poisonous, deleterious, or adulterated 41 
“ dangerous or detrimental to life or health 43, 44 
Drinking-hydrants 48 
Driving fast 173 
Drovers, number of, to accompany cattle 55 
Drugs 14-16 
“ poisonous, deleterious, or adulterated 16 
how marked and sold 14, 15 
Ducks 197 
Dust from factories, etc 98, 117 
Eggs 6 
Emigrant vessels, bedding from 141 
Enforcement of ordinances 11, 12 
Entrails of dead animals 32 
Excavations 92. 196 
Exposure to disease 148, 150 
Earcy, animals sick with 121, 185 
Fat 80 
Fat, only fresh, to be boiled or rendered 96 
Fat, not to be brought into city to be rendered 86 
Fat, rendeiing of 81, 86 
Fat-boiling 78, 80, 81, 86, 184 
“ to be in steam-tight vessels 86 
“ odors in, to be destroyed 86 
“ to be free from offence 86 
Feathers 98 
Feet of dead animals 32 
Fevers 5 
Fighting 174 
Filth and dirt 87-119, 114, 116 
Filth not to escape into street. 88, 116 
Filling grounds, etc 83 
Fire-arms, use of 175, 176 
Fire-crackers and lire works 173 84 
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SECTIONS 
“ Fish,” meaning of 6 
“ when for sale 6 
“ not fresh or sound 29, 30, 36, 202 
” that died by disease or accident 29 
“ mode of keeping 56 
" unsound, to be reported *10 
“ mode of treating 42 
“ false label or statement as to .. 37 
“ offensive 122, 202 
“ parts not used for food. 33 
“ decayed, deposit of 199 
Flag-stones ’...69, 99 
Food, unwholesome, meagre, or sickly 30 
Food and drink 14. 16, 29-48 
“ not to be made and sold under false name 14 
*' not to be taken to market till cool 32 
“ unwholesome, deleterious, or adulterated 16 
“ false label or statement as to 37 
“ uusound, mode of treating 42 
Forges 98, 117 
Foundries. 98, 117 
Fowls, not sound and fresh 29, 30, 36, 202 
“ “ mode of dealing with 42 
“ “ to be reported 40 
“ mode of keeping 56 
offensive 122, 202 
“ that died by disease or by accident 26 
“ permit to keep 197 
Fruit 29, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 202 
Furnaces to be smoke-consuming 118 
‘‘ Garbage,” meaning of 2 
Garbage, not to fall or be thrown into streets, rivers, etc..87, 89, 116 
“ where not deposited i 112,113 
“ docks for 127, 130 
“ not to lie heaped together in street 129 
“ boxes 95, 96, 107, 116 
“ not to be mixed with ashes, etc 95, 183 
“ how transported 116 
“ removal of 95 
“ delivery to carts 97 
*• care in transporting 108, 109, 116 SECTIONS. 
Garbage, persons engaged in transporting. ..103, 104, 108, 109, 128 
“ duties of contractors for .9, 128 
“ loading and unloading 113 
" turning and stirring 114 
Garbage-carts, notice to be given before 103 
construction of 105, 107 
“ bow managed 106 
Gas 77 
" from factories, etc 77 
“ offensive, dangerous,or prejudicial to life or health, not to 
be made 77 
Gas-tar not to escape 77 
Gas-works i 77 
“ odors from, to be prevented 77 
Geese 49, 53, 197 
General subjects 169, 197 
Glanders 121, 185 
Glue-making 79, 80 
Gnats . . ......49, 50, 53 
Goods, damaged, not to be exposed for sale 98 
Graves 152 
Grease 80 
Ground, what, and when, may be opened. 84 
Grounds, filling up 83 
Guns, firing off 175 
Guts ISO 
Gut-fat 32, 180 
Gut-cleaning 79, 80, 184 
Gutters to be cleaned 25, 167 
“ how to be cleaned 25 
“ ice and snow removed from 68 
Gymnasiums 169 
Hair 98 
Halls 21, 169 
Hatchways to be inclosed 182 
Heads of dead animals 32 
Heads of institutions to report sick persons 134 
Health, bill of, authority to give 13 
Health, duties in respect to 8 
Health officer of port, duty of 147 
“ inspectors’s duty 11 
Hide-tanning, skinning, etc., establishments 76 
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85 86 
SECTIONS 
Hides not to be unloaded without permit 141 
“ of dead animals 3a 
Hogs, driving, in street 55 
“ unloading in street 49 
Horns of dead animals 32 
Horses 49, 53 
“ with glanders or farcy 121 
“ sick 120 
Horse-racing — 173 
Hotel-keepers, to report sick persons 133 
Hotels, tenants, lessees, owners, etc., of, to report sick persons 
in 137 
“ House, tenenment,” meaning of 3 
“ boarding, “ of 3 
“ lodging, “ of 3 
Hydrants 48 
Hydrophobia 75 
Ice, removal of 68 
“ ashes to be sprinkled on 68 
Infected places or vessels 145 
Infectious disease 5 
Innkeepers to leport sick persons 133 
Inns, tenants, lessees, owners, etc., of, to report sick persons 
in 137 
Inquests, coroners’ 159 
Inspection, obstructing. 11 
“ to be permitted 63 
Inspectors, duties of 11 
Institutions to report sick persons 134 
Interments, sextons, dead bodies 151, 157 
require permits 151 
Jails, ventilation of, and food, etc., for 24 
Kerosene 85 
Kite-flying forbidden I73 
Lambs, young, meat from , 30 
Lamb-black manufactory 82 
Lard, only fresh to be rendered or melted 86 
“ rendering, to be done in steam-tight vessels. . 86 
odors in, to be destroyed 86 
“ “ to be inoffensive 86 
“ not to be brought to city for rendering, melting, etc 86 
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Lard-boiling 79, 80, 80 
Leather-dressing establishments 76 
“ Lessee,” meaning of 1 
Life, duties in respect to 8 
“ Light,” meaning of 1 
Lime 88, 96 
Lobster-shells 115 
Liquid refuse not to be mixed With ashes or rubbish 95 
“ receptacles for 116 
“ removal of 108, 11G 
“ how transported 116 
“ “ not to spill or leak into street 116 
“ “ turning or stirring 114 
Liquids, poisonous, deleterious, or aduiturated 16, 41 
“ offensive. 76, 88, 190 
“ false statement as to 37 
“ dangerous or detrimental to life or health 43, 44 
" noxious or stinking 88 
“ Lodging-house,” meaniug of 3 
Lodging-houses 20, 35, 201 
“ food in 53 
“ " not to be overcrowded 20, 201 
“ “ privies for 22 
“ tenants, lessees, owners, etc of, to report per- 
sons sick in 137 
Lodging-house keepers to report sick persons 133, 137 
Lots, vacant, to be provided with proper tight board fence 196 
Mad animals... 75 
Magistrates to report, etc., marriages 160, 162 
” Manager,” meaning of 1 
Managers of institutions to report sick persons 134 
“ Manufactory,” meaning of 3 
Manufactories 20, 22, 23, 98, 117 
•' no overcrowding of 20 
“ water-closets for, to be provided 22 
“ temperature of 23 
" safeguards in 23 
“ for certain purposes not to be established 82 
“ refuse to be removed from 117 
Manure not to be thrown into streets or rivers 87 
** persons engaged in transporting 104, 108, 109 
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SECTIONS 
Manure carts, boxes, etc 105, 107 
" to be removed 100 
” care in transporting 108, 109, 116 
“ where not to be deposited 112, 113 
handling of 114 
•' loading and unloading 113,114 
“ to have vaults for 100 
“ turning and stirring 114 
“ docks for 127, 130 
“Market, private,” meaning of 7 
Markets, unsound and unwholesome articles not to be kept in.29, 36 
to be kept cleanly 38, 57 
" food in 29 
*' refrigerators in 39 
“ animals not to be killed or dressed in 61 
“ noxious substance not to be brought near 61 
Ma tinges, births, and deaths 160, 163 
report of, to be made 161, 162 
“ registry of 160 
statement of, by clerks and officers as to 162 
Masters of vessels to report 135, 138, 141 
Matter, offensive or unwholesome, not to be brought to markets, 32 
“ filthy 88, 116 
“ Meat,” meaning of 6 
■' when for earn 6 
“ unsound or unwholesome 29, 36 
“ of animals that died by disease or accident 29 
“ not to go to market till cool 32 
" cased, blown, plated, raised, etc 36 
“ keeping, mode of t 56 
“ unsound, to be reported 40 
“ not to be taken to market till certain things done 32 
“ false statement or label as to 37 
to be kept clean and wholesome 38 
“ offensive 122 
“ not to be hung, etc., in street 58 
“ unsound, mode of dealing with 52 
Medicines 14-16 
“ not to be sold under false name 14 
poisonous, unwholesome, or deleterious 16 
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SECTIONS 
Midwives 160, 161 
Milk, false label or statement as to 37 
“ unwholesome and Impure 29, 45, 186 
Milk dealers to allow inspection 63 
Misfeasance and nonfeasance 8 
Mules 49, 53, 121 
Night-soil, docks and piers for 127, 130 
** “ contractors for 9,128 
“ “ handling of 114 
“ “ care in removal of 108, 109, 116, 128 
“ “ not to run into streets or grounds 90, 93 
** “ “ come within two feet of top 90 
" “ not to lie in street 129 
“ •* to be disinfected , llu 
“ “ carts 107 
“ “ mode of using carts for 106,109 
Nuisance, to be abated within five days after notice 189 
Negligence . _ 8 
Nonfeasance and misleasance 8 
Nurses 5, 160, 161, 163 
Obedience to ordinances 9 
“ Occupant,” meaning of 1 
Occupations detrimental to health, or dangerous 79 
Odors and liquids, offensive 76, 84, 114, 116 
Offal, docks for 127, 130 
” “ “ vessels not to go to 129 
not to lie in streets 129 
“ contractors for 9, 128 
“ loading and unloading 113 
‘‘ handling of 114 
“ boiling 79, 80 
“ not to be thrown into sewers, streets, rivers, etc 87, 89, 93 
“ carts for, to give notice 103 
“ “ how managed 106 
“ ” construction of 105, 107 
*• where not to be deposited 112, 113 
“ care in transporting 108, 109, 116 
" persons engaged in transporting.. .103, 104, 108, 109, 128, 180 
“ time for transporting 65 
to be conveyed in tight vessels 56 
Offensive material 203 90 
SECTIONS. 
Offensive matters and tilings not to be in markets 31 
“ Officer,” meaning of 1 
Officers of vessels to report 135, 138, 141, 144 
Oilboiling 82, 86 
Oil, petroleum, kerosene, and other 85 
Oil test 85 
Omissions 9 187 
Orders, by whom to be executed 11 
“ to be observed 10 
Ordinances, obedience to 10 
“ enforcement of 11, 12 
Overcrowding 20 
“Owner,” meaning of 1 
Owners of vessels to report persons and articles from infected 
Places 135, 138, 140 
Owners of boarding and lodging houses to report persons 
sick 133, 137 
Oyster-shells 115 
“ saloons 175 
“ Party,” meaning of 1 
Pavement 66, 99 
Penalty for disobedience of Code 178, 187 
“ Permit,” meaning of 1 
Permit to remove persons sick of contagious disease 148 
to remove articles exposed to contagion 143 
“ for burial 151 
“ “ '* by Brooklyn Health Officer .. .. 155 
“ “ “ Long Island City 155 
Kichmond County 155 
“ to remove bodies 155 
“ to deposit manure, offal, etc 112 
“ to keep swine and goats 50, 53 
“ to yard cattle, swine, sheep, geese, goats, and horses, 
ducks, geese, or fowls 52, 53, 197 
“ to occupy offal or night-soil dock 130 
“ to transact certain kinds of business 79, 82 
“ to keep cows 52, 200 
“ to ring bells 177 
“ to blast or fire guns 175 
“ to keep pounds 71 
“ for vessels or things from quarantine 142, 144, 147 
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SECTIONS 
Permit for persons or articles from infected places 145 
“ to land rags, hides, etc 141 
“ to butchers and cattle-dealers 62 
*' to slaughter-houses 60 
" to cattledealers 60 
“ to occupy streets or sidewalk 66, 94 
“ for scavengers 102, 104 
“ to persons engaged in transporting manure, swill, ashes, 
offal, rubbish, or garbage 104 
“ to empty vaults, sinks, privies, and cess-pools. .101, 102, 111 
" to unload cattle, etc., in streets 49, 194, 195 
“ Person,” meaning of 1 
Petroleum 85 
“ Physician,” meaning of 5 
Physicians to keep registry of births and deaths 160 
" to report births and deaths 132, 161, 163 
“ “ deaths by disease 132 
“ “ name and type of disease 132 
“ what included in term 5 
“ to register name, office, and residence 5 
“ to report persons sick of contagious disease 131, 136 
Piers, manure, etc., not to be deposited on 112 
“ for offal, etc., not to be obstructed ..127, 130 
“ for night-soil 127 
Pigs, young, meat of .... 30 
Pig-pens 100, 106 
Pigs not to run at large 49, 50 
“ driving in street 56 
“ unloading in street 49 
Pipes, waste or soil, to be ventilated. 193 
Poisons 15, 16 
Police, duties of 11, 12 
“ to execute ordinances 12 
Pound-keepers require permit 71 
Pounds 71, 73 
“ duties of keepers of 72, 73 
Principals of institutions to report persons sick 134 
Premises to have nothing offensive on them 92 
Prisons, duties of keepers of 24 
Privies, contents of, not to be left in streets or rivers 87, 90, 93 
“ contents of, to be removed by air-tight apparatus 102 92 
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Privies, not to be emptied, except by permit 101, 102, 111 
“ construction of 119, 192 
“ not to be filled with dirt till cleaned 90 
contents of, not to run into streets or on grounds. ..90, 93 
“ ‘‘ to come within two feet of top 90 
“ to become offensive 90. 93 
care in removing , 108, 116 
“ turning and stirring contents of 114 
“ to be disinfected 110 
“ price for cleaning 110 
ashes, garbage, offal, etc., not to be put into 91 
“ tubs, etc., in, to be tight 93 
“ to be provided in certain buildings 22 
“ gases from 22 
“ Public Place,” meaning of 2 
Quarantine, reports from 147 
vessels, persons and articles that have been in, re- 
quire permit 141, 142, 144, 145 
Racing forbidden 173 
Railroad cars, no cushions in 164 
'* “ to be cleaned daily 164 
** “ no straw in 166 
" “ no dirty clothing to . . 167 
“ “ ventilators 168 
Rags not to be unloaded without permit / 141 
Receptacles in privies, etc 93 
“ for ashes to be of metal 95 
‘‘ for garbage, ashes, etc 95, 96 
“ “ not to remain on sidewalk.. 95 
Refuse material 203 
Refrigerators of butchers, etc., construction, of 39 
Registry of births, marriages, and deaths 160 
“ Regulation,” meaning of 1 
Regulations, special, to be observed 10 
Relapsing fever contagious 5 
Rendering 79, 80, 86 
** to be of only fresh material 86 
“ to be in steam-tight vessels 86 
11 odors in, to be destroyed. 86 
“ to be inoffensive 86 
“ Report,” meaning of 1 
Reservoirs 46 SECTIONS 
Rooms, when not occupied 19 
Rooms, no offensive thing to be in 92 
“ Rubbish,” meaning of 2 
Rubbish not to be thrown into street or rivers 87 
“ not to be piled or raked in street 129 
“ not to be mixed with garbage, etc 95 
“ removal of 95, 99, 109 
“ turning and stirring Ill 
delivery of, to carts 97 
“ carts for, to give notice 103 
" “ how managed 106 
*• " construction of 105, 107 
“ contractors for 9,128 
“ docks for 127, 130 
“ persons engaged in transporting 103, 104, 108, 109. 128 
“ boxes 95 
11 Saloon, ” meaning of 3 
Saloons, and persons connected therewith 35 
Sand 98 
Scarlet fever a contagious disease 5 
Scavengers, permits of 104 
Schools 169 
Scouring establishments 76 
Scrap 80, 81 
Sewers, solid matter not to pass into 25 
" private, gases from 22 
" connections 26 
“ to be flushed 27, 28 
“ construction and care of 28 
Sextons—dead bodies—interments 151, 157 
not to bury without permits 151 
to make return 154 
to register 153 
Sheep, not to run at large 49 
not to be yarded without permit 53 
'■ sick, not to be brought in 120 
driving in streets 55 
Shell-burning 79. 80 
Shells, oyster and clam 115 
Ship fever 5 
Shops 98, 117 
Sick persons, removal of 143, 144, 148 
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s>ick persons, report of 131, 139 
Sidewalks 66, 7U 
•• dealers in meat, etc., not to occupy 66 
“ ashes sprinkled on 68 
ice and water not to be on 67 
not to be obstructed 69, 79 
“ no animal or vehicle lo be o a 70 
•• to be kept in good coadition 69 
Siuks, contents of. not to be put into streels or rivers 87, 90, 93 
" to lia\ e proper traps 190 
” not to be emptied, except by permit 101, 111 
" eonstruct.dn of 78, 119 
• contents oi, not to run into streets or grounds 8.', 90 
“ come within two teet of lop 90 
•' " “ become offensive 90, 92 
“ ” to be disinfected 110 
" care in tiansportmg conteuts of 198, 109. 116 
" turning and stirring contents of Ill 
" price of cleaning 110 
" not to be filled with dirt till emptied of filth 90 
" to have traps 190 
offal ashes, garbage, etc , not to be put into 91 
Skinning animals, business of 76, 79 
Skins 141 
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses 56, 63, 64, 184 
Slaughter-houses 57, 59, 184 
blood, etc., from 68 
“ “ must be clean 57 
“ •* wood-work in 57 
“ “ construction of 59 
*• “ none south of Fortieth Street 56,184 
“ •• none between Second aud Tenth Avenues 64 
*' not to be dwell ngs . 59 
“ require permit 56, 60, 184 
“ blood, offal, etc., in 57, 184 
Slaughtering cattle, mode of 56, 184 
not to be done in street 58 
“ " below Fortieth Street 56,184 
“ bet. 2d and 10th Avenues 64 
requires permit 56, 60, 184 
Small-pox 5 
Smoke from factories, etc 109 
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Snow to be removed from sidewalk 66 
‘‘ Special regulations,” meaning of 1 
Special regulations to be 10 
Spirits, alcoholic, distilleries of 82 
Spotted fever a contagious disease 6 
Stone throwing 173 
Stables 100 
“ to be kept clean 52, 57 
“ animals in 172 
Stalls, etc., in market to be clean 38 
Straw from emigrant vessels. 141 
" used as bedding not to be placed in street, or burnt 112 
“ Street,” meaning of 2 
Streets, certain articles not to be shaken or exposed in ... 98 
persons in, not to be imperilled by buildings or 
erections. 170 
“ nothing to imperil life or health to be placed or 
carried in 171 
“ mode of cleaning 25,128 
“ dirt, brick, etc., in 91 
" not to be obstructed 70 
“ dirt or rubbish not to lie piled or raked up in 129 
Swill not to escape into street 88, 116 
” persons engaged in transporting 104 
” of hotels and houses 116 
“ in what kind of vessels removed 116 
" vessels with, not to leak or spill 116 
‘‘ removal of 108, 116 
“ receptacles for 107, 115 
“ how transported 116 
■' turning and stirring of 114 
*' carts, cons*ruction of 105, 107 
■' “ mode of using 106 
” boiling 79, 80 
*‘ milk 45 
'• “ butter and cheese from 45 
Swine net to go at large 49, 50 
“ unloading in street 49 
" places where kept to be clean 51, 100 
“ not to be yarded without permit 53 
sick, not to brought iD 120 
Tallow not to be brought into the city to be rendered 86 
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Tallow, rendering of 86 
" only fresh, to be rendered 86 
“ boiling 79, 80. 86 
“ to be in steam-tight vessels 86 
“ odors in, to be destroyed 86 
“ “ to be inoffensive 86 
Tanning establishments 76 
Tar manufactory 82 
Teas, deleterious 179 
‘ • Tenant,” meaning of 1 
“ Tenement-house,” meaning of 3 
houses 20, 22 
not to be overcrowded 20 
“ ventilation, etc., of 28 
“ water-closets for... 22 
” Theatres,” meaning of 4 
Theatres 21 
Tombs used only by permit 162 
“ person in charge of, to register 153 
Transit permits of Brooklyn Health Officer and others 155 
Tubs in privies 93 
“ in privies, construction of 78 
" stationary, to have proper traps 190 
Turpentine manufactory 82 
Typhoid fever 5 
Typhus “ 5 
Urine not to escape into the street 88 
Undertakers to register 153 
Unwholesome articles not to be brought to market 32 
Vaccination .' 149 
Varnish factories 82 
Vacant lots to be fenced . 196 
Vats , 78, 92 
Vaults, not to be emptied, except by permit 101, 111 
“ construction of 78,119 
“ not to be offensive 90, 92 
contents of 90, 92, 93, 116 
“ contents of to be disinfected 110 
*• “ not to be thrown into sewers, streets, 
rivers, etc 87, 90, 93 
“ to be ventilated 191 
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Vaults, turning and stirring contents of H4 
“ not to be filled with dirt till emptied 90 
care in transporting contents of 108, 116 
“ ashes, offal, etc., not to be put in 91 
“ prices for cleaning 110 
•• for burial 152 
for burial, persons in charge of, to register 163 
manure, to be covered and ventilated 192 
“ Vegetables,” meaning of 0 
Vegetables, not sound and fresh 29, 202 
unsound, to be reported 10 
“ decayed and unwholesome, not to be kept or brought 
into city, or offered for sale therein .... 34 
“ false label or statement as to , 37 
'• unsound, mode of dealing with 42, 202 
Vegetable matter, putrid, not to be thrown into the streets, etc. 89 
Ventilating of waste-pipes 193 
Ventilation, lodging-houses 201 
Vessels, removals from, and unloading of 140. 146 
“ reports of officers, owners, and consigm es of, 135, 138, 140 
“ physicians on, to report 138 
removal of sick from 143, 145 
“■ from quarantine 142, 144 
“ nothing to be cast from 146 
“ not to unload skins, rags, hides, etc., without permit.. 141 
“ not to go to offal docks 130 
Veterinary surgeons 185 
Water from building not to pass on to walk 67 
“ reservoirs, pipes, etc., for, to be kept pure 46 
" lor human consumption 47 
“ to flush sewers 27 
“ offensive 76 
“ closets 78 
“ not to be offensive 90, 92 
" “ to be provided in certain houses 22 
“ “ gases from 22 
Water-closets to be ventilated, etc. . j 78 
Waste-pipe ventilating 193 
Weapons 176 
Well-holes to be inclosed 182 
Yarding cattle, sheep, horses, etc 60 
Yellow fever 5 
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