.A. REVISION 
OP 
The Sanitary Code 
OT THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
AND 
Vital Statistics 
OF THE 
COUNTY OF HUDSON, 
Approved, June 6, 1888. 
1888: 
ALBERT DATZ, PRINTER, 34 CObES ST., 
JERSEY CITY. A REVISION 
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THE SANITARY CODE 
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BOARD OF HEALTH 
AND 
VITAL STATISTICS 
OF THE 
COUNTY OF HUDSON. 
The Board oe Health and Vital Statistics of the County 
of Hudson, by virtue of the powers conferred by law, do here- 
by declare that the Code of Health Ordinances of said Board, 
and the several supplements thereto and in force on the date 
hereof, be, and the same are, hereby repealed ; and the said 
The Board of Health and Vital Statistics of Hudson County, 
do hereby ordain and enact a Revised Sanitary Code, as 
follows : 
Approved, June. 6‘, 1888. 2 
CODE OF HEALTH 
I. 
MEDICINES, ADULTERATIONS, POISONS, FOODS AND 
DRINKS. 
1. That no doctor, druggist or other persons shall make, 
sell, put up, prepare or administer any prescription, decoction, 
or medicine under any deceptive or fraudulent name, direction, 
or pretence; nor shall any false or deceptive representation be 
made by any person to any other, as to the kind, quality, pur- 
pose, or effect of any such or other drug, medicine, decoction, 
drink, or other article offered or intended to be taken as food 
or medicine ; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of forty dollars. 
2. That no poisonous medicine, decoction, or substance 
shall be held for sale, or sold, except for lawful purposes and 
with proper motives, and by persons competent to give the 
proper directions and precautions as to the use thereof; nor 
shall any bottle, box, parcel, or receptacle thereof be delivered 
to any person unless the same is marked “ Poison,” nor to any 
person who the party delivering the same has reason to think 
intends it for any illegal or improper use or purpose ; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of forty dollars. 
3. That no person shall make, offer, or have for sale, or 
keep at any place of sale any “ poisonous, unwholesome, dele- 
terious, stale, inert, 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 county; and any person or per- 
sons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
4. That no meat, fisli, birds or fowl, or vegetables, nor 
any milk, not being then healthy, fresh, sound, wholesome and 
safe for human food, nor any meat or fish that died by disease 
or poison shall be brought within the County of Hudson, or 
offered or held for sale in any public or private market, as such ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
food, anywhere in said county; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall for- 
feit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
5. That no calf, or the meat thereof, shall be-brought, 
held, or offered for sale, as such food, in said county, -which, at 
the date of its death was less than four weeks old, or if of less 
age, less than sixty-five pounds dressed weight. Nor shall any 
meagre, sickly or unwholesome fish, birds or fowl be bought, 
held, sold or offered for sale, as such food in said county ; and 
all such unwholesome substances so offered for sale, shall be 
liable to confiscation as this Board shall direct; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
6. 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 killing, nor until the en- 
trails, head (unless the same be skinned), hide, horns and feet, 
(large game, spring lambs and hog-dressed veal excepted) shall 
have been removed. Nor shall gut-fat, or any unwholesome 
or offensive matter or thing be brought to or near any such 
market; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty dollars. 
7. 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 poison- 
ous, deleterious or unwholesome substance, nor allow anything 
therein to be done or to occur prejudicial to health; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars. 
8. That no cased, blown, plaited, raised, stuffed, putrid, 
impure, or unhealthy or unwholesome meat or fish, 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 any public place in said county; and any person or persons 4 
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offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
9. That no meat, fish, fruit, vegetables or milk, or un- 
wholesome liquid shall knowingly be bought, sold, held, offered 
for sale, labeled, 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; and any person or persons offending against any of 
the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
thirty dollars. 
10. That every person, being the owner, lessee or occu- 
pant of any room, stall or place where any meat, fish or vege- 
tables, designed or held for human food shall be stored or kept, 
or shall be held or offered for sale, shall put and keep such 
room, stall and place, and its appurtenances, in a clean and 
wholesome condition ; and every person having charge, or in- 
terested, or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care,, 
or in respect to the custody or sale of any meat, fish, birds, 
fowl or vegetables designed for human food, shall put and 
preserve the same in a clean and wholesome condition, and 
shall not allow the same, or any part thereof, to be poisoned, 
infected or rendered unsafe or unwholesome for human food ; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty 
dollars. 
11. That no distiller or brewer, or other person, shall 
manufacture, or have, or keep for sale, any liquid designed for 
drink or beverage for human beings, which would be, if used, 
dangerous or detrimental to life or health ; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
12. That no butcher or dealer shall keep in any market 
any refrigerator or ice-box, unless the same be lined with lead 
or other proper metallic substance, so as to be water tight, nor 
unless the same be provided with a pipe of lead, zinc or cop- 
per leading therefrom to the nearest gutter or proper waste- 
pipe ; and any person or persons offending against any of the ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY;1 
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provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty dollars. 
13. That no person shall sell or deliver, or have for sale 
or otherwise, in the County of Hudson, any milk from cows or 
other animals, without a permit therefor, in writing, from this 
Board. No person shall have at any place where milk, butter 
or cheese is kept for sale, nor shall at any place sell or deliver, 
or offer or have for sale, or keep for use, nor shall any person 
bring or send to said county any unwholesome, skimmed, 
watered or adulterated milk, or milk known as “ swill milk,” 
or milk from cows or other animals that for the most part 
have been kept in stables, or that have been fed in whole or in 
part on swill, or milk from sick or diseased cows or other ani- 
mals, or any butter or cheese made from any such milk, or any 
unwholesome butter or cheese. Nor shall any person sell or 
deliver, nor have for sale, nor keep in said county, any milk of 
a less specific gravity than 1029 (distilled water being 1000), at 
a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for the 
violation of any of the provisions of this section. 
14. That the addition of water or any substance to milk, 
offered for sale, is hereby declared an adulteration ; any milk that 
is obtained from animals that are fed on distillery waste, 
usually called “ swill,” or upon any substance in a state of 
putrefaction, is hereby declared to be impure and unwhole- 
some ; and any person or persons offending as aforesaid shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and 
every such offense ; provided, that nothing in this code contained 
shall be construed to prevent the sale of skimmed milk, if the 
person or persons selling the same shall first make known the 
fact that it is skimmed milk and shall sell it as such. 
15. Any person or persons who shall adulterate milk, 
with the view of offering the same for sale or exchange, or 
shall keep cows for the production of milk for market, or for 
sale or exchange, in a crowded or unhealthy condition, or feed 
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some milk, or who shall sell or exchange any milk as pure 
milk, from which the cream, or any portion thereof has been 
taken, except as hereinbefore provided in this code, shall forfeit 
and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every 
such offence. 
16. That all bread manufactured by the bakers of this 
county shall be made of good and wholesome flour or meal, 
and no person shall sell or offer for sale in this county any 
bread or cake made of poor or unwholesome flour or meal; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for 
every such offense. 
17. That no person shall take any ice from any polluted 
or unclean pond, creek, river, lake or stream in the County of 
Hudson with the intention of selling or using such ice, or caus- 
ing the same to be sold or used for drinking or eating purposes ; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty- 
five dollars. 
18. That no person shall throw, or allow to run or pass into1 
any public reservoir,water-pipe or acqueduct, or into or upon any 
border or margin thereof, or excavation or stream therewith 
connected, any animal, vegetable or mineral substance what- 
ever ; 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 imperil the purity 
or wholesomeness of any water or other fluid used or designed 
as a drink in any part of said county; nor shall any person 
bathe, (nor, except in the discharge of 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; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall pay a penalty of twenty-five 
dollars. 
19. That no person shall destroy nor in anywise injure or 
impair any drinking hydrant, or part thereof, in the said ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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county; nor shall any person interfere with the use of or en- 
joyment of the Avater therein, or therefrom, or interrupt the 
flow thereof, for, or as a drink; nor shall any person put any 
dirty, poisonous, medicinal, or any noxious substance into or 
near said Avater or hydrant Avhereby such Avater is made or may 
be regarded as dangerous or unwholesome as a drink; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions in 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five 
dollars. 
20. That it shall be the duty of every person, officer, 
department and board, having any authority and control in re- 
gard to any water designed for human consumption (and within 
the proper sphere of the duty of each thereof), to take all 
usual and also all reasonable measures and precautions to 
secure and preserve the purity and Avholesomeness of such 
water; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty-fRe dollars. 
II. 
NUISANCES IN STREETS, LOTS, PUBLIC PLACES, 
AND VEHICLES, WHARVES AND VESSELS. 
21. All waste or sewage water shall be conveyed through 
sufficient drains, underground to a common sewer or to such 
reservoir or Avater tight vault, or through sufficient under- 
ground drains into the Hackensack or Hudson rivers or 
Newark or New York bays. No person shall suffer any 
waste or stagnant Avater to remain in any cellar or 
upon any lot or vacant ground, by him owned or occupied; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty 
dollars. 
22. That every person, when cleaning any street, shall 
clean, and every contractor shall cause to be cleaned, the gut- 
ters and parts of the street along which the water will run, be- 
fore using anv water to wash the same ; and no substance that CODE OF HEALTH 
could be before scraped away shall be washed or allowed to be 
carried or be put into the sewer, or into any receptacle there- 
with connected; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of twenty dollars. 
23. That no person shall deposit any dead animal, or ex- 
crements, or filth from privies, or any hay or straw, or refuse 
vegetables, or dirt, or rubbish of any offensive or dangerous 
kind or description, or any kitchen slops, manure, or street 
sweepings, upon any street, alleys or public or private property 
in this county ; provided, that manure may be placed on pri- 
vate property for its cultivation (night soil excepted), in such 
parts of the county that are not built up, and, provided, that 
no nuisance result therefrom; and anj person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall for- 
feit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
24. That no pile or deposit of manure, hops, malt, straw 
or bedding, or other offal, dirt or garbage, or any accumulation 
of any offensive nauseous substance, shall be made within the 
built-up portions of the County of Hudson, or upon any open 
space enclosed within any portions thereof, or upon the piers, 
docks or bulkheads adjacent thereto, or upon any open grounds 
near any such pier, wharf or bulkhead, or upon any vessel or 
scow other than those to be speedily removed, lying at such 
pier, except according to a resolution of this Board especially 
authorizing the same, and a permit obtained from this Board, 
and according to its regulations. And no person shall contrib- 
ute 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 or sidewalk, or 
roof of any building; nor shall any such straw, liay or sub- 
stance be deposited, nor shall accumulation thereof be made, 
within two hundred feet of any street, without a permit from 
this Board; and any person or persons offending against any of 
the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
thirty dollars. 
25. That no person shall bring into the County of Hud- 
son, or keep therein for sale or otherwise, either for food or ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY, 
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for any other purpose or purposes any animal, dead 
or alive, matter, substance or tiling, which shall be, or which 
shall occasion a nuisance in said county, or which may or shall 
be dangerous or detrimental to health ; and any person or per- 
sons violating any of the provisions of this section shall for- 
feit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
26. That no building, vehicle, structure, receptacle or 
thing used or to be used for any purpose whatever, shall be 
made, used, kept, maintained or operated in the County of 
Hudson, if the use, keeping, maintaining or operating of such 
building, vehicle, structure, receptacle or thing shall be the 
occasion of any nuisance, or dangerous or detrimental to 
health ; and any person or persons violating any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty 
dollars. 
27. 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 ; and any person or persons violating any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty- 
five dollars. 
28. That no railroad car or vehicle constructed for or 
engaged in the business of carrying passengers on any line of 
railroad in the County of Hudson, and which car is propelled 
by horse or electric power, and not by steam power, shall be used 
with cushions on the seats or the backs of the seats thereof, and 
shall be properly ventilated ; and any person or persons violat- 
ing any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
a penalty of fifty dollars. 
29. That each and every car used upon any railroad in 
the County of Hudson, for the carrying or transportation of 
passengers, shall be carefully and thoroughly washed and 
cleaned, so that all filth and dirt are removed from the inside 
of said car; and any person or persons violating any of the 10 
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provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty-five dollars. 
III. 
EPIDEMICS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 
REMOVAL FROM, AND UNLOADING OF, VESSELS. 
30. That no owner, agent or consignee of any vessel or 
cargo, and no officer of any vessel (in respect of either of which 
vessel or cargo a permit, according to any law, ordinance or 
regulation, shall or should have been obtained to pass quaran- 
tine, or to come up to the water front of any city or town in 
the County of Hudson), shall unlade or land, or cause to be 
unladen or landed, such cargo, or any part thereof, in said city 
or town, without having first received the written permit of 
this Board so to do and on showing a proper quarantine per- 
mit ; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
fifty dollars. 
31. The permits shall be charged for and paid as follows: 
For the landing or unloading of the materials or articles men- 
tioned in said section at any dock, pier, wharf or building in 
said county, each party or company shall pay five dollars 
annually, and for all other permits granted under said section 
there shall be paid an annual fee of ten dollars, such permits, 
of course, to be subject to revocation at any time for cause ; and 
such permits shall be dated from the first day of July of each 
and every year and shall expire one year from date. 
32. That no master, charterer, owner, part owner, or con- 
signee of any vessel, or any other person, shall bring to any 
dock, pier, wharf or building within said county, or unload at 
any dock, building, or pier therein, or have on storage in the 
built up portion of said county any skins, hides, rags, straw or 
bedding, or similar articles or materials, having been brought 
upon any vessel carrying emigrants, or from any foreign coun- 
try, or any infected place, or from any point south of Norfolk, ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY". 
Virginia, without or otherwise than according to, a written per- 
mit *so to do from this Board ; and no person shall sell, ex- 
change, or in any way make any exposure of any straw, bed- 
ding or articles that have been exposed to the contagion or 
infection of any contagious disease, or have been or are liable- 
to communicate such disease, or have lately been on any 
emigrant vessel, till after the same have been adequately 
cleansed or disinfected ; and any person or persons offending 
against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of fifty dollars ; provided, however, that said 
articles or materials, and articles or materials of like character 
may, upon the written permission of this Board, be removed 
for the purpose of cleansing and disinfecting the same, to such 
place or places only in said county as the said Board shall 
designate, and the place or places so designated shall be named 
in the permit or permission granted or to be granted as afore- 
said. 
And it is further provided, that any person or persons 
who shall make any such removal of any of said articles or 
materials, otherwise than is in this section directed, shall be- 
subject to and shall pay the penalty prescribed in said section. 
33. That every master, owner, charterer, part owner and 
consignee of any vessel that shall bring any cotton into any 
city or town in the County of Hudson between the first day 
May and the first day of November of each year, shall at once 
report to this Board, or cause to be made, in writing, a report 
to this Board, of the fact of any such cotton being in a dan- 
gerous, infected or unsound condition, or having been exposed 
to any infection ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
34. 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 this Board, 
and into quarantine grounds or buildings only), any person 
sick of, or person that has been exposed to and is liable very 
soon to develop, any contagious disease, nor so remove or aid 12 
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in removing any articles that have been exposed to the con- 
tagion of any such disease, except in accordance with a permit 
of this Board, or with its special regulations ; and any person 
or persons offending against any of the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
35. That no person shall bring into this county, frc-n any 
infected place or land, or take therein, from any vessel lately 
from any infected port, or from any vessel or building in which 
had lately been any person sick of a contagious disease, any 
article or person whatsoever, nor shall any such person land 
or come into said county without a permit from this Board ; 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 Board; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
36. The keeper of any lodging house, and the owner, 
agent of the owner, lessee and occupant of any tenement house, 
and every other person having the care and management there- 
of, shall at all times, when required by an officer of this Board 
or by any officer upon whom any duty or authority is conferred 
by any law of this State, give him free access to such house 
and to every part thereof. The owner or keeper of any lodg- 
ing house, and the owner, agent of the owner, and the lessee of 
any tenement house or part thereof, shall, whenever any person 
in such house is sick of fever, or of any infectious, pestilential 
or contagious disease, and such sickness is known to such 
owner, keeper, agent or lessee, give immediate notice thereof 
to this Board, or to some officer of the same, and thereupon 
said Board shall cause the same to be inspected, and may, if 
found necessary, cause the same to be immediately cleaned or 
disinfected, at the expense of the owner, in such manner as 
they deem necessary and effectual. 
And all rooms or apartments occupied by any person sick 
of any contagious disease, shall immediately upon the death or 
recovery of such person, be, by the person having charge or 
custody of such rooms or apartments, thoroughly fumigated by ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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the burning of sulphur, or otherwise, in such manner as may 
be required by an officer or member of this Board, and all 
clothing, beds, bedding or infected articles used by or in caring 
for such sick person, shall be likewise fumigated or disin- 
fected, or in extreme cases, destroyed, as the said officer or 
member may ■ direct; and any person or persons offending 
against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
37. That every keeper of any boarding-house or lodging- 
house, and every inn keeper and hotel keeper, shal1, within 
twenty-four hours, report, in writing, to this Board the 
particulars concerning any person being at any of the aforesaid 
houses and attacked with any contagious disease; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
38. Whenever it shall be decided by this Board that any 
building, or part thereof, is unfit for human habitation by 
reason of its being so infected with disease as to be likely to 
cause sickness among the occupants, and notice of such de- 
cision shall have been affixed conspicuously on the building, or 
part thereof, so decided to be unfit for human habitation, and 
personally served upon the owner, agent or lessee, if the same 
can be found in the State, requiring all persons therein to 
vacate such building or part thereof, for the reason to be stated 
therein, as aforesaid, such building or part thereof shall, with- 
in ten days thereafter, be vacated, or within such shorter time, 
not less than twenty-four hours, as in said notice may be spec- 
ified ; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
forty dollars. 
REPORTS AS TO CONTAGIOUS ANI) INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 
39. Tlial every physician shall report to this Board, in 
writing, every person having a contagions 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 a contagious disease, 
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attending or practicing physician thereat must at his peril see 
that such report is or has been made by some attending 
physician, under a penalty of twenty dollars for any failure to 
comply with any of the provisions of this section. 
EXPOSURE TO DISEASE. 
40. That no principal or superintendent of any school, 
and no parent, master or custodian of any child or minor (hav- 
ing the power and authority to prevent) shall permit any child 
or minor having scarlet fever, diphtheria, small-pox or any 
dangerous, infectious or contagious disease, or any child resid- 
ing in any house in which any such disease exists, or has 
recently existed, to attend any public or private school or 
Sunday school until this Board shall have given its permission 
therefor; nor in any manner to be unnecessarily exposed, or 
to needlessly expose any other person to the taking or to the 
infection of any contagious disease ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
REMOVAL OF SICK PERSONS. 
41. That no person shall, without a permit from this Board, 
carry or remove from one building to any other, or from any 
vessel to the shore, any person sick of any contagious disease. 
Nor shall any person, by any exposure of any individual sick 
of any contagious disease, or of the body of such person, or by 
any negligent act connected therewith, or in respect of the 
care or custody thereof, or by a needless exposure of himself, 
cause or contribute to, or promote the spread of disease from 
any such person, or from any dead body; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
VACCINATION. 
42. 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 ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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authority of said parent, guardian or other person, that could 
properly be used or exerted for such purpose) cause and pro- 
cure such minor or individual to be so promptly, frequently, 
and effectively vaccinated that such minor or individual shall 
not take, or be liable to take, the small-pox; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
ANIMALS AND SLAITGHTEK HOUSES. 
43. That no person, firm or corporation shall keep or 
allow to be kept in or upon any premises, grounds or place in 
said county, of which such person, firm or corporation shall be 
owner, lessee, tenant or occupant, more cows or other cattle 
than one on, or to each city lot or space equal thereto, not to 
exceed two in number, without a written permit from this 
Board, to be granted in the manner and according to the form 
prescribed, unless the same are kept in yards at the abattoir 
or abattoirs on the water front, as hereinafter mentioned. 
And every person, firm or corporation shall keep, or cause 
to be kept every stable, building, premises or place where any 
one or more cows or other cattle, horses or animals are kept or 
cared for, in said county, to be at all times kept in a clean and 
wholesome condition, and shall not allow any animals to be 
therein while infected with any disease contagious or pestil- 
ential without a special permit from this Board, to be granted 
for the purpose only on special application and on the recom- 
mendation of one of the members of the Board, or the Health 
Inspector thereof; and for a permit to keep cows or other cat- 
tle over or more than two as aforesaid, every person, firm or 
corporation shall pay to this Board a permit fee of one dollar 
annually. Every permit under this ordinance shall, however, 
be subject to the ordinances and rules of this Board, and may 
be revoked at pleasure ; and this fee shall be charged for every 
place where more than two cows or other cattle may be kept 
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that every person, firm or corporation in said county, having, 
keeping or maintaining, in any way, any place or premises 
therein where any cow or other cattle shall be kept or shall be 
slaughtered, shall register, ci. cause said place to be registered 
at the office of this Board. 
And the Clerk of this Board will register the same in 
numerical order in a record to be kept for the purpose. 
Every proprietor, owner or owners, occupant or occupants, 
of every place in said county where cows or other cattle are 
slaughtered, shall obtain a permit therefor from this Board, 
and shall pay for the same the sum of ten (10) dollars annually. 
Every such permit shall be subject to the ordinances and rules 
aforesaid. 
Any person, persons or corporations, acting contrary to or 
violating this section, or any provision thereof, shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of fifty dollars for each and everv violation of, or 
offence against said section. 
CATTLE, HORSES, ETC. 
44. That no person shall allow any cattle, horse, mule, 
sheep, swine or goat, or any dangerous or offensive animal to 
run at large in said county, and no person shall, within the 
built up portions of said county, keep or permit to be kept any 
fowls, cattle, geese, swine or goat, without a permit to do so 
from this Board ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
That no cattle shall be kept in any place where the 
water, ventilation and food are not sufficient and wholesome 
for the preservation of their health, safe condition and wliole- 
someness for food ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
45. Tliat no person shall keep or cause to be kept in or 
upon any building, premises, grounds or place in the built up ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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portions of said county or adjacent thereto, any cattle, geese, 
goats, swine, sheep or dogs (one dog excepted) without a 
written permit from this Board, to be of the form and effect 
and to be issued upon the conditions and limitations named in 
the last preceding section, but the fee which may be charged 
for a permit under this section shall not exceed one dollar an- 
nually, and the fee, if any, is to be fixed when permit is issued, 
and no person owning, occupying, or having charge of any 
stable or other premises, shall keep or allow thereon or therein 
any dog or other animal which shall by noise disturb the quiet 
or repose of those or any one therein or in the vicinity, to the 
detriment to the life or health of any human being; and any 
person keeping animals contrary to, or violating this section, 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each 
offence. 
46. That the keeping ancl slaughtering of all cattle, and 
the preparation and keeping of all meat and fish, birds and 
fowl, shall be in that manner which is or is generally reputed 
or known to be best adapted to secure and continue their 
safety and wholesomeness as food. The slaughtering of cattle 
shall not be permitted or conducted at any place in the County 
of Hudson without a special written permit from this Board ; 
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-lialf of the entire num- 
ber of cattle or hogs, or small stock (all or separately, accord- 
ing to the particular object of each abattoir) slaughtered in 
this county 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, under a penalty of one 
hundred dollars. 
47. That every butcher and every person owning, leasing, 
or occupying any place, room, or building where any cattle 
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have been or are killed or dressed, and every person being the 
owner, lessee, or occupant of any room or stable where any 
cattle may be kept, or market, public or 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 unwholesomeness or offen- 
sive 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, have floors and 
counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid, 
thouroughly painted or whitewashed ; and any person or per- 
sons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
48. That no cattle shall be killed for human food wdiile 
in an overheated, feverish or diseased condition; and all such 
diseased cattle in the County of Hudson, and the place where 
found, and their disease, shall be at once reported to this 
Board by the owner or custodian thereof, that the proper order 
may be made relative thereto, or for the removal thereof from 
said county ; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of twenty-five dollars. 
49. That no cattle shall be slaughtered, dressed or hung, 
or the meat or any part thereof, within said county, wholly or 
partly within any street, avenue or sidewalk, or public alley or 
place; nor shall any blood or dirty water, or other substance 
from such cattle, meat or place of killing, or the appurtenances 
thereof, be allowed to run, fall or to be in any such street, 
avenue or sidewalk, alley or place ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
50. That no building occupied wholly or partly as a 
slaughter-house, or any part thereof, or any building on the 
same lot, shall, without a special permit from this Board, be 
occupied for a dwelling or lodging-place; that every such ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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building shall at all times be kept adequately and thoroughly 
ventilated; that no blood shall be allowed to remain therein 
over night; that adequate underground connection shall be 
made from every such building with a public sewer, and the 
floor of such building on which the slaughtering is done, and 
the yard, shall be floored so as not to absorb blood, and so as 
to carry all liquid into the sewers ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
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NOXIOUS AND OFFENSIVE TRADES AND MANU- 
FACTURES. 
51. That no lager beer, ale, porter or other brewery, nor 
any slaughter-house, nor any manufactory or other establish- 
ment having quantities of liquid and waste substances or slops 
to be disposed of, shall draw off, cast off, or allow to run from 
said brewery, slaughter-house, manufactory or other establish- 
ment in the County of Hudson, any liquid substance or other 
matter into any private sewer, drain pipe or cesspool or other 
conductor, unless the same shall be so constructed and made 
as to be water-tight and will convey said liquid substances or 
other matter without leakage or escape therefrom; nor unless 
the said sewer, drain pipe, cesspool or other conductor be 
securely and properly connected with some capable and efficient 
sewer draining its contents into the Hudson or Hackensack 
rivers, so as to prevent said liquid substances or other matter 
from flowing in and becoming exposed on any vacant lot or 
lots, or ground, or other place, public or private, in said 
county; and any person or persons offending against any of 
the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
one hundred dollars. 
52. That no person shall permit or have any offensive 
water or other liquid or substance on his premises 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 20 
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tanning, skinning or scouring, or for dressing hides or leather,, 
or for carrying on any offensive or noisome trade or business 
shall be opened, started, or established in the County of Hud- 
son without a permit from this Board. And every such estab- 
lishment shall be kept cleanly and wholesome, and be so con- 
ducted in every particular as not to be offensive or prejudicial 
to life or health ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of thirty dollars. 
53. That no works for the manufactory of the substance 
known as poudrette, or for the conversion of night soil into 
any form of fertilizer or guano shall be allowed to be operated 
or maintained by any owner, agent, employee or other person 
in the County of Hudson, except by the permit of this Board, 
and during the time for which such permit may have been 
given and remained unrescinded; and any person or persons 
offending against this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
one hundred dollars. 
54. That the owners, lessees, tenants, and managers of 
every blacksmith or other shop, forge, coal-yard, foundry, 
manufactory, and premises where any business is done, or in 
or upon which ,an engine or boilers, are used, shall cause all 
ashes, cinders, rubbish, dirt and refuse to be removed to some 
proper place, so that the same shall not accumulate on any of 
the above mentioned premises, or in the appurtenances thereof, 
nor the same become filthy or offensive. Nor shall any smoke, 
cinders, dust, gas or offensive odor, be allowed to escape from 
any such building, place, or premises to the detriment or an- 
noyance of any person not being therein or thereupon engaged ; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty- 
five dollars. 
55. That every furnace employed in the working of en- 
gines 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 purposes of trade or manufacture, shall be so con- ORDINANCES OF HCDSON COUNTY. 
•structed as not to cause smoke or gas to the detriment of 
human life or health; and any person or persons offending 
against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
56. That no person, company or corporation shall, within 
the limits of the County of Hudson, keep, have, erect or main- 
tain any establishment or place of business used for any of the 
following purposes: For tanning, skinning or scouring or 
dressing hides or leather, for bone grinding, bone burning, 
shell burning, fat boiling, bone boiling, gut cleaning or the 
skinning or making of glue from dead animals or parts thereof; 
for boiling any varnish or oil, or for making any lamp-black, 
turpentine or tar, or for the distilling of any ardent or alco- 
holic spirits, or for any like business, or business that will or 
does generate unwholesome, offensive or deleterious gas, smoke, 
deposit or exhalation without and according to a written per- 
mit from this Board, for which there shall be paid in each 
case annually the sum of five dollars, and no such person or 
party as is named in the first part of this section shall have, 
erect, keep or maintain in any way a factory or place whatsoever 
for the making or manufacture of fertilizers from animal bones, 
offal or refuse, or for making guano, poudrette or other like or 
.similar substances, or for the carrying on or doing of any busi- 
ness'of like offensive or deleterious nature without and accord- 
ing to a written permit therefor from said Board, for which 
permit there shall be charged the sum of ten dollars annually. 
Nor shall any person or company keep or have any structure 
«or place for storing rags, bones or similar material, or engage 
in the business of transporting, carting or carrying manure, 
swill, offal, rubbish or garbage, or any other like noxious or 
offensive substance or thing for which permit and permit fees 
are not already provided for, excepting persons acting under 
the proper authorities of any city, town or township of the 
county without having received a permit from this Board of 
such form and effect as the Board may order, or the ordinances 
and rules thereof may provide, and for said last named permit 
there may be charged a fee not exceeding two dollars annually, 
the amount of the fee to be determined at the time of issue of 22 
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the permit. All permits under this section, as well as all 
other permits, may be revoked at the pleasure of this Board. 
And all persons applying for permits under this section 
shall give their names and residences, and make applications in 
the manner and according to the forms prescribed therefor ; 
and all permits shall date from the first day of July in each 
year. 
Any person, company or corporation carrying on any busi- 
ness, or keeping, erecting, having or maintaining any estab- 
lishment or place otherwise than in this section provided, or 
in any way acting contrary to or in violation of this section,, 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars for each and 
every offence. 
57. That no substance, matter or thing, of any kind 
whatever, which shall be dangerous or detrimental to health, 
shall be permitted to exist in connection with any permitted 
business, or be used therein, or to exist in connection with, or 
be used in, any work or labor carried on or to be carried on or 
prosecuted in the County of Hudson, and that no nuisance 
shall be permitted to exist in connection with any business, or 
in connection with any such work or labor; and any person or 
persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
VI. 
SCAYENGEBS, OFFAL DEALEBS, PB1YIES AND 
CESSPOOLS. 
SCAVENGERS. 
58. No person shall engage in tlie business of a scavenger, 
nor shall drive any cart or wagon in the exercise of such busi- 
ness, (except those persons acting under some municipal au- 
thority) until he shall have received from this Board a license 
to carry on such business, and shall pay to said Board therefor 
the sum of twenty dollars ; and every person offending against ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
anv of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
59. Each applicant for a license as scavenger shall 
present to the said Board an application in writing, verified by 
oath, made before some person authorized to administer the 
same, setting forth the place of residence of said applicant, and 
also stating the particular location, as near as may be of said 
applicant’s place of abode, and also of said applicant’s place of 
business; which said application shall be accompanied with 
the amount of said license fee, and be delivered to the Clerk of 
said Board, and said Board, upon receipt of every application 
as aforesaid, may in its discretion grant the desired license, 
which license may be revoked at the pleasure of the Board. 
60. Every scavenger license so granted shall expire one 
year after the date thereof, and all such licenses shall here- 
after be dated on the first day of July in each and every year 
succeeding. 
61. If any applicant for a scavenger license has paid any 
icense fee for the same business to the town, city, township or 
municipality in which he carries on his said business, under any 
law or ordinance or municipal regulation thereof, such pay- 
ments must be set forth in his said application, with the par- 
ticulars thereof, and in such case said Board may in its dis- 
cretion make reasonable deduction therefor from the sum 
hereinbefore fixed as the license fee. 
62. No scavenger license shall be granted to any person 
unless the applicant therefor has resided in the County of 
Hudson for the space of six months next preceding said appli- 
cation. 
63. That scavengers who engage in the business of 
removing the contents of privy-vaults at night, shall cause to 
be painted upon the wagon-box of their wagons, in letters and 
figures, their name and number of their license, together with a 
lighted lamp with plain glass fronts and sides, with the num- 
ber of the license '6f such wagon painted with black paint on 
the sides and front of each of said lamps in distinct CODE OF HEALTH 
and legible figures at least two inches in size, and so placed 
that said lamps may be distinctly seen, and said number easily 
read; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty dollars. 
64. It shall be the right and duty of such night scaven- 
ger so licensed, when requested by any owner, agent or occu- 
pant of any privy within the county, to clean and remove the 
contents of the vault thereof, and to remove and deposit the 
same at such place or places as shall or may be designated by 
this Board; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of twenty-five dollars. 
PRIVIES, CESSPOOLS, ETC. 
65. That no privy-vault shall be cleaned, emptied or re- 
moved, without a special permit from this Board, except by a 
licensed scavenger; and any person who shall be guilty of 
doing any scavenger work in the County of Hudson without 
first having obtained a license therefor, as provided for in this 
code, shall be liable to a penalty of thirty dollars for every 
such offense. 
66. Owners, occupants or agents of privy-vaults, within 
the county, desiring to clean and remove the contents thereof 
themselves, without the aid of night scavengers, shall not be 
allowed to do so except upon the written permission of this 
Board, and then only in such manner as in said permit is di- 
rected ; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty-five dollars. 
67. No privy-vault shall be opened between the first day 
of June and the fifteenth day of September, in each year, un- 
less the Board of Health shall be satisfied of the necessity of 
the same for the health or comfort of the inhabitants; and 
such precautions shall be used relative to the prevention of 
any offensive effluvia, as said Board may direct, at the expense 
of the owner, agent, occupant, or other person having charge ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
of the premises. Provided, that nothing in this section shall 
be construed to prevent any licensed scavenger, who shall use 
an odorless system of excavation, from opening and cleaning 
any privy-vault between the dates aforesaid ; any owner, agent, 
occupant, or other person or persons, who shall neglect or fail 
to comply with any of the provisions of this section, shall for- 
feit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each such 
offense. 
68. Whenever in the opinion of the proper officer of this 
Board any privy-vault shall be offensive and need cleaning, it 
shall be his duty to notify the owner, agent or occupant to 
cleanse the same within a period named in said notice ; unless 
the person so notified shall comply within the time mentioned, 
such person or persons shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty-five dollars for each such offense ; in case no owner or 
agent can be found in the county, such officer shall cause such 
offensive vault to be cleaned, and in that case the expense shall 
be collected as in other cases for the removal or abatement of 
nuisances as provided by law. 
69. That whenever any vault, privy or drain becomes 
offensive or obstructed, the same shall be cleansed and made 
free, and the owner, agent, occupant or other person having 
charge of the land in which any vault, privy or drain is situ- 
ated, the state or condition of which is offensive or in violation 
of the provisions of this code, shall remove, cleanse, alter, 
amend or repair the same within such reasonable time after 
notice in writing to that effect given by this Board or its Health 
Inspector or other officer, as shall be expressed in such notice ; 
and any person or persons offending against the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars ; and 
the Health Inspector or other proper officer of this Board may, 
with its advice and consent, cause the same to be removed, 
altered, amended or repaired, as he may deem expedient, at 
the expense of the owner, agent or occupant, or other person 
as aforesaid. 
REMOVAL OF NIGHT SOIL. 
70. Tlie cleaning, emptying and removing of the contents 
of privy-vaults shall he done in an inoffensive manner, and CODE OF HEALTH 
any scavenger having begun any such scavenger work shall,, 
without any interruption or delay, finish the same, and shall 
in every instance leave the privy in as good condition upon the 
vault as when the work was undertaken; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a of twenty dollars. 
71, The contents of privy-vaults so removed by any 
scavenger shall be conveyed to such places as shall be ap- 
proved by this Board in tight tanks or vessels, and shall be 
disposed of in such manner as to cause no offense ; said tanks 
shall be kept clean and inoffensive when not in actual use ; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five 
dollars. 
72. That no part of the contents (except substances not 
soluble in water) of any privy, privy-box, vault, sink or cess- 
pool within said county shall be removed therefrom, nor shall 
the same be transported through any of the streets, avenues,, 
alleys or other public places of said county except as the same 
shall be removed and transported by means of some air-tight 
apparatus, pneumatic or other process so as to prevent the said 
contents from being agitated or exposed in the open air dur- 
ing said process of removal or transportation, except this 
Board shall otherwise permit in writing; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
73. That no part of the contents of any privy, vault, sink,, 
cesspool, except substances other than excrements insoluble in 
water, or any accumulation of any offensive fluid, liquid, or 
semi-liquid substance or material, being in any excavation, 
cellar or place within the limits of the County of Hudson, 
shall be removed therefrom, nor shall the same be transported 
through any of the streets or avenues in said county, 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 noxius or offensive odors 
therefrom, and by a permit from this Board; and any person OEDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
or persons offending against any of the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
74. That during prevalence of epidemics or contagious 
diseases all putrid and offensive matter, and all night-soil, and 
the contents of sinks, privies, vaults and cesspools, and all 
noxious substances in the built up portion of said county, shall 
before their removal or exposure 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 re- 
move the same ; and for all such matter so disinfected and ren- 
dered inoffensive, the person (not being such tenant, owner or 
occupant) who shall so disinfect and remove the same shall be 
entitled to demand and receive a compensation to be fixed by 
this Board, not exceeding twelve cents per cubic foot, for 
making such disinfection and removal, to be paid by such ten- 
ant, owner or occupant; and any person or persons offending 
against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
OFFAL DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS. 
75. That no person shall boil any offal, swill, bones or 
fat in the built up portions of said county, save in ordinary 
cooking ; nor shall the business of bone crushing, bone boiling, 
bone grinding, bone burning, shell burning, fat boiling, gut 
cleaning, nor the skinning or making of glue from any dead 
animals or parts thereof, nor any other occupation that is 
dangerous or detrimental to life or health, be hereafter estab- 
lished in said county; and no business or pursuit of the kind 
named in this section shall be carried on anywhere in said 
county, unless allowed by a permit of this Board, and said per- 
mit may be revoked for cause at the discretion of this Board; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty 
dollars. 
76. That no person shall boil, manufacture, keep or store 
any offal, swill or bones, nor any fat, tallow or lard (except to man- 28 
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ufacture at once on the same being taken from the animal and 
while the same is fresh and otherwise inoffensive); nor shall 
the business of bone crushing, bone boiling, bone grinding, 
bone burning, shell burning, gut cleaning, nor the skinning of 
or making of glue from any dead animal or part thereof, nor 
the storage or keeping of fat or grease or offensive animal 
matter, nor the drying and curing of hogs’ bristles, be per- 
mitted or conducted at any place in the County of Hudson 
without a special permit of this Board ; nor shall the busi- 
ness of rendering or boiling the fresh lard, fat or tallow afore- 
said, be conducted within said county without a like special 
permit from this Board, and such permit must be applied for 
in writing, specifying the nature and precise location of the 
proposed business, and such application will not be acted upon 
until the second regular meeting after such application ; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred 
dollars. 
77. That all persons engaged in the business of boiling or 
rendering fat, lard, or animal matter, shall cause the scrap or 
residum to be dried or otherwise prepared as effectually to 
deprive such material of all offensive odors, and to preserve 
the same entirely inoffensive, immediately after the removal 
thereof from the receptacles in which the rendering process 
may be conducted ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
78. That no fat, tallow or lard shall be melted or ren- 
dered except when fresh from the slaughtered animal, and 
taken directly from the place of slaughter in the County of 
Hudson, and in a condition free from sourness and taint and 
all other cause of offense 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 improved means and processes; and everything preced- 
ing, following and in connection with such melting and render- 
ing, and the premises where the same shall be conducted, must ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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 County of Hudson to be rendered or melted, and none is to 
be rendered or melted that has come from any place outside of 
said county, except as part of the living animal; and any per- 
son or persons offending against any of the provisions of this 
section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars. 
PRIVIES AND WATER CLOSETS. 
79. All and privies shall be made of brick or stone, 
and cement, and contain at least eighty cubic feet, and the in- 
side of the same shall be at least three feet distant from the line 
of every adjoining lot, and at the same distance from every 
street, lane, alley, court, square or public place, or public or 
private passage way ; and they shall be so constructed as to be 
conveniently approached, opened and cleaned. Every vault 
shall be made tight, so that the contents thereof cannot escape 
therefrom. All preparations for cleaning a vault or privy shall 
be made by the person entering the same, and, in case of neg- 
lect to make such preparations, it shall be made by the proper 
authority, and the expense thereof be charged to such person; 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five 
dollars. 
80. That no privy, water-closet, or urinal shall be built or 
allowed by any owner, agent or lessee, for the use of the resi- 
dents, occupants or other persons in connection with any 
building or buildings whatsoever, or be used by any person, 
unless the same be built on solid earth and over and with a 
water-tight and sufficient vault of brick, cement or other suit- 
able substance, or is properly connected, as provided for in 
this code, with some public sewer, under a penalty of thirty 
dollars. 
81. That no privy, water-closet or urinal, except those 
properly connected with some public sewer, or built on solid 
ground and over and with a proper water-tight and sufficient 
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there shall be no public sewer, shall be built or allowed by any 
owner, agent or lessee for the use of the residents, or other 
persons in connection with any building or buildings whatso- 
ever ; nor shall the same be used or allowed to be used by the 
residents, occupants, tenants or lessees of any such building or 
buildings, or part or parts of any such building or buildings ; 
nor shall any such building nor any part thereof, while so hav- 
ing for use such improper privy, water-closet or urinal, be let 
or hired by any owner or agent to any person or persons 
for use or occupancy; and any person or persons offending 
against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of thirty dollars for each such offense. 
82. That the owner of every building, on any street, 
avenue, alleyway, road or public place in the County of Hud- 
son, in which there is a proper and efficient public shall 
cause proper water-closets with good and sufficient traps, to 
prevent the entrance of sewer-gas, to be built in such building, 
for the use of the inhabitants thereof, and shall not build, or 
allow in connection with such building, any privy, vault or 
wrater-closet not so built and connected as aforesaid; nor shall 
any agent let, hire or rent, for occupation as a building or 
otherwise, any such building, nor shall any tenant, occupant or 
lessee occupy, use, or continue to occupy and use, any such 
building as a dwelling or otherwise, without such proper closet 
or closets, being in connection with such buildings and ready 
for use; and any person or persons offending against any of 
the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
fifty dollars. 
VII. 
MANURE, COMPOST AND DECAYING SUBSTANCES. 
83. That no person shall engage in the business of trans- 
porting manure, swill, offal, or garbage, or any offensive or 
noxious substance, or in driving any cart for such purpose, 
in the County of Hudson, (except the persons acting under the 
proper authorities of any city, town or township in the County 
of Hudson, and gardeners transporting manure for use on lands ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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not being in the built up portions of this County) until he shall 
have first received a written permit from this Board of such 
form and effect as the regulations of the Board shall provide, 
authorizing such person so to engage ; and any person or per- 
sons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
84. That no pile or deposit of manure, hops, malt, offal, 
or garbage, nor accumulation of any offensive or nauseous sub- 
stance, shall be made within the limit of said County ; 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 county, any manure, hops, malt, offal, garbage 
or other offensive or nauseous substance ; nor shall cars or flats 
loaded with or having in or upon them any such substance or 
substances be allowed to remain or stand on or along any rail- 
road, street of highway within the limits of said county, with- 
in three hundred feet of any inhabited dwelling; Provided, how- 
ever, that truck-gardeners may place piles of compost within 
three hundred feet of an inhabited dwelling if no nuisance 
result therefrom. All manure vaults attached to stables, where 
more than two horses are kept, shall between April and 
November in each year, be emptied twice in each week, and 
such vault shall in no case be permitted to become a nuisance ; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty- 
five dollars. 
85. That every owner, lessee, tenant and occupant 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 county, shall 
cause said liquid or manure to be at once removed to some 
proper place, and shall at all times keep or cause to be kept 
such stalls, stables and apartments, and the drainage, yards 
and appurtenances thereof in a cleanly and wholesome con- 
dition, so that no offensive smell shall be allowed to escape 
therefrom; and, when within three hundred feet of any occu- 
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five persons are employed, the removals from the stable shall 
not be made, nor shall the manure or refuse from the stable be 
allowed to remain on any street or place near such stable any 
time between eight o’clock a. m., and six o’clock p. m., without a 
permit from this Board. Every such stall, stable or apart- 
ment, where horses or cattle are kept, shall have a properly 
covered water-tight manure vault or box, which shall not be 
allowed to become filled, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars 
for failure to comply with any of the provisions of this section. 
86. That no manure, garbage or other material that is 
liable to emit an offensive exhalation shall, in or adjacent to the 
built up portions of the County of Hudson, be turned or 
stirred (except about its removal) in such way as to be liable, 
by reason thereof, to increase such exhalations ; and any person 
or persons offending against any of the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars.- 
87. That no ground or material filled with offensive 
matter or substance, or that will emit or allow to arise through 
or from the same any offensive smell or deleterious exhalation, 
shall (adjacent to or within the built up portion of said county) 
be opened or turned up, or the surface thereof removed, be- 
tween the first day of May and the first day of October of any 
year, except according to permit first therefor obtained from 
this Board ; and any person or persons offending against any of 
the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
thirty dollars. 
88. That no cart or other vehicle for carrying any offal, 
swill, garbage, or rubbish, or the contents of any privy, 
vault, cesspool or sink, or having upon it or in anything on 
such cart any manure, or other nauseous or offensive sub- 
stance, shall, without necessity therefor, stand or remain, 
nor shall a needless number gather before or near any build- 
ing, place of business or other premises where any person 
may be ; nor shall any such cart or vehicle occupy an unreason- 
able 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 ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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thereto appertaining, be (or by any person having a right to 
control the same, be allowed to be) in a condition needlessly 
filthy or offensive; and, when not in use, all such carts, 
vehicles and all implements used in connection therewith, 
shall be stored and kept in some place where no needless 
offence shall be given to any of the people of said county; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten 
dollars. 
89. That all carts and vehicles in the last section men- 
tioned, and boxes, tubs and receptacles thereon, in which 
any substance in said section referred to may be or is 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 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, boxes and receptacles 
shall be adequately and tightly covered, as the orders or 
regulations of this Board may provide or direct; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
90. That no driver of such cart or vehicle, nor any per- 
son engaged about the loading or unloading thereof, nor any 
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, cesspool, or any 
noxious 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 per- 
son, street, place, building or premises, and all carts or 
vehicles shall be put in an inoffensive condition when not in 
use, under a penalty of twenty dollars for a failure to com- 
ply with any of the provisions of this section. 
91. That no person shall allow (and it shall be the duty 
of every contractor and person who has ordered or procured, or 
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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, dirt or material thereon, shall fall upon or in any place, 
street or premises; and it shall be the duty of every such 
person to at once replace on such vehicle and remove what 
has so fallen; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of twenty-five dollars. 
VIII. 
ABATEMENT AND KEMOVAL OF NUISANCES. 
OFFENSIVE DRAINAGE, ETC. 
92. No person shall suffer any slops, dirty water or other 
liquid of offensive smell, or otherwise nauseous or unwholesome, 
to flow from his or her house or premises, or throw or deposit 
the same, or any garbage or other offensive refuse, into or 
upon any street, gutter, sidewalk, alley or public ground in any 
city, town or township in the County of Hudson, nor shall any 
person place, throw or leave any nauseous, offensive or unwhole- 
some matter or substance in or upon any lot or lands in any 
city, town or township in said county; and any person or per- 
sons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifteen dollars. 
93. That it shall be the duty of all owners, lessees, ten- 
ants or occupants of any and all buildings in the County of 
Hudson, to keep the gutter and sidewalk in front of such build- 
ings free from any offensive substance, liquid or solid, or any 
dirt, rubbish, water or stones, or any other thing dangerous to 
health, life or limb; any person or persons violating any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
fifteen dollars. 
94. That no owner, agent, lessees, tenant, resident occu- 
pant of any house, building, or part of any house or building, 
used as a dwelling, shall allow or shall cast off or let escape from ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY 
the same any waste water or other liquid substance or matter into 
any pipe, drain, sewer, cesspool or sink, which said pipe, drain, 
sewer, cesspool or sink empties its contents into or upon any 
vacant lot or lots, or other ground, public or private, in any of 
the cities, towns or townships in the County of Hudson; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for 
each such offense. 
95. That no butchers’ offal or garbage, nor any dead 
animals, nor any putrid or stinking animal or vegetable matter 
shall be thrown by any person, or allowed to go into any street, 
place, sewer or receiving basin, or into any river, or standing 
or running water, or excavation, nor upon the surface of any 
ground or premises in said county ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
96. That no swill, brine, urine of animals or other offen- 
sive animal substance, nor any stinking, noxious liquid or other 
filthy matter of any kind, shall by any person be allowed to 
run or fall from out of any building, vehicle or erection into or 
upon any street or public place, or to be taken or put therein, 
save as herein elsewhere provided ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall for- 
feit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
97. That neither the contents of any garbage or swill 
barrel, or other receptacle, cesspool, privy, vault, sink or water- 
closet, cistern, nor anything in any room, excavation, vat, 
building, premises, or place, shall be allowed to become a 
nuisance, or offensive, so as to be dangerous or prejudicial to 
health ; and any person or persons offending against any of 
the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty dollars. 
98. That no person shall draw off, or allow to run into 
any ground, street or place in said county, the contents (or any 
part thereof) of any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool or sink ; nor 
shall any owner, tenant or occupant of any building to which 
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ed, permit the contents, or any part thereof, to flow therefrom, 
or to rise within two feet of any part of the top, or said con- 
tents to become offensive ; nor shall any privy or other erection 
in this section mentioned be filled with or covered with dirt 
till its filthy contents shall be emptied; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
99. That every tub or other receptacle necessary in any 
house, sink, or privy (or placed, or allowed to stand therein, by 
any owner, tenant or occupant of any building, or premises), 
and used to contain any liquid or partially liquid substance, 
shall be sufficiently strong, perfectly tight, and adequately 
provided with a strong cover and with hoops and handles, and 
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 empty- 
ing cesspools, and to throwing any substances therein, shall 
apply to said tubs and receptacles as is here repeated 
and applied thereto. And no person shall throw, drop, or 
allow to fall into the Hudson or Hackensack rivers, or any 
canal, or into any street or place, any substance being or hav- 
ing been part of the contents of any such vault, cesspool, privy, 
sink, tub or receptacle, or any offal ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
100. That no person shall throw into, or deposit in, any 
vault, sink, privy, or cesspool, or receiving basin, any offal, 
ashes, meat, fish or garbage, nor shall any slops or kitchen 
waste be permitted to run into any privy or cesspool, except the 
same be connected with the sewer ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
FILTH, DIRT, RUBBISH, ETC. 
101. That no part of the contents of, or substances from, 
any sink, privy, or cesspool, nor any manure, ashes, garbage, 
offal, rubbish, dirt, nor any refuse or waste or thing which by 
its decomposition could or would become offensive to human ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
beings, or detrimental to health, or create or tend to create a 
nuisance, shall be by any person thrown, deposited or placed 
upon any street or public place, or street receiving basin, nor 
upon any vacant lot of land or vacant place upon the surface 
of any lot of land within the County of Hudson, whether such 
lot be enclosed or otherwise, without the written permission of 
this Board; nor shall any of said substances be allowed by 
any person to run or drop or be deposited from the premises 
occupied by such person, into or upon any street or public 
place, nor upon any vacant lot of land, or vacant place upon 
the surface of any lot of land in said county, nor into the 
Hudson or Hackensack rivers, or any canal, save through the 
proper underground connection; under a penalty of twenty- 
five dollars. 
102. That no person or persons shall place or throw or 
cause or allow to be thrown, having power to prevent the 
same, on any street, sidewalk, highway, alleyway, road, or 
other place wherein the public have a right to be, in the 
County of Hudson, any bottles, broken glass or crockery ware, 
iron, wire, or other matter or thing dangerous to the life, limb 
or health of man or beast; any person or persons violating any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of fifteen dollars. 
103. That no lime, aslies, coal, dry sand, hair, feathers, 
or other substance that is liable to be blown by the wind, 
shall be sieved or agitated, or exposed, nor shall any 
mat, carpet or cloth be shaken or beaten, nor any 
cloth, yarn, garment or material, or substance, be scoured, 
cleaned or hung, nor any business be conducted over or in any 
street or public place, or where it, or particles therefrom, or 
set in motion thereby, will pass into any such street or public 
place, or into any occupied premises. That neither any usual 
nor reasonable precaution shall be omitted by any person to 
prevent fragments or other substances from falling, to the 
peril of life, or dust and light material flying into any street, 
place or building, from any building or erection, while the same 
is being altered, repaired, or demolished, or otherwise, under 
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104. That no person shall deposit upon any street or publie 
place within the built up portion of the County of Hudson, or 
upon any paved street, any dirt or brick, or other material or 
dirt taken from any ground therein, or any building material, 
in such manner as to obstruct the free flowage along any 
gutter ; and any person or persons offemliug against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten 
dollars. 
105. That it shall be the duty of every owmer or owners, 
lessee or lessees, tenant or tenants, occupant or occupants of 
any lot or lots of ground in the County of Hudson, on notice 
in writing from this Board or its proper officer, to forthwith 
remove from off said lot or lots any rubbish, garbage, or other 
offensive matter or thing which may be upon said lot or lots ; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one 
hundred dollars. 
106. That it shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, 
lessee, and occupant of any and every building or place of busi- 
ness in the built up portion of the County of Hudson, forth- 
with to provide, or cause to be provided, and all times there- 
after to keep, and be kept and provided, within such building 
or place of business, suitable and sufficient boxes, barrels or 
tubs for receiving and holding, without leakage and without be- 
ing 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 garbage and 
liquid substances; and ashes and rubbish shall not be placed 
or kept in the same vessel with garbage and liquid substances ; 
and all ashes, rubbish, garbage or liquid substances that should 
be removed from such building and place of business, or from 
that part for which said receptacles were provided, and none 
other (without the proper consent) shall be placed therein, and OKDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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no such box, barrel or tub shall remain on any sidewalk, or in 
any public place longer than may be needful for the removal 
of the contents thereof ; and any person or persons offending 
against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
107. That all boxes or other repositories for the recep- 
tion and containing of garbage or ashes or other refuse, placed 
on any sidewalk or near to any inhabited building in the 
County of Hudson, shall be provided with proper covers, 
which shall be at all times kept securely closed ; and all such 
boxes or repositories shall, by the owner or owners, lessee or 
lessees, tenant or tenants, occupant or occupants, or the 
proper officer of any city or town in said county whose duty 
it is to remove the same, be emptied once in every thirty-six 
hours, between the first days of May and November in each 
year; any person or persons violating any of the provisions of 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars. 
108. That the boxes, tubs and barrels mentioned in sec- 
tions of this code shall be placed and kept in such position 
(unless kept within or upon private grounds, within the side- 
walks) as the inspectors or agents of this Board shall provide 
or direct; and no person, not for that purpose authorized, 
shall interfere therewith or with the contents thereof; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars. 
109. That no offal, butchers’ refuse, hotel, dining-room, 
boarding-house, or other house refuse, offal or slops, or any 
other substance or thing emitting an offensive odor or smell, 
from any place whatsoever shall be conveyed through any 
street, avenue or road in the County of Hudson, unless such 
substance be in tight boxes, barrels, or vessels, and effectually 
covered. And all wagons, or other means of transporting such 
substances, shall be kept cleanly and wholesome, and in such 
condition as not to be prejudicial to life or health; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
110. That no hotel or house swill or garbage, or offen- 
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removed or required to be moved by the contractors for street 
cleaning, shall be transported through or along any street in 
the County of Hudson, except in tightly covered and bound 
casks and boxes, and none of the contents of such casks or 
boxes shall be allowed to fall, or leak or spill therefrom ; and 
any person or persons offending against any of e provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
111. 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 con- 
sumed, used or sold, or where any of the refuse matter, offal or 
shells thereof accumulate, shall daily cause all such shells, 
offal and refuse matter to be removed therefrom to some 
proper place, and shall keep his house, saloon and premises at 
all times free from any offensive smells or accumulations ; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
112. That the body or carcass of any dead animal, bird 
or beast, which shall have died from disease, accident or 
otherwise, except in the slaughtering of the same for food, 
shall be forthwith removed from -off any street, highway or 
premises, public or private, where the same may be, within 
twenty-four hours after the death of the same, to some proper 
place or repository for the same, by the proper officers, author- 
ities, person or persons whose duty it shall be to remove the 
same ; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty-five dollars. 
IX. 
REGISTRATION OF PHYSICIANS, NURSES AND MID- 
WIVES. 
113. No person shall, in the County of Hudson, pursue 
the calling, or practice the profession, of a physician, without 
having first presented to this Board, for inspection, the proper 
certificate or diploma of his graduation from some reputable ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY, 
school or college of medicine or surgery, or his license under 
the laws of this State, to practice medicine within the same, 
and satisfying said Board that he is the identical person named 
in said certificate, diploma, or license ; and on said Board’s 
being satisfied, writing in his own hand-writing, in a book of 
registry, provided for that purpose, at the office of this Board, 
his name, place of residence, and date and place of graduation; 
and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one 
hundred dollars. 
(This ordinance is declared, subject to State Legislation as 
to County or State registration of physicians). 
114. No person shall, in this county, practice the calling 
of professional nurse or midwife, without having first submitted 
to this Board proper credentials as to his or her ability and 
identity, and on said Board being satisfied, writing in his or 
her own hand-writing, his or her name and residence ; under a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
X. 
KETURNS OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES. 
RETURN OF A BIRTH. 
115. That it shall be the duty of the physician or midwife 
present at a birth, or if no physician or midwife was present it 
shall be the duty of any other person assisting or present at a 
birth, and if no other person be present, then it shall be the 
duty of the parent to transmit, within thirty days thereafter, 
to this Board, to be received by the Clerk thereof, a report in 
writing containing the following particulars :—the day of the 
month and year of the birth, the precise place of birth, giving 
ward, street or district, city, town or township, the names of 
both parents, the maiden name of mother, the birth place, res- 
idence and occupation of the parents, the sex, color and name 
of child, if named at time of return, the number of children of 
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or other person making return, and his residence; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars. 
RETURN OF A STILL BIRTH. 
116. That any physician or midwife in attendance upon 
the mother at the time of a still birth, or, if no physician was 
in attendance, or in case of his inaccessibility, then the County 
Physician or any member of this Board shall, within thirty-six 
hours, furnish to the undertaker, or to any member of the 
family of the deceased child applying therefor, or if no such 
application be made, he shall furnish in his own handwriting 
to this Board, to be received by the Clerk, a certificate of such 
still birth, which certificate shall show the precise place of 
birth, date, sex of child, color, names and birth place of the 
parents, residence of mother, age of mother, period of utero- 
gestation, number of previous children, number living, cause 
(if known) of dead birth, medical attendant, and his residence 
and date of return; and any person or persons violating any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
RETURN OF A DEATH. 
117. That in the case of any person who shall have died in 
Hudson County, it shall be the duty of the physician who at- 
tended such person during his last illness (or, if the death did 
not result from natural causes, or if no physician was in attend- 
ance during last illness, or in case of inaccessibility, then it 
shall be the duty of the County Physician), within thirty-six 
hours, to furnish in his own handwriting, to the undertaker, or 
to any member of the family of deceased applying therefor, or, 
if no such application be made, to furnish to this Board, to be 
received by the Clerk, a certificate of such death, which 
certificate shall set forth the following named items of informa- 
tion, touching the case :—The name, age, sex, color, nativity, 
occupation, last place of residence, place of death, (giving in 
cities and towns the name of such city or town, the ward or ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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district, name of street and number of house, and in townships 
the name of township,) duration of residence in the State, 
names of parents and their birth place, date of death, duration 
of illness, name and residence of medical attendant, and date 
of making certificate ; and any person violating any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty-five dollars. 
118. That no physician shall issue any certificate of 
death, under the ordinances of this Board or the laws of this 
State, except when he was the medical attendant on said de- 
ceased, for whom certificate was given during his or her last 
illness ; provided, said person died from natural causes; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
119. That if any physician or midwife, in case of a death 
or birth at which such physician or midwife was the profes- 
sional attendant or otherwise, shall knowingly make any false 
certificate or return to this Board as to the cause of such 
death, or any false statement in said certificate or return with 
regard to such birth, he or she shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of fifty dollars. 
RETURN OF A MARRIAGE. 
120. That every clergyman, justice of the peace, mayor 
or other person having or assuming authority to do so, who 
may solemnize a marriage in this county, and every clerk or 
keeper of the minutes of any religious society, before which in 
this county any marriage may be solemnized, shall transmit to 
this Board, to be received by the Clerk of such Board, a cer- 
tificate of every such marriage, within thirty days after the 
solemnization thereof, which certificate shall show the name* 
age, parentage, birth place, occupation and residence of the 
parties married, the time and place of the marriage, the con- 
dition of each of the parties, whether single, widowed or 
divorced; the names and residences of the witnesses and the 
signature of the clergyman officiating, or other proper person, 
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taclied to any church, then his official character, and place of 
residence; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
twenty-five dollars. 
XI. 
REGISTRY OF VITAL STATISTICS. ETC. 
PERMITS AND RETURNS. 
121. That if any physician, not regularly registered as 
aforesaid with this Board, or according to lawT, shall issue a 
certificate as to death, he shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty 
dollars. 
122. Any member of this Board may certify to the cause 
of death of any person, in any case where no physician was in 
attendance at the time of death ; provided, that after a careful 
examination he shall find that such person came to his or her 
death by natural causes. 
123. All deaths resulting from wilful violence, or accident, 
or sudden deaths, the causes of which is not known, and all 
deaths in prisons and jails, shall be investigated by, and the 
cause of such death certified to, only by the County Physician- 
124. That no burial or transfer permit will be granted 
upon a certificate signed by any physician of Hudson County > 
whose name is not recorded in the registry kept for the purpose 
at the office of this Board, or according to law. 
125. That the applicant for a permit for burial in this 
county, or to remove a body from this county for interment 
elsewhere, shall, when the death has taken place in Hudson 
County, pay for such permit the sum of twenty-five cents. 
126. That the applicant for a permit to disinter a body 
in Hudson County, and to re-bury either within or without the 
limits of said county, shall pay the sum of twenty-five cents foi 
such permit; except where such disinterment shall be made by ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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order of a court of competent jurisdiction for the purpose of 
criminal investigation. 
XII. 
CEMETERIES, CORPSES, INTERMENTS, ETC. 
127. That no interment of the dead body of any human 
being or deposition thereof in any tomb, vault, or cemetery, 
nor other disposition thereof, shall be made within the County 
of Hudson, without a permit therefor granted by this Board, 
nor otherwise than in accordance therewith, and no sexton or 
other person shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any such 
interment, or aid or assist about preparing a grave or place of 
deposit for any such body where such permit has not been 
given authorizing the same ; provided, that in case of bodies 
dying in other parts of this State the same effect as to inter- 
ment in this county shall be given to the permit in the form 
prescribed of the county, city, town or township wherein death 
took place, as to the permit of this Board ; and it shall be the 
duty of every person who shall receive any such permit, to 
preserve and to return the same to this Board as its regulation 
may require ; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of fifty dollars. 
128. That no new bnrying-ground, cemetery, tomb, or 
vanlt for dead human bodies shall be estabtished, nor shall the 
remains of any dead body be placed in any existing burying- 
ground, vault, tomb or cemetery in the County of Hudson, nor 
any of said receptacles be opened, exposed or disturbed for the 
interment or removal of any corpse, except according to the 
terms of a permit therefor given by this Board, and every body 
buried in any such place shall be buried so that the top of the 
outside coffin shall be at least four feet, or in case of infants, 
three and one-half feet, below the surface of the ground, and 
four feet below any closely adjacent street; provided, that this 
shall not apply where bodies are placed in properly made pri- 
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any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of one hundred dollars. 
129. That every person who acts as a sexton or under- 
taker in the County of Hudson, or has charge or care of any 
vault, tomb, burying-ground or cemetery for the reception of 
the dead, or where the bodies of any human beings are depos- 
ited, shall cause his or her name and residence, and the nature 
of his or her charge and duties, to be registered with this 
Board, and shall, on or before the fifth day of each and every 
month, make return to this Board of all burial permits for the 
bodies and persons buried since his last return, and in such 
form, and specifying such particulars as the special regulations 
of this Board shall require; and any person or persons offend- 
ing against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit 
and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
130. That no captain, agent or person having charge of, 
or attached to any ferryboat, sailing or other vessel, nor any 
person in charge of any car, stage or other vehicle, or public or 
private conveyance, shall convey or allow to be conveyed 
thereon, or by any means aforesaid, nor shall any person con- 
vey or allow to be carried or conveyed, in any manner, from or 
in the County of Hudson, the dead body of any human being, 
or any part thereof, without a permit therefor from this Board. 
And the proper coupon for that purpose attached to any such 
permit when issued, shall be preserved and returned to this 
Board, as its regulations may require, by the proper officer or 
person on such boat or vessel, and by the proper person in 
eharge of any train of cars or vehicle on which any such body 
may be carried from said county ; provided, however, that the 
same effect shall be given, under this section, to a burial or 
transit permit issued by the health officer or Board of Health 
of the City of New York as to a burial or transit permit issued 
from this Board, when the death of the person named in the 
permit shall have occurred in the City of New York; and, 
provided, that the same effect shall be given under this section 
to a burial or transit permit issued by the Board of Health or 
proper authority of the County of Kiclimond, Long Island City, 
City of Brooklyn, and of Yonkers and of all cities, towns and ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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other places in this State having Health Boards, or issued by 
the New Jersey State Board of Health, when the death of the 
person named in the permit shall have occurred in the County 
of Richmond, Long Island City, Brooklyn, Yonkers, or in such 
cities, towns and other places in this State ; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
131. That no person shall retain, expose, or allow to be 
retained or exposed, the dead body of any human being, to the 
peril or prejudice of the life or health of any person, under 
a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
132. That no person shall allow to be retained, unburied 
the dead body of any human being for a longer time than four 
days, or, where death has been caused by a contagious disease, 
for a longer time than twenty-four hours after the death of such 
person, without a permit from this Board, which permit shall 
specify the length of time during which such body may be 
retained unburied; and when death has been caused by a 
contagious disease the body shall be immediately thereafter dis- 
infected in such manner as may be directed by this Board, and 
enclosed in a tightly sealed coffin, (which coffin, in order to 
allow a subsequent disinterment of such body, must be a 
metallic casket, hermetically sealed) which shall not thereafter 
be opened, and the funeral of such person shall be strictly 
private, and in the removal thereof for burial or otherwise, 
hearses only shall be employed; and any person or persons 
violating any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit 
and pay a penalty of forty dollars. 
133. That in no case shall the body of any person who 
has died of small pox be placed in any public receiving vault, nor 
shall any grave in which any such body has been interred, be 
reopened at any time for the interment therein of any other 
body, or for any other purpose except by special permit there- 
to r; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
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134. That in the removal of dead bodies, or of those vho 
have died from a contagious disease, hearses or covered coffin 
wagons only must be employed. In no case will it be per- 
mitted to use coaches or wagons for this purpose; and any 
person or persons offending against and of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five 
dollars. 
135. That in cases where it is desirable to place the 
corpse of a person, having died from a non-contagious disease, 
in a public receiving vault, the usual burial permit may be 
used for that purpose, and if so done, any person whose duty 
it shall be to make burial returns, shall so state in his return 
to this Board. All persons removing a corpse from such vault 
are required to procure a permit therefor from this Boardf 
which shall be furnished free of charge; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
136. No dead human body shall be permitted to remain 
in any receiving vault between the first of May and the first of 
November, longer than forty-eight hours—unless said vault 
shall be five feet or more in depth below the natural surface of 
the ground, and shall be properly constructed to prevent the 
escape of noxious gases; and any person or persons violating 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
137. That no grave, tomb, or burial-place for dead human 
bodies shall be opened, exposed or disturbed, except according 
to the terms of a permit therefor given by this Board, under a 
penalty of twenty-five dollars for every such offense. 
Permission to disinter or remove any dead body from a 
grave, tomb, or burial place, shall be given only between 
November 1 and May 1, and when such has been buried one 
year or more. 
No permit to remove the body of a person who has died 
from small-pox, or other contagious disease, shall be given at 
any time, unless said body was interred in a metallic case, 
hermetically sealed. ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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DEFINITIONS, ETC. 
138. That the terms “ Board,” “ this Board ” and “ said 
Board,” shall be held to mean the “ Board of Health and Vital 
Statistics of the County of Hudson ;” that the words “ person,” 
“owner,” “tenant,” “lessee,” “occupant,” “contractor,” 
“party,” “manager,” “board” and “officer,” shall respectfully 
be held to apply to and include, both jointly and severally, 
each and all owners, part owners, tenants, lessees, occupants, 
managers, contractors, parties in interest, persons, officers, 
boards and corporations who may sustain the relations, or may 
be in like position of any one or more thereof referred to in 
any ordinance or regulation; that every order, ordinance or 
regulation declared applicable to the built up portion of Hud- 
son County 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 county ; that every word or phrase 
anywhere herein defined, shall be held to include the same 
sense wherever used; that the words “ county,” or “ this 
county,” or “ said county,” whenever used herein, shall be held 
to mean the County of Hudson ; that the word “ regulation ” 
shall be held to include “special regulation” (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 ” shall be held to 
refer to external light; and that all words and phrases herein 
defined, shall also include their usual and natural meaning, as 
well as herein especially given. 
139. That the word “ street,” when used in the sanitary 
code, shall be held to include avenues, side-walks, gutters, and 
public alleys ; and the word “ public place ” shall be held to 
include parks, piers, docks, and wharves, and water and 
open spaces thereto adjacent; also public yards, grounds and 50 
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areas, and all open spaces between buildings and streets, and 
in view of such streets ; the word “ ashes *' shall be held to 
include cinders, coal, and everything that usually remains after 
fire ; the word “ rubbish ” shall be held to include such loose 
and decayed material and dirt-like substance that attends use 
or decay, or which accumulates from building, storing or clean- 
ing ; 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, fowl, birds, or vegetables ; and the 
word “ dirt ” shall be held to mean natural soil, earth and 
stone. 
140. That a “ tenement house ” shall be taken to mean 
and include every house, building or portion thereof, which is 
rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied, 
as the house, home or residence of more than three families 
living independent of one another, and doing their cooking 
upon the premises, or by more than two families upon a floor, 
so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, 
stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them. 
A “ lodging-house ” shall be taken to mean and include any 
house or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are 
harbored or revceived, or lodged for hire for a single night, or 
for less than one week at one time, or any part of which is let 
for any person to sleep in for any term less than a week. 
A “ cellar ” shall be taken to mean and include every basement 
or lower story of any building or house, of which one-lialf or 
more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the 
level of the street adjoining. The phrase “ boarding-house ” 
shall be held to include every building and every story and 
portion thereof, which is at any time or usually used, leased or 
occupied, or intended so to be, by any number of persons 
exceeding six, as boarders thereat. The word “ 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 continual or usual presence of several 
persons during several hours of the day or night, engaged 
about said work or labor; and the word “ saloon ” shall be ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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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.” 
141. 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 to and appurtenances thereof. 
142. That the word “ physician ” shall include dentists, 
and every other person who practices about the cure of the 
sick or injured, or who has charge of, or professionally pre- 
scribes for, any person sick, injured or diseased, and any per- 
son who pursues the business of or acts as mid-wife; that the 
phrase “ contagious disease ” shall be held to include all 
diseases of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature 
(more especially, however, referring to the cholera, yellow fever, 
small pox, diphtheria, ship or typhus, spotted, relapsing and 
scarlet fevers), and also including any new disease publicly 
declared by this Board dangerous to the public health , and 
every physician in said county, 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 pre- 
scribed by this Board, and the provisions of this code. 
143. 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 or 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 
county; 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. CODE OF HEALTH 
144. That the word “ cattle ” shall be held to include all 
animals except birds, fowl and fish, of which part of the body 
is used as food; the word “butcher ” shall be held to include 
whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving or 
slaughtering any cattle, or in selling any meat; the words 
“ private market ” shall include every store, cellar, stand and 
place (not being part of a public market), at which the 
business is the buying, selling or keeping for sale, of meat, fish 
or vegetables for human food. 
MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE. 
145. That no person shall carelessly or negligently do, 
or advise or contribute to the doing of any act or thing 
dangerous 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 precau- 
tion, reasonable and proper, to prevent or remove danger or 
detriment to the life or health of any human being ; and any 
person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
XIII. 
TENEMENT HOUSES, PRISONS, AND PUBLIC 
BUILDINGS. 
146. Tliat 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 ventilation, light, sewer- 
age, or any of the usual, proper or necessary provisions or 
precautions for the preservation of health, 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 to 
remedy or prevent the same) cause or allow any matter or 
thing to be done in or about any such building or structure ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
dangerous or prejudicial to health ; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
147. That no owner, agent or lessee of any building, or 
any part thereof, shall lease, or let or hire out the same, or any 
portion thereof, to be occupied by any person, or allow the 
same to be occupied as a place in which one may 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 which they or either of them require any such 
premises to be kept, or which is required for the well being 
and health of the inhabitants or occupants thereof. Nor shall 
any such person rent, let, hire out or allow, having power to 
prevent the same, to be used as or for a place of sleeping or 
residence, any portion or apartment of any building, which 
apartment or portion has not at least two feet of its height and 
space above the level of every part of the sidewalk and curb- 
stone of any adjacent street, nor of which the floor is damp by 
reason of water from the ground or house walls, or which is 
impregnated or penetrated by any offensive gas, smell or 
exhalation prejudicial to health ; and any person offending 
against this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty 
dollars; provided, that this section shall not prevent the leas- 
ing, renting or occupancy of any cellars or rooms less elevated 
than as aforesaid, and as part of any building rented or let, 
when they are not let or intended to be occupied or used by 
any person as a sleeping apartment, or as a principal or sole 
dwelling. 
148. That no person, having the right and power to pre- 
vent the same, shall knowingly cause or permit any person to 
sleep or remain in any cellar, not having at least two feet of its 
height above the level of the adjacent sidewalk, nor in any 
bath-room or other room in which there is a water closet, or in 
anv place dangerous or prejudicial to health, by reason of a 
want of ventilation or drainage, or by reason of the presence of CODE OF HEALTH 
any poisonous, noxious or offensive substance or otherwise, 
under a penalty of ten dollars. 
149. That no owner, lessee or keeper of any tenement- 
house, lodging-house, boarding-house, or manufactory, shall 
cause or allow the same to be overcrowded, or cause or allow 
so great a number of persons to dwell, be, or sleep in any such 
house, or any portion thereof, as thereby to cause any danger 
or detriment to health, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
150. That no person, being the lessee, manager, con- 
ductor or owner of any theatre, church, or other public build- 
ing, shall cause, permit or allow the same, or any part or 
appurtenance thereof to be so far overcrowded, or inadequate, 
faulty or insufficient in respect of cleanliness, ventilation, 
ingress or egress, or in any other particular, as that thereby, or 
by reason thereof, any avoidable peril shall come or happen to> 
or be incurred, or suffered by any person being properly at or 
in such building ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
151. 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, which shall not be less in number than one sep- 
arate closet or privy for every twenty occupants of such tenement 
or lodging-house, 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 detrimen- 
tal to health. And no offensive smell or gases, from or 
through any outlet or sewer, or through any such privy or 
water-closet, shall be allowed, by any person aforesaid, to pass 
into such house or any part thereof, or into other house 
or building ; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of twenty five dollars. ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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152. 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 clean and wholesome condition, 
and shall speedily cause every apartment thereof in which any 
person may sleep, dwell or work, to be adequately lighted and 
ventilated ; and if the same be n manufactory, shall cause every 
part thereof in which any person may work to be maintained 
at such temperature, and be provided with such accommoda- 
tions and safeguards as not, by any reason of the want thereof, 
or of anything about the condition of any such manufactory or 
its appurtenances, to cause unnecessary danger or detriment to 
the health of any person being properly therein or thereat; 
.and any person or persons offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty- 
five dollars. 
153. 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 detriment to the health of any such 
person, by reason of too little or too much heat, or of a want of 
food, drink or ventilation, or from the want or neglect of any 
other reasonable care, protection or precaution; and any per- 
son or persons offending against any of the provisions of this 
section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
154. The owner, agent, occupant, or other person having 
the care of any tenement used as a dwelling-house, or of any 
other building in which there is a water-closet connected and 
used, shall furnish the same with a sufficient drain under 
ground to carry off the waste water into a public sewer; or in 
case the property shall be erected on lands abutting on a street in 
which there shall be no such sewer, then with a suitable privy, 
the vault of which shall be sunk under ground and built in the 
manner hereinafter prescribed, and of a capacity proportionate 
to the number of inhabitants of such tenement, or of those 
having occasion to use such privy, which shall in no case be 
less in number than one separate privy to every twenty of such 
inhabitants. Any such owner, agent, occupant, or other per- 56 
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son who shall neglect to comply with any of the provisions of 
this section shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars. 
155. That no house, building, or portion thereof, in the 
County of Hudson, shall be used, occupied, leased or rented 
for a tenement or lodging-house, unless the same conform in 
its construction and appurtenances to the requirements of this 
code or the ordinances of this Board ; and any person or per- 
sons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
156. That every tenement or lodging-house, shall have in 
every room which is occupied as a sleeping room, and which 
does not communicate directly with the external air, a ventilat- 
ing or transom window, having an opening or area of three 
square feet, which said window shall open upon a properly 
constructed ventilation shaft and also, if practicable, a ventilat- 
ing or transom window of the same opening or area communi- 
cating with the entry or hall of the house, or when this is, 
from the relative situation of the room, impracticable, such last 
mentioned ventilating or transom window shall communicate 
with an adjoining room that itself communicates with the entry 
or hall, and every such house or building shall have in the 
roof, at the top of the hall, an adequate and proper ventilation 
of approved form ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay 
a penalty of fifty dollars. 
157. The roof of every tenement or lodging-house shall 
be kept in good repair, and so as not to leak, and all rain water 
shall be so drained or conveyed therefrom as to prevent its 
dripping on the ground, or causing dampness in the walls, 
yard or area; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of twenty dollars. 
158. That every tenement or lodging-house shall be pro- 
vided with good and sufficient water-closets or privies, of a 
construction approved by this Board, and shall have proper 
doors, traps, soil pans and other suitable works and arrange- OKDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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ments, so far as may be necessary to insure the efficient opera- 
tion thereof. Such water-closets or privies shall not be less in 
number than one to every twenty occupants of said house ; 
but water-closets or privies may be used in common by the 
occupants of any two or more houses, provided the access is 
convenient and direct, and provided the number of occupants in 
the houses for which they are provided shall not exceed the 
proportion above required for every privy or water-closet. 
Every such house, situated upon a lot or street in which there 
is a sewer, shall have the water-closets or privies furnished 
with a proper connection with the sewer, which connection 
shall be in all parts adequate for the purpose, so as to permit 
entirely and freely to pass whatever enters the same. Such 
connections with the shall be of a form approved by 
this Board. All such water-closets and vaults shall be pro- 
vided with the proper traps, and connected with the house 
sewer by a proper tight pipe, and shall be provided with suffi- 
cient water and other proper means for flushing the same ; and 
every owner, lessee and occupant shall take adequate measures 
to prevent improper substances from entering such water- 
closets or privies or their connections, and to secure the 
prompt removal of any improper substances that may enter 
them, so that no accumulation shall take place, and so as to 
prevent any exhalation therefrom offensive, dangerous or 
prejudica 1 to health, and so as to prevent the same from being 
or becoming obstructed. No cesspool shall be allowed in or 
under or connected with any such house, except when it is 
unavoidable, and in such case in shall be constructed in such 
situation and in such a manner as this Board may direct. It 
shall in all cases be water-tight, and arched or securely covered 
over, and no offensive smell or gases shall be allowed to escape 
therefrom, nor from any privy or privy vault. In all cases where 
a sewer exists in the street upon which the house or building 
stands, the yard or area shall be so connected with the same 
that all water, from the roof or otherwise, and all liquid filth 
shall pass freely into it. Where no sewer exists in the street 
all liquid filth and other waste water shall be drained into a 
properly constructed and water-tight vault or cesspool; and CODE OF HEALTH 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of thirty dollars 
for each such offense on the part of any owner, agent, occupant, 
or other person. 
159. It shall not be lawful, without a permit from this 
Board, to let, or continue to let, or occupy, or suffer to be 
occupied, separately as a dwelling, any vault, cellar, or under- 
ground room whatsoever, unless the same be, in every part 
thereof, at least seven feet in height, measured from the floor 
to the ceiling thereof, nor unless the same be for at least two 
feet of its height above the surface of the street or ground 
adjoining or nearest to the same, nor unless there be outside of 
and adjoining the said vault, cellar or room and extending along 
the entire frontage thereof, and upwards from six inches below 
the level of the floor thereof up to the surface of the said street 
or ground, an open space of at least two feet and six inches 
wide in every part, nor unless the same be well and effectually 
drained by means of a drain, the uppermost part of which is 
one foot at least below the level of the floor of such vault, 
cellar or room, nor unless there is a clear space of not less than 
one foot below the level of the floor, except where the same is 
cemented, nor unless there be appurtenant to such vault, cellar, 
or room, the use of a water-closet or privy kept and provided as 
in this code required, nor unless the same have an external win- 
dow opening at least nine superficial feet clear of the sash frame, 
in which window opening there shall be fitted a frame filled in 
with glazed sashes, at least four and a half superficial feet of 
which shall be made so as to open for the purpose of ventila- 
tion. Provided, however, that in the case of an inner or back 
vault, cellar or room, let or occupied along with a front vault, 
cellar or room, as part of the same letting or occupation, it 
shall be a sufficient compliance with the provisions of this code 
if the front room is provided with a window, as hereinbefore 
provided, and if the said back vault, cellar or room is connected 
wfitli the front vault, or room, by a door and also by a proper 
ventilating or transom window, and where practicable, also 
onnected by a proper ventilating or transom window opening 
either to the external air or upon a properly constructed venti- OEDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
lation shaft. Provided, always, that in any area adjoining a 
vault, cellar or underground room there may be steps necessary 
for access to such vault, cellar or room, if the same be so placed 
as not to be over, across or opposite to the said external 
window, and so as to allow between every part of such steps 
and the external wall of such vault, cellar or room a clear space 
of six inches at least, and if the rise of said steps is open; and 
provided, further, that over or across any such area there may 
be steps necessary for access to any building above the vault, 
cellar or room to which such area adjoins, if the same be so 
placed as not to be over, across or opposite to any such exter- 
nal window ; and any person or persons offending against any 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty 
of twenty-five dollars. 
160. No vault, cellar or underground room shall be occu- 
pied as a place of lodging or sleeping, except in compliance 
with the regulations hereinbefore prescribed, and unless the 
same shall be approved, in wTriting, and a permit given there- 
for by this Board ; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
161. Every tenement or lodging-house shall have the 
proper and suitable conveniences or receptacles for receiving 
garbage and other refuse matter. No tenement or lodging- 
house, nor any por+ion thereof, shall be used as a place of 
storage for any combustible article, or any article dangerous or 
detrimental to health ; nor shall any horse, cow, calf, swine, 
pig, sheep or goat be kept in said house; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. 
162. Every tenement or lodging-house, and every part 
thereof, shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of 
dirt, filth, garbage or other matter in or on the same or in the 
yard, court, passage, area or alley connected with or belonging 
to the same. The owner or keeper of any lodging-house, and 
the owner or lessee of any tenement house, or part thereof, 
shall thoroughoughly cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, 60 
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floors, windows, doors, Avails, ceilings, privies, cesspools and 
drains thereof of the house, or part of the house of which he 
is the owner or lessee, to the satisfaction of this Board, so 
often as shall be required by or in accordance Avith any regula- 
tion or ordinance of said Board, and shall Avell and sufficiently, 
to the satisfaction of this Board, whitewash or paint the Avails 
and ceilings thereof tAvice at least in eArery year, in the 
months of April and October, unless the said Board shall 
otherwise direct; and any person or persons offending against 
any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of ten dollars for each such offense. 
163. It shall not be lawful hereafter to erect for, or con- 
vert to the purpose of a tenement or lodging-house, a build- 
ing on the front of any lot where there is another building on 
the rear of the same lot, unless there is a clear, open space 
exclusively belonging thereto and extending upwards from the 
ground of at least ten feet between said buildings, if they are 
one story high above the level of the ground ; if they are two 
stories, the distance between them shall not be less than 
fifteen feet; if they are three stories, the distance between 
them shall be twenty feet; and if they are more than three 
stories high the distance between them shall be twenty-five 
feet. At the rear of every building hereafter erected for, or con- 
verted to the purpose of a tenement or lodging-house, on the 
back part of any lot, there shall be a clear, open space of ten 
feet between it and any other building. But when thorough 
ventilation of such open spaces can be otherwise secured, said 
distance may be lessened or modified, in special cases, by a 
permit from this Board; provided, however, that in no case 
shall the superficial area of such tenement or lodging-house, 
or houses hereafter to be erected exceed a proportion of two 
thousand square feet for every twenty-five hundred square feet 
of the area of the lot on which the same be erected; and any 
person or persons offending against any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
164. In every such house, hereafter erected or converted, 
every habitable room, except rooms in the attic, shall be in 
every part not less than eight feet in height from the floor to ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
the ceiling; and every habitable room in the attic of any such 
building shall be at least eight feet in height from the floor to 
the ceiling, throughout not less than one-half the area of such 
room. Every such room shall have at least one window con- 
necting with the external air, or with a properly constructed 
ventilating shaft, and over the door a ventilator of perfect con- 
struction connecting it with a room or hall which has a connec- 
tion with the external air, and so arranged as to produce a cross 
current of air. The total area of window or windows in every 
room communicating with the external air shall be at least one- 
tenth of the superficial area of every such room ; and the top of 
one, at least, of such windows, shall not be less than seven feet 
and six inches above the floor, and the upper half, at least, shall 
be made so as to open the full width. Every habitable room, if it 
does not communicate directly with the external air, shall be 
provided with special means of ventilation by separate air-shafts 
extending to the roof, or otherwise as this Board may pre- 
scribe ; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
thirty dollars. 
165. Every such house hereafter erected or converted 
shall have adequate chimneys running through every floor, 
with an open fire-place or grate, or place for a stove, properly 
connected with one of said chimneys for every family and set 
of apartments. It shall have proper conveniences and recep- 
tacles for ashes and rubbish. It shall have water furnished, 
from public water supply, one or more places in such house, or 
in the yard thereof, so that the same may be adequate and 
reasonably convenient for the use of the occupants thereof* 
It shall have the floor of the cellar properly cemented, so as to 
be water-tight. The halls of each flo.or shall open directly to 
the external air, or upon a ventilating shaft, with suitable 
windows at both ends of the hall and shall have no room or 
other obstruction to ventilating at either end, unless sufficient 
light or ventilation is otherwise provided for said hall in a 
manner approved by this Board; and any person or persons 
offending against any of the provisions of this section shall 
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166. That if this Board shall at any time be satisfied that 
any tenement, or other house or building used as a dwelling- 
house, is not provided with a suitable privy, vault and drain, 
or either of them as aforesaid, they shall give notice in writing 
to the owner, agent, occupant or other person having the care 
thereof, requiring such owner, agent, occupant or other person, 
within such time as they may appoint, to cause a proper and 
sufficient privy, vault and drain, or either of them, to be con- 
structed for such tenement or other building ; and in case of 
neglect or refusal to obey such notice, the Board of Health 
shall cause such privy, vault and drain, or either of them, to be 
made for such tenement or other building, at the expense of 
such owner, agent, occupant or other person ; and in case any 
such drain, vault or privy is constructed, as aforesaid, for the 
use of more than one house, then the owner, agent, occupant or 
other person, having charge of such house, shall be liable to 
pay a proportional part of such expense. 
167. That the -walls or fences surrounding any court- 
yard shall be so constructed as to height and nature of con- 
struction as not to impede the free and full circulation of air 
within said yard ; any owner, lessee or occupant, having power 
to prevent or remedy the same, and failing so to do, shall forfeit 
and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
XIV. 
SEWER CLEANING, REFUSE REMOVAL AND DUMP- 
ING. 
168. That it shall be the duty of all boards, departments, 
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 accumulation shall take place, 
and no exhalations from thence proceed, dangerous or prejudi- 
cial to health ; and any person or persons offending against ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
169. That it shall be the dutyof any Street Commissioner 
or other proper officer in authority, in any city, town or town- 
ship in the County of Hudson, within twenty-four hours after 
receiving notice, in writing, from an inspector, or the proper 
officer or commissioner of this Board so to do, to open, empty 
and cleanse any receiving or other basin of any public sewer in 
any such city, town or township in said county ; any person or 
persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
170. That the proper officers and authorities shall, to the 
extent of their power and ability, cause the sewers and drain- 
age of all cities, towns and townships in the County of Hudson 
to be so well located and constructed, so adequate in size, and 
to be so kept in repair and cleaned, and so adequately supplied 
with water, and with such proper arrangements and construc- 
tions in every particular, that life and health shall not be need- 
lessly exposed, nor suffer unnecessary peril or detriment bj 
their neglect, nor by reason of the defects or deficiencies of any 
sewers or drainage, or the want thereof; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars. 
171. That no department, board, agent, officer or employee 
of any city, town or township in the County of Hudson, nor any 
person whatsoever shall from any sewer or drain, receiving 
basin or manhole of any sewer or drain in any street or high- 
way in any city, town or township in said county, draw off or 
take out the contents of the same unless they or he shall have 
at hand and deposit therein such contents in a water-tight 
and securely covered vehicle or wagon, and in no case allow 
the same from the time of bringing the same out of said sewer, 
drain, receiving basin or manhole to be exposed to the air ; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five 
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172. 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 tide waters surrounding 
this county or the tributaries of the same), and any ground, 
building, erection, or place of business, and in like manner the 
duty of the owner and tenant of all grounds, buildings and 
erections, and of the parties interested in such place of business 
or the business thereat, and in like manner the duty of all 
boards, departments, officers, and persons (to the extent of the 
right and authority of each), to cause and require that such 
drain, soil-pipe, passage and connection, shall at all times be 
adequate for its purpose, and shall convey and allow’, freely 
and entirely, to pass whatever enters or should enter the same, 
and all such drainage into such parts of the Passaic river as 
adjoins any upland in this county, is liereb}r prohibited; and 
any person or persons offending against any of the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of forty dollars. 
173. That the drivers of all carts, for the removal of any 
garbage, offal, rubbish or dirt from any building or 
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 substance aforesaid ; and any person or 
persons offending against any of the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars. 
174. That all occupants, so preferring, may deliver their 
ashes, garbage and rubbish directly to the proper carts, to be 
taken away at any hour of the day when said carts may be 
present; and said carts may take such articles from receptacles 
delivered at any such hour ; provided that such garbage or 
rubbish be not highly filthy or 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 ; and any person or persons offending 
against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and 
pay a penalty of ten dollars. ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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XV. 
FILLING SUNKEN LOTS. 
175. That when any lot or lots, or any part or parts of 
any lot or lots, or any land or part of any land, public or pri- 
vate, in the built up portion of the County of Hudson, shall, 
from any artificial, natural, or other cause whatsoever, become 
in whole or in part the repository of stagnant water or any 
decaying or offensive substance, liquid or solid, it shall be the 
duty of the owner or owners, lessee, tenant, occupant, or the 
agent of any such owner or owners, or of any other person 
having the charge and control of such lot or lots, or part or 
parts of such lot or lots, or other premises, within five days 
after receiving notice, in writing, from this Board, or its proper 
officer, of the condition of such lot or lots, or part or parts of 
such lot or lots, and asking the remedy of the same, to cause 
such lot or lots, or part or parts of such lot or lots, to be filled 
with clay or any other inoffensive and efficient substance, so as 
to prevent water or other liquid substance from gathering or 
remaining on such ground or any part of the same, and to 
cause the proper drainage of the same, if it be found necessary 
to the keeping of said ground in a dry and healty state, and the 
preventing of any adjoining ground becoming flooded by reason 
of such filling; any person or persons violating against any of 
the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
one hundred dollars. 
176. That no person shall fill, level, or raise the surface 
of any ground or lot in the County of Hudson, with animal or 
vegetable substances, filth gathered in cleaning yards or 
streets, or waste material from mills or factories; nor remove 
the surface of any ground or lot within said county if filled 
with such offensive matter or substance, in such manner as to 
cause noisome odors or noxious gases to arise ; and any person 
who shall cause, allow or maintain the doing of the same, with- 
out a special permit from this Board, shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of fifty dollars. 
177. That no animal or vegetable substance, nor street 
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buildings, docks or slips, nor waste of mills or factories, nor any 
materials which are offensive, or tend to decay or become putrid, 
or to render the atmosphere impure or unwholesome, shall be 
deposited or used to fill up or raise the surface or level of any 
lot, grounds, dock, wharf or pier, in or adjacent to the built up 
portion of said county, or any ground filled for the purpose of 
building thereon, unless pursuant to a special permit from this 
Board; and any person or persons offending against any of the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
fifty dollars. 
178. That when any tract of land, or any buildings there- 
on erected, shall, by reason of excavation, stoppage of natural 
or artificial drainage or sewerage, become covered or saturated 
with foul or stagnant water, or shall be otherwise dangerous to 
life or health, and the said premises shall, on inspection, be 
adjudged a nuisance by this Board, it shall be lawful for this 
Board to fill in, drain, or otherwise render inoffensive the said 
premises; and the contractor or other person filling in or 
otherwise making the said premises inoffensive, shall file an 
account of the expense therefor in the office of this Board, 
which said account shall be recorded in a properly indexed 
book by the Clerk of this Board, together with the resolution 
of this Board adjudicating the same to be a nuisance; a 
description of said premises and the names of its owner or 
owners (which names shall be properly indexed in said book), 
together with a report of the Health Inspector, that the nui- 
sance aforesaid has been properly abated ; and that thereupon 
the expense incurred as aforesaid shall become and continue a 
lien of record on the said premises until the same shall be 
paid, or may be rcovered by action at law, as this Board may 
direct. 
XYI. 
PLUMBING, ETC. 
179. That the plumbing, drainage and ventilation of all 
buildings, public and private, hereafter erected in the County 
of Hudson, shall be executed in accordance with plans and ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
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specifications previously approved by the Board of Health and 
Vital Statistics of the County of Hudson, and that suitable 
drawings and descriptions of said plumbing shall in every case 
be submitted to this Board for approval, and to be by said 
Board approved before the commencement of work. 
180. Drawings and descriptions of the plumbing, drainage 
and ventilations of buildings erected prior to the passage of 
this supplement shall be placed on file with said Board. 
181. Every plumber before doing any work in any build- 
ing shall, except in the case of the repair of leaks, file in the 
office of the said Board, upon blanks provided by said Board 
for the purpose, a notice and description of the work to be 
performed, and no work shall be done in any building without 
the approval of said Board. 
182. Every building hereafter to be erected in the built 
up portion of Hudson County, shall be separately and inde* 
pendently connected with the main sewer of the street upon 
which said building is located. If it be impracticable to con- 
nect with any sewer or drain, connection in such case must be 
made with a properly constructed cesspool. 
183. Every private house in which plumbing improve- 
ments are placed must have at least a f inch supply pipe from 
the street; two story tenements must have a § inch supply 
pipe. Where there are more than two tenants and less than 
ten tenants the building must have a | inch supply pipe, and 
where there are more than ten tenants in one building a 1 inch 
supply pipe must be provided. 
184. The drain, soil, waste pipes and traps must be 
exposed to view, for inspection and convenience in repairing, 
and in no case shall these pipes and traps be so placed as to 
be inaccessible. 
185. The drain pipe inside of any building and for five 
feet outside of said building shall be of iron, and where prac- 
icable, with a fall of at least one-half inch to the foot and 
caulked with molten lead and oakum, to be run horizontally CODE OF HEALTH 
along the cellar wall and not in the grounds, so as always to be 
ready to inspection, and Y branches shall be used for changes 
in direction of drains. 
186. The drain pipe inside of the building must be sup- 
plied with a running trap and fresh air inlet just inside of the 
house, size of trap at least five inches in diameter and run to 
the outside of the building not close to any window. 
187. Every soil and waste pipe must be of iron and extend 
two feet above the highest point of the roof, and must be pro- 
vided with a neat wire cap or strainer. 
188. All connections with lead and iron waste pipes must 
be made with brass or composition ferrules, and tlie joint must 
be properly caulked with oakum and molten lead. 
189. Every water closet, sink, bath tub, basin and wash 
tray shall be separately trapped, and the traps must be placed 
as near the fixture as practicable. All such fixtures are to be of 
cast iron or lead, and not of sheet metal. Traps must be pro- 
tected from syplionage by a special metallic air pipe, and shall 
not be less than one and one-half inches in diameter for sink 
basins and tub traps, and two inches in diameter for water 
closet traps. 
190. Every safe under tubs, water closets, basins, sinks, 
urinals, &c., shall have a waste pipe with a proper ball trap 
placed on the bottom, to run to the lower part of the house or 
cellar, and shall not connect directly with any drain or sewer 
191. No waste pipe from a refrigerator shall be directly 
connected with the soil or water pipe, but must empty into an 
open sink or other proper receptacle. 
192. All water closets inside of houses and above the 
second story must be supplied with water from a tank or 
cistern, and such water shall be used for no other purpose, 
and in no case shall water closets be supplied with water 
directly from the street main, except water closets on the base- 
ment, which may be supplied directly from the pressure. 
Every privy located within eight feet of any building shall be ORDINANCES OF HUDSON COUNTY 
ventilated from underneath the floor, thence to the top of the 
building with at least 8 inch galvanized pipe with vent cap, 
and w7here there is a line or row of privies each one shall have 
a vent cap as above specified. 
193. No steam exhaust shall be connected with any soil or 
waste pipe or drain which communicates with a public sewer, 
but must be condensed in a proper condensing tank before 
running into a sewer, and no water or other substance used for 
any purpose in a factory shall run into a public sewer, if be- 
cause of its high temperature or excessive amount it should 
thereby create a nuisance. 
194. Water pipes exposed to frost shall be packed with 
some nonconducting material to prevent their freezing. 
195. No privy vault or cesspool will hereafter be per- 
mitted in any part of the County of Hudson where water closets 
built in the house can be connected with a public sewer in the 
street, and whenever a privy vault or cesspool must necessarily 
be used they must be located and constructed under the 
direction and approval of this Board or its appropriate com- 
mittee, inspector, or other person or persons designated by said 
Board. 
196. That no water closet, sink, tub, vat or other structure 
shall hereafter be constructed within the County of Hudson 
having connection with or by any sewer or underground pas- 
sage unless the same is provided with adequate or the best 
generally approved constructions and precautions for preventr 
ing gases and other offensive currents, substances and smells 
from passing up or out through such connection from such 
sewer or passage ; nor shall any such water-closet or privy 
be connected without adequate provisions for the effectual and 
proper ventilation and cleansing thereof. 
197. Whoever violates any of the provisions specified in 
the different sections of Title XVI of this Code of Ordinances 
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relating to the subject of plumbing, and being convicted of such 
violation according to law, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
fifty dollars. 70 
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198. In case of the conviction of any person or persons of 
any violation of any of the provisions of this Title XYI, relat- 
ing to plumbing, and in case of a further or continuous violation 
of the same provision in respect of the same building or 
structure, the said person or persons so further violating or 
©ontinuing in the violation of the said provisions of this supple- 
ment, and thereof being convicted, shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of one hundred dollars. 
199. That in all proper cases upon proper application 
made to the said Board, it shall be discretionary with said 
Board, by resolution in writing, to modify or dispense with any 
or all of the provisions and requirements of this Title. 
200. All master and foremen plumbers, and all building 
contractors, carrying on or conducting business in this county, 
shall register or cause to be registered their names, addresses 
and locations of offices or places of business, in the office of this 
Board. And any such master or foreman, plumber or con- 
tractor who fails or refuses to so register, on or before the first 
day of August of each and every year, shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of ten dollars. And any such person mentioned in this 
section who shall continue to conduct or carry on business with- 
out being registered as above provided, shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of five dollars. Penalties provided for in this section 
may be remitted by said Board upon sufficient causes being 
shown therefor. INDEX TO THE SANITARY CODE OF HUDSON COUNTY. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Abatement of nuisances on lots, etc 178 
Adulterations, etc 1—3, 9, 11, 13—16 
Alcohol, distillery of, 56 
Animal refuse not to be thrown on streets 95 
Animal refuse not to be used in filling sunken lots 176, 177 
Animals and slaughter houses 43—50 
Animals, cleaning of stables for, 85 
“ dead, creating nuisance 25 
“ “ “ “ to be removed from streets 112. 
“ forbidden in tenements 161 
“ keeping of, regulated 44 
“ noisy 45 
“ permit for, required 45 
Ash barrels how kept and emptied. 106, 107 
“ to have cover.'. 107 
“ where to be kept 108 
Ash boxes for tenements ... 165 
“Ashes” defined 139> 
“ not to be thrown in public places 101 
“ “ “ “ privy vaults 100 
“ “ “ siftedinwind 103 
“ and garbage to have separate barrels 106 
Basins receiving, to receive no offal 100 
Bedding, of animals not to be dried in streets 24 
“ infected, not to be unloaded from ship 32 
“ ** when to be disinfected 36 
Birds, for food, to be wholesome 4- 8 
Births, return of, 115’ 
“ still, return of, 116 
Blood not to escape into street 49 
“ to be cleansed from slaughter house 50 
“ Board ” defined 138 
“ of Health, when com. of, may certify death 122 
“Boardinghouse” defined 140 
“ “ food to be wholesome 7 
“ “ keepers to report persons sick 37 
Boiling bones, fat, etc 75—78 
Bone boiling and burning 56, 75—78 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Book of lieu claims 178 
Boxes, etc., for liquid swill to be water tight 110 
Bread, to be w’holesome 16 
Breweries, drainage of, prescribed 51 
Brewers, beer of, to be wholesome 11 
Building material not allowed on street, walk or gutter 104 
Buildings, dangerous to passers by 103 
“ drainage of, to be adequate 172 
“ erected, to be sanitary 146 
“ infected, vacation of, 38 
“ nuisance, from, prohibited 26 
“ plans of plumbing for,.to be filed 179 
“ public, to be safe and sanitary 150 
“ to have separate sewer connections 182 
“ Built up portions of county ” defined 138 
Burials, mode prescribed 128 
“ permits for to be returned 129, 135 
“ “ fees for 125 
“ “ when not granted 124 
“Butcher’* defined 144 
Butcher’s meat box to be metal lined 12 
“ stalls to be cleaned 10, 47 
Butter, from swill-milk prohibited. 13 
Calves, young, meat of ' 5—6 
Cars, railroad, to be cleansed and ventilated 29 
“ street, no cushions in, allowed 28 
“ “ soiled clothing in, not allowed 27 
Carpets 103 
Carts, garbage, drivers of, to give notice 172 
“ offal, cleaning of, 88,109 
“ “ construction of, 89 
“ “ loading and unloading of, 90,174 
“ “ nothing to escape from, 91 
“ Cattle ” defined 144 
“ diseased, not to be killed for food 48 
“ not to be slaughtered in street 49 
“ Cellar ” defined 140 
“ sleeping in, when allowed 148 
“ “ “ prohibited 147 
-Cellars for sleeping, how made 159 
“ “ permits for, 160 
“ no stagnant water allowed in,. 21 
"Cemeteries, interments in, 127 
“ return of burials in, 129 
Certificate of death, when only to issue. 118 
“ “ false, penalty for, 119 
Cesspools, contents of not allowed in public place 101 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Cesspools, not to drain into streets 98 
“ for tenements, how to be made 158 
“ to be inoffensive 98 
“ to receive no offal 100 
“ when drainage into permissible 182, 195 
Cheese, swill-milk, sale of prohibited .* 13 
Children to be vaccinated 42 
Chimneys, in tenements 105 
Churches, to be well ventilated 150 
Cleaning streets 22 
Clergymen to return marriages 120 
Coffins, when to be sealed and metallic 132, 137 
Contagion of infe. ted articles 34 
“ Contagious diseases ” defined 142 
Contagious diseases 30—42 
“ “ corpses from, how buried 132 
1 “ report of, in tenements 36 
“ “ on vessels. 35 
u “ in buildings 38 
“ “ to be reported by physicians 39 
Contractor, duty of in cleaning streets 22 
“ to file costs of abating nuisance 178 
Corpses, disinfection of, . 132 
u from contagious diseases, to be buried in twenty-four hours... 132 
“ how removed 134 
“ not to be transported without permit 130 
removal from and to public vaults 132 
to be buried within 4 days 135 
undue keeping or exposure of, 131 
“ when not to remain in vault 136 
County, physician to certify deaths in prison 123 
“ u when to return death 117 
“ “ when to return still birth 116 
Cows, keeping of, regulated 43 
“ sick or diseased 13 
Death certificate, when issued 118, 121 
*• “ false, penalty for, 119 
Deaths, how returned 117 
*• natural, how certified 122 
*• violent, “ ‘‘ 123 
Decomposing matter prohibited in public places 101 
Dirt ” defined 139 
“ to be removed from tenements. 162 
Disease, exposure to prohibited 40 
Diseases contagious to be reported 36, 37, 39 
Disinfection 36 
“ of offensive matter during epidemics 74 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS- 
Disinterments, when allowed 137 
“ permits for, 126 
Distillers, spirits to be unadulterated 10 
Docks, permits to unload 30—32 
Dogs, noisy 45 
Drainage, offensive 92—10O 
“ “ into rivers 99 
“ of lots, remedy for stoppage of, 178 
w of slaughterhouses, etc 50, 51 
“ of tenements 166 
mode of, prescribed 21 
“ not to empty on surface 94 
u proper, prescribed 172; 
“ surface, from tenement, where to run 158 
Drain pipes in houses 184, 185 
“ “ etc., must be adequate 172 
“ “ traps for 186- 
Drugs, not to be sold under false name 1 
“ poisonous, how sold, 2. 
“ stale, unsound, 3 
Dust from ashes, carpets, etc. 103 
Epidemics and contagious diseases 30—42 
“ disinfection during, 74 
Exposure of children to disease 40 
“ of corpse forbidden 131 
Fat, for rendering to be fresh 76, 78 
“ not to be brought in county 78 
“ offensive 6 
“ rendering of, to be by best appliances 78 
“ “ residuum from, to be made inoffensive 77 
Fences, not to keep air from yards, etc. 167 
Fertilizer factories 53 
Filling sunken lots 175 
“ “ “ material not to be used 176, 177 
“ “ “ how enforced 178 
Filth, dirt, rubbish, etc 101—112 
“ “ and slops not allowed in public place 23 
Fire places in tenements 165 
Fish, refuse of, to be removed Ill 
“ for food, to be sound 4, 8, 9 
Floors, damp, foul 147 
“ in slaughter houses 50 
Flushing sewers 168, 169 
Food, false statement as to, 9 
“ wholesomeness of 4, 5 
“ “ “ in market 19 
Foundries, etc., not to create nuisances 54 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Fowls, sickly, unsound 5, 8 
Frost, protection of pipes from, 194 
Fumigation and disinfection 36 
Funerals, when to be private 132 
Gardeners, carting manure by, 83 
“ piling “ “ 84 
Garbage barrels, how kept and emptied 106 
“ “ to be inoffensive 97 
“ “ to have covers 107 
“ “ transportation of,.. .’ 109 
“ “ where to be kept 108 
“ “ boxes, etc., for tenements 161 
“ “ carting of, 83 
“ carts, driver of, to give notice 173 
“ defined 139 
u deposits of, 84 
“ liquid, how carried. • 110 
“ not to be thrown in sewers 95 
“ “ u “ streets 92 
“ not to escape from carts 91 
“ from dwellings, how removed, 174 
“ storing of prohibited 86 
“ when to be removed 105 
Gas, offensive, from factories 54, 55 
“ “ in houses 147 
“ “ in tenements 151 
“ sewer, to be prevented , 168, 196 
Geese and goats, not to run at large 44 
Graves, depths of, prescribed 128 
“ opening of, prohibited.*. 133, 137 
Ground, off'ens ve, not to be stirred 87 
Gutters, how cleaned 22 
“ obstruction of, 104 
“ to be free from rubbish 93 
Hearses, only, for removing corpses 132 
“ “ “ use in funerals.. 134 
Horse stables, cleaning of, 84, 8"> 
Horses, keeping of, 44 
Houses, (See Tenements, Buildings) 
“ not to drain on surface 94 
Hydrants, not to be injured 19 
“ “ “ opened 18 
Ice, impure 17 
Ice-box, butcher’s, to be metal-lined 12 
Infants, graves of, 128 
Infected buildings, how vacated 38 
“ cattle INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Infected persons, removal of, from vessels 34 
Jails, care of prisoners in, . 153 
“ deaths in, how certified 123 
Justice, to return marriages 120 
Lien of expense for abating nuisance : 178 
“Light” defined 138 
Linen, soiled, prohibited in cars 27 
Liquid, dangerous, for drink 11 
“ filthy, not to run in street 96 
“ refuse, from slaughterhouse.. 46 
“ swill, how transported 110 
“ unwholesome, not to be sold for drink 9 
“ Lodging house,” defined 138 
“ “ food in, to be wholesome 7 
“ “ owner of, to report contagious disease in,.. 36, 37 
“ “ unsanitory, not to be rented 155 
Lots, drainage on, prohibited 94 
“ removal of garbage from, 105 
“ tenement, proportionate area of, 163 
“ sunken, filling of, how effected 175—178 
“ “ material for filling 176 
“ vacant, nuisance on, prohibited 101 
Manufactories, drainage of, 51 
“ not to create nuisance. 57 
“ of fertilizers when allowed 53 
“ of offal, fat, bones, etc 75—78 
“ privies for, 151 
“ “ “ to be kept cleanly 152 
“ Manufactory ” defined. 140 
Manure. * 83—91 
“ carting of, 83 
“ piles on vessels and docks 24 
“ “ when prohibited 84 
“ prohibited in public places 101 
“ stirring of, prohibited 86 
“ vaults and boxes for, 85 
Market, selling food in, 4 
Markets, to be kept clean 10 
“ cleaning of 47 
Marriages, how returned 120 
Mayor, of city to return marriages 120 
“ Meat,” defined 143 
“ cased, blown, plaited, etc 8 
“ cooling and skinning of, 6 
“ sickly, unwholesome,.. 5, 8 
to be sound. 4 
Medicine, not to be sold under false name 1 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Medicine, sale of poisonous, 2 
“ stale, inert 3 
Midwives, registration of. 114 
“ return of births by 115 
Milk, adulterated , 15 
“ false statement as to, 9 
“ saleable, defined 13 
“ sale of swill or skimmed, prohibited 13 
“ to be fresh 4 
“ watered, skimmed or swill, 14 
Misfeasance and non-feasance 145 
Night-soil, disinfection of during epidemics 74 
“ exposure of during removal 72, 73 
“ in public places forbidden 23 
“ removal of, 64, 70, 74, 90 
“ use of, as manure forbidden 23 
Notice, from garbage cart drivers 173 
“ to clean privy vault 68, 69 
“ to drain tenement 166 
to fill sunken lots 175 
“ to llush sewer 169 
Noxious gases, from removing foul earth 176 
“ substance, disinfection of, 74 
“ trades, general provisions 57 
“ “ regulated 52, 56 
Nurses, registration of, 114 
Offal, carting of, 83 
“ carts.: 88 
“ dealers and manufacturers 75—78 
“ of butcher stalls, not to be thrown in sewer 95 
“ how transported 109 
“ not to escape from carts 91 
“ not to be thrown in vaults 100 
“ removal of. from slaughter houses 46 
“ “ “ from markets, 47 
Offensive matter, removal of, 72, 73 
“ “ prohibited in public places 101 
“ “ when removable 87 
Offensive trades, how conducted 51 
Officers, public, to preserve water supply. 20 
“ “ to flush and cleanse sewers 168—171 
Overcrowding tenements 149 
“Owner,” defined 138 
Oyster saloons, cleaning of, Ill 
Passaic River, drainage into, . 172 
Permit, burial, foreign ■ 127 
“ “ or transfer 124, 135 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Permit, burial, or transfer, fees for, 125 
“ “ “ foreign, to be valid 130 
Permit,” defined 138 
“ disinterment 126, 137 
“ for bonejjoiling, etc 75, 76 
, “ for fertilizer factory 53 
“ “ noxious trades, etc 52, 56 
“ “ keeping animals 44, 45 
“ “ “ cows 43 
■“ “ sleeping in cellar 160 
“ “ scavengers 58, 59 
“ interment, to be returned 127 
“ special, to clean vault 65, 66 
“ to cart manure. 83 
“ “ store manure 85 
■“ “ deposit refuse, etc 101 
“ “ establish cemetery 128 
“ “ fill in sunken lots 175, 176 
“ “ lighter manure 24 
“ open grave 128, 133 
“ “ remove articles for disinfection 32 
“ “ u infected patient from vessel 34, 35, 41 
“ “ “ offensive matter 87 
“ “ sell milk 12 
“ “ transfer corpses 130 
“ “ unload vessel 30, 31 
Physician, County, duties of, 116, 117, 123 
Physician,” defined 142 
Physicians, registration of, 113 
“ to return birth 115 
“ “ “ death 117 
li “ still births 116 
report of contagious disease by, 39 
“ when to issue death certificate 118, 124 
“ “ not to issue death certificate 121 
Pipes, drain, how laid in houses 185 
“ refrigerator, 191 
“ soil, drain, etc., to be accessible 184 
“ and waste, to be ventilated 187 
“ supply, size of, 183 
,l water, to be protected from frost 195 
Plumbers, regi tration of, 200 
Plumbing, etc 179—200 
“ connections, how jointed 188 
“ for water closets 189, 190, 192 
“ ordinances, penalties in, 197 
* 1 further penalties 198 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Plumbing ordinances, provisions of, may be remitted 199 
plans to be tiled 179—181 
size of supply pipes 183 
Poisons, how sold 2 
Prisons, deaths in, 123 
to be sanitary 153 
“Private market,” defined. 144 
Privies, building of. .' 79, 80, 196 
*• cleansing of, 64 
“ how cleansed by owners 65, 66 
• “ how ventilated 192 
“ improper, forbidden , 81 
“ not to drain, int < streets 98 
“ proportionate number 154, 158 
* tenement, construction prescribed - 158 
“ kk “ how enforced 166 
“ to be cleaned on notice 68, 69 
“ “ “ “ without nuisance 70 
kk “ “ inoffensive 97, 162 
u k‘ receive no offal, etc 100 
“ where to be erected 81 
“ when only to be cleaned 67 
“Public places,” defined 139 
“ kk dangerous rubbish in, 102 
Quarantine permits, how fa : valid 35 
Rags, s oring of, . *.. 56 
Record of lien claims 178 
Refrigerators, butchers,’ to be metal-lined 12 
“ cleansing of, 191 
Refuse, fish and oyster, to be removed Ill 
Registration of midwives and nurses 114 
“ “ physicians 113,114 
“ penally for issuing death certificate without, 121 
Registry of cow stables, etc 43 
“ '* plumbers — 200 
“ “ physicians prescribed 124 
Removal of infected persons ... ... 4) 
Rendei ing of fat 75—78 
“ Report,” defined ....... 138 
Report of infecti us disease by lodging-house keepers. 36, 37 
Reservoirs, pollution of. prohibited lfi 
Returns of births, deaths and marriages 115—120 
Return of birth 1 5 
“ ,k burial permits 1^7 
“ k‘ deaths 
“ “ marriages 
“ “ stillbirths - 1NDKX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Roofs, to be water tight 157 
Rubbish, dangerous, in public places 102 
“ Rubbish,” defined 139 
“ in gutters and streets, prohibited 23, 92 
“ Saloon ” defiined 140 
“ food and drink of, 7 
Scavengers 58—67 
“ duty of, 64 
k‘ where to remove night soil .. 71 
“ licenses, duration of 60 
“ “ deduction from fees for, 61 
“ must reside in County 62 
only, to clean vaults. 65 
“ to clean vaults thoroughly , 70 
“ to obtain license 58 
“ mode of obtaining license .. 59 
•* wagons to have lamps 63 
“ when and how to clean vaults -. 67 
Schools, infected children to be kept from, 40 
Sewerage, mode of, prescribed 21 
“ to be adequate 146 
Sewers, cesspool to connect with, 100 
“ drainage on surface prohibited 94 
“ duty of officials to cleanse, 169 
every building to be directly connected with, 182 
“ fiushing of, 168 
“ not to receive solid refuse 95 
4‘ proper connections with, 172 
public, use of, obligatory 82, 101 
“ removal of contents 171 
“ sanitary condition of, 170 
“ steam exhaust not to connect w ith, 193 
Sexton, to return burial permits 127, 129 
Sheep, keeping, 44, 45 
Shells, oyster, to be removed Ill 
“ permit for burning, required 75, 76 
Side-walks, to be cleanly ,... 93 
Sinks, etc., not to empty in street 98 
‘ to be inoffensive 97 
“ to receive no offal 100 
Slaughter-houses, cleansing of 47 
‘* “ drainage of, : ;... 51 
Slaughtering diseased animals for food 48 
11 how to be conducted 46 
u in street prohibited 49 
Slops, etc., removal of, 109 
“ “ throwing in streets prohibited 92 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Slops, etc., throwing in vaults, etc., prohibited.. 100 
Small-pox corpse not to be placed in vault 133 
Smoke from factories 54, 55 
Stables, cleaning of manure from, 84 
“ cow, to be cleanly 43 
“ drainage from, 85 
Still-births, how returned 11(1 
“ Street,” defined 139 
Street and cleaning, mode prescribed 22 
44 “ nuisance in, prohibited ...23, 24 
Commissioner to cleanse sewer on notice 169 
Streets, dead animals to be removed from 112 
“ decomposing matter in, 101 
‘ garbage, etc., in, 93 
“ making dust in, 103 
“ offal carts in, 88 
Swill barrels to be inoffensive 97 
*4 carting of,. 83 
44 not to escape into street 9(5 
44 milk, 13—15 
Swine, not to run at large 44 
Tanks, condensing, for steam exhaust 191 
44 for flushing water-closets 1C2 
•4 only, to be used in removing night-soil... 1 71, 73 
“ Tenement-hoRse,” defined 140 
14 report of contagious disease in 36 
Tenement-houses, etc 146- 167 
44 44 adequate privies for 151 
44 44 animals forbidden in 161 
41 “ cleaning and white-washing of 162 
44 “ closets in, to connect with sewer 158 
“ “ compulsory drainage of, 166 
“ “ height and dimensions of, 163 
“ “ overcrowding, forbidden 149 
“ “ privies for, how drained 154 
44 “ renting, when unsanitary 155 
44 “ roofs of, to be water-tight 157 
“ “ rooms in, size and ventilation of, 164 
44 44 ventilation of sleeping chambers 156 
1 4 4 4 with what to be provided 165 
4- Theatre,” defined 141 
Theatres, to be safe . 150 
Traps for drams, closets, etc 184, 186, 189, 19C, 196 
Tubs, vats, etc., how constructed $9, 196 
Urine, etc., not to escape into street 96 
Vaccination of children enjoined . 42 
Vats, tubs, how constructed 99 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Vaults, burial, construction prescribed 136 
“ private burial, 128 
“ privy, cleaning of, how notilied 68—69 
44 1,4 contents of, not to be less than two feet from top 98 
“ “ how and where constructed 79, 80 
44 44 not to be filled with dirt until emptied 98 
44 “ offal not to be thrown in 100 
“ “ size of, etc 79 
44 “ to be kept inoffensive.... 97 
44 “ cleaning of. how notified 68, 69 
“ “ when allowed 81 
44 public receiving, not to receive small-pox corpses ’.... 133 
“ tenement-house privy, when cleaning of allowed 67 
“ when to be made 154 
44 Vegetables,"' defined 143 
Vegetables, false statement as to, .. 9 
“ to be wholesome 4 
Vehicles for removing sewer refuse 171 
44 not to leak offensive matter 96 
“ nuisance from, prohibited . 26 
Ventilation in factories 152 
44 in public buildings 150 
44 of chamber in tenement prescribed 156 
44 44 privies 192 
44 44 rooms in tenements », .164, 165 
44 44 slaughter houses 50 
44 4* sleeping cellars prescribed .•. 159 
“ 44 stables .....I.......'.. .... 44 
44 44 tenement house closets ’...... 151 
44 etc., to be adequate 146—148 
Vessels, not to unload infected articles 32 
44 owner of, to report infected cotton— 33 
“ permits for unloading 30, 31 
Vaults, burial, c nstruction, prescribed ... 136 
“ private burial, 128 
Vessels, removal of infected persons from, prohibited 34, 35 
Wagons, coffin, when used 134 
44 offal, to be clennly 109 
44 for removing sewer refuse 171 
44 scavengers,’ must have lamps with license number . 63 
“ 44 not to be driven without permit 58 
Walls, not to keep air from court-yards : 167 
Water-closets, howT constructed 196 
44 how supplied 192 
44 in tenements, how drained 154 
41 safes to be piped, etc 190 
44 tenement, how constructed.... 158 INDEX. 
SUBJECT MATTER. SECTIONS. 
Water-closets, to be connected with sewer.. 82 
“ to be separately trapped 189 
Water, filthy, prohibited in streets 92 
“ flushing sewers with, etc.. 108—170 
“ sewage, how drained 21 
“ stagnant, in lots and cellars 21 
“ “ in sunken lots 175 
“ supply for closets 192 
“ “ for tenements 165 
“ “ pipes, size of, 183 
“ pollution of, prohibited 18, 19 
“ “ purity of, enjoined 20 
White-washing tenements 162 
Wind, creating dust in 103 
Yarding cattle for slaughter 46 
Yards of houses to have free air 167 
“ tenement, to be kept clean 162