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THE 
Sanitary Ordinances 
OF THE 
i CITY OF BROOKLYN, 
As in Force December 20, 1895. 
Z. TAYLOR EMERY, M. D., 
Commissioner of Health. 
RICHARD M. WYCKOFF, M. D., 
Deputy Commissioner. 
GEORGE E. WEST, M. D., 
Secretary. 
BROOKLYN: 
Eagle Book Printing Department. 
1896. THE 
Sanitary Ordinance^ 
OF THE 
CITY OF BROOKLYN, 
As in Force December 20, 1895, 
Z. TAYLOR EMBRY, M. D., 
Commissioner of Health. 
RICHARD M. WYCKOFF, M. D„ 
Deputy Commissioner. 
GEORGE E. WEST, M. D., 
Secretary. 
BROOKLYN: 
Eagle Book Printing Department. 
1890. Code of Sanitary Ordinances, 
Edition of December 20, 1895. 
EXPLANATORY. 
December 20, 1895. This edition of the 
Sanitary Ordinances- of Brooklyn contains 
certain amendments of the Sanitary Code 
that were adopted in the year 1895; also 
one adopted in 1894. 
Section 33 appears as passed by the Com- 
mon Council, April 29, 1895. 
Section 172 was repealed and an amended 
Section 185, which was passed December 16, 
1895, became law by the approval of the 
Mayor. December 19, 1895. 
Section 191 appears as passed by the Com- 
mon Council, October 14, 1895. 
Section 195 appears as passed by the Com- 
mon Council, December 3, 1894. 
Z. T. E. III. 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 
Office of Counsel, 164 Montague Street. 
Brooklyn, N. Y , March 1, 1895. 
To Hon. Z. Taylor Emery, M. D., 
Commissioner of Health: 
Sir:—I have the honor to report that, 
pursuant to your instructions, I have pre- 
pared a new edition of the Sanitary Ordi- 
nances, together with the Rules and Regula- 
tions of the Department of Health. The 
Minutes of Proceedings of the Common 
Council, from March 11th, 1889 (the date of 
the last compilation of the ordinances), to 
date, were searched for amendments to the 
Sanitary Ordinances, by John K. Erskine, 
Jr., Esq.; and all such amendments have 
been inserted in this edition. I have com- 
pletely re-indexed the Code. The Rules and 
Regulations I have compiled from the last 
printed edition thereof (of 1889) and the cur- 
rent Minutes of the Department, after con- 
sultation with the Hon. R. M. Wyckoff, your 
deputy. * 
Respectfully submitted, 
ALEXANDER H. VAN COTT, 
Counsel to Department of Health. PREFACE. 
According to statistics furnished by the 
Hon. Richard M. Wyckoff, M.D., now Dep- 
uty Commissioner of Health of Brooklyn, 
and during the years 1882-3-4-5 Secretary of 
Department of Health, editions of the code 
of Sanitary Ordinances governing the city 
were published in the following years: 
Under the Metropolitan Board of Health, in 
1866 and 1869. After the abolition of that 
board, they were published June 24, 1870 ; 
July 15, 1873 ; August 4, 1875 ; November 
22, 1882 ; July 20, 1887 ; March' 11, 1889. 
The Sanitary Ordinances of Brooklyn, as 
they now exist, are the product of over 
twenty years, as will be seen by the following 
brief history : 
On the 28th day of June, 1873, the Legis- 
lature passed an act (L. 1873, ch. 863, p. 
1290) amending the charter of the city of 
Brooklyn. This act reorganized the De- 
partment of Health of Brooklyn, and con- 
ferred and imposed upon it the powers and 
duties of the Metropolitan Board of Health. 
In pursuance of the act the Board of Health 
on July 15, 1873, adopted a “ Sanitary Code ” 
consisting of one hundred and seventy-six 
sections. On June 21st, 1875, an act was 
passed (L. 1875, ch. 633, p. 792) amending 
the act of 1873. Section 7 of the act of 1875 
amends Title XII. of the act of 1873, which, 
as so amended, contains the following sec- 
tions, among others : 
“ Section- 1. There shall be a Department 
of Health which shall be known as the Board 
of Health of the City of Brooklyn, which 
shall have jurisdiction over said city.” 
“ Sec. 2. The management and control of 
said department shall be vested in a Board of V 
Health, to be composed of the President of 
the Board of Aldermen, the President of the 
Board of Police, and one physician who shall 
have been ten years in active practice and 
five years a resident of the city of Brooklyn 
immediately prior to his appointment.” 
“Sec. 4. Said Board of Health as thus 
constituted shall have the power to act as a 
legislative board in regard to all matters per- 
taining to public health and to the registra- 
tion of vital statistics in said city, and to 
make such rules and regulations and such 
appointments of officers and employees as it 
may deem necessary for the proper carrying 
out and enforcement of all laws, ordinances 
and codes that may be prescribed for its 
government, for the protection of the public 
healUi and for the proper care and registra- 
tion of such statistics.” 
“Sec. 5. The said Board of Health is here- 
by authorized and directed to prepare such 
ordinances as it shall deem to be required for 
the protection of the public health, and for 
securing the proper registration of births, 
marriages, deaths, and such other statistical 
information necessary for efficient working 
of the department, with penalties for their 
violation, which ordinances shall be by said 
Board submitted to the Common Council, 
and when approved by said Common Council 
shall have and possess the same power and 
effect as other ordinances of said city, and 
shall be carried out and executed by said 
Board of Health.” 
A Board of Health was duly organized 
pursuant to this act consisting of Hon, An- 
drew Otterson, M. D., its President ; Hon. 
Daniel Briggs, President of the Board of 
Police, and Hon. Daniel Reilly, acting Presi- 
dent of the Board of Aldermen. 
On the 4th day of August, 1875, this Board of Health adopted and submitted to 
the Board of Aldermen for approval a code 
of Sanitary Ordinances, which was approved 
and adopted by the latter Board on the same 
day. (Proceedings of the Board of Aider- 
men, vol. 2, pp. 807, 900.) 
The Code of Sanitary Ordinances thus 
duly adopted was based upon the “ Sanitary 
Code” adopted July 15, 1873, and is the 
foundation of the Sanitary Ordinances of 
Brooklyn as they now exist. 
On the 4th day of June, 1880, the Legis- 
lature passed an act amending the charter of 
Brooklyn (L. 1880, ch. 545, vol. 1, p. 775), 
which enlarged the legislative power of the 
Board of Health, and contained the import- 
ant provision (Id., § 3). that no ordinance 
prepared by the Board of Health and ap- 
proved by the Common Council shall be 
amended or repealed without the approval of 
said Board. 
By Chapter 377, Laws 1880 (vol. 1, p. 557), 
passed May 25th, the presidents of the Boards 
of Police and Aldermen were legislated out of 
the Board of Health, which was converted 
into a Department of Health with a single 
head, designated the Commissioner of Health; 
and the act provided that all the powers, 
duties, obligations, rights and privileges of 
the former Board of Health should devolve 
upon the commissioner when duly appointed. 
This provision invested the Commissioner of 
Health with' all the legislative powers vested 
by the acts above referred to in the Board of 
Health. 
In the year 1886, the Ordinances of the 
City of Brooklyn were, pursuant to a resolu- 
tion of the Common Council, revised ; and 
on November 8th, 1886, they were, by reso- 
lution of the Common Council, adopted as 
revised ; and it was declared by the same resolution, “ that all ordinances or part of 
ordinances inconsistent with these ordinances 
a£ revised are hereby repealed/’ (Proceed- 
ings of the Board of Aldermen, 1886, vol. 2, 
p. 661). 
On the 21st day of February, 1887, the 
Hon. Andrew Otterson, M. D , Commis- 
sioner of Health, submitted numerous pro- 
posed amendments of the Sanitary Ordi- 
nances to the Common Council for adoption. 
They were referred to the Committee on Law 
and Public Health of the Common Council. 
On April 25th, 1887, the Committee made a 
report on the matter, which was laid on the 
table. On June 20th, 1887, this report was 
taken up, and the amendments, as therein 
set forth, were adopted. (Proceedings of the 
Board of Aldermen, 1887, vol. 1, pp. 359, 
870, 1258). The portions of the Code in- 
cluded in these amendments were sections 
40, 42, 43, 49, 52, 79, 96, 104, 161, 187 ; and 
the tenement sections 158, 159, 160, 161, 
162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 
171, 172, 173. The entire Code, as so re- 
vised, was then published, together with the 
Rules and Regulations of the Department of 
Health, in the form of a pocket edition, by 
Commissioner Otterson. 
On the 19th day of November, 1888, the 
Common Council directed the City Clerk to 
publish as a document of that body the 
Ordinances of the City of Brooklyn as re- 
vised in 1886, with all amendments made 
since such revision. Pursuant to this direc- 
tion, the City Clerk caused a “compilation 
of all ordinances in force on the first day of 
March, 1889,” to be made and duly reported 
to the Common Council ; which, on March 
11th, 1889, ordered the Ordinances to be 
printed as a document, bound and indexed, 
for general distribution. This was done. The Sanitary Ordinances are comprised in 
Chapter IV. of this compilation. 
In 1888 an act was passed combining in a 
single act all special laws relating to the 
City of Brooklyn. (L. 1888, Ch. 583, p. 
949). 
The following sections of Title XII. of 
this act provide for the adoption of sanitary 
ordinances : 
“ Sec. 2. Said Health Commissioner shall 
have power to act in a legislative capacity in 
regard to all matters pertaining to public 
health, the removal and burial of the dead, 
the maintenance and operating of an ambu- 
lance service for the speedy removal of sick 
and needy persons, the registration of births, 
marriages and deaths, and to the registra- 
tion of vital statistics in the said city, and to 
make such rules and regulations and such 
appointments of officers and employees as he 
may deem necessary for the proper carry- 
ing out and enforcement of all laws, ordi- 
nances and codes that may be prescribed for 
the government of said department for the 
protection of the public health, and for the 
proper care and registration of such sta- 
tistics.” 
“ Sec. 3. The said Health Commissioner is 
hereby authorized and directed to prepare 
such ordinances as he shall deem to be re- 
quired for the protection of the public health, 
and for securing the proper registration of 
births, marriages, deaths, and such other 
statistical information necessary for the effi- 
cient working of the department, with pen- 
alties for their violation, which ordinances 
shall be by him submitted to the Common 
Council, and when approved by said Common 
Council shall have and possess the same 
power and effect as other ordinances of said 
city, and shall be carried out and executed IX. 
by said Health Commissioner. No ordi- 
nance, so prepared and approved, shall be 
repealed or amended without the approval of 
the Health Commissioner.” 
These sections control the adoption, amend- 
ment and repeal of Sanitary Ordinances in 
the City of Brooklyn. 
This present edition of the Sanitary Ordi- 
nances contains all amendments down to 
March 1st, 1895. 
Brooklyn, } 
March 1, 1895. j 
ALEXANDER H. VAN COTT, 
Counsel to Deft of Health. SANITARY ORDINANCES. 
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS. 
Section 1. That the terms “board,” “this 
board/’ and “ said board,” shall be held to 
mean the “ Board of Health of the city of 
Brooklyn ;” that the word “ department,” 
wherever used herein, shall be held to mean 
the Board of Health of the city of Brooklyn; 
that the words ‘‘person,” “owner,” “ten- 
ant,” “lessee,” “occupant,” “contractor,” 
“party,” “manager,” “board” and “offi- 
cer,” shall respectively 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 corpo- 
rations 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 de- 
clared applicable to the built-up portion of 
Brooklyn shall, so far as the subject matter 
thereof is applicable (save as to interments), 
and so far as this Board has authority to make 
the same, be held to include and apply to the 
built-up portions of said city ; that every 
word or phrase anywhere herein defined shall 
be held to include the same sense wherever 
used ; that the words “ city,” or “this city/' 
or “ said city,” whenever used herein, shall 
be held to mean the city of Brooklyn ; that 
the word “ regulation ” shall be held to 
include “special regulation” (which latter 
will be from time to time issued, and will 
contain more 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, regula- 
tions and sanitary code ; and that every 
“ report ” herein required shall be held to be 2 
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 de- 
fined, shall also include their usual and natu- 
ral meaning, as well as herein especially given. 
§ 2. That the word “street,” when used 
in the sanitary code, shall be held to include 
avenues, sidewalks, gutters and public alleys; 
and the 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 areas and all open 
spaces between buildings and streets, and in 
view of such streets ; the word “ashes” shall 
be held to include cinders, coal, and everything 
that usually remains after fires; the word “rub- 
bish ” shall be held to include all the loose 
and decayed material and dirt-like substance 
that attends use or decay, or which accumu- 
lates from building, storing or cleaning ; the 
word “ garbage ” shall be held to include 
every accumulation of both animal and vege- 
table matter, liquid or otherwise, that at- 
tends the preparation, decay, and dealing in 
or storage, of meats, fish, fowl, birds or vege- 
tables ; and the word “dirt” shall be held to 
mean natural soil, earth and stone. 
§ 3. That a “ tenement house ” shall be 
taken to mean and include every house, 
building, or portion thereof, which is rented, 
leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is 
occupied, as the house, home or residence of 
more than three families living independent 
of one another, and doing their cooking upon 
the premises, or by more than two families 
upon a floor, so living and cooking, but 
having a common right in the halls, stair- 
ways, yards, water closets or privies, or some 
of them. A “ lodging-house ” shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, 
or,portion thereof, in which persons are har- 
bored or received, or lodged for hire for a 
single night, or for less than one week at one 
time, or any part of which is let for any per- 
son to sleep in for any term less than a week. 
A “ cellar” shall be taken to mean and in- 
clude every basement or lower story of any 
building or house of which one-half or more 
, of the height from the floor to the ceiling is 
below the level of the street adjoining. The 
phrase “ boarding house ” shall be held to in- 
clude 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, exceed- 
ing ten, 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 held to include every por- 
tion of any building in which the business of 
selling meals, liquors, drinks or refreshments 
of any kind, shall be conducted, and includes 
“ concert saloons.” 
§ 4. That the term “ theatre” shall be 
held to include the building, rooms and 
place where any play, concert, opera, circus, 
trick of jugglery, show, gymnastic or other 
exhibition, masquerade, public dance, drill, 
lecture, address, or other public or frequent 
gathering for amusement are, is, or may be 
held, given, performed or take place, and the 
approach or approaches to and appurtenances 
thereof. 
§ 5. That the word “ physician ” shall in- 
clude dentists and every other person who 4 
practices about the cure of the sick or injured, 
or who has charge of, or professionally pre- 
scribes for, any person sick, injured or dis- 
eased, and any person who pursues the busi 
ness of or acts as midwife ; that the phrase 
“ contagious disease ” shall be held to include 
all persons sick, affected or attacked by a 
disease of an infectious, contagious or pesti- 
lential nature (more especially, however, re- 
ferring to the cholera, yellow-fever, small- 
pox, diphtheria, ship or typhus, typhoid, 
spotted, relapsing and scarlet fevers), and 
also including any new disease of an infec- 
tious, contagious or pestilential nature, and 
also any other disease publicly declared by 
this Board dangerous to the public health ; 
and every physician in said city shall at all 
times cause his or her name, office and resi- 
dence, and also his or her kind and class of 
practice, to be registered within the Bureau 
of Vital Statistics, and in a manner accord- 
ing to the regulations prescribed by this 
Board. 
§ 6. That the word “ meat ” whenever 
herein used includes every part of any land- 
animal and eggs (whether mixed or not with 
any other substance) ; and the word “ fish ” 
includes every part of any animal that lives 
in water, or the flesh of which is not meat ; 
and the word “ vegetable ” includes every 
article of human consumption as food, which 
(not being meat, or fish or milk) is held or 
offered, or intended for sale or consumption 
as food for human beings, at any place in 
said city ; and all fish and meat found there- 
in shall be deemed to be therein, and held 
for such sale or consumption as such food, 
unless the contrary be distinctly proved. 
§ 7. That the word “ cattle ” shall be held 
to include all animals except birds, fowl, and 
fish, of which part of the body is used as 5 
food ; the word “ butcher ” shall beheld to 
include whoever is engaged in the business 
of keeping, driving or slaughtering any cat- 
tle, or m selling any meat ; the words “ pri- 
vate market ” shall include every store, cellar, 
stand and place (not being part of a public 
market) at which the business is the buying, 
selling or keeping for sale, of meat, fish or 
vegetables for human food. 
MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE. 
§ 8. That no person shall carelessly or 
negligently do, or advise, or contribute to 
the doing, of any act or thing dangerous or 
detrimental to the health of any human be- 
ing ; nor shall any person knowingly do, or 
advise, or contribute to the doing, of any 
such act or thing (not actually authorized by 
law) except with justifiable motives and for 
adequate reasons ; nor shall any person omit 
to do any act, or to take any precaution, 
reasonable and proper, to prevent or remove 
danger or detriment to the life or health of 
any human being. 
OBEDIENCE TO ORDINANCES AND 
REGULATIONS. 
§ 9. That every contractor in these ordi- 
nances referred to, and every person who has 
contracted, or undertakes, or is bound to do 
or is engaged in doing, any one of those 
things, in respect of which these ordinances 
contain provisions or regulations, shall com- 
ply with these ordinances, to the extent that 
any contract, obligation or duty requires or 
permits ; and no direction of any contractors 
or persons shall excuse him for non-compli- 
ance with any of said ordinances. 
§ 10. That every person shall observe and 
obey each and every special regulation, and 
every order of this Board that is or may be 
made for carrying into elfect any of the ordi- 6 
nances or powers hereinbefore or hereinafter 
contained, or contained in any law of this 
State, or otherwise, whether issued directly 
by the Board, or promulgated by any bureau 
charged therewith, as if the same had been 
herein inserted at length. 
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES. 
§11. That the Inspectors of this Depart- 
ment, and its proper officers and agents, shall 
make the inspections and examinations re- 
quired by law ; 'that the Board of Police of 
the city of Brooklyn do execute, and cause to 
be executed, all the orders of this Board 
when so specially ordered ; and all persons 
are hereby forbidden to interfere with or ob- 
struct such inspection, examination or execu- 
tion. 
§ 12. That, except as herein specially or 
otherwise provided, or as may be hereafter 
provided, or as is otherwise made necessary 
by the laws of the State, the Board of Police 
of the Police Department shall, through its 
proper officers and men, and as near as may 
be according to its existing regulations, or 
amendments to be made thereto, on advice 
with this Board, and subject to the super- 
vision of this Board, carry into effect and 
exercise the sanitary powers heretofore exer- 
cised by the Board of Police ; and that said 
Board of Police shall keep this Department 
regularly advised of its action in that behalf, 
and shall conform to these and all future 
ordinances, and to all special regulations of 
this Board. 
BILLS OF HEALTH. 
§ 13. That no person, officer or board 
within said city (except this Board or its 
proper officers, or proper officers of any 
bureau of this Department, and as the regu- 
lations of this Board shall provide) shall grant, sign or deliver any certificate or “bill 
of health.” 
MEDICINES, ADULTERATIONS AND 
POISONS. 
§ 14. That no doctor, druggist or other 
person shall make, sell, put up, prepare or 
administer, any prescription, decoction or 
medicine under any deceptive or fraudulent 
name, direction or pretence; nor shall any 
false or deceptive representation be made by 
any person to any other as to the kind, qual- 
ity, purpose, or effect, of any such or other 
drug, medicine, decoction, drink or other 
article offered or intended to be taken as 
food or medicine. 
§ 15. That no poisonous medicine, decoc- 
tion 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 “poi- 
son,” nor to any person whom the nartv de- 
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turo which, or any part of> which, shall'be 
inadequate or defective in respect to venti- 
lation, light, sewerage 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 rem- 
edy or prevent the same), cause or allow any 
matter or thing to be or to be done in or 
about any such building or structure danger- 
ous or prejudicial to health. 
§ 18. That no owner, agent, or lessee of 
any building, or any part thereof, shall lease 
or let, or hire out the same, or any portion 
thereof, to be occupied by any person, or 
allow the same to be occupied as a place in 
which any one may dwell or lodge, except 
when said buildings or such parts thereof are 
sufficiently lighted, ventilated, provided and 
accommodated, and are in all respects in that 
condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness 
for which this code or any law of this State 
provides, or in which they or either of^liem 
' 'or 
)r § 19. That no person having the right and 
power to prevent the same, shall knowingly 
cause or permit any person to sleep or remain 
in any cellar, or in any place dangerous or 
prejudicial to health, by reason of a want of 
ventilation or drainage, or by reason of the 
presence of any poisonous, noxious or of- 
fensive substance or otherwise. 
§ 20. 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 there- 
of, as thereby to cause any danger or detri- 
ment to health. 
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boarders, and workers thereat, adequate 
privies or water-closets, and the same shall 
be so adequately ventilated, and shall at all 
times be kept in such cleanly and wholesome 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 any other house or building. 
§ 23. That every owner, lessee and tenant, 
and manager of any boarding-house or manu- 
factory, shall cause every part thereof and 
its appurtenances to be put, and shall there- 
after cause the same to be kept in a clean 
and wholesome condition, and shall speedily 
cause every department thereof in which any 
person may sleep, dwell or work, to be ade- 
quately lighted and ventilated ; and if the 
same be a manufactory, shall cause every 
part thereof in which any person may work 
to be maintained at such temperature, and 
§ 25. That every person when cleaning 
any street, shall clean, and every contractor 
shall cause to be cleaned, the gutters and 
parts of the streets along which the water 11 
will run before using any water to wash the 
same ; and no substance that could be before 
scraped away shall be washed or allowed to 
be carried or be put into the sewer, or into 
any receptacle therewith connected. 
§ 26. That it shall be the duty of every 
person using, making or having any drain, 
soil pipe or passage to connect with any 
sewer (or with either the East river and any 
canal), and any ground, building, erection or 
place of business, and in like manner the 
duty of the owner and tenant of all grounds, 
buildings and erections, and of the parties 
interested in such place of business, or the 
business thereat, and in like manner the 
duty of all boards, departments, officers and 
persons (to the extent of the right and 
authority of each), to cause and require that 
such drain, soil-pipe, passage and connection 
shall at all times be adequate for its purpose, 
and such as shall convey and allow freely and 
entirely to pass whatever enters or should 
enter the same. 
§ 27. That it shall be the duty of all 
boards, departments, officers and persons 
having power and authority so to do or re- 
quire (and to the extent thereof), to cause to 
be used sufficient water and other adequate 
means to be taken so that whatever sub- 
stances may enter any sewer shall pass speed- 
ily along and from the same, and sufficiently 
far into some water or proper reservoir, so 
that no accumulations shall take place, and 
no exhalations from thence proceed, dan- 
gerous or prejudicial to health. 
§ 28. That the proper officers and authori- 
ties shall, to the extent of their power and 
ability, cause the sewers and drainage of said 
city to be so well located and constructed, so 
adequate in size, and to be so kept in repair 
and cleaned, and so adequately supplied with 12 
water, and with such proper arrangements 
and constructions in every particular, that 
life and health shall not be needlessly ex- 
posed, or suffer unnecessary peril or detri- 
ment by their neglect, or by reason of the de- 
fects or deficiencies of any sewers or drainage, 
or the want thereof. 
§ 29. That no meat, fish, 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 accident, shall be brought 
within said city, or offered or held for sale in 
any public or private market, as such food 
anywhere in said city. 
§ 30. That no calf, pig or lamb, or the 
meat thereof, shall be brought, held or offered 
for sale, as such food, in said city, which, at 
the date of its death (being a calf), was less 
than four weeks old ; or (being a pig), was, 
when killed, less than five weeks old ; or 
(being a lamb), was, when killed, less than 
eight weeks old. Nor shall any meagre, 
sickly or unwholesome fish, birds or fowl be 
bought, held, sold or offered for sale, as sucl 
food, in said city. 
§ 31. “ That no cattle shall be killed fo: 
human food while in an overheated, feverisl 
or diseased condition ; and all such diseased 
cattle in the city of Brooklyn, and the place 
where found and their disease, shall at once 
be reported to the Department of Health by 
the owner or custodian thereof, and it shall 
be the duty of every veterinary surgeon, own- 
er or person having the charge, care or cus- 
tody of any horse, ass, mule, colt, ox, milch 
cow, calf, sheep or goat or any other animal 
affected with glanders or farcy, pleuro-pneu- 
monia, tuberculosis or other disease infec- 
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its killing, nor until the entrails, head (un- 
less the same be skinned), hide, horns and 
feet shall have been removed. Nor shall 
gut-fat, or any unwholesome or offensive 
matter or thing be brought to or near any 
such market. 
§ 33. That no person shall, in the 
built-up portion of the City of Brooklyn, or 
adjacent thereto, sell or have for sale, in or 
from any vehicle, or in any street or public 
place, without a permit from the Depart- 
ment of Health, any fish from which all 
parts which are not usually cooked for food 
have not been removod. 
[Passed by Common Council, April 29, 
1895. Became an Ordinance May 14, 1895.] 
§ 34. That no decayed or unwholesome 
vegetables shall knowingly be brought into 
said city to be consumed or offered for sale 
for human food, nor shall any such articles 
be kept or stored therein. 
§ 35. That no person, being the manager 
or keeper of any saloon, boarding house, or 
lodging-house, or being employed as a clerk, 
servant or agent thereat, shall therein or 
thereat offer or have for food or drink, or to 
be eaten or drank, any poisonous, deleterious 
or unwholesome substance, nor allow any- 
thing therein to be done or to occur prejudi- 
cial to health. § 37, That no meat, fish, vegetables or 
milk, or unwholesome liquid, shall knowingly 
be bought, sold, held, offered for sale, 
labeled, or any representation made in re- 
spect thereof under a false name or quality, 
or as being what the same is not, as respects 
wholesomeness, soundness or safety for food 
or drink. 
§ 38. That every person being the owner, 
lessee, or occupant of any room, stall, or 
place where any meat, fish or vegetables, de- 
signed 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 whole- 
some condition ; and every person having 
charge, or interested, or engaged, whether as 
principal or agent, in the care or in respect 
to the custody, or sale of any meat, fish, 
birds, fowl or vegetables designed for human 
food, shall put and preserve the same in a 
clean and wholesome condition, and shall not 
allow the same, or any part thereof, to be 
poisoned, infected or rendered unsafe or un- 
wholesome for human food. 
§ 39. That no butcher or dealer shall keep 
in any market any refrigerator or ice box, 
unless the same shall be lined with lead or therefrom to the nearest gutter or proper 
waste pipe. 
§ 40. That it shall be the duty of every 
person knowing of any fish, milk, meat, fowl, 
birds or vegetables being bought, sold or of- 
fered or held for sale as food for human 
beings, or being in any market, public or pri- 
vate, in said city, and not being sound, 
healthy or wholesome for such food, to forth- 
with report such facts and the particulars 
relating thereto, to this Department or to 
one of its officers or inspectors. 
§ 41. That no person shall, without con- 
sent of this Board, bring into said city for 
use as a drink for human beings, or offer or 
have for sale in said city, as such drink, any 
poisonous or deleterious liquid. 
§ 42. That upon any cattle, milk, meat, 
birds, fowl, fish or vegetables being found by 
any Inspector or other officer of this Depart- 
ment, in a condition which is in his opinion 
unwholesome and unfit for use as human 
food, or in a condition, or of a weight or 
quality in this code condemned or forbidden, 
he is empowered, authorized and directed to 
immediately condemn the same and cause it 
to be removed to the offal or garbage dock 
for destruction, and report his action to the 
Department without delay. 
§ 43. That no person shall sell or give to 
any other person, or permit such other per- 
son to get' (having the right and ability to 
prevent the same) any drink, food or dress, 
when such first-named person may have rea- 
son to think or believe that such drink, food 
or dress may cause danger or detriment to 
life. 
§ 44. That no distiller, or brewer, or other 
person, shall manufacture, or have or keep 
for sale, any liquid designed for drink or 16 
beverage for human beings which would be, if 
used, dangerous or detrimental to life or 
health. 
§ 45. That no person shall sell or deliver, 
or have for sale or otherwise, in the city of 
Brooklyn, any milk from cows or other ani- 
mals, 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 city any unwholesome, skimmed, water- 
ed 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 animals, 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 city, any milk of a less 
specific gravity than 1,029 (distilled water 
being 1,000), at a temperature of 60 degrees 
Fahrenheit. 
§ 46. That no person shall throw or al- 
low to run or pass into any public reservoir, 
water-pipe, or aqueduct, or into or upon any 
border or margin thereof, or excavation or 
steam therewith connected, any animal, veg- 
etable or mineral substance whatever; nor 
shall any person allow the same to be done 
(having power or right to prevent the same); 
nor shall any person do or permit to be done 
(having right or power to prevent the same), 
any act or thing that will impair or imperil 
the purity or wholesomeness of any water or 
other fluid used or designed as a drink in 
part of said city; nor shall any person bathe 
nor (except in the discharge of public duty) anywise injure or impair any drinking hyd- 
rant, or part thereof, in the said city ; nor 
shall any person interfere with the use of or 
enjoyment of the water therein, or there- 
from, or interrupt the flow thereof, or as a 
drink; nor shall any person put any dirty, 
poisonous, medicinal or any noxious sub- 
stance into or near said water or hydrant 
whereby such water is made or may be re- 
garded as dangerous or unwholesome as a 
drink. 
CATTLE, HORSES, ETC. 
§ 49. That no cattle, sheep, horse, goat, 
goose or mule, or any dangerous or offensive 
animal, shall be allowed by any owner, or by 
any person having charge of, or who shall 
have charge of the same, to go at large in 
any street or public place in the city of 
Brooklyn. ~~v 
§ 50. That no person shall allow any pig, 
swine or goat to run at large in said city, and 
no person shall, within the limits of said 
city, keep or permit to be kept, any pig, 
swine or goat, without a permit to do so 
from this Board. 
§ 51. That no cattle shall be kept in any 
place of which the water, ventilation and 
food are not sufficient and wholesome for the 
preservation of their health, safe condition 
and wholesomeness of food. 
§ 52. That no person shall keep or allow 
to be kept in any building or any premises, 
or on grounds of which he may be the owner, 
lessee, tenant or occupant, more cows or 
other cattle than at the rate of fifteen to an 
acre, or on an average, one to a city lot (in or 
npar t.Vifi built nr» nm+inno with- 
on 4- An'] And no permit shall be granted for the 
slaughtering, of cattle, within the district 
bounded by Newtown Creek, Metropolitan 
avenue, Grand street, Bushwick, Flushing 
and Washington avonues and the East River, 
after the lsk'May of May, 187f); and no § 58. That no building occupied wholly 
or partly as a slaughter-house, or any part 
thereof, or any building on the same lot, 
shall, without a special permit from this 
Board, to be occupied for a dwelling or lodg- 
ing place : that every such building shall at § 59. That neither the business of slaugh- 
tering cattle, nor the keeping of any slaugh- 
ter-house, nor the yarding of cattle, shall be 
begun or undertaken at any new or additional 
place within the city of Brooklyn, except 
pursuant to a permit from this Board ; nor 
shall any person or corporation keep any 
slaughter-hor or yard, or any cattle there- 
in, hereafh , without a permit from this 
Board. 
§ 60. That no person shall kill or dress 
any animal or meat in any market, nor have, 
or permit to escape therein, or within one 
hundred feet thereof, any poisonous, noxious, 
or offensive substance. 
§ 61. That no person shall become or con- 
tinue, or engage as, or in the business of a 
butcher, at or in any public or private mar- 
ket or stand in the city of Brooklyn, without 
a permit therefor from this Board. 
§ 62. That every butcher and milk dealer, 
and their agents, shall allow the parties au- 
thorized by this Board, to freely and fully 
inspect their cattle and meats, fish and vege- 
tables, held, offered, or intended for sale, 
and will be expected to answer all reasonable 
and proper questions asked by such persons 
relative to the condition thereof, and of the 
places where such articles may be. 
§ 63. That no offal or butchers’ refuse Jllg Ui ll/l OW1U V/i MlAJLjr UUil y lliuai^ 
birds, fowl or vegetables, shall, without a 
permit from this Board, expose the same 
upon any portion of any street or sidewalk, 
or public place in the city of Brooklyn. 
§ G5. That no person, being owner, lessee 
or tenant of any house or building, shall 
allow any water or other liquid to run from 
or out of his building or ground upon or 
across any sidewalk or curbstone, and if such 
substance is allowed by this Board to pass 
upon any street it must reach the same by a 
passage, to be kept at all times adequate and 
in repair by such person, under such flag- 
stone or through such curbstone ; and no 
such water or other liquid, or ice therefrom, 
shall be allowed to gather or remain on the 
upper surface of such curb, flagstone or pass- 
age ; nor shall such person allow any accu- 
mulation of such water or liquid, or the ice 
therefrom, upon any street or place, but 
shall, at all times, cause the same to be re- 
moved, or to pass along the gutter or some 
proper passage to one of the rivers, or into a 
sewer. 
§ G6. That every owner, lessee, tenant and 
occupant of any building or lot in the built 
up portions of the city of Brooklyn, shall, 
within two hours after the fall of any snow 
exceeding one inch in depth, and within two 
hours after the forming of any ice on the 23 
sidewalk or in the gutter, in front of or 
against the side of any such building or lot, 
, remove or cause the same to be removed, 
from such sidewalk and gutter, or in case of 
great difficulty in removing such ice, that 
every such person do sprinkle or cause to be 
sprinkled thereon sand or ashes, so that trav- 
eling thereon shall not be perilous; but that 
where said snow falls or ice forms between 
the hours of eight o’clock of the evening and 
daylight in the morning, this ordinance will 
be complied with by removing or sprinkling 
the same with sand or ashes within two hours 
after the sunrise succeeding the fall of such 
snow or the formation of such ice. 
§ 67. That no keeper of any public pound 
in the city of Brooklyn shall allow the same, 
or any animal therein, by reason of any want 
of care, food, ventilation or cleanliness, or 
otherwise, to be or become dangerous or det- 
rimental to human health. 
DOGS, ETC. 
§ 68. That no person shall take, or call 
any dog into or allow any dog to go into any 
street or public place in the city of Brooklyn 
unless such dog is properly and securely 
muzzled ; and any police officer finding any 
dog in any street or public place in violation 
of this ordinance shall immediately kill such 
dog. 
§ 69. That every animal which is mad, 
or has the hydrophobia, or shows symptoms 
thereof, shall by the person owning the same, 
or having the possession, charge or control 
thereof, be at once killed ; and every animal 
that has been exposed to such disease, shall 
be at once confined in some secure place for 
such length of time as to show that such ex- 
posure has not given such animal said dis- 
ease and so as to avoid all danger to life or 24 
health. And the dead body of any animal 
that died of such disease shall be at once, by 
such person, buried not less than three feet 
under ground, at some place not within one 
thousand feet of any residence. 
OFFENSIVE ODORS AND LIQUID. 
§ 70. That no person shall permit or have 
any offensive water or other liquid or sub- 
stance on his premises or grounds to the 
prejudice to life or health, whether for use 
in any trade or otherwise ; and no establish- 
ment or place of business for tanning, skin- 
ning, or scouring, or for dressing hides or 
leather, or for carrying on any offensive or 
noisome trade or business, shall hereafter be 
opened, started or established in the city of 
Brooklyn without a permit from this Board. 
And every such establishment now existing 
shall be kept cleanly and wholesome, and be 
so conducted in every particular as not to be 
offensive or prejudicial to life or health. 
§ 71. That no person or company being a 
manufacturer of gas, or engaged about the 
manufacture thereof, shall throw or deposit 
or allow to run, or having the right or power 
to prevent the same, shall permit to be 
thrown or deposited in any public waters, 
river or stream, or into any sewer therewith 
connected, or into any street or public place, 
any gas-tar, or any refuse matter of or from 
any gashouse, works or manufactory ; nor 
shall any such person or company allow any 
substance or odor to escape from such house, 
works or manufactory, or make any gas of 
such ingredients or quality that any sub- 
stance shall escape therefrom, or be formed 
in the process of burning any gas, which 
shall be offensive or dangerous, or prejudicial 
to life or health. Nor shall any such person or company fail to use the most approved, or 
all reasonable means, for preventing the es- 
cape of odors. 
§ 72. That no water-closet, sink, tub, vat 
or other structure shall hereafter be con- 
i structed within the city of Brooklyn having 
connection with, or by, any sewer or under- 
ground passage, unless the same is provided 
with adequate or the best generally approved 
constructions and precautions for preventing 
gases and other offensive currents, substances 
and smells from passing up or out through 
such connection from such sewer or passage; 
nor shall any such water-closet or privy be 
constructed without adequate provisions for 
fVip pflWtna.1 and nroner ventilation and 
gerous or detrimental to life or health, be here- 
after established within said city; and no busi- 
ness or pursuit of the kind in this section 
named shall be carried on anywhere in said 
city, unless the same shall be allowed by a 
permit of this Board. 
nor shall the busi- 
ness 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, 26 
nor the storage or keeping of scrap, fat or 
grease, or offensive animal matter, be per- 
mitted or conducted at any place in the city 
of Brooklyn ; nor shall any business herein- 
before mentioned be couducted at any place 
in the city of Brooklyn without a special 
permit from this Board ; nor shall the busi- 
ness of boiling or rendering the fresh lard 
fat, or tallow aforesaid, be conducted within 
said city, without a like special permit from 
this Board ; and such permit must be applied 
for in writing, specifying the nature and 
precise location of the proposed business, and 
such application will not be acted upon until 
the second regular meeting, two weeks after 
such application. 
§ <6. .1 hat no person shall hereafter erect, 
start or establish in said city, without the 
consent of this Board, any manufactory or 
place of business for boiling any varnish or 
oil, or for the distilling of any ardent or 
alcoholic spirits, or for making any lamp- 
mat is or w v 
or detrimental to health. 
§ 77. That no animal or vegetable sub- 
stance nor street sweepings, muck or silt, nor 
dirt gathered in cleaning yards, buildings, Pages 27-28 missing 3 83. That no person shall draw off, or 
Jlow to run into any ground, street, or place 
of said city, the contents (or any part there- 
of) of any vault, privy, cistern, cess pool or 
sink ; nor shall any owner, tenant or occu- 
pant of any building to which any vault, 
sink, privy or cess-pool shall appertain, or be 
attached, permit the contents, or any part 
thereof, to flow therefrom, or to rise within 
two feet of any part of the top, or said con- 
tents to become offensive; nor shall any 
privy, or other erection in this section men- 
tioned, be filled with, or covered with dirt, 
till its filthy contents shall be emptied. 
§ 84. That no person shall throw into, or 
deposit in any vault, sink, privy, or cess-pool, 
any offal, ashes, meat, fish, garbage or other 
substance, except that of which any such 
place is the appropriate receptacle ; nor shall 
any slops or kitchen waste be permitted to 
run into any privy or cess-pool, except the 
same be connected with the sewer. 
§ 85. That neither the contents of any 
such tub, or of any receptacle, cess pool, 
privy, vault, sink, or water closet, cistern, 
nor anything in any room, excavation, build- 
ing, premises, or place, shall be allowed to 
become a nuisance, or offensive, so as to be 
dangerous or prejudicial to health. 
§ 86. That every tub or other receptacle \y\/ixuciius; i/U ut; uueiieivc. -rt.xiu une provusum.. 
of this code relative to emptying cess pools, 
and to throwing any substance therein, shall 
apply to said tubs and receptacles as if here 
repeated and applied thereto. 
And no person shall throw, drop, or allow 
to fall into the East River, any canal, or into 
any street or place, any substance being, or 
having been part of, the contents of any such 
vault, cess-pool, privy, sink, tub or receptacle, 
or any offal. 
§ 87. That no person shall deposit upon 
any street or public place within the gene- 
rally built-up portion of the city of Brooklyn, 
or upon any paved street, any dirt or brick 
or other material or dirt taken from any 
ground therein, in such manner as to ob- 
struct the free flowage along any gutter. 
§ 88. That it shall be the duty of every 
owner, tenant, lessee, and occupant of any 
and every building or place of business in 
the generally built-up portions of the city of 
Brooklyn, forthwith to provide, or cause to 
be provided, and at all times thereafter to 
keep and be kept provided within such build- 
ing or place of business, suitable and suffi- 
cient boxes, barrels or tubs for receiving and 
holding, without leakage, and without being 
filled to within four inches of the top there- 
of, all the ashes, rubbish, garbage and liquid 
substances, of whatever kind, that may 31 
accumulate during thirty-six hours, from 
said building or place of business, or the 
portion thereef 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 
and liquid substances that should be removed 
from such building and place of business, or 
from that part for which said receptacles were 
provided, and none other (without the proper 
consent) shall be placed therein, and no such 
box, barrel or tub, shall remain on any side- 
walk, or in any public place, longer than may 
be needful for the removal of the contents 
thereof. 
§ 89. That such boxes, tubs and barrels 
shall be placed and kept in such position 
(unless kept within or upon private grounds, 
within the sidewalks) as the inspectors or 
agents of this Board shall provide or direct; 
and no person, not for that purpose author- 
ized, shall interfere therewith or with the 
contents thereof. 
§ 90. That all occupants, so preferring, 
may deliver their ashes, garbage and rubbish 
directly to the proper carts, to be taken away 
at any hour of the day when said carts may 
be present; and said carts may take such 
articles from receptacles delivered at any 
such hour; provided that such garbage or 
rubbish be not highly filthy or 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 until ten 
o’clock of the evening of the same day. 32 
[As amended February 5, 1894.] 
§ 91. That no lime, ashes, coal, dry sand, 
hair, feathers or other substance that is in a 
similar manner liable to be blown by the 
wind, shall be sieved, or agitated, or exposed, 
nor shall any mat, carpet or cloth be shaken 
or beaten, nor any cloth, yarn, garment or 
material, or substance, be 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, nor shall any carpet or rug exceed- 
ing ten feet square be beaten in any private 
yard within one hundred feet of any dwell- 
ing house. That neither any usual nor any 
reasonable precaution shall be omitted by 
any person to prevent fragments or other 
substances from falling, to the peril of life, 
or dust and light material flying into any 
street, place or building, from any building 
or erection, while the same is being altered, 
repaired or demolished, or otherwise. 
§ 92. 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 city shall cause 
said liquid or manure to be at Oxice removed 
to some proper place, and shall at all times 
keep or cause to be kept such stalls, stables 
and apartments, and the drainage, yard and 
appurtenances thereof in a cleanly and whole- 
some condition, so that no offensive smell 
shall be allowed to escape therefrom ;£jand 
when within three hundred feet of any occu- 
pied dwelling house, or of any manufactory 
where more than five persons are employed, 33 
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 apartment where horses 
or cattle are kept, shall have a properly cov- 
ered water-tight manure vault or box, which 
shall not be allowed to become filled. [But 
the Sanitary Superintendent is authorized to 
to issue permits, to be regularly reported to 
this Board, regulating such removal within 
said hoursT] 
§ 93. That no person shall empty, or at- 
tempt to empty, any vault, sink, privy, or 
cess-pool in the city of Brooklyn, except pur- 
suant to a permit therefor first received from 
this Board. 
§ 94. That no part of the contents of any 
privy, vault, sink, cess-pool, 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 city of Brooklyn, 
shall be removed therefrom, nor shall the 
same be transported through any of the 
streets or avenues of said city, unless and 
except the same shall be removed and trans- 
ported by means of an air-tight apparatus, 
or in such a manner as shall prevent entirely 
the escape of any noxious 'or offensive odors 
therefrom, and by a permit from this Board. 
§ 95. That the drivers of all carts for the 
removal of any garbage, offal, rubbish, or 
dirt from any building or premises, shall give 
adequate notice to those dwelling in any 
street whose buildings or premises such cart 
is about to or should approach for the re- 
moval of any substance aforesaid. 34 
§ 96. That no person shall engage in the 
business of a scavenger, or of transporting 
manure, swill, ashes, offal, rubbish or garb- 
age, or any offensive or noxious substance, or 
in driving any cart for such purpose in the 
city of Brooklyn (except the persons acting 
under the Street Cleaning Commissioners, or 
of the contractors for cleaning the streets, 
and as this Department may provide), until 
he shall have first received a permit from 
this Department of such form and effect as 
the regulations of the Department shall pro- 
vide, authorizing such person so to engage. 
“That no individual or corporation shall 
bring, cart or carry, or in any manner con- 
vey into the city of Brooklyn, any offal, but- 
cher’s refuse, bones, hocks, pates, or any 
kind of animal scraps. Nor shall oyster or 
other fish shells be carted, brought or con- 
veyed into the city of Brooklyn except pursu- 
ant to a permit therefor first received from 
the Department of Health.” 
[As amended May 29th, 1893.] 
§ 97. That every cart and other vehicle 
hereafter constructed for or engaged about 
any business, or intended to be loaded with 
any matter or substance, in the last section 
mentioned, shall be constructed according to 
this code, and to the regulations and orders 
of the Board of Health. 
§ 98. That no cart or other vehicle for 
carrying any offal, swill, garbage or rubbish, 
or the contents of any privy, vault, cess-pool 
or sink, or having upon it or in anything on 
such cart any manure, or other nauseous or 
offensive substance, shall, without necessity 
therefor, stand or remain, nor shall a needless 
number gather before or near any building, 
place of business or other premises where any 
person may be ; nor shall any cart or vehicle 
occupy an unreasonable length of time in loading or unloading, or in passing along any 
street, or through any inhabited place or 
ground ; nor shall any such cart or vehicle, 
or the driver thereof, or anything thereto 
appertaining, be (or by any person having a 
right to control the same, be allowed to be) 
in a condition needlessly filthy or offensive ; 
and when not in use, all such carts, vehicles and 
all implements used in connection therewith, 
shall be stored and kept in some place where 
no needless offence shall be given to any of 
the people of said city. 
§ 99. That all carts and vehicles in the 
last section mentioned, and boxes, tubs and 
receptacles thereon, in which any substance 
in said section referred to may be or be car- 
ried, shall be strong and tight, and the sides 
shall be so high above the load or contents 
that no part of such contents or load shall 
fall, leak or spill therefrom ; and that when, 
in the opinion of this Board, it is necessary 
to prevent the contents of such carts or 
vehicles, tubs or boxes, or receptacles from 
being offensive, each of such carts, tubs and 
boxes and receptacles shall be adequately and 
tightly covered, as the orders or regulations 
of this Board may provide or direct. 
§ 100. That no driver of such cart or ve- 
hicle, nor any person having undertaken or 
being engaged about the loading or unload- 
ing thereof, nor any person or persons en- 
gaged about the cleaning or emptying, or 
having undertaken to empty or remove any 
manure, garbage, offal, or the contents of any 
vault, sink, privy, cess-pool, or any noxious or 
offensive substance, shall do or permit to be 
done about the same, or in connection there- 
with, that which shall be needlessly offens- 
ive or filthy in respect to any person, street, 
place, building, or premises, and all carts or 
35 vehicles shall be thoroughly disinfected and 
put in an inoffensive condition when not in 
use. 
§ 101. That no person shall allow (and it 
shall be the duty of every contractor and 
person who has ordered or procured, or is 
having any of the following articles carried, 
or who is driving the same, to prevent) any 
cart or vehicle to be so fully loaded, or being 
in such bad condition of repair, or of such 
faulty construction, or being so improperly 
driven or managed, that any offensive liquid, 
or any manure, garbage, rubbish, offal, 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 re- 
place on such vehicle and remove what has 
so fallen. 
§ 102. That all putrid and offensive mat- 
ter, and all night soil and the contents of 
sinks, privies, vaults and cess-pools, and all 
noxious substances in said city, shall, before 
their removal or exposure, be disinfected 
and rendered inoffensive, by the owner, les- 
see or occupant of the premises where the 
same may be (or in default of the same be- 
ing so done) by the person or contractor who 
removes or is about to remove the same. 
§ 103. That neither the owner, tenant, 
nor occupant of any building or premises, in 
the built-up portions of the city of Brook- 
lyn, shall employ, cause or permit any part 
of the contents of any vault, privy, sink, or 
cess-pool (being thereon, and of which he has 
control) to be removed, unless according to a 
permit or the regulations of the said Board. 
I § 104. That no pile or deposit of manure, 
*offal, dirt or garbage, or any accumulation 
of any offensive or nauseous substance, shall 
be made within the built-up portions of the 
city of Brooklyn, or upon any open space 37 
enclosed within any portions thereof, or 
upon the piers, docks or bulkheads adjacent 
thereto, or upon any open grounds near (or 
upon any vessel or scow other than those to 
be speedily, and according to the duty of 
OumiliiHiuu i/jitueoi ut; intiut;, v\mnu _ 
hundred feet of any street, without a per- 
mit from this Department^ 
§ 105.frhat no pile or deposit of manure, 
offal, or garbage, nor accumulation of any 
offensive or nauseous substance, shall be 
made within the limit of said city ; 
§ 106. That no manure, garbage, or other 
material that is liable to emit an offensive 38 
exhalation, shall, in or adjacent to the built- 
up portions of the city of Brooklyn, be turned 
or stirred (except about its removal), in such 
way as to be liable, by reason thereof, to in- 
crease such exhalations. 
§ 108. That no hotel or house swill or 
garbage, or offensive material of a liquid 
nature, or partly liquid nature, not removed 
or required to be moved by the contractors 
for street cleaning, shall be transported 
through or along any street in the city of 
. excent in tightly covered and 
any person not being therein or thereupon 
engaged. 39 
§ f 10. That every furnace employed in 
the working of engines by steam, or in any 
mill, factory, printing house, dye-factory, 
iron-foundry, glass-house, distillery, brew- 
house, sugar refinery, bake-house, gas-works, 
or in any other buildings used for the pur- 
pose of trade, or manufacture, shall be so 
constructed as to consume or burn the smoke 
arising therefrom, unless a permit to the 
contrary be obtained from this Board. 
§ 111. That no vault, privy, sink, cistern 
or cess-pool shall hereafter be made or rebuilt 
in the city of Brooklyn, except in accordance 
with the regulations of this Board ; and no 
privy shall be built within two feet of the 
line of any lot. 
DISEASED ANIMALS. 
§ 112. That no diseased or.sickly horse, 
cattle, swine, sheep, dog or cat, or other ani- 
inals, nor any that have been exposed to any 
disease that is contagious among such ani- 
mals, shall be brought into the city of 
Brooklyn. 
§ 113. That no person shall keep, retain, 
or allow or employ to be kept or retained, at 
any place within or adjacent to the built-up 
portions of the city of Brooklyn, any horse, 
ass or colt having the disease known as glan- 
ders or farcy. 
DEAD, SICK AND INJURED ANIMALS. 
§ 114. That no person shall leave in or 
throw into any place or street, or public 
water, or offensively expose or bury the body 
(or any part thereof) of any dead or fatally 
sick or injured animal; nor shall any person 
keep any dead animal, or any offensive meat, 
bird, fowl or fish in a place where the same 
may be dangerous to the life or detrimental 
to the health of any person. 40 
§ 115. That any animal, being in any 
street or public jfiace, within or adjacent to 
the built up portions of Brooklyn city, and 
appearing in the estimation of any officer or 
inspector of this Board (and of two discreet 
citizens, called by such officer, or inspector 
to view the same in his presence) injured or 
diseased past recovery for any useful pur- 
pose, and not being attended and properly 
cared for by the owner, or some proper per- 
son to have charge thereof for the owner ; or 
not having been removed to some private 
premises, or to some place designated by 
such officer or inspector within one hour 
after being found or left in such condition, 
may be deprived of life by such officer or in- 
spector, or as he may direct, and shall there- 
after, unless at once removed by the owner 
or proper person, be treated as any other 
animal found on a street or place. 
§ 116. That any person having a dead ani- 
mal, or an animal past recovery, and not 
killed for and proper for use as meat or fish, 
or in an offensive condition, or sick with an 
infectious or contagious disease, on his prem- 
ises in said city, and every person whose ani- 
mal, or any animal in his charge, or under 
his control, in any street or place, may die 
or become, or be in a condition past recovery, 
shall at once remove or cause the removal of 
such animal, dead or alive, to some proper 
place; and when such place may be desig- 
nated by this Board, to the place so desig- 
nated. 
§ 117. That every person having within 
his possession or control, or upon any prem- 
ises occupied or owned by him, any dead ani- 
mal not proper for food and liable to become 
noxious and detrimental to health, shall at 
once give notice thereof to the officer in charge of the nearest police station, and such 
officer shall at once cause notice thereof to be 
given to this Board. 
41 
§ 118. That no person other than the in- 
spectors or officers of this Board, or the 
Board of Police, or persons thereto author- 
ized, shall in any way interfere with such 
dead, sick or injured animal in any street or 
place, and no person shall skin or wound 
such animal iir such street or public place, 
unless to terminate its life as herein author- 
ized, except that the owner or person having 
control of such animal may terminate the 
life thereof in the presence and by the con- 
sent of a policeman, or an inspector or officer 
of this Board. 
§ 119. That no person shall obstruct, de- 
lay or interfere with the proper and free use, 
for the purposes for which they may be and 
should beset apart and devoted, of any dock, 
pier or bulkhead, set apart for the use of any 
contractor or person engaged in removing 
any offal, garbage, rubbish, dirt, dead ani- 
mal, night soil, or other like substances, or 
with the proper performance of such con- 
tracts. 
§ 120. That it shall be the duty of every 
contractor and person (his agents and em- 
ployees) who has contracted or undertaken to 
remove any diseased or dead animal, offal, 
rubbish, garbage, dirt, street sweepings, 
night soil, or other filthy, offensive or nox- 
ious substances, or is engaged about any such 
removal, or in loading or unloading of any 
such substance, to do the same with dispatch, 
and in every particular in a manner as clean- 
ly and little offensive, and with as little dan- 
ger and prejudice to life and health as pos- 
sible. § 121. That no street sweepings or other 
noxious material shall lay piled up, or par- 
tially raked together, in any street or place 
before the removal thereof, more than a 
reasonable time, nor for more than four 
hours in the daytime, under any circum- 
stances. 
§ 122. That no ship, boat or other vessel 
or article shall be taken or allowed by any 
person to come into or lay to or at or within 
any dock, pier, bulkhead, or slip (or to be 
placed thereon), set apart or appropriated for 
the use or purpose of the shipment or re- 
moval of any offal, garbage, rubbish, dirt, or 
dead animals, or for the use of any con- 
tractor about the removal of any of the fore- 
going substances, without a permit from this 
Board. 
REPORTS AS TO CONTAGIOUS AND IN- 
FECTIOUS DISEASES. 
§ 123. That every physician shall report 
to the Sanitary Bureau, in writing, every 
person having a contagious disease (and the 
state of his or her disease, and his or her place 
of dwelling and name, if known) which such 
physician has prescribed for or attended for 
the first time since having a contagious dis- 
ease, during any part of the preceding twenty- 
four hours ; but not more than two reports 
shall be required in one week concerning the 
same person ; but every attending or practic- 
ing physician thereat, must, at his peril, see 
that such report is or has been made by some 
attending physician. 
§ 124. That it shall be the duty of each 
and every practicing physician in the city of 
Brooklyn to report, in writing, to the Board 
of Health, the death of any of his patients 
who shall have died in said city, of conta- 
gious or infectious diseases, within twenty- four hours thereafter, and to state in such 
report the specific name and type of such 
disease. 
§ 125. That every keeper of any boarding 
house or lodging house, and every inn keeper 
and hotel keeper, shall, within twenty-four 
hours, report, in writing, to the Sanitary 
Bureau, the same particulars in the last 
section required of any physician concerning 
any person being at any of the aforesaid 
houses and hotels, and attacked with any con- 
tagious disease. 
§ 126. That the Commissioners, Mana- 
gers, Principals, or other proper head officers 
of each and every public or private institu- 
tion in said city shall twice in each week 
report, in writing (or cause such report by 
some proper and competent person to be 
made twice in each week) to the Sanitary 
Bureau, and state therein the name, if 
known, and condition and disease, of any 
and every person being thereat, and sick of 
any contagious disease. 
Nor shall commissioners, manager, princi- 
cipal or other proper head of such public 
or private institution, nor any of the em- 
ployees thereof, nor any person whatever in 
said city, burn or permit to be burned within 
the built up portion of said city, nor within 
one-half mile of any building therein, any 
rags, bedding or any other substances what- 
ever, which have been used in the treatment 
of any person suffering from any disease or 
submitting to any surgical operation. 
§ 127. That the master, chief officer and 
consignee, or one of them, of every vessel, 
not being in quarantine, or within quaran- 
tine limits, but being within one-fourth of a 
mile of any dock, wharf, pier or building, of 
said city, shall daily report to the Sanitary 44 
Bureau, or cause to be reported, in writing, 
the particulars, and shall therein state the 
name, disease and condition of any person 
being in or on such vessel, and sick of any 
contagious disease. 
§ 128. That it shall be the duty of every 
person knowing of any individual in said 
city sick of any contagious disease (where 
such person shall have reason to regard such 
individual as neglected or not properly cared 
for, and to avoid giving said disease to 
others)., and the duty of every physician 
hearing of any such sick person, who he 
shall have reason to think requires the 
attention of this Board, to at once report 
the facts to the Sanitary Bureau, in regard 
to the disease, condition and dwelling place, 
or position of such sick person. 
§ 129. That the keepers, lessees, tenants 
and owners of every boarding-house and 
lodging house, shall within six hours after 
the fact shall come to his or her or their 
knowledge, notify the Sanitary Bureau, in 
writing, of the fact of any seafaring man or 
person, lately from any vessel, being taken 
sick at such house, and shall, in such notice, 
state wfiere such sick person may be found, 
and from what vessel, and when he came, to 
the best of the knowledge of the person or 
persons giving such notice. 
§ 130. That every master and chief officer 
of any vessel, and every physician of, or who 
practiced on, any vessel which shall arrive at 
any dock or wharf in the city of Brooklyn, 
from any other port, shall at once report to 
this Board any facts connected with any 
person or thing on said vessel, or that came 
thereon, which he has reason to think may 
endanger the public health of this city ; and 
he shall report the facts as to any person 45 
being or having been sick thereon of a con- 
tagious disease, and as to their being, or 
having been during the voyage or since her 
arrival, any infected person or articles 
thereon. 
§ 131. That every master, charterer, 
owner, part-owner and consignee of any 
vessel, or of the cargo thereof which shall be 
in the water of said city, unless detained in 
quarantine, shall at once give, or cause to be 
given, to the Sanitary Superintendent, writ- 
. ten notice of any infected article or person, 
and of every person sick of a contagious 
disease, being or having within ten days 
been on board said vessel; and also of each 
and every fact and thing relative to said ves- 
sel, sick person or cargo, or to the crew of 
such vessel, which any of the first mentioned 
persons shall have reason to think may be 
useful for this Board to know, or be or become 
dangerous or prejudicial to life or health in 
said city. 
REMOVAL FROM AND UNLOADING OF 
VESSELS. 
§ 132. That every master, owner, charter- 
er, part owner and consignee of any vessel 
that shall bring any cotton into the city of 
Brooklyn between the first day of May and 
the first day of November of each year, shall 
at once report to this Board, or cause to be 
made, in writing, a report to this Board, of 
the fact of any such cotton being in a dan- 
gerous, infected, or unsound condition or 
having been exposed to any infection. 
§ 133. That no master, charterer, owner, 
part owner, or consignee of any vessel, or 
any other person, shall bring to any dock, 
pier, wharf or building within one thousand 
feet thereof, in said city, or unload at any 
dock, building or pier therein, or have on 46 
storage in the built-up portion of said city, 
any skins, hides, rags or similar articles or 
materials, having been brought from any 
foreign country, or any infected place, or 
from any point south of Norfolk, Virginia, 
without or otherwise than according to, a 
written permit so to do, from this Board ; 
and no person shall sell, exchange, or in any 
way make any exposure of any straw, bedding 
or articles that have been exposed to the con- 
tagion or infection of any contagious disease, 
or have been or are liable to communicate 
such disease, or have lately been on any emi- 
grant vessel, till after the same have been 
adequately cleansed or disinfected. 
§ 134. That no owner, agent or consignee 
of any vessel or cargo, and no officer of any 
vessel (in respect of either of which vessel or 
cargo, a permit, according to any law, ordin- 
ance or regulation, shall or should have been 
obtained to pass quarantine, or to come up to 
the water-front of the city of Brooklyn), shall 
unlade or land, or cause to be unladen or 
landed, such cargo, or any part thereof, in 
said city, without having first received the 
written permit of this Board so to do. 
§ 135. That no captain, officer, consignee, 
owner or other person in charge of any vessel 
(or having right and authority to prevent the 
same) shall remove or aid in removing from 
any vessel to the shore (save as legally author- 
ized by this Board, and into quarantine 
grounds or building 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 in removing 
any articles that have been exposed to the 
contagion of any such disease, except in 
accordance with a permit of this Board, or 
with its special regulations. 47 
§ 136. That no master, charterer, con- 
signee, or other person, shall order, bring or 
allow (having power and authority to pre- 
vent) any vessel or person, or article therefom 
from any infected port, nor any vessel, or 
person, or article therefrom liable to quaran- 
tine, according to the ninth section of the 
three hundred and fifty-eighth chapter of 
the laws of 1863 (or under any other laws, 
and whether such quarantine has been made 
or suffered, or not), to come or be brought 
to any point nearer than three hundred yards 
of any dock or pier, or to any building in 
said city, without or otherwise than accord- 
ing to a permit of this Board. Nor shall any 
vessel, or person or thing therein or there- 
from, having been in quarantine, come or be 
brought within the last named distance of 
any last named place, without the permit or 
assent of this Board. 
§ 137. That no person shall bring into 
this city, from any infected place, or land, 
or take therein, from any vessel lately from 
any infected port, or from any vessel or 
building in which had lately been any person 
sick of a contagious disease, any article or 
person whatsoever, nor shall any such person 
land or come into such city without a permit 
of this Board ; and it shall be no excuse that 
such person or article so offending, or the 
occasion of offense, has passed through 
quarantine, or has a permit from any other 
source than this Board. 
§ 138. That no owner, part owner, char- 
terer, agent or consignee of any vessel, or 
any other officer or person having charge or 
control of the same, shall allow to be cast 
therefrom, and no person shall cast there- 
from, into any public waters of the city of 
Brooklyn, any straw, bedding, clothing, or 48 
other substance, from any incoming vessel, 
from any foreign port, or port south of Cape 
Henlopen, without a permit from this Board, 
except as allowed by the quarantine authori- 
ties. 
HEALTH OFFICER. 
§ 139. That the Health Officer of the port 
of New York, his assistants and deputies, 
shall at all times keep this Board informed, 
by weekly written reports, of the number of 
vessels in quarantine, of the number of per- 
sons sick in the floating or other hospitals 
thereat, and of the diseases with which they 
are severally afflicted ; he and they shall also 
receive into the floating hospital all cases of 
yellow fever found in this city and the port 
aforesaid ; he or they shall not send or allow 
to return to the vicinity of said city, without 
the permit of the Sanitary Superintendent, 
any person, vessel or article which this Board 
has ordered to quarantine. 
REMOVAL OF SICK PERSONS. 
§ 140. That no person shall, within the 
built-up portions of the city, without a per- 
mit from this Board, carry or remove from 
one building to another, or from any vessel 
to the shore, any person sick of any conta- 
gious disease. Nor shall any person, by any 
exposure of any individual sick of any conta- 
gious 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 dis- 
ease from any such person, or from any dead 
body. 
VACCINATION. 
§ 141. That every person, being the par- 
ent or guardian, or having the care, custody 
or control of any minor, or other individual, 49 
I 
shall (to the extent of any means, power and 
authority of said parent, guardian, or other 
person, that could properly be used or ex- 
erted for such purpose) cause and procure 
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 smallpox. 
§ 142. That no principal or superintend- 
ent of any school, and no parent, master or 
custodian of any child or minor (having the 
power and authority to prevent), shall per- 
mit any child or minor having scarlet fever, 
diphtheria, small pox or any dangerous, in- 
fectious or contagious disease, or any child 
residing in any house in which any such dis- 
ease exists or has recently existed, to attend 
any public or private school until the Board 
of Health shall have given its permission 
therefor, nor in any manner to be unneces- 
sarily exposed, or to needlessly expose any 
other person to the taking or to the infection 
of any contagious disease. 
DEAD BODIES—INTERMENTS—SEXTONS. 
§ 143. That no interment of the dead 
body of any human being, or deposition 
thereof in any tomb, vault or cemetery, shall 
be made within the city of Brooklyn, without 
a permit therefor granted by this Board, nor 
otherwise than in accordance therewith, and 
no sexton or other person shall assist in, or 
assent to, or allow any such interment, or aid 
or assist about preparing any grave or place 
of deposit for any such body, for which such 
permit has not been given authorizing the 
same. And it shall be the duty of every 
person who shall receive any such permit to 
preserve and to return the same to this 
Board, as its regulations may require. § 144. That no new burying ground, 
cemetery, tomb, or vault, for dead human 
bodies shall be established, nor shall the re- 
mains of any dead body be placed in any ex- 
isting burying ground, vault, tomb, or ceme- 
tery, in the city of Brooklyn, nor any of said 
receptacles be opened, exposed or disturbed, 
except, according to the terms of a permit 
therefor given by this Board ; and every body 
buried in any such place shall be buried to a 
depth of six feet below the surface of the 
ground and four feet below any closely ad- 
jacent street. 
§ 145. That every person who acts as a 
sexton or undertaker in the city of Brooklyn, 
or has charge or care of any vault, tomb, 
burying ground or cemetery for the reception 
of the dead, or where the bodies of any 
human beings are deposited, shall cause his 
or her name and residence, and the nature of 
his or her charge and duties, to be registered 
with this Board. 
§ 146. That every sexton and other person 
having charge of any burying ground, ceme- 
tery, tomb or vault, in the city of Brooklyn, 
shall, before twelve o’clock of Monday of 
each week, make return to this Board of the 
bodies and persons buried since their last re- 
turn, and in such form, and specifying such 
particulars, as the special regulations of this 
Board shall require. 
§ 147. That no captain, agent, or person 
having charge of, or attached to, any ferry- 
boat, 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 city of Brooklyn, 
50 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 bv the proper person in charge 
of any train of cars or vehicle on which any 
such body may be carried from said city ; 
provided, however, that the same effect shall 
be given, under this section, to a burial or 
transit permit issued by the Health Officer, 
or Board of Health of the city of New York, 
as to a burial or transit permit issued from 
this Board, 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 sec- 
tion to a burial or transit permit issued by 
the Board of Health and of Vital Statistics 
of Richmond County, as to a burial permit 
from this Department, when the death of a 
person named in the permit shall have oc- 
curred in Richmond County ; and provided 
that the same effect shall be given under 
this section to a burial or transit permit 
issued by the Board of Health or Health 
officer of Long Island City, as to a burial or 
transit permit, issued from this Board, when 
the death of the person named in the per- 
mit shall have occurred in Long Island City ; 
and provided that the same effect shall be 
given under this section to a burial or transit 
permit issued by the Board of Health or 
Health Officer of Morrisania, as to a burial 
or transit permit issued by this Board, when 
the death of the person named in the per- 
mit shall have occurred in Morrisania. 
§ 148. That no person shall retain, ex- 
posed, or allow to be retained, or exposed, 52 
the dead body of any human being, to the 
peril or prejudice of the life or health of any 
person. 
§ 149. That it shall be the duty of every 
person who has discovered or seen the body 
of a dead human being, or any part thereof 
(if there is reason for such person to think 
that the fact of the death, or the place of 
such body, or part thereof, is not publicly 
known), to immediately communicate to this 
Board the fact of such discovery of such 
body, the place where, and time when the 
same was discovered or seen, and where the 
same is or may be found, and any facts 
known by which said body may be identified, 
or the cause of death be ascertained. 
§ 150. That no person shall allow to be 
retained unburied the dead body of any hu- 
man being for a longer time than four days, 
or where death has been caused by a con- 
tagious disease, for a longer time than twen 
ty-four hours after death of such person, 
without a permit from this Board, which per- 
mit shall specify the length of time during 
which such body may be retained unburied, 
and when death has been caused by a con- 
tagious disease, the body shall be immedi- 
ately thereafter disinfected in such manner 
as may be directed by the Board of Health, 
and enclosed in a tightly sealed coffin, which 
shall not thereafter be opened, and the 
funeral of such person shall be strictly pri- 
vate ; and in removal thereof for burial or 
otherwise, hearses only shall be employed. 
CORONERS. 
§ 151. It shall be the duty of every Cor- 
oner, within forty-eight hours after having 
held an inquest upon any dead body, to file 
a certificate with the Board of Health con- 
taining the date of said inquest, and, so far as can be ascertained, the name and age of 
the deceased ; where said dead body was 
found ; the occupation of said deceased, 
when living ; the length of time said de- 
ceased had resided in the city of Brooklyn ; 
and where, previous to death ; and also the 
verdict of the jurors upon such inquest; said 
certificate to be signed by the Coroner hold- 
ing such inquest. 
MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS. 
§ 153. That it shall be the duty oi every 
person mentioned in the last section, or re- 
quired to make or keep any such register, to 
present to this Board a copy of such register, 
signed by such person, or a written state- 
ment, by him signed, of all the facts in said 
register required to be entered, within five 
days after the birth or marriage, and within 54 
thirty-six hours after the death of any person 
to whom such registry may or should relate, 
which shall thereupon be placed on file with 
this Board. 
§ 154. That every clerk, officer and person 
within said city, required by the one hundred 
and fifty-second chapter of the laws of 1847, 
or by the three hundred and eightieth chap 
ter of the laws of 1864, to make or preserve 
an entry, registry, record or certificate as to 
births, deaths or marriages, shall sonri 
ui tue parents of 
any child born in said district (and if there 
be no parent alive that has made such report, 
then of the next of kin of such child born, 
and of every person present at such birth, 
within five days after such birth or death, to 
report to said Board in writing, so far as 
known, the date, ward and street number of said birth, and the sex and color of such 
child born, and the names of the parents, 
and the age, color, nativity, last occupation, 
and cause of death, of such deceased person, 
and the ward and street, and place of such 
person’s death, and last residence.” 
RAILROAD CARS. 
§ 15G. That each and every car used upon 
any railroad in the city of Brooklyn for 
the carrying or transportation of passengers 
shall, on each and every day on which it may 
be used for the carrying or transportation of 
passengers, be carefully and thoroughly 
washed and cleaned, so that all filth and dirt 
are removed from the inside of said car. 
§ 157. That no person shall at any time 
carry or convey in, or upon, any passenger 
railroad car, nor shall any conductor or per- 
son 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. 
TENEMENT HOUSES. 
§ 158. No house, building, or portion 
thereof, in the city of Brooklyn shall be used, 
occupied, leased or rented for a tenement or 
lodging house, unless the same conforms in 
its construction and appurtenances to the 
requirements of this code of ordinances ; and 
if occupied by more than one family on a 
floor, and if the halls do not open at one end 
directly to the external air with suitable win- 
dows without a room or other obstruction 
at that end, it shall not be used, occupied, 
leased or rented unless it is made to conform 
to the requirements of said Department of 
Health for light, ventilation, plumbing and 
drainage, or subject to the conditions of a 56 
permit, in writing, from said Department of 
Health. 
§ 159 Every house, building, or portion 
thereof, in the city of Brooklyn, designed to 
be used, occupied, leased or rented, or which 
is used, occupied, leased or rented for a tene- 
ment or lodging house, shall have in every 
room which is occupied as a sleeping room 
and which does not communicate with the 
external air, a ventilating or transom win- 
dow, having an opening or area of not less 
than three square feet over the door leading 
into and connecting with a room which does 
communicate directly with the external air, 
or in the partition between said rooms ; or 
in case there is no adjacent room communi- 
cating directly with the external air, there 
shall be a ventilating or transom window 
having the same opening or area, communi- 
cating with the entry or hall, and, when 
practicable, both such ventilating or transom 
windows shall be provided. In case the room 
cannot be provided with windows as herein 
required, such room shall not be further used 
as a sleeping room. Every such house or 
building shall have in the roof, at the top of 
the hall, a ventilator with a clear opening or 
area to the external air of not less than one 
square foot, and more if required by the 
Department of Health. 
§ 160. The roof of every such house shall 
be kept in good repair and so as not to leak ; 
and all rain water shall be conducted into the 
street sewer, if a sewer exists in the street; 
if there is no sewer in the street, it shall be 
so drained or conveyed therefrom as not to 
cause dampness in the walls, yard or area. 
The roof water and all surface water shall 
be conducted into the street gutter by a pas- 
sage beneath the sidewalk, which shall be 57 
covered by a permanent cover, but so 
arranged as to permit access to remove ob- 
structions or impurities in such manner as 
shall be approved by the Department of 
, Health. 
§ 161. Every such building shall be pro- 
vided with good and sufficient water closets 
or privies of a construction approved by the 
Department of Health, and shall have proper 
doors, traps, soil-pans and other suitable 
works and arrangements, so far as may be 
necessary to insure the efficient operation 
thereof. Such water closets or privies shall 
not be less in number than one to every fif- 
teen 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, as to per- 
l+irplv Anri frpplv to nass whatever 58 
enter them so that no accumulation shall 
take place, and so as to prevent any exhala- 
tion therefrom, offensive, dangerous or pre- 
judicial to health, and so as to prevent the 
same from being or becoming obstructed. 
No cess-pool shall be allowed in or under or 
connected with any such house, except when 
it is unavoidable, and in such case it shall be 
constructed in such situation and in such 
manner as the Department of Health may 
direct. It shall in all cases be water-tight 
and arched or securely covered over, and no 
offensive smell or gases shall be allowed to 
escape therefrom, or from any privy or privy 
vault. In all cases where a sewer exists in 
the street upon which the house or building 
stands, the yard or area shall be so connected 
with the same that all water, from the roof or 
otherwise, and all liquid filth shall pass 
freely into it. Where no sewer exists in the 
street, the yard or area shall be so graded 
that all water from the roof or otherwise, and 
all filth shall flow freely from it and all parts 
of it into the street gutter, by a passage be- 
neath the sidewalk, which shall be covered 
by a permanent cover, but so arranged as to 
permit access to remove obstructions or im- 
purities. Pages 59-60 missing 61 
partment of Health his name and address, 
and also a description of the property, by 
street number or otherwise, as the case may 
be, in such manner as will enable the De- 
partment of Health easily to find the same, 
and also the number of apartments in each 
house, the number of rooms in each apart- 
ment, the number of persons occupying each 
apartment, and the trades or occupations 
carried on therein. 
All notices and orders of the Department 
of Health in relation to a tenement or lodg- 
ing house shall be served by posting in some 
conspicuous place, in or on the house, a copy 
of the notice or order, such length of time 
before the time for doing the thing in rela- 
tion to which said notice or order was issued, 
as the Department of Health may direct. It 
shall be the duty of the Department of 
Health to cause a copy of every such notice 
or order to be mailed, addressed to the per- 
son who had filed with the Department of 
Health his name and address, as provided 
for in this section. The posting of a copy of 
"■■n order or notice, and the mailing of a 62 
ever 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 the 
Department of Health, or to some officer of 
the same, and thereupon said Department 
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 may 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 persons, be, by the person having 
charge or custody of such rooms or apart- 
ments, thoroughly fumigated by the burning 
of sulphur or otherwise, in such manner as 
may be required by the Department of Health; 
and all clothing, beds, bedding or infected 
articles used by or in caring for such sick 
person, shall be likewise fumigated or dis- 
infected, or in extreme cases destroyed, as 
the Department of Health may direct. § 168. No house hereafter erected shall be 
used as a tenement house or lodging house, 
and no house heretofore erected and not now 
used for such purpose shall be converted 
into, used or leased for a tenement or lodging 
house, unless in addition to the requirements 
hereinbefore contained, it conforms to re- 
quirements contained in the following sec- 
tions. 
§ 169. It shall not be lawful hereafter to 
erect for or convert to the purpose of a tene- 
ment or lodging house a building on any lot 
where there is another building on the same 
lot, or to build or to erect any building on 
any lot whereon there is already a tenement 
or lodging house, unless there is a clear open 
space, exclusively belonging thereto and ex- 
tending upwards from the ground of at least 
ten feet between said buildings, if they are 
one story high above the level of the ground, 
if they are two stories high, the distance 
between them shall not be less than fifteen 
feet, if they are three stories high, the dis- 
tance between shall not be less than twenty 
feet, and if they are more than three stories 
high, the distance between them shall not be 
less than twenty-five feet. 
At the rear of every building hereafter 
erected for, or converted to the purpose of a 
tenement or lodging house, on any lot, there 
shall be a clear open space of ten feet between 
it and the rear line of the lot. But when 
thorough ventilation of such open spaces can 
be otherwise secured, said distances may be ement or lodging house shall oe eniargeu ui 
altered or its lot be diminished so that it 
shall occupy more than sixty-five per centum 
of the said lot, and in the same proportion if 
the lot be greater or less in size than twenty- 
five feet by one hundred feet, 'except in the 
case of corner lots where ninety per centum 
may be occupied by the building, but this 
provision may be modified in special cases by 
a permit from the Department of Health. 
§ 170. In every such house hereafter erec- 
ted or converted, every habitable room, ex- 
cept rooms in the attic, shall be in every part 
not less than eight feet in height from the 
floor to the ceiling, and every habitable room 
in the attic of any such building shall be at 
least eight feet in height from the floor to 
the ceiling, throughout not less than one- 
half the area of such room. Every living or 
sleeping room shall have at least one window 
communicating with the external air. The 
total area of window or windows in every 
living or sleeping room 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 living or sleeping room of 
a less area than one hundred superficial feet, 
if it does not communicate directly with the 
external air, shall be provided with means of 
ventilation by an air shaft extending to the 
roof and open at the top or otherwise as the 
Department of Health may prescribe. § 171. Every such house hereafter erected 
or converted shall have adequate chimneys 
running through every floor with an open 
fire place or grate, or place for a stove prop- 
erly connected with one of said chimneys for 
every family and set of apartments. It shall 
have proper conveniences and receptacles for 
ashes and garbage. It shall have Ridgewood 
water furnished in sufficient quantities at 
one or more places on each floor occupied or 
intended to be occupied by one or more fam- 
ilies, so that the same may be adequately and 
reasonably convenient for the use of the oc- 
cupant thereof; and all tenement houses 
shall be provided with a like supply of water 
by the owners thereof whenever they shall be 
directed so to do by the Department of 
Health. 
Every tenement house shall have the floor 
of the cellar properly cemented, so as to be 
water-tight; and when the house is located 
over filled-in ground or clay soil or ground 
on which the water lies, the cellar floor shall 
be covered with concrete laid over not less 
than three inches thick, of small broken 
stone so as to effectually prevent dampness. 
It shall be the duty of the Department of 
Health to see that the cellars of all tenement 
houses are so made or altered as to comply 
with this section before July 1, 1888. 
Every such house hereafter erected or con- 
verted shall have the halls on each floor at 
one end open directly to the external air 
with suitable windows, and shall have no 
room or other obstruction at that end, unless 
sufficient light or ventilation is otherwise 
provided for in said halls in a manner ap- 
proved by the Department of Health. 
Whenever it shall be certified to the De- 
partment of Health by any inspector or 
officer thereof that any tenement house or 66 
room therein is so overcrowded that there 
shall be afforded less than six hundred cubic 
feet of air to each occupant of such building 
or room, the said department shall issue an 
order requiring the number of occupants of 
such building or room to be reduced, so that 
the inmates thereof shall not exceed one per- 
son to each six hundred cubic feet of air 
space in each building or room. Wherever 
there shall be more than eight families living 
in any tenement house in which the owner 
thereof does not reside, there shall be a jan- 
itor, housekeeper or some other responsible 
parson who shall reside in the said house and 
have charge of the same if the Department of 
Health shall so require. 
A tenement house, within the meaning of 
these ordinances, shall be taken to mean and 
include every house, building or portion 
thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired 
out to be occupied or is occupied as the home 
or residence of three families or more living 
independently of one another and doing 
their own 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 per- 
sons are harbored or received or lodged for 
hire for a single night or for less than a 
week at one time, or any part of which is let 
for any person to sleep in for any term less 
than a week. A cellar shall be taken to 
mean and include every basement or lower 
story of any building or house of which one- 
half or more of the height from the door to 
the ceiling is below the level of the street ad- 
joining. § 172. [Repealed by Common Council 
December 16, 1895. See § 185, as amended 
by Common Council December 16, 1895, 
which became an ordinance December 19, 
1895.] 
§ 173. The Commissioner of Health shall 
appoint an examining board of practical 
plumbers to decide upon the competency of 
any person to practice the art of plumbing 
in the city of Brooklyn, said committee to 
consist of five (5) members, to be appointed 
as follows : Two (2) from the Master Plumb- 
ers’ Association ; two (2) from the Journey- 
men Plumbers’ Union ; one (1) from the 
staff of plumbers then in the Department of 
Health which one shall be selected by the 
Commissioner. 
This Board shall serve during the pleasure 
of the Commissioner and without compensa- 
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GENERAL SUBJECTS. 
§ 174. That no master or teacher, or man- 
ager of or in any school, public or private, or 
of or in any Sunday-school or gymnasium, 
nor the officers or managers thereof, nor of- 
ficers or managers, or persons having charge 
worship, school-house, school-room, or place 08 
of practice or exercise, or relative to any- 
thing appurtenant thereto, as that by reason 
of such neglect or omission the health of any 
person shall suffer or inqur any avoidable 
peril or detriment. 
§ 175. That no person shall take, carry, 
expose, or place (or induce any other person 
so to do) in or upon any street or public place, 
any substance, animal or thing, which shall 
imperil the health of any person who is or 
may properly be in such street or place. 
§ 176. That no person owning or occupy- 
ing or having charge of any stable or other 
premises, shall keep or allow thereon or 
therein any dog or other animal which shall 
by noise disturb the quiet or repose of those 
or any one therein or in the vicinity, to the 
detriment of the life or health of any human 
hfiins\ 
§ 178. That no privy vault, cistern, cess- 
pool or other excavation to be used for the 
reception of liquid waste, drainage, excre- 
ment or sewage, shall be built, erected or 
constructed in connection with any building, 
or upon any premises situated upon or adjoin- 
ing any sewered street, avenue or place. 
AH vaults not constructed in accordance with existing ordinances, shall be at once 
emptied of their contents, disinfected and 
filled with clean earth or ashes. 
All — J-U „ „ e 1 
tained outside of premises except in cases 
where such location shall be condemned by 
the Department of Health and the Common 
Council. 
No privy vault, cistern or cess-pool shall be 
constructed or used upon any unsewered 
street, unless the said vault, cistern or cess- 
nool shall be made and kept water-tight in a 
manner and form approved by the Depart- 
ment of Health. 
§ 180. That every agent, or other person 
having the charge, control or management, or 
who collects or receives the rents of any lands, 
premises or other property, in the city of 
Brooklyn, shall disclose the name or names 
of the owner or owners of such land, premises 
or property, or the name or names of the 
person or persons for whom such agent or other person is acting to this Board, upon 
application being made therefor by any in- 
spector, agent or officer of this Board. 
§ 182. That no building, vehicle, struc- 
ture, receptacle or thing used or to be used 
for any purpose whatever, shall be made, 
used, kept, maintained or operated in the 
city of Brooklyn, if the use, keeping, main- 
taining or operating of such building, vehicle, 
structure, receptacle or thing, shall be the 
occasion of any nuisance, or dangerous o~ 
detrimental to health. 
§ 184. That every person shall obey the or- 
dinances, rules, regulations and orders of this 
Board, made or to be made in pursuance of 
the act of the Legislature of the State of New 
ork, under which these ordinances are 
adopted. 
§ 185. I hat any person who omits, neg- 
lects or refuses to comply with, or who resists 71 
any of the provisions of the foregoing or- 
dinances, or who refuses or neglects to obey 
any of the rules, orders, or sanitary regula- 
tions of the Board of Health of the city of 
Brooklyn, or who omits, neglects or refuses 
to comply with or who resists any order or 
special regulation of the said Board of Health 
of the city of Brooklyn, shall, upon convic- 
tion of such otfence, be punished by a fine not 
exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than 
ten dollars, and may, in default of payment 
of such fine, be sentenced to imprisonment 
in the County Jail for a period not exceeding 
ten days. [Passed by Common Council, De- 
cember 16, 1895 ; became an Ordinance De- 
cember 19, 1895.] 
§ 186. The ambulances of the Department 
of Health, while engaged in going for or in 
carrying sick or wounded persons to or from 
the hospitals, shall have the right of way in 
the streets of the city, as against any person, 
carriage or incumbrance put, driven or being 
in said streets, and no person shall obstruct 
said ambulances while so engaged if there 
shall be an opportunity to get out of the way 
of the same, under a penalty of ten dollars, 
for each offense. It shall be the duty of the 
police to enforce the provisions of this sec- 
tion. 
§ 187. That no person or persons or cor- 
poration, shall hereafter erect, conduct or 
maintain within the limits of the city of 
Brooklyn, any hospital or other institution 
having the care of sick or diseased persons, 
without first obtaining a written permit from 
the Health Department of said city. 
§ 188. That no person shall make, pre- 
pare, deliver or issue any false certificate, 
statement or report of a birth, marriage or 
death, or any such certificate, statement or report, which is not in accordance with the 
facts of the birth, marriage or death; all 
certificates, statements and reports of births, 
marriages and deaths, shall be signed by the 
person purporting to make the same, and no 
person shall sign or forge the name of an- 
other to any such certificate, statement or 
report. 
§ 189. That no person engaged in buying, 
selling or storing skins, hides, rags, bones or 
similar articles, or who has become possessed 
by purchase or otherwise of skins, hides, rags, 
bones or similar articles, for the purpose of 
selling the same, shall store or keep any of 
said above mentioned articles within the 
limits of the city of Brooklyn, without first 
obtaining a written permit so to do from the 
Commissioner of Health of said city, the 
terms and conditions of which permit shall 
be strictly complied with by the person ob- 
taining the same. 
§ 190. That poisonous materials shall not 
be used for coloring, preserving or preparing 
foods or drinks, and foods or drinks so 
colored, preserved or prepared, shall not be 
sold or held for sale. The term poisonous 
materials here used, shall be held to include 
all those substances or preparations which 
contain antimony, arsenic, barium (excepting 
barium sulphate), lead, cadmium, chromium 
(excepting pure chromic oxide), copper, mer- 
cury, zinc, tin, gambogia, picric acid or any 
other poisonous material. 
§ 191. Searches and transcripts of the 
records of births, marriages and deaths shall 
be made by an officer or clerk of the Depart- 
ment, upon application therefor, for the fol- 
lowing fees : 
For searching the records the fees shall 
be fifty cents for each year to which the 73 
search shall extend, provided that no charge 
shall be made when adequate vouchers are 
presented to this Department to prove that 
the information for which the search is re- 
quested is needed for United States pension 
purposes. 
In all cases in which a successful search 
shall be made one official transcript of the 
record shall, if desired, be furnished to the 
applicant free of charge. For duplicate 
transcripts a fee of twenty-five cents each 
shall be charged. 
An account of the fees collected shall be 
kept by the Secretary, who shall, each 
month, report to the Commissioner the 
amount and deposit the same in the City 
Treasury. 
[Passed by Common Council, October 14, 
1895. Became an Ordinance October 29, 
1895.] 
§ 192. Any person who shall obtain a per- 
mit of any kind from the Department of 
Health by means of a false or untruthful 
statement, shall be subject to a penalty not 
to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty 
dollars for each and every offense. 
§ 193. All persons, organizations, or in- 
stitutions who shall erect, conduct or main- 
tain, within the limits of the city of Brook- 
lyn, any maternity hospital or lying-in-insti- 
tution. or any place where females may be 
cared for during or after confinement, or any 
institution, house or place wherein children 
under the age of twelve years are received, 
boarded or kept, shall obtain a permit so to 
do from the Department of Health of the 
city of Brooklyn, and, in addition to any 
and all other records required by law, shall 
keep a correct register of the name and age 
of all children under three years old who are 74 
given out, adopted, or indentured from such 
place to any one, together with the correct 
name and residence of the person or persons 
so adopting, indenturing, or taking such 
child or children, and the keeper or any 
other person in charge of said hospital, in- 
stitution, house or place, shall cause a correct 
copy of the aforesaid register to be sent to the 
Board of Health of said city within forty 
eight hours of said adopting, indenturing, or 
taking of such child or children. 
[Passed by Common Council, July 6, 
1891.] 
§ 194. It shall not be lawful for any per- 
son or persons to construct or cause to be con- 
structed in the city of Brooklyn any build- 
ings of any class whatsoever, which is to be 
connected with a sewer, unless the person or 
persons causing such a building to be con 
structed shall first have presented to the 
Commissioner of the Department of Health 
of the city of Brooklyn, a plan showing the 
proposed connection of the plumbing work 
or fixtures therein contained with the main 
drain extending to the sewer, and procured 
his approval thereof. The said Commissioner 
of Health shall in all cases prescribe the 
point at which the system of plumbing in 
any such building shall meet the main drain 
connecting such system with the sewer. 
The Commissioner of the Department of 
Buildings shall not approve any plans for 
the erection of any such building in the city 
of Brooklyn pursuant to Section IV., of Title 
XIV., of Chapter 583 of laws of 1888, unless 
said plan of the main drain and its connec- 
tions in and from said building to the sewer 
in the street shall have been first approved 
by the Department of Health. Any person 
or persons infringing the provisions of this 75 
ordinance shall be subject to a penalty of 
fifty dollars. 
[Passed by Common Council, July 10, 
1893. 
§ 195. That no street railway operating on 
the streets of the city of Brooklyn run open 
cars at any time when the temperature shall 
be lower than sixty degrees Fahrenheit. 
[Passed by Common Council, December 3, 
1894 ; became an Ordinance December 18, 
1894. 
Sec. 40, of Article VII. of Chapter III. 
That no person or persons shall erect or 
maintain within the city of Brooklyn, any 
building, shed or other structure in which is 
or shall be carried on the manufacture of 
asphaltum, unless such building, shed or 
other structure shall first have been inspected 
and approved by the Department of Health. 
And the manufacture of asphaltum shall not 
be permitted or conducted at any place within 
the city of Brooklyn without a special 
written permit from the Department of 
Health. Any person or persons who shall 
violate the provisions of this ordinance or 
either of such provisions, shall be subject to 
a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for 
each and every such offence. 
Passed by Common Council, February 
11, 1889, and known, as Section 40 of 
Article VII. of Chapter III. of the General 
Ordinances. INDEX. 
Adulterated— Section. Page. 
Drugs, food, medicine . 16 7 
Agents— 
Of department; duties 11 6 
Inspections; interference with prohibited 63 21 
Owner’s name ; must disclose to Health De- 
partment 180 70 
Air— 
External; definition 1 1 
Halls ; tenement and lodging-house 171 65 
Rooms, tenement and lodging-house; con- 
nection with outside 170 64 
Animals— 
At large ; must not be allowed 49 17 
Dead, throwing into streets, etc., prohibited.. 82 29 
Dead, injured, sick ; leaving in streets or pub- 
lic waters prohibited 114 39 
Dead or past recovery; must be removed by 
owner as directed by Health Department.. .116 40 
Dead and liable to become obnoxious; must 
be reported to Health Department 117 40 
Dead, injured, sick; interference with by other 
than Health Department officers, police or 
owner, prohibited 118 41 
Diseased; prohibited in cow stables 52 18 
Exposed to hydrophobia; must be isolated- 
dying of; must be buried 69 23 
Diseased; bringing into city prohibited 112 39 
Diseased or fatally injured; Health Depart- 
ment inspector may direct killing of in 
streets 115 40 
Glanders or farcy; employing animals with. 
prohibited 113 39 
Lodging and tenement house; keeping in or 
on premises, prohibited 164 59 
Mad; must be killed at once— 69 23 
Markets; killing or dressing in prohibited 60 21 
Noisy or nuisance; prohibited in stables, etc.. 176 68 
Pates; must be removed 32 13 
Pounds; care of in 67 23 
Poultry 32-36-64 13-22 
Rabbits, above size of 32 13 
Roosters 176 68 
Straw, etc., for bedding; drying in streets 
without permit, prohibited 104 36 
Trotters; must be removed 32 13 
Yarding ; permit required 53 19 
Ambulances— 
Obstructing forbidden 186 71 
Amusements— 
Boisterous, dangerous or nuisance, prohibited 179 70 Ashes— Section. Page. 
Definition 2 2 
Blacksmith-shop, coal yard, manufactory; re- 
moval of from 109 38 
Business of removal; permit required 96 33 
Drivers of carts must notify of their approach 95 33 
Garbage to be kept separate from 88 30 
On sidewalk 88 30 
Occupants may deliver directly to carts, if it 
is not filthy, etc 90 31 
Receptacles required for 88 30 
Receptacles for, to be placed as directed by 
Health Department Inspectors 89 31 
Sieving, etc.; prohibited in exposed places. 91 32 
Tenement and lodging-house; ashes, garbage. 171 65 
Throwing into privy, etc., prohibited 83 29 
Bathing— 
In waters used by public prohibited 46 16 
Bedding— 
Disinfection or destruction of 166 61 
Institutions not to burn, or other substance .. 126 43 
Straw, hay, etc., for animals; drying in streets 
without permit prohibited 104 36 
Bell— 
Ringing; permit required 177 69 
Bills of Health 13 6 
Birds— 
Preparation and keeping 55 19 
Births— 
Certificates to be signed; false, prohibited; 
forgery of 188 72 
Registration by clergyman, magistrate, etc., 
required 152-3 53 
Registration under laws 1847,1864 154 64 
Blacksmith-shop— 
Ashes, cinders, dirt, refuse, rubbish; removal 
of from 109 38 
Blood— 
Not allowed to run in streets 57 20 
Board— 
Definition 1 1 
Boarding-house— 
Definition 3 2 
Cleanliness and ventilation required in 23 10 
Contagious disease; keeper to report 125 43 
Overcrowding prohibited 20 9 
Sailor sick of contagious disease; to be re- 
ported by keeper of 129 44 
Bodies— 
Human; prompt burial required 150 62 
Boisterous— 
Amusements, business ; prohibited 179 70 
Bones— 
Boiling, grinding, etc. ; prohibited without 
permit.. 73-4 25 
Selling or storing without permit prohibited.. 189 72 Bottles— Section. Page, 
“ Poisonous ” to be marked on 15 7 
Brewers— 
Not to sell dangerous drinks 44 15 
Builders— 
Duties of 17 7 
Buildings— 
Amusements and business boisterous, danger- 
ous or nuisance ; prohibited in 179 70 
Drains ; connection of main with sewer, ap- 
proval 194 75 
Light to be adequate 17 7 
Noxious matter must not run from into 
streets, etc 81 28 
Occupation prohibited, unless lighted, venti- 
lated, etc., and adequate 18 8 
Plans for must be filed 194 75 
Precautions concerning 17 7 
Precautions in construction and tearing down 91 32 
Roofs ; repair, drainage of 160 66 
Things prejudicial to health in, prohibited.... 17 7 
Sewerage of to be adequate 17 7 
Sidewalk ; space required above level of 18 8 
Tenement and lodging house ; use as and con- 
version into 168 63 
Unfit for habitation may be closed 167 62 
Ventilation to be adequate 17 7 
Water from must not flow upon streets or 
sidewalks 65 22 
Built-up Portion— 
Definition 1 1 
Bulkheads— 
Of garbage and night soil contractors ; ob- 
struction of prohibited 119 41 
Burial— 
Bodies, human ; permit required for 143 49 
Bodies must be six feet below surface 144 50 
Graves ; opening without permit prohibited.. 143 49 
Permits to be returned to Health Department. 143 49 
Prompt required 150 52 
Sextons, cemetery keepers, etc., must report 
weekly to Health Department 146 50 
Burying Ground— 
New ; permit for required 144 50 
Business — 
Boisterous or dangerous ; prohibited 179 70 
Butchers— 
Definition 7 4 
To keep market places for killing or dressing 
cattle clean 56 20 
Inspection of cattle, meats, etc., by Health 
Department; must allow 62 21 
Offal, refuse, carrying through streets 63 21 
Permits must obtain from Health Department 61 21 
Shops to be kept clean 38 14 
Butter, unwholesome 45 16 
Calves must be of certain age 30 12 80 
Canals— Section. Page. 
Pollution of with filth, dirt, rubbish, etc., pro- 
hibited 80 28 
Cargo discharge permit 134 46 
Carpets— 
Beating regulated 91 32 
Cars— 
Clothing, etc., soiled and dirty, carrying on 
prohibited 157 65 
Loaded with garbage, manure, offal, not to 
stand in streets 105 37 
Railroad; must be cleaned daily 156 55 
Carts— 
Air-tight apparatus required for carrying con- 
tents of privy, vault, cess-pool 94 33 
Scavengers’; construction of 97 34 
Scavengers’; not to stand, etc.; unloading of ; 
to be kept clean; storage of 98 34 
Scavengers, etc. ; construction of regulated ; 
covers for receptacles may be ordered by 
Department of Health 99 34 
Scavengers, etc.; to be disinfected 100 35 
Scavengers, etc.; overloading; careless driv- 
ing; prohibited. Must be kept in repair 101 36 
Cattle— 
Definition 7 4 
Allowing at large prohibited 49 I7 
Butchers must allow inspection of by Health 
Department 62 21 
Carrying while bound prohibited 54 19 
Diseased must be reported to Department of 
Health 31 12 
Driving regulated 49 17 
Farcy, glanders, pleuro-pneumonia, tubercu- 
losis 31 12 
Hanging in streets prohibited 57 20 
Killing of for food prohibited, if diseased 31 12 
To be kept in wholesome and safe place 51 18 
Permit required for unloading 49 17 
Slaughtering, etc., regulated . .*. 54 19 
Places for killing or dressing must be kept 
clean 56 20 
Stables must be kept clean .... 56 20 
Stables ; removal of offal and refuse from ; 
painting and whitewashing ... 56 20 
Yard not to be kept in, etc., without permit... 59 21 
Cattle-Driving— 
Restricted to certain hours and route 49 17 
Cellars— 
Definition 3 2 
Dwelling in prohibited 162 68 
Cement floors 171 65 
Definition; tenement and lodging house 171 65 
Lease of allowed 18 8 
Sleeping in prohibited 19 9 
“ “ 163 59 
Cement Floors— 
Cellars..,.. 171 65 Cemetery— Section. Page. 
Burials in, six feet below surface 144 60 
Keeper must register his name at Health De- 
partment ... 145 50 
Keeper must report burials to Health Depart- 
ment weekly 146 50 
Certificates— 
Birth, death, marriage, to be signed ; false 
prohibited ; forgery of name 188 72 
Cess-pools— 
Building of regulated Ill 39 
Construction ; streets sewered, prohibited on.. 178 C9 
Contents of not allowed to flow into street, 
etc., nor become offensive ; emptying and 
filling up of 83 29 
Contents, in what transported 94 33 
Contents to be disinfected before removal 102 36 
Emptying ; permit required 93 38 
Emptying and cleaning prohibited, except ac- 
cording to regulations or permit 103 36 
Not to become nuisance 85 29 
Tenement house 161 57 
Water tight, must be 178 69 
Cheese, unwholesome 45 16 
Chickens— 
Sale of, prohibited when 36 13 
Chief Officers— 
Contagious diseases, and infected persons or 
articles on vessels ; to report 130 44 
Children— 
Lying-in hospitals; given, adopted, etc., from ; 
names must he registered 193 74 
Vaccination of 141 48 
Chimneys— 
Tenement and lodging house 171 65 
Churches— 
Cleanliness, heating, ventilation 174 68 
Cinders— 
Blacksmith shop, coal yard, manufactory, re- 
moval of from ; not allowed to escape, etc.. 109 88 
Cisterns— 
Building of, regulated Ill 39 
Construction ; streets, sewered, prohibited on. 178 69 
City— 
Definition 1 1 
Cleanliness— 
Required in boarding houses 23 10 
Cattle stables ; required in 56 20 
Churches 174 68 
Food, and places for sale of food, required... 38 14 
Manufactories 23 10 
Privy, water closet 72 25 
Railroad cars 156 55 
Sewers 27 11 
Slaughtering or dressing cattle, places for 56 20 
Stables 92 32 
Tenement houses 22-3 9-10 
Theatres 21 9 82 
Clergymen— Section. Page. 
Marriages, births, deaths ; must keep register 
of 152-3 63 
Clothing— 
Infected 166 61 
Soiled and dirty on cars, prohibited 157 55 
Tenement and lodging houses; disinfection 
and destruction 166 61 
Coal Yard — 
Ashes, cinders, dirt, refuse, rubbish ; removal 
of from 109 38 
Combustibles— 
Lodging and tenement houses; storing In pro- 
hibited 164 59 
Concert Saloon— 
Definition.. * 3 2 
Condemning— 
Of unwholesome food to be reported to Health 
Department 42 15 
Contagion— 
And infection on board vessel and cargo to be 
reported 131 45 
Buildings, vessels exposed to; articles exposed 
to in, not to be taken from without permit. .137 47 
Contagious Disease— 
Boarding house keeper to report 125 43 
Body of deceased, prompt burial required 150 52 
Children having, not to attend school, etc 142 49 
Glanders, farcy 31,113 12,39 
Houses where; children not to attend school.. 142 49 
Definition 5 3 
Lodging house keeper to report 125 43 
Head officers of public and private institutions 
to report 126 43 
Inn and hotel keepers to report 125 43 
Infected persons or articles on vessels to be 
reported 130 44 
On board vessels within quarter of mile of any 
dock, and not quarantined, to be reported .. 127 43 
Physicians to report, death from 124 42 
Duty of every person to report 128 44 
Physicians required to report 123 42 
Sailor sick of, to be reported by keeper of 
boarding house, etc 129 44 
Tenement and lodging houses, immediate re- 
port of 166 61 
Contractors— 
Compliance with ordinances required 9 5 
Dead animals; must remove promptly 120 41 
Definition of 1 1 
Employees not excused, etc 9 5 
Garbage, night soil, etc.; bulkheads, docks 
and piers assigned to, obstructing prohibited 119 41 
Contractor— 
Street cleaning, how 25 10 
Garbage, and others, to work with care and 
discretion 120 41 Coroner— Section. Page. 
To report details of inquest to Health Depart- 
ment 151 52 
Cotton Cargo— 
Dangerous, infected, etc.; report of 133 45 
Cows — 
* Diseased animals not allowed in stables with.. 52 18 
Keeping at rate of more than 15 to acre, or 1 
to city lot without permit, prohibited 52 18 
Lodging and tenement houses; keeping in or 
on premises prohibited 164 59 
Stables to be kept clean 52 18 
• Stables; construction, ventilation 51 18 
Damp Floors 18 8 
Dangerous— 
( 181 70 
Things which are; prohibited. ■< 182 70 
% I 183 71 
Dead Animals 116,117, 119 40, 41 
Removal of 116 40 
Report of 117 40 
Dead Body— 
Burial; permit required 143 49 
Discovery of ; to be reported 149 62 
Disinterment; without permit, prohibited 144 50 
Exposure of; prohibited 148 61 
Interment; prompt, 4 days; disinfection 150 52 
Transportation of; without permit, prohibited 147 50 
Death— 
Certificates to be signed ; false, prohibited ; 
forgery of 188 72 
Contagious disease; physicians to report 124 42 
Coroner to report inquest to Health Depart- 
ment 151 52 
Infectious disease: physicians to report 124 42 
Next of kin, etc., to report 155 54 
Registration of in Health Department 152-153 53 
Registration of under laws 1847, 1864 154 54 
Deceptions— 
Prohibited as to drinks, food, medicines 14 7 
Deposit— 
Deleterious, from manufacturing, prohibited. 76 26 
Detrimental to Health— 
Acts prohibited 8,181 5, 70 
Dirt— 
Definition 2 1 
Blacksmith shop, coal yard, manufactories; 
removal of from 109 38 
Deposits on streets, or vacant lots, or in river, 
prohibited 80 28 
Piles prohibited, except by permit 104 36 
Diphtheria— 
Definition 5 8 
Diseased— 
Animals; bringing into city prohibited 112 39 84 
Disinfection— Section. Page. 
Bedding 166 01 
Contents of privy, vault, sink, cess-pool; be- 
fore removal, required 102 86 
Tenement and lodging-houses ; clothing, etc., 
in 166 61 
Distillers— 
Not to sell dangerous drinks 44 15 
Permits; must have 76 26 
Docks— 
Filling up with offensive matter, prohibited.. 77 26 
Garbage and night soil contractors; obstruc- 
tion of prohibited 119 41 
Garbage; not to be used otherwise without 
permit 122 42 
Rags, skins, hides from foreign ports; landing 
on without permit prohibited 133 45 
Vessel; contagious disease within one-quarter 
mile of, to be reported 127 43 
Vessel from infected port or quarantine; bring- 
ing near without permit, prohibited 136 47 
Dogs— 
Mad ; must be killed at once 69 23 
Muzzles required in streets; unmuzzled, police 
to kill 68 23 
Noisy or nuisance; keeping prohibited 176 68 
Drainage— 
Drains; construction of regulated 26 11 
Slaughter-houses 58 20 
Stables 92 82 
Dress— 
Unwholesome, etc.; not to be given or sold... 43 15 
Drinks— 
Dangerous ; distillers and brewers must not 
sell 44 15 
Deceptions prohibited 14 
In jails 24 10 
Poisonous in saloons, tenement houses, etc.; 
prohibited 35 18 
Poisonous liquids not to be brought into city 
for .* 41 15 
Poisonous materials in, prohibited ; fine for.. 190 73 
Unwholesome not to be given or sold 48 15 
Drivers of ash carts to give notice of approach... 95 83 
Drugs— 
Adulterated, poisonous, unwholesome 10 7 
Dust— 
Factories, not allowed to escape from 109 38 
Dwelling— 
Cellars not to be used as 162 58 
Slaughter-house not to be occupied as 58 20 
Water closets must be provided in 22 9 
East River— 
Pollution of with filth, dirt, rubbish, etc., pro- 
hibited 80, 86 28, 29 
Enforcement of Ordinances 11 6 85 
Examinations— Section. Page. 
Interference with prohibited 11 6 
Examining Board— 
Plumbers, Commissioners may appoint; 
duties 178 67 
Exposure, to disease from dead body 148 61 
Sick persons, removal so as to cause 140 48 
Schoolchildren M2 49 
Exhalation— 
Dangerous, from business, prohibited 76 26 
External Air— 
, Definition •. 1 1 
Factories— 
Dust, etc., not allowed to escape from 109 38 
Manufactories—See 
Smoke; must consume 110 39 
Fame Statements— 
Permits; obtaining on; penalty 192 74 
False Representation— 
Sale under, of fish, liquid, meat, milk, vege- 
tables 37 14 
Farcy— 
In cattle 81 12 
Animals having, employing prohibited 113 39 
Fees— 
Transcripts of records of births, deaths, mar- 
riages 191 78 
Feet— 
Of cattle to be removed 32 13 
Filling up— 
Docks, lots, piers and wharves with offensive 
material, prohibited 77 26 
Privy vaults 83, 178 29, 69 
Filth — 
From cess-pools, privies, deposit on street or 
lot, prohibited 80 28 
Filling cess-pool until removed 83 29 
How to be transported 94 33 
Fat— 
Boiling without permit, prohibited 73-4 25 
Rendering regulated 79 27 
Scrap from 75 26 
Fireplaces— 
Tenement and lodging houses; ashes and 
garbage 171 66 
Fish— 
Cleaning before sale required 33 13 
Definition 6 4 
Preparation and keeping 55 19 
Presumed kept for food 6 4 
Privy, etc., throwing into, prohibited 84 29 
Sale of, unwholesome for food, prohibited 30 12 
Sale of, under false representations 37 14 
Streets or sidewalks ; sale of on, without per- 
mit, prohibited. 64 22 
Unfit for food 29 12 86 
Flats— Section. Page. 
Loaded with garbage, manure, offal, not to 
stand in streets 105 87 
Floor— 
Cellars, cement 171 65 
Damp 18 8 
Flying— 
Dangerous, etc., articles must be prevented 
from, in street 91 32 
Food— 
Adulterated, poisonous, unwholesome 14, 16 7 
False representations as to 37 14 
Fish and meat, presumed kept for food 6 4 
Fish, fowl, lamb, pig, veal, not to be sold for. 30 12 
Fish, meat, milk, vegetables, unfit for 29 12 
In jails 24 10 
Places for sale of, to be kept clean 38 14 
Must be kept clean 38 14 
Poisonous, etc., in saloons, tenement houses, 
etc., prohibited 35 13 
Poisonous materials in prohibited ; fine for... 190 73 
Sale of unwholesome, etc., to be reported to 
the Health Department 40 15 
Unwholesome, not to be given or sold 43 15 
Unwholesome, to be condemned and reported 42 15 
Forgery— 
Of name to certificates of birth, death, mar- 
riage prohibited 188 72 
Fowl — 
Preparation and keeping 54 19 
Sale of for food prohibited 30 12 
Streets or sidewalks ; sale of on, without per- 
mit, forbidden 64 22 
Fumigation 166 61 
Funerals— 
Church bells, ringing at 177 69 
Hearses only to be used at .. 150 52 
Private, must be when disease contagious 150 62 
Furnaces— 
For steam engines; must consume smoke, un- 
less by permit... 110 39 
Garbage— 
Ashes to be kept separate from; on sidewalks 88 14 
Business of removing requires permit 96 33 
Collecting carts to be kept clean 98 34 
Contractor to work with care and discretion.. 120 41 
Definition 2 2 
Docks, bulkheads and piers assigned to con- 
tractors, obstruction of prohibited 119 41 
Drivers of carts must notify of their approach 95 38 
Hotels and houses, removal of from 108 38 
Lots, not to be put on 80 28 
Piles prohibited, except by permit 104 36 
Piling or unloading in streets prohibited; carts 
or flats loaded with, not to stand in streets . 105 37 
Privy, etc., throwing into prohibited 84 29 Section. Page. 
Receptacles for to be placed as directed by 
Health Department inspectors 89 31 
Receptacles required for 88 30 
Removal must be done inoffensively 100 35 
Tenement and lodging house 171 05 
Tenement house, receptacles for, in 164 59 
Throwing into streets or sewers prohibited ... 82 29 
Turning and stirring prohibited 106 37 
Gas— 
Deleterious from distilling, etc., prohibited... 76 26 
Factories, not allowed to escape from 109 38 
Offensive 18 8 
Public waters ; refuse in ; manufacture regu- 
lated 71 24 
Geese— 
Allowing at large, prohibited 49 17 
Ol.ANDERS— 
Animals having, employing prohibited 113 39 
In cattle 31 12 
Glue— 
Making without permit, prohibited 73-4 25 
Goats— 
Allowing at large, prohibited 49 17 
Permits required tor keeping 50 18 
Grave— 
Preparing without permit, prohibited 143 49 
Ground— 
Filled with offensive matter, turning forbid- 
den 78 27 
Gut— 
Cleaning without permit, prohibited 73-4 25 
Gut FAT- 
Prohibited in market 32 13 
Gutters— 
Tenement house yards, etc. ; drainage of into. 161 57 
Obstruction of prohibited 87 30 
Habitation— 
Building unfit for, may be closed 167 62 
Halls— 
Tenement and lodging house, ventilation 171 65 
Hanging cattle, meat, etc., in street, prohib- 
ited 57 20 
Hay— 
Animals’ bedding ; drying in streets without 
permit prohibited 104 36 
Heads— 
To be removed from cattle 32 13 
Head Officers— 
Of public and private institutions to report 
contagious diseases 126 43 
Health— 
Things prejudicial to, in buildings, prohibited, 17 7 
Things dangerous to, prohibited 8, 181 / 5, 70 
182 > 70 
1831 71 
Department ordinances must be obeyed 184 71 
School children, teachers, etc.; duties 174 68 
Streets, imperiling in, prohibited 175 68 88 
Health Officer— Section. Page. 
Dead bodies, transportation permits 147 50 
Port of New York, to report disease in floating 
hospital 139 48 
Heat— 
In jails 24 10 
Hides— 
To be removed from cattle 32 13 
From foreign ports, landing without permit, 
prohibited, etc 133 45 
Tanning, permit required 70 24 
Selling or storing without permit, prohibited.. 189 72 
Horns— 
To be removed from cattle 32 13 
Horses— 
Allowing at large, prohibited 49 17 
Farcy or glanders 113 39 
Lodging and tenement houses, keeping in or 
on premises, prohibited 164 59 
Noisy or nuisance, keeping prohibited 176 68 
Hospitals— 
Conducting, permit required 187 72 
Floating ; Health Officer of Port to report dis- 
ease in ; yellow fever to be received into 139 48 
Lying-in, permit for, required ; children given 
out or adopted from, names to be registered 193 74 
Hotels— 
Garbage and swill, removal of from 108 38 
Keeper ; contagious disease, to report 125 43 
Houses— 
Garbage and swill, removal of from 108 38 
Human Bodies— 
Interment, permit required for 143 49 
Hydrants— 
Destruction of ; pollution and obstruction of 
water in, prohibited 48 17 
Hydrophobia— 
Animals exposed to, must be isolated ; dying 
of, must be buried 69 23 
Ice Boxes— 
Lining, drainage, etc., of 39 14 
Ice— 
Owner, lessee, tenant must remove 65, 66 22 
Infected— 
Articles from vessels, etc., bringing to dock or 
pier without permit, prohibited 136 47 
Infected Persons— 
* Masters of vessels to report ; and contagious 
disease, or infected articles on vessel 130 44 
Infection— 
Ports infected, vessels from, bringing near 
piers without permit, prohibited 136 47 
Vessel, persons and articles to be reported 130-1 44, 45 Infectious Diseases— Section. Page. 
Children having, not to attend school ; houses 
where, children not to attend school 142 49 
Physicians to report death from . 124 42 
Tenement and lodging house, immediate re- 
port of 166 61 
Inn— 
Keeper, contagious disease, to report 123 43 
Inspection— 
Cattle, meats, etc. ; butchers must allow, by 
Health Department 62 21 
Interference with prohibited 11 6 
Inspector— 
Animals diseased, or fatally injured, Health 
Department inspector may direct killing in 
street 115 40 
Of Health Department; ashes, garbage, rub- 
bish receptacles, to be placed as directed by 89 31 
Duties of ii- 6 
Interference— 
With inspections and examinations prohibited 11 6 
Interment— 
Human bodies, permit required for 143 49 
Contagious disease, in cases of 150 52 
Promptness required 150 52 
Institutions— 
Contagious disease, head officer of public and 
private, to report 126 43 
Burning rags, bedding, or other substance 
prohibited 126 43 
Jails— 
Care, drink, food and heat in 24 10 
Janitor— 
Tenement and lodging-houses, when required. 171 64 
Killing— 
Cattle for food, prohibited 31 12 
Kitchen Waste— 
Privy, etc. ; throwing into, prohibited 84 29 
Lamb— 
Sale of for food, prohibited ■. 30 12 
Lard— 
Boiling without permit prohibited 71 25 
Rendering regulated 79 27 
Leather Dressing— 
Permits for 70 24 
Lessee— 
Contagious disease ; sailors sick of, to be re- 
ported by lessees of boarding and lodging- 
houses 129 44 
Definition 1 1 
Duties of 17 7 
Garbage and ash receptacles ; to provide 88 ,10 
Ice and snow ; must remove 66 22 
Stable ; to remove manure, etc 92 32 
Tenement and lodging bouses; to keep clean 
as required by Health Department; to re- 
port street number and character of occu- 
pancy 165 60 
89 90 
Lessee—Continued. Section. Page. 
Tenement and lodging-house ; violation of or- 
dinance, liable before tenant 172 67 
Tenement house ; to keep water closets unob- 
structed 161 57 
Light— 
Of buildings to be adequate 17 7 
Building without, not to be occupied 18 8 
Definition 1 1 
Lighted— 
Definition 1 1 
Lime— 
Keeping in place exposed to wind, prohibited. 91 82 
Liquid— 
Filthy ; transportation 94 32 
Manure ; not to escape from carts 101 36 
Offensive on premises, prohibited 70 24 
Poisonous, etc., must not be brought into city 
for drink 41 15 
Sale under false representations 37 14 
Liquor— 
Deleterious, not to be made 44 15 
Lodging House— 
Building ; use as, or conversion into 168 63 
Cellar floor cemented 171 65 
Chimneys and fireplaces; ashes, garbage 171 65 
Contagious disease; keeper to report 125 43 
Contagious, infectious and pestilential disease; 
immediate report of 166 61 
Construction must be according to regulations 158 55 
Cows, horses, etc.; keeping in or on premises 
prohibited 164 59 
Definition 3 2 
Definition of. 171 65 
Garbage and refuse ; receptacles in 164 59 
Halls open to air 171 65 
Health officials to have access to 166 61 
Janitor for, when required 171 65 
Lot; space required at rear 169 63 
Overcrowding prohibited 171 65 
Rain-water to be carried off 160 56 
Rooms; size and ventilation 170 64 
Sailor sick of contagious disease to be report- 
ed by keeper of 129 44 
To be kept clean as required by Health Depart- 
ment ; number and nature of occupancy to 
be reported 165 60 
Water; Ridgewood 171 65 
Whitewashing 165 60 
Ventilation of 159 56 
Violation of ordinances as to; punishment... 172 67 
IpNG Island City— 
Dead bodies; transportation permits 147 50 
Lots— 
Vacant; deposit of filth, dirt, garbage, etc., on 
prohibited 80 28 
Tenement and lodging house ; space required 
at rear 169 63 Lots—Continued. Section. Page. 
Filling up with dirt or offensive matter pro- 
hibited 77 -26 
Cows ; keeping more than one to city lot pro- 
hibited 52 18 
Lying-in— 
Hospitals ; permit required ; children given, 
adopted, etc.,from,names.must be registered 193 74 
Magistrate— 
Marriages; must keep register of and report. .152-3 53 
Manager— 
Definition 1 1 
Institutions; not to burn rags, bedding or other 
substances 126 43 
Manufactories— 
Ashes, cinders, dirt, refuse, rubbish ; removal 
of from ; smoke, cinders, gas, etc., not al- 
lowed to escape from 109 38 
Cleanliness required in; safety required; venti- 
lation of 23 10 
Definition 3 2 
Overcrowding prohibited 20 9 
Water-closets and accommodations in 22 9 
Manufacture— 
Asphaltum; permit for, ordinances, Ch. HI., 
Art. VUI., Sec. 40 75 
Gas; regulated 71 24 
Manure— 
Business of removing; permit required 96 33 
Permits for removal of 92 32 
Piles prohibited, except by permit 104 38 
Piling or unloading in streets prohibited; cars 
or flats loaded with, not to stand in streets; 
vaults, emptying 105 37 
Turning of, prohibited 106 37 
Vaults 92, 105 32, 37 
Markets— 
Animals; killing or dressing in, prohibited.. . 60 21 
Gut fat or unwholesome thing, not to be taken 
to 32 13 
Places, etc., for slaughtering or dressing cat- 
tle; butchers must keep clean 56 20 
Taking meat to, prohibited 32 13 
Private 7 4 
Poisonous substances in, prohibited 60 21 
Marriages— 
Certificates'to be signed; false, prohibited; 
forgery of 188 72 
Registration of in Health Department 152-3 53 
Registration under laws 1847, 1864 154, 164 54, 59 
Masters— 
Bedding and articles exposed to contagion ; 
must not cast into East River 138 47 
Contagious disease and persons or articles on 
vessels; to report.... 127, 130, 131 43, 44, 45 
Removal of sick without permit, prohibited... 135 46 
School; duties regarding health 174 68 
Unloading without permit, prohibited 
133,134, 136 45, 46, 47 92 
Mats— Section. Page. 
Beating regulated 91 32 
Meat— 
Definition 6 4 
Head, hide, horns and feet to be removed. .. 32 13 
Hanging in street, prohibited 57 20 
Preparation and keeping 54 19 
Presumed kept for 6 4 
Privy, etc.; throwing into, prohibited 84 29 
Sale of under false representation 37 14 
Streets or sidewalks; sale of on, without per- 
mit, forbidden 84 22 
Meat— 
Taking to market unless cool, etc., prohibited. 32 13 
Unfit for food 29 12 
Unwholesome, unhealthy, cased, blown, 
plaited, etc., sale prohibited 36 13 
Unsound must be reported and condemned.40, 42 15 
Butchers must allow inspection of by Health 
Department 62 21 
Medicines— 
Adulterated ; poisonous ; unwholesome .... 16 7 
Deceptions prohibited 14 7 
Poisonous ; sale of 15 7 
Midwife— 
Definition 5 3 
Register; must keep, of births, deaths, etc ... 152 53 
Milk— 
Adulterated, etc., sale prohibited; permit 45 16 
Dealers must allow inspection of stock 62 21 
Sale of under false representations 37 14 
Unfit for food 29 12 
Misfeasance— 
Definition 8 5 
Morrisania— 
Dead bodies ; transportation permits 147 50 
Mules— 
Allowing at large, prohibited 49 17 
Newtown Creek— 
Slaughtering in vicinity of, prohibited 65 19 
Night Soil— 
Apparatus for conveying 94 33 
Bulkheads, docks and piers assigned to con- 
tractors, obstruction of prohibited 119 41 
Disinfection required before removal 102 70 
Removal, permit necessary 96 33 
Removal, price regulated 102 36 
Removal, interference with forbidden 119 41 
Receptacles for 86, 94 29, 33 
Throwing in East River 80, 86 28, 29 
Noises— 
Amusements 179 68 
Animals in stables... 176 68 
Business 179 70 
Noisome Trades— 
Permit required for 70 24 93 
Nonfeasance— Section. Page. 
Definition 8 5 
Notice— 
Building unfit for habitation, notice of closing 167 62 
Tenement and lodging houses, service of 165 60 
Noxious Matter— 
Vehicles ; not allowed to run or drop from 81 28 
Nuisance— 
Business, things in constituting, prohibited... 182 70 
Privy, vault, cess-pool, sink, etc., not to become 85 29 
( 181 70 
Things constituting, prohibited -< 182 70 
, ( 183 71 
Obstructing— 
Ambulances, forbidden 186 71 
Street gutters 87 30 
Occupant— 
Definition 1 1 
Duties of 17 7 
Garbage and ash receptacles ; to provide 88 30 
Privy ; not to have emptied and cleaned ex- 
cept according to regulations and permit... 103 36 
Privy, vault, cess-pool, sink ; duties as to 83 29 
Stable ; to remove manure, etc 92 32 
Tenement house ; to keep water closets unob- 
structed 161 57 
Odors— 
From bone boiling, etc 75 26 
Offal— 
Boiling without permit, prohibited 73-4 25 
Business of removing ; permit required 96 33 
Butchers, carrying through streets 63 21 
Cattle stables ; removal from required 56 20 
Oyster houses and saloons ; removal of from. 107 38 
Piles not allowed except according to permit.. 104 36 
Privy, vault, cess-pool, sink; throwing into pro- 
hibited 84 29 
Throwing, etc., on streets or in sewers, pro- 
hibited 82 29 
Tubs, etc., of vaults ; throwing into prohib- 
ited 86 29 
Piling or unloading,in streets prohibited: cars 
or flats loaded with, not to stand in streets.. 105 37 
Offensive Gas 18 8 
Offensive— 
Animal or vegetable matter ; throwing into 
street, etc., prohibited 82 29 
Ground or material filled with matter; turning 
up prohibited, without permit 78 27 
Liquids ; substances, etc., prohibited 70 24 
Materials ; dumping on lots prohibited 77, 80 26, 28 
Odors from water closets and privies 72 25 
Pursuits, permits for 70, 74, 76 24, 25, 26 
Substances must not run from vehicles 81 28 
Transportation of matter 81, 94, 95, 96, 97, 
98, 99, 100, 101, 102 
28, 33, 
34, 35, 36 94 
Officers— Section. Page. 
Duties H 
Oil refineries, permits for 76 26 
Omission to act 8 5 
Orders of Department of Health— 
Police Department to execute 11 8 
Orders— 
Health Department must be obeyed 184 71 
Violation of health ; prosecution, punishment 185 71 
Ordinances— 
Health; must be obeyed .*. 184 71 
Tenement and lodging-house ; violation, pun- 
ishment ; owner, lessee, tenant, order of 
liability » 172 67 
Overcrowding— 
Boarding house,manufactory, tenement house, 
theatre, prohibited 20 9 
Tenement and lodging-houses, prohibited 171 65 
Owner— 
Agent must disclose name to Health Depart- 
ment 190 73 
Contagious disease ; sailor sick of, to be re- 
ported by, of boarding and lodging-houses. .129 44 
Definition 1 1 
Garbage and ash receptacles ; to provide 88 30 
Ice and snow to be removed by ... 66 22 
Privy, vault, cess-pool, sink ; duties as to 83 29 
Privy, etc. ; not to have emptied except ac- 
cording to regulations or permit 103 36 
Stable ; to remove manure, etc 92 32 
Tenement and lodging ; to keep clean, as re- 
quired by Health Department; to report 
street number and character of occupancy. 165 60 
Tenement and lodging-house; violation of 
ordinance, primarily liable 172 67 
Tenement and lodging-house ; to keep water 
unobstructed 161 57 
Oyster Houses— 
Shells and offal to be removed from 107 38 
Parents— 
Vaccination of children ; must procure 141 18 
Party— 
Definition 1 1 
Pates— 
Must be removed 32 13 
Penalty— 
Permits ; obtaining on false statements 192 74 
Violation ; ordinances, orders, rules, regula- 
tions 185 71 
Permit— 
Animals' bedding not to be dried in street 
without 104 86 
Articles in vessels or buildings, removable 
from, prohibited, without, etc 137 47 
Asphaltum ; for making 194 75 
Bell-ringing ; required for 177 69 95 
Permit—Continued. Section. Page. 
Body, where death from contagious disease, 
prompt burial, unless granted 150 52 
Boiling, etc., of bones, fat, tallow, lard, shells, 
guts, glue, etc., required; how applied for... 73-4 25 
Burial ground; required for 144 50 
Burial without, prohibited ; to be returned to 
Health Department 143 49 
Butchers must obtain from Health Depart- 
ment 61 21 
Cargo not to be discharged without 134 46 
Casting articles from vessels from foreign 
ports, etc., without, prohibited 138 47 
Cattle, killing sick 52 18 
Cattle, pigs, swine, required for unloading 49 17 
Cattle permit for yarding required 59 21 
Cellars, dwelling or sleeping in 162, 163 58,59 
Contagious disease ; removal of persons sick 
of, and persons and articles exposed to, pro- 
hibited, without, etc 135 46 
Cows, keeping more than one on city lot 52 18 
Dead bodies; transportation of; coupons to be 
returned to Health Department 147 60 
Dead bodies, transportation of ; permits of 
Health Officer, Richmond county, Long Isl- 
and City and Morrisania, honoring of 147 50 
Definition 1 1 
Dirt, garbage, offal; piles prohibited, except 
according to 104 36 
Emptying vaults, privies, cess-pools, sinks, etc 98 33 
False statements, obtaining on; penalty 192 74 
Garbage, etc., docks, piers, etc., not to be 
used otherwise, without 122 42 
Goats, pigs, swine, keeping 50 18 
Grounds, turning up 78 27 
Hospitals, required for conducting 187 72 
Lots, filling with sweepings 77 26 
Lying-in hospital 193 74 
Manure; removal during certain hours 92 32 
Milk, for selling 45 16 
Persons sick with contagious disease, removal 
without, prohibited 140 48 
Privy, etc., must be cleaned and emptied pur- 
suant to 103 36 
Privy vaults, constructing 72 25 
Privy vaults, removing contents 94 33 
Quarantine ordered by Health Department 
not to be raised 139 48 
Removing ashes, garbage, manure, offal, rub- 
bish, swill; business requires permit 96 33 
Selling or storing bones, hides, rags, skins, 
without permit, prohibited 189 72 
Skins, hides, rags from foreign port, landing 
without, prohibited 133 45 
Smoke, furnaces not burning 110 39 
Slaughtering, required for 55 19 
Slaughtering at new or additional places re- 
quired 59 21 
Special, required for dwelling in slaughter- 
house 58 20 96 
Permit—Continued. Section. Page. 
Streets, sidewalks ; sale of birds, fish, fowl, 
meat, vegetables, etc., without, forbidden ..64 22 
Tanning and noisome trades, required for 70 24 
Tenement house, plumbing : 158 55 
Tenement and lodging house, lot, space re- 
quired in 169 63 
Vessels and buildings exposed to contagion ; 
removal of persons and articles from, with- 
out permit, prohibited 137 47 
Vessels, casting articles from, etc 138 47 
Vessels from infected ports and quarantine; 
articles not to be brought, etc., without, etc. 136 47 
Vessel from infected port or quarantine; bring- 
ing near dock or pier without, prohibited 136 47 
Yarding animals'; necessary .. .. 53 19 
Person— 
Contagious disease; duty of every person to 
report 128 44 . 
Definition 1 1 
Physicians— 
Births, deaths ; to keep register of 152 53 
Births, deaths ; must report 153-54 I 53 
155 f 54 
Contagious diseases ; must report 123 42 
“ “ death from 124 42 
“ “ on vessel 130 44 
Definition 5 3 
Infectious disease, death from ; to report 124 42 
Registration of 5 3 
Piers— 
Filling up with offensive matter, prohibited... 77 26 
Of garbage and night soil contractors; ob- 
struction of, prohibited 119 41 
For garbage, etc.; not to be used otherwise 
without permit 122 42 
Vessel from infected port or quarantine; bring- 
ing near without permit, prohibited 136 47 
Vessel within quarter mile of ; contagious dis- 
ease must be reported 127 43 
igs— 
Permit required for keeping 50 18 
“ “ unloading 49 17 
Sale of for food, prohibited 30 12 
Pleuro-Pneumonia— 
In cattle 31 12 
Plumbers— 
Examining Board; Commissioner may ap- 
point ; duties 173 67 
“ Poison”— 
To be marked on bottles, etc 15 7 
Poisonous— 
Materials in drinks or food, prohibited ; fine 
for 190 73 
Drugs ; food ; medicine 16 7 
Liquids must not be brought into city for 
drink 41 15 
Substances ; markets forbidden in 60 21 
Medicines, etc., sale of 16 7 97 
Police— Section. Page. 
Ambulances ; to prevent obstructing 186 71 
Unmuzzled dogs ; must kill 68 23 
Police Department— 
To execute orders of Department of Health. .11 6 
To report action to Health Department 12 6 
Sanitary powers of 12 6 
Pollution— 
Of public waters prohibited 46 16 
Of water in hydrants prohibited 48 17 
Poultry 32, 36, 64 13, 22 
Pounds— 
Animals in, care of 67 23 
Prisons— 
Care ; drink ; food ; heat in 24 10 
Private Market— 
Definition 7 4 
Privies— 
Ashes, garbage, offal, not to be thrown into.. 84 29 
Building of, regulated Ill 39 
Contents not allowed to run or drop into or 
upon street or vacant lot 80 28 
Contents must be disinfected before being re- 
moved 102 36 
Contents, in what transported 94 33 
Contents of, not allowed to flow into ground, 
streets, etc., nor to become offensive ; emp- 
tying and filling up 83 29 
Contents to be disinfected before removal 102 36 
Drainage of house, not to receive 81 29 
Emptying, cleaning ; prohibited except ac- 
cording to regulations or permit 100, 103 35, 36 
Emptying ; permit required 93 33 
In tenement houses 22 9 
Tenement house 161 57 
Line, not be within two feet of Ill 39 
Not to become nuisance 85 29 
Throwing contents of into East River 88 29 
Top, not to fill within two feet of 83 29 
Ventilation and cleanliness of 72 25 
Privy Vaults— 
Construction, as approved by Department 161 57 
Construction ; streets, sewered, prohibited on ; 
filling, when required 178 69 
Contents not allowed to rise within two feet 
of top 83 29 
Emptying, permit required for 93, 103 33, 36 
Removal, contents, odorless apparatus 94 33 
Sewer ; must be connected with 177 69 
Water tight; must be 177 69 
Prosecution — 
Violation of ordinances, orders, rules, regula- 
tions 172, 185 67, 71 
Public Place— 
Definition 2 2 
Vehicles; swill, brine, urine, etc., not allowed 
to run or drop from into 81 28 Pupils— Section. Page. 
School; health, safety; teacher’s duty 174 68 
Quarantine — 
Articles not to be taken from vessel passed 
through, without permit : 137 47 
Contagious disease on board vessels within 
quarter mile of any dock and not quarantined, 
to be reported .127 43 
Vessels from, bringing near without permit, 
prohibited 136 47 
Vessels from, officers must report weekly 139 48 
Vessels from, return to the city, prohibited... 139 48 
Rags— 
From foreign ports, landing prohibited with- 
out permit 133 45 
Institutions not to burn, or other substance... 126 43 
Institutions, public and private, not to burn, 
bedding or other substance 126 43 
Selling or storing without permit, prohibited.. 189 72 
Railroad— 
Cars must be cleaned daily 156 65 
Rain-Water— 
Lodging house, tenement house; to be carried 
off from .. .160 66 
R ECEPT ACLES— 
For night soil 86 29 
Records— 
Births, deaths, marriages, transcripts; fees for 191 73 
Refrig erators— 
Lining and drainage of 89 14 
Refuse— 
Blacksmith shop, coal yard, manufactories; 
removal of from 109 38 
Butchers; carrying through streets 63 21 
Cattle stables; removal from required 66 20 
Tenement house ; receptacles for, in 164 59 
Registration— 
Births, deaths, marriages in Health Depart- 
ment 152-3 63 
Births, deaths, marriages under laws 1847,1864 154 54 
Lying-in hospitals ; children given, adopted, 
etc., from; names to be registered 193 74 
Of names by physicians 5 3 
Registry— 
Sextons and cemetery keepers, in Health De- 
partment 145 go 
Regulation— 
Definition 1 1 
(Special) of Board or Bureau, must be obeyed. 10 5 
Health Department, must be obeyed 184 71 
Privy, etc., must be emptied and cleaned ac- 
cording to 103 36 
Special; definition. 1 1 
Tenement and lodging house ; construction 
must be according to 158 55 
Violation of sanitary ; prosecution, punish- 
ment 185 7i Report— Section. Page. 
Of animals dead and liable to income obnox- 
ious required to Health Department 117 40 
Burial; sextons, cemetery keepers, etc., must 
report weekly 146 60 
Contagious disease; boardinghouse keepers to 125 43 
Contagious disease; duty of every person to.. 128 44 
Contagious disease ; head officers of public 
and private institutions to 126 43 
Contagious disease; inn and hotel keepers to.. 125 43 
Contagious disease; lodging house keepers to. 125 43 
Contagious disease; physicans required to .. 123 42 
Contagious, etc., diseases in tenement and 
lodging houses 166 61 
Contagious disease; vessels not in quarantine 
must report in writing 127 43 
Contagious disease ; sailor sick of, boarding 
and lodging house keeper, etc., to report— 129 44 
Contagious disease and infection, vessel, mas- 
ter, etc., to report 130-1 44, 45 
Coroner must make, of inquest to Health De- 
partment 151 52 
Death from contagious disease : physicians to 124 42 
Death; next of kin, etc., must report 155 54 
Definition 1 1 
To- Department of Health, of condemnation 
of unwholesome food 42 15 
Discovery of dead body 149 52 
Of diseased cattle to Health Department re- 
quired 31 12 
To Health Department of sale of unwholesome 
food, required 40 15 
Health Officer of Port of N. Y., to report dis- 
ease m floating hospital 139 48 
Infectious disease, death from ; physicians to 
report 124 42 
Persons knowing of pollution of East River or 
canals, or street or vacant lot, to report to 
Health Department 80 28 
Tenement and lodging house ; street number 
and nature of occupancy to be reported 165 60 
Residuum— 
Of bone boiling, etc. ; to be removed 75 26 
Richmond County— 
Dead bodies ; transportation permits 147 50 
Roofs— 
Repair of, drainage from 160 66 
Rooms— 
Tenement and lodging house ; ventilation 170 64 
Roosters 176 68 
Rubbish— 
Blacksmith shop, coal yard, manufactory; 
removal of from 109 38 
Definition 2 2 
Deposit on streets or vacant lots, prohibited.. 80 28 
Receptacles for; to be placed as directed by 
Health Department Inspectors .. 89 81 
Receptacles for ; separate from garbage 88 30 
Removing ; business of, requires permit 96 83 100 
Rugs— Section. Page. 
Beating regulated 91 32 
Rules— 
Health Department, must be obeyed 184 71 
Safety— 
Required in manufactories 28 10 
Saloon— 
Definition 3 2 
Poisonous drink and food prohibited in..'. 35 13 
Shells and offal to be removed from 107 88 
Sanitary Code— 
Tenement and lodging houses must be con- 
structed according to , 158 65 
Scavengers— 
Carts ; construction of regulated ; covers for 
receptacles may be ordered by Department 
of Health 99 35 
Carts, etc., to be disinfected 100 35 
Carts of ; how constructed 97 84 
Carts; overloading, careless driving, pro- 
hibited ; must be kept in repair 101 86 
Carts of, not to stand, etc. ; unloading of ; to 
be kept clean; storage of 98 34 
Must have permit 93, 96 38 
Schools— 
Buildings to be safe, clean, etc 174 68 
Children from houses where contagious or in- 
fectious diseases, not to attend without per- 
mission, etc 142 49 
Children having contagious and infectious 
diseases, not to attend 142 49 
Teachers, etc.; duties regarding health 174 68 
Sewers— 
Connections 26 11 
Drains of buildings to be connected with, as 
prescribed by Health Commissioner 194 76 
Location and construction of city sewers 28 11 
Offensive matter not to be thrown or run into. 82 29 
Streets having privy vaults, cisterns, cess- 
pools, etc., prohibited on 178 69 
Tenement house; connection 161 57 
To be kept clean 27 11 
Water closets must be connected 178 69 
Water closet, vat, privy, sink, etc 72 25 
Sewerage— 
Of buildings to be adequate 17 7 
Sewer Gas— 
In tenement houses 22 9 
Sextons— 
Burials ; report of weekly to Health Depart- 
ment required 146 50 
Registry of, in Health Department, required.. 145 50 
Shells— 
BurniDg, without permit, prohibited 73, 74 25 
Oyster houses and saloons ; removal of from. 107 38 
Ship— 
Definition 5 3 Sidewalks— Section. Page. 
Ash and garbage receptacles on 88 30 
Birds, fish, fowl, meat, vegetables ; display or 
sale of on, without permit, forbidden 64 23 
Ice on ; must be kept clean 65 22 
Liquid not to run across 65 22 
Snow, removal from.. . 60 22 
Space above, required in building 18 8 
Water from buildings not to flow on 65, 160 22, 56 
Sinks— 
Building of, regulated Ill 89 
Contents of, in what transported 94 23 
Contents to be disinfected before removal 102 36 
Emptying; permit required 93 83 
Emptying and eleauing prohibited, except ac- 
cording to regulations or permit 103 86 
Not to become nuisance 85 29 
Sewer connections ; ventilation ; cleanliness . 72 25 
Skins— 
From foreign ports, not to be landed, etc., 
without permit 133 45 
Selling or storing without permit, prohibited.. 189 72 
Slaughter-House— 
Drainage 58 20 
Occupation for dwelling without special per- 
mit prohibited 58 20 
Ventilation 58 20 
Slaughtering— 
Of cattle, regulated 54 19 
Newtown Creek, prohibited in vicinity of 55 19 
Permit for, required 55 19 
At new or additional places < permit required. 59 21 
Permit for, required 59 21 
Streets ; prohibited in 57 20 
Sleeping— 
In cellars, prohibited 19 9 
Slops— 
Privy, etc.; throwing into, prohibited 84 29 
Smallpox— 
Definition 5 3 
Smoke— 
Factories : not allowed to escape from 109 38 
From manufacturing business, prohibited 76 26 
Furnaces for steam engines must consume, 
unless by permit 110 89 
Snow— 
Owner, lessee and tenant must remove 66 22 
Stables— 
Animals, noisy or nuisance, prohibited in 176 68 
For cattle; must be kept clean 56 20 
Cattle ; painting and whitewashing 56 20 
Cow; cleanliness required 52 18 
Cow ; diseased animals prohibited in 52 18 
Drainage and cleaning 92 32 
Manure ; removal from ; permits for, during 
certain hours ; not to be dumped on lots.... 92 32 102 
Storage— Section. Page. 
Bones, hides, rags, skins, etc.; without per- 
mit prohibited 189 72 
Combustibles in lodging and tenement houses 
forbidden 164 59 
Fat, scrap, grease, offensive animal matter, 
without permit, prohibited 74 25 
Straw— 
Animals’ bedding; drying in streets pro- 
hibited without permit 104 36 
Streets— 
Animals’ bedding ; drying in, without permit, 
prohibited 104 36 
Animals, dead, injured or sick, leaving in, 
prohibited.. 114 39 
Animal diseased or fatally injured, Health De- 
partment inspector may direct killing in 
street 115 40 
Ashes, dirt, dust, etc., not allowed to blow 
into 91 32 
Blood not allowed to run in 57 20 
Butchers’ offal and refuse ; carrying through. 63 21 
Cleaning of 25 10 
Definition 2 2 
Deposit on, of filth from privies, etc., manure, 
dirt, rubbish, refuse, offal, prohibited 80 28 
Dogs in, must be muzzled ; police to kill un- 
muzzled 68 23 
Garbage, manure, offal, piling in streets pro- 
hibited ; care and flats loaded with, not to 
stand in streets 105 37 
Health ; imperiling in 175 68 
Manure from not to be dumped on lots 77, 80 26, 28 
Privy, cess-pool, vault, sink ; contents not to 
flow onto 83 29 
Sale on, without permit, of birds, fish, fowl, 
meat, vegetables, forbidden 64 22 
Sewered ; cess pools, cisterns, privy vaults, 
etc., prohibited on 178 69 
Slaughtering in, prohibited 57 20 
Surface ; burials in cemeteries must be four 
feet below 144 50 
Sweepings, etc., piles of, not to lie in 121 42 
Throwing offensive matter into, prohibited 82 29 
Vehicles; swill, brine, urine, etc., not allowed 
to run or drop from into 81 28 
Water from buildiugs flowing on, prohibited.65, 160 22, 56 
Sweepings, etc.— 
Piles of, not to lie in streets 121 42 
Swine— 
Permit required for unloading 49 17 
Permit to keep, required 50 18 
Swill— 
Boiling without permit, prohibited 73-4 25 
Hotels and houses; removal of from 108 38 
Removing; business of, requires permit 96 33 
Streets; must not remain on 81 28 Tallow— Section. Page. 
Boiling without permit, prohibited 74 25 
Rendering regulated 79 27 
Tanning— 
Permit for, required 70 24 
Teachers — 
Schools; duties regarding health 174 68 
Tenants— 
Contagious disease; sailor sick of, to he re- 
ported by tenants of boarding and lodging 
houses j29 44 
Definition 1 1 
Duties of 17 7 
Ice and snow; must remove 66 22 
Privy, vault, cess-pool, sink ; not to allow con- 
tents to flow in street, or become nuisance.. 83 29 
Privy, etc.; not to have emptied and cleaned, 
except according to regulation or permit 103 36 
Stable; to remove manure, etc 92 32 
Tenement and lodging house; ordinance viola- 
tion, liable after lessee 172 67 
Tenement House— 
Building; conversion into; uses 168 63 
Cellar floors, cemented 171 65 
Cess-pools, sewer connections, traps, water- 
closets, w'ater sufficient to flush; accumula- 
tions in, prohibited; cess-pools in, prohibited. 161 57 
Chimneys and fireplaces ; ashes, garbage 171 65 
Cleanliness and ventilation in, required 23 10 
Construction of, regulated 158 65 
Contagious, infectious and pestilential disease 
in, immediate report of 166 61 
Cows, horses, etc. ; keeping in or on premises, 
prohibited 164 59 
Definition 2 2 
Definition of 65 
Disinfection ; clothing, etc., in, infected, dis- 
infection of ; destruction of 166 61 
Garbage, refuse and receptacles for 164 59 
Halls, to open to external air 171 65 
Health officials to have access to 166 61 
Janitor for, when required 171 65 
Lot; space required at rear 169 63 
Open space between houses 169 61 
Overcrowding prohibited 20 9 
" 171 65 
Owner’s name must be posted conspicuously 
on 165 60 
Poisonous food and drink prohibited in 35 13 
Privies and water closets in ; sewer gases in ; 
cleanliness required 22 9 
Rain-water to be carried off 160 56 
Roofs, repair of 160 56 
Rooms ; size and ventilation 170 64 
Sick persons in, to be reported in 166 61 
Storing combustibles in, forbidden : 164 59 
To be kept clean, as required by Health De- 
partment ; street number and nature of oc- 
cupancy to be reported ; notices as to, ser- 
vice of 165 60 Tenement House— Con tin ued. Section. Page. 
Ventilation of 159 56 
Violation of ordinances as to ; punishment... 172 67 
Water closets in 22. 161 9, 57 
Water ; Ridgewood 171 65 
Whitewashing 165 60 
Yard, animals not to be kept in 164 59 
Yard, etc.; drainage into gutter 161 57 
Theatre— 
Cleanliness and ventilation required 21 9 
Definition 4 3 
Transcripts— 
Records of births, deaths, marriages ; fees 
for 191 73 
Traps— 
Tenement house 161 57 
Trotters— 
Must be removed 32 13 
Tuberculosis— 
In cattle 31 12 
Tubs— 
For filth ; construction of ; not to be filled to 
within four inches of top ; contents not run, 
etc., into street or river 86 29 
Turkeys— 
Sale of, prohibited, when 36 13 
Typhoid— 
Definition 5 3 
Typhus— 
Definition 5 3 
Underground Rooms— 
Sleeping in, prohibited 163 59 
Und ertakers— 
Registration in Health Department 145 50 
Unhealthy Meat— 
Sale prohibited., 36 13 
Unwholesome^- 
Dress ; drink; food; gift or sale of, prohibited 43 15 
Drugs ; food ; medicine 16 7 
Food must be condemned and reported to De- 
partment of Health 42 15 
Liquid, sale of, prohibited 37 14 
Meat; sale of, prohibited 36 14 
Vaccination— 
Parents and guardians of children to procure. 14l 48 
Vault— 
Contents; in what transported 94 33 
Contents to be disinfected before removal 103 36 
Emptying ; permit required 93 33 
Emptying and cleaning prohibited, except 
according to regulations of Health Depart- 
ment, or permit .. 103 36 
Not to become nuisance 85 29 
Building of, regulated 72, 111 25, 39 
Contents of ; not allowed to flow, etc., on 
streets nor become offensive ; emptying and 
filling up 83 29 
Dwelling in, prohibited 162 58 
Sleeping in, prohibited 163 59 105 
Veal— Section. Page. 
Sale of for food, prohibited, when 30 12 
Vegetables— 
Decayed, sale prohibited 34 13 
Definition 6 4 
Unfit for food 29 12 
Sale of on streets or sikewalk without permit, 
forbidden 64 22 
Sale under false representations 37 14 
Vehicles— 
Swill, brine, urine, etc., not allowed to run or 
drop from, upon street, etc 31 28 
Dangerous or nuisance 182 70 
Ventilation— 
Of boarding houses 23 10 
Of buildings, to be adequate 17 7 
Building without, not to be occupied 18 8 
Lodging house; tenement house 159 56 
Of manufactories • 23 10 
Privy; water closet 72 25 
Rooms; tenement and lodging house 170 64 
Slaughter-houses 58 20 
Of tenement houses 23 10 
Required in theatres 21 9 
Vessels— 
Contagious disease on board within quarter 
mile of any dock, and not*qua.rantined, to be 
reported 127 43 
Contagious disease, and infected persons or 
articles on vessels to be reported 130 44 
Contagion and infection on board vessel and 
cargo to be reported 131 45 
From infected port or quarantine, bringing to 
dock or pier without permit, prohibited 136 47 
From ports south of Cape Henlopen or foreign 
ports; permit to cast articles from required. 138 47 
Wagons 1®2 '0 
Water— 
From building, flowing on streets and side- 
walks, prohibited 65 22 
Offensive, prohibited on premises 70 24 
Used by public, pollution of, prohibited; bath- 
ing in, prohibited 46 16 
Used by public, to be kept clean 47 17 
Public ; gas, refuse in 71 24 
Tenement house; sufficient to flush closets.... 161 57 
Tenement and lodging house 171 65 
Public ; animals dead, injured, sick, leaving 
in, prohibited 114 39 
Water Closets— 
Construction; sewer connection,when required 178 69 
Not to become nuisance 85 29 
In tenement houses 21 
Tenement house 161 5. 
Ventilation and cleanliness ; sewer connec- 
tions 72 25 
Whitewashing— 
Lodging and tenement houses 165 60 106 
Wharf— Section. Page. 
Vessel within quarter mile of, contagious dis- 
ease must be reported 127 
Filling up with offensive matter, prohibited .. 77 20 
Windows— 
Tenement and lodging house ; area of, in 170 64 
Yard— 
Cattle; permit necessary 53, 59 19, 21 
Tenement house; drainage into gutter 161 
Yarding— 
Of animals, permit required 53 19 
Tenement house, animals in premises. 164 59 
Yellow Fever— 
Definition 5