REGULATIONS 
OP THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
OP THE 
CITY OF WASHINGTON; 
WITH THE 
RULES OF ORDER AND ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
TO WHICH IS APPENDED 
THE “ACT REGULATING THE APPOINTMENT, POWERS, 
&c. OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.” 
PRINTED BY JOHN T. TOWERS. 
WASHINGTON: 
1848. REGULATIONS 
OF THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH. 
INSTITUTED IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT OF THE CORPORATION OF MAY 20, 1848. 
With the view to carry into effect the provisions of the aforesaid act, 
and to obtain correct returns of the lists of Marriages, Births, and 
Deaths in the city of Washington, the Board of Health have institu- 
ted the following regulations, which they hope will be properly re- 
garded, and as strictly conformed to as practicable. 
That, from and after the promulgation of these regulations, all Cler- 
gymen be requested to furnish, on the first day of every month, to the 
Board of Health, returns of all persons married by them during the 
previous month, and that these returns be made by a certificate after 
the following form : 
Washington, , 18—. 
I hereby certify that the following persons were married by me 
during the month of 
Date. 
Names of 
parties. 
Ages. 
Occupation. 
Color. 
Nativity. 
Length of 
residence. 
Male. 
1 
Female. 
Male. 
Female. 
Male. 
Female. 
Male. 
Female. 
Male 
Female. 
Rev. — . 
To the Board of Health. 
That, from and after the promulgation of these regulations, all Phy- 
sicians, Surgeons, and others who may be engaged in the practice of 
midwifery, te requested to make to the Board of Health, on the first 
day of every month, returns of the number of births which have oc- 4 
curred in their practice during the preceding 
returns be made by certificate of the following 
month, and that their 
form : 
Washington, 
~ 18— 
tice during the month of 
I hereby certify that the following births have occurred 
in my prac- 
Date. 
Names of 
parents. 
Nativity of 
parents. 
Length of 
residence. 
Sex. 
No. of children. 
Color. 
Slaves. 
Remarks. 
Male. 
Female. 
; 
Male. 
Female. 
Accoucheur, 
To the Board of Health, 
'j 
That, from and after the promulgation of the regulations, no Sexton 
shall receive, or permit to be received, within the grave-yard under 
his care, a body for interment, without first having obtained a certifi- 
cate, which must be in the following form, and signed by the attend- 
ing physician, clergyman, member of the family, or some respectable 
person : 
Washington, , 18—. 
instant, on street, in this city, named , occupation , 
a native of , a resident of this city for years, aged years 
months days ; married 
The undersigned hereby certifies that a died on the 
Cause of death. Duration. 
Primary disease . . . days. 
Secondary disease . . . days. 
M. D. 
Clergyman, 
&c. 
Interred in burial-ground, 
18—. 
Sexton. 
Which certificate must be countersigned, and returned by the sex- 
ton, with the name of the burial-ground in which the body is interred, 
and the date of interment, on the first day of the succeeding month. 
A failure to conform to this regulation will subject the offender to the 
penalty provided by the law of the Corporation, which the Board of 
Health are determined to enforce. 5 
To afford as great convenience as possilde, the Board have had 
blank forms of these certificates prepared, which will be furnished to 
all persons applying therefor. 
Blank forms of the certificates of death will be left with the Sex- 
tons of the several grave-yards, who will supply them to such as may 
require them. 
Physicians, in giving certificates of deaths, will confer a favor upon 
the Board of Health, and contribute materially to the statistical infor- 
mation of our city, if they will observe, as far as practicable, the fol- 
lowing rules or regulations, extracted from the proceedings of the Na- 
tional Medical Convention held in Philadelphia in May, 1847 : 
1. Give causes of death the right names, and such as have the same 
meaning at all times and in all places. 
2. Such names should be used as would give a clear definition of 
the cause of death. , 
3. A single word, or the least number of words possible, which 
would give this clear definition, should be preferred. Popular names 
may be used, but, where no popular name in a single word is found, 
a technical or scientific term should be preferred. 
According to this rule, consumption would be preferred to phthisis ; 
croup to dynanche trachealis ; pneumonia to inflammation of the lungs; 
enteritis to inflammation of the internal membrane of the bowels, &c. 
4. When more than one disease or cause have concurred in pro- 
ducing death, they may be written under each other without being 
connected with other words or particles, and in the order of their ap- 
pearance. 
5. State as nearly as can be known by numbers the duration of the 
disease or diseases, if more than one has concurred in producing the 
event, in years, months, or days. 
6. In fatal cases of smallpox, measles, scarlatina, typhus, and the 
like diseases, state whether it was the second, third, &c. attack, 
■wherein the patient has sustained more attacks than one. In ague, 
epilepsy, convulsive, and other diseases which occur in fits or parox- 
ysms, date the illness from the first fit, and add the duration of the 
last fit. Thus : “ Epilepsy, 5 years ; last fit 6 hours.” 
7. Surgeons in all cases of operations should return the primary 
disease, the operation, the secondary disease, and should state also the 
time from the commencement of the primary disease, the time from 
the operation and the time from the appearance of secondary disease, 
reckoning in each instance to the death. 
8. In external causes of death the nature of the injury and the cir- 
curastances of the death should be stated, and whether by accident or 
design. 
The following are examples of such record : “ Killed on railroad 
“ shot accidentally,” “ suicide,” “ hanging,” &c. 6 
9. When poison has been the cause of death, the time which elapses 
between its administration and the death should be registered as far 
as possible. Examples : 
Laudanum, (suicide) .... 8 hours. 
Oxalic acid, (accidental) .... 20 minutes. 
Arsenic, (murder) ..... 30 hours. 
10. The cause of the disease, when clearly known, may be inserted. 
order of the Board of Health. 
TH. MILLER, M. D. 
President of the Board of Health. 
The Board of Health of the city of Washington declare the follow- 
ing to constitute 
NUISANCES. 
Dead carcasses, dead fish or offals of fish, heaps of oyster shells ; 
offals from butcher stalls, slaughter-houses, or tan-yards , stagnant 
water in ponds, marshes, sewers, or cellars ; foul-privies, hog-styes, 
and decayed vegetables of all descriptions, whether entire or those 
portions thereof not used as food which may be thrown out from kit- 
chens ; horses going at large with the glanders, farcey, or other con- 
tagious diseases ; the drainage from dye houses and soap factories ; 
houses or buildings unoccupied and in a state of dilapidation or decay, 
endangering the lives or property of those in the vicinity. 
The Commissioners of the several Wards will see to the enforcement 
of the foregoing regulations relative to nuisances, and to the exaction 
of the penalties prescribed by law. 
All persons desirous of calling the attention of the Board to the ex- 
istence of nuisances are requested to do so in writing, addressed to 
the members of the Board for the Ward in which such nuisance may 
exist, stating the nature of the same, with its location, &c. 
order of the Board. 
TH. MILLER, M. D. 
President of the Board of Health. RULES OF ORDER. 
1. The President shall take the chair and organize the Board at 
the hour to which it stands adjourned. The proceedings of the last 
meeting shall be read and approved; after which, no alteration of the 
journal shall be permitted, without the unanimous consent of the mem- 
bers present. 
2. In the. absence of the President, and there being a quorum of 
the members present, they shall choose by ballot, a President pro tem- 
pore, who shall act for that meeting only, and shall possess all the 
powers of President while presiding. 
3. When any member is about to speak in debate, or to offer any 
matter to the Board, he shall rise and address himself to the Presi- 
dent, and avoid personalities. 
4. When two members rise at the same time, the President shall 
name the person to speak; but in all other cases, the member first 
rising shall speak first. No member shall speak more than twice to 
the same question without leave of the Board, nor speak more 
than once until every person choosing to speak shall have spoken. 
5. Any member may call another to order, and the member called 
to order shall immediately take his seat, until the President shall de- 
cide whether he was in order or not; and every question of order 
shall be decided without deba’e ; but any member may appeal from 
the decision of the President to the Board ; and if the decision of the 
b resident be in favor of the member called to order, he shall be at 
liberty to proceed ; if otherwise, the Board shall determine upon the 
propriety of his proceeding with his observations in order. 
6. When a question has been taken and carried in the affirmative, 
or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to 
move for the reconsideration thereof: Provided, the motion for recon- 
sideration be made on the day of action in any case, or on the day of 
the next regular meeting of the Board. 
7. No new motion or proposition shall be admitted under color of 
amendment, as a substitute for the motion or proposition under debate. 
8. The yeas and nays may be called at the request of one-fourthof 
the members present, and when called, every member shall vote, un- 
less specially excused ; but no member shall be at liberty to vote on 
any question, in the event of which he is in any manner interested. 
9. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be reduced to 
writing, if required by any member present, and read aloud, and sta- 
ted by the President before any order be taken thereon. After a mo- 
tion is stated or read by the President, the first question upon it shall 
be, “ Will the Board now proceed to consider the motion V’ 8 
10. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received 
except to adjourn, to lie on (he table, to postpone indefinitely, to post- 
pone to a day certain, to commit or to amend ; which several motions 
shall have precedence in the order they stand arranged. A motion to 
adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be taken without debate. 
Any member may call for a division or the question, where the sense 
will admit of it; but a question to strike out and insert, shall be indi- 
visible. 
11. When the yeas and nays are called and entered on the journal, 
and when the question is carried in the affirmative, any member may 
enter on the journal his reasons for dissenting. 
12. When a blank is to be filled, and different numbers or dates are 
proposed, the question shall be first taken on the highest number or 
longest date, and thence downwards. 
13. All committees shall be appointed by the President of the Board, 
unless otherwise directed, the first named member shall be the 
chairman, and all reports shall be made in writing. 
14. In balloting for Committees, a plurality of votes shall be suf- 
ficient to make a choice, but in all other cases a majority of the whole 
number of votes shall be required to decide. 
15. All motions for amendment of the rules shall be submitted one 
day previous to final determination thereof, unless three-fourths of the 
members present shall assent that it shall be finally acted on the day 
on which it is submitted. 
16. The Board may at any time suspend any of its rules by a ma- 
jority of three-fourths of the members present. 
17. The Secretary of the Board shall keep accurate minutes of the 
proceedings of each meeting of the Board, and give special notices to 
the members thereof of the time of its meetings. And he shall also 
keep a complete registry of the births, marriages, and deaths occurring 
in the city, and shall transmit to the Register quarterly, a list of the 
marriages. 
ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
Names of the members called, and attendance noted. 
Reading of proceedings of the last meeting, and their amendment 
and adoption. 
Excuses for former absence at meetings of the Board, and action 
thereon. 
Deferred or unfinished business, and reports of Committees. 
Resolutions and motions originating new business for the action of 
the Board. 9 
AN ACT 
Be it enacted by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common 
Council of the city of Washington, That there shall, on or about 
the first of January in each year, be appointed by the Mayor, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen, a Board of 
Health, to be composed of two citizens from each of the respective 
Wards of this city, one of whom from each Wardsshall, when practi- 
cable, be a physician. 
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Register of this Corporation 
shall, upon the appointment of such citizens, give written notice to 
each of that fact, and transmit to the President of the Board of Health, 
a list of the names of such persons. 
Relating to the appointment, powers, and duties of the Board of Health. 
Sec. 3 Jlnd be it enacted, That the members of said Board, so 
appointed, shall meet on the first Saturday in February of each year, 
at tour o’clock, P. M., at its office, for the purpose of organizing the 
same and electing its officers, and shall have power to prescribe its 
own rules of order; and six members being present at any of its 
meetings shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
No person being a member of the City Councils, or any officer re- 
ceiving pay from this Corporation, shall be a member of the Board 
ot Health. 
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That full power is hereby vested in 
said Board to determine what constitute nuisances or causes of dis- 
ease affecting the health of the city, or any part of it, and to interdict 
the same by proclamation from sale, use, or exposure, and to require, 
and, in case of refusal or failure, to cause the removal of any and all 
substances or accumulations which a majority of the Board may,from 
time, to time, be satisfied are sources of disease, at the cost and ex- 
pense of the person or persons who may allow any such to be depos- 
ited or otherwise to accumulate on, in front of, or in the rear of their 
premises, or pass from their enclosures into any avenue, street, or 
alley. 
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That all complaints or petitions for the 
removal of nuisances affecting the health of the inhabitants shall be 
presented to either member of the Board of Health for the Ward in 
which such nuisance may exist, who shall, on examination, and being 
satisfied of the existence of such nuisance, direct the Commissioner ot 
the Ward, whose duty it shall be, to cause the removal of the same 
as speedily as practicable, by the owner or owners of the lots, or the 
agents of non-resident owners, after twenty-four hours’ notice to said 
owner or owners of the lot, lots, or premises, or to their agents in the 
case of minor heirs or non-residents; and in cases where the lot or 
lots, or puts thereof, shall belong to non-residents who have no agents, 
or whose agents are unknown, or to a person or persons of unsound 
mind, or the title to which shall be in dispute, so that fhe true owner 
or owners cannot be notified, then it shall be the duty of the Commis- 10 
sioner to have the same removed, and the expense thereof shall be 
paid out of the funds of the Ward, and assessed and collected as a tax 
on the property in the way and manner pointed out in the ninth sec- 
tion of this act. 
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That any member of said Board is 
hereby authorized, in ascertaining the facts relative to such complaints, 
to visit the premises complained of; and any person refusing to per- 
mit or obstructing such examination for the purpose aforesaid, or who 
shall, upon notice from said Board, or any member thereol, through 
the Ward Commissioner, refuse or neglect to remove such nuisance, 
shall, in the first case, be subjected to a fine of not more than ten dol- 
lars, and in the latter to a penalty of not more than twenty dollars, for 
every day such nuisance is allowed to exist. 
Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That said Board is hereby authorized 
to prescribe such regulations as will secure a complete registry of the 
births, marriages, and deaths ; and in the latter case the names, ages, 
sex, and color, and place of nativity, and the disease, or any other 
cause thereof; that the Intendant of the Asylum, and all sex’ons of 
burial-grounds within the limits of this Corporation, are required to 
conform to such regulations relative thereto as may be adopted by 
said Board, under a penalty (or failure thereof of not less than two 
dollars nor more than ten dollars in each case ; and the Board of 
Health are hereby required to transmit to the Register quarterly a 
list of the marriages. 
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That, from and after the passage of this 
act, the owner or owners of every domestic animal at large within 
the limits of this city, having infectious or contagious disease, or which 
may be found dead in any of the avenues, streets, alleys, enclosed lots, 
or on any open, unenclosed ground within the jurisdiction of this Cor- 
poration, shall, in the first case, be obliged to secure or destroy, as 
may be deemed best, any such animal, and, in the second case, shall 
bury such animal at least two feet below the surface of the earth ; and 
if such owner or owners do not remove and dispose of such animal in 
manner aforesaid within twelve hours after being notified thereof by 
the Commissioner of the Ward, he, she, or they shall incur a penalty 
of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars ; and it shall be the 
duty of the said Commissioner, if the owner or owners shall not re- 
move the said animal or animals within the time specified, (or if no 
owner of such animal can be found,) forthwith to remove said nuis- 
ance, and the expense thereof shall be paid out of any money to the 
credit of the general fund. 
Sec. 9- And be it enacted, That where any lot or part of lot within 
this Corporation is or shall be so situated as to be below the gradua- 
tion of the street or avenue on which the same may front, and which 
shall retain water on the surface thereof, calculated, in the opinion of 
the Board of Health, or the members of the Board for the Ward in 
which such lot or part of a lot may be, to affect injuriously the health 
of the inhabitants, or to injure or endanger the property in the neigh- 11 
borhood, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the Ward in 
which such lot or part of a lot may be situated, upon the representa- 
tion of a citizen within said Ward, to call immediately upon the Board 
of Health, or upon the members thereof for said VVard, and obtain 
their opinion in writing as to the effects thereof; and if said opinion 
shall state that the water on said lot or lots, or any part of said lot or 
lots, will be injurious as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Commis- 
sioner forthwith to notify the owner or occupier, if he, she, or they 
be resident within this city, thereof, with directions to proceed within 
three days thereafter, to remove said water by filling up said lot or 
lots, or parts thereof, or by draining the same, and further to complete 
the said removal within the further period of three days, if practica- 
ble, (of which practicability the Mayor shall be the judge,) and if not 
practicable, within such time as the Mayor may deem reasonable. 
And if such owner or occupier shall fail, afer notice as aforesaid, to 
fill up or drain such lot or lots, or parts thereof, within the period 
which m ly be assigned therefor, to the satisfaction of the said Com- 
missioner, it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to proceed 
forthwith to do the same, in such manner as that it will not retain 
water on the surface thereof, due regard being always had to 
the interest of the owner or proprietor of the property ; but no Jot or 
lots, or parts thereof, shall be filled up to an elevation greater than 
the most depressed graduation of the street, avenue, or alley on which 
the same may front or bind ; and the expense thus incurred by the 
Commissioner shall be paid out of the funds of the Ward. And it shall 
be the duty of the said Commissioner to make return to the Register 
of the cost incurred in filling up or draining said lot or lots, or parts 
thereof, the amount whereof shall be assessed as tax thereon, and 
shall be placed in the hands of the Collector of taxes, who shall collect 
the same with interest thereon from the date of the return of the Com- 
missioner, at the rate of ten per centum per annum. But if any lot 
or lots, or parts thereof, situated as aforesaid, shall belong to a non- 
resident or non-residents, or to a person or persons of unsound mind 
or under age, or the title to which shall be in dispute, so that the true 
owners cannot be satisfactorily ascertained, it shall be the duty of the 
Commissioner to fill or drain the same as aforesaid, and to make re- 
turn as aforesaid to the Register ; and the Collector, whose duty it 
shall be to collect the same, shall collect and account for such taxes 
as other taxes placed in his hands for collection. 
Sec. 10, And be it enacted, That, whenever there shall be on any 
lot or lots, or parts thereof, a house or building unoccupied, and in a 
state of dilapidation or decay, or an uncovered cellar or cellars, and 
the same being represented to the Commissioner by a citizen, as pro- 
vided in the ninth section of this act, it shall be his duty to lay the 
said representation before the Board of Health, if in session, if not, 
before the President thereof, who shall thereupon convene said Board ; 
and if said Board, or any portion thereof deputed for that purpose, after 
an examination of the premises complained of, which shall be made 12 
with the least possible delay, shall be of opinion that the same is a 
nuisance, or is dangerous to the health, or endangers the lives or pro- 
perty of those in the vicinity thereof, they shall make representation 
accordingly to the Mayor, who shall thereupon direct the Commissioner 
forthwith to notify in writing the owner or owners, their agents or 
guardians, to be left at. his or her usual or reputed place of residence, 
if within the city, and if without, then through the medium of the 
newspapers authorized to publish the laws of this Corporation, of the 
existence of said nuisance, and to direct the removal thereof within 
six days from the date of such notice, if practicable, (of which practi- 
cability the Mayor shall be the judge,) and if not practicable, then 
within such time as the Mayor may deem reasonable ; and on the 
failure ot the owner or owners, their agents or guardians, to remove 
the said nuisance within the time prescribed or allowed, it shall be the 
duty of the Commissioner, under the direction of the Mayor, forthwith 
to do the same, due regard being had on all such occasions to the 
interest of the owners or proprietors of the property. But if the 
property on which such nuisance shall exist shall belong to persons 
of unsound mind, as the title thereftf shall be in dispute, so that the 
true owner or owners cannot be satisfactorily ascertained, upon the 
same being declared a nuisance, as is hereinbefore provided, it shall 
be the duty of the Commissioner, under the direction of the Mayor, 
forthwith to remove the same, the expense to be paid out of the 
funds of the ward. And it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of 
such ward to make return ot the expense to the Register, as is di- 
rected in the ninth section of this act, which sum shall be assessed 
and collected as is therein provided. 
Sec 11. And be it enacted. That is shall be the duty of the Ward 
Commissioners, upon written notice from the Board of Health, or any 
member thereof, by the authority and in the name of said Board, of 
the existence of any nuisance within their respective wards, to have the 
same removed forthwith, and for every failure or neglect so to do the 
Commissioner so offending shall be subjected to a penalty of ten doU 
lars; and the Board of Health, or either member thereof for the 
ward in which such nuisance may be, in case of such failure, he, and 
hereby is authorized to have the said nuisance removed forthwith, the 
expense of such removal to be paid out of the casual repair fund of 
the ward. 
Sec. 12. And he it enacted, That the said Board shall have power 
to determine upon and publish, at least once in each year, what const!- 
tute nuisances ; and the several commissioners, police constables, and 
scavengers of this city*are required to obey all orders which they may 
receive in their respective wards from said Board, or either of its 
members for such ward, in regard thereto. 
Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That fin- every violation of any of the 
regulations of said Board, where no penalties are provided by this 
act, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding 
twenty dollars, and for every day any person shall continue to violate 13 
any of said regulations such persons shall forfeit and pay not exceeding 
a like sum. And all penalties for a violation of any of the provisions of 
this act shall be sued for and applied as is directed in other cases by 
the laws of the Corporation. 
Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each and 
every Commissioner and Police Constable in their respective wards to 
inform against and prosecute any and all persons who sha 1 violate any 
of the provisions of this act, or the regulations of said Board estab- 
lished for the purposes mentioned in this law. 
Sec. 15. And be it enacted, That the President of the Board of 
Health is hereby authorized to publish monthly, in the newspapers 
publishing the laws of this Corporation, a bill of mortality in this city, 
the expense thereof to be paid out of the general fund. 
Sec. 16. And he it enacted, That the regular meetings of the Board 
of Health shall be held on the last Saturdays in February, April, 
May, June, July, August, September, and October in each year ; but 
the President thereof may, when he deems it necessary, convene spe- 
cial meetings. And in case of failure of any member for three suc- 
cessive meetings to attend, if such member be not prevented by sick- 
ness or absence from the city, his office is hereby declared to be va- 
cated, and it shall be the duty of the President of the Board to notify 
the Mayor thereof who shall, as soon as practicable, nominate another 
to fill the vacancy. 
Sec. 17. And be it enacted, That the compensation to each mem- 
ber of the Board of Health shall be one dollar per diem for each meet- 
ing he shall attend, except that member who shall be appointed by said 
Board the Secretary thereof,who shall be entitled to receive an addition- 
al dollar for each of said meetings : Provided, The compensation of 
no member, other than the Secretary, shall exceed twelve dollars per 
annum, nor that of the Secretary twenty-four dollars per annum. 
Sec. 18. And be it enacted, That, in enforcing any of the provisions 
of the foregoing sections, no member of the Board of Health shall be 
authorized to expend a greater sum than ten dollars, nor shall said 
Board collectively authorize an expenditure of over fifty dollars for the 
removal of any nuisance, without the sanction of the two Boards of the 
City Council; and all expenditures under this section shall be reported 
to the two Boards of the City Council monthly. 
Sec. 19. And be it enacted, That the Register of this Corporation, 
be, and he is hereby directed to furnish the Board of Health with two 
complete copies of all the existing laws of this city, for the use of said 
Board ; also, in like manner, two copies of all laws which may hereaf- 
ter be published by this Corporation. 
Sec. 20. And be it enacted, That, for defraying the contingent ex- 
penses of the Board of Health, there shall be annually appropriated, 
out of the general fund, the sum of fifteen dollars. 
Sec. 21. And be it enacted, That the following acts be, and the 
same are hereby repealed, together with any other acts or parts of 
acts conflicting with the provisions of this act, viz : the act approved the fourteenth of August, eighteen hundred and nineteen, entitled “An 
act to provide for the appointment of a health officer for the city of 
Washington the act approved July the eleventh, eighteen hundred 
and twenty, entitled “ An act to amend the act concerning nuisances 
the act approved March the thirtieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, 
entitled “ An act establishing a Board of Health for the city of Wash- 
ington the act approved May the twenty-second, eighteen hundred 
and twenty-two, entitled “ An act to provide for the removal of nui- 
sances from cellars and domestic enclosures the act approved May 
the twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled “ An act 
supplemental to the several acts in relation to nuisances the act ap- 
proved September the twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty- 
five, entitled “ An act supplemental to the act creating a Board of 
Health the act approved June the eighth, eighteen hundred and 
twenty-six, entitled “An act to authorize the filling up of lots which 
are belfiw the graduation of the streets adjoining the same, and fur- 
ther to provide for the removal of nuisances within the city of Wash- 
ington the act approved August the seventeenth, eighteen hundred 
and thirty-two, entitled “ An act to empower the Board of Health to 
enforce its regulations the act approved July the twenty-sixth, 
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “ An act relating to the 
Board of Health and the act approved October the twenty-sixth, 
eighteen hundred and thirty.seven, entitled “ An act in addition to the 
several acts in relation to nuisances.” 
Approved, May 20, 1848. 
AN ACT concerning the present Board of Health and enlarging its powers. 
Be it enacted by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common 
Council of the city o/ Washington, That the duties of the present 
Board of Health shall continue until the first day of January next, and 
until the appointment of a new Board ; and the present Board shall 
have all the powers given by the act entitled “ An act relating to the 
appointing, powers, and duties of the Board of Health,” approved May 
the twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. 
Approved, May 26, 1848.