AN ACT 
TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISIONS RESPECTING THE 
PUBLIC HEALTH. 
CHAPTER 38, R.S.O. 
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts 
as follows:— 
Part I.—Preliminary. 
1. This Act may be cited as “The Public Health Act, I884..” 
2. In this Act the following words and expressions shall 
have the meaning hereinafter assigned to them respectively, 
unless such meaning is inconsistent with the context, that is 
to say: 
(1) “Owner” means the person for the time being receiving 
the rent of the lands or premises in connection with which the 
word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or 
trustee of any other person, or who would so receive the same 
if such lands and premises were let. (2) 
Short title. 
Interpreta- 
tion. 
“Owner.’* 2 
“ Health Dis- 
trict,” “ Dis- 
trict,” “Local 
Board,” and 
“Board.” 
(2) “Health District” or “district” means any local muni- 
cipality, or union of local municipalities, under the jurisdiction 
of a Local or District Board of Health, and “Local Board” or 
“Board” shall include a District Board. 
(3) “House” includes schools, factories and other buildings, 
huts and tents used for human habitation or work, whether 
such use is permanent or temporary, and whether the same are 
stationary or moveable. 
(4) “Street” shall include every highway, road, square, row, 
lane, mews, court, alley and passage, whether a thoroughfare or 
not. 
3. Whenever this Province, or any part thereof or place 
, therein appears to be threatened with any formidable epidemic, 
• endemic, or contagious disease, the Provincial Board of Health 
may, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in 
Council, issue such regulations as the Board deems necessary, 
for the prevention, as far as possible, or the mitigation of dis- 
ease, and may make, renew or alter any such regulations, or 
substitute new regulations ; and the said Board may, by such 
regulations, provide: 
(1) For the frequent and effectual cleansing of the streets, 
yards, and out-houses, by the local health authorities, or by 
the owners or occupiers of houses and tenements adjoining 
thereto. 
(2) For the removal of nuisances. 
(3) For the cleansing, purifying, ventilating and disinfecting 
of houses, churches, buildings, and places of assembly, railway 
stations, steamboats, railway carriages and cars, as well as other 
public conveyances by the owners and occupiers, and persons 
having the care and ordering thereof. 
(4) For regulating, so far as this Legislature has jurisdiction 
in this behalf, with a view of preventing the spread of 
infectious disease, the entry or departure of boats or vessels at 
the different ports or places in Ontario, and the landing of 
passengers or cargoes from such boats or vessels, or from rail- 
road carriages or cars, and the receiving passengers or cargoes 
on board the same. 
(5) For the safe and speedy interment of the dead, and the 
conduct of funerals, with a view of preventing the spread of 
infectious diseases as aforesaid. 
(6) For supplying medical aid, and accommodation, and 
medicine, and such other articles as may be deemed necessary 
for mitigating such epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease. 
(7) For house to house visitation. (8) 
“House.” 
“Street.” 
Powers of 
Provincial 
Board to make 
regulations for 
prevention or 
mitigation of 
disease. 3 
(8) For preventing or mitigating such epidemic, endemic or 
contagious disease in such other manner as to the said Provin- 
t O 
cial Board seems expedient. 
4. It shall be the duty of the Local Boards of Health to super- 
intend and see to the execution of any such regulations; or to 
execute, or aid in executing the same within their respective 
districts; and to do and provide all such acts, matters and 
things as are necessary for superintending or aiding in the 
execution of such regulations, or for executing the same as the 
case may require. 
5. The Provincial Board of Health may, by order, declare all 
or any of the regulations so made to be in force within the whole 
or any part or parts of the district of any Local Board of Health 
or any municipality, and, so far as this Legislature has juris- 
diction, to apply to boats, vessels, railway carriages and cars, or 
other conveyances in any portion or portions of the Province. 
6. All orders and regulations so made shall take effect from 
the approval thereof and shall be forthwith published in the 
Ontario Gazette and at least one newspaper within the district, 
or portion or portions of the Province, in which they shall be 
declared in force. 
7. During the time that any such orders or regulations 
are in force in any Health District as provided by the four 
next preceding sections of this Act, all by-laws of the Local 
Board of such district which, in any manner, conflict with any 
such order or regulations, shall be suspended. 
8. The expenses incurred by the said Provincial Board of 
Health in connection with such epidemic, shall be defrayed out 
of any moneys appropriated by the Legislature specially for 
that purpose, and the expenses incurred by the said Local 
Boards of Health in the execution or in superintending the 
execution of the regulations of the Provincial Board, shall be 
defrayed and provided for by the Municipal Corporations 
having jurisdiction over the respective places affected. 
9. The Local Board of Health may also, from time to time, j 
direct any prosecution or legal proceedings for, or in respect, 
of, the*wilful violation or neglect of any such regulation. 
10. The Provincial Board of Health shall meet quarterly at" 
Toronto, and at such other places and times as may be fixed ] 
under a resolution of the Board. Three members shall be a 
quorum for the transaction of business. 
11. With the concurrence of that member of the Executive 1 
Council to whose department the Provincial Board of Health ® 
is for the time being assigned by the Lieutenant-Governor in c 
Council, 
Local Boards 
to see to 
execution of 
regulations. 
Provincial 
Board may 
determine 
extent of 
liability to 
which regula- 
tions are to 
apply. 
Publication of 
orders and 
regulations. 
Conflicting 
by-laws of 
Local Board 
suspended. 
Expenses of 
Provincial and 
Local Boards, 
how defrayed. 
Prosecution 
for neglect of 
regulation. 
Meetings of 
Board. 
Investigations 
as to causes of 
contagious or 
other disease. 4 
Council, the Board may send its secretary, or any member or 
members of the Board, to any part of the Province when deemed 
necessary, to investigate the cause or causes of any contagious 
or other disease or mortality; and at such investigation evidence 
may be taken on oath or otherwise as the said secretary, mem- 
ber or members may deem expedient; and in such case the 
secretary, or any member of the Board present at the investiga- 
tion, may administer the oath ; and the said investigating com- 
mittee shall have power by warrant, under the hand and seal 
of any one of its members, to call upon any person to give evi- 
dence regarding any matter in question in the said investiga- 
tion ; and the said investigating committee shall have all the 
powers which may be conferred upon Commissioners under 
The Act respecting Inquiries concerning Public Matters. 
PART II.—Local Boards of Health: 
Their Organization. 
Local Boards 
of Health, 
their constitu 
tion and 
powers. 
12. (1) All the powers and authorities conferred upon or vested 
in the members of any municipal council or councils by any 
statute of the Legislature of this Province, as health officers of 
the said municipality or municipalities, shall hereafter be vested 
in the Local or District Board of Health which shall be formed 
in such municipality or municipalities as hereinafter provided. 
(2) There shall be a Local Board of Health in each township 
and incorporated village, to be composed of the reeve, clerk 
and three ratepayers, to be appointed annually by the muni- 
cipal council. 
(3) There shall be a Local Board of Health in each town 
containing less than four thousand inhabitants according to the 
municipal enumeration of the previous year, to consist of the 
mayor, clerk and three ratepayers, to be appointed annually by 
the municipal council. 
(4) There shall be a Local Board of Health for each city and 
for each town containing more than four thousand inhabitants, 
according to the municipal enumeration of the previous year, 
to consist of the mayor and eight ratepayers, to be appointed 
annually by the municipal council. 
13. (1) The first appointment of members of the said Board 
shall be made at the first meeting of the municipal council 
after the first day of May next. 
(2) The annual appointments thereafter shall be made at the 
first meeting of the municipal council after being duly organized, 
and any vacancy arising from any cause shall be filled at the 
first meeting thereafter of the municipal council; but, if for any 
reason appointments are not made at the said dates, the same 
shall be made as soon as may be thereafter. 14. 
Appointment 
of members of 
Board. 5 
14. Two or more councils may, by concurrent by-laws, unite 
their respective municipalities into a Health District; and any j 
of such councils may withdraw its municipality from the: 
District by a by-law passed prior to the first' day of December 
of any year, and to take effect on the third Monday of Janu- 
ary following. 
15. The members of the District Boards of Health shall 
consist of three members from each municipality included in 
the District, namely: the head of the council, the municipal 
clerk, and one other ratepayer not a member of the council, to 
be appointed by the council. 
16. Every District Board thus constituted and its members 
shall, in respect of the Health District for which it acts, 
possess the same powers, be subject to the same regulations, 
and perform like duties as a Local Board of Health of a 
municipality and its members. 
17. Every Local or District Board shall elect a chairman, 
and the Clerk of the Municipal Council shall be the secretary 
of the Local Board, and the District Board may elect one of 
its members, or appoint some other person as its secretary. 
18. It shall be the duty of the secretary to report to the 
secretary of the Provincial Board of Health the names of the 
members of the Local Board within one month after its first 
regular meeting, which shall be held on the second Monday 
after the members, who are not members ex officio, have been 
appointed. 
19. When any municipal council neglects or refuses to elect 
members or a member of the Local or District Board of 
Health as required by this Act, the Provincial Board of Health 
may appoint a duly qualified ratepayer or ratepayers to be a 
member or members of such Local or District Board of Health 
to act with the ex-officio or other members. 
20. Every Municipal Council may appoint a Medical Health 
Officer and a Sanitary Inspector or Inspectors for the munici- 
pality, and may fix the salaries to be paid them, or two or more 
councils may unite in the appointment of any of these officers. 
Union of 
municipalities 
in one Health 
District. 
Constitution 
of District 
Boards of 
Health. 
Powers of Dis- 
trict Boards. 
Officers of 
Local or Dis- 
trict Boards. 
Secretary to 
report to sec- 
retary of Pro- 
vincial Board 
the names of 
members. 
Provincial 
Board may 
appoint to 
Local Board 
in case Council 
neglects to do 
so. 
Appointment 
of Medical 
Health Officer 
and Sanitary 
Inspector. 
Part III.—Powers and Duties of Local Boards. 
21. The Municipal Council or Councils may vote such 
sums as are deemed necessary by the Local or District Board 
for the carrying on of its work. 
22. The members of the Local and District Boards shall be 
Health 
Appropriation 
for work. 
Health 
Officers. 6 
Health Officers within the meaning of The Revised Statute 
respecting the Public Health, and shall have the powers and 
duties assigned to Health Officers by the said Act, and the 
other powers and duties assigned by this Act. 
23. A majority'of the number of any regularly constituted 
Board shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. 
24. A minute book shall be provided in which the Secretary 
shall record the proceedings of the Local Board of Health. The 
Secretary shall draft an annual report of the sanitary work 
done during the year, and of the sanitary condition of the muni- 
cipality, for the consideration of the Board ; which report, when 
adopted, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Provincial 
Board of Health. The said report shall include the annual 
report of the Medical Health Officer. 
25. Whenever any Local Board of Health has any au- 
thority to direct that any matter or thing should be done by 
any person or corporation, such Local Board of Health may also, 
in default of its being done by the person, direct that such 
matter or thing shall be done at the expense of the person in 
default, and may recover the expense thereof with costs by 
action or distress ; and, in case of non-payment thereof, the 
same shall be recovered in like manner as municipal taxes. 
26. Wherever the order of any Local Board of Health or 
Health Officer involves an expenditure of more than $100, 
the party against whom the order is made, or anyone charge- 
able with such expenditure, or any part thereof, may within 
four days from his being served with a copy of such order in 
writing, appeal therefrom to the County Judge, who shall 
have full authority to vary or rescind the order made, and 
any order so varied may be enforced by the board or officer 
in the same manner as an order originally made by the board 
or officer. 
27. Any costs or expenses recoverable from an owner of 
premises under this Act, or under any provision of law 
in respect of the abatement of nuisances, may be re- 
covered from the occupier for the time being of such pre- 
mises ; and the owner shall allow such occupier to deduct 
any moneys which he pays under this enactment out of the 
rent from time to time becoming due in respect of said premises, 
as if the same had actually been paid to such owner as part of 
said rent: Provided, that no such occupier shall be required 
to pay any further sum than the amount of rent for the time 
being due from him, or which after demand of such costs or ex- 
penses from such occupier, and after notice not to pay his 
landlord any rent without first deducting the amount of such 
costs or expenses, becomes payable by such occupier, unless 
he refuses truly to disclose the amount of his rent and the 
name 
Quorum. 
Duties of 
Secretary. 
Mode in which 
Local Board 
may enforce 
its authority. 
Appeal to 
County Judge 
in certain 
cases. 
Recovery of 
costs and 
expenses of 
execution of 
provisions 
relating to 
nuisances. 
Proviso. 7 
name and address of the person to whom rent is payable ; but 
the burden of proof that the sum demanded from any such 
occupier is greater than the rent due by him at the time of 
such notice, or which has since accrued, shall be on such 
occupier : Provided, also, that nothing herein contained shall 
affect any contract between any owner or occupier of any 
house, building or other property whereby it is, or may be, 
agreed that the occupier shall pay or discharge all rates and 
dues and sums of money payable in respect of such house, 
building or other property, or affect any contract, whatever 
between landlord and tenant. 
Proviso, 
Nuisances, etc. 
28 It shall be the duty of every Local Board of Health to 
cause to be made, from time to time, inspection of its district, 
in order to prevent the accumulation within the district of 
any dirt, filth or other thing which may endanger the public 
health, and with a view to ascertain what nuisances exist call- 
ing for abatement under the powers of this Act, or of The 
Revised Statute respecting the Public Health, and to enforce 
the provisions of this Act and the said Revised Statute in 
order to abate every such nuisance. 
29. A medical health officer of a municipality may exercise 
any of the powers conferred upon health officers by sections 3 
4 and 5 of The Revised Statute respecting the Public Health, 
and may, without being specially authorized by the Board, 
exercise any powers which under section 6 can be conferred 
upon two medical practitioners, and the Board may act on his 
report. 
30. Information of any nuisance or unsanitary condition 
under this Act within the jurisdiction of any Local Board may 
be given to such Local Board by any person aggrieved thereby, 
or by any two inhabitant householders, or by any officer of 
such Local Board, or by any constable or officer of the police 
force within the jurisdiction of the Board. 
31. Whenever such information has been so given, it shall 
be the duty of the Local Board of Health to investigate 
the cause of the said complaint; and to hear the testimony 
of all persons who may be produced before it to testify in re- 
spect of any such matter ; and every Local Board or any two 
of its members shall have the same authority as a Justice of 
the Peace to require and compel the attendance of witnesses 
and the giving of evidence. 
32. Whenever the Local Board of Health is satisfied of the 
existence of the nuisance, it shall serve a notice on the person 
by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or con- 
tinues, or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner or oc- 
cupier 
Duty of Local 
Board to in- 
spect districts 
for detection 
of nuisances. 
Powers qf 
Medical 
Health Officer. 
Information of 
nuisances to 
Local Board. 
Investigation 
to be made by 
Local Board. 
Local Board 
to serve notice 
requiring 
abatement of 
nuisances. 8 
cupier of the premises on which the nuisance exists or from 
which the same arises, requiring him to abate the same within 
a time to be specified in the notice, and to execute such works, 
and do such things, as may be necessary for that purpose, pro- 
vided : 
First,—That where the nuisance arises from the want or 
defective construction of any structural convenience, or where 
there is no occupier of the premises, notice under this section 
shall be served on the owner ; 
Second,—That where the person causing the nuisance cannot 
be found, and it is clear that the nuisance does not arise or 
continue by the act or default of the owner or occupier of the 
premises and it is therefore improper that such owner or occu- 
pier should be required to abate the said nuisance, the Local 
Board of Health may report the facts to the municipal council 
or councils, and such council or councils may abate the nuis- 
ance at the expense of the municipality or district. 
33. Where a nuisance in any municipality or district ap- 
pears to be wholly or partially caused by some act or default 
committed or taking place outside of the said municipality or 
district, the Board of Health of such municipality or district 
may take or cause to be taken against the person by whose 
act or default the nuisance is caused in whole or in part, 
any proceedings in relation to nuisances by this Act author- 
ized, with the same incidents and consequences, as if such act 
or default were committed or took place wholly within its jur- 
isdiction, so, however, that summary proceedings shall in no 
case be taken otherwise than before a court having jurisdiction 
in the municipality or district where the act or default is al- 
leged to be committed or take place. 
34. All reasonable costs and expenses incurred in abating a 
nuisance shall be deemed to be money paid for the use and at 
the request of the person by whose act, default or sufferance 
the nuisance was caused, and such costs and expenses shall be 
recovered by the municipal council or Local Board of Health 
or person incurring the same, under ordinary process of law; 
and the court shall have power to divide costs, expenses and 
penalties between persons by whose acts or defaults a nuisance 
is caused as to it may seem just. 
35. In case any person after the passing of this Act, estab- 
lishes, without the consent of the municipal council of the 
locality, any offensive trade; that is to say, the trade of:— 
Blood boiling, or 
Bone boiling, or 
Refining of coal oil, or 
Extracting oil from fish, or 
Storing of hides, or 
Soap boiling, or 
Tallow 
Power to 
proceed where 
cause of 
nuisance arises 
without dis- 
trict. 
Recovery of 
costs and ex- 
penses incur- 
red in abating 
nuisances. 
Restriction or 
establishment 
of offensive 
trades. 9 
Tallow melting, or 
Tripe boiling, or 
Slaughtering of animals, or 
The manufacturing of gas, or 
any other noxious or offensive trade, business or manufacture, 
or such as may become offensive, he shall be liable to a penalty 
not exceeding $250 in respect of the establishment thereof; 
and any person carrying on a business so established shall be 
liable to a penalty not exceeding $10 for every day on which, 
after notice in writing by the Local Board, or an officer thereof, 
to desist, the offence is continued, whether there has or has 
not been any conviction in respect of the establishment thereof. 
36. (1) If on an investigation by any Local Board of Health 
any nuisance or thing prejudicial to health is found to exist in 
a municipality in which it has jurisdiction; and if, after the 
Board has required the removal or abatement of the same 
within a specified time, the Board finds that default in such 
removal or abatement has been made and the case seems to 
the Board one involving considerations of difficulty owing to 
the fact that such removal or abatement involves the expendi- 
ture or loss of a considerable sum of money, or that any trade 
or industry is seriously interfered with, or owing to other cir- 
cumstances, the Local Board of Health may apply to the 
Provincial Board of Health to investigate and report tfpon the 
same, and it shall be the duty of the said Provincial Board, 
with the approval of the Minister of the Department, to make 
a full investigation and report. 
(2) If the said report recommends the removal or abatement 
of such nuisance or thing, the Local Board or any ratepayer of 
the municipality, or within a mile thereof, may apply to the 
High Court of Justice, for an order for the removal, or abatement 
of the nuisance or urflsanitary condition, and to restrain the 
proprietors of any such industry from carrying on the same 
until the said nuisance shall have been abated to the satisfac- 
tion of the Provincial Board of Health ; and the said judge 
may, if he thinks proper, issue such order upon the report of 
the Provincial Board of Health. 
31. (1) Wherever information is obtained by the Provincial 
Board that any remediable unsanitary condition or nuisance 
exists in any municipality, and that the local health 
authorities have after proper representation of the facts, 
neglected or refused to take such efficient measures as 
might remove such condition or abate such nuisance, it 
shall be competent for the Provincial Board of Health to 
institute an investigation, and, if necessary, take sworn 
evidence concerning the condition or nuisance complained of. 
(2) If, upon such investigation it is proved that such 
remediable unsanitary condition or nuisance exists, it shall 
be within the province of the Provincial Board to direct 
its 
Provision 
where abate- 
ment of 
nuisance in- 
volves con- 
siderations of 
difficulty. 
Proceedings 
on complaint 
to Provincial 
Board of de- 
fault of local 
authority. 10 
its immediate removal or abatement by the individual or 
person responsible therefor, and to report the same to the 
Minister for the time in charge of the Department; and if 
such individual or person neglects or refuses to remove or abate 
the same, the Provincial Board of Health may cause such re- 
moval or abatement to be made, and collect the expenses there- 
for from such individual or person by ordinary process of law. 
Contemplated Systems of Public Water Supply, Sewerage, 
Drainage, etc. 
Plans relating 
to proposed 
public water 
supply or 
system of 
sewerage to be 
submitted to 
Provincial 
Board. 
38. (1) Whenever the establishment of a public water sup- 
ply or system of sewerage shall be contemplated by the council 
of any city, town or village, it shall be the duty of the said 
council to place itself in communication with the Provincial 
Board of Health, and to submit to the said Board, before their 
adoption, all plans in connection with said system. 
(2) It shall be the duty of the Provincial Board of Health to 
report whether, in its opinion, the said system is calculated to 
meet the sanitary requirements of the inhabitants of the said 
municipality; whether any of its provisions are likely to prove 
prejudicial to the health of any of the said inhabitants, together 
with any suggestions which it may deem advisable; and to 
cause copies of said report to be transmitted to the Minister of 
the Department to which the said Provincial Board of Health 
is attached, and to the Clerk of the Municipal Council, and 
the Secretary of the Local Board of Health of the District 
interested. 
(3) No sewer, or appliance for the ventilation of the same, 
shall be constructed in violation of any of the principles laid 
down by the Provincial Board of Health, subject to appeal to 
the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 
Unsound Meat, etc. 
39. (1) Any Medical Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector 
may, at all reasonable times, inspect or examine any animal, 
carcase, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, grain, 
bread, flour, or milk exposed for sale, or deposited in any place 
for the purpose of sale, or for preparation for sale, and intended 
for the food of man; the proof that the same was not exposed 
or deposited for any such purpose, or was not intended for the 
food of man, resting with the party charged ; and if any such 
animal, carcase, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vege- 
tables, grain, bread, flour or milk appears to such Medical 
Officer or Inspector to be diseased, or unsound, or unwhole- 
some or unfit for the food of man, he may seize and carry 
away the same, or cause it to be seized and carried away, in 
order that he may cause it to be destroyed or so disposed of as 
to prevent it from being exposed for sale or used for the food 
of man. 
Power of 
Health-Officer 
oresanitaryCei 
Inspector to 
etcPeCt meat’ 11 
(2) The person to whom the same belongs, or did belong 
at the time of exposure for sale, or in whose possession or 
on whose premises the same was found, shall be liable to a 
penalty not exceeding $100 for every animal, carcase, or fish, 
or piece of meat, flesh or fish, or any poultry or game, or for 
the parcel of fruit, vegetables, grain, bread or flour, or for the 
milk so condemned; or, at the discretion of the convicting 
justices or magistrate without the infliction of a fine, to im- 
prisonment for a term of not more than three months. 
40. Any person who in any manner prevents any Health 
Officer or Sanitary Inspector from entering any premises 
and inspecting any animal, carcase, meat, poultry, game, 
flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, grain, bread, flour or milk exposed 
or deposited for the purpose of sale and intended for the 
food of man; or who obstructs or impedes any such Medi- 
cal Officer, or Inspector, or his assistant when carrying into 
execution the provisions of this Act, shall be liable to a penalty 
not exceeding $25. 
Penalty for 
hindering 
officer from 
inspecting 
meat, etc. 
Infectious Diseases and Hospitals.—Provisions against In- 
fection. 
41. Where any Local Board of Health is of opinion, on 
the certificate of its Medical Health Officer or of any other 
legally qualified medical practitioner, that the cleansing and 
disinfecting of any house, or part thereof, and of any articles 
therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or 
check infectious disease it shall be the duty of such Local 
Board of Health to give notice in writing to the owner or oc- 
cupier of such house or part thereof, requiring him to cleanse 
and disinfect, to the satisfaction of the Medical Health Officer, 
such house or part thereof and articles, within a time specified 
in such notice. 
4:2. If the person to whom notice is given fails to comply 
therewith, he shall be liable to a penalty of not less than 
twenty-five cents and not exceeding $2 for every day dur- 
ing which he continues to make default; and the Local Board 
of Health shall cause such house, or part thereof, and articles 
to be cleansed and disinfected, and may recover the expenses 
incurred from the owner or occupier in default in a summary 
manner. 
43. Where the owner or occupier of any house or part there- 
of is, from poverty or otherwise, unable, in the opinion of the 
Local Board of Health, efficiently to carry out the requirements 
of the two preceding sections, such Local Board of Health may, 
without enforcing such requirements on the owner or occupier, 
cleanse or disinfect such house, or part thereof, and articles, 
andjjdefray the expense thereof. 
L Local Board 
% to notify 
’ owner of pre- 
l mises requir- 
ing to be M. 
’ cleansed and 
• disinfected. 
Penalty, if 
notice not 
complied with. 
Special provi- 
sion in case of 
poverty of 
owner. 12 
Power of Local 
Board to pro- 
vide hospitals. 
44. In case the small-pox, or any other disease dangerous 
to the public health, breaks out in any municipality, the 
health officers or Local Board of Health, in case the municipal- 
ity shall not have already provided the same, shall immediately 
provide such a temporary hospital, hospital-tent or other 
place or places of reception for the sick and infected, as they 
shall judge best for their accommodation and the safety of the 
inhabitants, at the cost of the municipality, and for that 
purpose may 
(1) Themselves erect such hospital-tents, hospitals, or places 
of reception; or 
(2) Contract for the use of any such hospital or part of a 
hospital or place of reception; or 
(3) Enter into any agreement with any person having the 
management of any hospital, for the reception of the sick in- 
habitants of their district, on payment of such annual or other 
sum as may be agreed on ; or 
(4) Two or more Local Boards of Health may combine in 
providing a common hospital. 
45. Any Local Board of Health may provide, maintain, or 
hire a carriage or carriages, suitable for the conveyance of per- 
sons suffering from disease or accident, and may pay the ex- 
pense of conveying therein any person so suffering to a hospi- 
tal or other place of destination. 
46. Whenever any householder knows that any person 
within his family or household has the small-pox, diphtheria, 
scarlet fever, cholera, or typhoid fever, he shall within twenty- 
four hours give notice thereof to the Local Board of Health, or 
to the Medical Health Officer of the district in which he re- 
sides, and such notice shall be given either at the office of the 
Medical Health Officer, or by a communication addressed to him 
and duly mailed within the time above specified, and in 
case there is no Medical Health Officer then to the Secretary 
of the Local Board of Health either at his office or by com- 
munication as aforesaid. 
47. No householder in whose dwelling there occurs any of 
the above mentioned diseases, shall permit any person suffer- 
ing from any such disease, or any clothing or other property to 
be removed from his house, without the consent of the Board 
or of the Medical Health Officer or attending physician and the 
said Board, or Medical Health Officer, or attending physician 
shall prescribe the conditions of such removal. 
48. No person sick with any of the diseases above specified 
shall be removed at‘ any time except by permission and under 
direction of the Board of Health, or Medical Health Officer, or 
attending physician, nor shall any occupant of any house in 
which 
Provision of 
conveyance for 
persons suffer- 
ing from dis- 
ease or acci- 
dent. 
Notice to be 
given by 
householder in 
case of small- 
pox, etc. 
Householder 
not to permit 
removal of 
person or of 
clothing. 
Removal of 
sick persons 
and others in 
same house- 
hold. 13 
which there exists any of the above diseases, except typhoid 
fever, change his or her residence to any other place without 
the consent of the Board or of the Medical Health Officer, or 
attending physician, who shall in either case prescribe condi- 
tions, as aforesaid. 
49. Whenever any physician knows that any person 
whom he is called upon to visit is infected with small-pox, 
scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or cholera, such 
physician shall within twenty-four hours give notice thereof to 
the Local Board of Health, or Medical Health Officer of the 
municipality in which such diseased person is, and in such 
manner as is directed, by rules 2 and 3 of section 17 of 
Schedule A. 
50. When the small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, 
or any other contagious disease, dangerous to the public health, 
is found to exist in any municipality, the health officers or 
Local Board of Health shall use all possible care to prevent the 
spreading of the infection or contagion, and shall give public 
notice of infected places by such means as, in their judgment, 
is most effective for the common safety. 
51. Except the attending physician or clergyman, no person 
affected with small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria or cholera, and 
no person having access to any person affected with any of the 
said diseases shall mingle with the general public until such 
sanitary precautions as may be prescribed by the Local Board 
or attending physician shall have been complied with. 
52. (1) Where there is reason to suspect that any person who 
has the small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, cholera, or typhoid 
fever, is in or upon any railway car, steamboat, stage, or other 
conveyance, the Medical Health Officer, or Sanitary Inspector 
of the municipality, or, if there is no such officer, any member 
of the Local Board of Health, may enter such conveyance and 
cause any such person to be removed therefrom, and may de- 
tain the conveyance until it is properly disinfected; or such 
officer or member may, if he thinks fit, remain on or in, or re- 
enter and remain on or in, the said conveyance (with any 
assistants he may require) for the purpose of disinfecting the 
same, and his authority as a health officer shall continue in 
respect of such person and conveyance, notwithstanding the 
conveyance is taken into any other municipality. 
(2) Any member or officer of the Provincial Board of 
Health, or any medical practitioner authorized by such Board, 
shall have the like authority. 
53. In case any person coming from abroad, or residing 
in any municipality within the province, is infected, or 
lately before has been infected with, or exposed to any 
of the said diseases, the health officers or Local Board of 
Health 
Report to be 
made by 
Physician. 
Precautions 
to be taken 
against spread 
of infection. 
Sick person or 
persons hav- 
ing access to 
sick not to 
mingle with 
general public. 
Power to enter 
on steamboats, 
etc. 
Isolation of 
persons infect- 
ed or who have 
been exposed 
to infection. J 14 
Health of the municipality, where such person may be, may 
make effective provision in the manner which to them shall 
seem best for the public safety, by removing such person to a 
separate house, or by otherwise isolating him, if it can be 
done without danger to his health, and by providing nurses 
and other assistance and necessaries for him at his own cost 
and charge, or the cost of his parents or other person or per- 
sons liable for his support, if able to pay the same, otherwise 
at the cost and charge of the municipality. 
Persons recovering from any of the said diseases, and 
nurses who have been in attendance on any person suffering 
from any such disease, shall not leave the premises till they 
have received from the attending physician, or Medical Health 
Officer, a certificate that in his opinion they have taken such 
precautions, as to their persons, clothing, and all other things 
which they propose bringing from the premises, as are necessary 
to insure the immunity from infection of other persons with 
whom they may come in contact, nor shall any such person 
expose him or herself in any public place, shop, street, inn, or 
public conveyance without having first adopted such precau- 
tions. 
55. All persons named in the last preceding clause shall be 
required to adopt for the disinfection and disposal of excreta, 
and for the disinfection of utensils, bedding, clothing and other 
things which have been exposed to infection, such measures as 
have been, or may hereafter be, advised by the Provincial Board 
of Health or by the Medical Health Officer, or such as may 
have been recommended by the attending physician as equally 
efficacious. 
56. No person suffering from, or having very recently re- 
covered from, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, cholera, 
measles, or other disease dangerous to public health shall ex- 
pose himself, nor shall any person expose anyone under his 
charge who is so suffering, or who has recently recovered from 
any such disease, in any conveyance without having previ- 
ously notified the owner or person in charge of such convey- 
ance of the fact of his having, or having recently had, such 
disease. 
57. The owner or person in change of any such conveyance 
must not, after the entry of any so infected person into his 
conveyance, allow any other person to enter it without having 
sufficiently disinfected it under the direction of the Board of 
Health or the supervision of the Medical Health Officer, or 
Sanitary Inspector. 
58. No person shall give, lend, transmit, sell or expose any 
bedding, clothing or other article likely to convey any of the 
above diseases, without having first taken such precautions as 
the 
Persons re- 
covering from 
sickness, and 
nurses to take 
precautions 
against spread 
of disease. 
Measures 
necessary for 
disinfection 
to be'adopted. 
Notice to be 
given to person 
m charge of 
conveyance in 
certain cases. 
Conveyance to 
be disinfected. 
Precautions to 
be taken re- 
specting cloth- 
ing, etc. 15 
the board may direct as necessary for removing all danger of 
communicating any such disease to others. 
59. Any Local Board of Health may provide a proper place 
or portable furnace, with all necessary apparatus and attend- 
ance for the disinfection of bedding, clothing or other articles 
which have become infected, and may cause all such articles 
to be disinfected free of charge, or may make reasonable charges 
for the disinfecting of the same as may be provided by by-law. 
60. Any Local Board of Health may direct the destruction 
of any bedding, clothing or other articles, which have been 
exposed to infection, and may give compensation for the same. 
61. No person shall let or hire any house or room in a house in 
which any of the diseases mentioned in section 46 have 
recently existed, without having caused the house and the 
premises used in connection therewith to be disinfected to the 
satisfaction of the health authorities; and for the purposes of 
this section the keeper of an inn or house for the reception of 
lodgers shall be deemed to let for hire part of a house, to any 
person admitted as a guest into such inn or house. 
62. No person letting for hire or shewing for the purpose 
of letting for hire any house or part of a house, on being 
questioned by any person negotiating for the hire of such 
house or part of a house as to the fact of there previously 
having been therein any person suffering from any in- 
fectious disorder, or any animal or thing infected thereby, 
shall knowingly make a false answer to such questions. 
63. The provisions of sections 5 to 14, inclusive, of The 
Revised Statute respecting Vaccination and Inoculation, are 
hereby extended to towns, incorporated villages, and townships ; 
and section 3 of the said Act is hereby repealed. 
Provision of 
means of dis- 
infection. 
Destruction of 
infected bed- 
ding, etc. 
Houses or 
rooms occu- 
pied by sick 
persons to be 
disinfected 
before being 
let. 
Persons let- 
ting houses not 
to make false 
statements as 
to infectious 
diseases. 
R. S. 0. c. 191, 
ss. 5-14, to 
apply to towns 
etc. Sec. 3 
repealed. 
Assistance by Constables, etc. 
64. Any member of a legally constituted Board of Health, 
or any Medical Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector may, when 
obstructed in the performance of his duty, call to his assist- 
ance any constable or other person he thinks fit, and it shall 
be the duty of every such constable so called upon to render 
such assistance. 
Officer if ob- 
structed may 
summon 
assistance. 
Penal Glauses. 
65. (1) Every person violating sections 56, 57, 58, 61, or 62 
of this Act shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty 
of not less than $5 nor more than $50 in the discretion of the 
convicting Justices or Magistrate, besides costs, which may also 
be inflicted if the convicting Justices or Magistrate see fit to 
impose the same. (2) 
Penalties 16 
(2) Any person who violates any other provision of this 
Act shall, unless it is otherwise specially provided, be liable 
for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding $20, in 
the discretion of the convicting Justices or Magistrate besides 
costs, which may also be inflicted if the convicting Justices or 
Magistrate see fit to impose the same. 
66. (1) Every such penalty and every other penalty specified 
in this Act may be recovered by any person before any two 
Justices or a Police Magistrate having jurisdiction in the 
Municipality, and shall be levied by distress and sale of the 
goods and chattels of the offender, with the costs of such dis- 
tress and sale, by warrant under the hands and seals of the 
Justices, or the hand and seal of the Police Magistrate, before 
whom the same are recovered, or under the hands and seals of 
any other two Justices having jurisdiction in the municipality, 
and in default of sufficient distress the said Justices or Magis- 
trate may commit the offender to the Common Gaol or to any 
Lock-up or House of Correction in the said municipality for 
any time not exceeding fourteen days unless the amount 
imposed is sooner paid. 
(2) In case any person, from poverty or other sufficient 
cause, is unable to comply with the provisions of this Act or 
any of them, he shall give notice of such inability to the 
medical health officer or Secretary of the Local Board of 
Health, and in case the Local Board on examination is satisfied 
of the sufficiency of the cause of such inability, the Secretary 
thereof shall give his certificate to that effect, and such certifi- 
cate shall be a bar to all proceedings against such person for 
the period of six months. 
67. Every penalty recovered under this Act shall be paid to 
the treasurer of the municipality in which the offence was 
committed, for the use of the Local Board of Health and sub- 
ject to its disposition. 
68. No order or other proceeding, matter or thing, done 
or transacted in or relating to the execution of this Act shall 
be vacated, quashed or set aside for want of form, or be removed 
or removable by certiorari or other writ or process whatsoever 
into any of the Superior Courts, and no appeal shall be had to 
the General Sessions upon any conviction under this Act. 
69. (1) The enactments contained in Schedule A, appended 
to this Act, shall after the first day of July next be in force in 
every Municipality in this Province for which there is a 
Medical Health Officer and a Sanitary Inspector, as a by-law 
of such Municipality, as if enacted by the Council thereof, 
except in so far as they shall in the meantime or thereafter, be 
altered, amended, or repealed by the Council, (Schedule B.) ; 
and the Council of every k>cal municipality shall have authority 
to pass by-laws from time to time in respect of the various 
matters dealt with by the said enactments. (2) 
.Recovery of 
penalties. 
Application of 
penalties. 
Proceedings 
not to be 
quashed for 
want of form 
or removed 
into Superior 
Courts. 
Application of 
enactments in 
Schedule A. 17 
(2) In any Municipality which has no Medical Health 
Officer and Sanitary Inspector, or has only one of these officers, 
the said enactments shall except as aforesaid, be in force unless 
so far as they relate to the officer which such Municipality 
does not possess. 
(3) Where two or more Municipalities join in the appoint- 
ment of a Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector, such officer or 
inspector shall be deemed to he the Health Officer or inspector 
of each of the said Municipalities. 
(4) Where any act or omission is a violation of any express 
provision of this Act and is also a violation of a by-law of a 
Municipality in respect of a matter over which the Council of 
the Municipality has jurisdiction, a conviction may be had 
under either the Act or the by-law, but a second conviction 
shall not be made for the same act or omission. 
SCHEDULE A. 
Section 69. 
By-law in force in every Municipality till altered by the 
Municipal Council. 
1. It shall be the duty of the Medical Health Officer to assist and ad- 
vise the Board and its officers, in matters relating to public health, and to 
superintend, under the direction of the Board, the enforcement and ob- 
servance, within this municipality, of Health By-laws or Regulations, and 
of Public Health Acts, and of any other Sanitary Laws, and, if thought 
advisable by the Board of School Trustees, to act as Medical Inspector 
of Schools, as well as advisory officer in matters pertaining to school hy- 
giene, and to perform such other duties and lawful acts for the preserva- 
tion of the public health, as may, in his opinion, be necessary, or as 
may be required by the Board of Health. He shall also present to this 
Board, before the fifteenth day of November in each year, a full report 
upon the sanitary condition of the district. 
2. The Sanitary Inspector, besides performing the duties hereafter indi- 
cated by this By-law as belonging specially to him, shall assist the Medical 
Health Officer, and perform such other duties as may from time to time 
be assigned to him by the Board of Health or its Chairman. 
3. The Chairman of the Board of Health shall, before the first day of 
December in each year, present to the Municipal Council or Municipal 
Councils, comprised within this district, a report containing a detailed state- 
ment of the work of the Board during the year, and the report of the 
sanitary condition of the Municipality, as rendered to the Board by the 
Medical Health Officer. A copy of each such report shall be transmitted 
by the Secretary to the Secretary of the Provincial Board of Health. 
4. No person shall within this municipality suffer the accumulation upon 
his premises, or deposit, or permit the deposit, upon any lot belonging to 
him, of anything which may endanger the public health, or deposit upon, 
on, or into, any street, square, lane, by-way, wharf, dock, slip, lake, pond, 
bank, harbour, river, stream, sewer, or water, any manure or other refuse, 
or vegetable or animal matter, or other filth. 
5. It shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector, to keep a vigilant 
supervision over all streets, lanes, by-ways, lots, or premises, upon which any 
such 
Duty of Modi 
cal Health 
Officer. 
Duty of 
Sanitary 
Inspector. 
Chairman of 
Board of 
Health to 
report to 
Council. 
Deposits 
endangering 
public health 
forbidden. 
Duty of Sani- 
tary Inspector 
a* to lands, etc, 18 
such accumulation as aforesaid may be found, and at once to notify the 
parties who own or occupy such lots or premises, or who either personally 
or through their employees, have deposited such manure, refuse, matter, 
dirt, or filth, in any street, lane, or by-way, to cleanse the same, and to re- 
move what is found thereon ; such parties shall forthwith remove the same, 
and if the same be not removed within twenty-four hours after such notifi- 
cation, the Inspector may prosecute the parties so offending, and he may 
also cause the same to be removed at the expense of the person or persons 
so offending, He shall also inspect at intervals, as directed by the Board 
of Health, all premises occupied by persons residing within its jurisdic- 
tion, and shall report to the Board each and every case of violation of any 
of the provisions of this By-law, or of any other regulations for the preser- 
vation of the public health, and shall also report every case of refusal to 
permit him to make such inspection. 
6. Whenever it shall appear to the Board, or to any of its officers, that 
it is necessary for the preservation of the public health, or for the abate- 
ment of anything dangerous to the public health, or whenever they or he 
shall have received a notice signed by one or more inhabitant householders 
of this municipality, stating the condition of any building in the munici- 
pality to be so filthy as to be dangerous to the public health, or that upon 
any premises in the municipality there is any foul or offensive ditch, 
gutter, drain, privy, cesspool, ashpit, or cellar, kept or constructed so 
as to be dangerous or injurious to the public health, or that upon any 
such premises an accumulation of dung, manure, offal, filth, refuse, 
stagnant water, or other matter, or thing, is kept so as to be dangerous or 
injurious as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector to 
enter such buildings or premises for the purpose of examining the same, 
and, if necessary, he shall order the removal of such matter or thing as 
aforesaid. If the occupant, or proprietor, or his lawful agent or repre- 
sentative, having charge or control of such premises, after having had 
twenty-four hours notice from any such officer of the Board of Health to 
remove or abate such matter or thing as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse 
to remove or abate the same, he shall be subject to the penalties imposed 
under section 18 of this by-law. 
7. If the Board is satisfied upon due examination, that a cellar, room, 
tenement, or building within its jurisdiction, occupied as a dwelling- 
place, has become by reason of the number of occupants, want of clean- 
liness, the existence therein of a contagious or infectious disease, or 
other cause, unfit for such purpose, or that it has become a nuisance, or in 
any way dangerous to the health of the occupants, or of the public, they 
may issue a notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them, requiring 
the said premises to be put in proper sanitary condition, or if they see fit, 
requiring the occupants to quit the premises within such time as the Board 
may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them, 
neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, every person 
so offending shall be liable to the penalties imposed by section 18 of this 
by-law, and the Board may cause the premises to be properly cleansed 
at the expense of the owners or occupants, or may remove the occupants 
forcibly and close up the premises, and the same shall not again be oc- 
cupied as a dwelling-place until put into proper sanitary condition. 
8. No proprietor or tenant of any shop, house or outhouse, shall, nor 
shall any butcher or other person, use any such house, shop or outhouse 
at any time as a slaughter-house or for the purpose of slaughtering any 
animals therein, unless such shop, house or outhouse be distant not less 
than two hundred yards from any dwelling-house and distant not less 
than seventy yards from any public street. 
9. All slaughter-houses within this municipality shall be subject to 
regular inspection under the direction of the Board of Health ; and no per- 
son shall keep any slaughter-house unless the permission in writing of the 
Board for the keeping of such slaughter-house has been first obtained, and 
remains unrevoked. Such permission shall be granted, after approval of 
such premises upon inspection, subject to the condition that the said houses 
■hall 
Examination 
of buildings or 
premises by 
Sanitary In- 
spectors. 
Notice to put 
premises in 
proper sani- 
tary condition 
or to quit 
same. 
Distance of 
slaughter- 
house, etc. 
Inspection of 
slaughter- 
house. 19 
shall be so kept as not to impair the health of persons residing in their 
vicinity, and upon such condition being broken the said permission may 
be revoked by the Board ; and all animals to be slaughtered, and all fresh 
meat exposed for sale in this municipality shall be subject to like inspec- 
tion. 
10. All milch cows and cow byres and all dairies or other places in which 
milk is sold or kept for general use, and all cheese factories and creameries 
shall be subject to regular inspection under the direction of the said Board ; 
and the proprietors shall be required to obtain permission in writing from 
the Board, to keep such dairy or other place in which milk is sold or kept as 
aforesaid, or to keep a cheese factory or creamery, and the same shall not 
be kept by anyone without such permission, which shall be granted after 
approval of such premises upon inspection, subject to the condition that all 
such places as aforesaid are so kept and conducted that the milk shall not 
contain any matter or thing liable to produce disease either by reason of 
adulteration, contamination with sewage, absorption of disease germs, in- 
fection of cows, or any other generally recognised cause, and upon such 
condition being broken the said permission may be revoked by the Board. 
11. No person shall offer for sale as food within this municipality 
any diseased animal, or any meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, milk, or other 
article of food which, by reason of disease, adulteration, impurity, or any 
other cause shall be unfit for use. 
12. It shall be the duty of the owner of every house within this munici- 
pality to provide for the occupants of the same a sufficient supply of 
wholesome drinking water ; and in case the occupant or occupants of any 
such house is or are not satisfied with the wholesomeness or sufficiency of 
such supply, he or they may apply to the Board of Health to determine as 
to the same ; and if the supply be sufficient and wholesome, then the 
expenses incident to such determination shall be paid by the said occupant 
or occupants, and if not, then they shall be paid by the owner; and in 
either case the said charges shall be recoverable in the same manner as 
municipal taxes. 
13. All wells in this municipality which are in use, whether such wells 
are public or private, shall be cleaned out before the 1st day of July in 
each year, and in case the Board of Health certifies that any well should 
be filled up, such well shall be forthwith filled up by the owner of the 
premises. 
14. The following code of rules and regulations for the disposal of sewage 
and refuse shall constitute a part of this by-law, and any person or persons 
violating or neglecting any of the said rules and regulations shall be liable 
to the fines and penalties imposed by section 18 of this by-law. 
Rule 1.—No privy-vault, cesspool or reservoir into which a privy, 
water-closet, stable or sink is drained, shall be established until the details 
of such establishment shall have been submitted to and obtained the 
approval in writing of the Medical Health Officer, who shall, from time 
to time, determine with the approbation of the Board, the method of dis- 
posal of excreta, sewage and other refuse, to be adopted within the 
district. 
Rule 2.—Earth privies or earth closets without a vault below the sur- 
face of the ground do not come within Rule 1, but sufficient dry earth, 
wood-ashes or coal-ashes to absorb all the fluid parts of the deposit must 
be thrown upon the contents of such earth privies and closets daily, the 
contents when removed from the closet must be placed in a shed or box 
with rain-proof cover, and removed from the premises at least once a year 
on or before the fifteenth day of May. 
Rule 3. —If the exigencies or circumstances of the municipality require 
that privy-vaults, cesspools or reservoirs shall be allowed in accordance 
with Rule 1, they shall be cleaned out at least once a year, on or before 
the fifteenth day of May, and from the fifteenth day of May to the first 
day of November in each year they shall be thoroughly disinfected 
by 
Inspection of 
cow byres, 
cheese fac- 
tories and 
creameries. 
Sale of dis- 
eased food. 
Supply of 
drinking 
water. 
Wells to be 
cleaned out 
etc. 
Rules respect- 
ing disposal of 
sewage and 
refuse. 
Details of 
establishment 
of privy 
vaults, etc., to 
be approved 
by Medical 
HealthOfficer. 
Time deposits 
to be removed. 
Cleaning out 
and disinfect- 
ing privy- 
vaults, etc. 20 
by adding to the contents of the vault, cesspool or reservoir, once a month, 
not less than two pounds of sulphate of copper, dissolved in two pailfuls 
of water, or other suitable disinfectant. 
Rule 4.—Within the limits of this municipality no night-soil or contents 
of any cesspool shall be removed unless previously deodorized as above, 
and during its transportation the material shall be covered with a layer of 
fresh earth, except the removal shall have been by some “ Odorless Excava- 
ting Process.” 
Rule 5.—All putrid and decaying animal or vegetable matter must be 
removed from all cellars, buildings, out-buildings and yards on or before 
the fifteenth day of May in each year. 
Rule 6.—Every householder and every hotel and restaurant-keeper or 
other person shall dispose of all garbage, for the disposal of which he is 
responsible, either by burning the same or by placing it in a proper covered 
receptacle for swill and house offal, the contents of which shall, between 
the fifteenth day of May and the first day of November, be regularly 
removed as often as twice a week. 
Rule 7.—Between the fifteenth day of May and the first day of No- 
vember, no hog shall be kept within the limits of this municipality, except 
in pens seventy feet from any house, with floors kept free from standing 
water and regularly cleansed and disinfected. 
Rule 8.—The keeper of every livery or other stable shall keep his 
stable and stable-yard clean, and shall not permit, between the fifteenth 
day of May and the first day of November, more than two waggon-loads 
of manure to accumulate in or near the same at any one time, except by 
permission of the Board of Health. 
15. The following regulations regarding the construction of houses, 
shall be in force within this municipality :— 
Rule 1.—No house shall be built in or upon any site, the soil of 
which has been made up of any refuse, unless such soil shall have been 
removed from such site, and the site disinfected, or unless the said soil 
shall have been covered with a layer of charcoal, covered by a layer of 
concrete at least six inches thick and of such additional thickness 
as may be requisite under the circumstances to prevent the escape of gases 
into such proposed house. 
Rule 2.—The drain of every house which may be connected with 
a sewer or cesspool shall be ventilated by means of a pipe extending up- 
ward from the highest point of the main soil or waste-pipe, and also by a 
pipe carried upward from the drain outside the walls of the house accord- 
ing to the principles shewn in the appended diagram. These pipes shall 
be of the same dimensions as the said main soil or waste-pipe, and shall 
be constructed of the same material or of stout galvanized iron, and no 
trap shall intervene between the said ventilating pipes. In case a trap 
shall intervene between the sewer or cesspool, and the ventilating pipes 
already described, then a four-inch ventilating pipe of the same material 
as above described shall be carried from a point between such trap and the 
sewer. All such ventilating pipes shall be carried above the roof of the 
said house, and shall open above at points sufficiently remote from every 
window, door, sky-light, chimney or other opening leading into any house. 
No pipe carrying air or gas from any drain or soil-pipe shall be con- 
nected with any chimney in a dwelling-house, unless the same be a furnace 
chimney used exclusively for the purpose of ventilating such soil-pipe or 
drain. 
Rule 3.—Every house-drain shall be constructed of vitrified earth- 
enware or iron pipe ; and every soil and waste pipe, of iron pipe rendered 
impervious to gas or liquids, the joints thereof being run with lead and 
caulked, or of lead pipe weighing at least 6 lbs. to the square foot; and the 
waste pipe from every closet, sink, tub, wash-basin, safe or other service 
shall have as near as may be to the point of junction with such service a 
Deodorization 
before re- 
moval. 
Time for re- 
moval of de- 
cayed animal 
or vegetable 
matter. 
Time for re- 
moval of 
garbage. 
Hogs. 
Livery stable. 
Soil of build- 
ing sites to be 
disinfected. 
Ventilation of 
drains, etc. 
Description of 
drain pipes. 21 
DIAGRAM. 
A—Extension upwards of soil pipe. 
B—Second ventilating tube. 
C—Ventilator for drain in case a trapfis placedf between the sewer and house. 22 
trap so constructed, vented and furnished, that it shall at no time allow of 
the passage of gas into such house. All joints shall be so constructed as 
to prevent gas escaping through them. 
Rule 4.—The construction of any closet or other convenience which 
shall allow of the escape into the house of air or gas which has been con- 
fined in any part of it or from the drain or soil pipe, is hereby prohibited. 
Rule 5.—No refrigerator waste shall be allowed to connect with any 
drain. 
Rule 6.—No pipe supplying water directly to a water-closet or urinal, 
shall be connected with the pipe supplying water for drinking purposes. 
16. Every person who erects, or causes to be erected, any building shall, 
within two weeks of the completion thereof, deposit in the Registry Office 
of the Registry Division in which the building is situated, plans of the 
drainage and plumbing of the same as executed ; and in the case of any 
alteration of any such plumbing or drainage, it shall be the duty of the 
owner of the house, within two weeks of the making of the alteration, to 
deposit in the same manner the plan and record of any such alteration ; if 
such alteration is made by a tenant, it shall be the duty of the tenant or 
lessee to deposit or cause to be deposited the plan and record of such 
alteration. 
17. The following rules for preventing the spread of infectious and con- 
tagious diseases shall constitute a part of this By-law :— 
Rule 1.—The Medical Health Officer [or Secretary of the Local Board 
of Health] shall provide each medical practitioner, practising within this 
municipality, with blank forms on which to report to the said Medical 
Health Officer [or Secretary] any case of diphtheria, small-pox, scarlet fever, 
cholera, typhoid fever, measles, whooping-cough or other disease danger- 
ous to the public health ; and, also, with other blank forms on which to 
report death or recovery from any such disease. 
Rule 2.—All such forms shall be so printed, gummed and folded that 
they may be readily sealed, without the use of an envelope, so as to keep 
them from perusal until opened by the Medical Health Officer[or Secretary]. 
Rule 3.—Said blanks shall be in accordance with the following 
forms :— 
Certain closets 
prohibited. 
Refrigerator 
waste. 
Pipes supply- 
ing water to 
closets to be 
disconnected 
with other 
pipes. 
Rules respect- 
ing infectious 
and contagious 
diseases. 
Duties of 
medical health 
officer. 
Forms, kind 
of. 
Report of Infectious Disease. 
Christian name and surname of patient : 
Age of patient : 
Locality, (giving street, number of house or lot), where patient is : 
Name of disease : 
Name of school attended by children from that house : 
Measures employed for isolation and disinfection : 
(Signature of physician) : 
jReport of Death or Recovery from Infectious Disease. 
Christian name and surname of patient • 
Locality, (giving street, number of house or lot), where patient is : 
Name of disease : 
How long sick : 
Whether dead or recovered : 
Means of disinfection employed, and when employed : 
(Signature of physician) : 
Rule 4.—The Medical Health Officer [or Secretary], within six hours after 
he shall have received a notice of the existence of scarlet fever, diphtheria, 
small-pox, cholera, or whooping-cough, in any house, shall affix or cause to 
be affixed by the head of the household, or by some other person, near the 
entrance of such house a card at least nine inches wide and twelve inches 
long, 
Notice of 
disease to be 
posted up. 23 
long, stating that such disease exists in the said house, and stating the 
penalty for removal of such card without the permission of the Medical 
Health Officer or Board of Health. 
Rule 5.—No person shall remove such card without the permission of 
the Board of Health or one of its officers. 
Rule 6.—No animal affected with an infectious or contagious disease 
shall be brought or kept within this municipality, except by permission of 
the Board of Health. 
18. Any person who violates section 4, 6, 7, 9 or 11 of this by-law, or 
Rule 1 of section 15, or Rule 5 or 6 of section 17, shall be liable for every 
such offence to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $50 in the 
discretion of the convicting Justices or Magistrate, besides costs, which 
may also be inflicted if the committing Justices or Magistrate see fit to 
impose the same. Any person who violates any other provision of this 
by-law shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding 
$20, in the discretion of the convicting Justices or Magistrate, besides 
costs, which may also be inflicted if the convicting Justices or Magistrate 
see fit to impose the same. Every such penalty may be recovered by any 
person before any two Justices or a Police Magistrate having jurisdiction 
in the municipality, and shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods 
and chattels of the offender, with the costs of such distress and sale, by 
warrant under the hands and seals of the Justices, or the hand and seal 
of the Police Magistrate, before whom the same are recovered, or under 
the hands and seals of any other two Justices having jurisdiction in the 
municipality, and in default of sufficient distress the said Justices or 
• Magistrate may commit the offender to the Common Gaol or to any Lock- 
up or House of Correction in the said municipality for any time not 
exceeding fourteen days, with or without hard labour, unless the amount 
mposed be sooner paid. 
Not to be 
removed. 
Animals 
affected. 
Penalties. 
SCHEDULE B. 
Form op Municipal By-law Amending the above By-la.w. 
By-law Number—, intituled “ A By-law respecting the Public Health 
By-law.” 
Whereas it is expedient to amend or repeal some of the provisions of 
the by-law appended to The Public Health Act, 188If,, so far as the same 
are in force in this municipality, and to suspend the operation of other 
provisions of the said by-law. 
Be it therefore enacted by the Municipal Council of 
1. Section 13 of the said by-law is hereby amended by substituting the 
“ first day of July of every second year ” for “ the first day of July in 
each year.” 
2. Rule 7 of section 14 of the said by-law is amended by striking out 
the words “ and disinfected ” at the end of the said rule. 
3. Rule 2 of Section 15 shall not be in force in this municipality until 
the First day of January 1885. 
4. Rule 3 of section 14 is hereby repealed. 
5. This by-law shall go into force forthwith. •