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Health Laws, 
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF 
The Board of Health, 
OF 
Urbana, O. 
URBANA, O.: 
CITIZEN AND GAZETTE PRINT. 
1885. MEMBERS 
OF THE 
Board of h EALTH, 
OF 
URBANA, OHIO. 
Mayor C. H. GANSON, President; 
Dr. S. M. MOSGROVE, Clerk and Health Officer; 
Dr. THOS. S. HITT, 
Dr. J. H. AYERS, 
Dr. W. J. SULLIVAN, 
Dr. H. C. HOUSTON, 
Dr. J. C. BUTCHER. 
Marshal R. N. MILLER, Sanitary Police. code; ok health caws ' 
Adopted for the Government of the 
Board of Health of the City 
of Urbana, Ohio. 
Section i. Whatever is dangerous to 
human life or health, whatever building, 
erection, or parts or cellar thereof, is over- 
crowded in the number of inmates or of 
families ; or not provided with adequate 
means of ingress or egress, or is not suffi- 
ciently supported, ventilated, sewered, 
drained, cleaned or lighted, or whatever 
renders the air or food and water, or drink 
unwholesome, are declared to be a nuis- 
ance and to be illegal; and every person 
having aided or contributed to the same, 
or who may support, continue or retain 
any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a 
violation of this ordinance, and also be 
liable for the expense of the abatement 
and remedy therefor. 
Sec. 2. No privy vault, cess-pool or 
reservoir into which a privy, water-closet, 4 
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stable or sink is drained, except it be water 
tight, shall be established or permitted 
within 50 feet of any well, spring or other 
source of water, used for drinking or 
culinary purposes, and all sewers or drains 
that pass within 50 feet of any source of 
water, used for drinking or culinary pur- 
poses, shall be water-tight. 
Sec. 3. If any person shall suffer any 
privy or gutter containing stagnant water 
on his or her premises within this city, to 
become offensive to any other inhabitant 
of this city, if such person after 5 days 
notice, shall suffer such privy or gutter to 
remain in its offensive condition, such 
person on conviction, shall pay a fine of 
from $r.oo to $10.00 and costs, and shall 
be liable to an additional fine upon fresh 
complaint of the continuance of such nuis- 
ance, until the same shall have been abat- 
ed. 
Sec. 4. If any person shall collect or 
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otherwise confine any hog or hogs, within 
this city, so that the same shall become 
noisome or offensive to other persons, or 
passers-by, or residents in the neighbor- 
hood, such person on conviction thereof, 
shall pay a fine not exceeding $10.00 and 
costs, and shall be liable to arrest and fine 
for every 5 days thereafter, until said 
nuisance is abated or removed. 
Sec. 5. That no person shall erect any 
stable, pig-pen, privy or other structure, 
having noisome or offensive waste, or 
other deposit, over any water course, drain, 
sewer, or near any culvert, so as to 
obstruct the free flow of the water or con- 
taminate said stream, drain, or sewer, 
with the drainage therefrom, and who shall 
refuse to remove the same within ten days, 
after being notified to do so by the Sanitary 
Officer, acting under the authority of this 
Board, shall upon conviction thereof, be 
fined not more than $10.00, and may be 
arrested and fined not more than $5.00 for 
every 5 days thereafter, until such struc- 6 
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tore heretofore named, shall be removed, 
and pay all costs of prosecution. 
Sec. 6. No butchers’ offals, garbage, 
ashes, or other refuse, or any dead animals, 
nor any putrid or stinking animal or 
vegetable matter shall be allowed to re- 
main on the premises of any person, or be 
thrown into any street or alley, place or 
receiving basin, or into any standing water, 
or upon the grounds or premises of any 
other person in the city or corporate limits. 
Sec. 7. No person shall be permitted 
to burn upon his or her premises, or upon 
any street, alley, or other place within the 
corporate limits, any animal, vegetable, or 
other substance which will create noisome 
or unwholesome odors. 
Sec. 8. Any householder, in whose 
house shall occur a case of cholera, 
typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diptheria, 
small-pox; or any disease recognized as 
contagious or infectious, shall immediately 
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and until instructions are received from 
the said Board, shall not permit any 
clothing, or other property that may have 
been exposed to the infection, to be remov- 
ed from the house, nor shall any occupant 
change his residence elsewhere, without 
the consent of said Board during the 
prevalence of any public danger from such 
disease; and all physicians and other at- 
tendants upon any person sick with 
cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, 
diptheria, or small-pox, or other disease 
dangerous to the public health, shall forth- 
with report the same to the Board of 
Health, and it shall be the duty of such 
physicians and attendants to avoid expos- 
ure to the public, of any garments or 
clothing about their own persons, that 
may have been infected from exposure to 
any disease. 
Sec. 9. No person or article liable to 
propagate disease, shall be brought with- 
in the limits of this city, without the 
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of Health thereof, and when it shall come 
to the knowledge of any person, that such 
a person or article has been brought with- 
in said limits, he shall immediately give 
notice to the said Board. No person shall 
without a permit of the Board of Health, 
carry or remove from one building to 
another, or from any Rail Road depot to 
any house or through the public streets, 
any person sick of any contagious disease. 
Nor shall any person by any exposure of 
any individual sick of any contagious dis- 
ease, or of the body of such person, or by 
any negligent act connected therewith, or 
in respect of the care or custody thereof, 
or by needless exposure of himself, cause 
or contribute to, or promote, the spread of 
disease from any such person, or from any 
dead body, it shall be the duty of this 
Board to order such separation and isola- 
tion, or domestic quarantine of the sick- 
room from other persons, not necessary as 
attendants, and also such special care and 
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to prevent the spreading of such disease to 
others. 
Sec. io. There shall not be a public 
or church funeral of any person who has 
died of small-pox, cholera, diptheria, or 
scarlet fever, and the family of the deceas- 
ed is required to limit the attendance to 
as few as possible, and to prevent the 
disease, so far as they are able, of those 
who have not had the disease of which the 
deceased person died; and it shall be the 
duty of the householders and all persons 
concerned, where a death occurs from any 
contagious or pestilential disease, to pre- 
vent needless assembling in the apartments 
where such diseases are, of all persons 
liable to become infected thereby. 
Sec. ii. The keeping and slaughter- 
ing of all cattle, sheep, and swine, and the 
preparation and keeping of all meat and 
fish, birds and fowls, shall be in that 
manner which is, or is generally reputed 
or known to be, best adapted to secure 
and continue their safety and wholesome- 10 
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ness as food, and every butcher or dealer, 
and every person owning, leasing or 
occupying any place, room or building 
where any such meats, fish, birds or fowls 
are kept for market, shall cause such room, 
building, stall or market to be kept 
thoroughly cleansed and purified of all 
offensive odors and all offal, blood, fat, 
garbage refuse and unwholesome or offen- 
sive matter to be removed therefrom, and 
at all times keep all wood-work, (save 
floors and counters,) in any building, 
place or premises aforesaid, thoroughly 
painted or white-washed. 
Sec. 12. That no person shall draw off 
or allow to run, on any ground, street, 
gutter, or alley of this city, the contents, 
or any part thereof, of any vault, privy, 
cess-pool, hog pen, sink, laundry, wash- 
house or kitchen, (being considered ma- 
larial poison), nor shall any owner, tenant, 
or occupant of any building, or premises, 
permit their premises, alleys or gutters to 
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charges or waste, or from other causes not 
named. 
Sec. 13. That no person shall empty, 
nor attempt to empty, any vault, sink or 
cess-pool, in the city, except pursuant to a 
permit therefor, first received from this 
Board. 
Sec. 14. That every owner, lessee, 
tenant, or occupant of any stall or apart- 
ment, in which any horse, cattle, or swine, 
or any other animals shall be kept, or any 
place in which manure or any liquid dis- 
charge of such animals shall collect or 
accumulate, shall cause said liquid and 
manure to be removed to some proper 
place, and shall at all times keep or cause 
to be kept, such stalls, stables, or apart- 
ments, and the drainage, yard, and 
appurtenances thereof, in a cleanly and 
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