Sanitary Code of the 
Board of Health of 
the City of Elizabeth 
New Jersey 
Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen SANITARY CODE 
OF THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
OF THE 
CITY OF ELIZABETH, N. J. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 
Term Expires 
John W. Whelan, PresidentJan. 1915 
T. E. Dolan, M. DJan. 1917 
S. M. Williams Jan. 1917 
S. R. Brown, M. DJan. 1916 
E. W. ConnellJan. 1916 
J. L. BauerJan. 1914 
J. J. HeckJan. 1914 
John F. Kenah, Clerk 
Louis J. Richards, Health Officer 
Office at City Hall 
Office Hours from 8.30 A.M. to 5 P.M. AN ORDINANCE 
Relating to the Board of Health of the 
City of Elizabeth 
Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of 
the City of Elizabeth: 
Section 1. That there shall be organized in 
and for the City of Elizabeth a Board of Health 
in accordance with "An Act to establish in this 
State Boards of Health and a Bureau of Vital 
Statistics and to define their respective powers 
and duties," approved March thirly-first, one 
thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and 
the several supplements thereto and amendments 
thereof. 
Sec. 2. That said Board of Health shall con- 
sist of seven members, who shall be appointed by 
the Mayor, with the approval of the City Council, 
and shall constitute the Board of Health of the 
City of Elizabeth, and that the first members of 
said Board of Health shall be so appointed that 
two members thereof shall hold office for one 
year, two members' thereof shall hold office for 
two years, two members thereof shall hold office 
for three years and one member thereof shall 
hold office for four years, and all members of 
said Board thereafter appointed shall hold office 
for the term of four years, except in cases of 
vacancies; vacancies shall be filled for the un- 
expired term. 
Sec. 3. That said Board of Health shall adopt 
3 rules and regulations for its own government, 
and shall elect a President from among its own 
members. 
Sec. 4. That said Board of Health shall elect 
a Health Officer, and all appointees of said Board 
of Health shall be governed by the rules of said 
Board, and they may be removed for cause by 
said board; the police officers of the City of 
Elizabeth shall be special sanitary or health in- 
spectors, and they shall promptly report to the 
Board of Health every violation of the health 
ordinances of the said Board which may come 
within their observation or knowledge; and the 
City Clerk shall, by virtue of his office, be regis- 
ter of vital statistics and the Clerk of said Board 
of Health. 
Sec. 5. That the said Board of Health shall 
rot contract any debts of any kind beyond the 
amount of the appropriation first made for its 
use by the City of Elizabeth. 
That this ordinance shall go into effect on the 
first day of January, eighteen hundred and nine- 
ty-nine. 
Approved January 3rd, 1899. 
4 rules for the government of 
THE BOARD OF HEALTH 
MEETINGS 
1. There shall be a regular stated meeting of 
the Board of Health on the second Thursday in 
every month at 8.30 P.M., except when the day 
is a legal holiday; in such case the meeting shall 
be held the following evening ; special meetings 
may be held upon call of the President of the 
Board or upon the written request of three 
members of the Board. The business of the 
special meeting shall be stated in the call, and 
no other business shall be transacted at such 
meeting, except by unanimous consent of the 
members present. All regular meetings are to 
take place at the City Hall unless otherwise 
ordered, and shall be open to the public. Four 
members of the Board shall constitute a quo- 
rum at any regular or special meeting for the 
transaction of business. 
2. The President shall call the meetings to 
order and preside at the same, or in his absence 
the Clerk of the Board until the Board shall elect 
a President pro tempore. 
3. The President shall follow the order of 
business at all meetings, and shall be governed 
by the rules of the Board and by Parliamentary 
usage in the absence of rules covering the pro- 
ceedings. His decisions shall be subject to ap- 
peal, the vote upon which appeal shall be taken 
without previous debate, and by roll call by the 
THE PRESIDENT 
5 Clerk, who shall put the question: "Shall the 
decision of the President stand?" All the Com- 
missioners in favor of the same shall answer 
aye, when their names are called. 
THE CLERK 
4. The Clerk shall keep the minutes of the 
Board and read all communications before the 
Board; he shall within two days after reference 
send to the Chairman of Committees all resolu- 
tions or communications referred to them, and 
attend to such other duties as may be asigned to 
him by law establishing the Board, or by the rules 
governing the same. 
5. The Health Officer shall be present at every 
meeting of the Board, and may address the Board 
on such matters of health which he may deem 
necessary; he shall present a monthly report at 
each meeting in writing, but may add verbally 
whatever he may have to offer to the same. He 
shall not take part in any debate of the Board 
unless invited to do so, with the consent of the 
majority of the Board. 
THE HEALTH OFFICER 
STANDING COMMITTEE 
6. There shall be a standing committee on 
health (matters), which in the intervals between 
the meetings of the Board, and in emergency 
cases, shall exercise the full authority of the 
Board, and decide on all questions and measures 
on health matters that may arise, subject to the 
approval of the full Board, at its regular or 
special meetings. It shall together with the 
6 Health Officer, devise and superintend all meas- 
ures and means necessary to quell an epidemic, 
and define the powers and duties of all persons, 
including the Health Officer, who from time to 
time may become connected with the Health De- 
partment. Its decision shall be unanimous in 
order to be effective, and it shall have no power 
to expend more than $25.00 without the au- 
thority of the full Board. The Health Committee 
shall consist of the President of the Board and 
two members, to be appointed by its President. 
FINANCE COMMITTEE 
7. There shall be a Committee on Finance, to 
consist of three members, who shall examine and 
approve all bills before ordered paid, and to at- 
tend to such other financial business as the Board 
may direct. 
8. 1. Roll Call. 
2. Approval of Minutes of Previous meet- 
ing. 
3. Reports of Health Officer. 
4. Reports of Committees. 
5. Presentation of Communications, Peti- 
tions and Complaints. 
6. Payment of Bills. 
7. Reading, Amending and Passing of 
Health Ordinances. 
8. Miscellaneous Business. 
9. All reports and motions, except privileged 
and subsidiary questions, shall be offered in 
writing, and all such reports and motions may be 
ORDER OF BUSINESS 
7 withdrawn on motion at any time before a de- 
cision or an amendment. 
10. Every member present at the meeting 
shall vote when a question is put, unless excused 
by a majority of the members present, and after 
stating his reason for wishing to be excused. If 
refusing to vote, if not excused, his vote shall be 
counted in the affirmative for the question before 
the Board. 
11. The names of members when called by 
the Clerk, shall be called alphabetically, and 
without the prefix or professional or social title 
(as commissioner a, b, etc.). 
12. The President may order the roll call on 
any motion before the Board, and any member 
of the Board may demand the roll call on any 
motion before the Board. 
13. No person, or persons, shall be allowed 
to address the Board, except on motion and by 
unanimous consent; this rule does not apply to 
city officers. 
14. The proceedings of the Board shall be 
governed and regulated by general Parliamentary 
practice, as laid down in Cushing's Manual, 
unless otherwise provided for by these rules. 
15. The rules may be amended by a two- 
thirds vote, only on written notice of such amend- 
ment having been given at a previous regular 
meeting. 
16. The rules may be suspended at any time 
by vote of the Board. 
Adopted March 6th, 1899. 
8 SANITARY CODE 
OE THE 
Board of Health of the City of Elizabeth, 
New Jersey 
Be it ordained by the Board of Health of the 
City of Elizabeth: 
Section 1. The Health Officer shall be ex- 
ecutive officer of the Health Department, and as 
such shall enforce all the rules and regulations 
of the Board of Health and all ordinances relat- 
ing to the public health. He shall also carry out 
the requests of the State Board of Health. As 
executive officer he shall maintain proper descip- 
line among subordinate officers and employes in 
the department, and such discipline shall relate 
both to decorum and performance of duty. He 
shall direct the work in each branch of the de- 
partment consistent with the rules of the Board 
to the end of securing the best public service. 
Sec. 2. The Health Officer shall make special 
investigations as to the general sanitary condi- 
tions of the city. He shall report to the Board 
twice yearly upon investigation as to the housing 
of the poor, offensive trades, pollution of the 
public water supply, refuse disposal, places of 
public gathering, and like matters of public health 
interest. He shall bring suit under direction of 
the City Council for violation of any provision 
of the sanitary code. He shall make monthly re- 
ports to the Board of all work done, including 
reports on vital statistics and diseases. 
Sec. 3. The Health Officer shall keep a record 
9 in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose 
of all complaints which may be made to him of 
nuisances of any and every kind, of all action 
which may be taken in relation thereto, and of 
any and all notices issued by him for the abate- 
ment of any nuisance or nuisances, or the cleans- 
ing of any premises, or requiring compliance with 
any of the rules and regulations of the Board of 
Health, stating the date of such notice, the nature 
of its requirements, when, where, upon whom and 
by whom such notice was served, and the final 
disposition of each case, the said book to be called 
the "Complaint Book," and to be open to the in- 
spection of each and every member of the Board 
of Health at any time during office hours. 
Sec. 4. The Registrar of Vital Statistics shall 
properly record, tabulate and report to the Board 
of Health all marriages, births and deaths that 
may occur in the City of Elizabeth ; shall keep 
the books containing such records in a neat and 
orderly manner in such form as may be directed 
by the Board, and shall make such reports to the 
State Board of Health, and shall do and perform 
such duties as are required by the act approved 
March 31, 1887, and such acts as may be amend- 
atory thereof or supplementary thereto. 
Sec. 5. There shall be made not less than once 
during the year, (or oftener, if the Board shall 
so direct) by the Health Officer and such other 
persons as may be detailed by the Board of 
Health to assist him a survey and inspection for 
the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condi- 
tions of such streets, lots or lands, yards, and 
10 buildings within the city limits as the Board of 
Health shall direct, and the owners' names and 
residences, the location of these lots and build- 
ings within the city, and the uses to which they 
are applied, with the names of persons living 
thereon or therein, so far as it may be practicable 
to ascertain such facts. 
Sec. 6. If, upon such survey and inspection, 
or at any time, any privy, sink, or cesspool, lot, 
yard, cellar or building shall be reported to the 
Health Officer as being in a condition dangerous 
to the public health from any cause whatever, it 
shall be his duty to visit the same, if he has not 
already done so, or cause the same to be visited 
by such police officer or other person as may be 
detailed to assist him, and if he finds such to be 
the case, it shall be his duty to prepare a notice 
in the form devised by the Board of Health, and 
to serve or cause the same to be served, as 
provided by Section 14 of act approved March 
31, 1887, upon the owner of, the agent for, or the 
tenant of such premises on which such nuisance 
shall be situated, requiring such owner or agent 
to remove the contents of such privy, sink or 
cesspool, or to cleanse such lot, yard or building 
within five days after the service of such notice, 
and in any case in which the terms of said notice 
shall not have been complied with within the 
time specified, the Health Officer is directed to 
proceed as provided in Section 14 of act ap- 
proved March 31, 1887, and all acts amendatory 
thereto and supplementary thereof, and the 
Health Officer is especially dircted to prepare and 
11 serve all notices and to proceed strictly in accor- 
dance with the said Section 14 above referred to. 
Sec. 7. Any owner or agent of any premises, 
building, lot, yard, cellar, privy, sink, or cesspool 
who shall neglect or fail to comply with the re- 
quirements of such notice shall be liable to a pen- 
alty of twenty dollars for each and every offense, 
with costs of suit, and the costs of abatement, if 
any such shall have been necessary. 
Sec. 8. Every agent or other person having 
the charge, control or management, or who col- 
lects or receives the rents of any lands, premises, 
or other property in this city, shall disclose the 
name or names of the owner or owners of such 
land, premises or property, or the name or names 
of the person or persons for whom such agent or 
other person is acting, to this Board; upon ap- 
plication being made therefore, by any officer, in- 
spector, or agent of the Board; and any per- 
son or persons violating any of the provisions of 
this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of 
fifteen dollars. 
Sec. 9. In any case in which a nuisance or 
cause detrimental to the public health shall be 
found upon premises occupied by a tenant, in 
which said nuisance or matter detrimental to 
public health shall have been or may be caused 
by the said tenant, he may also be duly notified 
to abate said nuisance within five days, as hereto- 
fore provided in cases of owners or agents. And 
if he should fail or neglect to obey said notifica- 
tion, he shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars, 
12 with cost of suit, for each and every offense, to 
which may be added costs of abatement, if any 
such have been incurred. 
Sec. 10. No person shall carelessly or negli- 
gently do or advise or contribute to the doing of 
any act or thing dangerous to the life or detri- 
mental to the health of any human being. 
Sec. 11. The accumulation of water in which 
mosquito larvae breed is hereby declared a 
nuisance, and any person creating or maintaing 
such a nuisance shall pay a penalty of $10. 
Sec. 12. The accumulation of manure, gar- 
bage or refuse in which fly larvae breed is hereby 
declared a nuisance and any person creating or 
maintaining such a nuisance shall pay a penalty 
of ten dollars. 
Sec. 13. No part of the contents thereof, or 
substance from any sink, privy or cesspool, nor 
any manure, ashes, garbage or dirt shall be 
thrown by any person or be allowed to run or drop 
upon or remain in any yard, street, lot or public 
place, nor shall the same be thrown or allowed to 
fall or run into the bed of the Elizabeth 
River, or into the waters of Staten Island 
Sound, save through the public sewers, and no 
material shall be allowed to pass into such public 
sewer as would have a tendency to clog up, injure 
or desetroy such public sewers. 
Sec. 14. No person shall place papers or 
light refuse in any garbage can or other recep- 
tacle to be emptied by the city scavenger in such 
NUISANCES 
13 a way that they can be blown about the side- 
walks or streets of the city of Elizabeth, but such 
papers and light refuse must be securely tied or 
fastened together before being placed in said 
receptacles. 
Sec. 15. Whenever a sewer is built in any 
street adjoining any lot of land or premises for 
the purpose of draining such lands, any cellar, 
cistern, privy, cesspool, sink or pool of water, 
located on said lot shall be drained into such 
sewer as soon as practicable after notice shall 
be given to the owner, occupant or person in 
charge of said land or premises by the Health 
Officer, and if any owner, occupant or person in 
charge of such land or premises shall neglect or 
refuse to make such drain for any of the pur- 
poses aforesaid as soon as practicable after such 
notice, the Health Officer may cause the same to 
be done at the expense of the owner or occupant 
of said land or premises or person in charge 
thereof. 
Sec. 16. In all cases where it is not practicable 
to drain into a sewer any foul, noxious or un- 
wholesome fluid or matter found on any land or 
premises the owner, occupant or person in charge 
of the same shall dig a cesspool on said land and 
premises of sufficient size for the reception and 
discharge of all the refuse matter, fluids, or 
waste water that would accumulate on said prop- 
erty whether arising from the domestic opera- 
tions of the occupant, if occupied, or otherwise, 
and in case such owner, occupant or person in 
charge shall neglect or refuse to make such cess- 
14 pool as soon as practicable after such notice to 
do so by the Health Officer, the same shall be 
made at the expense of such owner, occupant or 
person in charge of said lands and premises. 
Sec. 17. No person shall place or throw on 
any street, road or sidewalk any bottle, broken 
glass, crockery ware, iron, tin, wire or other 
material or things dangerous to the life or limb 
of man or beast; and any person offending 
against the provisions of this section shall forfeit 
and pay a penalty of $10. 
Sec. 18. No animal or vegetable substance, 
nor street sweepings, or muck, nor dirt gathered 
in cleaning yards, buildings, docks or slips, nor 
waste of mills or factories, nor any material 
which tends by decay to become putrid, or to 
render the atmosphere impure or unwholesome, 
shall be deposited or used to fill up, or raise the 
surface or level of any lot. grounds, docks, wharf 
or pier, or any ground filled for the purpose of 
building thereon within the city of Elizabeth, 
unless pursuant to a permit from the Board of 
Health. 
Sec. 19. No ground or place filled with any 
matter or substance that will emit or allow to 
arise through or from the same any noxious 
smell or deleterious exhalations, shall be opened 
or turned up, or the surface thereof removed, 
between the first day of May and the first day 
of October of any year, except by permit from 
the Board of Health. 
Sec. 20. No swill, brine, urine of animals or 
other offensive animal substance, nor any stink- 
15 ing, noxious liquid or other filthy matter of any 
kind shall by any person be allowed to run or 
fall from out of any building, vehicle, or erection 
into or upon any public street or place, or to be 
taken or put therein. 
Sec. 21. No butchers' offal or garbage, nor 
any dead animal, nor any putrid or stinking 
animal or vegetable matter, shall be thrown by 
any person, or be allowed to drop upon or run 
on or remain upon any lot, street, place, sewer 
or receiving basin, or into or upon the bed of the 
Elizabeth River or the waters of Staten Island 
Sound. 
Sec. 22. No person shall burn within the 
city of Elizabeth any matter or substance (other 
than coal, charcoal, wood, oils and such vegetable 
matters as may be necessary in cleaning up yards 
and gardens) which shall emit into the air, or 
cause or produce, or cast off any foul or ob- 
noxious gas, smoke or odor of any kind what- 
ever. 
Sec. 23. No person shall have or permit any 
putrid water or other liquid or substance upon 
his premises or grounds to the prejudice of life 
or health, whether for use in any trade or other- 
wise. 
Sec. 24. Neither the contents of any tub, re- 
ceptacle, cesspool, privy, vault, sink, watercloset 
or cistern, nor anything in any room, excavation, 
vat, building, premises or place shall be allowed 
to become a nuisance or offensive so as to be 
dangerous and injurious to health. 
16 Sec. 25. A lodging house is hereby defined 
to be a building or part of a building where 
lodgings are provided and let out for profit or 
as sleeping quarters for persons. 
Sec. 26. No tenement house nor any part 
thereof shall be used for the letting of lodgings 
without the consent in writing of the Board of 
Health, nor shall any person not a member of 
the family be taken to live within an apartment 
occupied by any family without such consent. 
It shall be the duty of the owner of such tene- 
ment house to see that the provisions of this 
section are at all times complied with, and a 
failure to comply on the part of any tenant, 
after due and proper notice from him, shall be 
deemed sufficient cause for the summary eviction 
of such tenant and the cancellation of his lease. 
Sec. 27. Every person maintaining a lodging 
house shall keep the same at all times clean and 
free from filth, garbage and rubbish. 
Sec. 28. All wash basins, baths, waterclosets, 
windows, fixtures, furniture and painted sur- 
faces shall be at all times kept thoroughly clean 
and in good repair. 
Sec. 29. Every lodging house shall be pro- 
vided with at least: (a) One bath on each floor 
to be supplied with hot and cold water, and shall 
be open for the free use of lodgers at all times, 
(b) One wash basin for every twenty beds or 
fraction thereof, (c) One watercloset for every 
twenty beds or fraction thereof, (d ) One urinal 
LODGING HOUSES 
17 for every forty beds or fraction thereof, (e) 
Ample supply of clean towels for lodgers. 
SEC. 30. The following requirements for 
lodging houses must be fulfilled: 
(a) All floors must be thoroughly scrubbed 
once in each week. 
(b) All beds must be arranged so that air shall 
circulate under and around each of them, all 
windows shall be open top and bottom at least 
three hours in each day, ventilation shall be in 
accordance with any ordinances or regulations 
which have been or may be adopted by the Board 
of Health of the city of Elizabeth. 
(c) All beds, bed clothing, mattresses and 
pillows shall be kept free from vermin. 
(d) All bed linen must be laundered at least 
once a week. 
SANITATION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS 
Sec. 31. All churches, halls, theatres and 
other buildings used for public meetings shall be 
kept at all times in a clean and sanitary condi- 
tion, every such building shall be provided with 
and make use of proper methods for maintaining 
the purity of the atmosphere at all times. 
Sec. 32. All public buildings as in the pre- 
ceding section shall be cleaned and aired after 
each meeting. No such building or room shall be 
swept without first sprinkling the floor with 
water or throwing on it damp sawdust or other 
absorbent material to prevent dust. Dry dusting 
is prohibited and damp cloths must be used. 
Sec. 33. The use of roller towels or towels 
18 available for use by more than one person with- 
out being washed after such use is hereby pro- 
hibited in any building used as a public institu- 
tion, hotel, restaurant, theatre, public hall or 
public school. 
Sec. 34. No person shall hereafter erect or 
cause to be erected, or converted to a new pur- 
pose by alteration, any building or structure 
which, or any part of which, shall be inadequate 
or defective in respect of strength, ventilation, 
light, drainage or any other usual, proper or 
necessary provision or precaution; nor shall the 
builder, lessee, tenant or occupant of any such 
or of any other building or structure (within the 
right or ability of either to remedy or prevent 
the same), cause or allow any matter or thing to 
be, or to be done in or about any such building 
or structure dangerous or prejudicial to life or 
health. 
Sec. 35. No owner, agent or lessee of any 
building, or any part thereof, shall lease or let or 
hire out the same, or any portion thereof, to be 
occupied by any person, or allow the same to be 
occupied as a place for anyone to dwell or lodge, 
except when said buildings or such parts thereof 
are sufficiently lighted, ventilated, provided and 
accommodated, and are in all respects in that 
condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness, for 
which this code or any law of this State provides, 
or in which they, or either of them, require any 
such premises to be kept. 
SANITARY CONDITIONS OE BUILDINGS 
19 Sec. 36. Wherever it shall be decided by this 
board that any building or part thereof is unfit 
for human habitation, by reason of its being so 
infected with disease, or by reason of its being 
in a condition dangerous to health or life, or to 
be likely to cause sickness among the occupants, 
and notice of such decision shall have been 
affixed conspicuously on the building, or any part 
thereof, so decided to be unfit for human habita- 
tion, and personally served upon the owner, 
agent or lessee, if the same can be found in the 
State, requiring all persons therein to vacate such 
building, or part thereof, for the reasons to be 
stated therein as aforesaid, such building, or part 
thereof, shall, within ten days thereafter, be 
vacated; or in case of special emergency within 
such shorter time as in said notice may be 
specified. 
Sec. 37. Whenever it shall be decided that 
any building or part thereof is unfit for human 
habitation by reason of its being in a condition 
dangerous to health or life or likely to cause sick- 
ness among its occupants the Board of Health 
can issue an order requiring all persons therein 
to vacate such building or part thereof within 
not less than twenty-four hours nor more than 
ten days for the reasons mentioned in such order. 
In case such order is not complied with within 
the time so specified the Board of Health may 
cause such house or part thereof to be vacated. 
Sec. 38. No premises shall be rented, let, 
leased,, or occupied as a dwelling house unless 
said premises shall have a plentiful supply of 
20 pure water suitable for domestic purposes fur- 
nished at one or more places in such house or in 
the yard thereof, so that the same may be ade- 
quate and reasonably convenient for the use of 
the occupants of said house. 
SEC. 39. It shall be the duty of every occu- 
pant of any and every building or place of busi- 
ness within the city to provide and at all times to 
keep or cause to be kept and provided within 
such building or place of business or premises a 
suitable and sufficient metal can with cover and 
several thereof if needful, for receiving and 
holding without leakage, all the ashes, rubbish 
and garbage that may accumulate during three 
days from said building or place of business, and 
no such metal can shall remain on any sidewalk 
or in any business place longer than may be need- 
ful for the removal of the contents thereof, and 
all such metal cans shall be placed and kept in 
such position as the Board of Health or its agents 
shall direct, and no person not for that purpose 
authorized, shall interfere therewith or with the 
contents thereof. 
Sec. 40. No tenement house shall hereafter 
be erected on any street unless there is a public 
sewer thereon or a private sewer connecting di- 
rectly with a public sewer. No cesspool or privy 
vault or similar means of sewage disposal shall 
be used in connection with any tenement house, 
but every tenement house shall have its plumbing 
system connected with a public sewer before 
such house is occupied. 
21 Sec. 41. No room in a tenement house and 
dwelling house erected prior to the passage of 
this code shall hereafter be occupied for living 
purposes unless it shall have a window opening 
directly upon the street, or upon a yard not less 
than ten feet deep, or above the roof of an ad- 
joining building or upon a court of not less than 
twenty-five square feet in area, minimum width 
five feet, open to the sky without roof or sky- 
light, unless such room is located on the top floor 
and is adequately lighted and ventilated by a 
skylight opening directly to the outer air. 
Every room which does not comply with 
above provision shall be provided with a sash 
window, opening into an adjoining room in the 
same apartment, which latter room either opens 
directly on the street or on a yard of the above 
dimensions, or is itself connected by a similar 
sash window or series of windows with such an 
outer room. Said sash window shall be a verti- 
cally sliding, pulley-hung sash, not less than three 
feet by five feet between stop heads; both halves 
shall be made so as to readily open, and the lower 
half shall be glazed with translucent glass, and 
so far as possible it shall be in line with windows 
in outer rooms opening on the street or yard so 
as to afford a maximum of light and ventilation. 
In the case of rooms located in apartments that 
extend through from the street to the yards, thus 
ensuring thorough ventilation, where such rooms 
are either provided with windows, window open- 
ings, glass sliding doors, or large alcove openings 
to adjoining rooms but do not comply with all 
22 the provisions of this section, the health depart- 
ment, when satisfied that no material improve- 
ment in the light and ventilation of such rooms 
can be had that would warrant the providing of 
new windows of the size and kind specified, may 
permit the occupancy of such rooms for living 
purposes in the following cases, provided such 
improvements or alterations as may be prac- 
ticable and as are required by said department 
are made by the owner: 
1. When there is an existing window or win- 
dow opening from such interior room to an 
adjoining room and such window or opening is 
not less than ten square feet in area. 
2. When there is an existing glass sliding door 
or an alcove opening of sufficient size from such 
interior room to an adjoining room. 
3. Where owing to the size of partitions, ar- 
rangement of rooms, location of fixed closets or 
stairs, or the interposition of airshafts, it is im- 
practicable to provide a sash window of the 
required size, and a window as large as practi- 
cable is provided. 
KEEPING OE animals 
Sec. 42. No person shall keep or allow to be 
kept in any dwelling house or in any part thereof 
any horse, cattle, goats or fowls. 
Sec. 43. Every owner, agent, lessee, tenant 
or occupant of any stall, stable or apartment in 
which any horse or other cattle shall be kept, or 
any place in which any manure or any solid or 
BARNS AND STABLES 
23 liquid discharge or excrement may collect or 
accumulate, shall at all times keep or cause to be 
kept such stalls, stables or apartments, and the 
drainage, yard and appurtenances thereof, in a 
cleanly, healthful and wholesome condition, and 
no offensive smell shall be allowed to escape 
therefrom. 
Sec. 44. Every stable or apartment in which 
any horse, or any other cattle shall be kept, shall 
have a tight cement floor connected with the pub- 
lic sewer wherever practicable, and be provided 
with two square feet of unobstructed window 
glass and five hundred cubic feet of air space for 
each animal and a tightly constructed manure 
receptacle above ground to receive all manure 
from such stable pending its removal. Said re- 
ceptacle must be tightly screened so as to be in- 
accessible to flies. 
Sec. 45. It shall be the duty of the owners 
or occupants having on their premises any horse, 
mule, goats or other animals to remove or cause 
to be removed all manure from the said premises 
weekly from May 1 to November 1. 
Sec. 46. No cesspool shall hereafter be built 
or constructed or reconstructed in the City of 
Elizabeth without a permit for that purpose 
shall first be obtained from the Board of 
Health. 
Sec. 47. No privy vault shall hereafter be 
built or constructed or reconstructed within the 
City of Elizabeth upon any premises abutting 
upon a street in which there is a public sewer. 
PRIVY VAULTS, CESSPOOLS, ETC. 
24 Sec. 48. No privy shall be used or maintained 
within the City of Elizabeth after July 1, 1914, 
upon any premises abutting upon a street in 
which there is a public sewer, and no outside 
water closet shall hereafter be installed in the 
City of Elizabeth without a permit from the 
Board of Health. 
Sec. 49. The license fee for the business of 
cleaning cesspools or privies in the City of Eliza- 
beth shall be the sum of twenty dollars and shall 
in all cases be paid before the license shall be de- 
livered or take effect. 
Sec. 50. No person who has contracted to re- 
move, or who has ordered or procured the re- 
moval, or the driver of any cart or vehicle engaged 
to remove any liquid, manure, garbage, rubbish, 
offal, dirt, or the contents of any privy, vault, 
or cesspool, shall permit any cart or vehicle so 
engaged or employed to be so fully loaded or to 
be of such faulty condition or repair that any 
liquid or any manure, or other noxious sub- 
stance shall escape therefrom or fall upon or in 
any place, street or premises, and it shall be the 
duty of every such person to at once replace on 
such vehicle and remove what has so fallen. 
Sec. 51. No person shall allow to run into 
any ground, street, or place in said city, the 
contents (or any part thereof) of any vault, 
privy, cesspool or sink; nor shall any owner, 
tenant or occupant of any building to which any 
vault, sink, privy or cesspool shall appertain or 
be attached, permit the contents, or any part 
thereof, to flow therefrom or to rise within two 
25 feet of any part of the top, or said contents to 
become offensive; nor shall any privy or other 
erection in this section mentioned be filled with 
or covered with dirt till its filthy contents shall 
have been emptied. 
Sec. 52. No person or persons shall carry on 
any trade, manufacture or business within the 
City of Elizabeth which may be noxious or 
offensive to the inhabitants of said city or any 
part thereof, and which may be attended by noi- 
some and injurious odors, without having first 
obtained a permit from the Board of Health, 
such permit to be granted only on such terms 
and conditions as shall be from time to time 
prescribed by said Board, to which terms and 
conditions the applicant or applicants for such 
permit shall subscribe before receiving said per- 
mit, and such permit shall not be transferrable 
in case of a sale or transfer of the business, in 
which case a new application must be made in the 
name of the parties who propose to conduct the 
business, and the said trade, manufacture or busi- 
ness may be at any time summarily abated in 
case of failure or neglect to comply with the 
terms and conditions of the permit, and any such 
trade, manufacture or business which may be 
established within the said City of Elizabeth 
without having first obtained the permit herein- 
before provided for shall be summarily abated, 
as provided in the act of March 31, 1887, and 
such acts as may be amendatory thereof and sup- 
plementary thereto. Any person or persons who 
OFFENSIVE TRADES 
26 may violate this section shall be liable to a penalty 
of not less than twenty nor more than one hun- 
dred dollars per day for each and every day in 
which such trade, manufacture or business may 
be carried on within the City of Elizabeth, to be 
recovered by action of debt, with costs of suit in 
each case. 
Sec. 53. Every butcher and every person 
owning, leasing or occupying any place, room 
or building, where any cattle, or fowl, may be or 
are killed or dressed,' or any person being the 
owner, lessee or occupant of any room, stall or 
stable, or market where fowl or cattle may be 
or are kept, shall cause such place, room, stall, 
building or market and their yards and appur- 
tenances to be immediately thoroughly cleaned 
and purified after the use thereof for any of the 
above purposes. 
Sec. 54. No slaughter house shall hereafter 
be established or constructed without a permit 
from the Board of Health. 
Sec. 55. Every proprietor, lessee, tenant and 
occupant of any oyster house, oyster saloon, fish 
market or other premises where oysters, clams, 
lobsters, or any shell or other fish are consumed, 
used, sold or handled, or where any of the refuse 
matter, offal or shells accumulate, shall cause all 
such shells, offal and refuse matter to be removed 
every day to some proper place, and shall keep 
his house, saloon and premises at all times free 
from unhealthful smells and accumulations. And 
during the months from April to October, both 
inclusive, all such refuse matter, offal and shells 
27 shall be kept in tight metal cans with closely 
fitting metal covers, and shall also be carefully 
washed and cleansed each day. 
Sec. 56. No person shall kill any animal in 
any market, nor have or permit to escape there- 
from any poisonous or noxious odors injurious 
to the public health. 
Sec. 57. No building, vehicle, structure, re- 
ceptacle or thing used or to be used for any 
purpose whatever, shall. be made, used, kept, 
maintained or operated in the City of Elizabeth, 
if the use, keeping, maintaining or operating of 
such building, vehicle, structure, receptacle or 
thing shall be the occasion of any nuisance or 
dangerous or detrimental to health. 
Sec. 58. No substance, matter or thing of 
any kind whatever, which shall be dangerous 
or detrimental to health, shall be permitted to 
exist in connection with any permitted business 
or use therein, or to exist in connection with or 
be used in any work or labor carried on 
or to be carried on or prosecuted in the City of 
Elizabeth, and no nuisance shall be permitted to 
exist in connection with any business or in con- 
nection with any such work or labor. 
Sec. 59. No person shall keep any place for 
the storage, drying, cleaning or sorting of rags 
or waste paper unless the said premises shall be 
at least one hundred feet from any dwelling 
house, factory or other building occupied by 
human beings without a permit from the Board 
of Health. 
28 Sec. 60. No person shall conduct a rummage 
sale or sale where second-hand articles and 
clothing or bedding are disposed of without first 
having obtained a permit from the Board of 
Health.. 
SWIMMING POOLS, NATATORIUMS 
Sec. 61. All pools or tanks shall be thoroughly 
cleaned at least once each week in a manner and 
by the use of such disinfectants or cleansing ma- 
terials as may be required by the Board of Health, 
and all such pools or tanks shall be emptied at 
least twice each week. 
SEC. 62. The sides and bottoms of all pools 
or tanks shall be white, so that objects may be 
clearly seen so far as possible in all portions of 
pools and tanks. 
Sec. 63. All persons before entering any 
swimming pool or tank shall be required to 
cleanse the body by the use of shower or similar 
device maintained and used for such purpose. 
LAUNDRIES 
Sec. 64. It shall be unlawful to maintain or 
operate in the City of Elizabeth a public laundry 
or wash house in any building or portion thereof 
that shall be used as a public hall, store, restau- 
rant or lodging house, or to employ or allow to 
remain within said laundry or wash house any 
person suffering from any contagious, infectious 
or loathsome disease. 
Sec. 65. It shall be unllawful for any person 
maintaining or operating by mechanical ap- 
paratus in the City of Elizabeth any public laun- 
29 dry or wash house to wash or permit to be washed 
any article of clothing in any room the floor of 
which is not constructed of cement and drained 
into the public sewer. 
Sec. 66. It shall be unlawful to maintain or 
operate in the City of Elizabeth anv public lau- 
dry or wash house the exterior walls of which 
are within twenty feet of any school or public 
building. 
Sec. 67. No person being owner, lessee or 
tenant of any house or building shall allow any 
water or other liquid to run from or out of his 
building or ground upon or across any sidewalk 
or curbstone, and if such substance is allowed 
to pass upon any street, it must reach 
the same by a passage to be kept at all 
times adequate and in repair by such person, 
under or through such flagstone or curbstone; 
and no such water or other liquid, or ice there- 
from, shall be allowed to gather or remain on 
the upper surface of such curb, flagstone or 
passage; nor shall such person allow any ac- 
cumulation of such water or liquid, or the ice 
therefrom, upon any street or place, but shall 
at all times cause the same to be removed or 
pass along the gutter or some proper passage to 
one of the rivers or into a sewer. 
Sec. 68. Every owner, tenant, lessee and oc- 
cupant of any building or lot (whether vacant or 
occupied) within or near the built-up portions 
of said city, shall keep and cause to be kept the 
sidewalk and flagging, and curbstone in front 
sidewalks and yards 
30 thereof, free from obstructions and nuisances of 
every kind, and shall not allow anything in the 
area or yard or on or about his premises to be- 
come a nuisance or dangerous or prejudical 
to life or health. 
Sec. 69. It shall be the duty of all owners, 
lessees, tenants or occupants of any and all build- 
ings in the City of Elizabeth to keep the gutters 
or sidewalks in front of said buildings free from 
any offensive substance, liquid or solid, or any 
dirt, rubbish, water or stones, or any other thing 
dangerous to health, life or limb. 
Sec. 70. No fence of wood, sheetiron, or other 
opaque substance, nor any wall of brick, stone 
or other opaque substance shall be built or main- 
tained within ten feet of the dividing line of any 
property of a height more than six feet without 
a permit from the Board of Health. 
FOOD AND DRINK 
Sec. 71. No meat, fish, birds, or fowl, fruit or 
vegetables, nor any milk, not being then healthy, 
fresh, sound, wholesome and safe for human 
food, nor any animal or fish that died by disease 
or accident, shall be brought within said city, 
or offered or held for sale in any public or 
private market, as such food, anywhere in the 
City of Elizabeth. 
Sec 72. No calf, pig, or lamb, or the meat 
thereof, shall be held or offered for sale as food 
in said city which at the date of its being killed 
was, being a calf, less than four weeks old, or 
being a pig, less than five weeks old, or being a 
31 lamb, less than eight weeks old; nor shall any 
sickly or unwholesome fish or fowl be sold or 
offered for sale as food in said city. 
Sec. 73 Any meat, fowl, fish, vegetables or 
milk sold or offered for sale in a condition which 
is unwholesome and unfit for use as human food 
shall be immediately removed from any market, 
street, premises or public place, and the purchaser 
of any such unwholesome meat, fowl, fish, vege- 
tables or milk shall be reimbursed by the vendor 
thereof, and the proprietor of the market, store, 
or place offering such unwholesome articles for 
sale shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars. 
Sec. 74. No person shall bring into this city, 
or keep therein, for sale or otherwise, either for 
food or any other purpose or purposes whatever, 
any animal, dead or alive, matter, substance or 
thing which shall be, or which shall occasion a 
nuisance in said city, or which may or shall be 
dangerous or detrimental to health. 
Sec. 75. No meat, fish, fruit, vegetables or 
milk, or unwholesome liquid shall knowingly be 
bought, sold, held, offered for sale, labeled or 
any representation made in respect thereof under 
a false name or quality, or as being what the 
same is not, as respects wholesomeness, sound- 
ness or safety for food or drink. 
Sec. 76. If upon examination the Board of 
Health shall be of the opinion that any well is 
likely to be a permanent source of danger to 
the public health, the owner or agent of the same 
shall be notified to close securely or fill up the 
32 same, and if the terms of such notice shall not 
be complied with within three days after the 
service thereof on the ower or agent an occupant, 
of any, of such premises, such well shall be closed 
or filled up by the health officer at the expense 
of the owner of such premises. 
Sec. 77. No well shall hereafter be dug any- 
where within the City of Elizabeth within sixty 
feet of any vault, privy, sink or cesspool, under 
a penalty of twenty dollors. 
Sec. 78. No ice cream, fruit, candy or other 
food, stored, made, purchased or kept in any 
sleeping quarters or place contaminated by filth, 
dust or obnoxious gases shall be sold or offered 
for sale. 
Sec. 79. No soda water, mineral water or 
other beverage and no medicine or drugs shall 
be made, sold or offered for sale or produced 
or offered for sale under unclean or unsanitary 
surroundings or conditions, or when composed 
of ingredients not conforming to the laws gov- 
erning pure food, as prescribed under the pure 
food laws of the State of New Jersey or of the 
United States Government. 
Sec. 80. No store or room in which meat, 
fruit, ice cream or other foodstuffs of any kind 
are sold shall be used wholly or in part as a living 
room, cooking room or room in which anyone 
shall sleep. 
Sec. 81. Fruits, vegetables, meats and other 
food products shall not be displayed or exposed 
on the sidewalk, or outside of places of business, 
33 unless such foods are securely covered by cases 
of glass, wood or metal, or unless they are en- 
closed in tight barrels, bags or boxes. Provided, 
however, that this rule shall not apply to fruits 
or vegetables which must necessarily be peeled 
before use, but such foods, when displayed 
outdoors, must be supported on platforms at 
least eighteen inches above the surface of the 
sidewalk or ground. 
Sec. 82. Prepared foodstuffs, such as bakers' 
goods, confectionery, shelled nuts, etc., dried 
fruit, such as dates, figs, peaches, prunes, apri- 
cots, etc.; cereal products, such as tapioca, 
breakfast foods, etc.; pickled products, such as 
pickles, chili sauce, etc.; fruit products, such as 
apple butter, jellies, jams, etc.; meat products, 
such as dried, salted or smoked fish, veal loaf, 
pickled pigs' feet, chipped beef, boiled ham, 
mince meat or other foods prepared for eating, 
or subject to the attacks of worms or flies, shall 
not be displayed for sale unless protected from 
flies, dust, and dirt and all other foreign and in- 
jurious contamination by suitable coverings of 
glass, wood or metal. 
Sec. 83. All bread, biscuits, pies and other 
bakestuffs must be protected from flies and dust 
by suitable covers of glass, wood or metal, and 
when sold or delivered from wagons or other 
vehicles must be wrapped and protected by para- 
fin paper or other covering. 
Sec. 84. No impure ice or ice cut within or 
outside of the City of Elizabeth from a polluted 
34 pond, lake, stream or other source, and no ice 
manufactured from impure water shall be used, 
sold or manufactured in said city. 
RESTAURANTS 
Sec. 85. The dining-rooms and the kitchens 
of all public eating houses, hotels, restaurants,, 
lunch rooms and all places where food and drinks 
are prepared and sold shall from April 15 to 
December 1 have all windows, doors and open- 
ings therein properly screened so as to exclude 
flies from such places. 
Sec. 86. No unsound, stale, rotten, fermented, 
diseased, nauseous or unwholesome fish, oysters, 
or other sea food, vegetables, berries, melons, 
fruits or other articles of food or drink shall be 
sold or offered for sale as human food or drink 
upon any street or premises or in any market 
stall, shop, wharehouse, cold storage, hotel, 
boarding house, restaurant, lunch room or other 
place of business, or from any cart or vehicle 
therein. 
Sec. 87. All restaurants, hotels, boarding 
houses, lunch roms, ice cream parlors, soft drink 
stands or other places where food or drink is 
sold, served or prepared shall be kept in a clean 
and sanitary condition. All persons employed in 
or about such places shall keep themselves and 
their clothing in a clean, sanitary and healthful 
condition. No person suffering from tubercu- 
losis, any venereal diseases, or any other com- 
municable disease, shall be employed in or about 
such places in any position. 
35 SEC. 88. No meats, fish, bakery products, 
milk or milk products, soft drinks, ice cream, 
candy, fruits, confectionery, vegetables or other 
foodstuffs shall be prepared for sale, kept for 
sale or sold in any room in which a toilet is 
located, or in any room opening directly into a 
toilet room, unless there is outside ventilation 
to such toilet room. 
ICE CREAM 
Sec. 89. All persons engaged in the business 
of manufacture of ice cream for sale in the City 
of Elizabeth must before engaging in said busi- 
ness apply to the Board of Health for an inspec- 
tion of their premises and apparatus and for 
permit to engage in said business before they 
shall begin the manufacture of ice cream. . 
Sec. 90. No person shall manufacture, sell 
or offer for sale in the City of Elizabeth any ice 
cream unless according to the following require- 
ments : 
(a) The ice cream plant must be properly 
screened. 
(b) The floors, walls and ceilings must be 
sanitary. 
(c) The water closet and urinals must be 
separate from the plant. 
(d) The room used for mixing cream must be 
close-ceiled, properly ventilated and screened, and 
with no unsanitary surroundings or neighbor- 
hood. 
(e) All utensils and all cans used in the manu- 
facture or distribution of ice cream must be of 
36 suitable material, and must be sterilized at a 
temperature of at least 212° F. for not less than 
fifteen minutes, and a suitable room must be 
provided where such cans can be kept and 
sterilized. 
(f) All persons engaged in said manufacture 
or sale must be clean both in person and ap- 
pearance and must wear a suitable clean suit. 
(g) No ice cream shall be returned or ex- 
changed. 
(h) All ingredients used in the manufacture 
must be fresh and wholesome. 
(i) No ice cream shall contain at any time 
more than 1,000,000 bacteria per cc. 
Sec. 91. All glasses, cups, dishes and other 
eating or drinking vessels or utensils used in 
in or at any hotel, saloon, restaurant, drug store, 
soda fountain, or other place of public refresh- 
ment in the city shall be thoroughly cleansed in 
running water or in clean water after each and 
every use thereof by any patron, and prior to 
any further use thereof in eating or drinking by 
any other patron. All pipes used for drawing 
beer or other beverages must be thoroughly 
cleaned at least once a week. 
Sec. 92. Any person, corporation or associ- 
ation of persons offending against Sections 89, 
90 or 91 of these ordinances governing the manu- 
facture of ice cream shall on conviction thereof 
pay a penalty of ten dollars for the first offense 
and for any subsequent offense may have their 
license revoked. 
37 Sec. 93. Every barber shop shall be equipped 
with running hot and cold water and with all 
such appliances, furnishings and materials as 
may be necessary to comply with these regula- 
tions, and the person in charge shall keep said 
shop at all times in a clean and sanitary condition 
according to the following requirements: 
(a) No person in charge of any baber shop 
shall permit any person suffering from a com- 
municable skin disease or from a venereal disease 
to act as barber in said shop. 
(b) No barber shall shave any person when 
the surface to be shaved is inflamed or broken 
out, or contains pus, unless such person be pro- 
vided with his individual shaving appliances. 
(c) Every barber shall cleanse his hands 
thoroughly immediately before shaving each 
customer. 
(d) No barber shall use for a customer any 
towel or wash cloth which has not been boiled 
or laundered since last used. 
(e) All combs, hair dusters and like articles 
shall be washed thoroughly and sterilized at 
frequent intervals and kept clean at all times, 
and all mugs, shaving brushes, razors, scissors, 
clippers, tweezers and other instruments must 
be sterilized after every separate use. 
(f) Every barber shall use a separate and clean 
towel for every customer and shall wear a wash- 
able apron or coat, which shall be kept clean. 
BARBER SHOPS 
38 (g) Every barber shall use alum or other 
material to stop the flow of blood in powdered 
or liquid form only, and shall not use sponges 
or powder puffs. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF ANIMALS 
Sec 94. Any person having in confinement 
dogs suspected of rabies shall report the same 
to the Board of Health and shall submit such 
dog to the examination of the Health Officer or 
his representatives, and it shall be the duty of 
the Health Officer when called upon to examine 
or have examined such dog, if it is suspected 
of having rabies, to ascertain whether or not 
such dog is afflicted with rabies. After permis- 
sion of the Health Officer has been secured dogs 
afflicted with rabies may be killed, and any dog 
suspected of having rabies may be killed by the 
direction of the Health Officer or his repre- 
sentative. 
Sec. 95. Whenever any animal shall be bitten 
by another animal having rabies, the owner or 
person having the custody or possession of the 
animal so bitten shall, upon being informed there- 
of, either kill such animal or quarantine it and 
keep it tied up or confined for a period of six 
months, and the Health Officer shall have power, 
in his discretion, to kill or quarantine the animal 
so bitten, in case the owner or person having 
custody or possession thereof shall fail to do 
so immediately, or in case the owner or person 
having custody thereof is not readily accessible. 
Sec. 96. Every veterinary surgeon who is 
called to examine or professionally attend any 
39 animal within the City of Elizabeth having the 
glanders or farcy, or any contagious disease, 
shall within twenty-four hours thereafter report 
in writing to the Board of Health of said city 
the following facts, viz.: 
1. A statement of the location of such diseased 
animal. 
2. The name and address of the owner thereof. 
3. The type and character of the disease. 
Sec. 97. The Health Officer may authorize 
the treatment by the Pasteur method or by any 
other known method of treatment for the pre- 
vention or cure of rabies of any person who has 
been bitten within the City of Elizabeth by any 
dog or other animal suspected of being afflicted 
with rabies. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 
Si$C. 98. Every physician must report to 
this Board in writing within twelve hours after 
his first professional attendance the name and 
address of every person having cholera, yellow 
fever, typhus fever, leprosy, plague, trichinosis, 
smallpox, varioloid, enteric (or typhoid) fever, 
anterior poliomyelitis, epidemic cerebro-spinal 
meningitis, ophthalmia neonatorium, trachoma, 
diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, 
measles, whooping cough, rotheln, mumps, 
chicken pox, or any other contagious, infectious 
or communicable disease, which hereafter may 
be publicly declared by the Board of Health to 
be preventable and especially dangerous to the 
public health. 
40 Sec. 99. Every physician must report to this 
Board in writing within twenty-four hours after 
his first professional attendance the name and 
address of every person having tuberculosis in 
any of its forms. 
SEC. 100. It shall be the duty of every physi- 
cian or midwife in attendance upon the birth 
of an infant to drop in each eye of said infant 
one drop of a one per cent, solution of silver 
nitrate immediately after the birth of said infant. 
Sec. 101. It shall be the duty of every mid- 
wife or nurse having charge of a new-born 
infant to report in writing within six hours to 
the Board of Health, if any pus or secretion form 
in the eyes, or on the eyelids, or if any or both 
eyes of said infant become reddened or swollen 
within two weeks after birth. 
Sec. 102. Upon the receipt of a report of 
the existence of a case of smallpox, varioloid, 
scarlet fever or diphtheria, the Health Officer 
shall cause to be placed upon the premises in 
which the case may be located a placard or pla- 
cards which shall state the nature of the disease, 
and said placard or placards shall remain under 
penalty of twenty dollars until removed by the 
direction of the Health Officer at the termina- 
tion of the disease and the release of quaran- 
tine. 
Sec. 103. No child suffering from trachoma 
shall be allowed to attend any public, private 
or parochial school or have close association 
with other individuals unless it shall present to 
41 the Board of Health a certificate from a com- 
petent physician that the case is not in a con- 
tagious stage. 
Sec. 104. No principal, teacher or superin- 
tendent of any school, and no parent or guardian 
of any child attending any school shall knowingly 
permit any child sick with any contagious dis- 
ease, or any child residing in any house in which 
such disease shall exist, to attend any school until 
this Board shall have given it permit therefor; 
and any person offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall forfeit and pay a 
penalty of ten dollars. 
Sec 105. In case communicable disease occurs 
in this city the person affected thereby shall, at 
the discretion of the Board of Health, be isolated, 
or said person may be removed to such locality 
as the Board of Health may order and direct; 
and all buildings, clothing, property and premises 
and vehicles which may become infected by the 
presence of persons affected by communicable 
diseases, shall be disinfected, fumigated or de- 
stroyed, and said disinfection, fumigation or de- 
struction shall be made and performed in such 
manner and with such materials and within such 
stated time and under such supervision as the 
Board of Health or its agents may direct. 
Sec. 106. No person from any dwelling 
wherein a disease dangerous to the public health 
exists shall take any book or magazine to or 
from the Public Library without a permit from 
the Board of Health. The Board will inform the 
librarian of all cases of said diseases, and until 
42 a written permit is given, he shall allow neither 
books nor magazines to be taken to or returned 
from the dwellings where such cases exist. 
Sec. 107. No person or articles liable to 
propagate a dangerous disease shall be brought 
into the city without the special permit and di- 
rection of the Board of Health, and no person 
shall remove any articles liable to propagate a 
dangerous or contagious disease from any house 
or place in which such dangerous or contagious 
disease shall exist, without a permit from this 
Board. 
Sec. 108. There shall not be a public or 
church funeral of any person who has died of 
smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet 
fever, yellow fever, typhus fever, or asiatic 
cholera, but the funeral or such person shall be 
private, and held within twenty-four hours of 
the death of said person and it shall not be law- 
ful to invite or permit at the funeral of any 
person who has died of any of the above diseases, 
or of any contagious or pestilential disease, or 
at any services connected therewith, any person 
whose attendance is not necessary, or to whom 
there is danger of contagion thereby. 
Sec. 109. It shall be the duty of every under- 
taker having notice of the death of any person 
within the City of Elizabeth of smallpox, vari- 
oloid, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet 
fever, yellow fever, typhus fever, asiatic cholera, 
leprosy, measles or any other contagious disease 
dangerous to the general health of the com- 
43 munity, or of the bringing of the dead body 
of any person who has died of any such disease 
into said city, to give immediate notice thereof 
to this Board of Health. And no undertaker 
shall retain or expose, or assist in the retention 
or exposure of the dead body of any such dead 
person, except in a coffin or casket properly 
sealed, nor shall he allow any such body to be 
placed in any coffin or casket unless the body 
has been thoroughly disinfected and wrapped in 
a sheet saturated with a proper disinfecting so- 
lution and the coffin or casket be immediately 
and permanently sealed. Nor shall he assist in 
the public or church funeral of any such person. 
Sec. 110. No person shall let or hire any 
house or room in a house in which cholera, small- 
pox, membranous croup, diphtheria, yellow, 
typhoid or scarlet fever has existed without hav- 
ing caused the house or premises connected there- 
with to be disinfected to the satisfaction of the 
Board of Health. 
SEC. 111. No person shall at any time carry 
or convey in or upon any passenger railway car, 
nor shall any conductor or person in charge of 
any such railroad car allow to be carried or 
conveyed in or upon such car, except on the front 
platform, any soiled or dirty articles of clothing 
or bedding, in baskets or bundles. 
Sec. 112. Spitting upon sidewalks and street 
crosswalks or upon the floors of public buildings, 
railroad stations, and all other public places and 
on any part of street railways cars or other public 
44 conveyances is hereby forbidden. Any person 
violating any of the provisions of this section 
shall pay a penalty of ten dollars. 
general 
Sec. 113. It shall be lawful for any of the 
members of the Board of Health, the Health 
Officer, any inspector of the Board of Health, 
any police officer and any other person acting 
under and by authority of the Board of Health, 
to enter into and upon any land, tenement, build- 
ing or other premises for any of the purposes 
specified in these rules, and any person prevent- 
ing, obstructing or resisting any officer hereto- 
fore named, or person employed in or by the 
Board of Health, in entering into or upon any 
land, tenement, building or other premises for 
any of the purposes specified in these rules, shall 
be liable to a penalty of not less than five nor 
more than fifty dollars for each and every 
offense, with costs of suit in case. 
Sec. 114. Every person shall observe and 
obey each and every special regulation and every 
order of this board that is or may be made for 
carrying into effect any of the ordinances or 
powers hereinbefore or hereinafter contained, 
or any law of this State, or otherwise issued di- 
rectly by the Board, as if the same had been in- 
serted at length. 
Sec. 115. The Board of Health shall have 
full power to amend, alter, add to or abolish 
any of these ordinances as in its judgment it 
may deem expedient for the protection of the 
45 public health at any regular or special meeting 
by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the 
Board. 
Sec. 116. Any person feeling aggrieved at 
the official action of the Board, any of its mem- 
bers, the Health Officer or any of the inspectors, 
shall be entitled to a hearing before the Board. 
Sec. 117. Any person or persons offending 
against or violating any of the provisions of any 
ordinance that has been passed by the Board of 
Health of the City of Elizabeth or that shall be 
passed by the said Board, or any of the foregoing 
provisions of this ordinance for which a specific 
penalty has not been declared, such person or 
persons shall be punished by a fine not less than 
five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, in the 
discretion of the court or jury before which such 
person or persons shall be tried. 
Passed August 14, 1913. 
46 PROVISIONS OF THE SANITARY CODE 
OE THE 
Board oe Health oe the City oe Elizabeth, 
Governing the Sale and Distribution oe 
Milk - Known as the Milk Code 
Be it ordained by the Board of Health of the 
City of Elizabeth: 
Section 1. No person, corporation or associ- 
ation of persons shall sell or deliver, or have in 
possession for sale or delivery in the City of 
Elizabeth, any milk or cream, without first ob- 
taining from the Board of Health a permit for 
such sale or delivery; said permit shall continue 
for the term of one year, which will not be issued 
unless said Board is satisfied after inspection 
with the clean and sanitary condition of the 
stable, cows, wagons, store or place of business 
of the applicant therefor. 
Sec. 2. No permit, as required in the section 
preceding, shall be issued by the Board of Health 
until there shall be paid to the said Board of 
Health for the issuing thereof and for a proper 
inspection and supervision of the sale of the milk, 
the sum of two dollars. 
Sec. 3. Each permit to be granted as set forth 
in the two sections next preceding for the term 
of one year from the first of March of each year; 
provided, that if any person so licensed as afore- 
said or any of his employes, servants or agents, 
47 shall violate any ordinance or rule of the Board 
of Health relating to the sale, distribution or 
inspection of milk, such license may, at the dis- 
cretion of the Board of Health, be revoked. 
Sec. 4. Any person or persons engaged in the 
sale of milk within the City of Elizabeth shall 
when so requested by the Board of Health or its 
agents, furnish said Board such samples of milk 
or cream in his or their possession or under their 
control as the said Board of Health may deem 
necessary for tests and analysis, and shall furnish 
the said Board a true statement in writing upon 
blanks to be supplied setting forth the average 
amount of milk which he or they sell each day, the 
locality from which said milk was procured, and 
and also a full and complete list of the names of 
persons from whom said milk was purchased, and 
the names and addresses of all persons and cus- 
tomers to whom he or they may sell or deliver 
milk within said city, and said blanks, when filled 
in as aforesaid, shall be signed by the person 
selling said milk, to whom said blank shall be 
tendered. 
Sec. 5. Any person or persons engaged in the 
sale of milk within the City of Elizabeth shall 
notify the Board of Health in writing immedi- 
ately upon changing the source of supply of the 
milk so sold by him or them within said city, of 
such change, and said notice shall also state the 
name or names of the persons supplying said 
milk and the locality from which said milk is 
procured. 
48 Sec. 6. No person shall sell or offer for sale 
in the City of Elizabeth any milk unless accord- 
ing to the following standards : 
Certified Milk (Class 1)-This term shall be 
limited to milk certified by a properly organized 
Medical Milk Commission. 
Inspected Milk (Class 2)-This term shall be 
limited to milk produced and sold under the 
following conditions: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, 
k, 1, m, and n. 
(a) Containing less than 88.50 per cent, of 
water or fluids. 
(b) Containing more than 11.50 per cent, of 
milk solids. 
(c) Containing more than 3 per cent, of 
milk fats. 
(d) From which no part of the cream has 
been removed. 
(e) Containing no dirt, foreign matter or 
sediment. 
(f) Containing no unhealthful ingredients, 
substance or preservative. 
(g) Containing no pathogenic bacteria. 
(h) Drawn from no cow which has been fed 
on garbage, refuse, fermenting brew- 
er's grains or other improper food. 
(i) Drawn from no cow within 15 days be- 
fore or 5 days after parturition. 
(j) Drawn from no cow into an uncovered 
milking pail. 
(k) Drawn from no cow which has reacted 
after January 1st, 1914, to a tuberculin 
49 test by a licensed veterinarian desig- 
nated by the Board of Health. 
(l) Which has been immediately cooled to 
50° F. and maintained at that temper- 
ture until sold to consumer. 
(m) Which has not existed or has not been 
kept under conditions contrary to the 
provisions of this code. 
(n) Containing less than 250,OCX) bacteria 
per cc. 
Pasteurized Milk (Class 3)-This term shall 
be limited to milk produced and sold under the 
following regulations: 
(1) Pasteurized milk must conform to the fol- 
lowing paragraphs of Inspected Milk: a, b, c, d, 
e, f, g, h, i, j, k, 1 and m. 
(2) Pasteurized Milk must not contain more 
than 1,000,000 bacteria per cc. at any time before 
pasteurization, nor more than 50,000 per cc. after 
pasteurization and at the time of delivery to 
consumer. 
(3) Pasteurization of milk is hereby defined 
as follows: Heating every portion of milk to 
140° F. and maintaining it at that temperature 
for 20 minutes. 
(4) All milk heated as provided in regulation 
3 shall be plainly marked on each bottle or can 
in which said milk is delivered to the consumer 
with a paper label bearing the inscription "Pas- 
teurized Milk." 
(5) Pasteurization of Milk shall not exempt 
any producer or dealer from any other provisions 
of this ordinance. 
50 Sec. 7. No milk shall be produced for sale in 
the City of Elizabeth unless complying in regard 
to method, equipment, transportation and score 
and such other regulations as the Board of Health 
may from time to time adopt. It shall be the 
duty of the Board of Health to publish monthly 
after July 1, 1913, the names, score, condition of 
equipment, methods, sanitary conditions or such 
other data it may think proper to inform the 
public of the standing and efficiency of every 
dealer in milk in the City of Elizabeth. 
Sec. 8. If at any time any person or persons 
having any connection with a dairy from which 
milk is sold or delivered, or offered for sale in 
the City of Elizabeth or any resident member of 
the family of any person so situated shall be 
stricken with any communicable disease that has 
been or may hereafter declared by this Board to 
be dangerous to the public health, notice shall be 
given to said Board immediately by the owner or 
owners of the dairy, and no milk produced from 
the dairy of any corporation, person or associa- 
tion of persons so infected, shall hereafter be 
sold or exposed for sale or delivered in the City 
of Elizabeth until special permission therefor has 
been granted by said Board. 
SEC. 9. No new dairy cow and no new bull 
which has not been demonstrated by the tuber- 
culin test to be free from tuberculosis and offici- 
ary tagged to show that fact shall be brought 
upon any dairy farm supplying milk to the City 
of Elizabeth and maintained there for a period 
longer than is necessary to have said cow or bull 
51 officially tuberculin tested, and any cow or bull 
so tested and reacting to the tuberculin test shall 
be tagged so as to show that fact, and killed or 
promptly removed from said farm. 
Sec. 10. All cans, bottles, or other vessels of 
any sort used in the production, storage, sale or 
distribution of milk in this city shall be cleaned 
and sterilized with boiling water or steam before 
they are again used for the same purpose, and 
all cans, measures or other utensils made of 
metal shall be kept free from dents and rust. 
The filling of bottles except at the dairy or cream- 
ery is prohibited. 
SEC. 11. In case of any sickness or contagious 
disease breaking out in the herd,the owner must 
immediately report the same to the Board ol 
Health, and no milk shall be sold or delivered 
until the same has been properly investigated and 
precautions taken to prevent anything detrimental 
to the health of consumers. All cows suffering 
from tuberculosis or any other communicable 
bovine disease must be immediately disposed of 
and the stables disinfected. 
Sec. 12. Everything about farms, stables, 
dairies, milk wagons, milk depots of dealers do- 
ing business in the City of Elizabeth must at all 
times be open to inspection of the Board of 
Health, its officers and agents, and must be kept 
absolutely clean and in the best sanitary condi- 
tion. 
Sec. 13. Milk kept for sale in anv store, shop, 
restaurant, market, bakery or other establishment 
52 in the City of Elizabeth shall be kept in tightly 
closed or capped bottles or other receptacles 
which have been approved by the Board of 
Health and shall be kept in a covered cooler, box 
or refrigerator properly drained and cared for 
and which shall at no time be allowed to become 
foul or malodorus through lack of proper clean- 
ing. Said store, shop, restaurant, market, bak- 
ery or other establishments shall at all times be 
when business is being carried on, upen to in- 
spection by any authorized agent of the Board 
of Health. Nothing contained herein shall pre- 
vent the sale of milk, or cream from cans, closed 
coolers or other receptacles in resturants, hotels 
or boarding houses when the milk is to be con- 
sumed in the premises by guests or patrons or- 
dering the same. 
Sec. 14. Nothing in these ordinances shall 
prevent the sale of skimmed milk or sour milk, 
provided, however, that the same be sold as such 
and skimmed milk shall only be kept for sale in 
utensils plainly marked "Skimmed Milk." 
Skimmed milk and sour milk shall conform to 
the standards of purity and temperature required 
of sweet milk. 
Sec. 15. It shall not be unlawful for any per- 
son to distribute or sell in a container having a 
capacity of not more than 12 fluid ounces, milk 
especially prepared for infants or infant feeding, 
by adding thereto pure water, milksugar, cereal 
starches or other substances which shall not differ 
in purity, quality or strength from the standard 
53 fixed by this ordinance, provided, that such milk 
shall be labeled "Modified Milk." 
Sec. 16. No milk shall be transported or 
handled by any railroad or other common car- 
rier unless said milk is kept on ice during tran- 
sit, and unless said milk is protected from sun 
and rain after reaching its destination and be- 
fore it has been received by the milkman. All 
vehicles used for handling or distributing milk 
or cream must be kept neat and clean and in 
good repair, and must not be used for hauling 
manure, slops or anything else of an objection- 
able nature and must be provided therefor with 
a covered top of canvas or other material which 
will protect all vessels containing milk or cream 
from the rays of the sun. 
Sec. 17. No milk shall be produced, kept, sold 
or offered for sale in the City of Elizabeth from 
any cow or cows that are kept in a stable that is 
not in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition, 
or unless it has been cooled immediately after it is 
drawn from the cow. Said milk shall not be 
cooled in any room which is not provided with 
tight walls, and floor of such construction as will 
allow easy and thorough cleaning, or which is 
not kept constantly clean or which is used for any 
other purpose and unless provision is made for 
the exclusion of outside dust and flies to the sat- 
isfaction of the Board of Helath. 
Sec. IS. The dairy score card adopted by the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture shall be used in 
the scoring of all dairies, and any person whose 
54 dairy scores lower than 60 shall be notified and 
given thirty days in which to make the necessary 
improvements, at the end of which time, if such 
improvements have not been made, the sale of 
milk and cream from such dairy shall be pro- 
hibited. 
Sec. 19. Any person, corporation or associa- 
tion of persons offending against or violating any 
of the provisions of Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, or 18 of this 
ordinance shall, on conviction thereof, pay a 
penalty of $10 for the first offense, and for any 
subsequent offense may have their license re- 
voked. 
Adopted January 9, 1913. 
Amended November 13, 1913. 
55 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SANITARY CODE 
OF THE 
Board of Heaeth of the City of Elizabeth, 
Regulating the Plumbing and Drainage 
of Buildings 
Be it ordained by the Board of Health of the 
City of Elizabeth: 
Section 1. Before any person shall engage in 
the business of master plumber in the City of 
Elizabeth, he shall furnish the Board of Health 
a certificate from the duly appointed Board of 
Examiners, that he is qualified to engage in said 
business of master plumber and shall have re- 
ceived a license from said Board of Health to 
follow the trade or calling of a plumber. This 
section shall not apply to any person now en- 
gaged in and following the trade, calling or 
business of a master plumber in the City of 
Elizabeth. 
Sec. 2. Every person engaged in the business 
of a master plumber in the City of Elizabeth, 
shall appear in person at the office of the Board 
of Health and register his name and place of 
business; and in case of removal shall give im- 
mediate notice to said Board. Every person so 
registered as a master plumber shall make and 
execute unto the City of Elizabeth, a bond in the 
sum of two hundred dollars ($200) with suffi- 
cient security to be approved by said Board of 
Health and renewed annually, conditioned upon 
the proper and faithful performance in accord- 
ance with the ordinances, rules and regulations 
56 of said Board of Health, by said plumber of all 
the plumbing work, both inside and outside build- 
ings, done by him within the corporate limits of 
the said City of Elizabeth, and no person shall 
engage in business or do work as a master plum- 
ber within the corporate limits of said city until 
such bond shall be filed with and approved by 
said Board of Health, between the first and 
thirty-first days of January. 
Sec. 3. A re-examination will not be neces- 
sary for re-registration or renewal of license 
unless a licensed master plumber shall fail to file 
bond or fail to make application for re-registra- 
tion at the given time, the sum of $2.00 shall be 
paid by the master plumber to the Board of 
Health upon filing of bond and for renewal of 
license. The failure upon the part of a master 
plumber to make application for first or final 
inspection or the violation of any of the rules 
of the Board of Health, as to the construction 
of plumbing work and the failure to correct 
faults after notification, shall be deemed sufficient 
cause to have his license suspended for such 
length of time as the Board may deem proper. 
No master plumber shall construct or alter any 
system of plumbing during the period of his 
suspension. 
Sec. 4. Before any portion of the plumbing 
and drainage system of any building shall be 
constructed there shall be filed in the office of 
the Board of Health a plan thereof, signed by 
the plumber showing the said plumbing and 
drainage system entire, from its connection with 
57 the sewer, cesspool or vault throughout the entire 
building, together with the location of all fixtures, 
traps, ventilating pipes, etc. Said plan must be 
approved and name of owner attached thereto 
before any portion of the work shall be executed. 
Before any changes are made in the direction 
of pipes or location of fixtures they must first be 
approved, and said changes made on the original 
plan on file. This regulation also applies to any 
extensions or alterations of existing systems. 
Skc. 5. When the plan of any plumbing and 
drainage system is filed in the office of the Board 
of Health, a fee of two dollars will be charged 
to defray the expenses of inspecting the plans, of 
filing and superintending the testing of the work, 
as provided in Section 6. 
Sec. 6. Every new plumbing system before 
being used must be tested by the plumber, by the 
smoke, water or other test, at the option and 
under the supervision of the Plumbing Inspector, 
according to the following requirements : 
(a) The several lines of soil, vent; and waste 
pipes, with their respective branches must be in 
place. 
(b) All brass screw plugs for cleanouts of 
traps, etc., on house drain, must be in position. 
(c) The fresh air inlet and house drain must 
be extended outside of foundation wall. 
Any such system put in and covered without 
due notice to the Plumbing Inspector must be 
uncovered for examination at the direction of 
said inspector. All defective pipes and fittings 
must be removed and replaced with new. When 
58 the work is entirely complete the Plumbing In- 
spector shall be notified and a final test shall be 
made immediately by the plumber by smoke or 
any other manner which the Plumbing Inspector 
may deem necessary, Until said work is ap- 
proved and a certificate has been granted by the 
Plumbing Inspector, the plumber or person au- 
thorized to do said work shall be held responsible 
for its proper condition. 
Sec. 7. No building or premises will be al- 
lowed to be connected with any sewer, cesspool, 
or vault without a permit first obtained from the 
Board of Health or other designated department 
of the city. It is further required that permits 
shall be kept on hand during the progress of the 
work to which they relate, and they shall be ex- 
hibited whenever required by the proper officers 
of the board. The condition of this permit must 
be strictly complied with. This regulation applies 
to all sewers, whether on private property or in 
public streets or alleys. 
Sec. 8. Before laying the drain from the 
building to the sewer, cesspool or vault, and after 
the trench is graded, the bottom of the trench 
must be carefully rammed to avoid unequal set- 
tling of the drain. After the pipe is laid, as the 
trench is filled, the earth must be tightly rammed 
as near as possible to its original compactness. 
Tunneling is prohibited unless the consent of the 
Board of Health thereto has first been obtained. 
Sec. 9. Where the ground is made or filled 
in, or in any case where there is danger of settle- 
ment from frost or from any cause, the drain, 
59 extending from the sewer, cesspool or vault to 
the foundation wall, must be of extra heavy cast- 
iron pipe, of such diameter as may be approved. 
Such pipes shall be laid with the joints properly 
caulked with lead. 
Sec. 10. Where a proper foundation consist- 
ing of a natural bed of earth, rock, etc., can be 
obtained, the house sewer from the main sewer 
in street to within five feet of foundation wall can 
be of saltglazed earthenware pipe. Each section 
must be welded before applying the sement, and 
the space between each hub and small end of the 
next section must be completely and uniformly 
filled with the best hydraulic cement. None but 
licensed master plumbers will be permitted to 
alter, repair or make connections to any part of 
the plumbing system, house drain or house sewer 
of any building unless by special permission from 
the Board of Health. Other contractors having a 
proper license will be permitted to lay house 
sewer from main sewer in street to curb line only. 
Old house drains shall not be used in connection 
with new buildings or new plumbing except by 
permission from the Board of Health. In no 
case shall earthenware pipe be used for sewerage 
purposes within a distance of five feet of the 
foundation walls of any building. The house 
drain must properly connect with the house sewer 
at a point not less than five feet outside of the 
outer front vault, area wall or foundation wall of 
any building. 
Sec. 11. Where a building is to be connected 
with the sewer, cesspool or vault, it must be con- 
60 nected by a drain not less than four inches in 
diameter, having a fall of not less than one-quar- 
ter of an inch to the foot. Old drains can be 
used for new houses only when found to conform 
in all respects to the foregoing regulations gov- 
ernning new drains. Where any extensions of 
soil, waste or vent lines are added or where 
waterclosets or any other plumbing fixtures exist 
on old drainage systems without mainline trap 
or fresh air inlet the same will have to be in- 
stalled. 
Sec. 12. Where there is no sewer in the street 
on which a building faces, and it is necessary to 
construct a private sewer to connect with the 
sewer on an adjacent street or avenue it must be 
laid outside of the curb, under the roadway of 
the street and not through yards or under houses, 
without a special permit from the Board of 
Health. 
Sec. 13. Pipe sewers must not be cut; house 
drain connections with pipe sewers must be made 
with "Y' branches. Where connection is made 
with brick sewers a terracotta junction block must 
be used. 
Sec. 14. All horizontal drains within and to a 
distance of five feet beyond the walls of buildings, 
shall be of extra heavy cast iron, with caulked 
leaden joints, and shall be so located as to be 
readily accessible for inspection. If possible the 
house drain must be above the cellar floor and 
supported at intervals of not more than ten feet 
by eight-inch brick piers, or suspended from the 
floor beams, or be otherwise properly supported 
61 by heavy pipe hangers at intervals of not more 
than ten feet. The use of pipe hooks for sup- 
porting house drains is prohibited. All brick 
piers, pipe hangers and supports must be in 
position before test is made, same to be furnished 
by the contracting plumber unless otherwise 
specified by the architect. The house drain and 
all soil and waste pipes shall have a fall of at 
least one-quarter inch to the foot, and more if 
possible. All changes in any direction must be 
made with proper fittings and all connections 
made with "Y" branches and one-eighth or one- 
sixteenth bends. Full size "Y" or "T" branches 
for hand hold cleanouts must be provided at 
foot of all soil and waste lines of same size of 
pipe and where required on house drain and its 
branches. In no case shall said cleanouts be 
more than twenty feet apart; they must be ac- 
cessible and closed by extra heavy brass trap 
screw ferrule. 
Sec. 15. An extra heavy cast-iron running 
ttap with a double hand hole must be placed on 
the house drain near the wall of the building and 
on the sewer side of all connections. When out- 
side of the house it must never be less than four 
feet below the surface of the ground. The house 
trap must have two extra heavy brass ferrules 
caulked in for cleaning purposes. Cellar drain 
traps to be four inch extra heavy running trap 
with a leader connected to maintain a permanent 
water seal with approved back pressure valve 
calked in house side opening of cellar drain. 
Sec. 16. A fresh-air inlet, not less than four 
62 inches in diameter, must be connected with the 
house drain just inside of the house trap. Said 
fresh-air inlet to have an opening to the outer 
air at least five feet from any window or cold air 
duct, and to be carried a distance of five feet 
from any window or air shaft and to finish above 
the grade line one foot with a return bend. No 
cap or cowl will be permitted on air inlet or 
vent lines. 
Sec. 17. The diameter of soil or waste 
pipes must not be less than those given in the 
following table. 
Main soil pipes 4 inches 
Main soil pipes for ten or more water- 
closets 5 inches 
Branch waste pipes 4 inches 
Main waste pipes 2 inches 
Main waste pipes for four or more fix- 
tures 3 inches 
Branch waste for laundry tubs 2 inches 
Branch waste for kitchen sinks 2 inches 
Branch waste for slop hoppers 3 inches 
Branch waste for other fixtures 1% inches 
All branch waste from main house drain, when 
under ground, must be of not less than three 
inches in diameter. All soil, vent and waste pipes 
shall be as direct and concentrated as possible, 
protected from frost and readily accessible for 
inspection and convenience in repairing. 
Sec. 18. All cast iron soil and waste pipes and 
fittings must be sound, free from holes and of 
63 uniform thickness and what is known in Com- 
merce as "extra heavy" of the following weights: 
Extra Heavy Pipe 
2 inch- 5% lbs. per lineal foot 
3 inch- 9% lbs. per lineal foot 
4 inch-13 lbs. per lineal foot 
5 inch-17 lbs. per lineal foot 
6 inch-20 lbs. per lineal foot 
7 inch-27 lbs. per lineal foot 
8 inch-34 lbs. per lineal foot 
10 inch-45 lbs. per lineal foot 
12 inch-54 lbs. per lineal foot 
Sec. 19. All waste and vent lines of wrought 
iron to be standard galvanized or brass pipe 
properly reamed with galvanized drainage fittings 
for waste. Beaded fittings may be used for vents. 
All vent pipes to be increased to a diameter of 
four inches before passing through the roof and 
to a water-tight roof flashing turned into the hub 
of pipe. Flashing to weigh six pounds per foot 
or be sixteen ounces copper. 
Sec. 20. Every vertical soil and waste pipe 
must be cast or galvanized wrought iron and 
must extend at least two feet above the highest 
part of the roof or coping, except in the case of 
flat roof tenement houses, in which case it shall 
extend at least six feet above the roof. No cap 
or cowl shall be affixed to the top of such ventil- 
ation pipe. Each length shall be securely fas- 
tened. and in the case of each line of soil pipe 
it shall rest at its foot on a pier or foundation to 
64 prevent settling. All joints in cast iron drain, 
soil or waste pipes must be filled with oakum and 
lead and hand caulked as to make them gas-tight, 
and the amount of lead used shall not be less than 
twelve ounces to each inch diameter of the pipe 
so connected. 
Sec. 21 All changes in direction in cast or 
galvanized wrought iron pipe shall be made with 
curved pipes, and all connections with "Y" 
branches and one-sixteenth or one-eighth bends. 
SEC. 22. Soil, waste and vent pipes in an ex- 
tension must be extended above the roof of the 
main building, where otherwise they would open 
within twenty feet of the windows of the main 
house or the adjoining house. 
Sec. 23. Where lead pipe is used to connect 
fixtures with vertical soil or waste pipes, it must 
not be lighter than D pipe. All lead traps and 
bends must be of the same weight and thickness 
as their corresponding pipe branches. 
Sec. 24. All lead waste, soil, vent and flush 
pipes must be of the best quality, known in Com- 
merce as "D" and of not less than the following 
weights per lineal foot: 
Weights 
Diameters Per Lineal Poot 
1% inches (for flush pipes only).. , .2*4 pounds 
\y2 inches 3 pounds 
2 inches 4 pounds 
3 inches 6 pounds 
4 inches 8 pounds 
All lead traps and bends must be of the same 
65 weight and thickness as their corresponding pipe 
branches. 
Sec. 25. All connections of lead with iron 
pipes must be made with a brass sleeve or ferrule 
put in the hub of the branch of the iron pipe and 
caulked with lead. The lead pipe must be at- 
tached to the ferrule by a wiped joint. All con- 
nections of lead waste and vent pipes shall be 
made by means of wiped joints. All brass fer- 
rules and soldering nipples to be extra heavy. 
Sec. 26. Every watercloset, urinal, sink, basin, 
wash-tray, bath and every tub or set of tubs and 
hydrant waste pipes must be separately and ef- 
fectively trapped, except where a sink and wash- 
tubs immediately adjoin each other, in which case 
the waste pipe from the tubs may be connected 
with the inlet side of the sink trap. In no case 
shall the waste from any fixture be connected 
with a watercloset. 
Sec. 27. Traps must be placed as near the 
fixtures as practicable and in no case shall a trap 
be more than two feet from the fixtures. All 
traps must be protected from syphonage and back 
pressure, and all branch vent lines must be con- 
nected with the adjoining soil or waste line well 
above the top of the highest fixtures. 
The size of the branch vents for the different 
fixtures must not be less than the following: 
For waterclosets where only one line extends 
to roof, 4 inches. 
For each watercloset (excepting cellar) where 
only one line extends to roof, 4 inches. 
66 For other separate waterclosets where there is 
only one on line, 2 inches. 
For vent to sink where there is only one on line 
to roof, 2 inches. 
Where sink vent is intersected to main soil 
vent, \y2 inches. 
For slop sinks, 2 inches. For wash trays and 
all other fixtures, inches. 
Sec. 28. Offsets of the 45 angle pattern will 
be permitted on waste or vent lines and all vent 
lines must be connected at the bottom with a "Y" 
branch to soil or waste pipe or house drain in 
such a manner as to prevent the accumulation of 
rust scale. The area of all vent pipes must be in- 
creased as they pass upward so as to correspond 
to the combined area of all branch vents passing 
into them, and must always have a continuous 
slope to avoid water by condensation. 
Sec. 29. A vent line need not be run from a 
closet unless said closet shall be situated more 
than five feet from a main soil pipe in which 
case a two-inch continuous vent must be used. 
If the closet is more than ten feet from the main 
soil pipe, the soil pipe serving closet shall be con- 
tinued upward through the roof of the building 
by a vent pipe not less than three inches. 
Sec. 30. All waterclosets in buildings over 
three stories high to be protected from siphonage 
and back pressure by a special revent pipe of 
suitable area not less than two inches in diameter. 
All waterclosets and slop sinks must have a suit- 
able brass floor flange soldered to lead pipe or 
67 closet bend with asbestos gasket to make a gas 
and water-tight joint. Where safes are placed 
under fixtures, the safe wastes shall be run sep- 
arately to the basement or cellar and empty over 
a water supplied fixture, the end being closed by 
a brass flap valve or other improved device. No 
waste pipes from a refrigerator or other recep- 
tacle where food is kept shall be connected with 
the house drain, soil or other waste pipe. Re- 
frigerator wastes must be of a diameter not less 
than one and one-half inches and so arranged 
as to be properly flushed. They shall empty over 
a water supplied sink, the mouth of the pipe, to 
have a hinged brass flap valve. 
Sec. 31. The sediment pipe from kitchen 
boilers must never be connected to any part of 
the plumbing or drainage system of any building. 
Kitchen boilers must be provided with a proper 
draw cock for emptying purposes. 
Sec. 32. All waterclosets for private or public 
use must be of latest deep seal siphon pattern and 
when arranged in batteries they must be of the 
separate or individual type. All waterclosets 
within the house must be supplied with water 
from separate tanks or cisterns, the water of 
which is used for no other purpose. A group of 
closets on the same floor may be supplied from 
one tank. 
Sec. 33. Waterclosets must never be placed 
in an unventilated room or compartment. In 
every case the comparitment must be open to the 
outer air, or be ventilated by means of a shaft or 
air duct. 
68 Sec. 34. Rain water leaders, when placed in- 
side of any building, must be of cast iron, with 
leaded joints, galvanized wrought iron with 
screwed joints or of copper, with soldered joints. 
When outside of the building and connected with 
the drain, it must, if of sheet metal with slip 
joints, be trapped beneath the ground or just in- 
side of the wall, the trap being arranged so as to 
prevent freezing. In every case where a leader 
opens near a window or a light shaft it must be 
properly trapped at its base. The joint between 
a cast iron leader and the roof must be made gas 
and water tight by means of a brass ferrule and 
lead or copper pipe, properly connected. 
Sec. 35. Rain water leaders must never be 
used as soil, waste or vent pipes, nor shall any 
soil, waste or vent pipes be used as a leader. 
Sec. 36. No steam exhaust, blow-off or drip- 
pipe from a steam boiler shall connect with the 
sewer or with any drain, soil pipe or waste pipe. 
Such pipes must discharge into a condenser or 
sump pit. Sub-soil drains must be provided when 
necessary, and in no case shall these drain have a 
direct connection with the sewer or the drainage 
system of any building. 
Sec. 37. The following are prohibited without 
special permit from the Board of Health: 
Short one-quarter bends on horizontal lines, 
double hubs, below waste connections, short roof 
increasers, common off-sets, bands and saddles, 
yard waterclosets, wash-out closets, long hopper 
closets, McClellan vents, and wooden or cement 
wash trays. All traps with inner partitions on 
69 other mechanical devices. In addition no cast or 
wrought pipe can be tapped or threaded to con- 
nect a waste or vent line. A deep seal trap of 
the pot or drum pattern will be permitted on 
bath wastes or shower receptors without venting 
if the distance from the nearest vent line does not 
exceed five feet. 
Sec. 38. The waste pipes from any plumbing 
fixtures in any building shall not be connected 
with the lead bend of the watercloset, but there 
must be a separate "Y" branch outlet left in the 
soil pipe for all other plumbing fixtures. Fittings 
for vent pipes on wrought iron or brass pipes 
most be of cast or malleable iron or brass. All 
brass pipe for vents and waste pipes and solder 
nipples must be thoroughly annealed, seamless, 
drawn brass tubing. Connections on brass pipes 
and between brass pipe and traps on iron pipe 
must not be made with slip joints or couplings. 
Threaded connections on brass pipes must be of 
the same size as iron pipe threads for same size 
of pipe and be tapered. 
Sec. 39. Any person or persons or corpora- 
tion offending against or violating any of the 
provisions of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. 23, 
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 
37, and 38 of this ordinance shall, on conviction 
thereof, pay a penalty of fifty dollars for the first 
offense and for the second and each subsequent 
offense the sum of one hundred dollars. 
Adopted February 13, 1913. 
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