Health Code 
OF THE 
City of Tampa 
Florida 
NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE Health Code 
OF THE 
City of Tampa 
Florida 
Adopted By The 
Commission of The City of Tampa 
April 3rd, 1923 BY AUTHORITY OF ORDINANCE 104-A, 
DATED APRIL 3,1923, OF THE CITY OF 
TAMPA THE FOLLOWING HEALTH 
CODE IS HEREWITH PUBLISHED FOR 
THE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE 
OF ALL CONCERNED. 
AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A 
HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN THE 
CITY OF TAMPA; AND TO DEFINE 
ITS DUTIES AND TO AUTHORIZE 
HEALTH AND SANITARY REGULA- 
TIONS THEREFOR. 
CHAPTER I. 
ORDINANCE NO. 104-A, DATE APRIL 
3, 1923 
Section 1. There shall be a Health Depart- 
ment in the City of Tampa, Hillsborough 
County, Florida, under the direction of a Health 
Officer who shall be a physician, residing within 
the corporate limits of the City of Tampa. He 
shall be appointed by the City Commission, 
and hold office at the pleasure thereof. He shall 
be suitable trained or experienced in public 
health administration. He shall devote his full 
time to the duties of his office. He shall execute 
and enforce all statutes, ordinances, and regu- 
lations of the State of Florida and of the City of 
Tampa for the protection and promotion of 
1 health and shall take such other action as is 
necessary for public health and records. He 
shall have entire charge of all charity and 
welfare cases and work of the City. He shall 
publish a monthly report of the work done in his 
Department and of Vital Statistics. He shall 
publish all statutes, ordinances and regulations 
of the State of Florida, and of the City of 
Tampa which are pertinent to the public 
health, with such condensation, amplification, 
decisions and specific instructions concerning 
the same as are necessary for their understand- 
ing by the general public, in a Health Code of 
the City of Tampa. 
Sec. 2. The provisions, regulations and 
amendments of the Health Code, when approv- 
ed by the City Commission and by the State 
Health Officer, shall have the force and effect of 
law, and any violation of any portion thereof 
shall be a violation of this Ordinance. The 
Health Code may deal with any matters affect- 
ing the security of life or health or the preserva- 
tion and improvement of public health in the 
City of Tampa, and any matters in which 
jurisdiction is hereinafter placed upon the 
Health Department. 
Sec. 3. Amendments and additions to said 
Health Code when published by advertisement 
in a City Newspaper shall have equal force with 
the original Code and City Ordinances. 
Sec. 4. Any person violating any order, reg- 
ulation or ordinance of the City of Tampa 
relating to health and sanitation shall be fined 
not more than five hundred [$500.00] dollars, or 
imprisoned not more than six months, or both 
for each offense; and whenever the act com- 
2 plained of is a continuous act or offense each 
day’s offense shall be considered a separate 
offense. 
Sec. 5. All ordinances or parts of ordinances 
inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
Passed by the City Commission of the City of 
Tampa, Florida this third day of April, nineteen 
hundred and twenty-three. 
CHAS. H. BROWN, 
Mayor Commissioner 
Attest: 
Wm. E. Duncan, City Clerk. 
3 CHAPTER II. 
SECTION. Definition of Words. Words 
used herein shall have for the purposes oc this 
Code the following meanings: 
CITY. The City of Tampa. 
OWNER. Any person, firm or corporation, 
or agent having the title to, possession of, or 
controlling property. 
PERSON. Any person, persons, firm or 
corporation. 
FOOD. Any substance, or concoction which 
is eaten or drunk by human beings for the 
purpose of nourishment or refreshment. 
GARBAGE. Any accumulation of either 
animal or vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, 
which accumulates in the preparation of food, 
or any offal or refuse of meats, fish, fowls or 
vegetables or other refuse or waste liable to 
decay. 
STREET. Any street, public highway, side- 
walk, gutter or any unaccepted street or private 
way or sidewalk used by the public. 
PUBLIC PLACES. Any park, cemetery, 
school yard or open space adjacent thereto, any 
lake or stream. 
GENDER, NUMBER, TENSE. Words of 
the masculine gender include the feminine and 
neuter. WTords in the singular number include 
the plural and in the plural number include the 
singular. Words in the present tense include 
the future. 
DEFINITIONS 
4 SANITARY NUISANCE. A sanitary nui- 
sance is hereby declared to be the Commission 
of any act, by an individual, municipality, 
organization or corporation, or the keeping, 
maintaining, propagation, existence or permis- 
sion of anything, by an individual, municipality, 
organization or corporation, by which the health 
or life of an individual or the health or lives of 
individuals, may be threatened or impaired, or 
by which or through which, directly or inditect- 
lv diseases mav be caused. 
CHAPTER III. 
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES 
Reg. 1. Communicable diseases designated 
as notifiable. For the purpose of this Code, the 
term communicable diseases shall be held to in- 
clude the following diseases, which are hereby 
declared to be communicable through the con- 
veyance of the infective organisms: 
Anthrax. 
Chancroid. 
Chickenpox. 
Cholera, Asiatic. 
Dengue 
Diphtheria, [membranous croup). 
Dysentery, amoebic and bacillary. 
Epidemic or cerebrospinal meningitis—men- 
ingococcic infection. 
Epidemic or streptococcus [septic] sorethroat 
Encephilitis epidemic—lethargica. 
Favus. 
German Measles. 
Glanders. 
Gonorrhoea. 
Hookworm Infection. 
5 Influenza. 
Leprosy. 
Malaria. 
Measles. 
Mumps. 
Ophthalmia neonatorum [suppurative con- 
junctivitis of the newborn.] 
Para-typhoid fever. 
Plague. 
Pneumonia—all forms—differentiated. 
Poliomyelitis, acute anterior [infantile para- 
lysis]. 
Puerperal septicaemia. 
Rabies. 
Scarlet fever. 
Syphilis. 
Smallpox. 
Tetanus. 
Trachoma. 
Trichinosis. 
Tuberculosis. 
Typhoid Fever. 
Typhus Fever. 
Vincents angina. 
Whooping Cough. 
Yellow Fever. 
Cancer, Beriberi and Pellagra shall for the 
purpose of reporting be also included herein. 
Provided, that the commission may by resolu- 
tion require any other disease to be reported. 
Reg. 2. REPORTING COMMUNICABLE 
DISEASES. 
[2A.[ Every physician or other person hav- 
ing knowledge of any person affected or ap- 
6 parently infected with any disease specified in 
Regulation II of this chapter shall report to the 
Health Officer the following data: 
Name of disease. 
Full name, age, sex, race and exact address of 
patient, exact occupation, place of employment, 
or school attended by patient. 
Name and address of person making report. 
Date of report. 
Such report shall be made within six [6] hours 
after the case comes under observation, prefer- 
ably upon the card furnished by the Health 
Department, if practicable; otherwise by tele- 
phone or other means. Provided that reports 
of Syphilis, Gonococcus Infection or Chancroid 
shall be made in sealed envelopes and shall be 
kept confidential as required by the laws of 
Florida. 
The term “Other Person’’ as used in the 
regulation shall mean in the absence of a 
physician, any parent, guardian, householder, 
keeper of a hotel or lodging house, midwife, 
nurse, school teacher, superintendent of an in- 
stution, master of a vessel, owner or manager 
of a dairy, person in charge of any lumber, con- 
struction, or work camp, or other person having 
under his care or observation a person affected or 
apparently affected with a communicable disease. 
[2B]. It shall be the duty of every physician 
to submit promptly to the laboratory of the 
State Department of Health or to that of the 
City or to other approved Laboratory such 
specimens for laboratory examination, as may 
aid in prompt diagnosis of Diptheria, Vincents 
Angina, Typhoid fever, Gonococcus Infection 
and Syphilis. 
7 [2C], It shall be the duty of every physician 
to report to the He alth Officer the full name, age, 
and address of eve ry person who has been 
bitten by an animal afflicted or suspected of 
being afflicted with rabies, within twenty-four 
hours [24] from the time wfflen such fact comes 
to his knowledge. 
The Health Officer shall transmit such report 
promptly to the State Board of Health. 
Reg. 3. REPORTING CASES OF COM- 
MUNICABLE DISEASE ON 
DAIRY FARMS BY PHYSI- 
SICIANS. 
[3A]. When a case of asiatic cholera, 
diphtheria, amoebic or bacillary dysentery, 
epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic or 
septic sorethroat, para-typhoid fever, poliomey- 
litis, acute anterior, scarlet fever, smallpox, 
tuberculosis or typhoid fever exists on any farm 
or at any dairy producing milk, cream, butter or 
other dairy products for sale in the City of 
Tampa it shall be the duty of the physician in 
attendance to report immediately to the local 
Health Officer the existence on such farm or 
dairy of such cases. 
It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to 
report immediately to the State Health Officer 
the existence of such farm or dairy of such cases, 
together with all facts as to the isolation of 
such cases, and giving the names of the localities 
to which such dairy products are delivered. 
[3B]. REPORTING CASES OF DISEASE 
PRESUMABLY COMMUNICABLE ON 
DAIRY FARMS BY OWNER OR PER- 
SON IN CHARGE. 
When no physician is in attendance, it shall 
8 be the duty of the owner or person in charge of 
any farm or dairy producing milk, cream, butter, 
cheese, or other food products likely to be con- 
sumed raw, to report forthwith to the local 
Health Officer the name and address and all 
facts relating to the illness and physical con- 
dition of any person, who is affected with any 
disease presumably communicable, and who is 
employed or resides on or in such farm or dairy, 
or comes in contact in any way therewith or 
with its products. 
Reg. 4. MEASURES OF CONTROL. 
[4A]. The Health Officer or his duly author- 
ized representative shall make such investigation 
as in his judgment may be necessary to deter- 
mine the presence or absence of any of the 
diseases named in Regulation l of this chapter, 
and if any such be found he shall adopt such 
measures as are authorized by law for the pre- 
vention of spread of such disease and for the 
relief of the patient; and to these ends he or his 
duly authorized representative may enter any 
premises where he suspects the presence of any 
such disease. 
Whenever in his judgment such procedure is 
necessary, he or his duly authorized representa- 
tive shall secure material for cultures, or speci- 
mens for bacteriological or other laboratory ex- 
amination, to assist in determining diagnosis, 
and any person when requested by him shall 
permit such specimen to be taken. 
(4B). CONTROL IN SCHOOLS 
The teacher of any school, college, or Sunday 
school being in charge of or having supervision 
over any pupil who appears to be affected by 
9 any communicable diseases, shall promptly send 
such pupil home or effect isolation from other 
pupils until examined by a physician. The 
teacher shall report the case in accordance with 
Regulation II of this chapter. A pupil thus 
excluded shall not be permitted to return to 
school without a permit from the Health Officer, 
except in case of the following diseases whenthe 
pupil may be admitted as noted belowc 
Chicken-pox after all crusts or scabs have 
disappeared from the skin. 
German Measles (Rubella—Roetheln) seven 
(7) days from appearance of rash. 
Measles (Rubeola) seven (7) days from dis- 
appearance of rash provided all abnormal dis- 
charges from the ear, nose or mouth shall have 
ceased. 
Mumps two (2) weeks after beginning of 
attack, provided no extension has occurred into 
other glands. 
Whooping —Cough (pertussia) two (2) weeks 
after disappearance of the Whoop, but not less 
than six (6)weeks from the beginning of the the 
attack of the disease. 
All cases of the above diseases thus re-admitt- 
ed must be immediately reported by the teacher 
to the Health Officer, including therewith a 
statement or certificate by a physician or by 
parent or guardian showing diagnosis and dates 
of beginning and termination of the infectious 
stage thereof. 
The Health Officer may accept in lieu of ex- 
amination of cases presumably recovered from 
communicable diseases, other than diphtheria; 
the certificate of a physician that the full time 
10 of isolation has been accomplished and that 
there are no residual lesions, and that in his 
opinion the case is fully recovered from the dis- 
ease. 
It shall be the duty of the teacher in charge 
of said school, Sunday school or college to ex- 
clude therefrom any child or person affected 
with a disease presumably communicable, until 
such person shall have presented a certificate 
issued by the Health Officer, except as herein 
provided when the certificate of a physician may 
be accepted. 
In the event of the presence of any disease as 
specified in Regulation I the Health Officer may 
cause to be examined any pupils and any 
teachers or other person employed in the schools 
and may take any measures necessary to prevent 
the spread of disease. 
All school authorities and employees shall 
conform to all rules and regulations of the 
Health Officer for the accomplishment of this 
end. 
Reg. 5. ISOLATION AND INSTRUCTION 
OF CASES. 
(5A). Isolation of persons affected with 
communicable diseases. It shall be the duty of 
every physician, immediatly upon discovering 
a case of commumicable disease, to secure such 
isolation of the patient, or to take such other 
action, as is required by the special rules and 
regulations which from time to time may be 
issued by the Health Officer or by the state 
Board of Health. 
It shall be the duty of the physician in at 
tendance upon any case suspected by him to b' 
11 diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, 
septic sore throat, measles, polimoyelitis, scarlet 
fever, smallpox or whooping cough to give de- 
tailed instructions to the person in attendance 
as nurse, in regard to the disinfection and dis- 
posal of discharges from the mouth, nose and 
ears of the paitent; and as to disinfection of 
the alvine discharges from the cases of typhoid, 
para—typhoid, cholera and dysentery. Such 
instructions shall be given on the first visit 
and shall conform to the special rules and reg- 
ulations of the State Board of Health. 
It shall be the duty of the nurse or person in 
attendance to carry out the disinfection in de- 
tail until its discontinuance is permitted by the 
Health Officer. 
(5B). ADULTS NOT TO BE QUARANTIN- 
ED IN CERTAIN CASES. 
When a person affected with a communicable 
disease is properly isolated on the premises; 
adult members of the family or household, who 
do not come in contact with the patient or with 
his secretions, or excretions; may with the 
written consent of the Health Officer, continue 
their usual vocations, provided such vocations 
do not bring them in close contact with children, 
nor require that they shall handle food or food 
products intended for sale. 
(5C). QUARANTINE IN CERTAIN 
EMERGENCIES. 
When any case of diphtheria, epidemic cerebro- 
spinal meningitis, measles, scarlet fever, small- 
pox, (acute anterior poliomyelitis,) infantile para- 
lysis or typhus fever is not or cannot be pro- 
12 perly isolated on the premises and cannot be 
removed to a suitable hospital, it shall be the 
duty of the local Health Officer to forbid any 
member of the household from leaving the pre- 
mises, except under such conditions as he may 
specify. 
(51)) DISTRIBUTION OF CIRCULARS. 
It shall be the duty of the Health Officer, as 
soon as a case of diphtheria, epidemic cerebro- 
spinal meningitis, epidemic or septic sorethroat 
measles, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) 
scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, typhus 
fever, whooping cough is reported to him, or as 
soon thereafter as possible, to give every family 
or individual living in the house or building, in 
which such case is, circulars of information and 
copies of any rules and regulations, printed in a 
language understood by such individual, con- 
cerning such disease; which may be issued by the 
State or City Health Department. 
Reg. 6. REMOVAL OF CASES 
(6A). Removal of cases of communicable dis- 
ease. No person, without permission from the 
Health Officer shall carry, remove, or cause or 
permit to be carried or removed from any room, 
building, or vessel any person affected with any 
communicable dsiease. 
[6B1. REMOVAL OF ARTICLES CONTAM- 
INATED WITH INFECTIVE MATERIALS. 
Without permission from the Health Officer 
no person shall carry, remove, or cause or permit 
to be carried or removed from any room, building 
or vessel, any article which has been subject to 
contamination with infective material through 
13 contact with any person or with the secretions 
of any person affected with Asiatic cholera, 
diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, 
tuberculosis, typhoid fever, or typhus fever, and 
not until such articles have been disinfected or 
prepared according to the special rules and in- 
structions to be given in such case. 
Reg. 7. HANDLING OF GASES OF DIS- 
EASE. ISOLATION. 
(7A) Methods of Isolation in various dis- 
eases. Every person suffering from any of the 
disease mentioned in Reg. II. of this Chapter 
shall isolate himself, and every person in charge 
of such a person shall isolate the person of whom 
he is in charge in the following manner: 
When the disease is— 
Anthrax 
Cerebro-spinal Fever 
Cholera 
Chickenpox 
Diphtheria 
Glanders 
Measles 
Plague 
Poliomyelitis 
Scarlet Fever 
Septic Sorethroat 
Smallpox 
Typhus Fever 
The person affected shall be absolutely isolated. 
When the disease is— 
Chancroid 
Dysentery(Ameboic, bacillary) 
Gonococcus infection 
German Mesales 
Hookworm infection 
Leprosy 
Mumps 
Rabies 
Syphilis 
Trachoma 
Tuberculosis 
Typhoid Fever 
Para-typhoid 
Whooping Cough 
the person affected shall be so restricted in 
movement that the disease will not spread from 
his to others. 
14 When the disease is— 
Dengue 
Yellow Fever 
Malaria 
the person affected shall be kept in a screened 
room free from mosquitoes, provided that 
this form of isolation will be enforced in the case 
of malaria only when practicable. 
No person other than the physician or person 
in charge of or in attendance on the patient shall 
enter any premises room or apartment quaran- 
tined for a communicable disease in violation of 
the terms of the quarantine. 
(7B). No person shall willfully or needlessly or 
neglectfully expose himself or another to a 
communicable disease directly or indirectly; or 
permit such exposure by any person under his 
charge. 
Nor shall any person expose himself to or 
visit or associate or come in contact with a case 
of any such diseases or the discharges therefrom, 
or in any manner cause or contribute to, pro- 
mote or render liable, the spread thereof. 
This regulation shall not be interpreted to 
prevent proper visit upon such cases or premises 
by physicians in charge, by attendants or by 
representatives of the Health Department in 
discharge of their duties. 
Reg. 8. HANDLING OF CONTACTS, CAR- 
RIERS AND EXPOSURES. 
(8A). The Health Officer or his represen- 
tative may isolate or restrict the movement of 
carriers of the infectious agent of cerebro- 
spinal fever, cholera, diptheria, dysentery, para- 
15 typhoid fever, typhoid fever, or any other com- 
municable disease until their discharges are 
shown to be free from the specific organisms of 
the disease. 
(8B). METHOD OF CONTROL OF CON- 
TACTS. 
The Health Officer shall have the power to 
isolate or restrict the movement of any person 
who is known to have been exposed to any of 
the communicable diseases for a time equal to 
the maxium incubation period of the disease and 
in the manner prescribed in Reg. VII of this 
chapter. 
(8C). REMOVAL TO HOSPITAL OF CER- 
TAIN CASES. 
When in the opinion of the Health Officer 
proper isolation or quarantine of a person af- 
fected with, or a contact, or carrier of any of the 
diseases mentioned in Regulation II of this 
chapter, is not or cannot be properly carried out 
on the premises occupied by such person, the 
Health Officer may cause such person to be 
removed to a hospital or other proper place de- 
signated by the Health Officer. 
(8D). PRECAUTIONS BY ATTENDANTS. 
The physician or any other person permitted 
to visit a person with communicable 
disease shall practice all measures of personal 
cleansing, and al other precautions necessary, 
to prevent the spread of the disease to other. 
Reg. 9. PLACARDING. 
(9A). When there is a case of anthrax, 
cerebro-spinal fever, cholera, diphtheria, glan- 
16 ders, leprosy, measles, plague, polimyelitis, 
scarlet fevers, typhus fever, whooping cough or 
yellow fever, the Health Officer shall post a 
suitable placard or placards in conspicious 
positions on the premises, apartment or room 
and near the entrance thereof, where the disease 
exists; provided, if the case is under suitable 
hospital care, the placarding be omitted. No 
person shall interfere with or obstruct the 
posting of any placard by any health authority, 
in or on any place or premises; nor shall any 
person conceal, mutilate or remove such placard, 
except the Health Officer, or by his order. 
In the event of such placard being concealed, 
mutilated or removed it shall be the duty of the 
occupant of the premises concerned immediate- 
ly to notify the Health Officer. 
(9B). It shall be the duty of the person in 
charge of any hospital or other institution or 
dispensary in which there is a person affected 
with any communicable disease, to take such 
steps as will so far as practicable prevent the 
spread of infection, and to trace its orginal 
source. 
Reg. 10. CONCURRENT AND TERMINAL 
DISINFECTION. 
(10A). DISINFECTION. When any person 
is affected with a communicable disease, ade- 
quate disinfection shall begin at its onset and 
continue until its termination. It shall be the 
duty of the Health Officer to give specific in- 
structions to tile person attending a case or sus- 
pected case of communicable disease as to the 
methods of disinfection the discharges and 
17 articles used by or on the patient, and it shall be 
the duty of the person in charge to carry out 
such instructions. 
No articles shall be removed from quarantined 
premises without a permit from the Health 
Officer. 
It shall be the duty of the patient upon 
recovery or convalescence from any communi- 
cable disease and of the persons in attendance 
throughout the whole course of the disease, 
suitably to cleanse and to disinfect their bodies 
and clothing in a manner approved by the 
Health Officer. 
When the case has terminated, the owner or 
occupant shall further disinfect, clean, or re- 
novate the premises as the Health Officer shall 
require. Any articles which in the opinion of 
the Health Officer or his representative cannot be 
properly cleansed or disinfected shall be de- 
stroyed. 
The owner of any premises, apartment, or 
rooms, which have been occupied by a person 
affected with a communicable disease, shall not 
rent the same or permit occupation by others 
until the premises have been cleansed to the 
satisfaction of the Health Officer. 
Disinfection as a terminal procedure, when so 
ordered, shall be at the expense of the City. 
Cleaning at the expense of its occupant of the 
premises involved, and renovation as directed 
at the expense of the property owner, unless the 
terms of lease hold specifically provided therefor. 
(10B). Methods and precautions in cleans- 
ing, renovation and disinfection. The following 
methods and precautions shall be observed in 
cleansing, renovation and disinfection: 
18 (a) Cleansing shall be secured by the 
thorough removal of dust and other contaminat- 
ing material in such a way as to prevent the 
entry thereof, as far as may be possible; into 
other rooms or dwellings; washing with soap and 
water; and with germicidal solutions; scouring; 
airing; and exposure to sunlight; in accordance 
with the special rules and regulations of the 
Department of Health. 
(b) Renovation shall be secured by remov- 
ing old paper from walls and ceilings, and re- 
painting, recalcimining or repapering of walls, 
ceilings, and woodwork as may be ordered by 
the Health Officer in accordance with the special 
rules and regulations of the Department ofHealth. 
(c) Disinfection of rooms shall be secured 
by the use of such disinfecting agents in such 
quantities and in such manner and of such 
sterlizing procedures as may be ordered by the 
Health Officer; in accordance with the special 
rules and regulations of the Department of 
Health. When gaseous disinfectants are to be 
used, all cracks, crevices, and oenings into the 
rooms shall first be pasted over with paper. 
Thereafter all rugs, carpets, upholstered fur- 
niture, and such textile fabrics in the said rooms 
as cannot, in the opinion of the Health Officer, 
be washed or soaked in a disinfection solution, 
may be removed for disinfection by steam when 
ordered by the Health Officer, in accordance 
with the special rules and regulation of the 
State Board of Health. Thorough cleansing, the 
use of soap and water, and full exposure to fresh 
air and sunlight are most efficient means of 
removing infective material, not only from the 
walls and floors of rooms, but also from furniture 
and other articles. 
19 Reg. 11. PERIODS OF INCUBATION AND 
ISOLATION. 
(A). For the purpose of these regulations 
maximum incubation periods shall be considered 
to be as follows: 
Anthrax—seven (7) days. 
Cerebro-Spinal Fever—ten (10) days, unless 
cultures from naso-pharynx fail to show menin- 
gococci.* 
Chicken-pox—three (3) weeks. 
Cholera, Asiatic—five (5) days. 
Diphtheria—seven (7) days, unless a culture 
from nose and throat fail to show the presence 
of the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus.* 
Dysentery (bacilliary)—-seven (7) days. 
German Measles—ten (10) to twenty-one (2D 
days. 
Gonococcus Infection—eight (8) days. 
Influenza—five (5) days. 
Measles—sixteen (16) days. 
Para-typhoid Fever—ten (10) days. 
Plague—seven (7) days. 
Poliomyelitis—-ten (10) days. 
Rock Mountain Spotted P'ever—ten (10) days. 
Scarlet Fever—seven (7) days. 
Septic Sorethroat—three (3) days. 
Syphilis—four (4) weeks. 
Smallpox—twenty (20) days. 
Typhoid Fever—twenty-one (21) days. 
Typhus Fever—twenty (20) days. 
Whooping Cough—twenty-one (21) days. 
*The carrier state may prolong the period in 
these diseases. 
(11B). The minimum periods of Isolation 
shall be as follows: 
Anthrax—Until all lesions have healed. 
20 Cerebro-Spinal Fever Epidemic—Until two 
successive smears from the naso-pharynx or 
nose, taken not less than twenty-four (24) hours 
apart fail to show the presence of the specific 
microorganism. 
Chickenpox—Until all primary scabs have 
disappeared from the skin and mucous membrane 
Diphtheria—Until two successive cultures 
taken from the throat and two taken from the 
nose at least twenty-four (24) hours apart by an 
Officer of the Health Department show absence 
of the specific organism. 
Cholera, Dysentery (bacillary) typhoid, 
and Para-typhoid Fevers, Until the infective 
organism is shown to be absent from the excreta 
after not less than two examinations made at 
least twenty four (24) hours apart. 
Glanders-— During clinical course. 
Gonocococcus— Untill examination of the 
local discharges shows absent of the Gonococcus. 
Measeles—-Until seven (7) days from the dis- 
appearance of the rash and until all abnormal dis- 
charges from ear, nose or mouth have dis- 
appeared. 
Leprosy— During course of the disease. 
Plague— During course of the disease. 
Poliomyelitis— Until three (3) weeks from 
the day of report of the disease to the Health 
Officer. 
Scarlet Fever—- At least three (3) weeks 
after receipt of the report by the Health Officer 
and until all abnormal discharges from the ears, 
nose, mouth or suppurating glands have ceased. 
Septic Sore Throat During clinical course. 
Smallpox—Until all scabs have disappeared 
21 and the lesions healed. 
Syphilis—Until open lesions of the skin and 
mucous membrane have healed. 
Tuberculosis—As long as the bacillus is dis- 
charged. 
Typhus Fever—During clinical course and 
in a vermin free room. 
Whooping Cough—Until six (6) weeks after 
onset. 
Yellow Fever—During the first days of the 
fever. 
CHAPTER IV. 
SPECIAL REGULATIONS 
Reg. 12. Right of entrance and inspection. 
No person shall interfere with or obstruct the 
entrance to any house, building or vessel by any 
inspector or officer of the Health Department, 
in the discharge of his official duties, nor shall 
any person interfere with or obstruct the in- 
spection or examination of any occupant of 
any such house, building, or vessel by any inspec- 
tor or officer of the Health Department in the 
discharge of his official duties. 
SPECIAL POWERS FOR EMERGENCIES 
Reg. 13. In an emergency, including the 
occurence of any rare or unusual disease or 
when any disease becomes unusually prevalent, 
the Health Officer shall have the power to em- 
ploy any measures necessary for the protection 
of the public health not inconsistent with law and 
22 the regulations of the State Board of Health 
and make such expenditures as may be necessary 
for such purpose. This authority shall include 
by authority of the City Commission power to 
establish and administer hospitals for care and 
control of communicable diseases. 
Reg. 14. (A). The use of common drinking 
cups or of other drinking or eating utensils or 
of common towels, or of any other article for 
common use which might spread any com- 
municable disease is forbidden. 
The term “common” as used herein shall 
mean for use by more than one person without 
proper cleansing and disinfection under methods 
approved by the Health Officer. 
(14B). It shall be unlawful for any person 
to spit or expectorate upon any sidewalk, or 
upon the floor or seats of any street car, or upon 
the floors, walls or furniture of any public build- 
ing or public place or of any factory or shop 
within the corporate limits of the City of Tampa. 
VACCINATIONS AND TESTS 
(15A). Vaccination Against Smallpox. 
It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to 
provide smallpox vaccine free of charge to all 
physicians and others desiring the same, and to 
provide officials of the Health Department to 
vaccinate against smallpox all persons in the 
City of Tampa who apply for such treatment. 
(15B). Any resident of the City of Tampa 
who has not been successfully vaccinated 
against smallpox within seven (7) years shall 
present himself or herself to the Health Officer 
and apply for such vaccination. Any person 
who has not been vaccinated against smallpox 
23 as above provided shall not be permitted to 
attend any public, private, or parochiel school 
in the City of Tampa. Any resident of the 
City of Tampa over fifteen (15) years of age 
who has not been successfully vaccinated against 
smallpox within seven (7) years and who shall 
refuse or fail to be vaccinated within forty-eight 
(48) hours of notice properly given by the 
health Officer by legal notice, in the public 
press, or otherwise; or any parent or guardian, 
or other person having control of a child under 
fifteen (15) years of age who has not been suc- 
cessfully vaccinated against smallpox, and who 
fail to have the child vaccinated within forty- 
eight (48) hours after notice, shall be guilty of 
violation of this regulation and be subject to 
arrest. 
Persons who have had smallpox within fifteen 
(15) years shall be exempt from this regulation. 
Vaccination against smallpox is the introduction 
into the outer layers of the true skin of the virus 
of cowpox (the so called “smallpox vaccine”) fol- 
lowed by the characteristic reaction; or such 
repetitions of the introduction of the virus 
shall prove that the person being vaccinated has 
already physical resistance or protection against 
the virus. 
(15C). It shall be the duty of the Health 
Officer to provide free vaccination against 
Diphtheria, Typhoid and Para-typhoid fevers 
in all demonstrated cases of susceptibility to 
these diseases, and in case of danger or epidemic, 
also against cholera. 
(15D). It shall be the duty of the Health 
Officer to provide test of any person applying, to 
determine susceptibility to all communicable 
24 diseases which have proven means of such 
determination, within ordinary limits of labora- 
tory error. Such tests shall be those known to 
be proper in the case of each disease. 
The diseases so determinable are declared to 
include: 
Diphtheria—Schick test. 
Tuberculosis—Reaction test. 
Typhoid—Agglutination test. 
Para-typhoid—Agglutination test. 
Cholera—Agglutination test. 
Dysentery (bacillary)—Agglutination test. 
Also tests to determine the presence or 
absence of certain diseases, where practicable 
means are known: Such diseases are: 
Diphtheria—Bacteriological. 
Malaria—Blood examination, etc. 
Tuberculosis—Reaction in early, microscopic 
in advanced stages. 
Syphilis—Wasserman examination and modi- 
fications thereof. 
And all diseases susceptible to the widal 
reaction. 
Reg. 16. SPECIAL RULES FOR TUBER- 
CULOSIS. 
(16A). Whenever there is a case of tuberculosis 
it shall be the duty of the Health Officer or his 
representative to take such proper precautions as 
he may deem necessary, and to give proper in- 
structions to the patient and all other persons 
occupying the same premises to prevent the 
spread of the disease. If a physician has con- 
trol of such case he shall, however, be permitted, 
upon written request to assume the sanitary 
25 supervision of such case and shall there upon 
be held responsible for the sanitation of the case, 
until he requests release therefrom. Every 
person affected with tuberculosis in a communica- 
ble stage of the disease shall dispose of his 
sputum, saliva, or other discharge in a manner 
not dangerous to public health. Whenever a 
person so affected is, or is likely to be a menace 
to the health of others, the Health Department 
shall have the power to cause the removal of 
such person to an Isolation Hospital or other 
proper place, until the danger has been removed. 
Upon recover of a prson having tuberculosis it 
shall be the duty of his physician to notify the 
Health Officer. 
Reg. 17. FOR VENEREAL DISEASE. 
Reports of syphilis, gonococcus infection or 
chancroid made in accordance with Reg. II of 
this chapter, shall be considered confidential 
so far as consistent with public saftey. The pro- 
fessional attendant of any case of venereal dis- 
ease shall give the patient explicit instructions 
to prevent the spread of the disease to others. 
When such patient refuses or neglects to follow 
prescribed treatment, discontinues treatment 
or is discharged as cured, the professional at- 
tendant shall immediately report these facts 
to the Health Officer. When any person affected 
or presumably affected with venereal disease 
does, or is liable to menace the health of others 
the Health Officer shall have the power to cause 
the removal of such a person to an Isolation 
Hospital or other proper places for treatment 
and detention or to make any other measures 
authorized by law, which are necessary in his 
opinion to prevent the spread of the disease. 
26 Reg. 18. RULES FOR FUNERALS. 
When a person has died of cerebro-spinal fever 
poliomyelitis, diphtheria, scarlet fever or small- 
pox, no person except the Undertaker and his 
assistants, the Clergy and such others as may 
be premitted by the Health Officer, shall enter 
the house or apartment until after the funeral, 
and until the warning placard has been removed 
If the funeral is held elsewhere than at the last 
residence of the deceased, the funeral may be 
public, provided that only those members of the 
immediate family may attend, who in the opinion 
of the Health Officer are free from infection, and 
to whom he has given permission so to do. pub- 
lic or church funeral shall not be held of any per- 
son dying of any of the above listed disease,un- 
less the body is enclosed in a properly and her- 
metically sealed casket and the consent of the 
Health Officer has been first obtained. 
Reg. 19. DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 
Any veterinary or other person in charge of 
an animal affected or presumably affected with 
any disease communicable to human beings shall 
immediatly notify the Health Officer. 
Whenever there is reason to belive that any 
animal has rabies, such animal and all others 
bitten by it shall be securly confined by the 
owner or person in charge for such time as is 
necessary to determine whether the disease 
exists. 
If any person has been bitten by a persumably 
rabid animal the brain of such animal shall be 
sent immediately after its death to an approved 
laboratory for examination, such animals shall 
not be killed without approval of the Health 
Officer. 
27 CHAPTER V. 
Reg. 20. DAIRY CODE. 
Section 1. For the purpose and within the 
meaning of this Code the followering definitions 
shall obtain: 
(a) The term “MILK” shall be eontrued to 
include all milk products whenever such con- 
struction of the term is applicable. 
(b) “Cream” is that portion of the milk rich 
in butter fat which rises to the surface of the 
milk on standing or is separated from it by cent- 
rifugal force. 
(c) “Person” shall include masculine and 
feminine and any firm or corporation and any 
agent, servant, assistant, employee or represent- 
ative thereof. 
(d) “DEALER” shall mean any person who 
sells milk or is agent, servant, assistant, employee 
or representative and shall include masculine 
and feminine, singular and plural. 
(e) “TO SELL” shall mean the selling ex- 
changing or delivering or having in possession, 
care, control or custody7 with intent to sell, ex- 
change or deliver; or to offer or to expose for sale 
(f) “HANDLING MILK” shall mean any of 
the processes, operation or transfers through 
which milk is passed from the time it is drawn 
from the cow, until it is delivered to the consumer 
(g) “PASTEURIZED MILK” is milk which 
has been heated to a temperature of 145 degrees 
and so held for thirty (30) minutes, and then 
cooled as rapidly as possible to a temperature 
not to exceed 50 degrees F. 
28 (h) The term “COW” where ever and when- 
ever used in this Ordinance shall be construed to 
include the male, female, and offspring of the 
bovine species. 
(i) “RAW MILK’ is milk which has not 
been heated. 
(j) “SKIMMED MILK” is milk from 
which substantially all the milk fat has been 
removed. 
(k) “UNSTERILIZED CONTAINERS” 
are containers which have not been subjected to 
moist heat, or moist heat and chemical treatment 
as may be necessary to effect to a practical degree 
the destruction of bacteria and other micro- 
organisms therein. 
(m) “A DAIRY” as used in this Code is any 
place where milk or milk products are handled 
for sale, sold or given away. 
(l) “BACTERIAL COLONIES PER 
CUBIC CENTIMETER” shall be those obtain- 
ed according to the standard methods of milk 
analysis as recommended by the American Public 
Health Association. 
(n) Milk to pass requirements of this Code 
shall be fresh, clean, lacteal secretion obtained 
by the complete milking of one or more healthy 
cows properly fed and kept, excluding that ob- 
tained within fifteen (15) days before and ten 
(10) days after calving, and contains not less 
than eight and three-quarters (8%) per cent 
solids, not fat, and not less than three and one 
half percent of milk fat. 
SEC. 2. The City Health Officer shall ap- 
point, subject to confirmation by the city Com- 
mission one or more Dairy Inspectors whose 
duty it shall be to examine and inspect all 
29 dairies and distributing depots,selling or offering 
for sale, milk in the City of Tampa, reporting 
his findings to the City Health Officer. The 
compensation for the Dairy Inspectors shall be 
fixed by the City Commission. 
SEC. 3. No milk shall be handled in the City 
of Tampa without a permit issued by the Health 
Department or otherwise than in accordance 
with the terms of said permit and with the reg- 
ulations of the said Health Department. The 
provision in this section shall not apply to milk 
when sold in hotels, restaurants and retail stores 
when such milk has been obtained from one al- 
ready in lawful possession of a permit for the de- 
livery of milk within the City of Tampa. Each 
person desiring permits from the Health Depart- 
ment for handling milk shall make application 
therefor on a printed form to be furnished by 
said Health Department. Each permit for hand- 
ling milk shall be valid for one (1) year from the 
first day of October. The Health Department 
shall not issue a permit for handling milk de- 
livered to the consumer until after an exami- 
nation has been made by the Dairy Inspector of 
the Health Department as to the sanitary con- 
dition of the place where the milk is to be sold, 
and of the place where the milk is to be handled 
in any way and of the dairy farm where said 
milk is produced, and the Health Department 
is satisfied that the care and treatment of said 
milk shall be in accordance with the terms of this 
code and the regulations of said Health 
Department. The Health Department shall not 
issue a permit for handling milk delivered past- 
uerized to the consumer, until an examination 
has been made by the City Dairy Inspector of 
the Health Department as to the sanitary con- 
30 dition of the place where the milk is to be sold 
and the place where the milk is to be received or 
handled in any way after delivery from the dairy 
farm, and the Health Department is satisfied 
that the care and treatment of such milk will be 
in accordance with the terms of this code 
and the regulations of said Health Department. 
There shall be no charge for issuing permits. 
SEC. 4. For the purpose of establishing and 
determining the sanitary condition and rating of 
Dairy Farms, Dairies, Milk Depots, Milk Plants 
or other places where milk is produced, handled 
or sold, all such places, equipment and methods 
in use in connection therewith shall be scored 
from time to time by the Health Officer or the 
Dairy Inspector, who shall use a score card 
approved for such purposes by the Health Officer 
SEC. 5. No person shall sell: 
(a) Skimmed milk unless container is plainly 
labeled “Skimmed Milk” 
(b) Milk, the container of which is labeled or 
branded so as to to mislead or deceive the pur- 
chaser. 
(c) Milk produced from diseased cows or from 
cows during a period of fifteen (15) days preced- 
ing parturition or within such time thereafter as 
the milk is abnormal, or from cows which have 
been fed on unwholesome food or have had access 
to contaminated water. 
(d) Milk in unsterilized containers. 
(e) Homogenized milk or emulsified milk, 
unless it is plainly and conspicuously labeled as 
homogenized or emulsified milk as the case may 
be. 
(f) Milk stored or kept for sale in any stable, 
31 or in any room which is poorly ventilated or dirty 
or in which rubbish or waste material is allowed 
to accumulate. 
(g) Milk from vessels not protected by 
suitable covers or so placed that they can be 
contaminated by dust, dirt or flies. 
(h) Milk or cream in bottles, or offer for sale in 
bottles, unless the bottling is done under clean 
and sanitary conditions at the place of product- 
ion or the collecting or distributing station. 
Each bottle shall be capped and no dealer shall 
offer for sale milk held in a bottle or container 
stamped with the name of another dealer, and it 
shall be unlawful for junk dealers or other per- 
sons to buy or sell stamped milk bottles. 
(i) Pasteurized milk for which a true record 
of pasteurization as given by a recording ther- 
mometer approved by the Health Department 
is not on file and ready for inspection at the 
place where the milk is pasteurized. The 
record on file shall be correctly dated and cover 
the six (6) months previous to the date of in- 
spection. 
(j) Milk containing a bacterial count of more 
than 350,000 per cubic centimeter. 
(k) Milk re-pasteurized unless by special 
permit from the Health Department. 
(l) Any milk which contains more than eighty- 
seven and five tenths percent of water, or less 
than three and five tenths percent of butter fat 
and the specific gravity of which at sixty degrees 
F. is below 1.029 or above 1.033 specific gravity. 
All milk of lower grade in quality than that 
specified by this section shall be taken and con- 
demned as adultered and impure by the Health 
32 Department. 
(m) Cream which contains less than eighteen 
percent of butter fat. 
(n) Any milk that is not free from all chem- 
icals and adulterations. 
(o) Skimmed milk which contains less than 
nine percent of milk solids exclusive of butter fat. 
(p) Buttermilk which contains less than eight 
percent of milk solids is exclusive of butter fat. 
(q) Milk drawn from cows not tested within 
one (1) year for the presence of Tuberculosis 
therein. 
Sec. 6. (1). Any dealer selling milk to con- 
sumers from a conveyance shall have attached 
to the side of said conveyance in a conspicuous 
place the City license tag and permit. 
Said permit shall be in plain block figures at 
least three (3) inches high, and letters at least 
two (2) inches high as follows: 
HEALTH DEPARTMENT PERMIT 
NO. 000 
displayed on both sides of said conveyance and 
in color giving full contrast with the color of the 
conveyance. 
(2) Any person having the possession or 
custody of bottles, cans or other receptacles 
used to sell milk shall cause all such bottles, 
cans or receptacles to be cleaned immediately 
upon emptying the same, and no person shall 
use a milk vessel as a container for any other 
substance than milk. 
(3) No dealer or other person shall remove 
from any dwelling in which exists any com- 
municable disease, any bottle or receptacle 
33 which has been or which is to be used for con- 
taining or storing milk, except with the per- 
mission of the Health Department. 
Sec. 7. All dairy barns shall be floored with 
cement or sound heart boards, which flooring or 
cement or sound heart boards shall be water 
tight and maintained in a sanitary condition, 
all such barns and the sheds and stalls in which 
cows are fed and milked shall be properly 
ventilated, lighted, drained and cleaned, the 
interior of every barn shall be given a coat of 
white wash in the months of May and Novem- 
ber of each year. 
Sec. 8. Each dairy shall be provided with a 
properly constructed milk house having wire 
screens of a mesh containing not less than six- 
teen (16) wires to the inch, for doors and win- 
dows, and ample arrangement for heating 
water. Each milk house shall be constructed 
in such manner that the floors and walls may be 
easily cleaned and shall be kept neat and clean 
and shall not be used for anyother purpose 
than handling milk. Said milk house shall 
have a properly constructed sink at which 
bottles, cans and other utensils used in handling 
milk may be washed, and shall be provided with 
a drain pipe carrying all waste at least one 
hundred feet from the milk house, water sup- 
ply and barn. Said milk house shall be not less 
than ten (10) feet from any cow stall or stable. 
No child less than eleven (11) years of age shall 
be permitted to enter any milkhouse. 
Sec. 9. There shall be racks for cans and 
bottles so built that when these utensils are 
inverted on them their mouths shall be open to 
the air. All milk rooms shall be washed out 
34 frequently with water containing chlorine base 
disinfectant of adequate strength. 
Sec. 10. Every dairyman shall be required 
to keep all cows at least five (5) feet from the 
milk house, said prevention to be by fence or 
wire and to keep the lot adjacent to his barn 
and milkhouse free from manure. Droppings 
shall be gathered once daily, placed in galvaniz 
ed iron can with cover, and removed at least 
every second day to a place approved by the 
Health Department, or be piled in an enclosure 
not closer than two hundred (200) feet to the 
dairy barn, milkhouse or source of water sup- 
ply, and said lot shall also be kept free from 
stagnant water and all other objectionable 
material. All fresh manure placed on the com- 
post heap shall be properly limed. All wells, 
springs or cisterns supplying water shall be so 
constructed or situated as to .satisfy the Health 
Officer that they are reasonably free from any 
source of possible infection. All privies shall be 
those recommended and approved by the City 
Health Officer, and it shall be unlawful for any 
person to sell, offer for sale or to distribute any 
milk produced or any manner prepared or hand- 
led on any premises having thereon, or within 
a radius of two hundred (200) feet therefrom an 
insanitary closet or privy. There shall not be 
any hog pens, quarters or runaways for other 
animals or fowls closer than one hundred (100) 
feet from such barn or milk house or place where 
milk is handled or sold, provided that this shall 
not apply to stalls for horses and mules where 
the same are separated from dairy barns to the 
satisfaction of the Inspector and kept in a clean 
condition. 
Sec. 11. Any person conducting a dairy 
35 depot, or restaurant, or other place in which 
milk is sold or otherwise disposed of in the City 
shall report within twenty-four (24) hours to 
the City Health Officer any illness of any kind 
whatsoever in his family or among his employees 
or any person connected with his business in 
anyway giving name and address of attending 
physician. 
The City Health Officer shall have the power 
to suspend temporarily the business of any place 
if he deems such action necessary to protect the 
public health. 
Sec. 12. All metal dairy utensils shall be in 
first class condition and the seams filled flush 
with solder. Immediately after use all utensds 
shall be rinsed in lukewarm or cold water. They 
shall then be washed in hot water containing an 
alkaline wash powder after which they shall be 
sterilized either with live steam, or boiling 
water. The strainer cloths shall always be 
boiled before use and dried quickly. When 
not in use all utensils shall be kept inverted and 
they together with strainers cloths shall be 
protected from flies and dust. All milking shall 
be done with clean, dry hands into a fish mouth 
pail having an opening not to exceed eight by four 
and three fourths inches. No other types are 
approved. All milk bottles shall be sterilized as 
above required and kept inverted until immediate 
ly before filling. 
Sec. 13. All milk bottle caps shall be kept 
in a clean, dry and sanitary container, which 
shall be covered at all times. The caps for each 
filling shall be removed carefully and no caps 
shall be returned to the container after being 
removed therefrom. 
36 Sec. 14. No cattle shall be stabled, or milk- 
ed at a distance neared than fifty (50) feet or, 
confined or kept in an enclosure nearer than 
thirty (30) feet from a dwelling place (except 
that of the owner of said cattle which may be 
not less than twenty-five (25) feet distant), or 
from a place where food for human consumption 
is served and sold. This shall not be construed 
as preventing the use of fields as pastures. 
Sec. 15. Each cow used for the production 
of milk for sale or disposal in the City of Tampa 
shall be allowed free movement in the open air 
at least six (6) hours each day. 
Sec. 16. Every cow in possession of owners 
of dairies furnishing milk for the City of Tampa, 
and every cow privately ownd and kept within 
the City limits of the City of Tampa shall be 
registered with the City Health Department 
giving the location of each such cow. 
Sec. 17. No male of the bovine species shall 
be kept or manitained within the City limits of 
the City of Tampa without written permission 
from the City Health Officer. 
Sec. 18. All cows from which milk is obtain- 
ed for consumption within the City of Tampa 
shall be tuberculin tested by Federal, State or 
other recognized Veterinarian annually, or as 
often as deemed necessary. All cows either 
used for dairy or family purposes and kept 
within the limits of the City of Tampa shall be 
tuberculin tested annually, or as often as deemed 
advisable by the City Health Officer; and re- 
cords of tuberculin tests shall be on file in the 
office of the City Health Department. All 
cattle reacting to a tuberculin test either sup- 
plying milk to the City of Tampa, or privately 
37 owned, kept in the City limits of the City of 
Tampa, shall be slaughtered not latter than 
seven (7) days after date of reaction unless 
written permission is obtained from the City 
Health Officer for delay. Reacting cattle shall 
be kept in strict quarantine until slaughtered, 
and no milk shall be used for human consumpt- 
ion from said reactors. All barns, stalls, feed 
and water troughs shall be immediately tho- 
roughly disinfected after removal of reactors. 
No reactor shall be removed from quarantine 
for Slaughter or for other purpose without per- 
mission from the City Health Department. 
SEC. 19. Dairy cows producing milk for 
the City market shall not be fed distiller’s 
waste, swill or any substance in the state of put- 
refaction or rottenness or anyother substance 
that is unwholesome, or that will in any w'ay af- 
fect the healthfulness of the milk, any person 
who sells milk in the City of Tampa, produced 
from cows that are fed from distillery waste or 
any substance in the state of putrefaction or 
containing any substance that is unwholesome 
or that will in any way affect the healthfulness 
of the milk, shall be punished as herein pro- 
vided. The water supply used in the dairy and 
for washing utensils shall be sufficiently abun- 
ant for all purposes, easy of access and free from 
any contamination. Dairy cattle shall be pro- 
hibited from running on pastures where are 
streams, ponds or other wTater that shall be found 
to be contaminated wdth sewage. 
SEC. 20. No person having a communicable 
disease or caring for or coming in contact with 
any person so afflicted, or wfflo is a carrier of a 
communicable disease shall handle milk. The 
38 Health Department shall cause all persons em- 
ployed in or about dairies and milkhouses who 
in any manner come in contact with milk, or ex- 
posed or placed in position to come in contact 
with milk, to be examined for communicable dis- 
ease at least semi-annually, and at any other 
time that the Health Department may direct. 
Those found free from communicable disease 
shall be furnished a health certificate in accord- 
ance with the regulations of the Health Depart- 
ment. 
SEC. 21. The outer clothing of milk hand- 
lers shall consist of clean garments of some light 
colored washable material. The hands of the 
milkers and milk handlers shall be washed clean 
with soap and water immediately prior to, and 
kept cleaa-during ,milking and the handling of 
milk. The hands shall be kept dry while milking. 
All persons handling milk for consumption in the 
City of Tampa shall be vaccinated against Typ- 
hoid fever. 
SEC. 22. All cows shall be kept clean. The 
flanks, udders and teats shall be washed and 
dried with a clean cloth before milking. 
SEC. 23. The milk as soon as drawn shall be 
removed to the milkhouse and cooled in an area- 
tor or by placing utensils containing milk in ice 
water, but no milk containers shall be completely 
immersed in water or covered with ice. This shall 
not apply to milk to be delivered to dealers for 
separation or processing. 
SEC. 24. All milk shall be delivered to con- 
sumers in bottles or proper milk receptacles and 
be bottled or canned before leaving the dairy 
and shall be delivered in the bottle or can in 
which it was originally placed at the dairy, and 
39 at not exceeding 50 degrees F. 
SEC. 25. The Health Officer and the dairy 
Inspector of the City of Tampa shall have the 
right and authority to enter and have full 
access to any building, structure, or farm where 
any milk is stored or kept and shall have the 
right of access to all wagons, railroad cars or any 
other vehicles of any kind used for the con- 
vevance or delivery of milk and to any building 
structure or farm where he believes or has reason 
to believe milk is stored or kept for sale, and upon 
payment therefor at the usual market rates 
when payment is demanded, shall have the right 
to take samples therefrom; any one sample not to 
exceed one quart, for the purpose of inspecting, 
testing or analyzing the same. Every sample 
of milk taken the Health Officer or Dairy In- 
spector of the City of Tampa shall have a label 
attached to the vessel containing the sample 
showing the name of the person from whom col- 
lected and indentifying data. The Health Of- 
ficer or Dairy Inspector of the City of Tampa 
collecting the sample shall offer to the person 
from whom possession of the sample is taken, 
the information contained in the memorandum. 
PROTECTION OF FOODS. 
CHAPTER VI. 
(22A) It shall be unlawful for any person to 
sell, offer for sale, give or offer as a gift, food or 
food material for human consumption at any 
meat or butcher shop, market, grocery store, 
bakery, fruit stand or anyother place where food 
is exposed, handled or offered for sale, without 
having such food securely protected against flies 
or anyother contamination or infection or source 
40 therof. 
All fruits and vegetables displayed in or about 
any such place shall be raised at least eighteen 
(18) inches above the floor or sidewalk. 
The closing of all doors, windows and other 
openings of buildings, rooms, vehicles or compart- 
ments where food material for huamn consumpt- 
ion is stored, prepared or handled; by metal 
screens having a mesh not coarser than sixteen 
(16) wires to the inch together with such actions 
and precautions on the part of the proprietor or 
person in charge as will so far as possible keep 
out of such places all flies and other sources of 
of contamination shall be considered secure pro- 
tection against the same. 
All doors shall open outward only, and shall 
have spring or weight attachments to cause 
them to close promptly when released. 
(22B). All places where food is prepared, 
served or sold shall be adequately screened and 
protected against entrance and presence of flies 
and all other sources of contamination. No room 
where food is prepared, served, sold or otherwise 
disposed of, shall be used as domicile or sleeping 
room. 
FOOD STUFFS. 
(23A). It shall be unlawful foranv person to 
sell, offer for sale, give or offer as a gift or have 
in his possession for the purpose of sale or gift as 
as food for human consumption any carcass, 
meat, fish, game or poultry, or any vegetable or 
product, which is unsound, unwholesome or con- 
taminated. 
(23B). It shall be lawful for the Health Of- 
ficer to condemn, take and destroy or cause to be 
taken and destroyed, any food product, which in 
41 his opinion, is unwholesome or unfit for human 
consumption by reason of unsoundness, contami- 
nation, adulteration or sophistication. 
(23C). The Health Officer is authorized to 
take a fair sample of any suspected food sub- 
stance for examination or test. 
(23D). All vehicles used for transportation 
of meats, bread or any food products shall be so 
equipped and used as to protect the same from 
all contamination and sources of infection. 
(23E). No person shall sell or offer for sale or 
have on hand for purpose of sale within the City 
of Tampa, any meat or meat product, unless the 
same has been inspected and approved by the 
Inspector of Meats of the Health Depratment, 
who shall stamp all meats or meat products pass- 
ed for sale and destroy any found unfit for human 
consumption, Meats already stamped by Gover- 
ment or other recogized Inspectors shall be ex- 
amined as to their condition on arrival in Tampa 
provided that these requirements shall not apply 
to meats and meat products preserved by salt, 
smoke, or other acceptable adequate process ot 
preservation; and previously inspected and pass- 
ed by a recognized inspector before such prepara- 
tion. 
CARE OF EQUIPMENT. 
(24A) All butcher blocks, knives, saws and 
all other tools or equipment, and all vessels, 
measures containers and apparatus used in hand- 
ling, preparing or serving of foods or food mater- 
ials for human consumption shall be kept clean 
and free from corrosion and insanitary conditions 
(24B). All ice boxes and refrigerators shall 
42 be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and 
shall be properly connected with sanitary means 
of drainage. 
(24C) .All dishes, glasses, cups, tableware or 
utensils used to contain or convey foods, drinks 
or confections, shall be kept in a sanitary con- 
dit’on at all times, and after use shall be immed- 
iately cleaned by washing with hot water and 
soap; and sterilized in water having a temper- 
ature of at least 150 degrees F., or by steam. 
Sterilization may be accomplished, if desired, 
by the use of a disinfectant approved by the City 
Health Officer, but only upon his written per- 
mission. 
SUPERVISION OF FOOD HANDLERS. 
(25A). No person infected with any com- 
municable diseases; or who resides, boards or 
lodges in a household where a communicable 
disease exists shall handle food or food products 
intended for others, in any manner whatsoever. 
The Health Officer may require examination of 
any suspected person at any time. 
(25B). It shall be unlawful for the owner, 
manager or person in charge of any establish- 
ment handling food or food products to employ 
in any capacity any person infected with any 
communicable disease. 
SPECIAL FOOD REGULATIONS. 
(26A). Ice Cream to be sold in the City of 
Tampa shall contain not less than eight percent 
butter fat. Frozen products to be sold shall 
be so labeled as to character and constituents 
as shall meet with the approval of the Health 
43 Officer. Placards describing the material to 
be sold shall be conspiciously displayed in or 
upon all places where frozen or iced products are 
handled or offered for retail sale. No ice cream, 
frozen, or iced products, prepared to be eaten 
without further cooking, shall be sold upon 
the streets from vehicles, or otherwise, ex- 
cept in individual packets, wrappers or con- 
tainers of paraffin paper or material affording 
the same protection; and such ice cream, frozen 
or iced products shall be so wrapped or enclosed 
before being taken upon the streets to be offered 
for sale. 
(26B). BREAD PROTECTION. 
All bread, pastry, cake and other bakery 
products made, offered for sale or sold in the 
City of Tampa shall be made of good and whole- 
some material, in a clean and sanitary place; 
and handled in a clean and sariitary manner; 
and shall be protected against dirt, flies, vermin 
and other contamination by being wrapped or 
enclosed in suoh container as shall give efficient 
protection against such contamination. 
(26C). All persons engaged in the production 
of food and food products shall dress, act, and 
care for their bodies in such manner that said- 
food products shall be securely protected against 
contamination, and insanitary conditions.' 
(27). ABATTOIRS AND BUTCHERING. 
The construction, arrangement, and processes 
of Abattoirs and butchering, are under the 
pervue of Ordinance 758 City of Tampa as 
revised, which is hereby affirmed as being con- 
sistent with the terms of this Code. 
Note—This Ordinance not being of general 
44 interest, is not printed in this Code, but is not, 
by such exclusion, made invalid. 
CHAPTER VII. 
Reg. 28. GARBAGE AND WASTES 
(28A). Garbage to be KEPT SEPARATE. 
No person within the City of Tampa shall 
mingle garbage with ashes, store sweepings, 
rubbish or other waste, but such garbage shall 
be kept wholly separate and apart from such 
other waste matter and in galvanized iron cans, 
with proper fitting galvanized iron covers which 
covers shall be water tight, and placed over said 
cans at all times. The cans herein mentioned 
shall be such as are known to the trade as 
galvanized iron garbage cans. The garbage so 
deposited in said cans as herein provided, shall 
be removed under the direction of the City 
Cleaning Department, in water tight receptacles 
or carts, under such rules and regulations as 
the Commission may from time to time establish. 
The Commission shall make such provisions for 
the removal, disposition or destruction of such 
garbage as shall be as inoffensive to the people 
of the City and as little prejudicial to the public 
health as possible. 
(28B). The occupant of every house, apart- 
ment or tenement; or proprietor of every public 
eating place of food handling establishment 
shall provide galvanized iron cans with proper 
well fitting galvanized iron covers, adequate to 
contain the garbage accumulating in said 
establishment, and shall place all such garbage 
therein. The owner of each garbage can will 
be held responsible for the cleanliness and 
45 sanitary condition of the same. 
Note.—A satisfactory sanitary condition will 
be obtained by thorough scalding with boiling 
water of the entire interior of said can, promptly 
after it is emptied by the collectors. 
(28C). Any mixture of garbage or putrescible 
material with other waste material will be con- 
sidered garbage and come under the require- 
ments concerning the same. 
No person shall intermingle, mix or permit 
to be mixed any waste articles or rubbish with 
garbage. All household or other wastes, as 
tin cans, broken glass, bottles, utensils, metal, 
rags, paper or any waste material or refuse 
matter shall be placed in a suitable covered 
receptacle, barrel, box or can for removal by 
the City Collectors. 
(28D). No owner, or agent of any premises 
or lot if vacant or unimproved; or tenant or 
occupant of any premises if occupied, or any 
other person shall cause or permit thereon the 
accumulation of, or place upon any street or 
sidewalk or in any building, out-house, yard 
or enclosure; or into any pond, stream, ditch, or 
body of water; any dung, filth, stable bedding, 
offal, decaying vegetables, meat or fish, animal 
matter, dead animal, loose or waste paper, 
dirty water, brine or rubbish of any kind which 
is, or may become unwholesome or offensive to 
any person. 
(28F). All rubbish, refuse matter, household 
waste, trash, and wastage of manufacture or 
handling of merchandise, shall be placed by the 
occupant of any property or owner of unoccu- 
pied land or lots, in well made cans or receptacles 
with covers both for cleanliness and sanitation 
46 and to facilitate removal of the same, and no 
person shall deposit or leave any rubbish, 
leaves, tree trimmings or other dry refuse on the 
streets or sidewalks in the City of Tampa. 
Reg. 29. HANDLING OF WASTE 
MATERIALS. 
(29A). All garbage cans; rubbish and waste 
receptacles; shall be kept in a place convenient 
and accessible for removal by the City Col- 
lectors. Such convenient location shall be ap- 
proximately at the street level, but not upon 
or in any public street or sidewalk. 
(29B). The City Cleaning Department shall 
collect and remove all household wastes, in- 
cluding garbage, rubbish, cans, bottles, ar.d 
general filth which accumulate in and about 
residence, apartments, tenements or other dwell- 
ings within the City; as frequently as possible 
with due consideration to good sanitation, and 
at least twice a week. The garbage from 
kitchens of public eating houses shall be col- 
lected at least three (3) times a week. Garbage 
and matter liable to decay shall be collected 
from grocery and other stores, or sales rooms 
to the extent of not over one can e ich day, 
provided that such cans when filled d} not 
weigh more than one hundred (100) pounds e ich. 
Garbage and rubbish cans will be removed 
from and returned to the designated place at 
all dwelling houses, tenements, etc., especially 
in those districts of the City where some irregu- 
larity in time of collection is inevitable; and at 
locations where the placing of cans at the street 
side in anticipation of arrival of the collectors 
would result in public inconvenience. 
47 (29C). Every person operating a business 
from which trash, rubbish or other waste material 
developes shall be entitled to removal daily of 
such waste to the extent of the contents of one 
can as heretofore provided. He shall place such 
can upon the street side at the curb line at such 
time daily as shall be found convenient for 
handling by the City Collectors, removing said 
can promptly after it has been emptied. Any 
trash or waste material which by reason of its 
bulk or shape cannot be placed within said 
trash can will be disposed of as promptly as the 
Cleaning Department can handle it, after 
notification. No garbage will be placed in such 
rubbish can. Rubbish and waste material 
caused by construction or repairs of buildings 
will not be removed by the City. 
Reg. 30. PRIVIES, TOILETS AND NIGHT 
SOIL. 
(30A). It shall be unlawful for any person 
to throw out, deposit or bury within the City 
limits of Tampa, any excreta, solid or liquid, from 
human bodies, or to dispose of any such sub- 
stance in any manner other than in a properly 
sewered water closet or properly constructed 
sanitary privy. 
(30B). Every dwelling, building or other 
place in the City where human beings live, are 
employed, or congregated, shall be provided 
with at least one (1) properly sewered water 
closet, or with a sanitary privy, for the catch- 
ment or receiving of human discharges. 
(30C). A sanitary privy is one so built, con- 
48 structed and arranged that the excretion, or 
discharge deposited therein will not fall upon 
the ground, but into a water tight receptacle, 
in a compartment, provided with such protec- 
tion that the contents of the receptacle shall 
not be accessible to flies, fowl or small animals at 
any time. 
In districts where an adequate scavenger 
system is installed the receptacle may be a 
bucket removable for scavenging of the contents 
and for cleaning. 
In districts or location where a scavanger 
system is impracticable, the receptacle shall be 
a septic tank of accepted design and capacity, 
or an approved chemical or antiseptic container. 
(30D). Permission to install or to maintain 
a bucket privy must be obtained in writing from 
the Chief of the City Cleaning Department 
and the compartment containing the bucket 
must be kept in a clean and sanitary condition, 
flv-proof and with ventilation, as directed and 
approved by the Health Officer. 
The duty of maintainance of sanitation shall 
develop upon the responsible occupant of any 
premises. 
(30E). The owner of any premises or lot in 
the City of Tampa any part of which lot or 
premises is within two hundred (200) feet of 
public sewer and water mains or adequate and 
available extension thereof, shall make proper 
sewer and water connections for the sanitary 
service of said property. 
(30F). All closets, privies, privy vaults, cess- 
pools and other arrangements for reception of 
human excreta and discharges, other than those 
approved by the City Health Officer; or kept 
49 and maintained in other than a clean and 
sanitary condition, are hereby declared to be 
nuisances and may be abated and destroyed by 
the Health Officer of the City of Tampa. 
Upon service of an order or direction by the 
Health Officer pursuant to above authority, 
the owner of any cess-pool, privy, privy vault or 
other arrangement for reception of sewage, 
excreta or drainage, shall within the time set by 
the Health Officer or his authorized represent- 
atvie, correct any nuisance; and within thirty 
(30) days comply with all legal regulations as to 
replacement by approved and sanitary equip- 
ment. 
(30G). No person, firm or corporation, own- 
ing, leasing, using or occupying any premises in 
which a water closet or other receptacle for sew- 
age is installed and used, shall deposit or allow' to 
be deposited in such water closet or other recept- 
acle for sewage under his or its control, any rags, 
paper or other refuse other than toilet paper, or 
any substance other than excreta and fluid. 
The finding of any paper, rags or other pro- 
hibited material in such closet, shall be prima 
facie evidence of violation of the provisions of 
this regulation. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Reg. 31. GENERAL SANITATION. 
(31 A). It shall be the duty of any officer or 
employee of the City of Tampa to report to the 
Health Officer any insanitary or unhealthful con- 
dition which may come to his knowledge or 
observation. 
(3IB) Any hole, low-lying grtmnd, pit or ex- 
cavation, likely to be or become prejudicial to 
the health of the community shall upon order of 
50 the Health Officer be filled, drained or otherwise 
placed in a sanitary or salubrious condition by 
the owner or owners thereof. 
(31C) All land lots and premises in the City 
of Tampa shall be kept free from weeds and rank 
vegetable growth and rubbish which may harbor 
noxious or dangerous animals, reptiles, or insects 
and from anyother nuisance or insanitary con- 
dition. Where premises are occupied or controll- 
ed by a tenant or lease holder, he shall in absence 
of specific agreement, be held responsible for the 
sanitation thereof. 
(31D). The Health Officer is hereby empow- 
ered to summarily abate any nuisance, insan- 
itary or insalubrious condition; or cause the a 
same to be abated by the owner, the occupant 
or the person in charge of the premises whereon 
said condition is created or exists, within the 
time designated by the Health Officer. 
(31E) Whenever the number of persons 
occuping any tenement or building is so great as 
to be a cause of sickness or disease, and whenever 
apartments that are used for lodging are damp 
insanitary or not properly supplied with water, 
sanitary toilet, and sewer facilities, the Health 
Officer shall give notice at once to the owner or 
or responsible agent for immediate abatement of 
such condition of nuisance. In case of non-com- 
pliance the Health Officer shall cause the arrest 
of the offender. 
(31F). No person, firm or corporation shall 
create, maintain, or contribute to a nuisance, 
or to a condition which in the opinion of the 
Health Officer is prejudicial to public health. 
(31G) The Health Officer may require any 
complaint to be written and to bear the signature 
51 of the complainant. 
Reg. 32. MAINTENANCE OF ANIMALS. 
(32A). No person shall keep, harbor or 
maintain any domestic animals or fowl in any 
premises within the City of Tampa in any 
manner which will cause insanitary, insalubrious 
or offensive conditions to arise therefrom. 
(32B). All droppings, dung, excreta, or void- 
ings of any such animals or fowl; and any sand, 
bedding, shavings or the like, contaminated 
therewith, must be cleaned up at least once each 
day and placed in a receptcles which shall be 
well made, ventilated and covered with tight 
fitting covers. Such receptacles shall be fly and 
vermin proof and maintained in a condition satis- 
factory to the Health Officer. 
The accumulations of such discharges and 
material must be carried at intervals no greater 
than seven (7) days to compost heaps or other 
place of disposal, which shall be not less than two 
hundred (200) feet from any dwelling, or place 
where food for human beings is kept, prepared or 
sold. Such final disposal of said mixtures, com- 
monly called manure, shall be accompanied by 
treatment with lime or other material to lessen 
or prevent breeding of flies or other noxious 
insects. 
(32 C). Stables, stalls, tie-ups, enclosures, 
coops or pens wherein domestic animals or fowls, 
are kept are prohibited within dwellings or places 
where food is kept, prepared or sold. 
(32D). No animals or fowl except dogs shall 
be premitted to run or range in or upon streets, 
public places or open fields, but must be kept 
within enclosures properly and adequately 
fenced, unless tied by line and halter for grazing. 
52 Any person who owns, is custodian of, or keeps 
any animal within the limits of the City of 
Tampa shall and is hereby declared to be directly 
responsible for any damage or injury caused, or 
inflicted by said animal; and for costs of any pro- 
phylactic or curative treatments necessitated by 
such damage or injury. No person shall harbor 
in any premises in the City of Tampa any animal 
or vermin whose natural actions and presence 
are, or may be deleterious or harmful to the pub- 
lic Health. 
(32E) All dogs must be adequately muzzled 
when allowed at liberty upon the streets or pub- 
lic places of the City of Tampa. Upon appear- 
ance of any suspicious symptoms, any dog must 
be promptly restrained, confined and guarded 
until any possibility of the presence of “Rabies” 
is removed. The Health Officer shall be prompt- 
ly notified of the existence or the suspicion of 
rabies in any dog or other animal by theowner or 
the person in charge of such animal. Provided, 
that any dog which has been vaccinated against 
rabies during any calender year, shall during the 
month of May of said year, be furnished by the 
Health Officer, with a distinctive tag, which 
when worn on the collar, shall exempt said dog 
from the obligation of muzzling as a safeguard 
against rabies. 
The owner of each vaccinated dog shall pay for 
a certificate of exemption and the distinctive tag 
above provided, a fee of twenty- five ($.25) cents 
for each such dog. 
The Health Officer is further authorized to 
vaccinate dogs against rabies, when requested 
by the owner, charging for each such vaccination 
a fee of not more than four dollars ($4.00). 
53 The expense to the Health Department of 
compliance with this section shall be paid from 
the fees collected. 
(32F) Any animal infected with rabies, or 
acting in a suspicious manner, or found at large 
without evident ownership and domicile, is de- 
clared to be a nuisance; and the Health Officer 
shall report same to the Police Department for 
destruction under police rules. 
(32G) Whenever an animal shall die in the 
City of Tampa the owner or the person in charge 
thereof shall report such fact immediately to the 
City Cleaning Department and arrange for it’s 
removal and disposal; or within six (6) hours he 
shall remove the carcass at least one (1) mile 
from the City limits and dispose of it in com- 
pliance with the sanitary laws of the State of 
Florida. 
Reg. 33. CONTROL OF MOSQUITOES 
(33A) It shall be unlawful for any person to 
have, keep, maintain, cause or permit within the 
corporate limits of the City of Tampa any col- 
lection of standing or flowing water in which mos- 
quitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless such 
collection of water is treated so as effectually to 
prevent such breeding. 
(33B) Collections of water in which mos- 
quitoes breed or are likely to breed are those 
contained in ditches, ponds, pools, excavation, 
holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, 
fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, 
troughs (except horse troughs in frequent use), 
urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, defective 
house roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, or 
other similar water containers. 
54 (33C) The natural presence of Mosquito 
larvae in standing or running water shall be 
evidence that mosquitoes are breeding there. 
(33D) Collection of water in which mos- 
quitoes breed or are likely to breed shall be 
treated by such one or more of the following 
methods as shall be approved be the Health 
Officer. 
(Sub. 1.) Screening with wire netting of at 
least sixteen (16) meshes to the inch each way 
or any other material which will effectually pre- 
vent the ingress or egress of mosquitoes. 
(Sub. 2.) Complete emptying every seven (7) 
days of unscreened containers, together with 
their thorough drying or cleaning. 
(Sub. 3.) Using a larvicide approved and ap- 
plied under the direction of the Health Officer. 
(Sub. 4.) Covering completely the surface of 
the water with kerosene, petroleum, or paraffin 
oil once every seven (7) days. 
(Sub. 5.) Cleaning and keeping sufficiently 
free of vegetable growth and other obstructions 
and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish. 
(Sub. 6) Filling or draining to the satis- 
faction of the Health Officer. 
(Sub. 7.) Proper disposal, by removal or de- 
struction, of tin cans, tin boxes, broken or empty 
bottles, and any articles likely to hold water. 
Reg. 34. MANUFACTURING AND BUSI- 
NESS SUPERVISION. 
CHAPTER IX. 
(34A). No owner, proprietor or person in 
charge of any store, store house, place of manu- 
55 facture or of processing or preparation of art- 
icles of use or commerce shall permit the same 
to become nauseous, offensive or insanitary, 
or cause or permit wastes therefrom to accu- 
mulate in the premises in such manner as may 
become a nuisance; or cause or permit any liquid 
wastes, foul, offensive solution, or brine, to flow 
in the streets, open drains or gutters or upon the 
property of another in the City of Tampa. 
(34B.) Before the operation of a factory, 
shop or store, or of a hotel or a rooming house or 
boarding house is begun in any building in the 
City of Tampa, said building must be ispected 
and approved for such use by the City Health 
Officer or his inspector and the person respon- 
sible shall notify the Health Officer of such pro- 
posed action. 
The requirements of the Health Department 
shall include that the building shall be situated 
in a dry location, be adequately lighted and vent- 
tilated, and be in a good hygienic condition, and 
be made rat proof. The Health Officer shall be 
guided by the recommendations of the United 
States Public Health Service in his acceptance of 
rat proof construction. 
(34C). Working shops shall have air space of 
not less than ten (10) cubic yards and floor space 
of at least two square yards to the worker. 
Factory grounds or vicinity or such rooms or 
areas, as are used for purpose of rest and refesh- 
ment, shall be supplied with galvanized iron gar- 
bage cans with covers adequate to contain refuse 
and rubbish remaining after lunch eaten in said 
locations. All refuse or rubbish shall be deposit- 
ed in said cans; and said grounds, rooms, etc., 
kept clean and sanitary. 
56 Drinking water and sanitary facilities shall be 
adequate and convenient for operatives. 
(34D). A factory or shop where articles of 
food or refeshment including cigars and cigarettes 
are manufactured, shall be furnished with an ade- 
quate number of cuspidors, which shall be pro- 
perly placed for the covenience of the operatives 
during all working hours and which shall be 
cleaned and be rinsed with disinfectant solution 
daily. 
(34E). Factories, or shops using machinery 
or dangerous materials or manufacturing danger- 
ous substance or articles, shall be supplied with 
emergency dressings, appliances and medicines 
for First Aid. 
(34F). It shall be unlawful for any person to 
conduct or operate a factory or shop handling, 
preparing or manufacturing foods, refeshments, 
including tobacco; drugs or medicines; or 
to conduct or operate any store, establishment, 
conveyance or market for the sale or gift of any 
foods, refeshments, tobacco, drugs or medicines; 
or to conduct or operate any barber shop, man- 
icure or hair dressing parlor without first obtain- 
ing from the Health Officer a permit so to do. 
The Health Officer shall issue such permit 
when he is satisfied that the applicant there-for 
has provided means, equipment and facilities for 
the fulfillment of the requirements of these reg- 
ulations, and compliance with Health Laws. 
The Health Officer shall revoke any permit when 
in his opinion, violations of Health Laws or reg- 
ulations warrant such action. Any permit shall 
be valid only within the fiscal year issued. 
The City Treasurer shall issue license to do 
business in the case of manufacturers and mer- 
57 chants in food, refreshments, tobacco, drugs or 
medicines, barber shops and the like, only when 
the applicant presents a valid permit from the 
Health Officer to operate such business. 
(34G). The Health Officer shall print and 
issue special working rules of sanitation and 
hygiene, based upon these regulations, and 
health laws; for each industry whose operation 
or product has a bearing on public health. 
When an establishment of any such industry 
fully complies with said regulations and working 
rules, the Health Officer shall, at his discretion 
issue to said establishment a certificate to that 
effect for the period of time affected. 
Reg. 35. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
(35A). The City shall institute and maintain 
inspection and supervision over weights and 
measures, to insure accuracy thereof. The super- 
vision shall be a duty of the Health Officer wdio 
shall appoint an inspector of his department for 
performance of the duties of his office, these shall 
include careful testing and comparison of all 
Weights, Scales and Measures in the City of 
Tampa with accurate and sealed standard test 
Weights and measures and accurate, adequate, 
records of all inspections made. 
(35B). Every person, firm or corporation 
doing business in the City of Tampa or selling or 
offering for sale any article of merchandise which 
is sold by weight or measure shall sell the same 
by proper weights and measures. The weights, 
scales and measures used in selling as above 
specified shall be reported to the inspector of 
Weights and Measures for testing, correction 
and sealing. 
All weights, scales and measures used for sale 
58 of merchandise shall conform to the standards 
set by the laws of the United States of America. 
Any Weights, Scales or Measures found to be in- 
correct according to the above standards shall be 
seized by the Inspectors and withheld from use 
until corrected or repaired. If it be found upon 
examination of such seized articles that correct- 
ion is impracticable the same shall be destroyed. 
Users of incorrect, inaccurate or altered Weights, 
Scales or Measures shall be subject to prosecut- 
ion for violation of these provisions. 
(35C). It shall be the duty of each person, 
firm or corporation using Weights or Measures 
in sales or computations to produce the same for 
examination upon demand of the Inspector. 
CHAPTER X. 
SUPERVISION OF PERSONAL SERVICES 
Reg. 36. PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY. 
(36A). That no person who is not a duly 
licensed physician shall be permitted to practice 
midwifery in the City of Tampa without com- 
plying with provisions of these Regulations. 
(36B). Every midwife desiring to practice 
midwifery in the City of Tampa shall before so 
doing apply to the Registrar of Vital Statistics 
of said City for registration and sign a pledge 
card agreeing to carry out all of the rules relating 
to the practice of midwifery which may be pre- 
scribed by the City Health Officer, and filed 
with the said Registrar of Vital Statistics. 
(36C). Every midwife must report each 
birth she attends within twenty-four (24) hours 
on the blanks adoped by the State of Florida and 
furnished to the Registrar of Vital Statistics of 
59 said City. 
(36D). Every midwife is required to attend 
a class of instruction held or conducted under 
direction of the Health Officer when notice re- 
quiring the same shall be given to such midwife 
by the Registrar of Vital Statistics and after con- 
cluding a course of ten (10) lessons, each mid- 
wife will be presented with a registration certi- 
ficate permitting such midwife to practice mid- 
wifery as long as such person conforms to the 
regulations prescribed by the Health Department 
of the City of Tampa, in conformity with those 
of the State of Florida. 
(36E). All midwives practicting midwifery 
in the City of Tampa are subject to the con- 
ditions and the Regulations adoped by th 
Health Department of the City of Tampa. 
(35F). The Registrar of Vital Statistics shall 
make and keep a Register of all persons practic- ■ 
lng midwifery in Tampa and a record of any facts 
pertinent to compliance of each said midwife 
with instructions, regulations and the art of mid- 
wifery. 
Reg. 37. Each barber shop, manicure, or hair 
dressing establishment in the City of Tampa 
shall use such procedure and apparatus as shall 
protect all persons entering the shop or being 
served therein, against any communicable dis- 
ease. 
Each chair of such barber shop, manicure, or 
hair dressing establishment shall be provided 
with adequate disinfectant aparatus and mater- 
ial and a sufficient number of each utensil to in- 
sure sterile utensils for each customer. The 
equipment and usages of each barber, manicure 
or hair dresser shall be such as meet the approval 
60 of the Health Officer. Any operative shall before 
employment in any barber, manicure, or hair 
dressing shop present a certificate of freedom 
from commumicable disease signed by a phy- 
sician of Tampa and vised by the Health Officer. 
No person may work as a barber, manicure, or 
hair dresser who has any communicable disease. 
Reg. 38. VITAL STATISTICS AND SUP- 
ERVISION. 
(38A). The Health Officer shall be Reg- 
istrar of Vital Statistics for the City of Tampa, 
or shall recommend a member of his staff for 
apointment to such office. Said Registrar may 
accept appointment from the State of Florida 
to continguous territory as well, and shall have 
necessary assistance for the maintenance of 
office and duty. 
(38B) The Registrar of Vital Statistics shall 
supply to all physicians, midwives, undertakers 
and others requiring to use them, blank cert- 
ificates for the registration of births and deaths, 
which shall be of the standard form approved by 
the State Board of Health, receive and make 
copies of such certificates and transmit the 
originals to the State Board of Health on the 
10th day of each month, and to issue burial, 
removal and other permits upon receipt of com- 
plete, satisfactory and properly executed certi- 
ficates of death; and no dead body of a human 
being whose death occurs or whose body is found 
in the City, shall be interred or otherwise dis- 
posed of, removed from the City, or held more 
than seventy-two hours after death, without 
burial, removal or other permit issued by the 
Registrar of births and deaths in advance of such 
interment, other disposition or removal. 
61 (38C). The Health Officer shall make and 
print regulations for the practice of midwifery in 
the City of Tampa, examine all midwives as to 
their qualifications and ability to practice this 
art. Issue permits to such midwives as are found 
competent and have authority to prohibit such as 
are found unworthy and incompetent from prac- 
ticing the art of Midwifery in the CityofTampa. 
Reg. 39. CARE OF THE SICK. 
(39A). There shall be in the Health Depart- 
ment a City Physician appointed by the City 
Manager subject to approval of the commission. 
(39B). The City Physician shall treat, care 
and prescribe for indigent and such sick and 
infirm persons as are unable to make payment 
for such services, and for employees of the City 
of Tampa who are injured or become ill incident 
to duty in the service of the City and attend, 
treat and prescribe for, sick and injured City 
prisoners. 
He shall also attend emergency calls made on 
account of accident or sudden illness in the 
streets of Tampa when so notified. 
He shall have charge of the City clinics, acting 
as Chief thereof under advisement and control 
of the Health Officer. 
He shall take active charge of such and any 
clinic as seems advisable to the Health Officer, 
and shall collect all fees paid to any clinics. All 
fees or payments for treatment collected shall be 
deposited in a City Depository and the receipt 
with accountings presented to the Health Officer 
for proper action and credit. 
(39C). There shall be appointed by the 
62 Health Officer such nurses as may be found 
expedient to care for the city clinics, the 
instruction of the inhabitants in health matters, 
care of the sick poor, and investigations of cases 
of illness and its causes. The nurses shall be 
under such supersion and organization as is 
advisable. 
(39D) There may be appointed by the 
Health Officer subject to approval by the City 
Commission, assistant City Physician, City 
Dentists and Hygienests, as the Health work of 
the City may require. 
Reg. 40. MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH 
DEPARTMENT. 
(40A). The Health Officer and all profession- 
al assistants of the Health Department shall be 
allowed after twelve (12) months of continuous 
service, a vacation of one (1) month each year, 
and all other employees a vacation of two weeks, 
provided that absence from duty on account of 
sickness for less than ten (10) days shall not be 
charged against the vacation allowance. 
(40B). The Inspectors and all non-pro- 
fessional employees shall be required to have 
such experience and traning as shall fit them for 
efficient service in the Health Department. 
63 RESOLUTION NO. 563 A. 
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE 
HEALTH CODE OF THE CITY OF 
TAMPA 
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 104A— of the 
City[of Tampa requires the Health Officer to pub- 
lish a Health Code for jthe City of Tampa, and 
WHEREAS, the Health Officer has sub- 
mitted to the Commission for its approval the 
Health Code, which has been studied in detail 
by the Ordinance Committee, by the City Attor- 
ney and by the State Health Department, 
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that 
the Health Code herein submitted is approved, as 
being the required Health Code of the City 
of Tampa. 
W. J. BARRETT, 
Mayor Commissioner Protem 
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION 
this 24th day of April A.D. 1923. 
Attest: 
Wm. E. Duncan, 
City Clerk. 
64 CONTENTS 
Ehapter 1. Ordinance .establishing the Health Depart- 
ment, and defining its duties and authority, 
hapter 2. Definitions. 
Chapter 3. Communicable Disease. 
Chapter 4. Special Regulations about disease conditions 
Chapter 5. Dairy Code. 
Chapter 6. Foods and protection of same. 
Chapter 7. Garbage and Wastes. 
Chapter 8. General Sanitation. 
Chapter 9. Manufacturing Business; supervision of 
Chapter 10. Supervision of Personal Services. 
65 INDEX 
A 
Abattoirs, etc 44 
Adequate garbage cans 45 
Adults, not to be quarantined etc.- . .... 12 
Animals, Diseases 27 
Animals, Keeping of 52 
Animals, at large 52 
Animals, with rabies 54 
Animals, Dead . .. 54 
Articles to be destroyed 18 
Areators 39 
Arrest of nuisance, Responsibles .51 
Attendants, take precaution 16 
Asst. City Physician .... . 63 
Air, space t 56 
B 9 ' ■ -■ - ' d | 
Baker, products protected..,.. 44 
Barbershop . . . - 57 
Barber shop, sanitation - . . 60 
Barber, Physical examinations...,.,.....,, .61 
Barber, communicable disease........-.— _. 61 
Brain of rabid animal for test.,.—.:—..: 27 
Bread, made sanitarily, wrapepd etc . 44 
Bulls.. -..;.. 37 
Buildings, approved for use ., —: :...... . 56 
Business, superv ision.. ...... ., ,.. 55 
Business, places sanitary - ... 55 
Business.. --.n; 55 
Butcher, blocks care... 42 
Carriers of disease, restricted i...., .... t- k-.. 15 
Cake, wrapped 44 
Certificates of Physicians ... 10 
Charity 2 
Communicable disease. .. .'.... 5 
Control of disease... 9 
Control, in schools 9 
Circulars, of instruction in disease 13 
Contact, with disease cases 15 
Contacts, restricted 15 
Concurrent, disinfection cleansing after disease 18 
Common, drinking cups 23 
Common, towels 23 
66 Church funerals, attendance 27 
Coffins, in communicable disease : 27 
Cows, see Dairy Code 28 
Communicable disease, in Dairies 38 
Cess-pools, nuisance 49 
Complaint, in writing .. . 52 
Chickens, keeping ..... 52 
Cuspidors. ' ...: 57 
Cigars& Cigaretts 57 
Certificates, of sanitation C:’:'. 58 
Condemned, weights & measures 59 
City Physician 62 
City, clinics. .... 62 
Definitions 1 
Disease, communicable 5 
Dairy farm, disease, reports., 8 
Disinfection . 17 
Disinfection, duty of patient etc— 18 
Disinfection, at cost of City 18 
Disinfection, methods .. 19 
Drinking cups, common.. 23 
Diphtheria, vaccination 24 
Dairy Code - — - 28 
Dairy, construction 34 
Distillery or other bad foods not for cows..... 38 
Dairies, methods etc. ' . 38 
Doors, screen - - 41 
Destroy, bad food stuff 41 
Dishes, clean etc . : 43 
Diseased not to handle food 43 
Disposal, of garbage ’ 45 
Dwellings, and water closet 48 
Dogs, muzzled 53 
Dogs, vaccinated against rabies 53 
Dead, animals... 54 
Drinking, water : 57 
Dentist... 1—- - - 63 
E 
Exposure, of self to disease 15 
Entry, by unauthorized persons forbid 15 
Exposure, to disease, Health Officer to isolate 16 
Entry, right of .:. - , 22 
Emergency, powers 22 
Expectoration, in public 23 
Examination, of food handlers 43 
67 Eating, house garbage 47 
Excreta, sanitation 48 
Employers, of city to report 50 
Emergency calls, City Physician . 62 
F 
Free, vaccination.. 24 
Funerals, rule for in communicable disease 27 
Foods, protection of.. 40 
Flies 41-44-49-52 
Food, stuffs unwholesome 41 
Frozen, foods 43 
Fowl, at large 52 
Fowl, insanitary 52 
Fowl, solutions 56 
Floor, space 56 
First, Aid outfit 57 
Fees, clinic 62 
G 
Glasses, to be kept sanitary 43 
Garbage 45 
Garbage, kept separate 45 
Garbage, cans placed 47 
Garbage, mixtures 46 
Garbage, cans 56 
Grounds, kept sanitary 56 
H 
Health, Department 1 
Health, Officer 1 
Handling, isolation, methods 22 
Hospital, Cases to be removed 22 
Hospital, power to establish 22 
Health, Officer to vaccinate 23 
Household, wastes 47 
Handling, of garbage and rubbish 47 
Holes, to be filled etc 50 
Harmful, animals prohibited 52 
Hair, dressing 57-60 
Hygiene, working rules of 58 
I 
Isolation, of cases of disease 11 
Instruction, of cases by Physician 11 
Isolation, methods : 14 
Isolation impossible, Hospital authority 16 
Interference ,with placards 17 
Incubation, periods ‘ 20 
Inspectors, Dairy...., 29 
68 Inspection, of meats 42 
Ice cream, special rules... 43 
Insanitary privies nuisance 49 
Inline, of duty sick. 62 
L 
Low, lying land filled etc 50 
Location, of business buildings.. 56 
Lighting, of buisness buildings 56 
Licenses, after permit 57 
M 
Maximum, Incubation periods 20 
Milk._ 28 
Milk, from T.B. reactors. 38 
Milk, bottles etc 39 
Mesh, of screens 41 
Meats, inspection of 42 
Measures, kept sanitary 42 
Measures, correct 43 
Mixtures, of garbage 45 
Maintainance, of prejudicial conditions 51 
Manure to be put in cans 52 
Mosquitoes, control 54 
Machinery, & 1st. Aid 57 
Manicure 57-60 
Midwifery 59-61 
N 
Nuisance, Definition 5 
Notification of disease 5 
Nuisance, power to abate 51 
Nuisance, maintainance of 51 
Nuisance, animals at large 52-54 
O 
Open air exercise for cows 37 
Owners not to employ diseased 43 
Occupants provide garbage cans 45 
Owners to destroy cess-pools 50 
Owners responsible for animals 53 
Owners to get buiness permit 56 
P 
Penalty for violations 2 
Persons to report disease „.... 6 
Persons not to create nuisance 51 
Physician to secure isolation 11 
Permission of Health Officer to move cases of disease.. 
infected article precautions by attendants 13-16 
Placarding of diseases 16 
69 Prevention of spread of infections 17 
Placards not to be disturbed 17 
Premises not to be rented till disinfected ’. 18 
Powers in emergencies 22 
Para-typhoid vaccination. 24 
Physician to report Venereal disease cases 26 
Permits, Milk 30 
Places where food sold 41 
Persons not to handle food 43 
Pastry 44 
Protection of Bread etc 44 
0 
Quarantine of adults. .. .... 12 
Quarantine of entire family ... 12 
R 
Reporting diseases 6 
Removal of cases of disease 13 
Removal of infected material 13 
Removal of placards 17 
Rental forbid till disinfected 18 
Renovation after disease ..." 18 
Right of entry V'.; 22 40 
Rabies ;.. 27-53-54 
Removal of garbage 45 
Requirements of Buildings " 56 
Rat, proofing 56 
Revoke permits .... 57 
Reporting weights to inspector 58 
Registrar Vital Statistics 2 39 
Rules for midwives. ....’. 59 
Resolution of printing 64 
S 
Schools diseases in. 9 
Spread of disease forbid 15 
Spitting in Public 23 
Smallpox 23 
Schools and vaccination 1.....Q..! . 24 
Schick Test . ...L 25 
Sell milk _ s 40 
Stabling of cows _ .’ 37 
Slaughter of T.B. cows ZZ'Z'ZZ M 
Screen, foods 40 
Sleeping in food rooms... ! 41 
Springs to doors 41 
Samples to be taken 42 
Sterilizing of dishes, glasses 43 
70 Steam „ - 36-43 
Sanitary Privy 48 
Scavenger system — ... 49 
Septic tank - 48 
Sewer connections 49 
Stables not near food 52 
Space, air and floor 56 
Standard weights and measures .58 
T 
Teachers, duty of with diseases ... 11 
Trace source of disease ...... 17 
Terminal disinfection 17 
Towels, common 23 
Typhoid, vaccination 24 
Tests as to susceptibility 2+ 
Tuberculosis rules. — 25 
Tuberculin testing 37 
Toilet paper only 50 
Tenements over crowded 51 
Treasurer issue licenses .57 
Testing weights and measures .... 58 
U 
Utensils, Dairy 36 
Utensils, sterilizing ... 43 
Unlawful, bury excreta .. 48 
Unlawful to operate. .. 57 
V 
Vaccination smallpox 23 
Vaccination against Typhoid, Diphtheria etc. 24 
Vaccination against Typhoid, Diphtheria etc 24 
Vidal tests 25 
Veneral disease rules 26 
Vegetables, 18 inches above floor 41 
Vehicles to protect food. .. 42 
Vital Statistics 59-61 
Vacations 63 
W 
Wasserman test 25 
Wrapped, Bread 44 
Water closet 48 
Water connections ... 49 
Water closets toilet paper only 50 
Weeds, all premises ... . 51 
Working, rules and regulations 58 
Weights and measures ... ... 58 
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