UNITED STATES.

MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES, RULES, AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HYGIENE.

[Adopted since Jan. 1, 1910.]

ALTOONA, PA.

NUISANCES.

Rule 11. No person, either by himself, his agent, or in association with others, shall create or maintain a nuisance within the city of Altoona.

Rule 12. To render or maintain either impure or unwholesome the air, the soil, the public highway, any structure, any food, drink, or medicine, or to sell or lease that which has been rendered impure or unwholesome, or to needlessly put in jeopardy human life, health, or physical comfort in any manner whatsoever, or to aid in so doing, is hereby declared to be a nuisance within the city of Altoona, as understood in these rules and regulations.

Rule 13. When any nuisance thus prohibited shall be brought to the attention of the health officer he shall make prompt and careful inspection, and if satisfied that the nuisance exists, he shall serve upon the person or persons responsible for creating or maintaining it, a notice, signed by himself, directing the said party responsible for the nuisance to take proper steps to abate it within 48 hours.

Rule 14. If the person or persons notified as directed in rule 13 shall neglect or refuse to take proper steps to abate the nuisance within the time specified, the health officer shall then serve a second notice in the same manner as the first, requiring abatement within 24 hours.

Rule 15. If the proper steps to secure abatement of the nuisance shall not be taken, as required by rule 14, the health officer shall then make information against a delinquent in a prosecution before the mayor or other proper magistrate.

Rule 16. In case of emergency the health officer or any member of the board may make a summary information for neglect or refusal to abate a nuisance.

Rule 17. Service in each case above cited shall be made to the delinquent or his agent personally, but if he can not be found it shall be considered sufficient to leave a copy of the notice with an adult present and belonging to the residence or business place of the delinquent. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

GARBAGE AND ASHES.

Rule 18. The term garbage, as used herein, is intended to include all kinds of organic kitchen refuse. All garbage must be either promptly burned on the premises where it may accumulate, in a stove or furnace, within doors, or it must be placed in tightly covered metallic cans, containing not more than one-half barrel each.

Rule 19. Garbage shall be removed from each residence or hotel as often as twice a week from May 1 to November 1 and during the rest of the year as often as once a week.

Rule 20. Ashes must be removed from the premises on which is located any hotel, residence, boarding house, or public building as often as once every three months. Rule 21. No person shall place upon any public sidewalk, highway, or alley in the city of Altoona any refuse of organic matter subject to decomposition, either vegetable or animal. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

SPITTING.

Rule 22. No person shall spit on any sidewalk, in any street car, public conveyance, or on the floor or steps of any public hall or building. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

STREET CARS-DISINFECTION OF.

Rule 23. It shall be the duty of every street car company running cars on the streets of Altoona to have all cars disinfected once a week and to have prominently posted in every car a card warning passengers against the violation of rule 22, under penalty of prosecution. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

CESSPOOLS AND PRIVY VAULTS.

Rule 24. No owner of real estate shall construct, permit, or maintain upon his premises a cesspool or privy vault where a city sewer runs through a street or alley either in front or in the rear of such premises and contiguous thereto.

Rule 25. Where a cesspool or privy vault is permitted by law, in no case shall it be allowed within 100 feet of any well or cistern.

Rule 26. No cesspool or privy vault shall be constructed with less than 8 feet in depth and a cross section of 9 square feet. It shall be paved on the bottom and walled up with brick or stone laid in cement, so as to be made water tight.

Rule 27. The contents of a cesspool or privy vault shall not be permitted to accumulate within 2 feet of the surface of the ground at the top of the vault.

Rule 28. No person shall remove the contents of any cesspool or privy vault without a license from the board of health.

Rule 29. Such license shall be for one year, and shall be issued on a written application, and after the board is satisfied that the applicant is capable, trustworthy, and in possession of the proper facilities for his business. The fee for such license shall be $15, payable at the delivery of the license. The license may be forfeited by action of the board for violation of these regulations.

Rule 30. No cesspool or privy vault shall be emptied between sunset and sunrise. When begun the work shall be finished without intermission. Air-tight barrels shall be used, which shall be kept externally clean. Every precaution shall be observed to avoid noxious odors, either at the place cleaned or in transit through the public highway. When any privy vault is emptied it shall be emptied completely. No privy vault shall be filled up or abandoned without being emptied.

Rule 31. No cesspool or privy vault shall be emptied without a permit from the board of health. A fee of 25 cents shall be paid for each such permit, which permit shall be good for but one cesspool or vault.

Rule 32. The deposit of the removed contents of a cesspool or privy vault is forbidden within the city limits. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

DEAD ANIMALS.

Rule 33. The owner of any animal that shall die, whose carcass may be a menace to human health, shall have it properly removed and disposed of within 24 hours after its death, and at his own expense. If the owner can not be found, the carcass shall be removed by the board of health.

Rule 34. No dead animal shall be buried within the city limits.

Rule 35. Dead animals shall be disposed of under the direction of the board of health. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.]

PLUMBERS AND PLUMBING.

Rule 36. All plumbing and house drainage in the city of Altoona must conform to the requirements of the act of assembly, approved May 14, 1909, regulating the work of plumbing and house drainage in cities of the third class.

Rule 37. The fee for an original permit shall be $1, which fee shall be paid when the application is filed. No fee shall be charged for a supplementary permit. The fee for a certificate of approval, after final inspection, shall be 25 cents, and an additional fee of 25 cents each for the first 5 traps and 5 cents for each additional trap set in the operation. These fees must be paid in full to the secretary of the board of health before the certificate of approval shall be issued.

Rule 38. No work for which a permit has been issued shall be used or paid for by the owner until the certificate of approval from the plumbing inspector has been furnished to the owner or his or their representative. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.]

ABATTOIRS.

Rule 39. No cattle, swine, sheep, or lambs shall be slaughtered within the city of Altoona, and no fat shall be rendered, except in private families, for their own use, without a license granted annually by the board of health, to date from January 1. The application for such license shall be made on a blank furnished by the board, and

shall set forth the location of the slaughterhouse, the material of which it is constructed, the name and residence of the owner or owners, the name and residence of the applicant for license, the method proposed for disposing of the offal, the water supply, and the accommodation for drainage. Each applicant shall also file an affidavit in which he shall pledge himself to observe all the regulations adopted by the board of health for maintaining sanitation. No new slaughterhouse shall be built or existing slaughterhouse rebuilt, enlarged, or changed without a permit issued by the board of health. No such permit shall be issued until the applicant shall file with the board complete plans and specification of the proposed new or renewed slaughterhouse. No new or renewed slaughterhouse shall have its walls constructed of any other material than brick, stone, concrete, or cement, or its roof of any other material than slate, tile, or metal. No license for a new slaughterhouse shall be issued except on petition signed by not less than a majority of the owners in interest of real estate situated within a radius of 400 feet of the proposed slaughterhouse. No permit shall be issued unless notice shall be given to the owners of real estate as above at least three weeks before final action is taken by the board of health.

Rule 40. The floors of all places where animals are now slaughtered must be paved with asphalt, cement, or other impervious material, so constructed as to prevent leakage into the soil beneath. No wood floors are permitted.

Rule 41. All drainage from slaughterhouses and stables connected therewith must be into a city sewer.

Rule 42. There shall be no blood pit, dung pit, offal pit, or privy well within 20 feet of any slaughterhouse. All refuse from the stable pens where the cattle are kept must be removed twice a week.

Rule 43. Every slaughterhouse shall be well furnished with water and must be thoroughly cleansed with hot water and lye, with free use of disinfectants, at least once each week.

Rule 44. Every slaughterhouse shall be provided with covered water-tight vessels for the immediate reception of all offal, to be removed, emptied, and cleansed within 12 hours, from May 1 to November 1, and twice a week during the rest of the year. No slaughterhouse offal of any sort or untanned hidess hall be transported through the city, except in tightly covered vessels or wagons which preclude the escape of noxious odors.

Rule 45. The apparatus used for rendering fat must retain and burn the gases generated. The premises must be kept free from noxious odor.

Rule 46. Receptacles for packing hides must be of cement, asphalt or other watertight material.

Rule 47. All slaughterhouses must be inspected by the health officer at least once a month. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.]

DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

Rule 48. No swine shall be kept within the city of Altoona.

Rule 49. No dogs or cats shall be quartered or have entrance in houses where any contagious or infectious disease occurs. If exposed to such disease, or if any such disease be discovered upon the animal, it shall be the duty of the owner or custodian immediately to have such dog or cat humanely killed and the body removed and disposed of under direction of the board of health. But valuable dogs exposed to infection may be quarantined under the approval of the board.

Rule 50. All stables must be kept clean and sanitary. Manure must be stored and screened in such a manner as to prevent flies having access to same. Proper sewer connections must be made. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.]

BARBERS.

Rule 51. No person shall serve another as a barber in the city of Altoona, either as enployer or employee, without a license from the board of health. The license shall be valid for one year. The secretary shall keep a list of licensed barbers, on which list shall be recorded whether the licensee is an employer or an employee.

Rule 52 (as amended Mar. 30, 1911). No person shall be licensed as a barber without furnishing to the board of health a certificate from the physician appointed by the board, setting forth that after personal physical examination it is manifest that the applicant is free from tuberculosis of the respiratory organs, syphilis, in a communicable form, or any other infectious or contagious disease. Each applicant shall pay to said physician the sum of 50 cents for such examination.

Rule 53. It shall be unlawful for any barber to serve in his place of business any customer who to him seems to be suffering from any contagious or infectious disease; but such person may be so served, except in case of quarantine, at the applicant's own home, provided the implements used be furnished by himself and are exclusively used for him.

Rule 54. Barber shops and their contents, furniture, implements, etc., must be kept scrupulously clean.

Rule 55. Every barber on duty must keep his hands and fingers antiseptically clean and his finger nails cut short.

Rule 56. No towel or napkin shall be used by any barber on more than one customer without fresh laundering.

Rule 57. The barber's hands, his razors, scissors, shaving brushes, soap, and cups, must be thoroughly cleansed with hot water immediately before service of a customer. Rule 58. These rules and the license of each barber must be kept publicly posted on the wall of each barber shop, on a card furnished by the board of health. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

MILK-REGULATION OF THE PRODUCTION AND SALE.

Rule 59. No person, firm, or corporation shall sell milk or cream, either at wholesale or retail, in the city of Altoona, without first having obtained a license from the board of health.

Rule 60. Such license shall be valid for one year from date of issue, subject to revocaby the board, if any of the rules governing the sanitary regulations of milk shall be shown to the board to have been violated by the licensee, his agent or employee.

Rule 61. No license to sell milk or cream, in the city of Altoona, shall be granted until the applicant shall file with the secretary of the board of health an affidavit executed by himself according to law, in which he shall agree to comply with the requirements of the board of health, as published in these rules, and setting forth the names of all persons from whom he proposes to purchase milk or cream, with their residence.

Rule 62. No milk vendor shall sell milk tickets in the city of Altoona, to be taken in exchange for milk or cream as delivered, except in coupon cards perforated for detaching, each such coupon to be exchangeable for one pint of sweet, unskimmed milk, or its equivalent in cream. Other units of sale, of course, are permissible. No card of such coupons shall be sold more than once, and no couopn shall be sold detached.

Rule 63. The "Fifty Dairy Rules" promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture, shall be observed by vendors of milk in the city of Altoona, both by themselves, their agents, and by those from whom their dairy product has been purchased for resale. A copy of these rules shall be kept permanently posted in each dairy and stable from which milk is received for sale in Altoona.

Rule 64. No milk vendor shall sell or keep for sale any adulterated milk, whether the adulteration be by water or other harmless substance, nor milk from a sick cow, nor milk from a cow that has calved within 5 days, nor from a cow about to calve within 20 days, nor milk into which any sort of preservative has been placed.

Rule 65. No milk shall be sold from any vessel except that into which it was placed in the dairy immediately after cooling. The night and morning milk must not be placed in the same vessel.

This rule, however, is not intended to forbid a milk vendor to bottle his milk at his own dairy, provided the bottles are kept scrupulously clean; nor is it intended to forbid him to pour the milk, when not bottled, into his service vessel for immediate delivery from his wagon to a customer. It is understood in both cases that he is not to mix the night and morning milk unless the milk is pasteurized.

Rule 66. Skim milk must be sold only from vessels marked plainly "Skimmed milk."

Rule 67. Each licensee shall have his name, the location of his dairy, and the number of his license painted distinctly on each side of every wagon used for delivering his milk or cream.

Rule 68. In summer time each milk vendor must protect his milk vessels in transit for sale from the weather by cool or wet blankets or in other approved manner. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.]

MEAT, POULTRY, AND FISH-CARE AND SALE OF.

Rule 69. The owner or manager of any shop or store where meat, poultry, oysters, or fish of any kind are exposed for sale shall see that his person and the persons of his employees or agents and the premises where such articles are sold are kept scrupulously clean and free from offensive odor.

Rule 70. Every meat vendor when on duty in the sale of meat must be clad in a white frock or apron extending up to the neck, with sleeves, not to be worn more than two days without laundering.

Rule 71. No stale or tainted meats or poultry, oysters, or fish of any kind shall be sold or exposed for sale, and no meat, poultry, oysters, or fish which has been treated with any sort of preservatives except salt, smoke, heat, ice, or cold storage.

Rule 72. No meat of any kind shall be sold or exposed for sale from any animal that was diseased at the time of slaughter.

Rule 73. No veal or lamb shall be sold or exposed for sale from an animal that was slaughtered before it was 4 weeks old.

Rule 74. Every room where meat, poultry, oysters, or fish are sold or exposed for sale shall be properly and effectually screened so as to prevent the admission of flies. Rule 75. No poultry, except live poultry, shall be sold or exposed for sale undrawn. Rule 76. Where meats are sold in the same place with groceries there must be separate counters and meat blocks, as well as proper storage for protecting the meat. No dressed meat or poultry shall be hung outside the place of sale, exposed to the street atmosphere. [Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.]

FRUIT CARE AND SALE OF.

Rule 77. No decayed or stale fruit or vegetables shall be sold or exposed for sale. Rule 78. No person selling fruit or vegetables shall so expose them on the sidewalk or otherwise, except on tables or benches at least 2 feet high. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

FOOD SALE OF IMPURE OR ADULTERATED FORBIDDEN.

Rule 79. No person shall sell or expose for sale any impure or adulterated food or drink of any kind in the city of Altoona. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

BAKERS.

Rule 80. Every baker or vendor of bread or other meal food products shall file annually with the secretary of the board of health a certificate signed by a registered physician setting forth that after personal physical examination it is manifest that the person is free from tuberculosis or other contagious or infectious disease. Rule 81. Every room where meal food products are either baked or sold shall be subject to inspection by the health officer at any time. Bakers' wagons must be covered. Implements and receptacles for meal food products must be kept in a sanitary condition. Meal food products must be screened from flies at all times. (Regulations, board of health, adopted Jan. 22, 1910.)

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES-NOTIFICATION, PLACARDING, QUARANTINE, DISINFECTION OF HOUSES AFTER.

Rule 82. The following diseases are communicable within the purposes of these rules, viz: Actinmycosis, anthrax, bubonic plague, cerebro-spinal meningitis, chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria, epidemic dysentery, erysipelas, german measles, glanders, hydrophobia, leprosy, malarial fever, measles, mumps, pneumonia (true), puerperal fever, relapsing fever, scarlet fever, smallpox, tetanus, trachoma, trichinasis, tuberculosis (specify form), typhoid fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, yellow fever, or any eruptive skin diseases. It shall be the duty of every physician who discovers a person suffering with any of the diseases catalogued above to report the same to the department of health within six hours of the time of his diagnosis.

Rule 83. If the diagnosis reveal smallpox, scarlet fever, or diphtheria, the health officer shall immediately post in the most conspicuous place on the outside of the residence of the patient a placard stating the name and character of the disease and warning the public and the occupants of the house against breaking quarantine. The board of health at its discretion may quarantine a house containing a patient suffering from any other contagious or infectious disease.

Rule 84. If the diagnosis reveal typhoid fever, mumps, measles, chicken pox, or whooping cough, the health officer shall place one or more placards bearing the name of the disease, in a conspicuous place or places upon the premises within which the disease has appeared. Quarantine is not enforced in any of the above-mentioned diseases except measles, in which modified quarantine shall be observed. The patient is simply isolated. No person suffering from any of the above diseases will be permitted to attend school prior to recovery. Other persons of such a household may return to school if well at the expiration of 21 days from date of last exposure, except in case of typhoid fever, in which there shall be no school exclusion.

Rule 85. No person shall tear down or in any way deface any placard or signal of warning placed under direction of the board of health.

Rule 86. Any person found to be suffering from smallpox in any form shall be immediately removed by the health officer to the contagious disease hospital, there to be isolated and confined and properly cared for until finally discharged. If, however,