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(b) After each pit is filled its contents shall remain undisturbed for a period of at least six months before any is removed and used upon ground as aforesaid.

(c) A careful record must be kept by the owner or proprietor of such pits of the time when the last quantity of night soil is placed in each pit and the time when the first quantity is removed for use upon the ground.

3. Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to operate any kiln or pits for the treatment of night soil shall make application to the health authorities, either the State department of health or the local board of health if located in the district under the jurisdiction of a local board of health, for a permit for the operation of such kiln or pits, and no night soil shall be removed from any pit or kiln and used as a fertilizer or otherwise until such permit in writing has been first obtained.

Note. It is suggested that where the pit treatment for night soil is practiced there should be seven pits provided, each one of them of sufficient size to hold night soil collected for a period of one month, or if the quantity of night soil to be treated is too large to be treated practically in one pit a series of pits by sevens should be provided and each pit or series of pits filled during any one month, sealed for the required period of six months. This will permit a continuous use of the system with one pit or series of pits available for the quantity collected during each month.

Night Soil-Disposal of, by Use Upon Ground Not Used for Growing Vegetables Which Are Eaten Uncooked. (Reg. Dept. of H., May 17, 1920.) Whereas the disposal of night soil is well recognized as a public health problem and the improper disposal is likely to be a menace to health and injurious to the purity of public water supplies; and whereas, under authority of a special act of assembly, regulations have been adopted for the treatment of night soil to be used upon ground upon which vegetables are grown which are eaten uncooked: Therefore, under the general powers conferred upon the department of health by act of assembly, the following regulations are hereby adopted regulating the disposal of night soil by using it upon ground not so used or intended to be used:

1. Before night soil is disposed of by spreading it upon any ground in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania an application must be made in writing by the owner of the ground to the State department of health describing the piece or parcel of ground proposed to be used, its size, exact location, and distance from dwelling houses and watercourses, and stipulating that in the use of said ground the rules and regulations of the State department of health shall be faithfully observed.

2. No night soil shall be spread upon any ground at any one time in a greater quantity than at the ratio of 100 cubic yards of night soil to 1 acre of ground. 3. Night soil spread upon the ground shall be plowed under to a depth of at least 6 inches within three days from the time when same was deposited on such ground.

4. After any particular section of ground devoted to the disposal of night soil has been spread upon and plowed under that particular section or parcel of ground so used shall not be again used for the same purpose and night soil again spread upon it until after a crop has been planted and harvested thereon or for a period of 60 days after the last plowing under; and any piece or parcel of ground especially devoted to the disposal of night soil for which a permit has been issued by the State department of health and upon which night soil has been deposited and plowed under one or more times during any year shall not be used for the same purpose during the succeeding year.

Note.--It is suggested that wherever possible night soil should be mixed with quick lime in the quantity of one part lime to three of night soil. This mixture will increase the value of the fertilizer and add to the safety of its disposal.

Human Excrement-Disposal-Sewer Connections Required Where Possible. Garbage, Offal, Manure, and Dead Animals-Disposal. Mosquitoes-Prevention of Breeding. Offensive Trades-Sanitary Regulation. Polluted Water Supplies Prohibited. (Reg. Dept. of H., May 17, 1920.)

ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

SECTION 1. The provisions of these sanitary regulations shall apply in all counties of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and shall apply equally to individuals, partnerships, firms, and corporations.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of these sanitary regulations the term "waters of the State," wherever used, shall include all streams and springs, and all bodies of surface and of ground water, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries of the State.

ART. II. SEWAGE DISPOSAL.

SECTION 1. No privy, cesspool, or other receptacle for human excrement shall be constructed, maintained, or used so that flies have or may have access to the excrementitious matter contained therein.

SEC. 2. No privy, urinal, cesspool, or other receptacle for human excrement shal be constructed, maintained, or used which directly or indirectly drains or discharges over or upon the surface of the ground or into any waters of the State.

SEC. 3. All privies, urinals, cesspools, or other receptacles for human excrement shall be cleansed at sufficiently frequent intervals to prevent the contents from overflowing.

SEC. 4. The transportation of human excrement shall be effected in watertight containers with tight-fitting covers. Containers shall be thoroughly cleansed after each use.

SEC. 5. No human excrement or material containing human excrement shall be placed on the surface of the ground, or buried or otherwise disposed of, where it is likely to gain access to any waters of the State, unless subjected to treatment by a method approved by the commissioner of health.

SEC. 6. The contents of privies, cesspools, or other receptacles for human excrement shall not be used on ground within the corporate limits of any city or borough or within 700 feet of any habitation unless subjected to treatment by a method approved by the commissioner of health.

SEC. 7. Sufficient and suitable privy or toilet accommodations, well lighted and ventilated and separated for each sex, shall be provided at all places of trade, occupation, or business, at all manufacturing plants, railroad stations, public buildings, public markets, mills, depots, churches, theaters, fairs, campmeetings, public grounds, parks, and all other places of amusement.

SEC. 8. No privy, cesspool, or similar receptacle for human excrement shall be constructed, maintained, or used on premises where a sewer, which is part of a sewer system from which sewage is discharged into the waters of the State under a permit from the State department of health, is accessible.

SEC. 9. No kitchen or laundry water shall be allowed to discharge or flow into any gutter, street, roadway, or public place.

ART. III. DECAYING MATTER.

SECTION 1. No garbage, offal, pomace, dead animals, decaying matter, or organic waste substance of any kind shall be thrown or deposited in any ravine, ditch, or gutter, on any street or highway, into any waters of the State, or be permitted to remain exposed upon the surface of the ground.

SEC. 2. Manure shall not be allowed to accumulate in any place where it can prejudicially affect any source of drinking water or where, as a source of fly breeding, it may become a menace to public health.

SEC. 3. The carcass of any dead animal not killed for food shall be removed and disposed of by burial or incineration or other method approved by law or the commissioner of health within 24 hours after death. If the carcass is buried it shall be placed so that every part shall be covered by at least 2 feet of earth and at a location not less than 100 feet from any waters of the State and not subject to overflow by said waters.

In all cases of death from communicable disease the carcass shall be thoroughly enveloped in unslaked lime.

ART. IV. STAGNANT WATER.

SECTION 1. No person shall maintain or permit. to be maintained any pond, privy vault, cesspool, well, cistern, rain barrel, or other receptacle containing water in such a condition that mosquitoes breeding therein may become a public nuisance.

ART. V. OBJECTIONABLE ESTABLISHMENTS AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES.

SECTION 1. No person, partnership, firm, or corporation maintaining a slaughterhouse, rendering works, depository of dead animals, glue works, tannery, wool-washing establishment, paper mill, by-product coke oven, dye works, oil refinery, dairy, creamery, cheese factory, milk station, or similar establishment, or engaged in the manufacture of gas, chemicals, explosives, fertilizers, or similar products, or in the business of soap making, fish-oil extraction, bone boiling, or similar occupation shall allow any noxious exhalation, odors, or gases that are deleterious or detrimental to public health to escape into the air, or any substance that is deleterious or detrimental to public health to accumulate upon the premises, or be thrown or allowed to discharge into any street, roadway, or public place, or be thrown or allowed to discharge into any stream or other waters of the State.

SEC. 2. All slaughterhouses, rendering works, bone-boiling establishments, depositories for dead animals, garbage disposal works, piggeries, and similar establishments handling organic matter shall have an adequate water supply for the purpose of keeping the place clean and sanitary. All floors shall be constructed of concrete or other impervious material, and shall have adequate provision for drainage to a cessspool, to a sewer, or treatment works approved by the State department of health.

SEC. 3. No pigsty shall be built or maintained on marshy ground or land subject to overflow, nor within 100 feet of any stream or other source of water supply, nor within 300 feet of any inhabited house or public meeting house on an adjoining property. When garbage is fed to pigs provision shall be made so that all unconsumed garbage shall be removed daily and disposed of by burial or incineration. All garbage shall be handled and fed upon platforms of concrete or other impervious material. Unslaked lime, hypochlorite of lime, borax, or mineral oil shall be used daily in sufficient quantities to prevent offensive odors and the breeding of flies.

ABT. VI. WATER SUPPLY.

SECTION 1. No owner or occupant of any premises shall maintain any well, spring, cistern, or other source of water supply used for drinking or household purposes to which the public has or may have access and which is polluted or which is so situated or constructed that it may become polluted in any manner that may render such water supply injurious to health.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Infant Welfare Work Including Establishment of Milk Dispensaries-Appropriation. (Act 2905, Mar. 22, 1920.)

SECTION 1. Section 1 of act numbered 2633' is hereby amended to read as follows:

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SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 1,000,000 pesos, which shall not be set up in the books of the auditor until allotted administratively, for expenditure under the following conditions:

"(a) That in the discretion of the secretary of the interior aid for this campaign may be extended to all regular or special Provinces: Provided, That in order that a Province, municipality, or municipal district may obtain the aid herein authorized it shall be required to contribute, either by appropriation out of its own funds or by voluntary subscription, or in any manner other than by direct or indirect aid of the insular government, a sum equal to that which the secretary of the interior is ready to invest in such Province, municipality, or municipal district.

"(b) That the technical and administrative plan of the work carried on in this connection shall be subject to the direction and executive supervision of the department of the interior.

"(c) That in connection with such work any officer or employee of the insular, provincial, or municipal governments shall render service when required.

"(d) That the secretary of the interior is hereby authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of the technical and administrative personnel which shall have charge of the campaign."

SEC. 2. Section 2 of said act is likewise amended to read as follows:

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SEC. 2. The secretary of the interior shall include in his annual report a detailed report of the work performed in accordance with the provisions of this act."

Complaints for Infractions of Public Health Laws or Ordinances-Required to be Indorsed "Approved" by Whom. (Act 2885, Feb. 24, 1920.) SECTION 1. Section 39 of act numbered 1627 is hereby amended to read as follows:

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'SEC. 39. Section 51 of general orders, numbered 58, series of 1900, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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SEC. 51. Complaint.-Except as otherwise provided by law, criminal proceedings in a justice of the peace court must be commenced by complaint under oath setting forth the offense charged, with such particulars as to time, place, person, and property as may be necessary to enable the defendant to understand the character of the offense charged and to make answer thereto. Complaints for nonpayment of the cedula tax and for infractions of municipal ordinances must be indorsed 'approved" by the municipal president, but where infractions of laws or ordinances concerning the public health are concerned the complaint must be so indorsed by the district health officer, the president of the sanitary division, the president of the municipal health district, the president of the municipal board of health, or the municipal president.'"

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1 Reprint 406 from Public Health Reports, p. 180.

PORTO RICO.

Insular Sanatorium-Moneys From Pay Patients in, to be Used for Construction of Sanatorium Buildings. (Act 12, May 12, 1920.)

SECTION 1. That from the date of the approval of this act all moneys received from pay patients under treatment in the insular sanatorium, in accordance with the regulations of said institution prepared by the commissioner of health, shall be deposited in the treasury of Porto Rico in a special trust fund to be known as 'Pay patients' fees, insular sanatorium, trust fund," and shall be available for the construction of buildings in the said sanatorium.

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SEC. 2. That all the constructions chargeable to this fund shall be made by the department of the interior, upon request of the commissioner of health and in accordance with the plans prepared for the purpose by the department of health.

Special Bureau of Uncinariasis—Organization Authorized. Issuance of Regulations to Prohibit Contamination of Soil with Human Excreta. (Act 13, May 12, 1920.)

SECTION 1. That for the suppression of uncinariasis in Porto Rico, the Commissioner of Health of Porto Rico is hereby authorized to organize a special bureau of uncinariasis which will be composed of the technical and auxiliary personnel he may deem necessary and designate for the purpose.

SEC. 2. That the necessary expenses of this bureau, including salaries of technical and auxiliary personnel, the treatment of patients, purchase of medicines and materials, payment of personnel, hire of houses, purchase of horses, transportation expenses, traveling expenses, per diem allowance, furniture, stationery, printing, freight and postage, construction of latrines, and other incidental expenses, shall be made out of the appropriation made every year in the budget of the department of health for the suppression of uncinariasis in Porto Rico: Provided, That the commissioner of health is hereby authorized to use the sum of money necessary out of said appropriation to contribute to the expenses that may occur owing to any special work that may be done in the island or in any of its districts or zones, jointly with any philanthropic institution or institutions that may wish to cooperate in the work of said bureau: Provided further, That the commissioner of health may appoint physicians or representatives of such cooperating philanthropic institution or institutions to form part of the special bureau of uncinariasis hereby created.

SEC. 3. That the insular board of health, with the approval of the executive council, shall issue the necessary regulations to prohibit and prevent the contamination of the soil with human excretes [sic].

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