Rules and Regulations 
OF THE 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
PERRY, PRINT, 
1889; RULES AND REGULATIONS 
-OF THE- 
DEPARTMENT BF HEALTH, 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
City op Minneapolis, Minn. 
July 15, 1889. 
In pursuance and by virtue of the authority granted by an act 
of the legislature of the state of Minnesota, entitled “An act 
relating to the reorganization of the Health Department and 
the preservation of the public health of the city of Min- 
neapolis, Minnesota,” approved April 22, 1889, the Department 
of Health of the city of Minneapolis, in the county of Henne- 
pin and state of Minnesota, does hereby make the following 
Buies and Regulations which the said Department deems neces- 
sary for the government of the quarantine and health of the 
said city of Minneapolis: 2 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
FOOD AND DRINK. 
Section I.—No meat, fish game, fowl, fruit, vegetables, milk* 
or any other article of food or drink, or intended for human con- 
sumption, the same being then unhealthy, stale, unsound, taint" 
ed, putrid or unwholesome, and no meat of any beast, fish, game, 
or fowl that has died by disease or accident, shall be brought 
within, or carried from place to place, or kept or offered for sale, 
as or for such food or drink, in any public or private market, 
store, shop, or place within the corporate limits of the city of 
Minneapolis. 
Sec. 2.—lt shall be the duty of every person who has knowl- 
edge that any meat, fish, game, fowl, fruit, vegetables, milk 
or any other article of food or drink, are brought within, kept or 
offered for sale in said city, when in an unhealthy, stale, un- 
sound, tainted, putrid or unwholesome condition, to report the 
fact of such knowledge and ail the particulars relating thereto 
to the Department of Health of said city. It shall be the duty of 
the Commissioner of Health to examine and, if necessary, tocom- 
demn, seize and confiscate all Mich meat or other provisions 
wheresoever within said city they may be found. Provided: 
That such seizure and confiscation shall in no wise exempt any 
offending party from the penalty prescribed in these Rules and 
Regulations. 
Sec. 3.—No person shall bring or send into, or deliver, beep 
or offer for sale or for use as food for human consumption, 
within said city, any unwholesome, skimmed, watered or adul- 
terated milk, or any milk known as “swill-milk,” or that has 
been obtained from cows or other animals that are sick or dis- 
eased or that have been fed upon swill. 
Sec. 4.—lt shall be the duty of every person who is the own- 
er of, agent for, or occupant of any room, store, stall or place 
within said city in, which any meal, fish, game, fowl, fruit, veget- 
ables, milk or any other article of food or drink are stored, 
kept or offered for sale, to put and keep such room, store, 
stall or place, and all the appurtenances thereof, in a clean 
and wholesome condition. 
Sec. 5.—No calf which lias been killed when less than 
four weeks old, or pig which has been killed when less than 
five weeks old, or lamb which has been killed when less than 
eight weeks old shall be brought into, kept or offered for sal® 
within said city. Sec. 6.—No dead animal, above* the size of a rabbit, nor any 
meal thereof shall be taken lo or exposed for sale, as food, in 
any public or private market within said city, until the same 
shall have been fully cooled after having been killed and until 
all blood shall have ceased dropping therefrom and until the 
entrails, head (unless the same be skinned), hide, horns and 
feet shall have been removed, and no gut-fat or any other 
unwholesome or offensive matter or thing shall be brought to 
or near any such market. 
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Sec. 7.—No cattle shall be confined or kept in any place 
within said city, in which the supply of fresh air, water and 
food is insufficient for the preservation of their health and 
wholesome condition as human food. 
Sec. B.—No manager, keeper or employe of any saloon, rest- 
aurant, hotel or boarding house, within said city, shall keep, 
offeror serve, for food or drink, any poisonous, deleterious 
or unwholesome substance or thing. 
Sec. 9.—No person shall keep, use, serve, or offer for use or 
sale as a beverage within said city, any poisonous, adulterated 
or deleterious liquid or liquor. 
Sec. 10.—No person shall put or place or allow to »run or pass 
into any source of drinking water or into any hydrant, well, 
font or water-pipe used for the conveyance of the same, 
within said city, any dirty, poisonous or noxious substance 
or any animal or vegetable matter; nor shall any person do, 
or permit to be done, (having right or power to prevent the 
same) any act or thing which will impair or imperil the purity 
or wholesomeness of , any water or other fluid used, or do- 
signed to be used as a drink within said city. 
Sec. 11. No person or persons shall introduce or aid in 
introducing, into said city, any person sick with, or any person 
or thing infected with Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus 
or typhoid fever, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria 
or any other contagious or infectious disease. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, ETC. 
Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of any and every physician 
who is called to attend any case of Asiatic cholera, yellow 
fever, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, typhus or 
typhoid fever within said city, to notify the Department of 
Health of said city in writing, within 24 hours after his first 
visit thereto or after he has first seen or prescribed there- 4 
for, of the existence of such disease and of the date of its 
appearance together with the name and residence of the 
person affected therewith. Subseanent cases of contagious 
disease which may occur in the same family or at the same 
residence while the same is under quarantine regulations shall 
each and all be reported in similar manner to the said Depart- 
ment of Health by the physician in attendance upon said 
cases. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
Sec. 13.—1t shall be the duty of every proprietor, manager, 
superintendent, principal, owner, agent, or other person in 
charge of any hotel, boarding house, boarding school, tenement 
house or other place of residence, or of any hospital, asylum 
or oilier public institution within said city, in which any con- 
tagious or infectious disease may be discovered, to give immed- 
iate notice to the Department of Health of said city of the ex. 
istence therein of such contagious or infectious disease, and of 
the name or names of the person or persons affected there 
with. 
Sec. 14.—N0 parent or guardian of any minor child shall 
permit such child, if affected with any contagious or infectious 
disease, or any other child or children of the same family, or 
resident in the same house in which said child so affected may 
be living, to attend any private or public day school, night 
school or Sunday school within said city. 
Sec. 15.—1t shall be the duty of any principal or teacher 
in charge of any private or public day school, night school or 
Sunday school, within said city, to report to the Department 
of Health the name and residence of any child who, being 
affected with any contagious or infectious disease, shall present 
tiim or herself for attendance at such school, to cause such 
child so affected to return home immediately, and to exclude 
from attendance at such school any child so affected, and any 
other child or children who may belong to the same family, or 
live in the same residence as that to or at which such child so 
affected may belong or reside, until such time as the said Depart- 
ment of Health shall issue a written permit providing for the 
re-admission of such child or children to said school. 
Sec. 16.—1t shall be the duty of any person who may know 
of any case of contagious or infectious disease within said city 
which he shall have reason to believe has not been reported 
to the Department of Health, to report immediately to the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 
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said Department the name (if known) and the place of residence 
of the person affected with such disease, together with 
a statement of the name and nature of his or her disease. 
Sec. 17.—N0 person shall carry or remove, or aid in carry- 
ing or removing, or cause to be carried or removed from one 
building or place to another,or to or from any vehicle, within 
said city, any person who is sick with smallpox or any other 
contagious or infectious disease without having first obtained 
a permit so to do from the Department of Health of said 
city. 
Sec. 18.—It shall be tlie duty of every physician who is attend- 
ing any person or persons affected with any contagious or in- 
fectious disease (as enumerated in section 18 of these Rules and 
Regulations) to report promptly to the Department of Health of 
said city the recovery or death of such person or persons so 
affected, and to certify to said Department that the house in 
which such person or persons have been quarantined has 
been thoroughly disinfected, together with the date of such 
disinfection. 
Sec. 19.—Whenever quarantine has been established by the 
Department of Health upon or in any house within said city in 
which any contagious or infectious disease exists, by a placard 
affixed to such house, such quarantine and all the provisions 
thereof shall be maintained until the recovery or death of the 
person or persons affected with any such disease has been re- 
ported to the said Department, and until the said house has 
been thoroughly disinfected, and until such disinfection has 
been approved and such placard has been removed by said 
Department. In the event of the occurrence of scarlet fever, 
the quarantine shall extend over a period of not less than three 
weeks from the date of the appearance of such disease. 
Two weeks after the disinfection of any such house so 
quarantined has been approved and such quarantine has been 
released by the Department of Health of said city,a written per- 
mit may be issued by said Department authorizing the return 
and re-admission to school of any child or children resident in 
such house: provided: that no other case or cases of contagious 
or infectious disease shall have appeared in such house in 
the meantime. 
Sec. 30. No parent, guardian or custodian of any minor 
child within said city shall permit such child to be unneces- sarily exposed to contagion or infection from any contagious 
or infectious disease. 
RUJ.ES AND REGURATION S. 
Sec. 21. It shall be the duly of every parent, guardian or 
custodian of any minor or other individual within said city 
to cause and procure such minor or other ind.vidual to be 
promptly, frequently and effectively vaccinated. 
Sec. 22. No principal, teacher or other person in authority 
over any public or private school, academy, college or univer- 
sity within said city shall permit any pupil or student to enter 
or be enrolled in such school, academy, college or university 
unless he or she shall present a certificate of vaccination, 
signed by some physician in actual piactice within said city, 
and the said certificate of vaccination shall be preserved and re- 
corded by such principal, teacher or other person in authority. 
Sec. 28.—1t shall be the duty of every physician, within said 
city, uho shall be in professional attendance upon any person 
at the time, or within 12 hours of the time, of the death of such 
person, to furnish promptly to the Department of Healtii of 
said city, a certificate, written in ink, setting forth the date 
of such death, the full name, the aae, the sex, the color, the 
social state, the occupation, the place of birth, the place of 
death, the true and recognized cause of death, the duration of 
the disease which has caused such death, the length ot re- 
sidence in the city and state, and the names and birthplaces of 
the parents of such person, together with the place of proposed 
interment of such dead person and the name (if known) of 
the undertaker who will have charge of such interment. 
DEATHS, BURIALS, CEMETERIES, ETC. 
In the event of any death occurring within said city, from 
any contagious or infectious disease, it shall be the duty of the 
physician in attendance upon the same to furnish to the 
Department of Health of said city a written certificate of death, 
as described above, within 12 hours of the time of such 
death. 
In the event of the occurrence of the death of any person 
within said city, upon whom no physician has been in pro- 
fessional attendance at the time of or within 12 hours preced- 
ing such death, a similar written certificate, as above described, 
shall be furnished and signed by the coroner. 
Sec. 24. No person shall retain or allow to he retained, un_ buried, the dead body of any human being within said city 
for a longer time than three days after the death of such 
human being, without having obtained a written permit so to 
do from the Department of Health of said city, which 
permit shall specify the length of time during which such dead 
body may be retained unburied, 
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Provided; That in case such dead person shall have died of 
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, scarlet fever, meas- 
les or diphtheria, the body of such person shall be buried with- 
in 24 hours after death. 
Sec. 25.—1t shall be the duty of any and every person who 
has discovered or seen, or who knows of the whereabouts with- 
in said city of the dead body of any human being, or of any 
part thereof (it such person has reason to believe that the fact 
of the death or of the existence or whereabouts of such dead 
body or of such part thereof is not known to the Department 
of Health of said city) to communicate immediately to said 
Department the fact of such discovery, the place wherein and 
the time when such dead body or part thereof was discovered 
or seen, and the place where the same is or may be found, and 
any facts known to such person by which the same may be 
identified or the cause of death thereof ascertained. 
Sec. 26.—N0 undertaker, or any other person, shall remove 
for burial, shipment, or for any other purpose, whether scientific 
or otherwise, the dead body of any human being, vyithin said 
city, or to or from said city, without first presenting to the De- 
partment of Health of said city a certificate of death (in accord- 
ance wit h the provisions of section 24 of these Rules and Regula- 
tions), signed by a legally practicing physician or by the coroner 
of the county and without obtaining therefrom a w'ritten per- 
mit so to do. < 
No interment or deposit of the dead body of any human 
being, or any other disposition thereof in any tomb, grave, 
vault or cemetery shall be made, within said city, without a 
written permit to inter, deposit or otherwise dispose of the 
same has first been granted by the said Department of Health; 
and no sexton or any other person shall assist in, countenance 
or allow any such interment or deposit of any such dead body 
unless such permit has been granted therefor by the said De- 
partment. 
Sec, 27. No physician, medical student or professor in 8 
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any medical college or university or any other person within 
the said city shall use, obtain or receive any dead body of any 
human being, for dissection or for any other scientific pur- 
pose, excepting for autopsy immediately after death, which has 
died from Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, small- 
pox, scarlet fever, measles, or diphtheria. It shall be the duty 
of the demonstrator of anatomy of any medical college or uni- 
versity, before using or receiving any dead human body for dis- 
sect’on or any other scientific purpose, within said city, to 
certify to the Department of Health of said city the name and 
nature of the disease of which such human body has died 
and to obtain or cause to be obtained from said Department a 
permit of burial for such body, and to preserve or cause to be 
preserved the remains of such dead body and to bury or cause 
the same to be properly buried in the cemetery or burying 
ground indicated in such permit. 
Sec. 28.—1t shall be the duty <st every sexton, superintendent 
of a cemetery, or other person in charge of any cemetery or bury- 
ing ground within said city, to receive the permits issued for 
burials in said cemetery or burying ground, to preserve the 
same and to furnish to the Department of Health of said city, 
upon Monday of each week, a written report, upon blank forms 
to be furnished upon application by said Department, yd all 
burials made or caused to be made by him. 
Sec. 29.—1t shall be the duty of the undertaker, near re- 
latives or any other person having charge of the funeral or 
burial of the dead body of any person within said city, who 
has died of Asiatic holera, yellow fever, typhus fever, typhoid 
fever, smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles or any other 
contagious or infectious disease, to keep such funeral strictly 
private and to permit no other person or persons excepting the 
Immediate members of tbe deceased person’s family who are 
resident at the place of death, and the officiating clergyman or 
minister, toibe present thereat; and to convey such dead body 
directly from the place of death to the place of burial and in no 
other vehicle than a hearse. 
Sec. SO.—It shall be the duty of the undertaker, near re- 
latives and of any other person or persons within said city who 
shall have charge of the burial or shipment, or of the prepara- 
tions for the burial or shipment of the dead body of any person 
who has died of any contagious or infectious disease to observe and obey the foliowng rules and regulations embodied in 
this section. 
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(a) The dead body of any person who lias died ot any contag- 
ious or infectious disease shall be thoroughly disinfected, and 
shall not be exposed to the view of any person who is not 
necessarily engaged in the preparation of the same for burial. 
(b) The dead body of any person who has died of any 
contagious dr infectious disease shall not be placed or kept 
in any receiving vault, in any cemetery or burying ground, 
unless such dead body shall he first enclosed in a hermetic- 
ally sealed, zinc-lined or other metallic casket, and unless a 
written permit so to do has first been obtained from the Depart- 
ment of Health ot said city. 
(c) No dead body of any person who has died of Asiatic chol- 
era, yellow fever, typhus fever or smallpox, shall he shipped 
or carried into or from said city by any means or conveyance 
whatsoever. 
(d) In preparing for shipment (he dead body of any person 
who has died of scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria or typhoid 
fever, the said body shall be wrapped in a sheet saturated 
either with a solution of bichloride of mercury, of a strength of 
one part in two thousand, or with a solution of carbolic acid 
of the strength of one part in forty. The said body shall then 
be enclosed in a lightly sealed casket and said casket shall 
be placed in a zinc-lined box. The spaces above and beneath 
said casket and between said casket and zinc-lined box shall be 
filled with sawdust which has been previously saturated with 
a solution ot bichloride of mercury, of the strength of one part 
in two thousand, or with a solution of carbolic aeidi of the 
strength of one part in forty. The said zinc-lined box shall then 
be hermetically sealed. 
(e) No person who has been exposed to contagion or infection 
from the dead body ot any person who has died of any contag- 
ious or infectious disease either before or alter death,shall be 
permitted to accompany the remains of such dean person in 
their removal to or from said city. 
Sec. 31.—N0 grave, tomb, vault or other receptacle, in 
which any dead body has been placed, shall be opened within 
said city for the purpose of exhuming or removing such dead 
body, unless a written permit so to do has been granted by 
the Department of Health, which permit shall dictate any 10 
precautions to be observed in so doing, which the said Depart- 
ment may deem necessary for the preservation of the public 
health. 
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Sec. 32.—Every grave in which any dead body shall be 
buried within said city shall be dug to a depth of not less than 
six feet below the surface of the ground and of not less than 
four feet below the grade of any closely adjacent street. 
Sec. 33.—N0 new cemetery, burying ground, va\i It or tom I), 
for the reception and burial of dead human bodies, shall be 
established within said city or under the control of any organ- 
ization within said city without a permit so to do shall first have 
been granted by the Department of Health of said city. 
Sec. 34.—1t shall be the duty of every person who acta as a 
undertaker or as a sexton or superintendent in charge of any 
vault, tomb, burying ground or cemetery, for the reception and 
burial of human dead, within said city, to cause his or her 
name, place of residence and the title of his or her office to be 
registered at the office of the Department of Health. 
Sec, 35. Every veterinary surgeon who is called to exam- 
ine or attend professionally any animal within said city which 
has, or is suspected of having, glanders, or farcy, or pleuro- 
pneumonia, or hydrophobia, or any other dangerous or 
communicable disease, shall report in waiting to the Depart- 
ment of Health of said city, within 24 hours after his first 
visit thereto, the location of such diseased animal, the name 
and address ol the owner thereof, and the nature of &the dis- 
ease or suspected disease affecting such animal. 
DISEASED AND DEAD ANIMALS. 
Sec. 36. No person shall buy, sell, keep, or cause to be 
kept within said city, any horse, ass, colt, or any other 
animal, which is sick with either of the diseases known as 
glanders, or farcy, or pleuro-pneumonia, or hydrophobia. It 
shall be the duty of any person owning, keeping or caring for, 
or knowing of any animal affected with glanders, or farcy, or 
pleuro-pneumonia, or hydrophobia, to report the fact and the 
whereabouts of such animal promptly to the Department of 
Health of said city. 
Sec. 37.—Any animal which is diseased with glanders or 
farcy or pleuropneumonia or hydrophobia, within said city and 
which has been condemned by the Department of Health of said DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 
city, shall be immediately quarantined, and shall be killed 
and removed so soon and in such manner as the said Depart- 
ment shall direct. 
Sec. bB.—No diseased or sickly horse, cattle, swine, sheep, 
dog or cat or any other animal, and no animal which has been 
exposed to any disease which is contagious or infections 
among animals, shall be brought into or exposed in any 
street, alley or public place in said city. 
Sec. 39.—No person shall abandon or leave in any street 
alley, lot or other public place within said city any sick or in- 
jured horse or other animal. It shall be the duty of the owner 
of such sick or injured animal to make provision for the care 
and shelter of the same, or, if such sick or injured animal shall 
be adjudged past recovery, to kill or cause the same to be 
killed and removed under the rules and regulations of the De- 
partment of Health of said city. 
Sec. 40.—Any person who shall know of any sick or injured 
animal which lias been abandoned or left, or which has been 
found upon any street, alley, lot or public place within said 
city without an owner, shall immediately notify the Department 
of Health of said city of the fact and of the whereabouts of 
such animal. 
Sec. 41.—Any sick or injured animal found or abandoned 
upon any street, alley lot, or public place within said city with- 
out an owner,which is adjudged, by the Department of Health 
of said city, and by any veterinary surgeon summoned by said 
department, to be past recovery, shall, after an interval of two 
hours, if unclaimed and uneared for by the owner thereof, be 
killed and removed by order of said Department. 
Sec. 42.—N0 person shall deposit or cause to be deposited 
unon any lot or in any street, alley, lake or river or other 
body of water, or bury or conceal in any way, within said city, 
any dead animal or part thereof. It shall be the duty of any 
owner or other person having charge of any animal at the time 
of its death, to remove or cause to be removed the dead body 
of such animal, within six hours after death, to the crema- 
tory, dump, licensed rendering factory or any other proper- 
place, within said city, designated by the Department of 
Health. 
NUISANCES. 
Sec. 43. No owner of, agent for, or occupant of any house, RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
store, hotel, restaurant, market or stable, nor any other 
person, shall accumulate, throw or deposit, or cause to be 
thrown or deposited, or shall- pass or allow to be passed into 
or upon any street, alley, lot, vacant place, sidewalk, catch 
basin, manhole, gutter, pond, lake, river, creek or other body 
of wates, or upon the banks thereof, within said city, any 
animal or vegetable matter, garbage, swill, slops, offal, but- 
chers’ waste, store sweepings, street sweepings, rubbish, re- 
fuse, manure, straw, hay, animal beddings, ashes, night 
soil, sewage sludge, contents of cess-pools or privy vaults, or 
any other nauseous or unwholesome substance, fluid, or 
thing. 
Sec. 44.—It shall be the duty of the owner, manager, pro- 
prietor-, agent or occupant of any house, store, hotel, restau- 
rant, saloon or stable, within said city, to provide water tight 
boxes, barrels, buckets or other suitable receptacles for the re- 
ception of garbage, offal, ashes, manure and other refuse, and 
to place the same upon the premises such persons may own, 
occupy or control in a situation as remote as possible Irom 
any surrounding dwellings and not less than 50 feet from any 
adjacent street; and to empty and cleanse the same or cause 
the same to be emptied and cleansed as often as may be nec- 
essary to prevent such receptacles or the contents thereof from 
becoming a nuisance, or as often as the Department of Health of 
said city may direct. 
Sec. 45. It shall be the duty of every proprietor, manager or 
tenant ot any market, commission house, butcher shop, fruit 
store, restaurant, eating house, boarding house or hotel within 
said city to make provision for and to secure the daily removal 
of ail garbage, offal or refuse which may accumulate therein, 
and to keep such house, store, restaurant or hotel at all times 
free from offensive odors or nuisances. 
Sec. 46. No person shall throw into any privy vault, sink or 
cesspool within said city any garbage, offal, swill or other 
household refuse; nor shall any person discharge, or cause 
to be discharged, into any privy vault the slops or water run- 
ning through or from any sink or drain-pipe within any dwel- 
ling or other building. 
Sec. 47.—1t shall be the duty of the owner, agent or oc- 
cupant of any house, store, factory or other building or pre- 
mises within said city, upon or in connection with which any DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 
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privy vaults or cesspools are maintained, to make ami keep 
such privy vaults and cesspools water tight and in good re- 
pair, to empty to the bottom and to cleanse and disinfect the 
same whenever said privy vaults or cesspools shall be or be- 
come nauseous, offensive or dangerous to the public health, or 
whenever the Department of Health of said city may adjudge 
such emptying, cleansing and disinfecting to be necessary, 
and order the same to be done. 
Sec. *lB.—lt shall be the duty of every owner of or agent for 
any house, store, hotel, factory or other building within said 
city, to make connections, agreeably to the provisions of the 
plumbing ordinance of said city, between such building and 
the public sewers of said city, whenever such sewers exist in 
the immediately adjacent or abutting streets and whenever the 
Department of Health of said city shall order such sewer con- 
nection to be made. And, in the absence of such sewers in 
the immediately adjacent or abutting streets, it shall be the 
duty of the owner of or agent for such building to make 
or cause to be made a cesspool in connection with such build- 
ing whenever the Department of Health of said city shall con- 
sider the same to be necessary, and shall order the same to 
be done, and in such location and of such dimension as the 
building inspector shall direct. 
Sec. 49. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or occupant 
of any house, store or other building within said city, in which 
any drain-pipe, soil-pipe or passage exists in connection with 
any sewer or cesspool, to make and to keep such drain-pipe, 
soil-pipe or passage adequate for its proper purposes and 
free of any obstruction to the passage of such materials that 
may or should be put or discharged into the same. 
Sec. 50.—N0 person shall own, conduct or engage in the 
business of tanning, skinning, scouring or dressing hides 
and leather, or in the business of glue making, or of render- 
ing, boiling, heating, steaming, grinding or crushing animal or 
vegetable waste matter, meat, fat,bones or garbage, or in any 
other business which shall be nauseous, offensive or dangerous 
to the public health, within said city, without having first ob- 
tained a written permit or license so to do from the De- 
partment of Health of said city, and then only in such place 
or places and under such conditions as the said Department 
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.engaging in such business, to comply with the aforesaid 
conditions, shall subject such person or persons lo a revoca- 
tion of such permit or license at any time thereafter by the said 
Depa trnent. 
Sec. 51.—1t shall be the duty of every owner, agent or oc- 
cupant of any building or any part thereof, within said city, 
which has been or shall be condemned by the Department of 
Health of said city as unfit for human habitation by reason and 
on account of its infection with any disease or of its being sub- 
ject to the influence of any nuisance which is adjudged by 
said Department to be dangerous to human life or health, to 
vacate such building or part thereof within such reasonable 
time as may be specified in a written notice to such effect, 
which shall be served by said Department upon such owner, 
agent or occupant of said building. 
SCAVENGER SERVICE, ETC, 
Sec. ■52. No person shall remove or cause to be removed, 
cleaned or carried within said city, the contents of any 
privy vault or cess-pool or any offal, butcher's waste, garbage, 
swdlt, rough tallow or slaughter-house refuse, or any carcass of 
any dead animal without having first obtained a written per- 
mit so to do from the Department of Health of said city, and it 
shall he the duty ot such person to comply with all the re- 
quirements and conditions of such permit. 
Sec. 53. No person shall perform any scavenger service by 
means of either carts or tanks within said city between the 
hours of midnight on Saturday and of midnight on Sunday; 
and no person shall remove the contents of any vaults or cess- 
pools by means of carts within said city between the hours 
of 5 a. m. and 10 p. m. on each week-day without a special per- 
mit so to do. 
Sec. 54. It shall be the duty of every owner, keeper or driver 
of any scavenger cart, tank or vessel within said city to make 
and keep the same water-tight, covered and clean, and to wash 
and disinfect every such cart, tank or vessel which is used 
for the conveyance of night soil or cesspool filth, at the dump 
or in the river adjacent thereto, each time and immediately 
after the same is emptied. 
Sec. 55.—1t shall be the duty of every owner, keeper or driver 
of any scavenger cart, tank, vessel or tools within said city DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 
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to keep the same when not in-actual use in a suitable barn, 
stable, shed or other complete inclosure, and no such cart, tank, 
vessel or tools shall be permitted to stand on or remain upon 
any street, alley or lot when not in actual use. 
Sec. 56.—it shall be the duty of every owner, keeper or driver 
of any scavenger cart or tank within said city to submit the said 
cart or tank for inspection to Ihe Department of Health of said 
city at last once in each month, and if the condition of the said 
cart or tank is not approved by said Department, it shall be 
the duly of such owner, keeper or driver to keep the same 
out of service until it is cleaned, altered or repaired. 
Sec. 57.—N0 person engaged in the removal of any refuse of 
whatever kind within said city shall permit or cause the same to 
ie piled up or raked together in any street or public place for 
a longer time than four hours. 
Sec. 58.—1t shall be the duty of every person who is en- 
gaged in the removal, loading or unloading, or conveyance, 
within said city, of any contents of any privy vault or cesspool 
or of any offal, bufcher’s waste, garbage, swill, slaughter 
house refuse, street sweepings or of any other filthy or offens- 
ive substance, to do the same neatly and with dispatch, and to 
avoid ali unnecessary offense in so doing. 
Sec. 59.—No person shall permit or cause any vehicle carry- 
ing the contents of any privy vault or cesspool or any offal, 
garbage, swill or other filthy or offensive substance, within 
said city, to stand or remain before or near any building or 
residence or upon any street, alley, lot or other public place for 
any longer time than is actually required in the loading, con- 
veyance and unloading of such materials. 
Sec. 60. It shall be the duty of every owner, keeper or driver 
of any scavenger cart, tank or vessel within said city to keep 
such cart, tank or vessel in good repair, to avoid overloading the 
same or spilling its contents, and to keep a close cover over such 
cart, tank or vessel while driving the same upon the public 
streets and alleys, and if any of the contents thereof shall be 
spilled or fall upon any street, walk or premises, it shall be 
the duty of such owner, keeper or driver to replace the same 
immediately and remove all traces thereof. 
Sec. 61.—N0 person shall obstruct, delay or interfere with 
the proper and free use of the crematory and dumps within 16 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
said city or resist the keepers thereof in ihe proper discharge 
of their duties. 
PENALTIES AND PUBLICATION. 
Sec. 62.—Any person whosoever who shali violate any 
clause, provision, requirement or duty of these rules and reg- 
ulations of the said Department of Health or of the Commis- 
sioner of Health in the discharge of duty or in charge of any 
quarantine, or any person whosoever who shall fail or neglect 
to comply with any such clause, provision, requirement, duty 
or orders, or who shall interfere with or in any manner re- 
sist any officer or agent of the Department of Health of the city 
of Minneapolis in the discharge of his duty, as here in contem- 
plated, or who shall commit any such breach of peace or be 
guilty of any act or thing calculated to defeat or interlere with 
the carrying into effect any regulation or order of said Depart- 
ment of Health, shall, upon arrest and conviction thereof before 
the municipal court of the city of Minneapolis, or the district 
court of the county of Hennepin, be subject to a fine not to 
exceed one hundred dollars ($100), nor less than ten dollars ($10) 
for each offense, together with costs of prosecution. 
Sec. 63.—The foregoing rules and regulations of the Depart- 
ment of Health of the city of Minneapolis shall take effect aii(j 
be in force from and after the publication of the same in the 
official paper of the said city. 
Ofeice oe the Department of j 
Health, Minneapolis, Minn., 
July 15tb, 1889. 
We hereby certify that the foregoing rules and regulations, severally 
and as a whole, were adopted by the Department of Health at a 
meeting held on the 15th day of July, 1889, and the publication of 
the same was ordered to be made in the Minneapolis Evening 
Star, it being the official paper of the city of Minneapolis, Min- 
nesota. 
Signed 
E. C. Babb, 
Mayor, 
Alderman H. W. Brazie, 
[l.s.] Alderman E. G. Potter, 
Alderman J. C. Sterling, 
Secretary, 
S. S. Kilvington, M. D„ 
Chairman and Commissioner of Health, State of Minnesota, I 
County of Hennepin; fbb‘ 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 
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On this, the fifteenth day of July, 1889, before me, the undersigned, 
a Notary Public in and for said County of Hennepin, personally ap- 
peared E. C. Babb, Mayor. Alderman H. W. Brazie, Alderman E. 
G. Potter, Alderman J. C- Sterling, S. S. Kilvington, Commissioner 
of Health, to me well known, and having subscribed their names to 
the foregoing affidavit and been duly sworn, said that the fore- 
going rules and regulations, severally and as a whole, were 
adopted by the Department of Health at a meeting held on the 15th 
day of July, 1889, and that the publication of the same was ordered 
in the Minneapolis Evening Star, the official paper of the city of 
Minneapolis, and that the same is true of their own knowledge. 
Notary Public, 
Hennepin County, Minnesota. 
CHAS. F. HANEY, 
Cdaribel S. Bard, 
Chas. F. Haney, 
Witnesses. 
State of Minnesota, \ 
County of Hennepin. >'■— 
Came personally before me Meinardt H. Garrels, and being duly 
sworn, doth depose and say, that he now is, and during all the time 
hereinafter mentioned, has been the foreman and printer of the Min- 
neapolis Evening Star, a daily newspaper of general circulation, print- 
ed and published in the city of Minneapolis, in said Hennepin county. 
That he knows of his own knowledge that the printed notice hereto at- 
tached, cut from the columns of said newspaper, was inserted, printed 
and published in said newspaper once, and that said publication was 
made in the English language. That said notice was inserted, printed 
and published in said newspaper on Tuesday, the 16th day of July, 
1889, and that said newspaper was published daily and generally cir- 
culated in said Hennepin county for more than one year next preced- 
ing the date of the publication of said notice. 
M. H. GARRELS. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of July, A. D. 1889. 
E. T. BENNETT. 
Notary Public Hennepin County, Minn.