CITY OF EVERETT 
Rules and Regulations 
OK THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
And Ordinance, 
XXXIX, 
RELATIVE TO PLUMBING. 
1896. 
MARBLEHEAD: 
N. A. Lindsey & Co., Primers, 
1896. CITY OF EVERETT 
Rules and Regulations 
OF THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
And Ordinance, 
XXXIX, 
RELATIVE TO PLUMBING. 
1896. 
N. A. Lindsey & Co., Printers, 
MARBLEHEAD: 
1896. REGULATIONS 
ADOPTED BY THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH. 
Section i. Nuisances. No privy vaults shall 
be used as cesspools, nor receive drainage from the prem- 
ises ; their contents shall not be allowed to leak out or 
otherwise become offensive. 
Section 2. No person shall allow the overflow of 
any drain constructed for surface water, any house drain- 
age or other offensive water to remain in any cellar, or 
upon any lot or vacant ground by such person owned or 
occupied. 
Section 3. Premises may be Vacated. The 
Board when satisfied upon due examination that a cellar, 
room, tenement or building in the city, occupied as a 
dwelling place, has become by reason of the number of 
occupants, want of cleanliness or other cause unfit for 
such purpose, and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the 
occupants or the public, may issue a notice in writing to 
such occupants, requiring the premises to be put in 4 
proper condition; or, if the Board see fit, they may 
require the premises to be vacated, and the same shall 
not be again occupied without the written permission of 
the Board. 
Section 4. Dumping of Rubbish. No person 
shall throw or put into any public place or pond, or 
running stream, or body of water, or any other place 
where the Board of Health may deem it a nuisance, any 
dead animal, animal matter, decayed fruit or vegetables, 
dirt or rubbish whatever; nor shall any person throw 
into or upon any flats or tide-water within the jurisdic- 
tion of the city, any dead animals, filth or offensive 
matter. 
Section 5. Offensive Trades. By virtue of 
the authority given in Chapter 80 of the Public Statutes, 
the Board of Health forbids any person using or main- 
taining within the limits of the city any building or 
structure as a slaughter-house ; for the manufacture or 
refining of kerosene oil or soap, the trying out of lard, 
the business of tallow chandler, or the tanning, dressing 
or coloring of leather or skins ; rendering animal matter 
(except fresh tallow), manufacturing fertilizers, mixing 
or storing refuse animal or vegetable substances, smoking 
fish or meat, refining oils, making varnish, glue, gas, 
gasoline, or any burning fluid, except at such place or 
places as may be assigned by the Board of Health ; such 
trades or employments being nuisances hurtful to the 
inhabitants of said city, dangerous to the public health, 
attended by noisome and injurious odors, and otherwise 
injurious to the estates of said inhabitants. Section 6. Collection of Offal, etc. No per- 
son shall collect any house-offal or night-soil, remove 
the contents of any cesspool or vault, nor drive any cart 
or other vehicle containing night-soil, house-offal or 
other offensive matter, or used for conveying the same, 
in any street of the city, without a written permit from 
the Board of Health. 
Section. 7. Keeping of Fowl. No person shall 
keep any fowl or animal in any part of a dwelling-house 
or in any place in the city where the Board of Health 
may deem such keeping detrimental to the health of the 
residents of the neighborhood, or to those that may pass 
by ; and said Board shall have the power to remove or 
cause to be removed therefrom any such fowl or animal 
so kept. 
Section 8. Burning Refuse. No person shall 
burn on premises occupied by him any garbage, refuse, 
woolen, silken, leather or rubber goods or other sub- 
stances so that the same shall evolve offensive odors and 
gases while burning, to the injury of those living in the 
neighborhood or those passing by. 
HOUSE OFFAL. 
Section 9. Receptacles for Swill. Every 
house shall be provided with a suitable water-tight 
covered receptacle to keep garbage and swill until the 
same is removed by the city scavengers. This recepta- 
cle shall be kept covered at all times except when 
depositing or removing the garbage. It shall be kept on the ground floor and be convenient 
of access. 
No person shall deposit in the garbage to be taken by 
the city scavengers any tin cans, water (dish-water not 
excepted), ashes, glass, sweepings, oyster or clam shells, 
sawdust, corkdust, old boots or shoes, dead animals, lawn 
clippings, or any poisonous substances. Any garbage 
containing foreign matter of the kind enumerated above, 
must be cared for by the owners at their own expense. 
FISH, PROVISIONS, ETC. 
Section io. Fish must be Cleaned. No per- 
son shall, at any time, have in his possession with intent 
to sell for food, fish of any kind, except flounders, smelts 
and other small fish, salmon and shad,-until the same 
have been cleansed of their entrails and other refuse parts ; 
nor fish of any kind, unless they are kept in covered 
stalls, or fish-boxes, or in covered carts, which shall be 
clean and in good order, and well secured from the rays 
of the sun. 
Section ii. Fruit and Provisions. No person 
shall bring into the city, keep or offer for sale for food, 
any diseased, putrid, stale or unwholesome meat, vegeta- 
bles, fruit or provisions. 
LICENSES. 
Section 12. Swine. No person shall keep swine 
within the limits of the city, without first obtaining a 
permit so to do from the Board of Health, and in all re- 7 
spects complying with the conditions of said permit. 
All such permits shall expire on the first day of May, 
annually, and may be revoked at any time by the Board 
of Health ; and no person shall receive such a permit 
without first paying to the Treasurer for the use of the 
city the sum of $1.00 for each swine to be kept, except 
in case a permit is granted to keep more than ten swine 
the fee shall not exceed $10.00. All such licenses must 
be personally applied for yearly, before May 1st. 
Section 13. Grease Collecting. No person, 
without first obtaining a permit so to do from the Board 
of Health shall collect or carry through the streets of the 
city any bones or soap grease. 
The vehicles or receptacles must be neat and clean, 
not leak and have painted on them in letters and figures 
at least two inches in height the name of the person col- 
lecting and the number given him by the Board of 
Health. All such permits shall expire on the first day 
of May, annually, and may be revoked at any time by 
the Board of Health ; and no person shall receive such 
a permit without first paying to the Treasurer for the use 
of the city the sum of $1.00. 
Extract from Ordinances, 1893, relating to Hawkers 
and Pedlers: 
Chapter xxxv. 
Section i. Every hawker or peddler exposing for sale or 
selling any of the articles enumerated in Section 1 of Chapter 
68 of the Public Statutes shall record his name with the Board 
of Health, who shall assign him a number. Section 2. The said articles shall be so carried and con- 
veyed that they shall not tend to injure or annoy the public 
health or comfort, and only in vehicles or receptacles which do 
not leak. 
Section 3. Every such vehicle or receptacle shall have the 
name and number of the person selling painted thereon in 
letters and figures at least two inches in size, shall be kept neat 
and clean within and without, and shall be submitted to the in- 
spection of the Board of Health or its agent at least once every 
month at such time and place as may be designated by said 
Board. 
Section 4. No person, unless duly licensed by the Board of 
Aldermen so to do, shall ring a bell or cause to be rung or cry 
his wares in a public street, for the purpose of giving notice of 
the exercise of a business or calling, or for the sale of an 
article ; and no person shall use or cause to be used in a public 
street for said purpose a horn or other noise-making instrument. 
Section 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of 
this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty 
dollars. (See page 16 for Public Statute, numbered above). 
Section 14. No Old Rags and Junk in 
Dwelling-Houses. No old rags, old paper or like 
refuse material, gathered or secured from any source, 
shall be brought into or allowed to remain within any 
building used as a dwelling. 
Section 15. Stables. No owner or occupant of a 
stable shall permit the stable or grounds connected there- 
with to be foul or unclean. All manure from stables 
except on premises used for agricultural purposes and 
where no nuisance is created shall be kept in a ventilated 
manure pit, or in a building for the purpose outside, that 
is satisfactory to the Board of Health 
Section 16. No manure shall be removed or carried 
through the streets of this city except in a tight vehicle 
so as to prevent the manure in process of removal from 9 
being dropped or left in any street or way of the city. 
No manure shall be loaded into a vehicle in or upon any 
street, lane or passageway nor upon or across any side- 
walk without a written permit from the Board of Health. 
INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 
Section 17. The diseases which are regarded by 
the Board of Health as dangerous to the public health 
within the meaning of Section 79 Chapter 80, of the 
Public Statutes, and which attending physicians and 
householders must report to the Board of Plealth, are 
smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup (so called), 
measles, scarlet fever, typhus fever, typhoid fever, yellow 
fever and cholera. 
In all houses where either diphtheria, membranous 
croup (so called), or scarlet fever is found to exist, a 
placard shall be displayed in a conspicuous place inform- 
ing the public of the presence of such disease. 
Section 18. Disinfection. Immediately upon 
the recovery or removal of a case of contagious disease, 
the room or rooms occupied by the patient must be dis- 
infected to the satisfaction of the Board of Health. 
This work is performed under the charge of the Board 
of Health and at the public expense. 
Section 19. School Permit Cards. • At the 
time of disinfection where an infectious disease has ex- 
isted a permit card will be issued by the Board of Health 
to any child a resident in the house authorizing re-ad- 
mission to school on and after a date two weeks from date 10 
of disinfection, provided that no other case of infections 
disease shall have appeared in the house in the mean- 
time. 
In case of measles and whooping-cough the Board will 
issue such card on receipt of a certificate from physician 
or other evidence that danger of contagion is passed. 
Section 20. No Public Funeral. No public 
funeral, and no funeral attended by other persons than 
those occupying the dwelling in which the funeral is 
held, or those whose business calls them there, shall be 
held in case of death from Asiatic cholera, diphtheria 
(membranous croup), measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, 
typhoid fever or typhus fever, except by written consent 
of the Board of Health. 
In case of death from any of the above diseases, the un- 
dertaker shall immediately, in the room where death 
occurred, wrap the whole body in a sheet saturated with 
a 1 to 500 solution of corrosive sublimate, and shall as soon 
as possible place it in a tight coffin which shall be made 
absolutely tight, and shall not thereafter be opened ; or 
shall prepare the body in such a manner as shall prevent 
all danger to the public, under the direction of the 
Board of Health. 
When the body is to be sent by railroad, the coffin or 
box must be hermetically sealed in metallic case. 
Section 21. Time of Burial. The undertaker 
shall at once notify the Board of Health of the time 
when the body is to be removed, and shall sign a certifi- 
cate containing a true statement of the facts, that he has 
complied with the foregoing rules; and he and every 11 
other person having charge or custody, or the right of 
disposal of the body, shall cause the burial to take place 
before sunset of the same day, if possible ; or, in any 
event, within twenty-four hours. 
No stand with draperies that are to be used at any 
other funeral shall be used in case of death from any in- 
fectious disease. 
Section 22. Public Carriage not to be Used. 
No person having charge of any hackney carriage shall 
receive or permit to be placed therein, or convey in or 
upon the same, any person sick or infected with any con- 
tagious disease, or the body of any person deceased from 
such disease, except by written consent and under such 
regulations as the Board may prescribe. 
Section 23. No person shall open a grave or tomb 
between the first day of June and the first day of October 
for any other purpose than that of interring the dead, 
except in accordance with a permit from the Board of 
Health. 
Section 24. Library Books. No books from 
the Public Library shall be given out to any person liv- 
ing in a family where any disease of a contagious char- 
acter may exist. The librarian will be informed of all 
such cases and will not issue books to such family until a 
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written permit has been given by the Board of Health. 
Books from any circulating library that have been 
exposed to infection must be destroyed. EXTRACTS 
FROM THE 
STATUTES OF THE COMMONWEALTH 
NUISANCES. 
[Chapter 80, Section 21.] 
The board or the health officer shall order the owner 
or occupant at his own expense to remove any nuisance, 
source of filth, or cause of sickness found on private 
property, within twenty-four hours, or such other time 
as it deems reasonable, after notice served as provided in 
the following section; and if the owner or occupant 
neglects so to do, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 
twenty dollars for every day during which he knowing- 
ly permits such nuisance or cause of sickness to remain 
after the time prescribed for the removal thereof. 
The board may order the removal of a nuisance with- 
out previous notice to the owner or occupant, and 
without any opportunity by him to be heard. 14 
City of Salem v. Eastern Railroad Company, 98 Mass. 443. 
In the above case, Wells, J., says in relation to boards of 
health : “ Their action is intended to be prompt and summary. 
They are clothed with extraordinary powers for the protection 
of the community from noxious influences affecting life and 
health, and it is important that their proceedings should be 
embarrassed and delayed as little as possible by the necessary 
observance of formalities. Although notice and opportunity 
to be heard upon matters affecting private interests ought 
always to be given when practicable, yet the nature and 
object of those proceedings are such that it is deemed to be 
most for the general good that such notice should not be 
essential to the right of the board to act for the public safety. 
Delay for the purpose of giving notice, involving the necessity 
either of public notice or of inquiry to ascertain who are the 
parties whose interests will be affected, and further delay for 
such hearings as the parties may think necessary for the 
protection of their interests, might defeat all beneficial results 
from an attempt to exercise the powers conferred upon boards 
of health. The necessity of the case and the importance of 
the public interests at stake justify the omission of notice to 
the individual.” 
The adjudication of the board that a nuisance exists is con- 
clusive, and no appeal lies therefrom. 
SEWER CONNECTIONS. 
[Chapter 152, Acts 1890.] 
Section i. Every building situated on a public or 
private street, court or passageway, in which there is a 
public sewer, shall, when required by the board of 
health of the city or town in which it stands, be con- 
nected by a good and sufficient particular drain with 
such public sewer. 15 
Section 2. Any person owning, leasing or maintain- 
ing any building not connected with a public sewer 
as provided in the preceding section shall be punished 
by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. 
PRIVY VAULTS. 
[Chapter 74, Section 1, Acts 1890.] 
No privy vault shall be established in a city which 
accepts this act, either upon premises situated in a public 
or private street, court, or passage-way where there is a 
public sewer opposite thereto, or upon premises connect- 
ed with a public or private sewer, without permission in 
writing first obtained from the board of health of said 
city, and whenever there is in such city a privy vault so 
situated which in the opinion of the board of health of 
such city is injurious to the public health, said board 
shall declare the same to be a nuisance, and forbid its 
continuance ; and Sections 21-23 inclusive of Chapter 80 
shall apply to such nuisances so declared. [Accepted by 
city of Everett, Nov. 21, 1893.] 
OFFENSIVE TRADES. 
[Chapter 80, Section 84.] 
The board of health of a town shall from time to time 
assign certain places for the exercise of any trade or em- 
ployment which is a nuisance or hurtful to the inhabit- 
ants, or dangerous to the public health, or the exercise of 
which is attended by noisome and injurious odors, or is 
otherwise injurious to their estates, and may prohibit 16 
the exercise of such trade or employment in places not 
so assigned ; the board may also prohibit such exercise 
within the limits of the town or in any particular locality 
thereof. All such assignments shall be entered in the 
records of the town, and may be revoked when the board 
shall think proper. 
POULTRY TO BE PROPERLY DRESSED. 
[Acts 1887, Section 1 and 2.] 
No poultry, except it be alive, shall be sold or exposed 
for sale until it has been properly dressed, by the 
removal of the crop and entrails when containing food. 
Whoever knowingly sells or exposes for sale poultry 
contrary to the provisions of section one of this act shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than 
fifty dollars for each offence. The boards of health in 
the several cities and towns shall cause the provisions of 
this act to be enforced in their respective cities and 
towns. 
HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS. 
[Public Statutes, Chapter 68.] 
Section i. Any person may go about from town to 
to town, or from place to place in the same town, expos- 
ing for sale and selling fruits, provisions, live animals, 
brooms, agricultural implements, hand tools used in 
making boots and shoes, fuel, newspapers, books, pam- 
phlets, agricultural products of the United States, and 
the product of his own labor or of the labor of his 17 
family ; but nothing in this section shall be so construed 
as to include among the things that may be so exposed for 
sale or sold any articles of the growth or production of 
foreign countries. 
UNWHOLESOME FOOD. 
[Acts 1894, Chapter 491, Section 15.] 
Whoever knowingly sells or offers or exposes for sale, 
or has in his possession with the intent to sell, for food, 
any diseased animal, or any product thereof, or any 
tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed or unwholesome 
carcass, meat, fish, vegetables, produce, fruit or provisions 
of any kind, or the veal of a calf killed under four weeks 
old, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail not ex- 
ceeding sixty days, or by a fine of not exceeding one 
hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AMONG DOMESTIC 
ANIMALS. 
[Acts 1894, Chapter 491, Section 29.] 
Every person, except the members of Board of Cattle 
Commissioners, who has knowledge of or has good reason 
to suspect the existence of any contagious disease among 
any species of domestic animals within the limits of this 
Commonwealth, or that any domestic animal is affected 
with any such contagious disease, whether such knowl- 
edge is obtained by personal examination or otherwise, 18 
shall immediately give written notice thereof to the 
board of health of the city or town where such diseased 
animal or animals are kept and for failure so to do shall 
be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, 
or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year. 
QUARANTINE OF ANIMALS. 
[Acts 1894, Chapter 491, Section 32.] 
Every animal quarantined or isolated by order of 
the Board of Cattle Commissioners or any of its members, 
or by any board of health or inspector, in accordance with 
the provisions of this Act, shall, during the continuance 
of such quarantine or isolation, be deemed to be infected 
with a contagious disease. Any person who shall know- 
ingly break or authorize or cause to be broken any 
quarantine imposed under the provisions of this Act, or 
who shall knowingly remove, authorize or cause to be 
removed from any building, place or enclosure where the 
same is quarantined or isolated, any animal contrary to 
such order of quarantine or isolation, or who shall know- 
ingly place or cause or authorize to be placed any other 
animal or animals within a building, place or enclosure 
where any animals or animals are quarantined, or in con- 
tact therewith, contrary to any order or notice of quaran- 
tine, or who shall knowingly conceal, sell, remove or 
transport, or knowingly cause or authorize to be con- 
cealed, sold, removed or transported, any animal, know- 
ing or having reasonable cause to believe that such 19 
animal is affected with a contagious disease or who shall 
knowingly authorize or permit any such animal to go at 
large upon any way, street or highway within the limits 
of this Commonwealth, or who shall knowingly bring or 
authorize or permit to be brought from any other coun- 
try, state, district or territory into this Commonwealth, 
any animal that is affected with or has been exposed to 
any contagious disease, or who shall disobey any lawful 
order or regulation of any board of health or any inspect- 
or in the discharge of his or their duty under the pro- 
visions of this Act, shall be punished by a fine not 
exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not 
exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment. 
INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 
[Public Statutes, Chapter 80. Acts 1890, Chapter 102.] 
When a Householder knows that a person with- 
in his family or house is sick of smallpox, diphtheria, 
scarlet fever or any other infectious or contagious disease 
dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately 
give notice thereof to the board of health of the city or 
or town in which he dwells, and upon the death, recovery 
or removal of such person, such of the rooms of said 
house and such of the articles therein as, in the opinion 
of the board of health, have been subjected to infection 
or contagion shall be disinfected by such householder to 
the satisfaction of said board of health. Any person neglecting or refusing to comply with either of the above 
provisions shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one 
hundred dollars. 
When a Physician knows that a person whom he 
is called to visit is infected with smallpox, diphtheria, 
scarlet fever or any other disease dangerous to public 
health, he shall immediately give notice thereof in writ- 
ing over his own signature, to the selectmen or board of 
health of the town ; and if he refuses or neglects to give 
such notice he shall forfeit for each offence not less than 
fifty or more than two hundred. 
When a disease dangeroiis to the public health breaks 
out in a town, the board shall immediately provide such 
hospital or place of reception for the sick and infected 
as is judged best for their accommodation and the safety 
of the inhabitants, which shall be subject to the regula- 
tions of the board ; and the board may cause any sick 
and infected person to be removed thereto, unless his 
condition will not admit of his removal without danger 
to his health, in which case the house or place where he 
remains shall be considered as a hospital, and all persons 
residing in or in any way concerned within the same shall 
be subject to the regulations of the board as before 
provided. 
When such disease is found to exist in a town, the 
selectmen and board of health shall use all possible 
care to prevent the spreading of the infection, and to 
give public notice of infected places to travelers by 
displaying red flags at proper distances, and by all other 21 
means which in their judgment shall be most effectual 
for the common safety. And whoever obstructs 
the selectmen, board of health, or its agent, in using 
such means to prevent the spreading of the infection, 
or wilfully removes, obliterates, defaces, or handles the 
red flags or other signals so displayed, shall forfeit for 
each offence not less than ten nor more than one hun- 
dred dollars. 
If a physician or other person in any of the hospitals 
or places of reception before mentioned, or who attends, 
approaches, or is concerned with the same, violates any 
regulation lawfully made in relation thereto, either with 
respect to himself or his or any other person’s property, 
he shall for each offence forfeit not less than ten nor 
more than one hundred dollars. 
SCHOOL CHILDREN. 
[Acts 1885, Chapter 198.] 
The school committees shall not allow any pupil to 
attend the public schools while any member of the 
household to which such pupil belongs is sick of small- 
pox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, or during a period of 
two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such 
sick person ; and any pupil coming from such household 
shall be required to present to the teacher of the school 
the pupil desires to attend, a certificate from the attend- 
ing physician or board of health of the facts necessary 22 
to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above 
regulation. 
VACCINATION. 
[Acts 1894, Chapter 515.] 
Section i. Parents and guardians shal} cause their 
children and wards to be duly vaccinated before they 
attain the age of two years, except as provided in Section 
2 of this Act. For every year’s neglect the party 
offending shall forfeit the sum of five dollars. 
Section 2. All children who shall present a certifi- 
cate signed by a regular practicing physician that they 
are unfit subjects for vaccination, shall not be subject to 
the provisions of Section 9 of Chapter 47 of the Public 
Statutes excluding unvaccinated children from public 
schools, and all children upon such a certificate shall 
be exempted from the provisions of this Act, and the 
parents and guardians of such children shall not be 
liable to the penalties imposed by Section 1 of this 
Act. 
Section 3. The board of health in any city or town 
shall require and enforce the vaccination and re-vacci- 
nation of all the inhabitants thereof whenever in the 
opinion of said board the public health or safety requires 
such action. Every person over twenty-one years of 
age, not under guardianship, who neglects to comply 
with such requirement shall forfeit the sum of five 
dollars. 23 
CIRCULAR ISSUED TO PHYSICIANS BY THE 
EVERETT BOARD OF HEALTH. 
When a positive or suspected case of diphtheria oc- 
curs, a report card (name, age, residence, etc.,) must be 
delivered to the Board of Health before taking culture 
tubes. If diagnosis is in doubt so state on report card, and 
the case will not be recorded as diphtheria and a card put 
upon house until bacteriological examination or clinical 
appearance (of which physician is expected to notify the 
Board) prove it to be true diphtheria, provided that 
The physician will see to it that other children are 
kept from school and the patient properly quarantined. 
If a case presents marked symptoms, it is better to report 
it as diphtheria at once. The bacteriological examina- 
tions are to decide doubtful cases, and, after patients have 
apparently recovered, to determine when danger of con- 
tagion is over. Physicians are expected to make cultures 
for these purposes. In no case will patients be released 
from quarantine until bacteriological examination shows 
that the bacilli are no longer present! Tubes can be 
obtained at the office of the Board, at City Hall, (Sun- 
days at Dr. Norton’s) and must be returned before 
4, P.M. An answer will be given the next evening. 
Anti-toxine can be obtained of Dr. Norton, to be used 
only in cases where the patient cannot afford to pay 
for it. 24 
PLUMBING LAWS. 
[Chapter 39, City Ordiances.] 
Section i. No person shall do or carry on the 
business of plumbing in this city unless he shall first 
have registered his name and place of business in the of- 
fice of the Board of Health or its agent and have been duly 
licensed so to do, and notice of any change in the place 
of business of a registered plumber shall be immediately 
given to said Board. 
Section 2.—Water-Closets. Every dwelling 
house must be provided with a suitable water-closet or 
privy. Every dwelling house must have at least • one 
water-closet or privy for every two families, and in no 
case will more than two families be allowed to use one 
and the same water-closet or privy. Every privy vault 
shall be constructed of stone or hard-burned bricks, laid 
not less than eight (8) inches thick, in cement mortar, 
and made water-tight, and the inside thereof shall be at 
least three feet from the line of the adjoining lot or 
street. 
Section 3. Vaults, privies or cesspools shall not be 
allowed in premises that are accessible to sewer, without 
a special permit from the Board of Health. 
Section 4. Every building shall be separately and 
independently connected with the public sewer, when 
such sewer is provided ; and, if such sewer is not provided, 
shall be connected with a cesspool. The Board of Health 25 
shall order any building that now is, or any building 
that shall hereafter be connected to a cesspool, to be con- 
nected with the public sewer when such sewer is pro- 
vided, if deemed by them necessary for the public health. 
No person shall connect the plumbing of any building 
with any sewer without a permit from the Board of 
Health. 
Section 5. Cesspools receiving waste from water- 
closets shall be of a size sufficient to hold at least 125 
cubic feet, and where not water-tight, must be at least 
fifteen (15) feet from the cellar wall of any tenement or 
dwelling, and three feet from the line of any adjoining 
lot or street if possible, and two rods distant from any 
well, spring, or other source of water supply used for 
culinary purposes. 
Section 6. No steam exhaust shall be connected 
with any soil or waste pipe, or drain which communi- 
cates with a public sewer. 
Section 7. Filing Plans and Specifications. 
No person shall proceed to construct, add to or alter any 
portion of the drainage system of any building (except 
to repair leaks) until they have filed at the office of the 
agent of the Board of Health, upon blanks in such form 
as the Board of Health shall order, a notice of the work 
to be performed. No person shall commence work on 
such drainage or plumbing until the plans are approved 
by the Board of Health. Plans and specifications will 
be approved or rejected within five days from the time 
of filing. After a plan has been approved, no alteration 26 
of the same will be allowed except on written application 
of the owner. 
Section 8. Changes When Sewer Connec- 
tion is Made. In buildings where the plumbing 
was done before these regulations were in force, if the 
work be altered, added to or connected to the public sewer, 
such changes of the old work shall be made as the Board 
of Health or its agent shall deem necessary for the health 
of its occupants. 
Section 9. Inspection. The Board of Health or 
its agent must be notified when any work is ready for 
inspection, and all work must be left uncovered and con- 
venient for examination until inspected and approved, 
and a certificate of inspection must be obtained of them 
by the plumber when his work is completed. 
Section 10. Testing. All plumbing work in new 
buildings, or new work in old buildings, shall be tested 
its entire length by the plumber, in the presence of the 
Inspector, with the hydraulic or such other test as the 
Board shall direct, and all imperfect or cracked pipe or 
fittings shall be removed and the work made tight. All 
soil, drain and vent pipes and connections thereto must 
be in position when the test is made. 
Section ii. Unless the Board of Health shall pemit 
otherwise, the drainage system of every building in the 
City of Everett shall be constructed as follows : 
Section 12. Main Drain. That portion of the 
drain through foundation walls, and for four feet outside 
thereof shall be extra heavy cast-iron soil pipe. 27 
Connections therewith to cesspools or sewers shall be 
made with extra heavy soil pipe or vitrified drain 
pipe. 
That portion inside foundation wall must be cast-iron 
pipe with a fall of at least x/2 inch to the foot. 
When run along the walls or overhead or under the 
floor joist it must be securely fastened thereto or sus- 
pended therefrom by clamps, iron hangers of not less 
than 34 inch round iron, or by 1 inch by 1 1-6 flat iron; 
all vertical pipes shall be secured by hooks or clamps, 
and all pipes shall be secured at least every 10 feet. 
Where soil and waste pipes are laid in trenches the 
hand holes of all traps and clean-outs shall be left so as to 
be accessible at any time. 
Section 13. Cast-Iron Pipes. All cast-iron 
pipes must be free from holes and other defects, of a 
uniform thickness of not less than yi inch for a diame- 
ter of four inches or less, and not less than 5-32 of an inch 
for five and six inch pipe, and shall have the full 
weight of the following table for the corresponding 
diameters : 
Internal Diameter. 
Ordinary Pipe. 
Extra Heavy Pipe. 
2 inches, 
3 V2 lbs. per foot. 
5 *4 lbs. per foot. 
3 inches, 
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4 inches, 
6 y2 “ “ “ 
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5 inches, 
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6 inches, 
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20 “ “ “ 
And before being connected shall be thoroughly coated 
inside and out with coal-tar pitch, applied hot by im- mersion, or some equivalent substance satisfactory to the 
Board of Health. 
Section 14. Soil Pipe. All pipes receiving the 
discharge from water-closets must be of iron, at least four 
(4) inches internal diameter, and continued of undimin- 
ished size at least two (2) feet above the roof, and away 
from all windows. Any openings left for additional 
fixtures, to be put in at some future time, shall be closed by 
iron stoppers, caulked in with molten lead. There shall 
be a clean-out at all angles of horizontal pipes, and at 
foundation walls provided with a brass cover. The 
clean-out shall be attached to the length in the founda- 
tion walls in such a position that its cover shall be at 
right angles with the sewer or cesspool connections, so 
that the opening shall be in direct line with said pipe 
through wall. 
Section 15. Branches. All branches over ten 
feet in length must be continued of undiminished size 
to the roof, and carried up at least four inches internal 
diameter through the roof, and project at least two feet 
above it, and left open. Soil and vent pipes opening 
within fifteen (15) feet of any window of a building, 
or the window of any adjacent building, must be carried 
above any such windows. 
Section 16. Connections. All waste connec- 
tions to soil and waste pipes shall be made with Y 
branches or sanitary T’s and all changes in direction 
shall be by curved pipe, and no trap shall be placed at 
the foot of a vertical soil pipe. 29 
Section 17. Traps. The drain must have a trap 
located beyond all building connections, and inside foun- 
dation walls, of the same size as the drain, provided with 
a hand hole with brass cover for convenience in cleaning. 
Every pipe connecting a water-closet with the soil pipe 
must be trapped close to the connection with the water- 
closet, and no waste pipe shall be connected to a water- 
closet trap. One round trap can be used for a sink and 
wash trays, and one round trap for a bath tub and bowl if 
the length of a waste pipe from its connection with fix- 
ture to its connection with trap does not exceed three 
feet; if over three feet in length, it must be trapped 
separately. All fixtures except as mentioned above 
shall be trapped separately. 
Section 18. Ventilation of Traps. All traps 
must be furnished with a vent pipe run from the top of 
the trap. The vent pipe from a water-closet trap must 
be at least two ( 2) inches internal diameter for thirty 
( 30) feet or less, and three (3) inches in diameter for 
more than thirty ( 30) feet in length. Other vent pipes 
must be as large as the waste pipe and be carried to top 
of fixture. All ventilation pipes from a soil or waste 
pipe must be run of undiminished size, separately or 
combined together, through the roof and at least two 
feet above it, and left open, or may be run into a soil 
pipe above all connections. In no case shall a soil, 
waste or ventilating pipe from a soil or waste pipe be 
connected with a chimney. No brick, earthenware, 
sheet-metal or wrought-iron pipes shall be used for veil- 30 
tilation of traps, and no return bends in vents shall be al- 
lowed except by consent of the Board of Health or its 
agent. All soil, waste and vent pipes concealed in 
walls or partitions, not accessible by means of removable 
casings or covers shall be of cast-iron. 
Section 19. Seat Vents. Every water-closet 
bowl shall be provided with a local vent, run to a 
heated chimney flue where possible, if impracticable so to 
do, it shall be run as directed by the Board of Health or 
its agent. All vents shall be run as direct as possible, 
and no return bends shall be allowed except by special 
permission of the Board of Health or its agent. 
Section 20. Waste Pipes. All waste pipes 
from sinks, basins, bath tubs, wash tubs, etc., of two 
inches or less internal diameter, shall be of lead ; all over 
two inches must be of iron. 
Section 21. Safe Wastes. All waste pipes from 
safes under fixtures must be run separately to basement 
or cellar, and left open ; in no case must they be con- 
nected with the soil pipe or any other waste pipe. 
Section 22. Refrigerator Wastes. No waste 
pipe from a refrigerator or other receptacle in which 
food or provisions are stored shall be connected with a 
drain, soil or other waste pipe, but must be separated 
therefrom by an open sink or tray furnished with a 
trap. 
Section 23. Tank Overflow. All overflow 
pipes from tanks must be left open and in sight. In no 
case shall it be run into a soil or waste pipe. 31 
Section 24. Rain Water Conductors. Where- 
ever rain water conductors are connected with any pipe 
of the drainage system of the house, that portion within 
the house, or under ground, shall be of cast-iron pipe 
with lead joints and in all cases provided with a trap 
having a brass screw cover where it enters the house 
drain. No rain water conductor shall be used as a soil 
pipe. 
Section 25. Quality of Joints. Every joint in 
earthen pipe shall be made in hydraulic cement, care be- 
ing taken that the joints and inside of the pipe are 
properly cleaned out while being laid, and before con- 
nection is made with the house. Every joint in lead 
pipe shall be made in solder, and all joints shall be 
wiped joints. Every joint of an iron and lead pipe shall 
be made by a brass ferrule of same size as lead pipe, set 
in the hub of the branch of the iron pipe, and caulked 
with lead ; the lead pipe to be attached to the ferrule by 
a round wiped solder joint. Every joint in a cast-iron 
bell and spigot pipe to be made with packed oakum and 
molten lead well caulked, at least 1 y2 inches deep, 
and made water and air tight, and no paint or putty shall 
be allowed until tested. When screw joints are used, they 
shall be packed in red lead and made tight. Water- 
closets having earthenware traps shall be connected to 
soil pipes with brass floor flanges soldered to lead connec- 
tions and to which the closet shall be bolted. 
Section 26. Every water-closet or line of water- 
closets on the same floor shall be supplied with water 32 
from a tank or cistern, and the flushing pipe to each 
shall not be less than one inch in diameter ; but this re- 
quirement shall not apply to water-closets substituted 
for vaults where the same are located outside of the 
building proper, and water-closets may be arranged so as 
to receive their supply directly from the main, with such 
fixtures as shall be approved by the Board of Health. 
Outside closets may be put in without back-air vents if 
separate and disconnected from the building. 
Section 27. Every supply pipe where it enters a 
building shall have a round way union stop cock of 
same size as supply pipe. All service pipes from street 
to building shall be 'yi—2 pounds per foot lead pipe. 
Section 28. All plumbing work shall be so con- 
structed that at any time it may be accessible for inspec- 
tion, and in no case shall it be enclosed in the walls of 
the building, or concealed from view unless suitable 
removable casings or covers are provided. The loca- 
tion of pipes and fixtures shall be such as to protect them 
from freezing. 
Section 29. Every plumber licensed to do plumb- 
ing in the City of Everett, shall keep conspicuously 
posted at his place of business, a copy of these plumbing 
regulations. 
Section 30. Any person or persons receiving a writ- 
ten notice from the Board of Health or its agent, served 
upon him or them, of any violation of these regulations, 
shall within ten days, make such alterations as are 
called for in such notice; and refusing or neglecting 33 
to comply with such notice, shall be liable to a fine of 
not less than five dollars for each day’s delay after the 
serving of such notice. 
Section 31. Whoever violates any of the provisions 
of this ordinance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 
fifty dollars for each offence, and to have his license re- 
voked. 
The following additional regulation lias been adopted 
by the Board of Health : 
All Vent Pipes upon the outside of buildings must 
be of cast iron or galvanized wrought iron pipes and 
fittings.