Commonwealth of 
FOR THE 
OF 
LIFE AND 
PASSED BY THE 
LEGISLATURE OF 1895. 
EXTRACTED FROM THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH 
AND VITAL STATISTICS. 
CLARENCE M. BUSCH, 
STATE PRINTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
1896, LAWS 
Olf THE 
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA 
RELATING TO THE 
PROTECTION OF LIFE AND HEALTH, 
PASSED AT THE 
SESSION OF 1895, LAWS OP THE COMMONWEALTH OP PENNSYLVA- 
NIA RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OP LIFE 
AND HEALTH, PASSED AT THE SESSION OP 1895. 
1. No. 20.—An act to regulate the employment and provide for the safety of 
persons employed in tenement houses and shops where clothing, cigarettes, 
cigars and certain other articles are made. 
2. No. 29.—An act to provide that one burial permit shall be a sufficient author- 
ity for interment in a cemetery that is partly within the limits of two or more 
municipalities. 
3. No. 55.—An act to establish a State Board of Veterinary Medical Examin- 
ers, and to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the 
State of Pennsylvania. 
4. No. 66.—An act to establish a Live Stock Sanitary Board of Pennsylvania 
and to provide for the control and suppression of dangerous and contagious or 
infectious diseases of domestic animals. 
5. No. 99.—An act to provide for safety guards upon passenger elevators, and 
providing a penalty for the violation thereof. 
6. No. 107.—An act to provide for the better protection of life and health by 
diminishing the danger from infectious and contagious diseases through the 
creation of a State Board of Undertakers in the cities of the first, second and 
third classes, with systematic examinations, registration and licenses for all 
entering the .business of burying the dead, and penalties for the violation of the 
provisions thereof. 
7. No; 123.—An act to amend the first section of an act entitled “An act to 
amend an act entitled ‘An act relating to marriage licenses,’ providing for offi- 
cers herein indicated to issue licenses for parties to marry.” 
8. No. 124.—An act to provide for the more effectual protection of the public 
health in the several municipalities of this Commonwealth. 
9. No. 131.—An act declaring it to be a misdemeanor to trespass on certain 
enclosed land of a water company and providing that any watchman of a water 
company or any constable or policeman may arrest without warrant. 
10. No. 133.—An act authorizing the boards of health in the cities and bor- 
oughs of this Commonwealth to regulate house drainage, the registration of 
journeymen and master plumbers, and the construction of cess-pools. 
11. No. 151.—An act to prevent the pollution of waters of streams supplying 
centres of population, by the use of land for burial purposes within prescribed 
limits. 
12. No. 154.—An act authorizing and empowering the school boards or school 
districts within the Commonwealth to provide for a supply of water therein 
by contract for fire and sanitary purposes, and to locate fire plugs near the 
school buildings. 
13. No. 156.—A supplement to an act entitled “An act to provide for the regis- 
ti’ation of births and deaths in the several counties of this Commonwealth, ap- 
proved the 6th day of June, 1893. 
14. No. 165.—An act to promote cleanliness and healthfulness in and about the 
public schools of this Commonwealth. No. 18.] 
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15. No. 186.—An act relating to and regulating the business of plumbing and 
house drainage in cities of the second class. 
16. No. 189.—An act to amend section four of an act entitled “An act to regu- 
late the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and to prevent adulterations 
in drugs and medicinal preparations in the State of Pennsylvania.” 
17. No. 190.—An act to amend section two of an act entitled “An act to regu- 
late the practice of pharmacy, etc.” 
18. No. 193.—A supplement to the act entitled “An act to regulate the practice 
of pharmacy,” etc. 
19. No. 233.—An act to provide against the adulteration of food and providing 
for the enforcement thereof. 
20. No. 234.—An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the protection of the 
public health and to prevent the adulteration of dairy products and fraud in 
the sale thereof, approved May 21, 1885.” 
21. No. 236.—An act to prohibit the adulteration of milk by the addition of so- 
called preservatives. 
22. No. 258. An act creating a Bureau of Health in the Department of Public 
Safety in cities of the second class. 
23. No. 259.—An act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in cities of the 
third class. 
24. No. 263.—An act for the prevention of blindness, imposing a duty upon all 
mid-wives or other persons having the care of infants, and also upon the health 
officer, and fixing a penalty for neglect thereof. 
25. No. 296.—An act to authorize the establishment of a quarantine inspection 
station by the Commonwealth, defining the powers and duties of the State offi- 
cials at such stations and authorizing the continuance of the present station 
until the first of October, 1895. 
26. No. 334.—An act to provide for the current expenses of the State Board of 
Health for the two fiscal years commencing on the first day of June, 1895. 
27. No. 348.—An act to establish an emergency fund, to be used as occasion 
may require, in the suppression of epidemics, prevention of diseases and pro- 
tection of human life in time of disease and disaster, and making an appro- 
priation therefor. 
28. No. 457.—An act to enlarge the duties of the State Pood Commissioner, 
authorizing him to enforce all laws against the adulteration of impurities in 
vinegar, jellies, cider, evaporated apples, and all apple products, and the un- 
lawful labelling in the State of Pennsylvania. 
1. 
No. 20. 
To regulate the employment and provide for the safety 
of persons employed in tenement houses and shops 
where clothing, cigarettes, cigars and certain other 
articles are made, or partially made, and to provide 
for the appointment of inspectors to enforce the 
same, and to provide for the safety and regulating 
the employment of said persons. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no room or apart- 
ment in any tenement or dwelling house shall be used 
except by the immediate members of the family living 
AN ACT 
Purposes of the 
act. 4 
State Board of Health. 
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therein, for the manufacture of coats, vests, trousers, 
knee-pants, overalls, cloaks, hats, caps, suspenders, 
jersey blouses, waists, waist-bands, underwear, neck- 
wear, furs, fur trimmings, fur garments, shirts, 
hosiery, purses, feathers, -artificial flowers, cigarettes 
or cigars. No person, firm or corporation shall hire 
or employ any person to work in any room or apart- 
ment in any rear building, or building in the rear of a 
tenement or dwelling house, at making, in whole or in 
part, any of the articles mentioned in this section, 
without first obtaining a written permit from the Fac- 
tory Inspector or one of his deputies, stating the maxi- 
mum number of persons allowed to be employed there- 
in. Such permit shall not be granted until an inspec- 
tion of such premises is made by the Factory Inspec- 
tor or one of his deputies, and may be revoked by the 
Factory Inspector at any time the health of the com- 
munity or of those so employed may require it. It 
shall be framed and posted in a conspicuous place in 
the room, or in one of the rooms to which it relates. 
Every person, firm, company or corporation contract- 
ing for the manufacture of any of the articles men- 
tioned in this section, or giving out the incomplete ma- 
terial from which they or any of them, are to be made 
or to be wholly or partially finished, shall keep a 
written register of the names and addresses of all per- 
sons to whom such work is given to be made, or with 
whom they may have contracted to do the same. 
Such register shall be produced for inspection and a 
copy thereof shall be furnished on demand made by 
the Factory Inspector or one of his deputies: Provid- 
ing. That nothing in this section shall be so construed 
as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any 
family for manufacturing articles for such family use. 
Sec. 2. Not less than two hundred and fifty cubic 
feet of air space shall be allowed for each and every 
person in any workroom where persons are employed 
at such labor as is hereinbefore described. There 
shall be sufficient means of ventilation provided in 
each work room of every such establishment, and the 
Factory Inspector and deputy factory inspectors, 
under the direction of the Factory Inspector, shall 
notify the owner, agent or lessee, in writing, to pro- 
vide, or cause to be provided, ample and proper 
Permit from the 
Factory Inspector. 
When such permit 
shall be granted. 
Permit may be re- 
voked. 
Permit shall be 
posted. 
Register of names 
etc., of persons to 
whom work is 
given. 
Inspection of regis- 
ter. 
Seamstress em - 
ployed by family 
exempt from regis- 
tration. 
Cubic feet of air 
space to be allowed 
in work room. 
Ventilation. 
Power Of Factory 
Inspector in refer- 
ence to ventilation. No. 18. 
Health Laws. 
5 
means of ventilating such work-room or rooms, and 
shall prosecute such owner, agent or lessee if such 
notification be not complied with within ten days of 
the service of such notice. 
Sec. 3. The Factory Inspector is hereby authorized 
to appoint such additional number of persons as in his 
judgment may be deemed necessary, not exceeding 
eight, who shall be known as deputy factory inspec- 
tors. 
Sec. 4. The traveling expenses of each of said depu- 
ties shall be approved by the inspector and audited by 
the Auditor General of the State before payment, and 
the said deputy inspectors shall have an annual salary 
of twelve hundred dollars, to be paid monthly by the 
Treasurer of the State, out of any moneys not other- 
wise appropriated. 
Sec. 5. The deputy inspectors, now and hereafter 
appointed under the provisions of this act, shall have 
the same powers and compensation as those appoint- 
ed under the provisions of the Factory Act, approved 
June third, one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
three, and shall be subject in like manner to the or- 
ders of the Factory Inspector. 
Sec. 6. Any person who violates any of the pro- 
visions of this act, or who suffers or permits any of 
the articles hereinbefore described to be made in 
violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished 
by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or less 
than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
Approved—The 11th day of April, A. I). 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Prosecutions. 
Appointment of 
Deputy Factory 
Inspectors. 
Traveling expenses 
of Deputies. 
Salary of Deputies. 
Powers and Com- 
pensation of Depu- 
ties. 
Punishment for 
violation of provi- 
sions of this act. 
2. 
No. 29. 
AN ACT 
To provide that one burial permit shall be sufficient 
authority for interment in a cemetery that is partly 
within the limits of two or more municipalities. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever a cem- 
etery or burial ground is located partly within the State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
corporate limits of two or more municipalities, a burial 
permit issued by the proper authority of either of said 
municipalities shall be a sufficient warrant for the in- 
terment of the body mentioned in said permit in any 
part of said cemetery. 
Approved—The 2d day of May, A. D. 1895. 
DANfEL H. HASTINGS. 
3. 
No. 55. 
AN ACT 
To establish a State Board of Veterinary Medical Ex- 
aminers and to regulate the practice of veterinary 
medicine and surgery in the State of Pennsylvania. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That a State Board 
of Examiners, known as a State Board of Vet- 
erinary Medical Examiners is hereby established, 
to consist of five members, who shall be of good 
standing in the veterinary profession, shall be 
graduates of a recognized veterinary college or col- 
leges, and who shall hold office until their successors 
are appointed and duly qualified. Said board shall 
have power to adopt by-laws and regulations such as 
they deem advisable to carry into effect the provisions 
of this act. 
Sec. 2. The members of said board shall serve 
for a term of three years from the first Monday of Sep- 
tember after their appointment, with the exception of 
those first appointed, who shall serve as follows: One 
for one year, two for two years, and two for three 
years, from the first Monday in September, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and ninety-five. Each one of said 
appointees shall have practiced veterinary medicine 
and surgery for at least the five years immediately 
preceding such appointment. 
Sec. 3. The Governor shall, in his appointments, 
designate the number of years for which each ap- 
pointee shall serve. The appointments of successors 
to those members whose term of office will expire on 
the first Monday in September of each year shall be 
made by the Governor during the month of June of 
Board established. 
Qualifications of 
members. 
Power to adopt by 
laws, etc. 
Terras of members 
of the Board. 
Practice of five 
years required. 
Appointments by 
Governor, and 
when they shall be 
made. No. 37 
AN ACT 
To empower the school directors of the several townships of the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to exercise the powers of a 
board of health in each township, to make rules and regu- 
lations to prevent the spread of contagious or infectious dis- 
eases, to appoint and fix compensation of a sanitary agent; 
and requiring all practicing physicians to report to the sec- 
retary of the board of school directors in each township the 
names and residences of all persons coming under their pro- 
fessional care afflicted with such contagious or infectious dis- 
eases. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the school direc- 
tors in each township of the State of Pennsylvania 
shall, in addition to the powers vested in them by ex- 
isting laws, have full power and authority to make 
and enforce all needful rules and regulations to pre- 
vent the introduction and spread of contagions or in- 
fectious diseases, by the regulation of intercourse with 
infected places, by prohibiting from attending any 
public school any child or other person belonging to 
or residing with the family of any person, or residing 
in the same house, in which any person may be suffer- 
ing from cholera, small pox (variola varioloid), scarlet 
fever, typhus fever, yellow fever, relapsing fever, 
diphtheria, diphtheritic croup or membraneous croup, 
or any other contagious disease; and it shall be the duty 
of all physicians practicing within the several town- 
ships to report to the secretary of such school board the 
names and residences of all persons coming under their 
professional care, afflicted with any of the aforesaid 
contagious or infectious diseases, within twenty-four 
hours after the development of any such disease. 
Section 2. In the case of the prevalence of any con- 
tagious or infectious disease in any township of this 
Commonwealth, the board of school directors of such 
township shall have power by themselves, or by a sani- 
tary agent to be by them appointed, to enter at any 
time upon any premises in the said township in which 
there is suspected to be any contagious or infectious 
disease, or nuisance productive of such disease or det- 
rimental to the public health, for the purpose of exam- 
ining the said premises and abating any nuisance found 
thereon detrimental to the public health. 
Section 3. Before appointing any sanitary agent to 
aid in enforcing the rules and regulations of the board, 
as aforesaid, the board shall make application to the 
court of common pleas of the county in which the 
township is located, or to a law judge thereof, setting 
School directors 
shall have power 
and authority tc 
make rules and 
regulations to 
prevent the intro- 
duction and spread 
of contagious and 
infectious dis- 
eases. 
Physicians to re- 
port to secretary 
of school board 
the persons under 
their professional 
care, afflicted 
with contagious 
or infectious dis- 
eases. 
School directors 
and the sanitary 
agent of the board 
to have power to 
enter on premises 
in which there Is 
suspected to be 
such diseases, or 
a nuisance pro- 
ductive thereof, 
for the purpose of 
examination, etc. 
School boards may 
appoint a sanitary 
agent and fix his 
compensation, if 
the court or judge 
thereof shall ap- 
prove. forth particularly the reasons which, in their judg- 
ment, make the appointment of such agent necessary, 
setting forth also the compensation which the board 
deems proper to pay for the services of such sanitary 
agent, and if the said court, or judge thereof, shall 
approve the reasons given by the said board for the 
appointment of such sanitary agent, and shall also ap- 
prove the compensation deemed proper therefor, said 
board shall have the authority to appoint such sanitary 
agent for such term as may be designated by the said 
court, or judge thereof, the said compensation to be 
paid out of the school fund of the respective townships. 
Approved—The 11th day of April, A. I). 1899. 
WILLIAM A. STONE. 
The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the act 
of the General Assembly No. 37. 
Term of appoint- 
ment. 
Compensation, 
how paid. 
Secretary of the Commonwealth. forth particularly the reasons which, in their judg- 
ment, make the appointment of such agent necessary, 
setting forth also the compensation which the board 
deems proper to pay for the services of such sanitary 
agent, and if the said court, or judge thereof, shall 
approve the reasons given by the said board for the 
appointment of such sanitary agent, and shall also ap- 
prove the compensation deemed proper therefor, said 
board shall have the authority to appoint such sanitary 
agent for such term as may be designated by the said 
court, or judge thereof, the said compensation to be 
paid out of the school fund of the respective townships. 
Approved—The 1.1th day of April, A. D. 1899. 
WILLIAM A. STONE. 
The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the act 
Term of appoint- 
ment. 
Compensation, 
how paid. No. 18. j 
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such year upon the same conditions and requirements 
as hereinbefore specified. Every person who shall be 
appointed to serve on said board shall receive a cer- 
tificate of appointment from the Secretary of the Com- 
monwealth. The Governor shall fill vacancies from 
death or otherwise for unexpired terms of said exami- 
ners, and may remove any member of said board for 
continued neglect of the duties required by this act, 
for incompetence or for unprofessional or dishonorable 
conduct. 
Sec. 4. From the fees provided for by this act, the 
board may pay, not to exceed said income, all 
proper expenses incurred by its provisions, and if any 
surplus above said expenses shall remain, such exam- 
iners shall receive reasonable remuneration from the 
said surplus for their work. 
Sec. 5. The first meeting of the examining board 
shall be held on the first Monday in September, one 
thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, suitable no- 
tice in the usual form being given with the notice of 
their appointment by the Secretary of the Common- 
wealth to each of the members thereof specifying the 
time and place of meeting. At the first meeting of the 
board an organization shall be effected by the election, 
from their own membership, of a president and secre- 
tary. For the purpose of examining applicants for li- 
cense, said board of Veterinary Medical Examiners 
shall hold two or more stated or special meetings in 
each year, due notice of which shall be made public at 
such time and places as they may determine. At said 
stated or special meetings a majority of the members 
of the board shall constitute a quorum thereof, but the 
examination may be conducted by a committee of one 
or more members duly authorized bjT said board. 
Sec. 0. The said Board of Veterinary Medical Ex- 
aminers shall examine all diplomas as to their genu- 
ineness, and each applicant for a license shall submit 
to a theoretical and practical examination, said exami- 
nation to be written, oral or both. Such examinations 
shall include the following subjects: Veterinary an- 
atomy, surgery, practice of medicine, obstetrics, path- 
ology, chemistry, veterinary diagnosis, materia med- 
ica, therapeutics, physiology, zootechnics, sanitary 
medicine and meat and milk inspection. 
Certificate of ap- 
pointment. 
Vacancies. 
Kemovai. 
Expenses to be paid 
from fees. 
Surplus. 
First meeting of 
Board. 
Organization and 
officers. 
Meetings for exam- 
ination of appli- 
cants for license. 
Quorum. 
Board shall exam- 
ine diplomas. 
Examination. 
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State Board of Health. 
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Board shall issue 
license. 
Sec. 7. Said board stall issue, forthwith, to each 
applicant who has passed such examination success- 
ful ly, and who shall have been adjudged to be duly 
qualified for the practice of veterinary medicine and 
surgery, a license to practice the same in the State of 
Pennsylvania. Such license, issued pursuant to this 
act, shall be subscribed by the officers of the Board of 
Veterinary Medical Examiners. It also shall have 
affixed to it, by the person authorized to affix the same, 
the seal of this Commonwealth. Before said license 
shall be issued, it shall be recorded in a book to be 
kept in the office which said board shall establish, 
for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this 
act; and the number of this book and the page therein 
containing said recorded copy, shall be noted upon the 
face of said license. Such records shall be open to 
public inspection with proper restrictions as to their 
preservation. 
Section 8. From and after the first Monday in Sep- 
tember, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, 
any person not heretofore authorized to practice vet- 
erinary medicine and surgery in this State, and desir- 
ing to enter upon such practice, may deliver to the 
secretary of the veterinary medical board, upon the 
payment of a fee of ten ($10.00) dollars, a written appli- 
cation for license, together with satisfactory proof that 
the applicant is more than twmrty-one years of age, is 
of good moral character, has obtained a competent 
common school education, and has received a diploma 
conferring the degree of veterinary medicine from 
some legally incorporated veterinary college of the 
United States, or a diploma or license conferring the 
full right to practice all the branches of veterinary 
surgery in some foreign country; applicants who have 
received their degree in veterinary medicine after the 
first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-six, must have pursued the study of veterinary 
medicine for at least three years, including three regu- 
lar courses of lectures of at least six months each in 
different years, in some legally incorporated veterinary 
college or colleges, prior to the granting of said di- 
ploma or foreign license. Such proof shall be made, 
if required, upon affidavit. Upon making the said 
payment and exhibiting the before-named proof, the 
Shall sign license. 
Seal of the State to 
be attached. 
License shall be 
recorded. 
Records shall t>e 
open to inspection. 
Application and 
fee. 
Age, character and 
education of appli- 
cant. 
Diploma. 
Condition for ex- 
amination after 
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examining board, if satisfied with the same, shall issue 
to such applicant an order for examination. In case 
of failure at any such examination, the candidate, 
after the expiration of six months and within two 
years, shall have the privilege of a second examination 
by the same board to which application was first made, 
without the payment of an additional fee; and it is 
further provided that applicants examined and li- 
censed by State Boards of Veterinary Medical Exam- 
iners of other States, on payment of a fee of ten dol- 
lars ($10.00) to the examining board, and on filing 
in the office of said board a copy of said license, certi- 
fied by the affidavit of the president or secretary of the 
board of such other state, showing also that the 
standard of examinations and other requirements 
adopted by the State Board of Veterinary Medical 
Examiners is substantially the same as that provided 
for by this act, shall, without further examination, 
receive a license conferring upon the holder thereof all 
the rights and privileges provided by sections eight 
and nine of this act. 
Sec. 9. From and after the first Monday in Sep- 
tember, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, 
no person shall enter upon the practice of veterinary 
medicine and surgery in the State of Pennsylvania, 
unless he has complied with the provisions of this 
act, and shall have exhibited to the prothonotary of 
the court of common pleas of the. county in which he 
desires to practice veterinary medicine and surgery, 
a license duly granted to him as hereinbefore pro- 
vided; whereupon he shall be entitled, upon the pay- 
ment of one dollar ($1.00), to be duly registered in the 
office of the prothonotary of the court of common 
pleas in the said county; and any person violating any 
of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon conviction thereof in the court of 
quarter sessions of the county wherein the offense 
shall have been committed, shall pay a fine of not more 
than two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each offense; 
said examining boards shall be the prosecutor in all 
cases. 
Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall be construed 
to interfere with or punish commissioned veterina- 
rians in the United States Army, or any lawfully quali- 
Order for examina- 
tion. 
Failure to pass 
examination. 
Examination of ap- 
plicants licensed in 
other States. 
Practice after Sep- 
tember 2, 1895. 
Kegistration in 
office of prothono- 
tary. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion of act. 
Who shall prose- 
cute. 
Wbo are exempt 
from provisions of 
act. State Board of Health. 
Off. Doc. 
fled veterinarian residing in other states or countries 
meeting registered veterinarians of this State in con- 
sultation, or any veterinarian residing on the border 
of a neighboring state and duly authorized under the 
laws thereof to practice veterinary medicine and sur- 
gery therein whose practice extends into the limits of 
this State: Provided, That such practitioner shall 
not open an office or appoint a place to meet patients 
or receive calls within the limits of Pennsylvania. And 
nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the 
practice of veterinary medicine and surgery within 
this Commonwealth by any practitioner who shall 
have been duly registered before the first Monday in 
September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
five, and one such registry shall be sufficient war- 
rant to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in 
any county in this Commonwealth. Nothing in this 
act shall apply to persons who castrate domestic ani- 
mals, or to persons gratuitously treating diseased ani- 
mals. 
Sec. 11. All acts or parts of acts of Assembly 
inconsistent herewith shall be and are hereby re- 
pealed. 
Approved—The 16th day of May, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H HASTINGS. 
Proviso. 
Registration prior 
to passage of this 
act. 
Persons to whom 
act shall not apply. 
Kepeal. 
4. 
No. 66. 
AN ACT 
To establish the State Live Stock Sanitary Board of 
Pennsylvania and to provide for the control and 
suppression of dangerous, contagious or infectious 
diseases of domestic animals. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That a board is here- 
by established to be known as “The State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board.’’ This board shall consist of the Gov- 
ernor of the Commonwealth, the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, the State Dairy and Food Commissioner and 
the State Veterinarian, who shall be a competent and 
Board established. 
Members of Board. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
11 
qualified person, as provided in the act, entitled “An 
act to create a department of Agriculture and define 
its duties.” 
See. 2. That it shall be the duty of the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board to protect the health of the do- 
mestic animals of the State, to determine and employ 
the most efficient and practical means for the preven- 
tion, suppression, control or eradication of dangerous, 
contagious or infectious diseases among the domestic 
auimals, and for these purposes it is hereby authorized 
and empowered to establish, maintain, enforce and 
regulate such quarantine and other measures relating 
to the movements and care of animals and their pro- 
ducts, the disinfection of suspected localities and 
articles, and the destruction of animals, as it may 
deem necessary, and to adopt from time to time all 
such regulations as may be necessary and proper for 
carrying out the purposes of this act: Provided how- 
ever, In the case of any slowly contagious diseases, 
only suspected or diseased animals shall be quaran- 
tined. 
Sec. 3. That when it shall be deemed necessary to 
condemn and kill any animal or animals to prevent the 
further spread of the disease, and an agreement can 
not be made with the owners for the value thereof, 
three appraisers shall be appointed, one by the owner, 
one by the commission or its authorized agent and the 
third by the two so appointed, who shall, uuder oath 
or affirmation, appraise the animal or animals, taking 
into consideration their actual value and condition at 
the time of appraisement, and such appraised price 
shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses 
under this act are provided for: Provided, That under 
such appraisement not more than twenty-five dollars 
shall be paid for any infected animal of grade or com- 
mon stock, and not more than fifty dollars for any in- 
fected animal of registered stock, nor more than forty 
dollars for any horse or mule of common grade stock 
and not to exceed fifty per cent, of appraised value of 
any standard bred, registered or imported horses. 
Sec. 4. That the board or any member thereof or 
any of their duly authorized agents shall, at all times, 
have the right to enter any premises, farms, fields, 
pens, abbatoirs, slaughter-houses, buildings, cars or 
Duties. 
Powers 
Proviso 
Appraisers shall be 
appointed if owner 
will not agree to 
price for animals 
condemned. 
Appointment of 
appraisers. 
Oath. 
Duties. 
Payment of ap- 
praised price. 
Maximum prices 
which may be paid 
Power of member 
of Board to enter 
premises. 12 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
vessels where any domestic animal is at the time 
quartered, or wherever the carcass of one may be, for 
the purpose of examining it in any way that may be 
deemed necessary to determine whether they are or 
were the subjects of any contagious or infectious dis- 
ease. 
Sec. 5. That any person or persons wilfully vio 
lating any of the provisions of this act, or any regu- 
lation of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, or wil- 
fully interfering with officers appointed under this act, 
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and shall, upon 
conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one 
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 
one month, or both, at the discretion of the court. 
Sec, 6. That the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 
is hereby empowered to appoint and employ such as- 
sistants and agents and to purchase such supplies and 
materials as may be necessary in carrying out the pro- 
visions of this act; and the board and the members 
thereof are hereby empowered to administer oaths or 
affirmations to the appraisers appointed under this act, 
that they may order and conduct such examinations 
into the condition of the live stock of the State in rela- 
tion to contagious diseases, including the milk supplies 
of cities, towns, boroughs and villages as may seem 
necessary, and to take proper measures to protect such 
milk supplies from contamination. 
Sec. 7. That all necessary expenses under the pro- 
visions of this act shall, after approval in writing by 
the Governor and the Secretary of Agriculture, be 
paid by the State Treasurer, upon the warrant of 
the Auditor General, in the manner now provided by 
law. 
Sec. 8. That this act shall take effect June first, one 
thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and all acts 
or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re- 
pealed. 
Approved—The 21st day of May, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Penalty for violat- 
ing act. 
Assistants and 
agents. 
Oaths. 
Milk supplies. 
Kxpenses, how 
paid. 
When act shall take 
effect 
Repeal. No. 18.' 
Health Laws. 
13 
5. 
No. 99. 
AN ACT 
To provide for safety guards upon passenger elevators 
and providing a penalty for violation thereof. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all elevators that 
are now in use or that may hereafter be constructed 
in this State for the carriage of passengers are re- 
quired to have placed thereon or attached thereto such 
automatic locking device, electrical or mechanical, as 
will hold immovable and secure the carriage used in 
such elevator while any gate, door or doors at the 
landing that is used for entrance thereto or exit there- 
from is or are open and unsecured; the said automatic 
device, electrical or mechanical, to place the power of 
controlling the elevator beyond the control of the at- 
tendant while any gate, door or doors on the landing 
leading to the carriage is open and unsecured. 
Sec. 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation 
who may own any building where passenger elevators 
are used shall be required, within one year from and 
after the passage of this act, to have said automatic 
locking device, electrical or mechanical, placed there- 
on or attached thereto and in perfect operation, or be 
subject to a penalty or fine of three dollars per day 
for each and every day said elevator is in use with- 
out the above-named device. Said fine to be col- 
lected as other debts due the Commonwealth and paid 
to the county treasurer where such offense is com- 
mitted. 
Approved—The 30th day of May, A. D. 1895. 
DANTEL H. HASTINGS. 
Elevators must 
have automatic 
locking device. 
Purpose of device. 
Device required1 to 
be pieced on eieva 
tor within one 
year. 
Penalty for failure 
to comply. 14 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
6. 
No. 107. 
AN ACT 
To provide for tlie better protection of life and health 
by diminishing the danger from infectious and con- 
tagious diseases through the creation of a State 
Board of Undertakers in the cities of the first, second 
and third classes, with systematic examinations, reg- 
istration and licenses for all entering the business 
of burying the dead, and penalties for violation of 
the provisions thereof. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Governor, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this 
act, appoint five persons who shall be practicing un- 
dertakers, and such appointees shall constitute a State 
Board of Undertakers; one of the persons so appointed 
shall hold office for one year, one for two years, one 
for three years, et cetera, et cetera, unless sooner re- 
moved; appointments to fill vacancies caused by death, 
resignation or removal before the expiration of terms 
shall be made for the residue of such terms by the 
Governor, subject to the consent of the Senate; and 
all appointments to fill vacancies caused by expira- 
tions of terms shall be made in the same manner, and 
shall be for a period of three years each. 
Sec. 2. The members of said board, before entering 
upon their duties, shall respectively take and subscribe 
the oath required by other State officers, which shall 
be filed in the office of Secretary of the Common- 
wealth, who is hereby authorized to administer the 
same. They shall have power to elect out of their 
own number a president, secretary and treasurer, and 
adopt such resolutions for the transaction of the busi- 
ness of the board and the management of its affairs 
as they may deem expedient. 
Sec. 3. The members of the said board shall re- 
ceive no salary as such except the secretary who shall 
receive a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, 
which, together with the actual traveling and neces 
sary expenses of the board and its members, shall be 
paid out of the receipts as hereinafter directed. 
Governor to appoint 
five practicing un- 
dertakers. 
Term of office. 
How vacancies 
shall be filled. 
Shall take an oath 
of office. 
Shall elect their 
own officers. 
Members shall re- 
ceive no salaries. 
Secretary shall re- 
ceive $500 per an- 
num. No. 18.1 
Health Laws. 
15 
Sec. 4. Said board shall meet at least once every 
year, and may also hold special meetings as frequently 
as the proper and efficient discharge of its duties shall 
require, at a time and place to be fixed by the rules 
and by-laws of the board, and the rules and by-laws 
of the board shall provide for the giving of timely 
notice of all meetings to every member of the board. 
A majority of the members shall, at any meeting, or- 
ganize and constitute a quorum for the transaction of 
business. 
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of any person, persons 
or corporation engaged in the business of undertak- 
ing, care, preparation, disposition and burial of the 
dead at the time of the passage of this act, to cause, 
within six months after the passage of this act, his, 
her, their or its name or names, residence and place 
of business, to be registered with said board, whose 
secretary shall keep a book for the purpose, and enter 
such registration therein upon the payment of a fee 
of ten dollars, and a transcript from said book, certi- 
fied to by the secretary with the common seal of said 
board, shall be evidence in any court of this State, and 
said board is hereby authorized to adopt and use a 
common seal and issue such certificates. 
Sec. 6. Before any person, persons or corpora- 
tion shall hereafter engage in the business of under- 
taking in cities of the first, second and third classes, 
in their own name, and on their own account, in this 
State, and before any person, persons or corporations 
now so engaged in said business, who shall have failed 
to register with said board in accordance with section 
five of this act, shall continue in said business, such 
person or persons comprising such corporations, shall 
apply to said board for a license to practice the same, 
whereupon the applicant as aforesaid shall present 
himself or herself before said Board at a time and 
place to be fixed by said board; if the board shall find 
upon due examination that the applicant or applicants 
are of good moral character, possessed of skill and 
knowledge of the said business of undertaking, and 
have a reasonable knowledge of sanitation, preserva- 
tion of the dead, disinfecting the body of deceased 
persons, the apartment, clothing and bedding in cases 
of death from infection or contagious diseases, the 
Board shall meet at 
least once a year. 
Notice of meeting 
to be given. 
Quorum. 
Undertakers must 
register within six 
months. 
Registration fee of 
$10. 
Certified copy to be 
evidence. 
Shall adopt a seal. 
Undertakers, etc., 
must apply for a 
license to practice. 
Must be examined. 
Qualifications. 16 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
board shall issue to said applicant or applicants, upon 
payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars a license to 
practice said business of undertaking and shall regis- 
ter such applicant or applicants as duly licensed 
undertakers. 
Said board shall have full power at any time to re- 
voke any licenses theretofore granted on proper cause 
and after full hearing of all the parties in interest. 
Such license shall be signed by a majority of the 
board and attested by its seal. All persons receiving- 
such license who shall register before said board as 
provided in section five of this act shall also register 
the fact at the office of the board of health at the city 
in which it is proposed to carry on said business, and 
any person, persons or corporation obtaining a license 
under this section, shall register that fact at the office 
of the board of health of the city in which it is pro- 
posed to carry on said business, and shall display said 
license in a conspicuous place in the office of the place 
of business of such license. 
Sec. 7. Any person, persons, corporation or mem- 
ber thereof who shall practice or hold himself, her- 
self, themselves or itself out as practicing the business 
of undertaking or the care, preparation, disposition 
and burial of the bodies of deceased persons without 
having complied with the provisions of sections five 
and six of this act, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction thereof, before any court, shall 
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars 
or more than five hundred dollars, or undergo an im- 
prisonment not exceeding one year, or both, at discre- 
tion of the court, for each and every offense: Provided, 
That nothing contained in this act shall be construed 
to apply to bona fide employes of a duly licensed or 
registered undertaker, or to persons engaged simply 
as layers out or shrouders of the dead, or to the em- 
ployes of any cemetery whose duties or business ex- 
tends no further. 
Sec. 8. No license granted or issued under the pro- 
visions of this act shall be assignable or transferable, 
and every such license shall specify by name the per- 
son, persons or corporation to whom it is issued, and 
shall designate the particular place or places at which 
the business shall be carried on. 
Pay a fee of $25. 
Board may revoke 
license for cause. 
Must also register 
In office of board of 
health. 
Shall display 
license. 
Violation of this act 
shall be a misde- 
meanor. 
Penalty. 
Proviso. 
Licenses shall not 
be transferable. No 18.] 
Health Laws. 
17 
Sec. 9. All fees collected and all fines paid under 
the provisions of this act shall go to and be used for 
the purpose of the said Board of Undertakers to de- 
fray its necessary expenses. 
Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of said board on or 
before the first Monday of January of each and every 
year, to make a report in writing to the Governor of 
this State, containing a detailed statement of the na- 
ture of the receipts and the manner of expenditures, 
and any balance of money remaining at the end of the 
year after the payment of the necessary expenses, in- 
cluding the salary of the secretary and the traveling 
and other necessary expenses of the members of the 
board incurred in the discharge of their duties as such, 
shall be reserved by the treasurer of said board to 
meet the necessary expenses of ensuing years. 
Approved—The 7th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL IT. HASTINGS. 
Disposition of fees. 
Board shall report 
annually to the 
Governor. 
Contents of report 
7. 
No. 123. 
AN ACT 
To amend the first section of an act, entitled “An act 
to amend an act, entitled ‘An act relating to mar- 
riage licenses, providing for officers herein indicated 
to issue licenses for parties to marry,” approved the 
first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight 
hundred and ninety-three, relating to the county 
wherein to secure the license. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of sec- 
tion one of the act entitled “An act to amend an act, 
entitled ‘An act relating to marriage licenses, provid- 
ing for officers herein indicated to issue licenses for 
parties to marry,’ approved the first day of May, Anno 
Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three,” 
which reads as follows: “Section first. That from and 
after the first day of October, Anno Domini one thou- 
sand eight hundred and ninety-five, no person within 
this Commonwealth shall be joined in marriage, until 
a license shall have been obtained for that purpose 
from the clerk of the orphans‘ court in the county 
Section 1, act of 
cited for amend- 
ment. State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
18 
wherein either of the contracting parties resides, or in 
the county where the marriage is performed: Provid- 
ed, That one or both of the applicants shall be identi- 
fied to the satisfaction of the clerk applied to for such 
license. A license so issued shall authorize the mar- 
riage ceremony to be performed in any county of this 
Commonwealth: Provided however, That a duplicate, 
as provided for in section one of the marriage license 
act of June twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred 
and eightv-five, shall in all cases, by the person solemn- 
izing said marriage, be returned duly signed to the 
clerk of the orphans’ court of the county in which the 
marriage is solemnized, and shall by him be recorded 
as provided in the fourth section of said act of June 
twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and eighty- 
five,” be and the same is hereby amended so as to read 
as follows: 
Sec. 1. That from and after the first day of June, 
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
five, no person within this Commonwealth shall be 
joined in marriage, until a license shall have been ob- 
tained for that purpose from the clerk of the orphans* 
court in the county wherein either of the contracting 
parties resides, or in the county where the marriage 
is performed: Provided, That one or both of the appli- 
cants shall be identified to the satisfaction of the clerk 
applied to for such license. A license so issued shall 
authorize the marriage ceremony to be performed in 
any county of this Commonwealth: Provided however, 
That a duplicate as provided for in section one of the 
marriage license act of June twenty-third, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and eiglity-five, shall, in all cases, 
by the person solemnizing said marriage, be returned 
duly signed to the clerk of the orphans’ court of the 
county in which the marriage license is issued, and 
shall by him be recorded, as provided in the fourth sec- 
tion of said act of June twenty-third, one thousand 
eight hundred and eighty-five. 
Approved—The 18th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
License to marry 
must be obtained. 
One or both appli- 
cants must be 
identlfled. 
Ceremony may be 
performed in any 
county. 
Duplicate of certiti- 
cate must be re- 
turned to county in 
which license 
issued. No. 18 ] 
Health Laws. 
19 
8. 
No. 124. 
AN ACT 
To provide for the more effectual protection of the pub- 
lic health in the several municipalities of this Com- 
monwealth. 
Section 1. lie it enacted, &c., That every physician 
located or practicing in any of the municipalities of 
this Commonwealth, who shall know that any person 
whom he or she is called upon to visit, or who comes 
or is brought to him or her for examination, is suffer- 
ing from, or is afflicted with cholera, small-pox, (va- 
riola or varioloid), diphtheria, diphtheritic croup, mem- 
braneous croup, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, typhus 
fever, yellow fever, epidemic cerebro spinal fever, re- 
lapsing fever, or leprosy. r 
Physicians must re- 
port Infectious or 
contagious diseases 
to health authori- 
ties. 
Diseases which 
must be reported 
Sec. 2. Upon receipt by the health authorities of 
a report of the existence of a case of cholera, small- 
pox, (variola or varioloid), scarlet fever, typhus fever, 
yellow fever, relapsing fever, diphtheria, diphtheritic 
croup, membraneous croup or leprosy in any of said 
municipalities, they may at once place or cause to be 
placed in a conspicuous place or places upon or near 
the house or premises in which said case may be lo- 
cated, a placard or placards upon which shall be 
printed in large letters the name of the diseases from 
which the person or persons in said house or premises 
may be suffering as aforesaid as the case may be: Pro- 
vided, That variola or varioloid shall be placarded as 
“small-pox,” and that diphtheritic croup and membra- 
neous croup shall be placarded as ‘ diphtheria,” and 
Placards giving 
name of disease 
may be placed on 
or near house. 
Small-pox. 
Diphtheria. State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doo. 
20 
How long placard 
shall remain on 
house. 
said placard or placards shall remain thereon, until 
such time as the rules and regulations established by 
the health authorities regarding the destruction or 
disinfection of infected bedding, clothing, or other 
articles which have been exposed to infection and the 
disinfection of houses and premises have been fully 
complied with: Provided, That in addition to the pla 
carding aforesaid, or in lieu of the same, the said 
health authorities may place a guard or guards upon 
said house or premises. 
Sec. 3. The head of the family occupying any house 
or premises upon or near which said placard or pla- 
cards aforesaid may be placed, shall be liable for the 
tine or penalty provided by this act in any case where 
such placard or placards are removed, defaced, cov- 
ered up, taken down or destroyed, with his or her 
1 1 ~J ' 1 " the time provided by see- 
Guards may be 
placed upon house. 
Head of family 
shall be responsible 
If placard is de- 
stroyed. . 
of five ante meridian and eleven post meridian, other- 
wise such body shall be so placed in such coffin or 
casket within twelve hours, the coffin or casket then 
to be closed tightly, and not again opened, unless per- 
mission be granted by the health authorities for spe- 
cial and satisfactory cause shown: Provided, That 
the health authorities in any municipality may adopt 
more stringent rules and regulations than are herein 
provided, for the disinfection, preparation and burial 
of the bodies of persons who have died of any of the 
diseases named in this section, which rules and regula- 
tions they may from time to time alter or amend. 
Sec. 5. The body of a person who has died of anv 
of the diseases mentioned in section four of this act 
shall not remain unburied for a longer period of time 
Coffin must be 
closed tightly. 
Health authorities 
may adopt more 
stringent rules. 
Body must be 
buried within thir- 
ty-six hours, unless 
ttme is extended by 
special permission. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
21 
than thirty-six hours after death, unless special per- 
mission be granted by the health authorities extend 
ing the time during which said body may remain un 
buried for special and satisfactory cause shown. The 
head of the family, and the person or persons having 
charge of the funeral of such body, shall be respon- 
sible for any violation of the provisions of this 
tion. 
Sec. (>. All services held in connection with the 
funeral of the body of a person who has died of any 
of the diseases mentioned.in section four of this act, 
must be private, and the attendance thereat, shall in- 
clude only the immediate adult relatives of the de- 
ceased, and the necessary number of adult pall- 
bearers, and any advertisement of such funeral shall 
state the cause of death. The head of the family, and 
the person or persons having charge of said funeral 
services shall be responsible for any violation of the 
provisions of this section. 
Sec. 7. The body of a person who has died of any 
of the diseases mentioned in section four of this act, 
shall in no instance be taken into any church, chapel, 
public hall or public building, for the holding of fu- 
neral services. The head of the family and the person 
or persons having charge of said funeral services, and 
the sexton, janitor or other person or persons having* 
charge or control of such church, chapel, public hall 
or public building, shall be responsible for any viola- 
tion of the provisions of this section. 
Responsibility for 
violation of this 
section. 
Funeral services 
must be private. 
Advertisement of 
funeral must state 
cause of death. 
Violation of this 
section. • 
Body shall not be 
taken into any 
church or public 
building. 
Violation of this 
section. 22 
State Board of Health. 
|_0ff. Doc. 
or place within or through any of said municipali- 
ties, except in a hearse or other vehicle used for the 
purpose of conveying corpses only, or in sucli vehicle 
as shall be satisfactory to the health authorities, and 
under such regulations as they may in any case adopt. 
The undertaker and the person or persons having 
charge of the funeral or transportation of such body, 
shall be responsible for any violation of the provisions 
of this section. 
Sec. 10. Upon the removal to hospital or other place, 
or upon the discharge by recovery or death, of any 
person or persons who have suffered from any of the 
diseases mentioned in section four of this act, the 
premises where the said disease existed, shall be fumi- 
gated and disinfected, and the bedding, clothing and 
other infected articles destroyed, or disinfected, at 
such time and in such manner as may be authorized 
and required by the health authorities. The head of 
the family or the person or persons having charge of 
the premises shall be responsible for any violation of 
the provisions of this section. 
Sec. 11. No child or other person belonging to, or 
residing with the family of any person or residing in 
the same house in which any person may be located 
who is suffering from cholera, small pox, (variola or 
varioloid), scarlet fever, typhus fever, yellow fever, re- 
lapsing fever, diphtheria, diphtheritic croup, mem- 
braneous croup or leprosy shall be permitted to at- 
tend any public, private, parochial, Sunday or other 
Body must be con- 
veyed in hearse, 
etc. 
Violation of this] 
section. 
Bedding, clothing, 
etc.. to be disin- 
fected or destroyed 
after recovery or 
removal of patient. 
Violation of this 
section. 
Children not al- 
lowed to attend 
schools. No. 18.1 
Health Laws. 
23 
forth that the thirty days mentioned in this section 
have fully expired: Provided however, That the health 
authorities may by rule or regulation provide that 
such certificates shall only be given by a person to be 
designated by said authorities, and in such case no 
other certificate shall be recognized. 
Sec. 12. All principals or other persons in charge 
of schools as aforesaid are hereby required to refuse 
the admission of any child to the schools under their 
charge or supervision, except upon a certificate 
signed by a physician, setting forth that such child has 
been successfully vaccinated, or that it has previously 
had small pox. 
Sec. 13. The health authorities of said municipali 
ties shall furnish to principals or other persons in 
charge of said schools, and to physicians, the neces- 
sary certificates or blanks for the uses and purposes as 
set forth and required in sections one, eleven and 
twelve of this act. The registry of said school shall 
exhibit the names and residences of all children or 
persons admitted or rejected for reasons set forth in 
this act, and said registry shall be open at all times to 
the inspection of the health authorities. 
Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the health authori- 
ties in the several municipalities as aforesaid to fur- 
nish daily, by mail or otherwise, to principals or other 
persons in charge of said schools, a printed or written 
bulletin, containing the name, location and diseases of 
all persons suffering from cholera, small pox, (variola 
or varioloid), scarlet fever, typhus fever, yellow fever, 
Proviso. 
Principals of 
schools must refuse 
admission of chil- 
dren except on cer- 
tificate showing 
that child has been 
vaccinated or has 
had small-pox. 
Blank shall be fur- 
nished principal of 
schools. 
School registry of 
all children ad- 
mitted or rejected 
under provisions 
of this act. 
Health authorities 
shall furnish dally 
reports to schools. 
Contents of re- 
ports. 
Sec. 9. The body of a person who lias men oi any 
of ti)e diseases mentioned in section four of this act, 
shall not be conveyed to or from any dwelling, or 
other building or place, to any cemetery or other point 24 
State Board of Health. 
LOff. Doc. 
mit any one in his or her charge who is so suffering 
to enter such vehicle without previously notifying the 
owner or driver thereof that he or the person in his 
charge is so suffering, and the owner or driver of such 
vehicle shall immediately provide for the disinfection 
of such conveyance after it has, with the knowledge 
of such owner or driver, conveyed any such sufferer, 
under the direction of the health authorities. 
Sec. 16. No person suffering from any of the dis- 
eases named in section four of this act shall wilfully 
expose himself or herself in any street, or public place, 
or public conveyance, nor shall any person in charge of 
one so suffering, thus expose the sufferer. 
Sec. 17. No person shall without previous disinfec- 
tion, give, lend, sell, transmit or expose any bedding, 
clothing, rags or other articles which have been ex- 
posed to infection: Provided, That such restriction 
shall not apply to the transmission of articles, with 
proper precautions, for the purpose of having the same 
disinfected. 
Sec. 18. No person shall knowingly let any room, 
house or part of a house in which there has been a 
person suffering from any of the diseases mentioned 
in section four of this act, without having such room, 
house or part of a house, and all articles therein liable 
to infection, previously disinfected to the satisfaction 
of the health authorities. The keeping of a hotel, 
boarding house or apartment house shall be deemed 
as letting a part of a house to any person who shall be 
admitted as a guest into such hotel, boarding house or 
apartment house. 
Disinfection of 
such conveyance. 
Exposure of person 
suffering from any 
disease mentioned 
in act. 
Use of bedding, 
clothing, etc.. ex- 
posed to infection. 
Room or house 
shall not be let 
until same is en- 
tirely disinfected. 
Guest at hotel, 
boarding house or 
apartment house. 
Must have certifi- 
cate from medical 
attendant: 
certificate signed by the medical attendant of said 
children or persons, or by a physician to be designated 
b\ the health authorities of said municipalities, setting No. 18.J 
Health Laws. 
25 
Sec. 20. No justice of the peace or other officer, ex- 
cepting election officers, shall at the same time be a 
member of the board of health of such municipality, 
or hold any office or appointment under the same. 
Sec. 21. Any physician, undertaker, principal of a 
school, superintendent of a Sunday school, sexton, 
janitor, head of a family or any other person or per- 
sons named in this act, who shall fail, neglect or re- 
fuse to comply with, or who shall violate any of the 
provisions or requirements of this act, shall for every 
such offense, upon conviction thereof before any 
mayor, burgess, alderman, police magistrate, or justice 
of the peace of the municipality in which said offense 
was committed, be liable to a fine or penalty there- 
for of not less than five dollars, nor more than one 
hundred dollars, which said fines or penalties shall 
be paid into the treasury of said municipality, and 
in default of payment thereof, such person or persons 
so convicted shall undergo an imprisonment in the 
jail of the proper county for a period not exceeding 
sixty days. 
Approved—The 18th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Who shall not be 
members of board 
of health. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion of any of the 
provisions of this 
act. 
Fine to be paid into 
treasury of munici- 
pality. 
Imprisonment. 
9. 
No. 131. 
AN ACT 
Declaring it to be a misdemeanor to trespass on cer- 
tain enclosed land of a water company, and provid- 
ing that any watchman of a water company or any 
constable or policeman duly authorized to make ar- 
rests may arrest without warrant. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person who 
shall wilfully enter upon the enclosed land of any 
company incorporated under the laws of this Common- 
wealth for the purpose of supplying water to the pub- 
lic for drinking purposes, on which land is erected any 
dam, reservoir, pond or other artificial means for stor- 
ing water, and pollute or attempt to pollute the water 
on such land, shall be deemed and the same is hereby 
declared to be a misdemeanor, and may be prosecuted 
Pollution of water 
declared to be a 
misdemeanor. 26 
State Boakd of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
and convicted as such under the laws of this Common 
wealth, and on conviction thereof in the court of quar- 
ter sessions of the proper county shall be fined not ex- 
ceeding fifty dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding 
sixty days. 
Pec. 2. That any duly constituted watchman of any 
such water company, or any constable or policeman, 
is hereby authorized and empowered, upon his own 
view of any such trespass, to make arrests and bring 
before any alderman or magistrate of the proper 
county offenders found violating the provisions of this 
act. 
Approved—The 24th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Penalty. 
Powers of watch- 
men. constables, 
etc. 
10. 
No. 133. 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the boards of health in the cities and bor 
oughs of this Commonwealth to regulate house 
drainage, the registration of journeymen and master 
plumbers, and the construction of cess pools. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after 
the passage of this act, the boards of health in cities 
and boroughs of this Commonwealth shall be and they 
are hereby authorized and directed to adopt and pro- 
mulgate suitable rules and regulations for the con- 
struction of house drainage and cess pools, and to pro- 
vide for the registration of journeymen and master 
plumbers and persons engaged in the plumbing busi- 
ness in cities and boroughs: Provided, That the provi- 
sions of this act shall not apply to boroughs having no 
system of water supply or system of sewage. 
Sec. 2. Any person who shall refuse or neglect to 
comply with the requirements of said rules and regu- 
lations when promulgated, shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and on conviction be sentenced to pay a fine 
of not more than one hundred (100) dollars, or undergo 
tin imprisonment not exceeding one year, or Loth, in 
the discretion of the court: Provided, That the provi- 
sions of this act shall not be construed to repeal the 
Boards of health 
shall adopt rules, 
etc. 
And provide for 
reRistration of 
plumbers. 
Proviso. 
Violation of act 
shall be deemed a 
misdemeanor. 
Penalty. 
Proviso. No. 18/ 
Health Laws. 
provisions of an act entitled “An act authorizing the 
boards of health in cities of the first class to regulate 
house drainage, the registration of master plumbers 
and the construction of cess-pools,” approved the thir- 
tieth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight 
hundred and eighty-five. 
Approved—The 24th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
11. 
No. 151. 
AN ACT 
To revent the pollution of the water of streams sup- 
plying centers of population, by the use of land for 
burial purposes within prescribed limits. 
Approved—The 24ih day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
12. 
No. 154. 
AN ACT 
Authorizing and empowering the school boards of 
townships or school districts within the Common- 
wealth to provide for a supply of water therein by 
contract for fire and sanitary purposes, and to lo- 
cate fire plugs near the school buildings. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the school boards 
of the several townships or school districts within 
this Commonwealth, shall have full power and au- 
School boards may 
contract for supply 
of water. 28 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
tliority to contract with any person, company or asso- 
ciation to furnish the said township or district with 
a sufficient supply of water for protection from fire 
or for sanitary purposes for a period not exceeding 
three (3) years, and to locate and erect fire plugs in 
close proximity to the school buildings. 
Sec. 2. The school boards as aforesaid shall 
make a record of such contract as they may enter 
into, including the cost thereof, which they are hereby 
authorized to pay out of any funds in the treasury not 
otherwise appropriated. 
Sec. 3. The township auditors shall pass upon such 
bills, and their action thereon shall have the same 
effect as upon other expenditures of such school 
boards. 
Approved—The 24tli day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Term of contract. 
Payment of costs, 
etc. 
Bills shall be au- 
dited. 
to require the affidavit of the assessor provided for 
by said act to be made before the clerk of the or- 
phans' court, and to require the respective counties 
to pay for all services rendered in pursuance of said 
act. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the assessor 
making the returns of the births and deaths as pro- 
vided for by said act, shall make an affidavit as provid- 
ed for by section second of said act before the clerk 
of the orphans’ court who shall file said returns 
amongst the records of his office. 
That for the affidavit of each assessor already made 
or to be hereafter made, the clerk of the orphans’ 
court shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty- 
five cents (25), and that for the filing of each return 
of birth and each return of deaths, already made or to 
Assessor making 
returns shall make 
affidavit before 
clerk of orphans’ 
court. 
Fee for affidavit. 
For filing return. No. 18. 
Health Laws. 
29 
be hereafter made, the clerk of the orphans’ court 
shall receive the sum of fifteen cents (15); and that 
for the certificate and seal already furnished, or to be 
hereafter furnished, the assessor, to each return ot 
births and deaths as made by the assessor, the clerk 
of the orphans’ court is entitled to receive the sum 
of thirty cents (30), all of which is to be paid out of 
the funds of the respective county. 
Approved—The 24th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
For certificate and 
seal. 
14. 
No. 165. 
AN ACT 
To promote cleanliness and healthfulness in and about 
the public schools of this Commonwealth. LOff. Doc. 
30 
State Board of Health. 
15. 
No. 186. 
AN ACT 
Relating to and regulating the business of plumbing 
and house drainage in cities of the second class. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after 
the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for any 
firm, corporation, master plumber or journeyman 
plumber to carry on the business of plumbing or house 
drainage in cities of the second class of this Common- 
wealth, until a license or permit therefor shall have 
been granted by the Director of the Department of 
Public Safety of such cities. 
Sec. 2. All firms, corporations, master plumbers or 
journeymen plumbers engaged or engaging in the 
business or work of plumbing and house drainage in 
said cities shall apply, in writing, to the said Director 
of the Department of Public Safety for such license 
I.icense to carry on 
business of plumb- 
ing must be pro- 
cured. 
Application for 
permit or license. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
31 
amination the sum of five dollars, and each journey- 
man shall pay the sum of fifty cents, which sums shall 
be paid into the city treasury for the use of said cities. 
The proper officers of said cities are hereby authorized 
to pay the plumber acting on said board the sum of 
five dollars per day for each day or session actually 
employed, out of funds in the treasury of said cities 
not otherwise appropriated. The license granted 
under the provisions of this act may be revoked by the 
Director of the Department of Public Safety when any 
firm, corporation, master plumber or journeyman 
plumber shall be deemed incompetent, or for any other 
reasonable cause, but said firm, corporation, master 
plumber or journeyman plumber shall be entitled to 
an additional examination upon the payment of the 
fee provided in this act. 
Sec. 3. Any firm, corporation, master plumber or 
journeyman plumber violating the provisions of this 
act, or any of them, shall be liable to a fine of not less 
than ten dollars, nor exceeding fifty dollars, for each 
and every day he or they shall engage in and conduct 
said business without having said certificate. Such 
fine shall be recoverable before any alderman or police 
magistrate in said cities by summary proceedings, and 
shall be sued for in the name of such cities, and when 
collected shall be paid into the treasury thereof. 
Sec. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent here- 
with or supplied hereby are hereby repealed. 
Approved—The 25th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Fee for examina- 
tion. 
Pay of plumber act- 
ing on board. 
License may be re- 
voked. 
Additional exam- 
ination. 
Fine for violation 
of this act. 
How tine shall be 
recovered. 
Where paid. 
Kepeal. 
No. 189. 
16. 
AN ACT 
To amend section four of an act entitled “An act to 
regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poi 
sons, and to prevent adulterations in drugs and 
medicinal preparations, in the State of Pennsyl- 
vania,” approved the twenty-fourth day of May, An- 
no Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty- 
seven, revising (he fees for examination and regis- 
tration and for renewal of registration. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &e., That section four of 
an act entitled “An act to regulate the practice of 32 
State Boaiid of Health. 
[Off Doc. 
pharmacy and sale of poisons, and to prevent adultera- 
tions in drugs and medicinal preparations, in the State 
of Pennsylvania, approved the twenty-fourth day of 
May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 
eighty-seven,” which reads as follows: 
“Sec. 4. The said Board shall be entitled to demand 
and receive from each applicant for examination and 
registration and for the certificate hereinafter pro- 
vided, a fee, not to exceed two dollars, and for registra- 
tion only, a fee not to exceed one dollar in the first in- 
stance, and for renewing the same every three years, a 
fee not to exceed one dollar; and the amount derived 
from this source shall be held by said Board and be 
applied to the expenses and salaries herein provided, 
and such as may arise under the provisions of this act; 
and they, the said Board, shall report annually to the 
Governor of the State of Pennsylvania all moneys 
received and disbursed under the provisions of this act, 
together with the number of pharmacists registered 
under this act,” be and the same is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows: 
Sec. 4. The said Board shall be entitled to demand 
and receive from each applicant for examination and 
registration and for the certificate hereinafter pro- 
vided, a fee not to exceed three dollars, and for regis- 
tration only, a fee not to exceed one dollar in the first 
instance, and for renewing the same every three years, 
a fee not to exceed three dollars; and the amount de- 
rived from this source shall be held by said Board and 
be applied to the expenses and salaries herein pro- 
vided, and such as may arise under the provisions of 
this act; and they, the said Board, shall report annu- 
ally to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania all 
moneys received and disbursed under the provisions of 
this act, together with the number of pharmacists reg- 
istered under this act. 
Approved—The 25th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Section 4, act of 
May 24, 1887. quoted 
for amendment. 
Fees to be charged 
and received by the 
board. 
Application of the 
fees so received. 
Board to report an- 
nually to the Gov- 
ernor. 
Contents of report. No. 18.; 
Health Laws. 
33 
17. 
No. 190. 
AN ACT 
To amend section two of an act, entitled “An act to 
regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons 
and to prevent adulterations in drugs and medicinal 
preparations in the State of Pennsylvania/’ ap- 
proved the twenty-fourth day of May, Anno Domini 
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, au- 
thorizing the State Pharmaceutical Examining 
Board to fix the compensation of its secretary. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section two of an 
act, entitled “An act to regulate the practice of phar- 
macy and sale of poisons and to prevent adulterations 
in drugs and medicinal preparations in the State of 
Pennsylvania,” approved the twenty-fourth day of 
May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 
eightv-seven, which reads as follows: 
“Section 2. That there shall be established in the 
State of Pennsylvania a board to be styled the “State 
Pharmaceutical Examining Board,” to consist of five 
persons, three of whom shall constitute a quorum, who 
shall be appointed by the Governor from among the 
most skillful retail apothecaries, actually engaged in 
said business in the State of Pennsylvania, and who 
must have had ten years’ practical experience in the 
same, one to serve five years, one, four years, one, three 
years, one, two years and one, one year, in the first 
instance and thereafter annually the Governor shall 
appoint one person to serve as a member of said board 
for the term of five years. The said persons so ap- 
pointed shall be and constitute the said The State 
Pharmaceutical Examining Board, and shall hold the 
office for the term for which they were appointed, or 
until their successors are duly appointed and qualified 
and shall receive as a compensation for their services 
five dollars for each day actually engaged in this ser- 
vice and all legitimate and necessary expenses in- 
curred in attending the meetings of said board under 
the provisions of this act, and no part of the salary of 
said board or expenses thereof shall be paid out of the 
State Treasury. 
The said board shall organize by electing one of its 
members secretary, who, in addition to his compensn- 
Section 2. act of 
May 24, 1887, cited 
for amendment. 34 
State Boakd of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
tion as a member of said board, shall receive a further 
sum not to exceed one hundred dollars annually for 
his services as secretary. 
They the said board and each of them shall, within 
ten days after their appointment or being apprised of 
the same, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation 
before a properly qualified officer of the county in 
which they reside, that they will faithfully and im- 
partially perform the duties of their office. 
Any vacancies occurring in said board shall be filled 
by the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania from 
among such only as are eligible for original appoint- 
ment,” be and the same is hereby amended so as to 
read as follows: 
Sec. 2. That there shall be established in the State 
or Pennsylvania a board to be styled The State Phar- 
maceutical Examining Board to consist of five per- 
sons, three of whom shall constitute a quorum, who 
shall be appointed by the Governor from among the 
most skillful retail apothecaries actually engaged in 
said business in the State of Pennsylvania, and who 
must have had ten years’ practical experience in the 
same, one to serve five years, one four years, one three 
years, one two years, and one one year in the first in- 
stance, and thereafter annually the Governor shall ap- 
point one person to serve as a member of said board 
for the term of five years. The said persons so ap- 
pointed shall be and constitute the said The State 
Pharmaceutical Examining Board, and shall hold the 
office for the term for which they were appointed, or 
until their successors are duly appointed and qualified 
and shall receive as a compensation for their services 
five dollars for each day actually engaged in this ser- 
vice and all legitimate and necessary expenses in- 
curred in attending the meetings of said board under 
the provisions of this act, and no part of the salary of 
said board or expenses thereof shall be paid out of the 
State Treasury. 
The said board shall organize by electing oue of its 
members secretary, who, in addition to his compensa- 
tion as a member of said board, shall receive for his 
services as secretary such compensation as said board 
may allow. 
They the said board and each of them shall, within 
ten days after their appointment or being apprised of 
State Pharmaceuti- 
cal Examining 
Board established. 
Number, appoint- 
ment and qualifica- 
tions. 
Terms. 
Compensation. 
No part of salary to 
be paid out of State 
Treasury. 
Organization. 
Secretary and his 
compensation. 
Oaths of board. No. 18. 
Health Laws. 
35 
the same, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation 
before a properly qualified officer of the county in 
which they reside, that they will faithfully and im- 
partially perform the duties of their office. 
An vacancy occurring in said board shall be filled by 
the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania from among 
such only as are eligible for original appointment. 
Approved—The 25th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Vacancy. 
18. 
No. 193. 
A SUPPLEMENT 
To the act, entitled “An act to regulate the practice of 
pharmacy and sale of poisons, and to prevent adul- 
terations in drugs and medicinal preparations, in the 
State of Pennsylvania,” approved the twenty-fourth 
day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun- 
dred and eighty-seven, requiring persons holding cer- 
tificates of registrations or renewal certificates under 
the provisions of this act, to keep said certificates 
and renewal certificates in some conspicuous place 
in their retail drug stores and pharmacies, and pro- 
viding a penalty for the violation thereof. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter every 
proprietor, manager and qualified assistant holding a 
certificate of registration or renewal certificate under 
the provisions of an act, entitled “An act to regulate 
the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons, and to 
prevent adulterations in drugs and medicinal prepara- 
tions, in the State of Pennsylvania,” approved the 
twenty-fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand 
eight hundred and eighty-seven, shall keep his or her 
certificate of registration and renewal certificate in 
some conspicuous place in his or her retail drug store 
or pharmacy, or in the retail drug store or pharmacy 
where he or she may be at the time employed. 
And every person who shall violate or fail to com- 
ply with the provisions of this section shall, for every 
such offense, forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars 
($10.00), which shall be recoverable with costs by any 
person suing in the name of the Commonwealth as 
Certificate of regis- 
tration must be ker t 
in some conspicu- 
ous place. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion of act. 36 
State Board of Health. 
T)ff. Doc. 
debts of like amount are by law recoverable, which 
sum when so recovered shall be paid to the State 
Pharmaceutical Examining Board. 
Approved—The 25th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
19. 
No. 233. 
To provide against the adulteration of food, and pro- 
viding for the enforcement thereof. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no person shall, 
within this State, manufacture for sale, offer for sale 
or sell any article of food which is adulterated within 
the meaning of this act. 
Sec. 2. The term “food,” as used herein, shall in- 
clude all articles used for food or drink by man, 
whether simple, mixed or compound. 
Sec. 3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated 
within the meaning of this act: 
(a.) In the case of food: (1.) If any substance or 
substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or 
depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength or 
purity. (2.) If any inferior or cheaper substance or 
substances have been substituted wholly or in part for 
it. (3.) If any valuable or necessary constituent or in- 
gredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from 
it. (4.) If it is an imitation of or is sold under the 
name of another article. (5.) If it consists wholly or in 
part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, taint- 
ed or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, 
whether manufactured or not,—or in case of milk, if 
it is the produce of a diseased animal. (6.) If it is col 
ored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage 
or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is 
made to appear better or of greater value than it 
really is. (7.) If it contains any added substance or 
ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health: 
Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not ap- 
ply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary 
articles or ingredients of articles of food, if each and 
every package sold or offered for sale be distinctly 
labeled as mixtures or compounds, and are not injuri- 
ous to health. 
AN ACT 
Manufacture or 
sale of adulterated 
food prohibited. 
Definition of term 
“Food.” 
What shall be 
deemed ‘ ‘adulter- 
ated food.” No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
37 
Sec. 4. Every person manufacturing, offering or ex- 
posing for sale or delivering to a purchaser any article 
of food included in the provisions of this act shall 
furnish to any per' on interested or demanding the 
same, who shah ipply to him for the purpose and 
shall tender him the value of the same, a sample suf- 
ficient for the analysis of any such article of food 
which is in his possession. 
Sec. 5. Whoever refuses to comply, upon demand, 
with the requirements of section four, and whoever 
violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined 
not exceeding one hundred nor less than fifty dollars, 
or imprisoned not exceeding ninety nor less than thirty 
days, or both, and any person found guilty of manu- 
facturing, offering for sale or selling any adulterated 
article of food under the provisions of this act shall be 
adjudged to pay, in addition to the penalties herein 
provided for, all necessary costs and expenses incurred 
in inspecting and analyzing such adulterated articles 
of which said person may have been found guilty of 
manufacturing, selling or offering for sale: Provided, 
That all penalties and costs for the violation of the 
provisions of this act shall be paid to the Dairy and 
Food Commissioner, or his agent, and by him paid into 
the State Treasury, to be kept as a fund separate and 
apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture for 
the enforcement of this act, and to be drawn out upon 
warrant signed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Auditor General. 
Sec. 6. The agent of the Department of Agriculture, 
known as the Dairy and Food Commissioner of this 
State, shall be charged with the enforcement of all the 
provisions of this act and shall have the same power to 
enforce the provisions of this act that is given him to 
enforce the provisions of the act by which he receives 
his appointment. 
Approved—The 26th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Manufacturer or 
seller must furnish 
sample for analysis 
if value of same is 
tendered. 
Violation of provi- 
sions of act a mis- 
demeanor. 
Penalty. 
Additional penally 
for persons founu 
guilty of manufa< - 
turing or selling 
adulterated food. 
Proviso as to whom 
penalties and eosts 
shall be paid. 
To be kept as a sep- 
arate fund. 
Who shall be charg- 
ed with the enforce- 
ment of provisions 
Of act. 38 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
20. 
No. 234. 
AN ACT 
To amend an act, entitled “An act for the protection of 
the public health and to prevent the adulteration 
of dairy products and fraud in the sale thereof,” ap- 
proved May twenty-one, one thousand eight hundred 
and eighty-five, providing for the payment of one- 
half of the amount of fines recovered into the county 
treasury of the proper county, and the other half to 
the Dairy and Food Commissioner for the use of the 
Department of Agriculture for the enforcement of 
the act. 
! 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section three of 
the act of May twenty-first, one thousand eight hun- 
dred and eighty-five, entitled “An act for the protection 
of the public health, and to prevent the adulteration 
of dairy products and fraud in the sale thereof,” which 
reads as follows: 
“Every person, company, firm or corporate body who 
shall manufacture, sell or offer or expose for sale or 
have in his, her or their possession with intent to sell, 
any substance, the manufacture and sale of which 
hibited by the first section of this act, shall, for every 
such offense, forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred 
dollars, which shall be recoverable with costs by any 
person suing in the name of the Commonwealth as 
debts of like amount are by law recoverable; one-half 
of which sum when so recovered shall be paid to the 
proper county treasurer for the use of the county in 
which suit is brought, and the other half to the person 
or persons at whose instance such a suit shall or may 
be commenced and prosecuted to recovery,” be and 
the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 
Every person, firm or corporate body who shall man- 
ufacture, sell or offer or expose for sale, or have in his. 
her or their possession, with intent to sell, any sub- 
stance, the manufacture and sale of which is prohibited 
by the first section of this act shall, for every such of- 
fense, forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, 
which shall be recoverable, with costs, by any person 
suing in the name of the Commonwealth, as debts 
of like amount are by law recoverable, one-half of 
Section 3, act of 
May 21, 1885, quoted 
for amendment. 
Manufacture or 
sale of prohibited 
articles. 
Penalties. 
How recoverable. No. 18 ] 
Health Laws. 
which sum, when so recovered, shall be paid to the 
proper county treasurer for the use of the county in 
which the suit is brought, and the other half shall be 
paid to the Dairy and Food Commissioner, or his agent, 
and by him converted into the State Treasury to be 
kept as a fund, separate and apart, for the use of the 
Department of Agriculture, for the enforcement of 
this act, and to be drawn out upon warrants ap- 
proved and signed by the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Auditor General. 
Approved—The 26th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
39 
To whom payable. 
For use of Depart- 
ment of Agricul- 
ture. 
21. 
No. 236. 
AN ACT 
To prohibit the adulteration of milk by the addition of 
so-called preservatives. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the sale or offer- 
ing for sale of milk for human consumption in this 
Commonwealth, to which has been added boracic acid, 
salt boracic acid, salicylic acid, salicylate of soda or 
any other acid, drug, compound or substance shall be 
a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more 
than one hundred dollars, or an imprisonment not ex- 
ceeding three months, or both, or either, at the discre- 
tion of the court. 
Approved—The 26th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Sale of adulterated 
milk a misdemean- 
or. 
Penalty. 
22. 
No. 258. 
AN ACT 
Creating a Bureau of Health in the Department of 
Public Safety in cities of the second class, defining 
the powers and duties thereof and of the officers 
’ thereunder, prescribing rules and regulations and 
laws respecting the public health, and authorizing 
and imposing fines, penalties and punishments for 
violations therof. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c. That there is hereby 
created and established a Bureau of Health in cities 
Bureau of Heallh 
established. 40 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
To be under control 
of Department of 
Public Safety. 
of the second class in this Commonwealth, which bu- 
reau shall be connected with and under the control 
of the Department of Public Safety of said cities. The 
Director of said department shall appoint a superin- 
tendent, and such other employes in said bureau as 
shall from time to time be necessary to perform the 
duties thereof. The councils of said cities shall fix 
the compensation of all persons so employed. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the said Bureau of 
Health to have all things which may have a tendency 
to imperil the health of the people of said cities re- 
moved or corrected as said bureau may deem neces- 
sary for the well being of the people, and if the owner 
or owners, tenant or occupants of any premises on 
which such nuisance shall be found shall refuse or 
neglect after due notice to remove or correct the same, 
he, she or they so refusing or neglecting, shall forfeit 
and pay for every such offense, a penalty not exceeding 
ten dollars. If any person or persons, firm or corpo- 
ration shall cause or permit to be thrown, cast or 
placed, any substance, matter or thing which may tend 
to endanger the health of the people of such cities on 
any lot, street, alley or public place therein, or if any 
owner or occupant of any lot of ground within said 
cities shall knowingly or wilfully suffer or permit any 
such substance, matter or thing as aforesaid to be, lie 
or remain on such lot, every person so offending shall 
forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding ten dollars. 
Sec. 3. No person shall throw, place or conduct, or 
suffer his or her servant, child or family to throw, 
place or conduct into any street, alley or lot, any pu- 
trid or unsound matter, beef, pork, fish, hides or skins 
of any kind, or any filth or offal, dead animal, vegeta- 
bles, oyster shells, or other unsound or offensive mat- 
ter whatever, or anything likely to become offensive, 
nor shall any person allow such filth, offal, or other 
offensive matter aforesaid to be or remain upon their 
premises, or in any outhouse, stable or privy or other 
place owned or occupied by them, or in any alley or 
street in such manner as to be offensive, and every per- 
son who shall violate any of the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall forfeit and pay a fine and penalty not ex- 
ceeding ten dollars. 
Superintendent. 
Compensation. 
Bureau of Health 
shall remove all 
things imperiling 
health. 
Penalty for refusal 
to remove nuisance. 
Penalty for doing 
anything tending 
to endanger health. 
Placing unsound or 
offensive matter in 
street, alley or lot 
prohibited. 
Penalty. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
41 
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of any and all person or 
persons, corporation or corporations, having the own- 
ership or control of dead undressed unslaughtered 
hogs, cattle or other animals or animal matter within 
any of the said cities, to remove the same within six 
hours after their death or arrival within the above 
described locality to some point or place to be desig- 
nated or approved by the Director of the Department 
of Public Safety, and there promptly disposed of in a 
sanitary manner, and in case the person or persons 
having the ownership, control or possession of such 
dead animals or animal matter shall fail to remove 
them within the time specified, he or they shall be lia- 
ble to a fine or penalty not exceeding twenty-five dol- 
lars, and it shall be the duty of the officers of the said 
bureau to take immediate possession of, and remove 
the same. 
Sec. 5. No person, persons or corporations shall ren- 
der or try out any dead undressed hogs, cattle, or other 
animals, or any decayed, putrid or unsound animal 
matter in the said cities, nor shall it be lawful to carry 
on any of the above-described business within the lim- 
its of said cities, without adopting such proper and 
suitable condensers, or other machinery, as shall pre- 
vent unwholesome, foul and disagreeable odors, and 
as the Bureau of Health of the cities aforesaid shall 
approve, nor shall the same be then operated without 
a permit in writing from the said Bureau of Health. 
Sec. 6. If any person or persons shall own, occupy 
or keep any grounds or other premises in such condi- 
tion as to be offensive to the neighborhood, he or they 
shall be subject to such fine or penalty as is herein- 
after provided. Whenever any nuisance shall be found 
on any premises within the city contrary to any ordi- 
nance of such cities or the provisions of this act, the 
Bureau of Health is hereby authorized to cause the 
same to be summarily abated in such manner as it 
may direct, and at the expense of the person or per- 
sons so offending. It shall be the duty of the said 
bureau, in all cases where the owner or owners of un- 
occupied property upon which any offensive matter 
or substance exists who reside out of the said city, or 
cannot be found, after diligent search, to cause the 
same to be at once removed or abated, and the ex- 
Dead animals must 
be removed within 
six hours. 
Penalty for failure 
to remove same. 
Rendering or trying 
out prohibited ex- 
cept under certain 
conditions. 
Permit may 
issued. 
Offensive grounds 
or premises. 
Nuisance on prem- 
ises to be abated at 
expense of person 
offending. 
Nuisances on unoc- 
cupied premises, 
how abated. 
Expense of re- 
moval, etc. 42 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
pense attending tlie removal or abatement of the same 
shall be recovered by the said bureau in the name of 
said cities before any court, police magistrate, aider- 
man, or justice of the peace having jurisdiction of like 
cases. 
Sec. 7. It shall not be lawful for any person to erect 
or continue any privy, unless the same shall be fur- 
nished with a substantial vault at least six feet deep, 
and made tight, so that the contents cannot escape 
therefrom, and be sufficiently secured and enclosed, 
and in case of the violation hereof, the person or per- 
sons so offending shall be liabletothe payment of a fine 
and penalty, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and 
which may be enforced for every week the same shall 
be so continued. If any person shall suffer 
or permit any cellar, vault, privy, drain, pool, 
sewer or sink upon any premises belonging 
to or occupied by him to become nause- 
ous, foul, offensive or injurious to the public health, 
he shall be subject to a fine or penalty not exceeding 
twenty-five dollars in every case, and to a like fine for 
every day the same shall continue after notice to re- 
move or abate the same. 
Sec. 8. Whenever, in the opinion of the said Bureau 
of Health, any privy vault shall need cleaning, it shall 
be the duty of said bureau to notify the owner, agent 
or occupant, to cleanse the same within a period named 
in said notice, and unless the person so notified shall 
comply within the time mentioned, it shall be the 
duty of such bureau to cause said vault to be cleansed, 
and the person so failing to comply with said notice 
shall be liable to a fine or penalty not exceeding 
twenty-five dollars. Nothing in this section shall dis- 
charge the owner, agent or occupant of the premises 
from any liability otherwise provided to pay all the 
expenses of such cleaning. 
Sec. 9. The said cities shall have the right to pro- 
vide suitable places for the purpose of receiving therein 
the contents of privies, and other offensive substances, 
and when the same are provided it shall be lawful for 
said Bureau of Health to make proclamation thereoi 
by advertisement in one or more of the daily news- 
papers of said cities, to be continued at least thirty 
davs. and from and after the expiration of the said 
thirty days during which said advertisement has been 
Construction of 
privy. 
Penalty for a viola- 
tion of rule. 
Penalty for permit- 
ting cellar, drain, 
sewer, etc., to be- 
come foul and of- 
fensive. 
Cleaning of privy 
vault. 
Penalty for failure 
to clean. 
Owner must pay 
expenses. 
Cities shall provide 
suitable places for 
receiving contents 
of privies. 
Shall make procla- 
mation after places 
have been provided. No. 18. J 
Health Laws. 
published, it shall not be lawful for any person or per- 
sons employed in cleansing any privy or privies within 
the bounds aforesaid, to deposit or cause to be depos- 
ited the contents or any part of the contents thereof 
in any other place or places than such as shall be des- 
ignated by the said Bureau of Health in its proclama- 
tion; and if any person or persons shall deposit or 
cause to be deposited such contents or any part thereof 
in any other place or places than as aforesaid without 
the consent of the said Bureau of Health, such person 
or persons shall forfeit and pay for every such offense 
a fine or penalty not exceeding fifty dollars. No per- 
son shall remove or cause to be removed, the contents 
or any part thereof, of any privy-well until he shall 
have first obtained a permit from the said Bureau of 
Health, which permit shall specify the time within 
which the contents of the privy may be removed, and 
the place to which the said contents shall be conveyed 
and deposited, and if any person shall remove, cause 
or allow or assist in removing the contents or any part 
thereof of any privy-well before he has obtained such 
permit, or at any other time than that specified in the 
said permit, or shall convey to and' deposit, or assist 
in conveying or depositing the same in any other place 
than that described in the said permit, he shall for any 
of the aforesaid acts forfeit and pay a fine or penalty 
not exceeding fifty dollars. Hereafter no person shall 
be permitted to remove or cause to be removed any 
portion of the contents of a privy-well within the limits 
aforesaid, excepting in vehicles so constructed and 
operated as to be air tight, so as to prevent the emis- 
sion of noxious smells, and if any person shall remove, 
cause or permit to be removed the contents or any 
part thereof of any privy excepting in vehicles con- 
structed and operated as aforesaid, he shall forfeit 
and pay a fine or penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, 
and any constable, police officer or watchman is hereby 
authorized to seize and detain all vehicles, horses, im- 
plements and apparatus, actually taken with any per- 
son or persons detected in any violation of said provi- 
sion, and deliver the same to the Bureau of Health for 
safe keeping, and as security for the payment of the 
penalties herein named. 
Sec. 10. From and after the passage of this act it 
shall not be lawful for any person to remove the con- 
Contents of privy 
must be deposited 
in places designated 
in proclamation. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion. 
Permit must be ob- 
tained. 
What permit shall 
specify. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion of permit. 
Air-tight vehicles 
must be used to re- 
move contents of 
privy-well. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion. 
Officer may detain 
vehicle if provisions 
are violated. 
License must be 
obtained to remove 
contents of privy- 
well. 44 
State Boaed of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
tents of any privy-well within the limits of said cities, 
unless such person shall first be licensed by the Bu- 
reau of Health to do so, and any person offending 
against the provisions of this section, shall for every 
such offense forfeit and pay a tine or penalty not ex- 
ceeding fifty dollars. Any person desirous of being 
licensed to empty or remove the contents of privy-wells 
or cess-pools, shall make application in writing to the 
said Bureau of Health, and on being satisfied with the 
character of the applicant and the construction of his 
vehicles, the said bureau may, under the rules and reg- 
ulations made in relation thereto, and with the ap- 
proval of the Director of the Department of Public 
Safety, grant him a license for one year, and may re- 
new and continue the same from year to year, as shall 
be found proper. Any person so licensed offending 
against any of the provisions of this act, or of the 
rules and regulations made thereunder, shall by order 
of said bureau and with the assent of the Director of 
the Department of Public Safety aforesaid, forfeit his 
license, and be disqualified from having tfie same 
again granted for such period not exceeding three 
years as said bureau may determine, and he shall also 
be subject to all fines, pains and penalties provided by 
law for any violation thereof. 
Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the Bureau of Health 
of each of said cities to cause all offensive or putrid 
substances, and all nuisances to be removed from the 
streets, lanes, alleys, highways, wharves, ducks or any 
other part or parts of the said cities, and to cause such 
of the privies within the limits aforesaid to be emp- 
tied or corrected at the expense of the individuals who 
are the owners of the houses to which the said privies 
are appurtenant, as the said bureau shall from time to 
time deem necessary for the health of the inhabitants 
thereof, and if the owners or occupants of the premises 
on which any offensive or putrid substance or other 
nuisance may be found, and the owners of the houses 
to which the said privies are appurtenant, shall on due 
notice thereof, refuse or neglect to have the same im- 
mediately removed, emptied or corrected as aforesaid, 
he, she or they so refusing or neglecting shall forfeit 
and pay for every such offense a fine or penalty not 
exceeding twenty-five dollars, and the expense attend- 
ing the removal of the same shall be recovered by the 
Penalty for viola- 
tion. 
Application for 
license. 
Ijicense shall be 
forfeited if pro- 
visions of act are 
violated. 
Offensive or putrid 
substances to be 
removed. 
At expense of own- 
er of pioperty. 
Penally for refusal 
to remove, etc. No. 18.1 
Health Laws. 
45 
said bureau before any alderman, police magistrate, or 
justice of the peace, or in any court having jurisdiction 
from all corporate bodies and individuals. 
Sec. 12. The Director of the Department of Public 
Safety of any of said cities, with the approval of the 
councils thereof, shall have power and authority to 
enter into a contract or contracts with such parties as 
may be found necessary for the removal of all dead ani- 
mals from the strees, lanes, alleys, unoccupied ground 
or any other portion of said cities. 
Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or 
corporation to keep, expose, or offer for sale for food, 
or keep the same for the purpose of sale for food, with- 
in the limits of said cities, any emaciated, tainted, 
putrid, decayed, decaying, unwholesome or diseased 
meat. In case of keeping, exposing or offering such, 
the said bureau shall have the power and authority 
to seize, condemn, and confiscate the same, and also all 
maimed and diseased animals, or any that may be too 
young to be used for food. The keeping, offering, ex- 
posure or sale, as aforesaid, of any emaciated, tainted, 
putrid, decayed, decaying, unwholesome or diseased 
meat, or of any maimed or diseased animal or animals 
too young to be used for food shall be and is hereby 
declared to be unlawful, and the person so offending 
shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five 
nor more than one hundred dollars. The exposure or 
offering for sale of food, or keeping for purposes of 
sale for food, any decayed or unwholesome vegetable 
or other matter or thing, is hereby declared to be un- 
lawful, and any person or persons so offending shall be 
liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollors. 
Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the Bureau of Health 
to make a complete registration of all dairies and milk 
depots in the said cities, and to require the names of the 
owners of the different dairies, or of the persons deal- 
ing in milk, to be legibly placed upon each vehicle 
used for the conveyance of milk, and any person or 
persons refusing or neglecting to give such information 
or to place his or their name or names on said vehicles 
as aforesaid shall be liable to a fine of not more than 
twenty dollars for each and every day the same shall 
be omitted. 
Sec. 15. It shall be unlawful for any person or per- 
sons to offer for sale any milk adulterated with water 
Removal of dead 
animals, contract 
for. 
Tainted or decayed 
meat shall not be 
offered for sale. 
Meat may be con- 
fiscated. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion of section. 
Decayed vegeta-. 
bles. 
Registration of 
dairies and milk 
depots. 
Name of owner to 
be placed on all 
wagons. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion. 
Penalty for offering 
adulterated milk 
for sale. 46 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
or other substance, or any milk from diseased cows or 
goats, and if any person or persons shall violate any 
of the provisions of this section, he or they shall be 
liable to a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each 
and every offense so committed. 
Sec. 16. It shall be the duty of the said Bureau of 
Health to see that the provisions of section fourteen 
and fifteen of this act are enforced, and for that pur- 
pose its officers shall have the right at all times to en- 
ter all places where milk may be sold, or stop any ve- 
hicle used in conveying the same, and cause a sample 
to be tested or analyzed. 
Sec. 17. Any person or persons who shall in any of 
said cities engage in or carry on the sale, exchange, 
or traffic in milk, shall have the carriage or vehicle 
from which the same is vended, conspicuously marked 
with his, her or their names, also designating the lo- 
cality from which said milk is obtained or where pro- 
duced, and for every neglect of such marking, the per- 
son or persons so neglecting shall be subject to a fine 
not exceeding ten dollars. For marking wagons or 
vehicles so as to convey the idea that said milk is pro- 
cured from or produced in a different locality that it 
really is, the person or persons so offending shall be 
subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. The addi- 
tion of water or of ice to milk is hereby declared an 
adulteration, and any milk obtained from animals fed 
on distillery waste or any substance in a state of putre- 
faction, is hereby declared to be impure and unwhole- 
some. 
Sec. 18. It shall be unlawful for any person or per- 
sons engaged in gathering bones, grease or dead ani- 
mals from the markets or other places in any of said 
cities, or for any person to transport, haul or carry the 
same through the streets, alleys and public places 
therein, without having the wagon or vehicle in which 
the same is so carried or hauled tightly and securely 
covered in such manner as shall be approved by the Bu- 
reau of Health, nor shall any such wagon, cart or ve- 
hicle be suffered to stand in or upon any street, alley or 
public place at any time longer than shall be sufficient 
to transact such business, and in any case not to ex- 
ceed fifteen minutes, and any person or persons who 
shall violate the provisions of this section shall be sub- 
Analysis of milk by 
officers of Bureau 
of Health. 
Milk wagons to be 
marked with name 
of owner and lo- 
cality from which 
milk is obtained. 
Penalties. 
Adding water to 
milk. 
Animals shall not 
be fed on distillery 
waste. 
Bones, dead ani- 
mals, etc., must be 
hauled in tightly 
covered wagons. 
Such wagons shall 
not stand on any 
public street longer 
than fifteen min- 
utes. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
47 
ject to a fine of not less than five nor more than one 
hundred dollars for each and every violation thereof. 
Sec. 19. It shall be the duty of the officer or officers 
who shall be appointed therefor, to carry out all orders 
of the Bureau of Health and the provisions of this act, 
and of all ordinances, rules and regulations in relation 
to the sanitary condition of said cities, and to proceed 
from time to time to make thorough and systematic 
examinations of the same and cause all nuisances to be 
abated with reasonable promptness; and for the pur- 
pose of carrying out the foregoing requirements such 
officer or officers shall be permitted at all times from 
the rising to the setting of the sun, to enter any house, 
store, stable, or other building, and to cause the floors 
to be raised, if deemed necessary by them, in order to 
make a thorough examination of cellars, vaults, sinks 
or drains; to enter upon all lots of ground, and to cause 
all stagnant waters to be drained off, the pools, sinks, 
vaults, drains or low grounds to be cleansed, filled up, 
or otherwise improved or corrected; to cause all privies 
to be cleaned and kept in good condition; and to cause 
all dead animals or other nauseous or unwholesome 
things or substances to be removed beyond the limits 
of the city or otherwise disposed of. In order to carry 
out the provisions of this section, it shall be the duty 
of the said officer or officers to serve notice, in writing, 
upon the owner, occupant or agent of any lot, building, 
or premises in, or upon which any such nuisance, offen- 
sive matter or substance may be found, or who may be 
the cause of any such offense, requiring him or them 
to abate the same in such manner as the rules and reg- 
ulations shall prescribe within reasonable time. No- 
tice may be given or served by any officer who may 
be directed or deputed by said bureau to give or make 
the same, and if such owner or occupant, or agent shall 
neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of 
such notice within the time specified, he or they shall 
be subject to a fine of not less than five, nor more than 
fifty dollars for every such violation, and it shall be the 
duty of the said bureau to proceed at once, upon the 
expiration of the time specified in such notice,to cause 
such nuisance to be abated: Provided, That whenever 
the owner, occupant or agent of any premises in or 
upon which any such nuisance, offensive matter or 
substance may be found, is unknown, or cannot be 
Penalty for viola- 
tion. 
Officers of Bureau 
of Health shall 
carry out provisions 
of this act. 
Rights of officers to 
enter houses, etc., 
and examine same. 
To enter lots, etc. 
Remove dead ani- 
mals, etc. 
Officers shall serve 
notice on owner, 
occupant or agent 
of building or lot to 
abate nuisance. 
Penalty for refusal 
to comply with no- 
tice. 
Proviso, if owner; 
etc., cannot be 
found. 48 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
found, the said bureau shall proceed to abate the same 
without notice, and in either case the expense of such 
abatement shall be collected from the owner or owners 
thereof by action of assumpsit or otherwise, as pro- 
vided by law. For the purpose of carrying the fore- 
going provisions into effect it shall be the duty of the 
Director of the Department of Public Safety to employ 
a sufficient force, under the control of the superin- 
tendent of the Bureau of Health, to make from time 
to time, and as often as may be necessary, a thorough 
and systematic examination of the said cities, and to 
ascertain and report to the Bureau of Health for prose- 
cution, all violations of the health laws and regulations, 
and for this purpose they shall be permitted at all 
times to visit or enter into or upon any building, lot 
or grounds within the jurisdiction of the said cities, 
and make examinations thereof. 
Sec. 20. The Director of the Department of Public 
Safety in every such city, with the approval of the coun- 
cils thereof, shall have power and authority to enter 
into a contract or contracts with such parties as may 
be found necessary for the removal of all offal, garbage 
and swill from private premises and for the disposal of 
the same. The Bureau of Health shall cause a printed 
notice to be left at each and every hotel, tavern, eating 
house and dwelling house in the city, stating that a 
scavenger will call for offal, garbage and swill at cer- 
tain times mentioned in the notice, and requiring that 
such offal, garbage and swill be ready in prescribed 
and suitable vessels for the scavenger when he calls 
for the same, and a copy of this section shall be ap- 
pended to such notice. Any person who shall, after 
notice, neglect or refuse to have the offal, garbage or 
swill upon his or her premises ready for the scavenger 
in the manner and at the time mentioned in said no- 
tice, shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars for 
each and every day such offal, garbage or swill shall 
remain on such premises after the same shall have 
been called for by the scavenger. 
Sec. 21. It shall be lawful for the Bureau of Health 
of each of said cities, when it shall have reason to be- 
lieve from the report in writing of any reputable phy- 
sician practicing in such cities that any person within 
the said cities is afflicted with any contagious disease 
dangerous to the community to take measures for pre- 
Sufficient force of 
persons to be em- 
ployed to carry out 
provisions of act. 
Contract for re- 
moval of garbage, 
etc. 
Notice to hotels and 
houses that scaven- 
ger will call for 
garbage, etc. 
Pennlty for refusal 
to comply with no- 
tice. 
Contagious dis- 
eases. 
Dutiesof Bureau of 
lloalth. No. 18.; 
Health Laws. 
49 
venting the spreading of the contagion by forbidding 
and preventing all communication with the infected 
house or family, except by means of physicians, nurses 
or messengers to convey the necessary advice, medi- 
cines and provisions to the afflicted person or persons, 
and exercise all such other powers as the circum- 
stances of the case shall require, and as shall, in the 
judgment of said bureau be most conducive to the pub- 
lic good, with the least private injury. 
Sec. 22. It shall be the duty of the physician of the 
Bureau of Health. 
First, To report to the bureau the prevalence of any 
epidemic contagious or infectious disease, or other 
causes which, in his opinion, is likely to be injurious to 
the general health. 
Second, To keep at all times a sufficient supply of 
vaccine virus, and see that all persons so far as he may 
have it in his power, are properly vaccinated, espec- 
ially those in the vicinity of any person attacked by 
small-pox. 
Third, Upon being informed of the existence or in- 
troduction of any contagious or infectious disease with- 
in the said city, to inquire immediately into the facts 
and report the same in writing to the Bureau of 
Health and see that the orders of said bureau are 
obeyed so far as possible. 
Fourth, To report to said bureau all cases in which 
any sick person has not been properly cared for, and 
all other matters which he may deem important, and 
give such information as the said bureau may desire in 
relation to the sanitary condition or regulation of said 
city so far as he may be able so to do. 
Fifth, To examine at the request of the Bureau of 
Health, boats and vessels, cars and other vehicles com- 
ing into the said city the officers, crew or passengers 
of which may be or are supposed to be affected by any 
contagious or infectious disease, and advise the said 
bureau what disposition shall be made of the same, 
and to perform such other duties as the Director >f 
the Department of Public Safety and Bureau of Health 
shall hereafter prescribe, including the vaccination of 
the children of the public schools, or of others request 
ing him to do so, and to make a monthly report of his 
transaction to the Bureau of Health, together with 
Duties of physician 
of Bureau of 
Health. 50 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
such suggestions as may be calculated to promote the 
general sanitary condition and welfare of said city. 
Sec. 23. Each and every physician located or prac- 
ticing in any of the said cities who shall know that any 
person whom he or she is called upon to visit, or who 
comes or is brought to him or her for examination, is 
suffering from, or is afflicted with cholera, small-pox 
(variola or varioloid), diphtheria, diphtheritic croup, 
membraneous croup, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, ty- 
phus fever, yellow fever, epidemic cerebro spinal fever, 
relapsing fever, or leprosy, shall forthwith make re- 
port in writing, or upon blanks to be furnished for that 
purpose, to the Bureau of Health of the city in which 
said person may be located, which said report shall, 
over his or her signature, state the name of the disease, 
and the name, age and sex of the person suffering 
therefrom, and shall also set forth by street and num- 
ber, or otherwise, sufficiently designate the house, room 
or other place in which said person may be located, 
together with such other information relating thereto 
as may be deemed important by said bureau. Upon 
receipt by the Bureau of Health of a report of the ex- 
istence of a case of cholera, small pox (variola or vario 
loid), scarlet fever, typhus fever, yellow fever, relaps- 
ing fever, diphtheria, diphtheritic croup, membraneous 
croup, or leprosy in said city, it may at once place, or 
cause to be placed, in a conspicuous place or places 
upon or near the house or premises in which said case 
may be located, a placard or placards upon which shall 
be printed in large letters the name of the disease from 
which the person or persons in said house or premises 
may be suffering, as aforesaid, as the case may be: 
Provided, That variola or varioloid shall be placarded 
as “small-pox,” and that diphtheritic croup and mem- 
braneous croup shall be placarded as “diphtheria,” and 
said placard or placards shall remain thereon until 
such time as the rules and regulations established by 
the said Bureau of Health regarding the destruction or 
disinfection of infected bedding, clothing or other arti- 
cles which have been exposed to infection, and fhe dis- 
infection of houses and premises shall have been fully 
complied with: Provided, That in addition to the pla- 
carding aforesaid, or in lieu of the same the said Bu- 
reau of Health may place a guard or guards upon said 
houses or premises. Tf anv person or persons shall 
Duties of physician 
visiting any person 
suffering from any 
contagious or in- 
fectious diseases. 
Bureau of Health 
shall placard prem- 
ises in which there 
is a contagious or 
infectious disease. 
Diseases which 
shall be placarded 
as ‘ ‘ smallpox” and 
*' diphtheria.” 
Disinfection. 
Guard may be 
placed upon prem- 
ses. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
51 
deface, alter, mutilate, destroy, or tear down any such 
placard, without the permission of the said Bureau of 
Health, such person or persons shall be liable for each 
offense to a penalty of not less than five nor more than 
twenty dollars, which may be recovered by summary 
proceedings before the mayor or any alderman or po- 
lice magistrate in any of such cities. 
Sec. 24. No person having small-pox or any other 
dangerous, infectious, or contagious disease shall be 
put out, removed or allowed to be put out or removed, 
from the premises or place occupied by him or her, into 
any street or alley or other public place in said city, 
but the owner or occupant of said premises shall im- 
mediately report such case to the Bureau of Health. 
Any person who shall violate any clause of or neglect 
to perform any duty required in this section, shall be 
subject to a penalty of not more than one hundred dol- 
lars. 
Sec. 25. The said Director of the Department of Pub- 
lic Safety shall have the power, when he shall deem it 
necessary for the protection of such city against any 
prevailing, pestilential or contagious disease, by and 
with the consent of the councils thereof, to erect, pur- 
chase or lease such public hospitals, buildings and 
grounds as may be necessary, and said director is em- 
powered to make such rules, orders and regulations as 
may be deemed proper for the government and manage- 
ment of said hospitals, buildings and grounds, and to 
appoint such physicians, officers, and servants as may 
be necessary to attend to such hospitals, upon the ap- 
proval thereof by said councils. 
Sec. 2G. It shall be the duty of the officer or officers 
appointed for such purpose by the director aforesaid, 
to visit and examine all sick persons who shall be re- 
ported as laboring or supposed to be laboring under 
yellow or ship fever, small pox, cholera or any infec- 
tious or pestilential disease, and under the advice of 
the physician to said Bureau of Health, and with the 
consent of the attending physician, cause all such per- 
sons to be removed to the cholera, small pox, or other 
hospitals, or to such other safe and proper place as 
said Bureau of Health may direct, and cause them to 
be provided with suitable nurses and medical attend- 
ance, at the expense of such city. 
Sec. 27. The Bureau of Health may take such meas- 
Penalty for de- 
facing or tearing 
down placard. 
Removal of person 
having infectious 
or contagious dis- 
ease from house oi 
premises. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion of section. 
May purchase or 
lease hospital build 
ings and grounds. 
Rules for govern- 
ment of such hos- 
pitals. 
Visitation of per- 
sons reported as 
having any infec- 
tious or contagious 
diseases. 
Removal of such 
persons to hos- 
pitals. 52 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
ures as it may from time to time deem necessary to 
prevent tlie spread of small pox by issuing an order 
requiring all persons in the city or any part thereof, 
to be vaccinated within such time as said bureau shall 
prescribe, and all persons refusing or neglecting to 
obey such order shall be liable to a line of not less than 
five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars: Pro- 
vided, It shall be the duty of the Bureau of Health to 
provide for the vaccination of such persons as are un- 
able to pay for the same, at the expense of such city. 
Sec. 28. In case of pestilence or epidemic disease, or 
of danger from anticipated or impending pestilence or 
epidemic disease, or in case the sanitary condition of 
any of the said cities should be of such a character as 
to warrant it, it shall be the duty of the said Depart- 
ment of Public Safety and Bureau of Health to take 
such measures, and to do and order and cause to be done 
such acts for the preservation of the public health 
(though not herein or elsewhere authorized), as they 
may in good faith believe and declare the public safety 
and health demand. 
Sec. 29. The councils of said cities, for the purpose of 
providing for the contingencies mentioned in the pro 
ceding section, and for the purpose of carrying out 
the provisions of this act, shall from time to time'ap- 
propriate a sufficient amount of money to cover such 
expenditures. 
Sec. 30. Whenever the Bureau of Health shall re- 
ceive information that any malignant or con tagious dis- 
ease (measles excepted), prevails within any port or 
place within the United States, it shall make diligent 
inquiry concerning the same, and if it shall appear that 
the disease prevails as aforesaid, all communications 
with such infected port or places shall be subject to 
such control and regulations as the Director of the De 
partment of Public Safety may ‘from time to time pre- 
scribe and publish in one or more newspapers publish- 
ed in the said cities, and all goods, wares and merchan- 
dise, bedding and clothing from such infected port or 
place having been brought or entered into any of said 
cities contrary to such regulations, shall be seized,held 
disinfected or destroyed as to the said Bureau of 
Health may seem necessary and proper, and any per- 
son or persons having been brought or entered into anv 
of the said cities from such infected port or place afore- 
Vaccination. 
Penalty for refusal 
to be vaccinated. 
Sanitary condition 
of city, power of 
Department of 
Public Safety in re- 
lation thereto. 
Appropriation of 
money to improve 
sanitary condition 
of city. 
Infectious or con- 
tagious diseases 
within any port or 
place in United 
States, duty of De 
partment of Public 
Safety in relation 
thereto. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
53 
said, may be conveyed by any person authorized by 
said Bureau of Health to such place of detention with- 
in or without the limits of such city as the said bureau 
may appoint or direct for that purpose, and there be 
detained at the expense of such city, until duly dis- 
charged by order in writing from the said Bureau of 
Health. 
Sec. 31. The said Director of the Department of Pub 
lie Safety shall make such reasonable and general rules 
and regulations for the government of the quarantine 
or health of the city as he shall from time to time deem 
necessary, and the physician or officer in charge of any 
quarantine station or place, shall have power to en- 
force such regulations as may be necessary for the 
proper conduct and management thereof, and it shall 
be the duty of all persons in quarantine and all agents, 
officers, policemen or others employed by the said city 
in and about said quarantine stations or places, to 
carry out and obey the same. 
Sec. 32. No person, master, captain or conductor in 
charge of any boat, vessel, railroad car or public con- 
veyance, shall knowingly bring into any of said cities 
any person or persons suffering from cholera, small- 
pox, yellow or ship fever, or any contagious or commu- 
nicable disease whatsoever, and no vessel, boat, rail- 
road car or public conveyance, shall at any time pass 
by any quarantine station or place without stopping, 
nor shall leave the same without a permit from the 
Bureau of Health, and no person stopping in said quar- 
antine or so as aforesaid received therein, shall leave 
the same without first obtaining permission as afore- 
said, nor shall any person aid or abet any master, con- 
ductor or person in charge of any boat, vessel, railroad 
car, or other public conveyance in violating, neglecting 
or evading any provision or requirement of this act, 
nor shall any person interfere with, resist, neglect or 
refuse to obey the orders of any physician, officer, po- 
liceman, or other person in authority ait any quaran- 
tine station or place of quarantine so as aforesaid es- 
tablished, nor do any act or thing in violation of, or 
in disobedience to any of the provisions, clauses, or 
sections of this act, nor commit any breaches of the 
peace, or do any act calculated in any way to defeat 
or interfere with the provisions or requirements of this 
act, or of any regulations of the said bureau, physl- 
Rules for govern- 
ment of the quar- 
antine or health of 
city. 
Physician or officer 
shall enforce rules. 
Bringing of person 
having an infec- 
tious or contagious 
disease into city by 
person in charge of 
boat, vessel or rail- 
road car, etc., pro- 
hibited. 
Shall not pass or 
leave quarantine 
station without per- 
mission. 
Evasion of provis- 
ions of act or inter- 
ference with officer 
in performance of 
duty. 54 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
cian or officer in charge of any quarantine. Any vio- 
lation of any of the provisions of this section shall 
subject the person or persons so offending to a penalty 
of not more than fifty dollars. 
Sec. 33. The Director of the said Department of 
Public Safety, in conjunction with the bureau hereby 
created, shall have, and is given full power and au- 
thority to establish and prescribe from time to time all 
necessary rules and regulations for enforcing the pro- 
visions of this act, and to establish and maintain such 
quarantine station or stations, within or without the 
limits of such city, as the public welfare may in their 
judgment demand. 
Sec. 34. The Bureau of Health shall furnish separate 
boobs in which shall be registered in the manner here- 
inafter directed the returns made to said bureau of 
the marriages which may be contracted, and of the 
births and deaths which may occur in the said cities. 
It shall be the duty of clergymen of all denominations, 
as also of every magistrate, and of other persons by or 
before whom any marriage may hereafter be solemn- 
ized or contracted, and of every practicing physician, 
and of every practitioner of midwifery, and of every 
undertaker and superintendent or sexton of any ceme- 
tery or burial ground in the said cities, immediately ou 
and after the passage of this act to report his, her, or 
their names, and places of residence to the said Bureau 
of Health at the office of the same, and it shall be the 
duty of the said Bureau of Health to have the same 
property registered in index form in suitable books to 
be furnished by the said cities, and in the event of any 
of the persons above specified removing to any other 
place of residence, it shall be their duty to notify the 
said bureau of the fact, within thirty days after such 
removal, except where the persons removing shall 
cease to act in such official capacity as makes them 
subject to the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 35. Whenever any person shall die in any of 
said cities, it shall be the duty of the physician who 
attended during his or her last sickness, and of the cor- 
oner (when the case comes under his notice), to furnish 
to the undertaker or other person superintending the 
burial, a certificate setting forth as far as the same can 
be ascertained, the full name, occupation, sex, color, 
age and condition (whether married or single), of the 
Penalty. 
Rules for enforce- 
ment of provisions 
of this act. 
Maintenance of 
quarantine station. 
Register of mar- 
riages and births 
and deaths. 
Register of clergy- 
men, magistrates 
and others perform- 
ing marriage cere- 
mony. 
Also of physicians, 
midwives, under- 
takers and superin- 
tendents or sextons 
of cemeteries. 
Form of registers. 
Notice of removal 
of persons above 
specified to be sent 
to Bureau of 
Health. 
Certificate of death 
to be made by physi- 
cian attending, also 
by coroner. 
Contents of certifl 
cate. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
55 
dead person, the cause and date of death, the duration 
of last illness, and in case any person shall die without 
the attendance of a physician, or if for any reason the 
certificate aforesaid shall not be furnished, it shall be 
the duty of the physician of the said Bureau of Health, 
upon being notified therof, to make the necessary ex- 
amination in such cases, and to give a certificate of 
death as aforesaid: Provided, It be not a case requir- 
ing the attendance of a coroner. 
Sec. 36. It shall be the duty of every undertaker or 
other person, before removing any human corpse from 
one house, building or structure to another, or for bur- 
ial, cremation, or any purpose whatever, to obtain from 
the Bureau of Health a permit so to do, but before ob- 
taining such permit, he shall deposit in the office of the 
Bureau of Health the physician’s or coroner’s certifi- 
cate, together with his own certificate, setting forth as 
nearly as can be ascertained the birthplace of the 
party, ward, number and street of late residence in said 
city, time of residence therein, place of previous resi- 
dence, name of father and name of mother and their 
birthplaces, and the place and date of intended inter- 
ment, which certificate shall be signed by the under- 
taker, as well as the physician and surgeon in attend- 
ance at the time of death, and no sexton or other per- 
son shall assist in, or assent to or allow any such in- 
terment or other disposition, or aid or assist in prepar- 
ing any grave or place of deposit, for any such body 
for which such permit shall not have been given au- 
thorizing the same, nor shall any railroad company, or 
its employes, or the owners or captains of any steam- 
boat or their employes, or any other means of convey- 
ance receive any such body for which said permit shall 
not have been granted. 
Sec. 37. Every physician or person practicing mid- 
wifery in any of the cities aforesaid, under whose 
charge or superintendence a birth shall hereafter take 
place, shall keep a true and exact register of such 
birth, and shall enter the same on a blank schedule to 
be furnished by the Bureau of Health, which schedule 
shall contain a list of the births which have occurred 
under his or her care during the month, and shall set 
forth, as far as the same can be ascertained, the full 
name of each child (if any name shall have been coo- 
If person dies with- 
out the attendance 
of physician. 
Proviso. 
Permit for removal 
of corpse for burial, 
etc. 
Requirements be- 
fore permit will be 
issued. 
Railroad or steam- 
boat companies 
shall not receive 
bodies unless per- 
mit has been issued 
M idwives shall keep 
register of births, 
etc. 
Contents of sched- 
ule. 56 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
Schedule to be re- 
turned each quarter 
to Bureau of 
Health. 
ferred, its sex, color and the full name, occupation of 
its parent or parents and their birthplace, the day and 
place of its birth, and the said schedule shall be deliv- 
ered, duly signed by the practitioner, in the form of a 
certificate, at the end of each and every quarter, or 
within ten days thereafter, to the said Bureau of 
Health, and in case the birth of any child shall have 
occurred without the attendance of a physician or 
practitioner of midwifery, it shall then become the 
duty of the parent or parents of such child to report 
its birth to the said Bureau of Health, in the manner 
and form and within the period above required. 
Bee. 38. It shall be the duty of every clergyman and 
every magistrate, and of every other person by or be- 
fore whom any marriage may hereafter be solemnized 
or contracted, to make a faithful return of the same at 
the end of each and every quarter, or within ten days 
thereafter, to said Bureau of Health in the form of a 
certificate, which shall set forth as far as the same can 
be ascertained, the full name of the husband, his occu- 
pation, the place of his birth, his residence and age, the 
date of the marriage, the full name of the wife previous 
to the said marriage and her age, residence and birth- 
place, the color of the parties, the place where married, 
the name of the clergyman or other person by whom 
the marriage ceremony was performed, his residence, 
the ceremony employed, and the date of the return. 
Sec. 39. Any violation of, or failure to comply with 
any of the provisions of sections thirty-four, thirty-five, 
thirty-six, thirty-seven and thirty-eight of this act shall 
subject the person or persons so offending to a penalty 
not exceeding fifty dollars. 
Sec. 40. The registry of said marriages, births and 
deaths shall be kept in separate books, and there shall 
be general indexes to the record of marriages, births 
and deaths, which indexes shall also be kept in sep- 
arate books, and shall at all reasonable times be open- 
ed to the examination of persons interested therein. 
Said Bureau of Health shall be entitled to receive for 
the use of such city, fifty cents for granting a certifi- 
cate or certified copy of the record of any marriage, 
birth or death, which sum shall be paid by the party 
applying for the certificate or search, but the said reg- 
ister shall at all reasonable times be accessible to phy- 
sicians, clergymen and lawyers without charge. 
Returns of mar- 
riages to be made 
each quarter. 
Contents of certifi- 
cate of return. 
Penalty for viola- 
tion of sections 34, 
35, 36, 37 and 38 of 
this act. 
How registered and 
indexes of mar- 
riages, births and 
deaths shall be 
kept. 
Fee for certificate 
or certified copy of 
record of mar- 
riages, births or 
deaths. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
57 
Sec. 41. In order to secure uniformity and dispatcli 
in the registration herein provided for, the books shall 
contain upon the margin of each page, printed titles, 
with corresponding blanks for suitable entries for mar- 
riages, births and deaths, in the order to wit: 
MARRIAGES. 
Full name of husband. 
His occupation. 
Residence. 
Birthplace. 
Age when married. 
Full name of wife previous to marriage. 
Her residence. 
Birthplace. 
Age when married. 
Date of the marriage. 
Place where married. 
Color of the parties. 
Ceremony employed. 
Name of parson performing the ceremony. 
His residence. 
Date of return. 
Date of registration. 
BIRTHS. 
Full name of child. 
Sex. 
Color. 
Full name of father. 
His occupation. 
His birthplace. 
Full name of mother. 
Her birthplace. 
Date of birth of child. 
Where born. 
Date of return. 
Name of physician or other person signing return. 
His or her office or residence. 
Date of registration. 
DEATHS. 
Full name of deceased. 
Color. 
Sex. 
Age. 
Married or single. 
Form of books for 
registration. 58 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
Occupation. 
Date of death. 
Cause of death. 
Duration of last illness. 
Name of physician or other person signing certificate. 
His or her office or residence. 
Name of father. 
His birthplace. 
Name of mother. 
Her birthplace. 
Birthplace of deceased. 
Late residence. 
Time of residence therein. 
Place of previous residence. 
Place of intended interment. 
Name of undertaker. 
His office or residence. 
Date of return. 
Date of registration. 
The Bureau of Health shall keep on hand at all times 
a supply of blanks for gratuitous distribution to all 
persons whose duty it shall be to make returns under 
this act. 
Sec. 42. When not otherwise provided in this act, 
any violation of any of the provisions thereof 
shall subject the person or persons so offend- 
ing to a fine or penalty not exceeding one 
hundred dollars. All fines and penalties au- 
thorized or imposed by this act shall be recov- 
erable by summary proceedings before the mayor, or 
any alderman or police magistrate in any of said cities, 
and all suits or actions at law instituted for the recov- 
ery thereof, shall be in the name and for the use of the 
city within or against which the offense is committed, 
and upon recovery thereof, all such fines and penalties 
shall be paid to the city treasurer thereof. In default 
of the payment of any fine or penalty imposed by any 
mayor, alderman or police magistrate under the pro- 
visions of this act, the person or persons so offending 
may be committed to the jail, workhouse or other pe- 
nal institution of the county in which said city is situ- 
ated, for a period not exceeding thirty days. 
Sec. 43. Whenever any of said cities shall have in- 
curred expense in enforcing any of the provisions of 
this act imposing duties upon persons or corporations, 
Penalty in cases not 
especially provided 
for heretofore. 
Finesand penalties 
how recoverable. 
If payment is in de- 
fault. 
City may recover 
certain expenses 
from owner or oc- 
cupant of premises 
in case of failure of 
such persons to 
comply with act. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
59 
such city shall have the right to recover the same by 
action of assumpsit from the owner, owners or occu- 
pants of the premises or other persons or corporations 
failing or refusing to comply with, or execute the 
same. 
Approved—The 26tli day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
23. 
No. 259. 
AN ACT 
To provide for the abatement of nuisances in cities of 
the third class. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after 
the date of the passage of this act it shall be lawful for 
the select and common council of any city of the third 
class within this Commonwealth, by a joint resolution, 
to authorize and empower the mayor of such city to 
present a petition to the court of common pleas of the 
county wherein such city is located, setting forth that 
any property, building, premises, business or occupa- 
tion, specifying the same fully and describing the same 
accurately, located within said city hasbecome a public 
nuisance, injurious or dangerous to the community, to 
the public health, and upon the presentation and hear- 
ing of such petition, if the nuisance complained of be 
not a nuisance, per se, then it shall be lawful for the 
court to appoint six disinterested and discreet free- 
holders of said county to go upon the premises where 
said nuisance is alleged to exist at a time to be fixed in 
the order appointing the same, of which time due no- 
tice shall be given to all persons interested, which shall 
be not less than twenty nor more than thirty days from 
the date of the order making such appointment, and 
shall thereupon, being first duly sworn, view the prop- 
erty, premises, building, business or occupation, shall 
hear the parties, their witnesses and counsel, and shall 
make due report thereof to the court appointing them. 
Sec. 2. The said viewers appointed as aforesaid, shall 
have power: 
Duty of council. 
Petition to court. 
Contents of peti- 
tion. 
Court may appoint 
viewers. 
Notice. 
Oath. 
Report. 
Power of viewers. 60 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
First. Tio determine whether or not the property, 
premises, building, business or occupation is a nui- 
sance, and if they shall find it is a nuisance, shall so 
return in their award; and 
Second. They shall further find what, if any, compen- 
sation shall be paid by the said city to the owner or 
owners of said property, premises, building, business or 
occupation for the abatement of the same, and if the 
findings of the said viewers be in favor of the said 
city and direct the abatement of said nuisance, then 
judgment shall be entered upon their award within 
thirty days after the same is filed, unless the said 
award be appealed from or exceptions thereto be filed 
within thirty days: And provided, That no execution 
or other process for the collection of any sum of money 
awarded to any person or persons, corporation or cor- 
porations, as compensation for the abatement of any 
nuisance, shall issue until the said nuisance has been 
fully and completely abated, and return thereof made 
to the court. 
Sec. 3. Any of the parties interested in any proceed- 
ings provided by the first and second sections of this 
act, may appeal to the court of common pleas of the 
proper county within thirty days from the date of filing 
an award; such appeal to be in the same form as now 
governs appeals from the awards of arbitrators, the 
party appealing to pay the costs incurred and to give 
bond, with one surety, for the payment of all costs 
which may thereafter be incurred; and upon such ap- 
peal being perfected, the court shall frame an issue, 
which issue shall be placed at the head of the next 
trial list then open, and shall be tried by the court 
and jury in the same manner as feigned cases are now 
tried, and upon such trial the jury shall have power to 
find the same facts as are provided may be found by 
the viewers in the first section of this act; and if the 
jury shall find in favor of the city and award any com- 
pensation to the owner or owners of said property, 
premises, building, business or occupation, judgment 
shall be entered upon the verdict of a jury: Provided, 
however, That no execution or other process for the 
collection of such judgment shall issue, until the nui- 
sance complained of shall have been fully and com- 
pletely abated, and return thereof made to the court; 
upon which the court shall have power to award exe- 
Compensation for 
abatement of nui- 
sance. 
Appeal from award 
Proviso. 
Either party may 
appeal to court. 
Form of appeal. 
Costs and bond. 
Court shall frame 
issue. 
Trial by jury. 
Award and judg- 
ment. 
Proviso. Health Laws. 
61 
cution or other process necessary to enforce the collec- 
tion of the judgment. 
Sec. 4. Whenever the award of viewers, or the ver- 
dict of a jury shall find that a nuisance exists, and the 
owner or owners of any property, premises, building, 
business or occupation causing the same shall fail to 
abate the same within sixty days from the date of the 
judgment, the authorities of said city shall have full 
power and authority to enter upon said property, prem- 
ises or building where said nuisance exists, and abate 
the same, and shall not be liable in any form of action 
for so doing; and the cost and expense of abating the 
same shall be deducted from any compensation award- 
ed in said proceedings. 
Sec. 5. This act is intended to apply only to such nui- 
sances as are not such, per se, and all acts or parts of 
acts inconsistent herewith shall be and the same are 
hereby repealed. 
Approved—The 26th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Fallure to abate 
nuisance within 
sixty days. 
cost and expense. 
Repeal. 
24. 
No. 263. 
AN ACT 
For the prevention of blindness, imposing a duty upon 
all midwives, nurses or other persons having the care 
of infants, and also upon the health officer, and fix- 
ing a penalty for neglect thereof. 
Whereas, Statistics compiled in this country and 
Europe demonstrate that fully twenty-five per centum 
of the blind owe their affliction to an inflammation of 
the conjunctiva, appearing a few days after birth; 
And whereas, Experience has proved that the in- 
flammation can be cured and the eyesight saved in the 
majority of cases if treatment be instituted at an early 
stage in the disease; 
And whereas, Destruction of the eyes and blindness 
are usually the result of delay of treatment. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That should one or 
both eyes of an infant become inflamed or swollen or 
reddened at any time within two weeks after birth, it 
Preamble No. 1. 
Preamble No. 2. 
Preamble No. 3. 62 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
Duties of midwives 
and nurses. 
Shall report to 
health officer. 
shall be the duty of the midwife or nurse, or other per- 
son having the care of such infant, to report in writing, 
within six hours after the discovery thereof, to the 
health officer or legally qualified practitioner of the 
city, town or district in which the mother of the chila 
resides, the fact that such inflammation or swelling or 
redness exists. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of said health officer, 
immediately upon receipt of said written report, to no- 
tify the parents or the person having charge of said 
infant of the danger to the eye or eyes of said infant 
by reason of said condition from neglect of proper 
treatment of the same, and he shall also enclose to 
them directions for the proper treatment thereof. 
Section 3. Every health officer shall furnish a copy 
of this act to each person who is known to him to act 
as midwife or nurse in the city or town for which such 
health officer is appointed, and the Secretary of State 
shall cause a sufficient number of copies of this act to 
be printed and supply the same to such health officers 
on application. 
Sec. 4. Any failure to comply with the provisions of 
this act shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed two 
hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty 
days, or both. 
Approved—The 26th day of June, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Duty of health 
officer. 
Copy of act to be 
furnished mid- 
wives, etc. 
Penalty. 
25. 
No. 296. 
AN ACT 
To authorize the establishment of a quarantine inspec- 
tion station bv the Commonwealth, defining the pow- 
ers and duties of the State officials at such station, 
and authorizing the continuance of the present State 
quarantine station until October first, Anno Domini 
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever the 
State quarantine station shall be closed, or whenever 
the Covernor shall, under the provisions of the exist- 
ing laws of this Commonwealth, suspend the operation 
of the State quarantine, the Governor shell be and 
When State quar- 
antine station is 
closed Governor 
may establish a 
quarantine inspec- 
tion station. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
hereby is empowered bo acquire by purchase or lease, 
in the name of the Commonwealth, land at any conven- 
ient place, either within or outside of this Common- 
wealth, and to erect thereon the necessary buildings, 
wharves and piers for the purpose of a quarantine in- 
spection station as hereinafter defined. If said sta- 
tion shall be established within the corporate limits of 
any incorporated city or borough, said station, and 
all persons employed in or about it shall be, at all 
times, subject to the regulation and control of the 
proper authorities of such city or borough in the same 
manner as other buildings and persons within such city 
or borough are. Nothing in this act contained shall 
modify or limit, in any respect, the authority of the 
Governor under existing laws to re-establish and main- 
tain a complete State quarantine service whenever the 
public welfare shall so require. 
Sec. 2. Whenever a quarantine inspection station 
shall be established as provided in the first section of 
this act it shall be maintained and used exclusively as 
a station from which to board and inspect vessels, and 
for this purpose there shall be maintained at said sta- 
tion a suitable pier for the quarantine boat and such 
buildings as may be necessary for the residence 
or sleeping accommodation of employes and physicians 
and the storing of necessary supplies. No disinfecting 
apparatus shall be maintained or used at said station 
or on the quarantine boat. Neither said station or 
boat shall be used at any time for the disinfection of 
vessels or their cargoes, or for the detention or medical 
treatment of the crews, passengers or baggage upon 
such vessels; no vessel coming from any port or place 
outside of this Commonwealth shall be permitted to 
stop at such station, nor shall any person or any of the 
baggage, cargo or any other article upon any such ves- 
sel be suffered to land or be discharged at such station. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this act 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction 
shall be sentenced to/pay a fine not exceeding one 
thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one 
year, either, or both, at the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 3. When a quarantine inspection station shall 
be established as provided by this act, the powers and 
duties of all persons connected with the State quarau- 
63 
Location. 
Erection of build- 
ings. 
When station is es- 
tablished in city or 
borough. 
Governor may re- 
establish complete 
State quarantine 
service. 
Purpose of station. 
Pier for quarantine 
station, etc. 
No disinfecting ap- 
paratus or boat 
shall be used. 
Vessels not per- 
mitted to stop at 
station, or passen- 
gers or cargo per- 
mitted to land or be 
discharged. 
Violation of act a 
misdemeanor. 
Penalty. 
Powers and duties 
of persons con- 
nected with State 
quarantine service. 64 
State Board of Health. 
[Off. Doc. 
tine service shall remain the same as they now by law 
are, except as they are altered or modified by this act, 
and whenever, in the judgment of the quarantine phy- 
sician or his deputy, the public welfare shall demand 
the disinfection or detention of any vessel bound to 
any part or place within this Commonwealth, he shall 
have power, and it shall be his duty to order such ves- 
sel to report to the Federal quarantine station for such 
further detention or treatment as may be necessary, as 
is provided by existing law, or may forbid vessels from 
entering any port in this Commonwealth until the reg- 
ulations of the State quarantine board shall have been 
complied with. 
Sec. 4. Nothing in this act contained shall limit or 
annul the authority of the Governor to continue and 
maintain a State quarantine service and station under 
existing law, nor shall this act be construed to require 
the establishment of the inspection station authorized 
by this act during the continuance of said quarantine1 
service, and until the first day of October, one thousand 
eight hundred and ninety-five, and no longer, it shall 
be lawful to continue and maintain the present quar- 
antine station, or the inspection station authorized by 
this act, at Lazaretto, Tinicum township, Delaware 
county. 
Approved—The 1st day of July, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
Quarantine phy- 
sician or deputy, 
powers and duties 
of. 
Powers of (Gover- 
nor to maintain 
State quarantine 
station not an- 
nulled by this act. 
Present quarantine 
station shaJl not be 
continued longer 
than October 1,1895. 
26. 
No. 234. 
AN ACT 
To provide for the current expenses of the State Board 
of Health and Vital Statistics for the two fiscal years 
commencing on the first day of June, Anno Domini 
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the following 
sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and 
are hereby specifically appropriated to defraying the 
expenses of the State Board of Health and Vital Sta- 
tistics for the two fiscal years commencing on the first 
day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred 
and ninety-five. No. 18. J 
Health Laws. 
65 
For salary of Secretary and executive officer for two 
years, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as 
may be necessary. 
For employment of necessary clerical aid in the 
office of the Board, for postage, telegrams, express 
charges, rent, incidental office expenses, for traveling 
and other necessary expenses of the members and Sec- 
retary of the Board while engaged in the actual duties 
of the Board, and for sanitary inspections, protection 
of water supplies and scientific investigations and an- 
alyses for two years, eight thousand dollars, or so 
much thereof as may be necessary. 
The amounts expended from the above appropria- 
tion shall be distributed by the said Board in accord- 
ance with the requirements of the sanitary service of 
the Commonwealth and with reference to such emer- 
gencies as may arise. The said appropriation to be 
paid on the warrant of the Auditor General on a set- 
tlement made by him and the State Treasurer, upon 
properly itemized vouchers certified to by the Presi- 
dent and Secretary of said Board. All moneys appro- 
priated under this act and remaining unexpended at 
the close of the two fiscal years shall revert to the 
State Treasury. 
Approved—The 3d day of July, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
$4,000 for salary of 
Secretary. 
$8,000 for clerical 
aid, postage, trav- 
eling expenses. In- 
vestigation, etc. 
Distribution. 
How payable. 
temlzed vouchers. 
Unexpended bal- 
ances. 
27. 
No. 348. 
AN ACT 
To establish an emergency fund to be used, as occasion 
may require, in the suppression of epidemics, pre- 
vention of disease and protection of human life in 
time of disease and disaster, and making an appro- 
priation therefor; and directing that the unexpended 
balance of the sum appropriated by the act approved 
the second day of June, one thousand eight hundred 
and ninety-three, shall revert to the State Treasury 
and become part of a general fund at the close of 
the fiscal year ending May thirty-first, one thousand 
eight hundred and ninety-five. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That for the two fiscal 
years beginning June first, one thousand eight hundred 
$50,000 appropriated 
for emergency 
fund. 66 
State Boaed of Health 
|_Orf. Doc. 
and ninety-five, the sum of fifty thousand dollars be 
and the same is hereby specifically appropriated and 
set apart, out of any money in the treasury not other- 
wise appropriated, for the purpose of creating an emer- 
gency fund, to be used as occasion may require by the 
State Board of Health in the suppression of epidemics, 
prevention of diseases and protection of human life in 
times of disease and disaster, beyond the relief of in- 
dividual and organized charity. 
The money herein appropriated shall be held in the 
treasury of thie Commonwealth, and whenever the 
State Board of Health shall determine that the public 
health is threatened, either by epidemic or as a result 
of great disaster, to such an extent that the local au- 
thorities and individual or organized charity are un- 
able to meet the emergency, they shall pass a resolu- 
tion to that effect, stating all the facts in the case and 
the reasons for considering that State aid is needed, 
and to what amount, and transmit the same to the 
Governor. If the resolution and the reasons therein 
set forth shall meet with the approval of the Governor, 
Auditor General and State Treasurer, they shall so 
certify and file the resolutions and certificate of ap- 
proval in the office of the Auditor General, who shall 
then draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for 
the amount approved by the Governor, Auditor Gen- 
eral and State Treasurer, and place the same in the 
hands of the treasurer of the State Board of Health, 
to be used for the purpose set forth in the resolution 
approved as aforesaid, and for no other purpose. If, 
after the said epidemic shall have been suppressed, or 
the sickness or danger averted, there shall still be a 
balance of the amount, drawn left in the hands of the 
treasurer of the State Board of Health, he shall, with- 
out delay, return the same to the State Treasurer, and 
it shall become a part of the said emergency fund. He 
shall also file with the Auditor General a specifically 
itemized statement, made under oath, of the expendi- 
tures of said moneys as soon as possible. The unex- 
pended balances of the money herein appropriated 
shall revert to the State Treasury at ilie close of the 
two fiscal years, and any unexpended balances of 
the emergency fund created by the act of 
June second, one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-three, shall also revert to the State Treasury 
When money is 
needed Board of 
Health shall trans- 
mit resolution to 
Governor, stating 
amount necessary. 
Who shall approve 
resolution. 
Auditor General 
shall draw warrant. 
Balance In hands of 
treasurer. Board of 
Health shall be re- 
turned to State 
Treasurer. 
Itemized state- 
ment. 
Unexpended bal- 
ances. No. 18.] 
Health Laws. 
67 
and become a part of the general fund of the Common- 
wealth at the close of the fiscal year ending May thirty- 
first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. 
Approved—The 3d day of July, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
28. 
No. 457. 
To enlarge the duties of the State Food Commissioner, 
authorizing him to enforce all laws against the adul- 
terations or impurities in vinegar, jellies, cider, evap- 
orated apples and all apple products, and the unlaw- 
ful labeling in the State of Pennsylvania. 
Section 1. Be it enacted, &e., That the State Dairy 
and Food Commissioner shall be charged with the en- 
forcement of all laws against fraud and adulteration 
or impurities in vinegar, jellies, cider, evaporated ap- 
ples and all apple products, and the unlawful label- 
ing of the same in the State of Pennsylvania. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of said Dairy and Food 
Commissioner to inspect any articles of vinegar, jellies, 
cider, evaporated apples or other apple products made 
or offered for sale in the State of Pennsylvania as an 
article of food or drink, and to prosecute or cause to 
be prosecuted any person or persons, firm or firms, cor- 
poration or corporations engaged in the manufacture 
or sale of any adulterated article of food or drink, 
or adulterated in violation of or contrary to any laws 
of the State of Pennsylvania now in force or hereafter 
to be passed. 
Sec. 3. That the said Food Commissioner and such 
assistants, agents, experts, chemists, detectives and 
counsel as he shall duly authorize for the purpose, 
shall have full access, egress, ingress to all places of 
business, factories, mills, buildings, carriages, cars, 
vessels and barrels, tanks and packages of whatever 
kind used in the manufacture and transportation and 
sale of any apple products, or of any adulteration or 
imitation thereof. They shall also have power and 
authority to open any package, barrel or vessel con- 
taining apple products, or any adulteration or imita- 
tion thereof, which may be manufactured, sold or ex- 
AN ACT 
Duties of the Dairy 
and Food Commis- 
sioner. 
Shall inspect vine- 
gar, jellies, etc. 
And prosecute per- 
sons violating this 
act. 
Powers of Food 
Commissioner and 
his assistants. 
May open pack 
ages, etc. 68 
State Board of Health. 
X)ff. Doo. 
posed for sale in violation of any of the provisions of 
any act now enacted or which may be hereafter en- 
acted in relation to apple products, or the adultera- 
tion or imitation or unlawful labeling thereof, and they 
shall also have power to take from such packages, bar- 
rel or vessel, samples for an analysis, after tendering 
compensation for said samples thus taken. 
Sec. 4. That all penalties and costs shall be received 
by the State Board of Agriculture for the violation of 
this act and of other acts now enacted or hereafter to 
be enacted prohibiting or regulating the adulteration 
or imitation of any apple product, and shall be appro- 
priated by the said board to the payment only of the 
necessary expenses incurred by the said Dairy and 
Food Commissioner and his assistants and agents in 
the investigation, discovery and prosecution of viola- 
tion of this act. 
Sec. 5. That all charges, accounts and expenses of 
the said commissioner, and all of the assistants, agents, 
experts, chemists, detectives and counsel employed by 
him in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall be 
paid by the Treasurer of the State in the same manner 
as other accounts and expenses of the said Board of 
Agriculture are now paid, as provided by law. 
Sec. 6. That the said commissioner shall make an 
annual report of his work and proceedings, and shall 
report in detail the number and names of his assist- 
ants, agents, experts, chemists, detectives and counsel 
employed by him in carrying out the provisions of this 
act, together with their expenses and disbursements, 
and be a part of his general report, not a separate one, 
to the said State Board of Agriculture at its annual 
meeting. 
Approved—The 5th day of July, A. D. 1895. 
DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 
May take samples 
for analysis. 
Penalties and oosts 
how applied. 
Expenses of Com- 
missioner and as- 
sistants. 
How payable. 
Commissioner shall 
make annual re- 
port. 
Contents.