HEALTH AND QUARANTINE 
ORDINANCES 
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SHELBY COUNTY, TENN. 
BOARD OF HEALTH: 
«. B. THORNTON, M. D., President, 
S. H. COLLINS, M. H., Secretary, 
D. P. JACKSON, Health Officer, 
P. R. ATHY, Chief of Police, 
D. T. PORTER, Member of Board Ex-Officio. 
J. W. SMITH, 
F. T. COUCH, 
CON. HALEY, 
Sanitary Police. 
MEMPHIS, TENN.: 
Price. Jones & Co., Printers and Binders, 12 Jefferson Street. 
1879. HEALTH AND QUARANTINE 
ORDINANCES 
. OF THK 
TAXING DISTRICT 
OF 
SHELBY COUNTY, TENN. 
BOARD OF HEALTH: 
(i. B. THORNTON, M. D., President, 
S. H. COLLINS, M. D., Secretary, 
D. F. JACKSON, Health Officer, 
P. R. ATHY, Chief of Police, 
D. T. PORTER, Member of Board Ex-Officio. 
J. W. SMITH, 
P. T. COUCH, 
CON. DALEY, 
Sanitary Police. 
MEMPHIS, TENN. : 
Price, Jones k Co., Printers and Binders, 12 Jefferson Street. 
1879. HEALTH AND QUARANTINE 
ORDINANCES. 
BOARD OF HEALTH. 
Section 1. There is hereby established a Board of Health 
in and for the Taxing District, to be composed of the Chief of 
Police, one policeman, and one physician who shall have prac- 
ticed his profession for not less than five years prior to his 
appointment. Said Board shall be appointed as provided in 
the fifteenth section of an Act passed January 29, 1879, (chap- 
ter 11 of Acts of 1879). 
PRESIDENT—DUTIES. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the President of the Board 
to preside at all meetings of the Board of Health," and see that 
<\.W health regulations are properly executed; and he shall make 
an annual report, embracing all transactions of the Board of 
Health for the preceding year, to the Legislative Council, at 
the regular meeting in January of each year, with such sugges- 
tions as may seem of interest to the health of the District. 
HEALTH OFFICER DUTIES AND POWERS. 
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to carry 
out all the orders of the Board of Health, and the laws of the 
State and ordinances of the District, in relation to the sanitary 
regulations of the District; to proceed, from time to time, to 
make a thorough and systematic examination of the District, 
and cause all nuisances to be abated with all reasonable prompt- 
ness. And for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing re- 
quirements, he shall be permitted at all times, from the rising 
to the setting of the sun, to enter into any house, store, stable 4 
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or other building, and to cause the floors to be raised, if he 
shall deem necessary, in order to a thorough examination of 
cellars, vaults, sinks or drains ; to enter upon all lots or grounds, 
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 amended ; to cause all privies to be 
cleansed and kept in good condition ; and to cause all dead an- 
imals or other nauseous or unwholesome things or substances to 
be buried or removed beyond the limits of the District. 
TO ABATE NUISANCES. 
Sec. 4. In order to the carrying out of the provisions of 
the foregoing section, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer 
to serve a notice, in writing, upon the owner, occupant or agent 
of any lot, building or premises, in or upon which any nuisance 
may be found, or who may be the owner or cause of any such 
nuisance, requiring them to abate the same in such manner as 
he shall prescribe, within reasonable time; provided, that it 
shall not be necessary in anytcase for the Health Officer to 
specify in his notice the manner in which any nuisance shall be 
abated, unless he shall deem it advisable so to do; and such 
notice may be given or served by any bfficer who may be di- 
rected or deputed to give or make the same ; and if such owner, 
occupant or agent shall neglect or refuse to comply with the 
requirements of such order within the time specified, they shall 
be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than 
fifty dollars, for every such violation ; and it shall be the duty 
of the said officer to proceed at once, upon the expiration of the 
time specified in said notice, to cause such nuisance to be 
abated ; provided, that whenever the owner, occupant or agent 
of any premises, in or upon which any nuisance may be found, 
is unknown, or cannot be found, the said Health Officer shall 
proceed to abate the same without notice; and in either case, it 
shall be the duty of the Attorney immediately to bring an ac- 
tion against the owner of the property to recover the cost of 
abating such nuisance. Taxing District Shelby County. 
Sec. 5. It shall be the further duty of the Health Officer to 
visit and examine all sick persons who shall be reported to him 
as laboring, or supposed to be laboring, under any yellow or 
ship fever, small-pox, cholera, or any infectious or pestilential 
disease, and, under the advice of the President of the Board of 
Health, cause all such infected persons to be removed to the 
cholera, small-pox or other hospitals, or to such other safe and 
proper place as he may think proper, or as shall be directed by 
the said President, not exceeding four miles from said District, 
and cause them to be provided with suitable nurses and medical 
attendance, at their own expense, if they are able to pay for 
the same, but, if not, then at the expense of the county, as pro- 
vided in sections 1729 and 1730 of the Code of Tennessee. 
INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 
SMALL-POX. 
Sec. 6. It shall be the further duty of the Health Officer, 
when directed by the President of the Board of Health, to 
cause a notice, printed or written in large letters, to be placed 
upon or near any house in which any person may be affected or 
sick with small-pox, upon which shall be written or printed the 
words “small-pox here;” and if any person or persons shall 
deface, alter, mutilate, destroy or tear down such notice without 
permission of the Board of Health, or of the Health Officer, 
such person or persons shall be liable, for each offense, to pay a 
fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars. 
The occupant of any house upon which such notice shall be 
placed or posted as aforesaid, shall be held responsible for the 
removal of the same; and if the same shall be removed with- 
out the permission of the Board of Health, or of the Health 
Officer, such occupant shall be subject to the like fine of not 
less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, unless 
he shall notify the Board of Health, or the Health Officer, 
within twenty-four hours after the removal of the said notice. 
Sec. 7. One member, to be selected by the President of the 
Board of Health, who shall be a physician, shall act as Secro- 
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tary of said Board, and shall keep all its records, books and 
papers, and attend to the preparation and collection of vital 
statistics. He shall also make monthly reports to the Legisla- 
tive Council of the proceedings of the Board of Health, and 
of all other matters interesting or necessary to be known in 
reference to the health of the District. 
OFFICE OF HOARD. 
Sec. 8. The Legislative Council shall provide an office for 
the Board of Health, to be centrally located, and the District 
shall provide medicines andestablish and maintain a dispensary 
at the said office, under the charge of the Secretary, whose duty 
it shall be to keep his office open, and dispense the medicines 
to indigent persons, under rules and regulations to be prescribed 
by the Board of Health, during at least four hours each day. 
Sec. 9. In case of the failure or refusal of any or either 
one of the officers created by this ordinance, to discharge the 
duties with which he is charged, it is hereby made the duty of 
the President of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners 
to order his suspension, and cite him for trial before the Legis- 
lative Council at the next regular meeting thereafter, or at a 
special meeting, to be called for that purpose, and if found 
guilty, he may, by a vote of a majority of said Legislative 
Council, be removed from office. 
Sec. 10. For the purpose of carrying the provisions of this 
ordinance into effect the Health Officer shall have power to 
call upon the Chief of Police for detail of man, or men, at such 
time as he may think proper; and upon such application the 
Chief of Police shall furnish such man or men, and as often 
as may be requisite, to make thorough and systematic examina- 
tion of the District, and to ascertain and report to the proper 
authority, for prosecution, all violations of this ordinance ; and 
for this purpose they shall be permitted, at all times, to visit 
and enter into or upon any building, lot or grounds, within the 
jurisdiction of the District, and to make examination thereof. 
Sec. 11. That the terms “ Board,” “this Board,” and “said 
Board,” shall be held to mean the “ Board of Health of the 
Taxing District;” that the words “person,” “owner,” “tenant,” Taxing District Shelby County. 
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“lessee,” “occupant,” “contractor,” “party,” “manager,” 
“board” and “»officer,” shall respectively be held to apply to 
and include, both jointly and severally, each and all owners, 
part owners, tenants, lessees, occupants, managers, contractors, 
parties in interest, persons, officers, boards and corporations, 
owning or controlling, in whole or in part, and either tempora- 
rily or permanently, any property within the limits or jurisdic- 
tion of the Taxing District; that every word or phrase 
anywhere herein defined, shall be held to include the same sense 
wherever used; that the words “ District,” “ Taxing District,” 
or “ said District,” whenever used herein, shall be held to mean 
the Taxing District provided by Acts of 1879, chapter 11, 
passed January 29, 1879 ; that the word “ regulation ” shall be 
held to include all “special regulations;” and that all words 
and phrases herein defined shall also include their usual and 
natural meanings, as well as those herein specially given. 
Sec. 12. That the word “street,” when used in this ordi- 
nance, shall be held to include avenues, sidewalks, gutters and 
public alleys; and the words “ public place” shall be held to 
include parks, docks, aud wharves, and water, and open spaces 
thereto adjacent, and also public yards, grounds and areas, and 
all open spaces between buildings and streets, and in view of 
such streets; the word “ ashes” shall be held to include cinders, 
coal, and everything that usually remains after fires; the word 
“ rubbish ” shall be held to include all the loose and decayed 
material and dirt-like substances that attend the use or decay, 
or which accumulate from building, storing or cleaning; the 
word “garbage” shall be held to include every accumulation 
of both animal and vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that 
attends the preparation, decay and dealing in or storage of 
meats, fish, fowl, birds or vegetables ; and the word “ dirt ” 
shall be held to mean natural soil, earth and stone. 
Sec. 13. That a “ tenement-house” shall be taken to mean 
and include every house, building, or portion thereof, which is 
rented, leased, let, or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied as 
the house, home, or residence of more than three families living 
independently of one another, and doing their cooking upon 8 
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the premises; or by more than two families upon a floor, so 
living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, 
stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them. A 
“lodging-house” shall be taken to mean and include any house 
or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored 
or received, or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less 
than a week at one time, or part of which is let for any person 
to sleep in for any term less than a week. A “cellar” shall be 
taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of 
any building or house of which one-half or more of the hight 
from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street ad- 
joining. The phrase “boarding-house” shall be held to include 
any building, and any story and portion thereof which is at 
any time, or usually used, leased or occupied, or intended so to 
be, by any number of persons exceeding ten, as boarders 
thereat. The word “manufactory” shall be held to include 
every building, and every story and portion thereof, in which 
any sort of labor or work is done, which calls for the continual 
or usual presence of several persons during several hours of the 
day or night, engaged about said work or labor; and the word 
“ saloon ” shall be held to include every portion of any building 
in which the business of selling meals, liquors, drink or refresh- 
ments of any kind, shall be conducted, and includes concert 
saloons. 
Sec. 14. That the word “theater” shall be held to include 
the building, rooms and place where any play, concert, opera, 
circus, trick of jugglery, show, gymnastic, or other exhibition, 
masquerade, public dance, drill, lecture, or other public or fre- 
quent gathering or amusement are, is or may be held, given, per- 
formed or take place, and the approach or approaches to and 
appurteuances thereof. 
Sec. 15 That the word “physician” shall include any person 
who practices about the cure of the sick or injured, or who has 
the charge of or professionally prescribes for any person sick, 
injured or diseased, and any person who pursues the business of, 
or acts as midwife; that the phrase “contagious disease” shall 
be held to include all persons sick, affected or attacked by or Taxing District Shelby County. 
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of a disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature, 
more especially, however, referring to cholera, yellow-fever, 
small-pox, diptheria, typhus, typhoid and scarlet fevers,and also 
including any new disease of an infectious, contagious, or pesti- 
lential nature; and also any other disease publicly declared by this 
Board dangerous to the public health ; and every physician in 
said District shall at all times cause his or her name, office and 
residence, and also his or her kind and class of practice, to be 
properly registered at the office of the Board of health. 
Sec. 16. That the word “ meat/’ whenever herein used, 
includes every part of any land animal and eggs; and the word 
“ fish ” includes every part of any animal that lives in water, or 
the flesh of which is not meat; and the word “vegetable” includes 
every article of human consumption as food, which (not being 
meat or fish or milk) is held or offered, or intended for sale or 
consumption as food for human beings, at any place in said 
District. 
Sec. 17. That the word “cattle” shall be held to include 
all animals, except birds, fowl and fish, of which any part of 
the body is used as food ; the word “ butcher” shall be held to 
include whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving 
or slaughtering any cattle, or in selling any meat; the words 
“ private market ” shall include every store, cellar, stand and 
place (not being part of a public market) at which the business 
is the buying, selling or keeping for sale of meat, fish or veg- 
etables for human food. 
CONTRACTORS, ETC., TO COMPRY WITH ORDINANCE. 
Sec. 18. That every contractor in this ordinance referred 
to, and every person who has contracted, or undertakes, or is 
bound to do, or is engaged in doing, any one of those things 
in respect of which this ordinance contains provisions, or reg- 
ulations, shall comply with this ordinance to the extent that 
any contract, obligation or duty requires or permits; and no 
direction of any contractors or persons shall excuse him for non- 
compliance with any part of this ordinance. 10 
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Sec. 19. That every person shall observe and obey each 
and every special regulation, and every order of the Board of 
Health that is or may be made for carrying into effect any of 
the provisions or powers hereinbefore or hereinafter contained. 
OTHER PERSONS. 
BILLS OF HEALTH, 
Sec. 20. That no person, officer or board within said Dis- 
trict, except the Board of Health and its proper officers, shall 
sign, grant or deliver any certificate or bill of health. 
MEDICINES AND POISONS. 
Sec. 21. That no poisonous medicine or substance shall be 
held for sale, or sold, except for lawful purposes and with 
proper motives, and by persons competent to give proper direc- 
tions and precautions as to the use thereof, nor shall any bottle, 
box, parcel or receptacle thereof be delivered to any person 
unless the same is marked “poison;” nor to any person who 
the party delivering the same has reason to think intends it for 
any illegal or improper use or purpose. 
Sec. 22. That no person shall make, offer or have for 
sale, or keep at any place of sale, any “ poisonous, unwhole- 
some, deleterious or adulterated drugs, medicines or food,” or, 
in respect thereto, omit any act or thing required, or do any 
act forbidden by any law or health regulation of said District. 
BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTION 
Sec. 23. That no person shall hereafter erect or cause to he 
erected, or converted to a new purpose by alteration, any 
building or structure which, or any part of which, shall be in- 
adequate or defective in respect to strength, ventilation, light, 
sewerage or of any other usual proper or necessary provision 
or precaution ; nor shall the builder, lessee, tenant or occupant 
of any such building or structure cause or allow any matter or 
thing to be, or to be done in or about any such building or 
structure, dangerous or prejudicial to life or health. 
Sec. 24. That no owner or lessee of any building, or any part 
thereof, shall lease or let, or hire out the same, or any portion 
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thereof, to be occupied by any person, or allow the same to be 
occupied as a place in which, or for any one to dwell or lodge? 
except when said buildings or such parts thereof are sufficiently 
lighted, ventilated, provided and accommodated, and are in all 
respects in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness for 
which this ordinance provides. Nor shall any such person rent, 
hire, let or allow, having power to prevent, to be used as or for 
a place of sleeping or residence, any portion or apartment of any 
building, which apartment or portion has not at least tvVo feet 
of its hight as a space above the level of every part of the 
sidewalk and curbstone of any adjacent street; nor of which 
the floor is damp by reason of water from the ground, or which 
is impregnated or penetrated bv any offensive gas, smell or ex- 
halation prejudicial to health. But this section shall not prevent 
the leasing, renting or occupancy of cellars or rooms less eleva- 
ted than aforesaid, and as a part of any building rented or let, 
when they are not let or intended to be occupied or used by any 
person as a sleeping apartment, or as a principal or sole dwelling 
apartment. 
Sec. 25. That no person, having the right and power to 
prevent the same, shall knowingly cause or permit any person 
to sleep or remain in any cellar, or in any place dangerous or 
prejudicial to life or health, by reason of a want of ventilation 
or drainage,'or by reason of the presence of any poisonous, 
noxious or offensive substance, or otherwise. 
BOARDING-HOtTSES. 
Sec. 26. That no owner, lessee or keeper of any tenement- 
house, lodging-house, boarding-house or manufactory shall 
cause or allow the same to* be overcrowded, or cause or allow so 
great a number of persons to dwell, be or sleep in any such 
house, or any portion thereof, as thereby to cause any danger or 
detriment to life or health. 
THEATERS. 
Sec. 27. That no person, being the lessee, manager, conduc- 
tor or owner of any theater,' shall cause or permit, or allow the 
same, or any part or appurtenance thereof, to be so far over- 12 
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crowded, or inadequate, faulty or insufficient in respect of 
strength, ingress or egress, cleanliness, ventilation, or in any 
other particular, as that thereby, or by reason thereof, any 
avoidable peril shall come or happen to, or be incurred or 
suffered by any person being properly at or in any such theater. 
WATER-CLOSETS. 
Sec. 28. That every person who shall be the owner, lessee 
or keeper, or manager of any tenement-house, hoarding-house, 
lodging-house or manufactory, shall provide, or cause to be pro- 
vided for the accommodation thereof, and for the use of the 
tenants, lodgers, boarders and workers thereat, adequate privies 
or water-closets, and the same shall be so adequately ventilated, 
and shall at all times be kept in such cleanly and wholesome 
condition as not to be offensive, or be dangerous or detrimental 
to life and health. And no offensive smell or gases from or 
through any outlet or sewer, or through any such privy or 
water-closet, shall be allowed, by any person aforesaid, to pass 
into such house, or any part thereof, or into any house or 
building. 
Sec. 29. That every owner, lessee, tenant and manager of 
any boarding-house or manufactory, shall cause every part 
thereof, and its appurtenances, to be put, and shall thereafter 
cause the same to be kept in a clean and wholesome condition, 
and shall speedily cause any department thereof in which any 
person may sleep, dwell or work, to be adequately lighted and 
ventilated, and if the same be a manufactory, shall cause even- 
part thereof, in which any person may work, to be maintained 
at such temperature, and be provided with such accommodations 
and safeguards as not, by reason of the want thereof, or of any- 
thing about the condition of any such manufactory, or its ap- 
purtenances, to cause unnecessary danger or detriment to the 
life or health of any person being properly therein or thereat. 
JAIL OR PRISON. 
Sec. 30. That no keeper or other person having control or 
authority in any jail, prison or other place where any person 
may be kept or confined, shall needlessly or illegally cause or Taxing District Shelby County. 
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allow any peril or detriment to the life or health of any such 
person by reason of too little or too much heat, or of a want of 
food, drink or ventilation, or from the want or neglect of any 
other reasonable care, protection or precaution. 
Sec. 31. That every person, when cleaning any street, shall 
clean, and every contractor shall cause to be cleaned, the gutter 
and parts of the streets along which the water will run, before 
using any water to wash the same, and no substance that could 
be before scraped away shall be washed or allowed to be carried 
or be put into the sewer, or into any receptacle therewith con- 
nected. 
STREETS AND GUTTERS TO BE CLEANED. 
pipe or sewer. 
Sec. 32. That it shall be the duty of every person using, 
making or having any drain, soil-pipe, passage or connection 
between any sewer and any ground, building, erection or place 
of business, and in like manner the duty of the owner and 
tenant of all grounds, buildings and erections, and of the par- 
ties interested in such place of business, or the business thereat, 
and in like manner the duty of all boards, departments, officers 
and persons (to the extent and authority of each) to cause and 
require that such drain, soil-pipe, passage and connection shall 
at all times be adequate for the purpose, and shall convey and 
allow freely and entirely to pass whatever enters or should enter 
the same. 
Sec. 33. That it shall be the duty of all boards, depart- 
ments, officers and persons having power or authority so to do 
or require (and to the extent thereof), to cause to be used suffi- 
cient water, and other adequate means to be taken, so that 
whatever substances may enter any sewer shall pass speedily 
along and from the same, and sufficiently far into some water 
or proper reservoir, so that no accumulation shall take place, and 
no exhalations from thence proceed dangerous or prejudicial to 
life or health. 
Sec. 34. That the proper officers and authorities shall, to 
the extent of their power and ability, cause the sewers and 
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draining of said District to be so well located and constructed, 
so adequate in size, and to be so kept in repair and cleaned, and 
so adequately supplied with water, and with such proper ar- 
rangements and constructions, that life and health shall not 
be needlessly exposed, or suffer unnecessary peril or detriment 
by their neglect, or by reason of the defects or deficiencies of 
any sewers or drainage, or the want thereof. 
Sec. 35. That no meat, fish, birds, or fowl, or vegetables, 
nor any milk not being then hpalthy, fresh, sound, wholesome 
and safe for human food, nor any meat or fish that died by dis- 
ease or accident, shall be brought within said District, or offered 
or held for sale in any public or private market, as such food, 
anywhere in said District. 
Sec. 36. That no cattle shall be killed for human food while 
in an overheated, feverish or diseased condition, and all such 
diseased cattle in the Taxing District, and the place where 
found, and their disease, shall be at once reported to the Board 
of Health, by the owner or custodian thereof, that the proper 
order may be made relative thereto, or for the removal thereof 
from said District. Nor shall any meager, sickly or unwhole- 
some fish, birds or fowl be held, bought, sold, or offered for 
sale, as such food, in said District. 
Sec. 37. That no meat, or dead animal above the size of a 
rabbit, shall be taken to anv public'or private market for food 
until the same shall have fully cooled (and all blood shall have 
ceased dripping therefrom) after its killing; nor until the en- 
trails, head (unless the same be skinned), hide, horns and feet 
shall have been removed ; nor shall gut-fat, or any unwholesome 
or offensive matter or thing be brought to or near any such 
market. 
Sec. 38. That no decayed or unwholesome vegetables shall 
knowingly be brought into said District to be consumed or 
offered for sale for human food ; nor shall any such article be 
kept or stored therein. 
Sec. 39. That no blown, raised, stuffed, putrid, impure or 
unhealthy, or unwholesome meat or fish, birds or fowl, shall be 
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held, bought or sold, or offered for sale for human food, or held 
or kept in any market, public or private, or any public place in 
said District. 
Sec. 40. That no meat, fish, vegetables, or milk, or unwhole- 
some liquid, shall knowingly be bought, sold, held, offered for 
sale, labeled, or any representation made in respect thereof, 
under a false name or quality, or as being what the same is not, 
as respects wholesomeness, soundnes, or safety for food or drink. 
Sec. 41. That every person, being the owner, lessee or oc- 
cupant of any room, stall, or place where any meat, fish or 
vegetables, designed or held for human food, shall be stored or 
kept, or shall be held or offered for sale, shall put and keep 
such room, stall and place, and its appurtenances, in a cleanly 
and wholesome condition ; and every person having charge, or 
interested or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the 
care, or in respect to the custody or sale of any meat, fish, birds, 
fowl or vegetables, designed for human food, shall put and pre- 
serve the same in a cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall 
not allow the same, or any part thereof, to be poisoned, infected, 
or rendered unsafe or unwholesome for human food. 
Sec. 42. That no butcher or dealer shall keep in any market 
any refrigerator or ice-box, unless the same shall be lined with 
lead, or some proper metalic substance, so as to be water-tight, 
nor unless the same be provided with a pipe of lead, zinc or 
copper, leading therefrom to the nearest gutter or proper waste 
pipe. 
Sec. 43. That it shall be the duty of every person knowing 
of any fish, meat, fowl, birds or vegetables being bought, sold 
or offered for sale as food for human beings, or being in any 
market, public or private, in said District, and not being sound, 
healthy or wholesome for such food, to forthwith report such 
facts, and the particulars relating thereto, to the Board of 
Health, or to one of its officers or inspectors. 
UNWHOLESOME FOOD AND VEGETABLES. 
Sec. 44. That upon any cattle, meat, birds, fowl, fish or 
vegetables being found by any inspector or other officer of the 16 
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Board of Health, in a condition which is, in his opinion, un- 
wholesome and unfit for use as human food, he shall cause the 
same to be examined by two reputable persons, reasonably com- 
petent to judge in respect thereto, whom he may conveniently 
find; and if both said persons disagree with him in opinion in re- 
spect thereto, he shall take no action and give no order relative 
to the same, till he has been instructed by the Board of Health, 
and if one or both of said persons agree with him in respect 
to said articles, then such inspector or officer may forbid the 
same being offered or exposed for sale, or being sold for human 
food, till the owner or person in charge, or other proper person, 
has obtained the consent of the Board of Health to their being 
offered, used or sold And if both of such persons agree with 
him in opinion, he may order the same to be removed; and 
thereupon, or if the Board of Health shall have approved the 
judgment of said inspector, it shall be the duty of the owner 
and party in charge to speedily remove such articles from any 
market, street or public place, and not to sell or dispose, or offer 
to sell or dispose thereof for the purpose of human food. And 
in default of such removal, and also in case of disobedience to 
such order, and also in all cases where, in his opinion, such 
articles, by reason of their being in a decayed or offensive con- 
dition, would, if allowed longer to remain, be dangerous to 
health, the same (as the Board of Health may provide) may be 
caused to be removed by any inspector, police officer or officer 
of the Board of Health, to some suitable place, at the expense 
of the party who should have removed the same, and the owner 
and party in interest must take notice thereof. 
Sec. 45. That no person shall sell or give to any person, or 
permit such other person to get (having the right and ability 
to prevent the same) any drink, when such first-named person 
may have reason to think or believe that such drink may cause 
danger or detriment to life. 
MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE. 
Sec. 46. That no person sliall have at any plaee where 
milk, butter or cheese is kept for sale, nor at any place, offer or 
have for sale, nor shall any person bring to said District any Taxing District Shelby County. 
unwholesome, watered or adulterated milk, nor any butter or 
cheese made from such milk, nor any unwholesome butter or 
cheese. 
HYDRANT. 
Sec. 47. That no person shall throw, or allow to run or 
pass into any public reservoir, water-pipe or aqueduct, or into 
or upon any border or margin thereof, or excavation or stream 
therewith connected, any animal, vegetable or mineral substance 
whatever; nor shall any person allow the same to be done 
(having power or right to prevent the same); nor shall any 
person do or permit to be done (having right or power to pre- 
ventthe same) any act or thing that will impair or imperil the 
purity or wholesomeness of any water or other fluid used or 
designed as a drink in any part of said District; nor shall any 
person bathe, nor (except in the discharge of a public duty) put 
any part of his person in such water; nor shall any unauthorized 
person open any erection or unscrew any hydrant holding such 
water. 
Sec. 48. That no person shall destroy, nor in anywise in- 
jure or impair any drinking hydrant or part thereof in the 
said District ; nor shall any person interfere with the use or 
enjoyment of the water therein or therefrom, or interrupt the 
How thereof; nor shall any person put any dirty, poisonous, 
medicinal, or any noxious substance into or near said water or 
hydrant, whereby such water is made or may be regarded as 
dangerous or unwholesome as a drink. 
CATTLE, HORSES, ETC. 
Sec. 49. That no cattle, sheep, horse, goat, goose, mule or 
hog, or any dangerous or offensive animal, shall he allowed by 
any owner, or by any person having charge of the same, to go 
at large in any street or public place in the Taxing District. 
Sec. 50. That no person shall allow any swine or goat to 
run at large in said Taxing District, and no person shall, within 
the built-up portions of said District, or within one thousand 
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keep any swine or goat, without a permit to do so from the 
Board of Health. 
Sec. 51. That no cattle shall be kept in any place of which 
the water, ventilation and food are not sufficient and wholesome 
for the preservation of their health, safe condition, and whole- 
someness for food. 
Sec. 52. That no cattle, swine or sheep, geese, goats, horses 
or mules, shall be yarded within or adjacent to the built-up 
portions of the Taxing District, without the permit of this 
Board. 
SLAUGHTERING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. 
Sec. 53. That the keeping ami slaughtering of' all cattle, 
and the preparation and keeping of all meat and fish, birds and 
fowl, shall be in a manner which is, or is generally reputed or 
known to be best adapted to secure and continue their safety 
and wholesomeness as food ; nor shall the slaughtering of cattle 
be conducted at any place ift the Taxing District, without a 
special permit from the Board of Health. 
Sec. 54. That every butcher, and every person owning, 
leasing or occupying any place, room or building where any 
cattle have been, or are killed or dressed, and every person, be- 
ing the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, or stable where 
any cattle may be kept, or market, public or private, and, 
having power and authority so to do, shall cause such place, 
room, building, stable, private market, and their yards and ap- 
purtenances to be thoroughly cleansed and purified, and all 
offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome or offensive 
matter to be therefrom removed, at least once in every twenty- 
four hours after the use thereof for any of the purposes herein 
referred to ; and shall also, at all times, keep all woodwork, save 
floors and counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid 
thoroughly painted or whitewashed. 
Sec. 55. That no cattle shall be slaughtered, dressed or 
hung, within said District, wholly or partly within any street, 
avenue or sidewalk, or public alley or place, nor shall any blood 
or dirty water, or other substance from such cattle, meat or 
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fall or to be in any such street, avenue, sidewalk, alley or place. 
Sec. 56. That neither the business of slaughtering cattle, 
nor the keeping of any slaughter-house, nor the yarding of cat- 
tle, shall be begun or undertaken at any new or additional 
place within the Taxing District, except pursuant to a permit 
from the Board of Health. 
Sec. 57. That no person shall kill or dress any animal or 
meat in any market, nor have, or permit to escape therein, or 
within one hundred feet thereof, any poisonous, noxious, nause- 
ous or offensive substance. 
Sec. 58. That no person shall become, or continue, or en- 
gage as or in the business of a butcher, at or in any public or 
private market or stand in the Taxing District, without a per- 
mit from the Board of Health. 
Sec. 59. That every butcher and milk dealer, and their 
agents, shall allow the parties authorized by the Board of IB alth 
to freely and fully inspect their cattle and meats, fish and veg- 
etables, held, offered or intended for sale, and will be expected 
to answer all reasonable and proper questions asked by such 
persons relative to the condition thereof, and of the places where 
such articles may be. . 
Sec. 60. That no offal or butcher’s refuse shall be conveyed 
through any street of the Taxing District between the hours of 
nine o’clock a.m., and ten o’clock p.m.; and that no offal or 
rfefuse shall be conveyed at any time, unless the same be in 
tight boxes, barrels or vessels, from which no odor shall escape. 
STREET OR SIDEWALK. 
Sec. 61. That no person engaged in the selling or keeping 
for sale, of any fish, meat, birds, fowl or vegetables, shall oc- 
cupy or encroach upon any portion of any street or sidewalk, 
or public place in the Taxing District. 
Sec. 62, That no person, being owner, lessee or tenant of 
any house or building, shall allow any water or other liquid to 
run from or out of his building, or ground, upon or across any 
sidewalk or curbstone; and if such substance is allowed to 
pass upon any street it must reach the same by a passage, to be Health and Quarantine Ordinances, 
kept at all times adequate and in repair by such person, under 
or through such flagstone or curbstone, and no such water or 
other liquid, or ice therefrom, shall be allowed to gather or re- 
main upon the upper surface of such curb, flagstofle or passage; 
nor shall such person allow any accumulation of such water, 
liquid or ice therefrom, upon any street or place, but shall, at 
all times, cause the same to be removed, or to pass along the 
gutter, or some proper passage, into a sewer. 
Sec. 63. That every owner, tenant, lessee and occupant of 
any building or lot (whether vacant or occupied), within the 
Taxing District, shall keep, and cause to be kept, the sidewalks 
and curbstones in front thereof in good repair and condition, 
and that every such person shall keep, and cause every such 
sidewalk to be kept free from obstructions, as well as also free 
from any incumbrance, and free from all substances of every 
kind. 
POUNDS. 
Sec. 64. That no keeper of any pound shall allow the same, 
or any animal therein, by reason of any want of care, food, 
ventilation or cleanliness, or otherwise, to be or become danger- 
ous or detrimental to human life or health. 
DOGS. 
Sec. 65. That every animal which is mad or has the hydro- 
phobia, or shows symptoms thereof, shall, by the person owning 
the same, or having the possession, charge or control thereof, 
be at once killed; and every animal that has been exposed to 
such disease shall be confined in some secure place for such 
length of time as to show that such exposure has not given 
such animal said disease, and so as to avoid all danger to life or 
health. And the dead body of any animal that died of such 
disease shall be at once, by such person, buried not ‘less than 
three feet under ground, at some place not within one thousand 
feet of any residence. 
Sec. 66. That no person shall permit or have any offensive 
water, or other liquid or substance, on his premises or grounds, 
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to the prejudice of life or health, whether for use in any trade 
or otherwise; and no establishment or business place for tan- 
ning, skinning or scouring, or for dressing hides or leather, or 
for carrying on any offensive or noisome trade or business, 
shall hereafter be opened, started or established in the District, 
or within one mile of the corporate limits of the same, without 
a permit from the Board of Health. And every such estab- 
lishment now existing shall be kept cleanly and wholesome, and 
be so conducted in every particular as not to be offensive or 
prejudicial to life or health. . 
Sec. 67. That no person, or company, being a manufacturer 
of gas shall throw or deposit, or allow to run, or shall permit 
to be thrown or deposited into any public waters, or into any 
sewer, or into any street or public place, any gas, tar, or any 
refuse matter of or from any gas house, works or manufactory, 
or make gas of any such ingredients or quality that any sub- 
stance shall escape therefrom, or be formed in the process of 
burning any gas, which shall be offensive or dangerous, or 
prejudicial to life or health. Nor shall any such person or 
company fail to use all reasonable means for preventing the 
escape of odors. 
Sec. 68. That no water-closet, sink, tub, vat, or other struc- 
ture, shall hereafter be constructed in the District, having con- 
nection with or by any sewer or underground passage, unless 
the same is provided with adequate or the best approved con- 
structions and precautions for preventing gases and other offen- 
sive currents, substances or smells from passing up or out through 
such connection from such sewer or passage; nor shall any 
such water-closet or privy be constructed without adequate pro- 
visions for the effectual and proper ventilation and cleansing 
thereof. 
Sec. 69. That no part of the contents of or substance from 
any sink, privy or cesspool, nor any manure, ashes, garbage, 
rubbish or dirt, shall be by any person flung, or allowed to run 
or drop into, or remain in any street or public place, except as 
herein elsewhere specified. 
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offensive animal nuisance, nor any stinking, noxious liquid, or 
other offensive matter of any kind, shall hv any person he al- 
lowed to run or fall from or out of any building, vehicle or 
erection, into or upon any street or public place, or be taken or 
put therein, save as herein elsewhere provided. 
Sec. 71. That no butcher’s offal or garbage, nor any dead 
animals, nor any putrid or stinking animal or vegetable matter, 
shall be thrown by any person into any street, place or sewer, 
or upon any ground or premises of said District. 
Sec. 72. That no person shall*draw off’, or allow to run off. 
into any ground, street or place of said District, the contents 
of any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool or sink; nor shall any 
owner, tenant or occupant of any building to which any vault, 
sink, privy or cesspool shall appertain or be attached, permit 
the contents, or any part thereof, to flow therefrom, or to rise 
within two feet, of the top, or permit said contents to become 
offensive; nor shall any privy or other erection in the section 
mentioned be filled with or covered with dirt till its filthy con- 
tents shall be emptied. 
Sec. 73. That no person shall throw into or deposit in any 
vault, sink, privy or cesspool, any offal, ashes, meat, fish, garbage 
or other substance, except that of which any such place is the 
appropriate receptacle 
Sec. 74. That neither the contents of any tub, or of any 
receptacle, cesspool, privy, vault, sink, water-closet or cistern, 
nor anything in any room, excavation, vat, building, premises 
or place, shall be allowed to become nuisance or offensive, so as 
to be dangerous or prejudicial to life or health. 
Sec. 75. That no person shall throw, drop or allow to fall 
into any street or place, any substance being or having been 
part of the contents of any such vault, cesspool, privy, sink, 
tub or receptacle. 
Sec. 76. That it shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, 
lessee and occupant of any and every building or place of busi- 
ness in the District, forthwith to provide or cause to be provided, 
and all times thereafter to keep and cause to be kept and pro- 
vided within such building or place of business, suitable and Taxing District Shelby County. 
sufficient boxes, barrels or tubs for receiving and holding, with- 
out leakage and without being filled to within four inches of the 
top thereof, all the ashes, rubbish, garbage and liquid substances 
of whatever kind that may accumulate, during thirty-six hours, 
from said building or place of business, or the portion thereof 
of which the person may be the owner, tenant, lessee or occupant, 
and every such box, barrel and tub designed to hold ashes, 
shall be made of or lined with some suitable metal; that a sep- 
arate vessel shall be provided for ashes and rubbish, and another 
for garbage and liquid substances; and ashes and rubbish shall 
not be placed or kept in the same vessels with garbage and 
liquid substances ; and all ashes, rubbish, garbage and liquid 
substances that should be removed from such building and place 
of business, or from that part for which said receptacles were 
provided, and none other, shall be placed therein; and no such 
box, barrel or tub shall remain on any sidewalk, or in any 
public place, longer than be needful for the removal of the 
contents thereof. 
Sec. 77. That such boxes, tubs and barrels shall be placed 
and kept in such position (unless kept within or upon private 
grounds) within the sidewalks as the inspectors or agents of the 
Board of Health or the police direct, and no person, not for 
that purpose authorized, shall interfere therewith or with the 
contents thereof. 
Sec. 78. That all occupants, so preferring, may deliver their 
ashes, garbage and rubbish directly to the proper carts, to be 
taken away at any hour of the day when carts may be present, 
and said carts may take such articles from receptacles delivered 
at any such hour, provided that such garbage or rubbish be not 
highly filthy or offensive; and in the latter case, the same shall 
not be delivered or received between the hours of seven o’clock 
in the morning of any day and ten o’clock at night. 
Sec. 79. That every person who shall have paved, or caused 
to be paved, any street or place, shall cause all rubbish, dirt, 
and whatsoever else he has deposited, or allowed to be depos- 
ited on such pavement, to be removed from the several parts of 24 
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such pavement within five days from the time of the same be- 
ing deposited thereon. And every person who has removed 
any flagstone, curbstone, pavement-stone, or other stone, or dirt 
or iron, in or from any street, sidewalk or place, for the pur- 
pose of repairs, or for the purpose of paving, flagging or curbing, 
or repairing, or re-curbing or re-flagging, or making any repairs 
or changes, or otherwise, shall cause the same or a proper substi- 
tute therefor to be placed or replaced and completed as soon 
as the same can reasonably be done. 
Sec. 80. That every, owner, lessee, tenant and occupant of 
any stall, stable or apartment in which any horse, cattle or 
swine, or any other animal shall be kept, or of any place in 
which manure, or any liquid discharge of such animals shall 
collect or accumulate within said District, shall cause said liquid 
and manure to be at once removed to some proper place, and 
shall at all times keep, or cause to be kept, such stalls, stables 
and apartments, and the drainage, yard, and appurtenances 
thereof, in a cleanly and wholesome condition, so that no offen- 
sive smell detrimental to health'shall be allowed to escape 
therefrom; and, when within three hundred feet of any occu- 
pied dwelling house, or of any manufactory where more than 
five persons are employed, the removal from the stable shall not 
be made, nor shall the manure or refuse from any stable be 
allowed to remain on any street or place near such stable, any 
time between eight o’clock a.m., and six o’clock p.m., of any 
day, without special permit from the Board of Health. 
Sec. 81. That no person shall empty, or attempt to empty 
any vault, sink, privy or cesspool in the District, except under 
a permit therefor first obtained from the Board of Health. 
Sec. 82. That no part of the contents of any privy, vault, 
sink or cesspool, or ajuy accumulation of any offensive fluid, 
liquid, or semi-liquid substance or material, being in any exca- 
vation, cellar or place within the District, shall be removed 
therefrom, nor shall the same be transported through any of 
the streets or avenues of said District, unless and except the 
same shall be removed and transported by means of air-tight 
apparatus, or in such manner as shall prevent entirely the es- Taxmg District Shelby County. 
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cape of any noxious or offensive odors therefrom, and by a 
permit from the Board of Health. 
Sec. 83. That no person shall engage in the business of 
scavenger, or of transporting manure, swill, ashes, offal, rub- 
bish or garbage, or any offensive or noxious substance, or in 
driving any cart for such purpose in the District, until he shall 
have first received a permit from the Board of Health, of such 
form and effect as the regulations of the Board shall provide, 
authorizing such person so to engage. 
Sec. 84. That no cart or other vehicle for carrying any offal, 
swill, garbage or rubbish, or the contents of any privy, vault, 
cesspool or sink, or having upon it, or in anything on such 
cart, any manure or other nauseous or"offensive substance, shall, 
without necessity therefor, stand or remain, nor shall a needless 
number gather before or near any building, place of business, 
or other premises where any person may be; nor shall any such 
cart occupy an unreasonable length of time in loading or un- 
loading, or in passing along any street, or through any inhabited 
place or ground ; nor shall any such cart or vehicle, or the 
driver thereof, or anything thereto appertaining, be in a condi- 
tion needlessly filthy or offensive ; and, when not in use, all 
such carts, vehicles, and all implements used in connection 
therewith, shall be stowed and kept in some place where no 
needless offense shall be given to any of the people of said 
District. 
Sec. 85. That all carts and vehicles in the last section men- 
tioned, and boxes, tubs, and receptacles thereon, in which any 
substance in said section referred to may be, or be carried, 
shall be strong and tight, and the sides shall be so high above 
the load or contents that no part of such contents or loads shall 
fall, leak or spill therefrom ; and that, when, in the opinion of 
the Board of Health, it is necessary to prevent the contents of 
such carts or vehicles, tubs, boxes or receptacles from being 
offensive, each of such carts, tubs, boxes and receptacles shall 
be adequately and tightly covered, as the orders or regulations 
of the Board of Health may provide or direct. 
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person having undertaken or being engaged about the loading 
or unloading thereof, nor any person engaged about the clean- 
ing or emptying, or having undertaken to empty or remove any 
manure, garbage, offal, or the contents of any vault, sink, privy, 
cesspool, or any noxious or offensive substance, shall do or per- 
mit to be done about the same, or in connection therewith, that 
which shall be needlessly offensive or filthy in respect to any 
person, street, place, building or premises. 
Sec. 87. That no person shall allow any cart or vehicle to 
be so fully loaded, or being in such bad condition of repair, or 
of such faulty construction, or being so improperly driven or 
managed that any offensive liquid, or any manure, garbage, 
rubbish, offal, dirt, or material thereon, shall fall upon or in 
any place, street or premises. 
Sec. 88. That all putrid or offensive matter, and all the 
contents of sinks, privies, vaults and cesspools, and all noxious 
substances in the built-up portion of said District, shall, before 
their removal or exposure, be disinfected and rendered inoffen- 
sive by the owner, lessee or occupant of the premises where the 
same may be, or (in default of the same being so done) by the 
person or contractor who removes or is about to remove the 
same, at the cost of said owner, lessee or occupant. 
Sec. 89. That neither the owner, tenant or occupant of any 
building or premises in the built-up portion of the District shall 
employ, cause or permit any part of the contents of any vault, 
privy, sink or cesspool (being thereon, and of which he has 
control) to be removed, unless according to a permit or the reg- 
ulations of the Board of Health. 
Sec. 90. That no manure, garbage or other material that is 
liable to emit an offensive exhalation, shall, in or adjacent to 
the built-up portion of the District, be turned or stirred (except 
about its removal) in such a way as to be liable, by reason 
thereof, to increase such exhalations. 
Sec. 91. That every proprietor, lessee, tenant and occupant 
of any oyster house, oyster saloon, or other premises where any 
oysters, clams, lobsters, or shell or other fish are consumed, used 
or sold, or where any of the refuse matter, offal or shells thereof Taxing District Shelby County. 
accumulate, shall daily cause all such shells, offal and refuse 
matter to be removed therefrom to some proper place, and shall 
keep his house, saloon and premises at all times free from any 
offensive smell or accumulations. 
Sec. 92. That no hotel or house swill, or garbage, or offen- 
sive material of a liquid nature, or partly liquid nature, not 
removed or required to be removed by the contractors for street 
cleaning, shall be transported through or along any street of 
the District, except in tightly covered, iron-bound casks or 
boxes; and none of the contents of such casks or boxes shall 
be allowed to fall, or leak, or spill therefrom. 
Sec. 93. That the owners, lessees, tenants and managers of 
every blacksmith or other shop, forge, coal yard, foundry, man- 
ufactory, and premises where any business is done, shall cause 
all ashes, cinders, rubbish, dirt and refuse to be removed to some 
proper place, so that the same shall not accumulate at any of the 
above-mentioned premises, or in the appurtenances thereof, nor 
the same become filthy or offensive; nor shall any smoke, cinders, 
dust, gas, or offensive odor be allowed to escape from any such 
building, place or premises, to the detriment or annoyance of 
any person not being therein or thereupon engaged. 
Sec. 94. That no vault, privy, sink, cistern or cesspool 
shall hereafter be made or rebuilt in the District except in ac- 
cordance with the regulations, and pursuant to a permit from 
the Board of Health ; nor shall any erection or cover be made, 
or put upon or over the same, until the same has been examined 
by the President of the Board of Health, or an officer detailed 
by him, and been found to correspond to such permit and reg- 
ulations; and no privy shall be built within four feet of the 
line of any lot. 
Sec. 95. That no person shall leave in or throw into any 
place or street, or public water, nor offensively expose or bury 
the body (or any part thereof) of any dead, or fatally sick, or 
injured animal; nor shall any person keep any dead animal, or 
any offensive meat, bird, fowl or fish, in a place where the same 
may be dangerous to the life, or detrimental to the health of 
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Sec. 96. That it shall be the duty of every contractor and 
person (his agent and employee) who has contracted, or under- 
taken to remove any diseased or dead animal, offal, rubbish, 
garbage, dirt, street sweepings, or other filthy, offensive or 
noxious substance, or is engaged about any such removal, or in 
loading or unloading of any such substance, to do the same with 
dispatch, and, in every particular, in a manner as cleanly and 
little offensive, and with as little danger and prejudice to life 
and health as possible. 
Sec. 97. That every physician shall report to the Board of 
Health, in writing, every person having a contagious disease, 
giving his or her name and place of residence, forthwith after 
seeing the same; and every attending or practicing physician 
thereat must, at his peril, see that such report is or has been 
made by some attending physician. 
Sec. 98. That it shall be the duty of each and every prac- 
ticing physician in the District to report, in writing, to the 
Board of Health, the death of any of his patients, who shall 
have died in said District of contagious or infectious disease, 
within twenty-four hours thereafter, and to state in such report 
the specific name and type of such disease. 
Sec. 99. That every keeper of any boarding-house or 
lodging-house, and inn-keeper and hotel-keeper, shall, within 
twenty-four hours, report in writing, to the Board of Health, 
the same particulars in the last section required of any physi- 
cian, concerning any person being at any of the aforesaid houses 
or hotels, and attacked with any contagious disease. 
Sec. 100. That the master, chief-officer, and consignee, or 
one of them, of every vessel being within one-fourth of a mile 
of any dock, wharf or building of said District shall daily re- 
port to the Board of Health, or cause to be reported, in writing, 
the particulars, and shall therein state the name, disease and 
condition of any person being in or on such vessel, and sick of 
any contagious disease. 
Sec. 101. That it shall be the duty of every person knowing 
of any individual in said District sick of any contagious disease, 
and the duty of every physician hearing of any sick person, Taxing District Shelby County. 
who he shall have reason to think requires attention, to report 
at once the facts to the Board of Health, in regard to the dis- 
ease, condition and dwelling place, or position of such sick 
person. 
Sec. 102. That the keepers, lessees, tenants and owners of 
every hoarding-house and lodging-house shall, within six hours 
after the fact shall come to his, or her, or their knowledge, notify 
the Board of Health, in writing, of the fact, of any person, 
lately from any vessel or railroad, being taken sick at such 
house; and shall in such notice state where such sick person 
may be found, and from what vessel or railroad, and when he 
came, to the best of the knowledge of the person or persons 
giving such notice. 
Sec. 103. That every master and chief-officer of any vessel 
or railroad, and every physician of, or who practiced on any 
vessel or road which shall arrive at the port of said District 
from any other port or place, shall at once report to the Board 
of Health any facts connected with any person or thing on such 
vessel or road, or that came thereon, which he has reason to 
think may endanger the public health of said District; and he 
shall report the facts as to any person being or having been 
sick thereon of a contagious disease, and as to their being or 
having been thereon, any infected person or articles. 
Sec. 104. That every master, owner, part owner and con- 
signee of any vessel, or of the cargo thereof, which shall be in 
said port, shall at once give, or cause to be given to the Board 
of Health, written notice of any infected article or person, and 
of every person sick of a contagious disease, and also of each 
and every fact and thing relative to said vessel, sick person or 
cargo, or to the crew of such vessel, which any of the first men- 
tioned persons shall have reason to think may be useful to the 
Board of Health to know, or be or become dangerous or preju- 
dicial to life or health in said District. 
Sec. 105. That no captain, officer, owner, consignee, or 
other person in charge of any vessel, shall remove, or aid in re- 
moving from any vessel to the shore, any person sick of, or 
person that has been exposed to, and is liable very soon to de- 30 
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velop any contagious disease; nor so remove or aid in removing 
any articles that have been exposed to the contagion of any 
such disease; nor shall any person in any way make exposure 
of any straw, bedding or other articles that have been subjected 
to the contagion or infection of any contagious disease, or have 
been or are liable to communicate such disease, or have been 
lately on any emigrant or ordinary passenger vessel, till the 
same have been adequately cleansed or disinfected, except in 
accordance with a permit of the Board of Health, or with its 
special regulations. 
Sec. 106. That no person shall bring into the District from 
any infected place or land, or take therein from any vessel 
lately from an infected port, or from any vessel or building in 
which have lately been any person sick of a contagious disease, 
any article or person whatsoever; nor shall any such person 
land or come into said District without a permit from the 
Board of Health. 
Sec. 107. That no person shall, within the District, carry 
or remove from one building to any other, or from any vessel 
to the shore, any person sick of a contagious disease, without a 
permit from the Board of Health ; nor shall any person, bv 
any exposure of any individual sick of any contagious disease, 
or by any negligent act connected therewith, or by a needless 
exposure of himself, cause or contribute to, or promote the 
spread of disease from any such person, or from anv dead body. 
Sec. 108. That any person being the parent or guardian, or 
having the care, custody or control of any minor, or other in- 
dividual, shall cause and procure such minor or individual to' 
be so promptly, frequently and effectively vaccinated that such 
minor or individual shall not take or be liable to take the 
small-pox. 
Sec. 109. That no interment of the dead body of any 
human being, or disposition thereof in any tomb, vault or 
cemetery, shall be made without a permit therefor granted by 
the Board of Health, nor otherwise than in accordance there- 
with ; and no sexton shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any 
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place of deposit for any such body, for which such permit has 
not been given, authorizing the same; and it shall be the duty 
of every person who shall receive such permit to preserve and 
return the same to the Board of Health. 
Sec. 110. That every person who acts as a sexton or under- 
taker in the District, or has the charge or care of any vault, 
tomb, burying-ground or cemetery for the reception of the dead, 
or where the bodies of any human beings are deposited, shall 
cause his or her name and residence, and the nature of his or 
her charge and duties, to be registered with the Board of Health. 
Sec. 111. That every sexton, and other person, having 
charge of any burying-ground, cemetery, tomb or vault in the 
District, shall, before six o’clock p.in., Saturday of each week, 
make return to the Board of Health of the bodies and persons 
buried since their last return, and in such form, and specifying 
such particulars as the regulations of the Board of Health may 
require. 
Sec. 112. That no person shall retain, expose, or allow to 
be retained or exposed, the dead body of any human being, to 
the peril or prejudice of the life or health of any person. 
Sec. 113. That every clergyman, magistrate, and other per- 
son who may perform a marriage ceremony, shall furnish the 
Board of Health with a written statement, signed by himself, 
of such marriage celebrated, giving residence, age and names 
in full, of the parties married; and every physician, midwife, 
or other person who shall assist or advise at any birth, shall 
make a full report of the same to the Board of Health, signed 
by him or herself, giving place, ward and street-number of 
such birth, and the sex and color of every child born, and the 
names and residence of the parents ; and every physician and 
professional adviser who has attended any person at a last ill- 
ness, or has been present by request at the death of any person, 
shall make a written return, signed by himself, of such death, 
stating the cause thereof, and specifying the date, place and 
street-number of such death. 
Sec. 114. That it shall be the duty of every person men- 
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written statement, by him or her signed, within five days after 
the birth or marriage, and within thirty-six hours after death 
of any person, of all the facts attending such marriage, birth 
or death, which shall be placed on file with the Board-of Health. 
Sec. 115. That no railroad car, or vehicle, constructed for 
or engaged in the business of carrying passengers on any line 
of railroad in the District, and which car is propelled by horse- 
power, and not by steam-power, shall be used with cushions on 
the seats, or on the back of the seats thereof. 
CARS TO BE SWEPT AND CLEANED. 
Sec. 116. That each and every car used upon any railroad 
in the District for carrying or transporting passengers, shall, 
on each and every day on which it may be used for carrying or 
transportation of passengers, be carefully and thoroughly swept 
and cleaned, so that all dirt and filth are removed from the in- 
side of said car. 
Sec. 117. That no owner, part owner, tenant or occupant of 
any building or erection, shall allow any part thereof, or any 
substance therein, or anything thereto attached, and which any 
such person can*control or remove, to continue or remain in a 
position or condition that shall imperil the life or safety of any 
person thereat or therein, or who is or may properly be in any 
street or place. 
Sec. 118. That no person shall take, carry, expose or place 
in or upon any street or public place, any substance, animal or 
thing which shall imperil the life or health of any person who 
is or may properly be in such street or place. 
Sec. 119. Occupants of any and all premises fronting on any 
street or alley in the Taxing District shall clean up the side- 
walks, gutterings, and also the street or alley (if a street, four 
feet from the curbing, and if an alley, four feet from the line 
thereof) the whole front of said lot or premises, twice a week, 
the time in the week to be designated by the Board of Health, 
and pile up the cleanings in the center of the street or alley, 
for the garbage carts ; and if the street or alley bound more than 
one side of any lot or premises, the occupant of such lot or 
premises shall clean both streets or alleys, as above provided ; Taxing District Shelby County. 
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and if there be no occupant of such premises, the owner, or if he 
be a non-resident, his agent shall have the cleaning done; and 
if such owner or his agent cannot be found, the Engineer shall 
have the cleaning done at the cost of the owner ; and this ordi- 
nance shall apply to the alleys in the rear as well as on the 
sides of any lot or premises; provided, that on all streets where 
street railroads or other railroads run, the railroad company 
shall clean up between their tracks, and two feet on each side 
of the same. 
Sec. 120. That every person who knowingly omits or refuses 
to comply with, or who resists, or willfully violates any of the 
provisions of this ordinance, or any of the rules, orders, sani- 
tary regulations, or ordinances established or declared by the 
Board of Health in carrying out the provisions of this ordinance, 
or the execution of any order or special regulation of the Board 
of Health, made for that purpose, is hereby declared to be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on arrest and conviction before 
the President of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, 
he shall be fined for each offense in any sum not less than one 
nor more than fifty dollars, to be collected as other fines are 
collected. 
QUARANTINE LAWS. 
Sec. 121. In addition to the powers conferred on the Board 
of Health, whenever it shall become necessary, in order to pre- 
vent the spread or prevalence of yellow fever, or any other 
dangerous, contagious or infectious disease, it shall be the duty 
of said Board of Health to recommend to the President of the 
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners and Legislative 
Council the establishment of a quarantine, at such place or 
places as the President of the Board of Fire and Police Com- 
missioners and Legislative Council shall select. 
Sec. 122. Immediately after such recommendation is made, 
the President of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners 
shall convene the Legislativg Council, who shall, if deemed 
advisable, at once procure, by lease or purchase, suitable quar- 
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lution what boats and persons, and from what points, shall be 
subject to quarantine regulations. 
Sec. 123. Immediately thereafter the President of the 
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners shall publish his proc- 
lamation, setting forth the action of the Board of Health and 
that of the Legislative Council, and requiring all persons and 
boats coming from any named infected points, cities or places 
to be subjected to said quarantine regulations, under the penalty 
provided by this ordinance. 
Sec. 124. No boat subject to quarantine, as above stated, 
shall be permitted to land at or in the District, or at any point 
within the distance to be specified in the proclamation of the 
President of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, except 
at the quarantine grounds established as aforesaid ; nor shall 
any passenger or any freight be landed except as herein directed. 
Sec. 125. The quarantine grounds, buildings and hospital 
shall be under the control of some one or more physicians, se- 
lected by the President of the Board of Fire and Police Com- 
missioners and Legislative Council, and of such other assistance 
as the same may appoint. 
Sec. 126. Boats from infected places, and subject to quar- 
antine as above, shall first land at said quarantine grounds, and 
shall undergo inspection and examination bv a physician ap- 
pointed for that purpose; and if found to be in a healthy con- 
dition, and free from disease, shall receive a certificate to that 
effect from the inspecting physician, and be then permitted to 
land at the District wharf. In no case shall boats receive said 
permission to land at the District wharf until all danger of 
contagion or infection shall have passed. For such inspection 
and certificate each boat shall pay the sum of ten dollars. 
Sec. 127. The officers of boats may put off and land any 
sick person at said quarantine hospital, upon the payment by 
said officers of ten dollars for each one so landed ; and said sick 
person shall be received and nursed in said hospital, and shall 
pay the sum of two and a half dollars ($2.50) per day for such 
care and attention. Taxing District Shelby County. 
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Sec. 128. If any boat shall be so infected as to require it, 
the inspecting physician shall have power to cause any freight 
on such boats, intended for the District, to be first landed at the 
quarantine, to be there kept, by such assistants and police as shall 
be appointed, until all danger of infection or contagion shall 
have ceased. For landing, inspecting and keeping said freight, 
no charge shall be made; but when reshipped or removed to its 
destination, it shall be at the expense of the owner. The physi- 
cians in attendance at quarantine grounds shall receive, each, a 
salary, to be fixed by the Legislative Council; and all fees for 
inspection and for other services, except attendance on the sick, 
shall be paid to the County Trustee. 
Sec. 129. The President of the Board of Fire and Police 
Commissioners shall have power, and it shall be his duty, upon 
the recommendation of the Board of Health, to remove to the 
quarantine grounds or hospital, or to some point not within five 
miles of the District, any and all infected boats lying at the 
District wharf. 
Sec. 130. While quarantine regulations are enforced, no 
dead body nor any sick person shall be put off* from any boat 
in the District, or at any point within five miles thereof, except 
at the quarantine grounds or hospital, without the permission 
of the President of the Board of Fire and Police Commission- 
ers and some one member of the Board of Health, under a 
penalty of fifty dollars for each offense; and for each and all 
other violations of this ordinance a fine shall be imposed of not 
less than fifty dollars, to be recovered by seizure of the boat, 
arrest of persons, or by conviction before the President of the 
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, as in other cases of 
misdemeanor. 
A QUARANTINE STATION AUTHORIZED, AND REGULATIONS 
THEREFOR PROVIDED. 
Sec. 131. That there shall be established a quarantine sta- 
tion on the Mississippi river, at such point as may be found most 
convenient for the purpose, not more than ten (10) miles south 
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the President of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, 
the President and Health Officers of the Board of Health, and 
the Engineer, are hereby empowered to select and lease, or pur- 
chase, in accordance with the provisions of Section 7 of Chap- 
ter 11, of Acts of 1879, not more than ten acres of land, and 
to contract for and have erected suitable buildings, with necessary 
furniture, etc., for the purpose of a quarantine station ; the 
whole not to exceed five thousand dollars in cost. 
Sec. 132. When said grounds are purchased and the build- 
ings are erected and furnished, they shall be under the direction 
and control of the Board of Health, and whenever the said 
Board of Health may be satisfied that yellow fever or other 
contagious or infectious diseases are prevailing at any point, and 
likely to be spread or disseminated by steamboats passing to and 
fro on the Mississippi river, they shall so inform the President 
of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, giving the 
names of places and of the diseases requiring the establishment 
of quarantine regulations; and thereupon it shall be the duty of 
the President of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners 
to immediately issue his proclamation establishing a quarantine 
of all boats or persons and freight coming from the infected 
localities. 
Sec. 133. Whenever, by direction of the Board of Health 
and the proclamation of the President of the Board of Fire 
and Police Commissioners, a quarantine of all boats, passengers 
and freight from infected districts is declared, it shall be the 
duty of the Board of Health to immediately place a competent 
physician or medical officer at the quarantine station to examine 
all boats, their passengers or cargoes, and to decide according to 
the rules and instructions of the said Board of Health whether 
or not such boats, passengers or cargoes shall be permitted to 
come to the District; and if not so permitted to come to the 
District, such passengers as are to be retained shall be provided 
with quarters at the quarantine station until such time as they 
are permitted to come into the District; but maybe charged 
for board and medical attention by the District for the.time 
they are detained at the station. Taxing District Shelby County. 
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Sec. 134. It shall he the duty of the physician in charge of 
the quarantine station, to grant permits to persons who have 
been detained at the quarantine station to come into the District 
as soon as the public safety will admit, and in no case shall 
persons who are not actually sick be detained longer than ten 
days. And cargoes of freight which may be unloaded or de- 
tained at quarantine shall be disinfected and forwarded as soon 
as possible. And whenever it may be considered necessary to 
do so, permits may be granted to steamboats to pass up the river 
without landing or communicating with the District in any way. 
Sec. 135. Any officer, employee or other person on any 
steamboat that may be subjected to quarantine, under the pro- 
visions of this ordinance, who shall refuse to obey the orders 
of the quarantine physician, or shall evade in any way the 
orders or regulations of the Board of Health in relation to 
quarantine regulations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
shall be arrested and brought before the President of the Board 
of Fire and Police Commissioners, and, upon conviction, shall 
be fined not less than fifty dollars for each offense; and any 
steamboat passing the quarantine station without landing for 
inspection, or that comes to the District without a permit from 
the quarantine physician in charge of the station during the 
existence of such quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of resisting 
an officer and violating this ordinance, and the captain, mate, 
engineers, pilots and clerks shall be deemed guilty, and shall 
be arrested ; and unless they can show by competent proof that 
they were not guilty of either aiding or abetting in such viola- 
tion of this ordinance, by assisting in the navigation of such 
boat, they shall be fined not more than fifty dollars each, for 
each offense, to be collected as other fines. 
Sec. 136. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, when 
requested by the Board of Health to do so, to detail one or more 
policemen for duty at the quarantine station, and also to see 
that all boats landing at the wharf, during the existence of any 
quarantine, have the proper permits, and that all persons viola- 
ting any of the provisions of this ordinance are promptly 
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railroads and other avenues of ingress and egress to and from 
this Taxing District. 
Sec. 137. Quarantine regulations shall cease to be enforced 
on the recommendation of the Board of Health. 
D. T. PORTER, 
Chairman Legislative Council. 
ATTEST: 
C. L. PULLEN, 
Secretary. BOARD OF FIRE AND POLICE COMMISSIONERS: 
D. T. PORTER, 
JNO. OVERTON, Jr., 
W. W. GUY. 
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: 
M. BURKE, 
C. W. GOYER, 
R. GALLOWAY, 
JOHN GUNN, 
W. N. BROWN.