RULES 
AND 
REGULATIONS 
ADOPTED BY THE 
^rd of hea^B 
OF 
CLINTON, MASS. 
CLINTON: 
Press of William H. Benson 
1906 RULES 
AND 
REGULATIONS 
ADOPTED BY THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH 
OF 
CLINTON, MASS. 
1906 
CLINTON: 
Press of William H. Benson 
1906 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
The Board of Health of the Town of Clinton 
hereby makes and publishes, as required by the 
Revised Laws of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, the following Rules and Regulations for 
the public health and safety: (See below J 
Revised Laws. Chapter 75, Section 65. 
The Board of Health shall examine into all nuisances, 
sources of filth and causes of sickness within its town, or 
on board of vessels within the harbor of such town, which 
may in its opinion be injurious to the public health, shall 
destroy, remove or prevent the same as the case may 
require and shall make regulations for the public health 
and safety relative thereto and relative to articles which 
are capable of containing or conveying infection or con- 
tagion or of creating sickness which ate brought into 
or conveyed from its town, or into or from any vessel. 
Whoever violates any such regulation shall forfeit not 
more than one hundred dollars. 
Diseases Dangerous to the Public Health 
Rule 1. Whereas, in addition to diseases 
mentioned by name in Section 1 of Chapter 251 
of the Acts of 1905 (see below), the diseases of 
cholera, .yellow fever, typhus fever, small-pox, 
varioloid, diphtheria (membraneous croup), scar- 
let fever, measles, typhoid fever, opthalmia, 
cerebro-spinal meningitis, pulmonary tubercu- 
losis, hydrophobia, malignant pustule, glanders, 4 
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trichinosis, are infectious or contagious diseases 
dangerous to the public health, a householder 
who knows that a person in his family or house 
is sick of any of said diseases, shall immediately 
give notice to the Board of Health, and upon the 
death, recovery or removal of such person, the 
rooms occupied, and the articles used by such 
person, shall be at once properly cleansed, fumi- 
gated or destroyed, as the Board of Health may 
direct. 
Section 49, of Chapter 75 of the Revised Laws, 
as amended by Chapter 251 of the Acts of 1905 
A householder who knows that a person in his family or 
house is sick of small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any 
other infectious or contagious disease dangerous to the 
public health shall forthwith give notice thereof to the 
Board of Health of the city or town in which he dwells. 
Upon the death, recovery or removal of such person, the 
householder shall disinfect to the satisfaction of the Board 
such rooms of his house and articles therein as, in the 
opinion of the Board, have been exposed to infection or 
contagion. Should one or both eyes of an infant become 
inflamed, swollen and red, and show any unnatural dis- 
charge at any time within two weeks after its birth, it shall 
be the duty of the nurse, relative or other attendant having 
charge of such infant to report in writing within six hours 
thereafter, to the Board of Health of the city or town in 
which the parents of the infant reside, the fact that such 
inflammation, swelling and redness of the eyes and 
unnatural discharge exists. On receipt of such report, or 
of notice of the same symptoms given by a physician as 
provided by the following section, the Board of Health 
shall take such immediate action as it may deem necessary 
in order that blindness may be prevented. Whoever 
violates the provisions of this section shall be punished 
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Rule 2. Whereas, in addition to diseases 
mentioned by name in Section 2, of Chapter 251 
of the Acts of 1905 (see below), the diseases of 
cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, small-pox, 
varioloid, diphtheria, membraneous croup, scarlet 
fever, measles, typhoid fever, opthalmia, cerebro- 
spinal meningitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, hydro- 
phobia. malignant pustule, glanders, trichinosis, 
are infectious or contagious and dangerous to the 
public health, every physician who knows that a 
person whom he is called upon to visit is infected 
with any of said diseases, he shall immediately 
give notice thereof in writing over his own 
signature to the office of the Board of Health. 
Section 50, of Chapter 75, of the Revised Laws, 
as amended by Chapter 251 of the Acts of 1905. 
If a physician knows that a person whom he is called to 
visit is infected with small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or 
any other disease dangerous to the public health, or if one 
or both eyes of an infant whom or whose mother he is called 
to visit become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an 
unnatural discharge within two weeks after the birth of 
such infant, he shall immediately give notice thereof in 
writing over his own signature to the Selectmen or Board 
of Health; and if he refuses or neglects to give such notice, 
he shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than two 
hundred dollars for each offence. 
Rule 3. Every dwelling where cholera, yellow 
fever, typhus fever, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet 
fever, and measles is known to exist, shall be 
conspicuously labelled at its entrance with a card 
properly specifying the disease in such form and 
manner as may be determined by the Board of 
Health, and such placard shall not be removed 
except by a duly authorized agent of the Board of 
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Rube 4. No person shall remove or permit to 
be removed from any house or apartment upon 
which a placard has been placed, as provided in 
Rule 3, any clothing, books or other property, 
without a permit from the Board of Health; nor 
after a house is established as a hospital under 
the provisions of Section 42 of Chapter 75 of the 
Revised Laws, shall any occupant of such house 
take up a residence elsewhere, or remove or be 
removed from such house, room or apartment 
temporarily or otherwise, or visit or attend, any 
dwelling-house without such permit. No public 
or circulating library book shall be taken into 
any house or apartment whereon a placard has 
been placed as provided in Rule 3, before the 
authorized removal of such placard. 
Chapter 75, Section 42, Revised Laws. 
If a disease which is dangerous to the public health 
breaks out in a town, or if a person is infected or lately has 
been infected with such disease, the Board shall immedi- 
ately provide such hospital or place of reception, and such 
nurses and other assistance and necessaries, as is judged 
best for his accommodation and for the safety of the inhabi- 
tants, which shall be subject to the regulations of the Board' 
The Board may cause any sick or infected person to be 
removed thereto, if it can be done without danger to his 
health; otherwise the house or place in which he remains 
shall be considered as a hospital, and all persons residing 
in or in any way connected therewith shall be subject to 
the regulations of the Board and if necessary, persons in 
the neighborhood may be removed. 
Tuberculosis 
Pulmonary and laryngeal tuberculosis(consump- 
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a large measure preventable, the Board, in the 
interest of public health, to prevent the unneces- 
sary spread of the disease and to protect the 
public from the ravages of a disease that is now, 
and has been for years, responsible for more 
deaths than any other single disease, in May 
adopted the following regulations: 
Rule 5. Pulmonary and laryngeal tubercu- 
losis (consumption) are hereby declared to be 
infectious and communicable diseases, dangerous 
to the public health. It shall be the duty of every 
physician who may be called to attend such cases, 
and of every householder in whose family these 
diseases exist, to report to the Board of Health in 
writing, the name, age, sex, occupation and 
address of every person having such disease. It 
shall also be the duty of the superintendent of 
every public or private institution or dispensary 
in this town to report to the Board of Health all 
cases of these diseases which may come under 
his observation. 
Rule 6. Any home in which any of the 
diseases mentioned in Rule 3 shall occur, may be 
declared in quarantine by the Board of Health, 
or its authorized agent or agents. When a house 
has been declared in quarantine, all persons 
residing therein shall be subject to the rules of 
the Board of Health relating to quarantine. 
Quarantine 
Rule 7. In case of any of the diseases men- 
tioned in Rule 3, the patient must, as far as 
possible, be nursed by only one person, and no 
member of the family coming in daily contact 
with the patient shall be allowed in public. No 
member of another household shall be allowed to 8 
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enter the sick room, except in the capacity of 
nurse or physician, until the Board of Health 
certifies that said apartment or place has been 
satisfactorily disinfected. 
Rule 8. All persons residing in a house that 
has been declared in quarantine shall confine 
themselves to said house or its immediate 
grounds, and shall not hold communication with 
well persons. Communication with said house 
shall be limited to physicians, nurses, and under- 
takers, and such persons as may be needed to 
supply its inmates with the necessaries of life 
and in such manner as the Board of Health may 
direct. 
See Revised Laws, Chapter 75, Section 43. 
Whoever obstructs the Selectmen, Board of Health, or 
its agent in using such means, or wilfully removes, obliter- 
ates, defaces or handles such red flags or other signals 
shall forfeit not less than ten nor more than one hundred 
dollars for each offence. 
Rule 9. In diphtheria no patient will be 
considered well and freed from isolation until at 
least four weeks have elapsed from the onset of 
the illness, unless two release cultures, satisfac- 
tory to the Board of Health, have been taken 
from the throat of the patient, and the same 
pronounced negative as the result of a bacterio- 
logical examination. No release cultures will be 
accepted by the Board until two weeks have 
elapsed from the onset of the disease. 
Rule 10. A report of a case of diphtheria 
will be received from physicians upon clinical 
evidence, but the additional culture testimony is 
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Cultures and antitoxin may be obtained at the 
office of the Board of Health from 8 A. M. to 5 P. 
M. daily, and from the chairman of the Board. 
Rule 11. In scarlet fever, no patient will be 
considered well and freed from isolation until at 
least four weeks have elapsed from the com- 
mencement of the illness, unless the attending 
physician, or the physician employed by the 
Board of Health, certifies that he has personally 
inspected the patient, found that the period of 
desquamation has ceased, and that the patient is 
no longer a source of danger. No such certifi- 
cate will be received by the Board of Health until 
at least three weeks have elapsed from the begin- 
ning of the illness. 
Rule 12. Upon the death, recovery or removal 
of any person sick of any disease dangerous to 
the public health, the Board of Health shall when 
the necessity of quarantine has passed, declare 
the quarantine raised, and disinfect the rooms of 
the house where such sickness has occurred, and 
such of the articles therein contained as may be 
deemed by them advisable, and such disinfection 
if done by the householder shall be performed in 
a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health. 
Disinfection 
Rule 13. No child from a family in which 
there shall occur a case of Asiatic cholera, yellow 
fever, small-pox, varioloid, diphtheria, mem- 
braneous croup, scarlet fever, typhus fever, 
measles, or purulent opthalmia, shall attend any 
school, public or private, in the town during the 
continuance of the disease, or for a period of two 
weeks after the death, recovery or removal of the 
person or persons sick. 
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Rule 14. No person who, by reason of the 
foregoing rule, has been debarred from school 
attendance, shall be readmitted to any school in 
the town without the written permit from the 
Board of Health. Such permit may be issued 
when the attending physician has certified in 
writing to the Board of Health that in his opinion 
the child may attend school without danger of 
communicating any contagious disease. 
Rule 15. When children are absent from 
school on account of illness, and whenever the 
principal has reason to suspect the existence of 
contagious disease in any household, he is author- 
ized to exclude pupils from school until the case 
can be properly ivestigated. The teachers are 
required to exercise caution in sending pupils to 
the houses of absent pupils to ascertain the reason 
for such absence. Pupils are not permitted to be 
sent where contagious diseases are believed to 
exist in the household of absent pupils. 
Rule 16. If it comes to the teacher's knowl- 
edge that any pupil visits the house infected or 
attends the funeral of any person dying of any of 
the diseases mentioned in Rule 3, such pupil must 
be excluded at once and the case referred in 
writing to the Board of Health. 
Rule 17. Teachers in the public and private 
schools are directed to follow the letter and intent 
of these rules and refer all questions that may 
arise to the Board of Health. Superintendents 
and officers of Sunday Schools are requested to 
comply with these regulations as far as practicable. 
Use of Public Library 
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shall take any book or magazine to or from the 
public library or public schools without a permit 
from the Board of Health. The Board will inform 
the librarian and superintendent of all cases of 
said diseases, and until a written permit is given, 
the librarian or superintendent shall allow neither 
books nor magazines to be taken to or returned 
from the dwelling where such cases exist. 
Vaccination 
Section 136. A parent or guardian who neglects to cause 
his child or ward to be vaccinated before the child or ward 
attains the age of two years, except as provided in Section 
one hundred and thirty-nine, shall forfeit five dollars for 
every year during which such neglect continues. 
Revised Laws, Chapter 75. 
Section 137, as amended by Acts of 1902, Chap. 190, Sec. 1: 
The Board of Health of a city or town if. in its opinion, it is 
necessary for the public health or safety, shall require and 
enforce the vaccination and re-vaccination of all inhabitants 
thereof, and shall provide them with the means of free 
vaccination. Whoever refuses or neglects to comply with 
such requirements shall forfeit five dollars. 
Section 139, as amended by Acts of 1902, Chap. 190, Sec. 2, 
further amended by Acts of 1902, Chap. 544, Sec. 10: Any 
person over twenty-one years of age who presents a certifi- 
cate signed by the register of a probate court that he is 
under guardianship shall not be subject to the provisions of 
section one hundred and thirty-seven; and any child who 
presents a certificate signed by a registered physician 
designated by the parent or guardian, that the physician 
has at the time of giving the certificate personally exam- 
ined the child, and that he is of the opinion that the 
physical condition of the child is such that his health will 
be endangered by vaccination shall not, while such condi- 12 
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tion continues, be subject to the provisions of the preceding 
sections of this chapter; and the parent or guardian o^ 
such child shall not be liable to the penalties imposed by 
Section one hundred and thifty-six of this chapter. 
Section 138. The Board of Health of a city or town in 
which any incorporated manufacturiug company, alms- 
house, reform or industrial school, hospital or other 
establishment where the poor or sick are received, prison, 
jail or house of correction or any institution which is 
supported or aided by the commonwealth is situated may, 
if it decides that it is necessary for the health of the 
inmates or for the public safety, require the authorities of 
said establishment or institution, at the expense thereof, to 
cause all said inmates to be vaccinated. 
Revised Laws, Chapter 44. 
Section 6. A child who has not been vaccinated shall 
not be admitted to a public school except upon presentation 
of a certificate signed by a regular practicing physician 
that he is not a fit subject for vaccination. A child who is 
a member of a household in which a person is ill with 
small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or measles, or of a 
household exposed to such contagion from another house- 
hold as aforesaid, shall not attend any public school during 
such illness or until the teacher of the school has been 
furnished with a certificate from the Board of Health of the 
city or town, or from the attending physician of such 
person, stating that, in a case of measles, at least three 
days have elapsed since the recovery, removal or death of 
such person, and that danger of conveying such disease by 
such child has passed. 
Regulations made Pursuant to Revised Laws,. 
Chapter 76, Sections 38 to 44. 
Burials and Removal of Bodies 
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person who has died of a disease dangerous to 
the public health shall give immediate notice to 
the Board of Health, and shall cause such body, 
including the face, to be wrapped in a sheet 
saturated with a solution of corrosive sublimate 
not less than 1-500 in strength, or a 40-100 solu- 
tion of formaldehyde, and shall immediately 
place it in a sealed coffin, which shall not there- 
after be opened; no draperies shall be used. He 
shall uotify the said Board or its agent of time 
when body is to be removed, and shall sign a 
certificate containing a true statement of the fact 
that he has complied with the foregoing provision 
of this section, and he, and every person having 
charge or custody, or right of disposal of the 
body, shall cause the burial to take place immedi- 
ately, and in all cases within twelve hours after 
the time of death, unless further time shall be 
allowed by the Board of Health. A private 
funeral shall be held, at which none but the 
immediate adult members of the deceased person's 
family who are resident at the place of death, and 
the officiating clergyman or minister, to be present 
thereat. The body shall in no case be removed 
in any carriage used in conveying passengers; if 
placed in a receiving tomb, the body shall be 
enclosed in a metallic-lined casket and hermeti- 
cally sealed. 
No permit either for burial or removal of the 
body shall be issued until such statement is filed 
with the agent of this Board, who shall thereupon 
certify on such permit as follows: 
Satisfactory evidence having been furnished, I certify 
that the body has been so encased and prepared as to 
preclude any danger of communicating the disease (here 
state disease) to others by its transportation. 
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Rule 20. All undertakers or persons in charge 
of the remains of any person passing through 
the town shall, whenever requested, exhibit the 
certificate required by Chapter 78, Section 43, 
Revised Raws. (See below.) 
Revised Laws, Chapter 78. 
Section 43. No common carrier or other person shall 
convey or cause to be conveyed, through or from any city 
or town in this commonwealth, the body of any person who 
has died of small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria or typhus 
fever until such body has been so encased and prepared 
to preclude any danger of contagion or infection by its 
transportation; and no city or town clerk, or clerk or agent 
of the Board of Health, shall give a permit for the removal 
of such body until he has received from the Board of Health 
of the city or town in which the death occurred a certificate 
stating the cause of death, and that said body has been 
prepared in the manner prescribed in this section, which 
certificate shall be delivered to the agent or person who 
received the body. Whoever violates the provisions of this 
section shall forfeit not more than twenty-five dollars. 
Rule 21. No person shall inter or cause to be 
interred the body of any dead person in a grave 
less than three feet deep from the surface of the 
ground surroundiug the grave to the top of the 
coffin. No person shall open a grave or remove 
the body of a dead person or its remains from a 
grave or tomb, except in accordance with a permit 
from the Board of Health. 
Rule 22. The superintendent, sexton or other 
person having charge of any burying ground or 
crematory, shall not inter, disinter, or cremate 
within the town limits, any human body, until a 
permit has been given as required by law. He 
shall require of the undertaker, or person deliv- rui.es and regulations. 
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ering a body for burial, if the cause of death be 
any disease named in Rule 3, a written statement 
of what precautions have been taken to encase the 
body. He shall prevent the opening of the casket, 
or coffin, and report to this Board any breaking of 
the seals thereon. He shall keep a separate 
record of each burial when the permit states the 
cause of death to be any disease named in Rule 3, 
which record shall be open to examination by the 
Board of Health. 
Rule 23. Any burial permit issued by any 
officer outside this commonwealth must be filed 
at the office of this Board, and a permit from this 
Board applied for in all cases where burial is 
contemplated within the town limits. 
Cleanliness of Houses and Premises 
"The Board, if satisfied upon examination that a building, 
tenement, room or cellar in its town which is occupied as a 
dwelling place, has become, by reason of the number of 
occupants, uncleanliness or other cause, unfit for such 
purpose, and is liable to become a nuisance or be a cause of 
sickness to the occupants or to the public, may issue a 
notice in writing to such occupants or any of them, requiring 
the premises to be put into a cleanly condition, or to be 
vacated within such time as the Board may deem reason- 
able. If the persons so notified neglect or refuse to comply 
with the terms of the notice, the Board may cause the 
premises to be properly cleansed at the expense of the 
owner, or may remove the occupants forcibly and close up 
the premises, which shall not be again occupied as a 
dwelling place without its permission in writing. If the 
owner thereof occupies or knowingly permits the same to 
be occupied without such permission in writing, he shall 
forfeit not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars." 
Revised Laws, Chapter 75, Section 71, provides: 16 
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Rule 24. Any person owning or occupying or 
having charge of any building or premises in or 
upon which is any dirt, sawdust, soot, ashes, 
cinders, shavings, hair, manure, oyster, clam or 
lobster shells, waste or stagnant water, or any 
offensive animal or vegetable substance, rubbish 
or filth of any kind, shall when ordered by the 
Board of Health remove the same within such 
time as may be stated in the order. 
Rule 25. No person shall place, or cause to be 
placed, or empty, or cause to be emptied, upon 
any street, way, lane or sidewalk, any house dirt, 
offal or rubbish, any sewage, or the draining of 
any sink or stable, or the contents of any 
cesspool, vault, privy or privy well. No person 
shall cast any decayed vegetable or dead animal 
substance, house dirt, offal, or rubbish, ashes or 
cans, into any cesspool, privy-vault, or into any 
well, cistern, reservoir, pond or waters within the 
town, nor drown, nor cause to be drowned, any 
animals in any of said waters. And the carcasses 
of animals dead of disease or killed for any cause, 
shall be buried at such distance from dwellings, 
or wells, or other source of water supply, that no 
danger or nuisance can result; and no person 
shall establish or maintain any swine pen, privy, 
or privy-vault, cesspool or sink drain within 
thirty feet of any stream, watercourse or pond, or 
to allow the overflow from any stable, swine pen, 
privy-vault, cesspool or sink drain to enter any 
stream, watercourse or pond in this town. 
Rule 26. No person shall burn on premises 
occupied by him any garbage, refuse woolen, silk, 
leather or india rubber goods or other substances 
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clean or wash fish or meat upon any street, lane, 
alley or public grounds of the towm. 
Rule 27. No person shall erect or maintain 
within the limits of the town, any building or 
structure used for a slaughter-house, or for the 
manufacturing or refining of kerosine, oil or soap, 
the trying out of lard, the business of tallow- 
chandler, or the tanning, dressing or coloring of 
leather or skins, or any other noxious or offensive 
trade, or exercise or carry, on such trade, business 
or employment, without a license of the Board of 
Health defining the place for the same, and any 
such license may at any time be revoked. 
Rule 28. The owner or lessee of any hotel, 
lodging or tenement house within the limits of 
the town shall, when in the opinion of the Board 
of Health or its duly authorized agent it is deemed 
necessary, white-wash, paint or otherwise clean 
and make wholesome the walls and ceilings of 
the rooms and passage-ways of the building. 
Contagious Diseases Among Domestic 
Animals 
{Regulations made pursuant to Chapter 90, 
Revised Laws.) 
Rule 29. Whoever has knowledge of, or has 
good reason to suspect, the existence of a con- 
tagious disease among any species of domestic 
animals, whether such knowledge is obtained by 
personal examination or otherwise, shall forth- 
with give notice thereof to the Board of Health. 
Rule 30. No person, except as ordered or 
directed by the Board of Health, shall drive or 
cause to pass through said town, from place to 
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diseased or infected with pleuro-pneumonia, 
farcy, or glanders, or rabies or any other con- 
tagious or infectious disease. 
Rui^b 31. Persons having the care and custody 
of animals diseased or infected with pleuro- 
pneumonia, farcy, glanders, or rabies, or any 
other contagious or infectious disease, whether 
their own property or otherwise, and having 
received an order for their isolation, shall neither 
sell, sw'ap, trade, give nor in any way dispose of 
such animals; nor drive, nor work, nor move, 
nor allow them to be moved away from the place 
of isolation, nor allow other animals, not already 
exposed, to come in contact with them until 
otherwise ordered by the Board of Health of the 
Town of Clinton or the Cattle Bureau of the 
State Board of Agriculture. 
Whoever violates any of the provisions of the 
foregoing regulations (30, 31 and 32) shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred 
dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one 
year. 
Revised Laws, Chapter 56. 
Meat and Provisions 
Section 70. Boards of Health of cities and towns may 
inspect the carcasses of all slaughtered animals and all 
meat, fish, vegetables, produce, fruit or provisions of any 
kind found in their cities and towns, and for such purpose 
may enter any building, enclosure or other place in which 
such carcasses or articles are stored, kept or exposed for 
sale. If, on such inspection, it is found that such carcasses 
or articles are tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, 
unwholesome or, from any cause, unfit for food, the Board 
of Health shall seize the same and cause it or them to be 
destroyed forthwith or disposed of otherwise than for food. 
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disposed of as aforesaid shall, after deducting the expenses 
of such seizure, be paid to the owner of such property. If 
the Board of Health seizes or condemns any such carcass 
or meat for the reason that it is affected with a contagious 
disease, it shall immediately give notice to the Board of 
Cattle Commissioners of the name of the owner or person 
in whose possession it was found, the nature of the disease 
and the disposition made of said meat or carcass. 
ANIMALS 
RULE 32. No person shall keep any fowl or 
swine or any animal in any place in the town 
where the Board of Health may deem such keep- 
ing detrimental to the health or comfort of the 
residents of the neighborhood or to those w'ho 
may pass thereby; and the said Board shall have 
the power to remove or cause to be removed 
therefrom such fowl, swine or animal so kept. 
Rule 33. No person shall abandon or leave 
in any street, alley, lot or other public place 
within said town any sick or injured horse or 
other animal. It shall be the duty of the owner 
of such sick or injured animal to make provision 
for the care and shelter of the same, or, if such 
sick or injured animal shall be adjudged past 
recovery, to kill or cause to be killed the same 
and remove under the rules and regulations of 
the Board of Health. 
Rule 34. Any sick or injured animal found or 
abandoned upon any street, alley, lot or public 
place within said town, without an owner, which 
is adjudged by the Board of Health or the 
Inspector of Animals to be past recovery shall, 
after an interval of two hours, if unclaimed and 
uncared for by the owner thereof, be killed and 
removed by order of said Board. 20 
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FOOD 
Rule 35. No diseased animal or its flesh shall 
be sold or offered for sale, and no decayed, 
diseased, or unwholesome meat, fish, vegetables, 
fruit or other article of food shall be sold or 
offered for sale in this town. 
RueE 36. Any tainted, diseased or decayed 
article of food found in this town shall be 
destroyed by the person having it in possession, 
or otherwise disposed of as this Board may direct. 
Rule 37. No hawker or peddler shall sell or 
expose for sale any provisions, fruits or agricul- 
tural products within the town of Clinton until 
he has recorded his name and residence with, and 
been granted a license therefor by, the Board of 
Health or the Inspector of Meats and Provisions, 
and been assigned a number by said Board or 
Inspector. 
The attention of bakers and all other persons 
interested, engaged or employed in the business 
therein specified, is called to the provisions of the 
following Sections of Chapter 75, Revised Laws, 
and they are directed to comply with the same: 
Bakeries 
Section 28. All buildings which are occupied as biscuit, 
bread or cake bakeries shall be properly drained and 
plumbed. They shall be provided with a proper wash 
room and water closets, having ventilation apart from the 
bake room or rooms where food products are manufactured; 
and no water closet, earth closet, privy or ash pit shall be 
within or communicate directly with the bake room of any 
bakery. 
Section 29. Every room which is used for the manufac- 
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Board of flealth, have an impermeable floor constructed of 
cement or of tiles laid in cement, and an additional floor of 
wood properly saturated with linseed oil. The walls and 
ceiling of such room shall be plastered or wainscoted, and, 
if required by the Board of Health, shall be whitewashed at 
least once in three months. The furniture and utensils 
therein shall be so arranged that they and the floor may at 
all times be kept clean and in good sanitary condition. 
Section 30. The sleeping-places for persons who are 
employed in a bakery shall be separate from the rooms in 
which flour or meal food products are manufactured or 
stored. 
Section 31. The manufactured flour or meal food 
products shall be kept in perfectly dry and airy rooms, so 
arranged that the floors, shelves and all other facilities for 
storing the same can be easily and perfectly cleaned. 
Section 32. The owner, agent or lessee of any property 
affected by the provisions of section twenty-eight and 
twenty-nine shall, within sixty days after service of notice 
requiring any alterations to be made in such property, 
comply therewith. Such notice shall be in writing, and 
may be served upon such owner, agent or lessee personally 
or by mail directed to his last known address. 
Section 33. Whoever violates the provisions of the five 
preceding sections, or refuses to comply with any require- 
ments of the Board of Health authorized therein, shall, for 
the first offence, be punished by a fine of not less than 
twenty nor more than fifty dollars; for the second offence, 
by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred 
dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ten days; for 
the third offence, by a fine of not less than two hundred and 
fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty 
days or by both such fine or imprisonment. 
Section 34. The Board of Health of a city or town in 
which a bakery is situated, or in which the business regu- 
lated by the six preceding sections is carried on, shall 
cause the provisions of said sections to be enforced and 
shall cause copies thereof to be printed and posted in all 
such bakeries and places of business. 22 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
Regulations for the Sale and Care 
of Milk 
Rule 38. No person shall sell milk within the 
limits of the town of Clinton without a license 
therefor from the Board of Health of said town. 
All such licenses shall expire on the 30th day of 
April of each year. 
Rule 39. No milk which has been watered, 
adulterated, reduced or changed in any respect 
by the addition of water, or other substance, or 
by the removal of cream, shall be brought into, 
held, kept, or offered for sale at any place in the 
town of Clinton, nor shall anyone keep, have, or 
offer for sale in the said town any such milk. 
Rule 40. Any milk found to be adulterated, 
either by the addition of water, or other substance, 
or by the removal of cream, or which has been 
brought into, or is held or offered for sale, in the 
town of Clinton contrary to the provisions of 
Chapter 56, Section 55, Revised Laws, may be 
seized and destroyed by any inspector, or other 
officer of this department authorized to inspect 
milk. 
Rule 41. No milk kept for sale shall be 
stored, strained, cooled or mixed in any room 
used in whole or in part for domestic or sleeping 
purposes or for the stabling of horses or cattle or 
other animals or for the storage of manure, offal 
or other offensive matter. 
Rule 42. After the day's sales are over, 
measures and utensils used in the sale of milk 
shall be thoroughly cleansed with boiling water, 
to which a small amount of soda has been added 
in the proportion of one tablespoonful of washing 
soda to a gallon of water. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
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Skim Milk 
Rule 43. Skim milk shall not be sold, 
exchanged or delivered unless a special license 
for the same shall first have been obtained from 
the Board of Health; the provisions of Chapter 
56, Section 58. Revised Laws, must be observed 
and the number of the wagon and the number of 
the license must be painted on both sides of the 
wagon in letters two (2) inches in length and 
one-half inch in width in some contrasting color 
to the wagon. 
Cows, Condition and Care 
Rule 44. No milk shall be brought into, held, 
delivered or offered for sale in this town, from 
cows that are diseased, from cows that are not 
properly cared for, or that are kept in a stable 
that is improperly located, or in a stable that is 
not kept in a clean, wholesome and sanitary 
condition. 
Rule 45. Every person engaged in the pro- 
duction, storage, transportation, sale, delivery, 
or distribution of milk, shall immediately on the 
occurrence of any case of any disease specified in 
Rule 3, either in himself or in his family, or 
amongst his employees, or within the building or 
premises, where milk is stored, sold, or distrib- 
uted, shall at once notify the Board of Health, 
and may be made to suspend the sale and distri- 
bution of milk until authorized to resume the 
same by the Board of Health. No person having 
any disease specified in Rule 3, or having recently 
been in contact with a person having any such 
disease shall milk or handle any cow used for 
producing milk intendeddor sale or any measure, 24 
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or other vessel used for such milk, or in any way 
take part or assist in handling such milk until 
the Board of Health shall certify that all danger 
of communicating such disease to other persons 
shall have passed. No bottle, can, or receptacle 
for the reception of milk shall be removed from 
any tenement or dwelling wherein any person has 
any of the diseases specified in Rule 3, but the 
milk shall be poured into receptacles furnished 
by the customer. 
Offensive Trades and Occupations 
The attention of all persons interested, engaged 
or employed in the business therein specified, is 
called to the provisions of the following Sections 
of Chapter 75, Revised Laws, and they are 
directed to comply with the same: 
Section 91. The Board of Health of a city or town shall 
from time to time assign certain places for the exercise of 
any trade or employment which is a nuisance or hurtful to 
the inhabitants, injurious odors, and may prohibit the 
exercise thereof within the limits of the city or town or in 
places not so assigned. Such assignment shall be entered 
in the records of the city or town, and may be revoked 
when the Board shall think proper. 
Section 99. The proprietor of every slaughter-house, 
canning, salting, smoking or rendering establishment, and 
of every establishment used for the manufacture of sausages 
or chopped meat of any kind, who is engaged in the 
slaughter of neat cattle, sheep or swine, the meat or 
product of which is to be sold or used for food, shall 
annually in April apply for a license to the Mayor and 
Aidermen of the city, the Selectmen of the town or, in a 
town having a population of more than five thousand, 
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house or establishment is located. The application shall 
be in writing, signed and sworn to by one or more of the 
owners or by one or more persons carrying on such 
business, or, if a corporation, by some authorized officer 
thereof, shall state the name and address of all the owners 
or persons carrying on said business, the location of the 
slaughter-house or establishment in which said business 
is to be conducted, the estimated number of neat cattle, 
sheep or swine to be slaughtered per week, the days of the 
week upon which they are to be slaughtered and the 
nature of the products thereof to be sold or used for food. 
Section 100. The Mayor and Aidermen, Selectmen, or 
such other officers as they shall designate, or in a town 
having a population of more than five thousand, the Board 
of Health, if any, may annually issue licenses to carry on 
the business of slaughtering neat cattle, sheep or swine, to 
applicants therefor. The fee for each license shall be one 
dollar. The license shall name the persons licensed to 
conduct such business, and the building or establishment 
in which it is to be carried on, and it shall continue in force 
until the first day of May of the next year ensuing, unless 
sooner forfeited or rendered void. A record shall be kept 
by the board of officers authorized to issue licenses of 
all applications for licenses under the provisions of the 
preceding section and of all licenses issued, which shall be 
evidence of the issue of any such license. Such board of 
officers shall annually, on or before the first day of June, 
send to the Board of Cattle Commissioners a copy of every 
application made to them under the provisions of the 
preceding section and their action thereon, and a list of all 
persons with their addresses, who although engaged in the 
business named in the preceding section on the last day 
of the previous April, failed to make application for a 
license. 
Section 111. A person, partnership or corporation 
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horses, or in the carrying on of a melting or rendering estab- 
lishment, shall annually, in March, apply for a license to the 
Board of Health of the city or town in which such business 
is. to be carried on. The application shall be in writing 
and signed by the person or persons who desire to carry on 
such business, or, if the applicant is a corporation, by a 
duly authorized officer thereof. It shall state the names in 
full and the addresses of all the persons who desire to carry 
on such business, or, if a corporation is the applicant, the 
names of all the officers thereof and the street or other 
place where the business is to be conducted. The Board of 
Health of a city or town may grant such licenses after it is 
satisfied that the applicants have a suitable building and 
plant in a situation approved by said Board, and that they 
have suitable trucks or wagons for the removal of dead 
animals. The license shall state the name of the licensee, 
the situation of the building or establishment in which the 
business is to be carried on, and shall continue in force 
until the first day of April of the year next ensuing, unless 
sooner revoked. The Board of Health shall keep a record 
of such licenses which are granted by it, and shall notify 
the Board of Cattle Commissioners of the granting of any 
such license, giving the name and address of the licensee. 
The fee for a license shall not exceed one dollar, and a 
license may be revoked at any time by the Board of Health. 
Licensees shall report to the Board of Cattle Commis- 
sioners, in such form and at such times as it may order, 
every animal received by them which is found to be 
infected with a contagious disease. No unlicensed person 
shall carry on the business of killing horses, or of melting 
and rendering So much of Section twenty-five of Chapter 
ninety as provides that no person shall knowingly sell an 
animal with a contagious disease shall not apply to any 
person who sells such animal to a licensee under the 
provisions of this Section, if such animal is to be killed or 
rendered at the establishment of such licensee. Whoever 
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a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by 
imprisonment for not nore than ninety days, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment. 
Rule 46. Every house shall be provided with 
a suitable water-tight covered receptacle to keep 
garbage and swill until the same is removed by 
the garbage collector. All house offal, whether 
consisting of animal or vegetable substances, shall 
be placed therein, and no refuse, tin cans, glass, 
sawdust, cork dust, old boots, or shoes, dead 
animals, lawn clippings, water, or poisonous 
substances shall be mingled therein, and the 
same shall be kept in some convenient place to 
be taken away by the garbage collector, as often 
as twice each week. Any garbage containing 
foreign matter of any kind enumerated above 
must be cared for by the owners at their own 
expense. 
House Offal 
Rule 47. No person, unless expressly licensed 
therefor by the Board of Health, shall collect, 
transport or convey swill, offal, mannre, fat, 
grease, bones, soap-grease, rough tallow, 
slaughter-house refuse, or any decaying, putre- 
fying or offensive animal matter or vegetable 
substance through any of the public streets or 
ways of the town. All vehicles and vessels for 
the transportation of the above named substances 
shall be made and kept in such condition as will 
prevent the escape of any of their contents, or 
the odor thereof, and if any of the contents 
thereof shall be spilled or fall upon any street, 
walk or premises, it shall be the duty of the 
keeper or driver to replace the same immediately 
and remove all traces thereof. Every vehicle so 28 
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used shall have the initials of the owner and 
number of the license, in letters and figures two 
inches in size, painted on the outside of each side 
thereof. 
Any violation of this regulation will be pun- 
ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
Rule 48. All persons licensed by the Board 
to remove the contents of privy vaults and cess- 
pools, and all who collect and transport swill, 
refuse and offensive animal or vegetable sub- 
stances, shall keep all carts, equipments, and 
implements used therefor, disinfected and free 
from all obnoxious or offensive odors when not in 
immediate use, and shall not allow the same to 
become obnoxious or offensive to the public or to 
the owners or occupants of premises adjoining 
those where the same are kept or stored. ■ 
House Drainage, Plumbing, Etc. 
Rule 49. The sewage from each building on 
every street provided with a common sewer shall 
be conducted into said sewer; and, if such sewer 
is not provided, the sewage shall be disposed of 
in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health. 
Rule 50. That portion of a house drain which 
is outside of the building, and more than seven feet 
from the foundation wall, shall be constructed of 
six (6) inch akron pipe, and shall be laid with 
uniform grade and with a fall of not less than 
one inch in four feet, except in cases where a 
certificate by the town engineer is filed with the 
Board of Health, stating that a less fall will be 
sufficiently effective. The pipe passing through 
the walls of the buildings and to . a distance 
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face of foundation walls, shall be of a quality 
known as "extra heavy'' cast-iron soil pipe, size 
to be not less than four (4) inch. Such drains 
and pipes shall in material and workmanship be 
in accordance with the laws and ordinances 
relating to plumbing, and shall be reconstructed 
whenever in the opinion of the Board of Health 
this may be necessary. 
Rule 51. The owner or agent of any property 
desiring to make connection with the sewers of 
said town shall make application to the Board of 
Health so to do, and said application shall be in 
the following form: 
OFFICE* OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
Application Paper for Sewer Connection. 
Mr 
No Street 
Clinton, Massl 190.. 
The undersigned hereby makes application to the Board 
of Health of the Town of Clinton, Mass., for permission to 
lay sewer connection from his building to the above street 
and number, to street main, to be under the direction and 
supervision of the Board of Road Commissioners, in accord- 
ance with the Rules and Regulations of the Board of 
Health. 
This application paper must be signed by owner, or 
agent of owner, of the property. 
REPORT OF ENGINEER. 
Length of Akron Pipe 
Size of Akron Pipe 
Length of Soil Pipe, 10 Feet 
Size of Soil Pipe Inches ..... 
Inches below Cellar Bottom 
Sewer to enter on Front Side of House. 
Grade of Pipe 
Remarks 
Supt. 30 
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Attention is called to the following: 
Revised Laws, Chapter 49. An Act to provide 
for Connecting Buildings with Public Sewers. 
Section 30. The Board of Health of a city or town may 
require the owner or lessee of any building upon land 
abutting on a public or private way in which there is a 
public sewer to connect the same therewith by a sufficient 
drain, and such owner or lessee who fails or neglects to 
comply with such order shall be punished by a fine of not 
more than two hundred dollars. 
Cess-pools, Privies and Vaults 
Rule 52. No person or persons shall construct 
a privy-vault or cess-pool upon any premises 
within the limits of the town, without first having 
obtained a permit to do so from the Board of 
Health. 
Rule 53. Every tenement in said town used 
as a dwelling-house shall be furnished with 
sufficient drain, underground, to carry off the 
waste water into a common sewer or cess-pool; 
and also with suitable water-closets, or with a 
privy, the vault of which shall be underground, 
and of sufficient capacity for the number of 
occupants in such tenement, built and kept in 
the manner prescribed in the following Rule. 
Rule 54. Every privy-vault or cess-pool shall 
be built in a thorough and substantial manner, 
and located so that the inside of the same shall 
be at least three feet from the line of every 
adjoining lot, unless the owner of such lot shall 
consent or agree otherwise; and also three feet 
from every street, lane, passage-way or public 
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contain at least eighty cubic feet, and its contents 
shall never be within eighteen inches of the 
surface of the ground. Nor shall any cess-pool 
for the retention of waste water be within ten feet 
of any house, unless the cess-pool be cemented 
water-tight and satisfactory to the sanitary 
inspector. No privy-vault or cess-pool that is 
not water-tight shall be maintained within two 
rods of any well, spring, or other source of water 
supply used for drinking purposes. 
Rule 55. Whenever any privy-vault or cess- 
pool shall become offensive, the same shall be 
cleaned ; and in case the condition or construction 
of any privy-vault or cess-pool shall be different 
from the requirements of the above Rule, the 
Board of Health may cause the same to be 
cleaned, repaired, amended, altered or removed, 
and shall charge all the expenses incurred in so 
doing, to the owner or party occupying the estate 
in which such privy-vault or cess-pool may be: 
provided, they shall first give such owner or party 
occupying, a legal notice, and allow the space of 
at least forty-eight hours for such owner or 
occupant to comply with such notice. 
Rule 56. Whenever the use of any privy- 
vault or cess-pool is discontinued, such privy- 
vault or cess-pool shall be cleaned to the bottom 
and filled up with earth or other suitable material. 
Rule 57. In no case shall the contents of any 
privy-vault be removed unless the same is 
properly disinfected before the work is com- 
menced, and also during the progress of the 
cleaning, and after the completion of the cleaning, 
by such disinfectants as shall be approved by the 
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Rule 58. No privy-vault or cess-pool shall be 
emptied without the permission of the Board of 
Health, nor in any other mode, nor at any other 
time than such as the Board of Health may 
direct; and whenever any privy-vault or cess- 
pool shall be cleaned, the entire contents shall be 
moved. 
Rule 59. The licensee shall not open or work 
at vaults or cess-pools between the hours of 
11 A. M. and 1.30 p. M., or between the hours of 
5 and 7 p. m. ; he shall keep the wagon and 
complete outfit in repair, well-painted, clean, and 
air-tight, and free from any leakage; he shall 
remove the contents of vaults and cess-pools 
outside of the town limits, and shall not deposit 
the contents of any vault or cess-pool upon any 
premises within the limits of the town without 
first having obtained a permit to do so from the 
Board of Health; he shall avoid, as far as pos- 
sible travelling in the principal streets when 
crowded. 
Rule 60. The licensee's charge for cleaning 
vaults and cess-pools shall not exceed the follow- 
ing prices, and one or more vaults in the same 
enclosure, the property of one owner, and 
cleansed in the same day, shall be considered 
as one vault, and the charge therefor to be 
limited to two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per 
load, the number of loads at this price not to 
exceed three. If the number of loads be more 
than three and not over five, the price shall be 
two dollars ($2.00) per load. If the number of 
loads taken out exceed five, the owner shall be 
consulted before removing any further loads, 
each load to contain thirty cubic feet. The work 
shall be done in accordance with the Rules and RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
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Regulations, in any case all charges to be col- 
lected of the owner or occupant of the premises. 
Rule 61. For the purpose of allowing the 
property owners an opportunity to ascertain the 
quantity taken from any privy-vault or cess-pool, 
any police officer is authorized to detain for not 
more than thirty minutes any wagon or tank 
used for removing the contents of privy-vaults 
or cess-pools. 
Rule 62. No person shall engage in vault or 
cess-pool cleaning without a license first obtained 
from the Board of Health, and any person holding 
such license will forfeit the same by failing to 
comply fully with the foregoing terms and regu- 
lations, and such other rules as the Board of 
Health may hereafter adopt. 
Stables and Manure 
RulE 63. The owner and occupants of livery 
and other stables within the town shall not wash 
or clean their carriages or horses in the streets or 
public ways of this town, or permit them to be 
so washed or cleaned. They shall keep their 
stables and yards clean and hot allow more than 
five cords of manure to accumulate or remain 
upon their premises at any one time, and no 
manure shall be thrown from the stable into any 
yard, or court, or alleyway that abuts upon property 
not in the possession of the owner of the stable; 
nor shall any manure from said stable be exposed 
without cover in any yard, or court, or alleyway. 
Rule 64. Manure shall not be loaded upon or 
across any passage-way or sidewalk, except in 
stables heretofore constructed, from which it is 
impossible to load it otherwise, and in such cases 
the passage-way or sidewalk shall be thoroughly 
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ing. Manure shall only be removed in a vehicle 
so constructed as to prevent leakage. 
Rags and Junk 
Rule 65. No person shall store, put or place 
any old rags or bones which have been purchased 
or bartered, in any house, storeroom, stable, 
building or place within twenty-five feet of any 
dwelling-house other than the dwelling-house of 
the person storing such rags or bones; nor shall 
such old rags or bones remain exposed on any 
public or private premises. The entire stock of 
old rags or bones so collected, shall be removed 
from the premises or shipped every thir y days 
or oftener if the Board of Health deem advisable. 
RULE 66. No person collecting or buying junk 
shall keep or store the same in any room or cellar 
in any living-house, or shall have it exposed 
without cover in any yard. 
Barber Shops 
Rule 67. Every barber shop and the furniture 
and utensils therein shall be kept at all times in 
a cleanly condition. Mugs, shaving-brushes and 
razors shall be sterilized by immersion in boiling 
water after every separate use thereof. A separate 
clean towel shall be used for each person. Alum 
or other material used to stop the flow of blood 
shall be so used only in powdered form and 
applied on a towel. The use of powder puffs and 
sponges is prohibited. livery barber shop shall 
be provided with running hot and cold water. 
Every barber shall cleanse his hands thoroughly 
immediately after serving each customer. A copy 
of these regulations shall be conspicuously dis- 
played in every barber shop in the town. RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
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Expectoration in Public Places 
Hawking and spitting in public places is a 
filthy and disgusting habit and is declared detri- 
mental to public health, and the following regu- 
lation is adopted: 
RULE 68. Spitting upon the floor, platform or 
any other part of public conveyances (street cars, 
hacks, carriages, etc.,) upon the floor, steps or 
stairs of any public building, hall, church, theatre, 
railway station or shop, upon the sidewalk of any 
public or private street, or upon the pathway of 
any park or square, is prohibited under penalty 
provided for violation of rules and regulations of 
the Board of Health. 
Rule 69. These regulations shall take effect 
on the first day of June in the year nineteen 
hundred and six, and shall on that date supersede 
the rules and regulations of this Board adopted 
the twelfth day of July in the year eighteen 
hundred and ninety-five. 
Penalties 
Any person who shall violate any of the within 
rules and regulations where the penalty is not 
prescribed by statute, shall forfeit a sum not 
exceeding twenty dollars. 
The foregoing is a true copy from the records 
of the Board of Health, of the rules and regula- 
tions adopted at the meeting of said Board, held 
the ninth day of May in the year nineteen 
hundred and six. 
GEORGE L. TOBEY, Chairman. 
CHARLES L. FRENCH, 
WILLIAM O. JOHNSON, Sec'y. 
Attest, William O. Johnson, SeCy. REGULATIONS 
OF THE 
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS 
AND PROVISIONS. 
Made Pursuant to the Revised Laws of 
Massachusetts. 
Contagious diseases among domestic animals 
shall include glanders, farcy, pleuro-pneumonia, 
Contagiosa, tuberculosis, texas fever, foot and 
mouth disease, rinderpest, hog cholera, rabies, 
anthrax or anthracoid diseases, sheep scab and 
actinomicosis. Any person having knowledge 
of the existence of any of the above diseases, 
whether such information is obtained by personal 
examination or otherwise, must at once notify the 
Inspector of Animals or the Cattle Bureau of the 
Commonwealth. Whoever fails to give such 
notice shall be punished by a fine of not over one 
hundred dollars. See Section 28, Chapter 90, of 
the Revised Laws. 
The Inspector shall keep a record of all inspec- 
tions and make regular returns to the Cattle 
Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture. The 
Inspector shall make a regular and thorough 
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the limits of the town, and during the prevalency 
of a contagious disease, make inspections when- 
ever it is deemed necessary or at 'such times as 
the Cattle Bureau shall order. 
The Inspector shall also examine the stables 
and barns as to their cleanliness, light, ventilation 
and water supply and report the same in the book 
furnished for that purpose by the Cattle Bureau. 
The Inspector, when satisfied that an animal has 
a contagious disease, shall immediately quaran- 
tine said animal and take other sanitary precau- 
tions to prevent the spread of the disease, and 
shall give to the owner or person in charge an 
order of quarantine with the quarantine laws 
printed thereon, and send a duplicate to the 
Cattle Bureau. The Inspector shall give notice to 
no other person. 
Whoever interferes with the Inspector or 
secretly removes an animal affected with a con- 
tagious disease, shall, in accordance with the 
Revised Laws, be punished by a fine of not more 
than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment of 
not more than sixty days, or by both. 
Slaughter-house licenses shall be granted by 
the Board of Health in April, and only to those 
applicants who can show to the Inspector that 
they are properly qualified by virtue of the 
sanitary condition of the premises. No person 
shall carry on the business of slaughtering 
animals for market unless being regularly 
licensed. The application for license must be in 
writing and sworn to, giving location, estimated 
number of animals slaughtered each week and the 
days of the week when the slaughtering is to take 
place. The Inspector shall be present at the 
slaughter-house on the days designated. If, in 
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product thereof is unfit for food, he shall seize the 
same and cause it to be destroyed. All carcasses 
not condemned shall be stamped in accordance 
with Section 103, Chapter 75, Revised Laws. 
The Board of Health or the Inspector may 
inspect the carcasses of all slaughtered animals, 
fish, vegetables, produce, fruit or provisions, and 
may enter any building where such are stored or 
exposed for sale, and if any such carcass or 
articles are tainted, decayed, diseased or from 
any cause unfit for food, the same shall be seized 
and destroyed or otherwise disposed of. All 
moneys received by the Board of Health for 
property so disposed of shall, after deducting 
expense of said seizure, be paid to the owner of 
such property. If seized because of a contagious 
disease, the Cattle Bureau must be notified of the 
nature and disposition of said meat or carcass. 
Veal calves offered for sale must be at least four 
weeks old. The Board of Health, through the 
Inspector, shall seize, if in their opinion the veal 
calf is legally immature, and dispose of as pro- 
vided above, subject to the provision thereof 
relative to the disposal of money, or punished as 
provided in Section 74, Chapter 56, of Revised 
Laws. Whoever interferes or obstructs the Board 
of Health or the Inspector, or secretes any 
carcass, shall be punished in accordance with 
Section 72 of Chapter 56. Whoever knowingly 
sells or exposes for sale any food not fit for 
consumption shall be punished as provided in 
Section 73, Chapter 56, of Revised Laws. 
Milk Inspection 
Every person before selling milk or offering it 
for sale in store, from carriage or otherwise, shall 
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name in the license book, and pay the Inspector 
the sum of fifty cents for the town. Each license 
shall contain the number thereof, the name, 
place of business, residence, and names of drivers 
employed. The number of the license and name 
of the owner shall be placed legibly on each 
outer side of the vehicle. 
Whoever has in his possession with intent to 
sell, milk not up to standard quality or milk 
adulterated in any way, or milk from diseased 
cows, shall be punished in accordance with Sec- 
tions 55 and 57, Chapter 56, of Revised Laws. 
Milk in April, May, June, July, August and 
September must have not less than three per cent 
fats and twelve per cent total solids; milk in the 
other months shall contain three seven-tenths 
per cent fats and thirteen per cent total solids. 
The Inspector shall make a complaint upon 
information of any person who lays before him 
satisfactory evidence by which to sustain such 
complaint. 
The Inspector may withhold or cancel a milk 
dealer's license whose dairy or cow barn is found 
to be flagrantly unsanitary, or who has not 
conformed to the regulation issued by the State 
Board of Health in 1905. 
The applicant for a license must satisfy the 
Inspector that proper precautions are taken to 
insure pure milk before he can secure a license. 
The stable where possible should have a southerly 
exposure with plenty of windows and adequate 
means of ventilation. The stable, with the 
exception of the floor, should be whitewashed 
every year. The floor of the stable and passage- 
way behind the cows must be kept clean. The 
cows and their udders should be carded every 
day; particular pains must be taken to see that 40 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
the udders are clean. A filthy condition of the 
cows and stable will not be tolerated. The 
basement or cellar, where such exists, must be 
kept reasonably dry and well drained. The cows 
must not have access to any brook or stream 
containing sewage or refuse. The water supply 
must be pure. The milk when drawn must be 
immediately carried to the dairy room and well 
cooled. The dairy room must be clean and suffi- 
ciently far removed from the stable so that no 
odors will penetrate. The milk must be cleanly 
strained. The dairy utensils must be kept 
scrupulously clean. 
These rules of the Board of Health are easily 
within the dairyman's means, and when followed 
out will give him better milk and better business. 
The Inspector, or others employed to do so, 
shall collect samples of milk and test the same 
by the Babcock method, and any other method 
that the town may provide. Dealers in milk may 
have samples tested by leaving them at the office 
of the Inspector 
Skim milk can only be conveyed in cans so 
marked.