Selections from Danville General Ordinances, 1907
CHAPTER XIII. The Department of Public Health.
Sec. 200.
In accordance with the provisions of section 4, hereof, there shall be annually elected by the council a city physician. He shall inspect the city twice a month from April to September, and once a month for the balance of the year, visiting all localities suspected of being unhealthy or exposed to disease. He shall suggest to the council such measures as he thinks fit to preserve the health of the city, and especially to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious and contagious diseases, and to prevent or regulate the pursuit of callings prejudicial to the public health or comfort. He shall also consider and report upon all such matters as may be referred to him by the council, and make monthly reports of his proceedings.
Sec. 201.
The city physician is hereby invested with police authority in the performance of his duties. He may require deleterious matter wherever found to be removed by the occupant of the premises (or by the owner, if the premises are unoccupied), and conveyed beyond the limits of the city; and he may require yards and premises and the street gutters in front of any premises, when he thinks it important to the health of the neighborhood, to be cleansed and limed by the occupant or owner of such premises. He shall report to the mayor all offences against the health regulations of the city, and all, persons who fail, after one day’s notice, to remove deleterious matter or to cleanse and lime their premises and the gutters in front as aforesaid; and, thereupon, such person or persons shall be fined, in the discretion of the mayor, not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, unless he be satisfied of his or their inability to comply with the orders of the city physician.
Sec. 202.
Whenever, in the opinion of the city physician, it shall be necessary, he may require the services of the city sanitary force of hands and carts, in cleaning particular localities, and may order lime from the gas works or elsewhere to be distributed in such localities.
Sec. 203.
The city physician shall also attend the sick at the almshouse and the corporation prisoners in jail; and in all cases of inquest before a coroner, the expenses of which are chargeable to the city, he shall attend and give such information and render such service as is incident to his profession and useful to the jury when required so to do. (back to top)
Sec. 204.
There shall be elected in accordance with section 126 of these ordinances, one policeman, who shall be known as the sanitary policeman.
It shall be his special duty to look after the cleaning up of the streets, which he shall do with the force and carts assigned to him by the sanitary committee. He shall take charge of such carts and all other appliances and hands assigned to him for the use of his department of the sanitary work, and use all of the same under the direction of the sanitary committee. He shall make reports to said committee at such times as it may prescribe. For his services as such sanitary policeman he shall receive a salary of sixty dollars per month.
Sec. 204a.
There shall also be elected in accordance with said section 126, one policeman, who shall be known as the sanitary inspector. It shall be his special duty to look after the sanitary condition of the city, diligently inspect the city as often as possible, and especially suspected places, and have all offal, garbage, trash, rubbish and refuse matter, of every kind mentioned in sections 212 and 213 hereinafter of this chapter at the time specified in said sections hauled away beyond the corporate limits and deposited in such place or places as may be designated by said sanitary committee. He shall report all violations of the provisions of this chapter to the sanitary committee; and shall report also to it concerning his work at such times as it may prescribe. He shall be under the direction and supervision of said sanitary committee, and shall take charge of the carts, hands and other appliances allotted to him by said committee, and use them in accordance with its instructions. He shall receive for his services a salary of sixty dollars per month. (back to top)
Sec. 205.
It shall be the duty of the regular policemen of the city also to take cognizance of and report all violations of the provisions of this chapter to the city physician.
Sec. 206.
It shall be the duty of every occupant of an lot within the corporate limits of this city (or the owner if the premises are unoccupied) to keep such lot well cleaned; that is, free from all offensive and deleterious substances, and also to prevent, or remove, any accumulation of stagnant water on such lot, and to keep the same well drained, as far as possible, to prevent dampness. If there be any cellar or cellars on any such lot, such cellar or cellars shall be kept clean and free from all stagnant or standing water; and if there be any low, flat or marshy places on any such lot, the same shall be drained, either by open or blind ditches, by the occupant of such lot, or by the owner thereof, if time premises are unoccupied.
Sec. 207.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited, in any street or public or private alley, any filth, garbage, ashes, rubbish or, other such thing, and the words “rubbish or other such thing” shall be construed to include small hand bills, generally denominated “dodgers,” for advertising purposes, as well as all waste paper. And no person shall create any nuisance on the lot of another by turning any sluice of water thereon, or by throwing any slops or filth thereon or by transferring, in any way, the filth from his own lot to the lot of another. And no person shall permit any water to run from his lot or premises into any gutter of any street or alley, unless such water be clean water and the said gutter be paved and of sufficient fall to prevent the standing of any water therein. But nothing in this section shall prevent the emptying of drains or sewers from houses not adjacent to streets with sewers in them, into natural ravines or drains.
No privy shall be erected over any ravine or stream of water in this city, and every privy now situated over any ravine or stream of water, shall be removed by the owner, or occupant of the lot to which it belongs. The owner, or occupant, of every lot upon which there is any privy shall regularly, every day, cause the deposits in such privy to be covered over with dry earth; and the sanitary inspector shall exercise supervision over all such privies, and require the owner, or occupant, of any lot on which any such privy is situated, to cause the same to be cleansed and kept clean. Whenever the sanitary inspector may deem it necessary he shall require the owner, or occupant, of any lot on which any such privy is situated to cause the deposits in such privy to be buried or removed , in accordance with the provisions of section 208b. Upon the complaint of any citizen, or information given by any police officer to the mayor, or other justice, that a privy is so placed as to be offensive, he may, upon summons returned executed against the owner, order such privy to be removed.
Sec. 208a.
All persons residing upon or owning property upon streets of this city in which sewers have not been laid, and who have not such sewer connections, shall be required to build, furnish or provide upon their lot or lots occupied, or which may be hereafter occupied, suitable privies or earth closets, for the convenience of those occupying, or who may occupy such lot or lots and the houses or tenements thereon. Any person or persons violating this ordinance shall be fined not less than $2.00 nor more than $10.00 for each offence. (back to top)
Sec. 208b.
(1) No person shall remove excremental deposits from the city, or act as scavenger of privies,
without using specially prepared odorless water tight carts lined with
metal.
(2) No scavenger shall empty his carts inside or within one half mile
of the corporate limits.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse to have his
privy cleaned, and the excrement removed from his premises at least once
a week from April 1st, to September 30th, and once every two weeks from
October 1st, to March 31st, of every year.
(4) The following shall he the maximum charges for each removal of excrement,
viz.: private residences, ten cents; hotels and boarding houses, twenty
cents; factories, schools and warehouses, twenty-five cents.
(5) It shall be the duty of all scavengers to report to the sanitary or
police officers all persons who refuse or fail to have their privies cleaned
as hereinbefore required, and it shall be unlawful for any scavenger to
refuse to clean any privy when requested to do so, and when the maximum
price is offered.
(6) Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall
he fined not less than two nor more than five dollars. (back
to top)
Sec. 208c.
(1) It shall he unlawful for any person to bury
any corpse, or deposit any dead animal, decayed or decaying matter, garbage
or surface sewerage in or upon any water course, water channel or water
shed draining from either side of the river into Dan river above the city
water intake within five miles of the corporate limits of the city of
Danville, and within three-fourths of a mile of either bank of said river.
It shall likewise be unlawful for any person to bathe, spit, wash boats,
or cast other polluting things in said river or streams leading therein
within the above named limits and above said intake. The owner or tenant
of the land on which such offence is committed shall be liable to a fine
hereunder if he does not remove or eradicate such cause of offence within
twenty-four hours from the time he had notice thereof. In case of failure
to do so, the city may remove the cause at his expense.
(2) For every violation of this ordinance there shall be a fine of not
less than two nor more than twenty-five dollars; and for every day after
conviction of either the above named offences, wherein such convicted
persons shall fail to remove the cause of the offence, there may be a
similar fine imposed.
Sec. 209.
No person shall sink, or cause to be sunk, within the corporate limits of the city, any cess-pool, or pit, having any connection with any privy or water-closet, under a penalty of a fine of twenty dollars, and for every day after conviction wherein such person shall permit such cess-pool or pit, to remain on his lot unfilled he shall pay a fine of five dollars. Any person on whose lot any cess-pool or pit, may be found shall forthwith cause the same to be filled up with dirt, or be subject to the penalties prescribed in this section.
Sec. 210.
No person shall hereafter erect or use any privy or water-closet over the canal within the corporate limits of this city, or permit, or allow, any sewer, sewer pipe or gutter, for the purpose of carrying away any unclean or impure water, or filth or deleterious substance whatever, to run from any house or lot on either side of said canal into the same, or throw, empty, or pour into same canal, any such unclean or impure water or substance, or any filth, ashes, rubbish, garbage, slops, trash, refuse matter or any articles, of whatever kind or description, in any manner likely to, befoul the water or bed of the same, or tending to obstruct the free flow of the water. Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
Sec. 211.
It shall he the duty of every butcher, or dealer in fish, or other occupant of any stall in the markets, to keep his stall or premises clean of all vegetable leaves, filth and rubbish of every kind. And each butcher or other occupant of any stall in the markets, shall provide and keep special boxes, or barrels, in which he shall keep all refuse meats, decayed fish, waste, trash and rubbish of every kind, in readiness for removal by the sanitary inspector every morning except Sunday.
Sec. 212.
Within the following limits, to-wit: Commencing on Main street at Bank alley, thence down Main street, on both sides, to the free bridge; on Craghead street from Main, on both sides, to the Southern railway depot; on Union street from Holland’s warehouse, on both sides, to Patton street; on Patton street from the courthouse, on both sides, to Craghead street; on Market street from Patton street, on both sides, to Spring street; on Spring street from Market, on both sides, to Floyd street, all persons occupying premises shall cause all garbage and refuse matter of every kind about their respective premises to be gathered into and kept in boxes or barrels;
and upon the mornings of every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, from the first day of March to the 30th of November in each year, and every Tuesday and Saturday during the remainder of each year, all such persons shall, upon notification by the sanitary inspector, cause all such boxes or barrels so containing such garbage and refuse matter to be placed in the street opposite their respective premises convenient for removal by the sanitary policeman.
Sec. 213.
Within the following limits, to-wit: Commencing on High street at Union street, thence up High street, on both sides, to Ridge street; thence Ridge street, on both sides to Grove street; thence Grove street, on both sides to Chestnut street; thence Chestnut street, on both sides to Main street; thence Main street, on both sides to Holbrook avenue; thence Holbrook avenue, on both sides to Paxton street; thence Paxton street, on both sides to Jefferson street; thence Jefferson street, on both sides to Colquhoun street; thence Colquhoun street, on both sides to Craghead street; thence Craghead street, on both sides to the extension of Colquhoun street; thence in a direct line to the river; thence up the river bank to a point opposite to the commencement; thence in a direct line to the commencement, all persons occupying premises (except such persons as are mentioned and included in the foregoing 212 section hereof), shall cause all garbage and refuse matter of every kind about their respective premises to be gathered into and kept in boxes or barrels; and upon every Monday morning from the first day of March to the 30th day of November in each year, and upon every alternate Monday morning during the remainder of each year, all such persons shall, upon notification by the sanitary inspector, cause all such boxes or barrels so containing such garbage and refuse matter to be placed in the streets opposite their respective premises convenient for removal by the sanitary inspector. (back to top)
Sec. 214.
In reference to occupants of houses sweeping trash to the middle of the street has been repealed.
Sec. 215.
It shall be the duty of every occupant of any lot through which any branch or stream of water passes (or of the owner of such lot, if the premises are unoccupied) to keep the channel of such branch, or stream of water, within the limits of his lot, well opened and free from all obstructions, such as logs, brush, weeds, or other substances which may prevent a free flow of the water and cause an accumulation of filth along the sides of the channel and on the banks of the stream; provided, that Dan river, the canal, the branch between Lynn’s mineral well and the almshouse, and the tributaries of said branch, and such other streams in thinly settled localities, on application from the owners of the lots through which they pass, the city physician may exempt, shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.
Sec. 216.
Whenever the city physician may deem it necessary to have any street, ravine, or branch cleansed by the water from the water works, he shall make application to the superintendent of the water works, who shall have the same done, if it can be done without damage or hazard to the interests for which the water works are especially designed.
Sec. 217.
It shall be the duty of the city physician to cause to be printed such of the provisions of this chapter as he may deem necessary, together with such instructions as he may deem proper, and a copy thereof sent annually on the first day of April to each dwelling and business house in this city.
Sec. 218.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited
in any street or alley of this city, or permit to be deposited in any
street or alley of this city, or to remain therein, or remain upon his
premises, or contiguous thereto, except as provided in sections 212 and
213, any dead carcass, filth, garbage, shavings, ashes, rubbish, or any
such injurious or offensive matter or thing. Garbage shall be construed
to include any deleterious or offensive matter, material or substance,
whether animal, vegetable or offal of any description, except ashes, which
may be disposed of at the expense of the owners thereof, or of the occupants
of the premises, wherein or whereat the same were made or deposited; all
other species of garbage or offal may, upon proper notification to the
sanitary inspector of the city, be removed as now provided by sections
212 and 213 of these ordinances.
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not
less than one nor more than ten dollars for each and every offence.
Sec. 218a.
BOARD OF HEALTH, with
rules for its government, in reference to contagious diseases.
(1) There shall be, created, and established for the city of Danville,
a board to consist of four physicians of good character, reputation and
standing in their profession, to be known as the board of health of said
city.
(2) The members of the board of health shall be elected by the council
in joint session at the time of the election of other city officers in
every second year, and they shall hold, their positions for two years
from the first day of July of the year in which they are elected. Said
board of health shall be invested with all the powers and privileges incident
to the creation and objects of such boards as prescribed by law, and subject
to such duties as are now or may be imposed by time laws of the State
of Virginia, and the ordinances of the city of Danville. The services
rendered by said board for the present, and until further action by the
council, shall be without compensation.
(3) The board of health herein provided for shall give careful attention
as may be necessary, looking to the health of the city and its suburbs,
and especially to the sanitary condition and arrangements of the city,
reporting everything, which in the opinion of said board, tends to the
injury or detriment of the health and comfort of the people of the city,
with such recommendations as they may deem best for the protection or
promotion of health and the general good and welfare of the people from
a sanitary standpoint.
(4) Said board shall meet as often as its members may deem necessary,
and do such matters and things within their power as may tend to the good
of the city and its people. Said board shall make its rules and regulations
with reference to its duties and the matters committed to it, which shall
be reported to the council, and be approved of whenever proper and conformable
to law. Said board shall confer when necessary with the city physician,
and be authorized to advise with him upon all matters relative to the
health and comfort of the city and its people, and shall be authorized
to call the attention of the mayor and other authorities of the city to
any matter or measure necessary to be done in the furtherance of the sanitary
arrangements of the city, or the health of its citizens.
(5) When any physician knows that a person whom he is called I upon to
visit is infected with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever
or any other disease dangerous to public health, he shall at once give
notice to the city physician and board of health, and cause such placards
to be put up on conspicuous parts of the house in which the patient resides
as may be necessary, which placards shall be furnished by the board of
health. Whenever the city physician shall have notice of the existence
of a contagious disease in any house or family in the city, he shall immediately
give notice thereof to the principals of all the public and private schools
in the city. When a householder knows that a person within his family,
or under his care or in his employment, is sick of smallpox, diphtheria,
scarlet fever, or any other infectious or contagious disease, he shall
immediately give notice to the board. of health or city physician, and
upon the death, recovery or removal of such person, the room occupied,
and the articles used by and for such diseased or infected person, shall
be disinfected by such householder in a manner approved by the board of
health. No pupil, shall be allowed to attend the public or private schools
of the city while any member of the household to which said pupil belongs
is sick of smallpox, varioloid, diphtheria, membraneous croup, scarlet
fever, cholera or any other contagious or infectious disease, and during
a period of two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such sick
person; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to
present to the teacher of the school he is attending or desires to attend,
a certificate from the attending physician or board of health of the facts
necessary to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regulations.
(6) With respect to scarlet fever, smallpox and varioloid,
no patient will be considered well and free from isolation until the attending
physician or some physician well known to or acting with the board of
health, certifies that he has personally inspected the patient, and found
that the patient is no longer a source of danger. No such certificate
shall be received by the board until at least three weeks have elapsed
from the beginning of convalescence.
(7) When an undertaker is called to a house where a person has died of
smallpox, varioloid, cholera, diphtheria, membraneous croup, or
scarlet fever,
he shall give immediate notice to the board of
health. As soon as possible after the death of a person. from one of the
foregoing diseases, a private funeral shall be held, at which none but
the immediate relatives and such other persons as may be necessary to
conduct the funeral, shall be present. The body shall in no case be carried
to the grave in a hack or other public conveyance.
(8) The foregoing rules relative to contagious diseases shall be in force
until the board of health removes from the premises where the illness
has occurred the placards which notify the public of the existence of
the disease, and such placards shall not be removed except by direction
of the board of health.
(9) Every person who neglects or refuses to comply with or violates the
foregoing ordinance and the several provisions thereof shall he fined
not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
Sec. 218b.
There shall be as soon as possible after the passage of this ordinance (Jan. 21, 1903) the vaccination of all persons residing within the city who may, in the opinion of the city physician, his assistant, or the board of health, be ordered to be vaccinated to prevent the introduction or spread of smallpox and kindred diseases, whether adults or children, except in such cases where a regular licenced physician may declare it to be unnecessary by his written certificate.
Any adult failing or refusing for five days to be vaccinated or to have his or her child or children or ward or wards, vaccinated, after a representative officer or member of said board of health, or the city physician or his assistant, shall have ordered the same, shall be re ported to the mayor, who shall impose a fine of not less than five nor more than ten dollars, and for every day of such subsequent failure there shall be imposed a fine of one dollar.
Those persons who are unable to pay, may be vaccinated by the I city physician or his assistant at the city’s expense.
Sec. 218c.
All owners or occupiers of houses or rooms in
which there have been cases of contagious or infectious diseases (whether
they result fatally or not) shall be required to fumigate or disinfect
such house or rooms as soon as possible. If such owner or occupier is
financially unable to do so, he shall call upon the city physician who
will have it done at the city expense.
For violation of this ordinance there shall be imposed a fine of not less
than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.
Sec. 218d.
It shall be the duty of all street car companies,
operating street railways in the city, to have their closed or winter
cars when in service, properly fumigated once a week, under the direction
of the sanitary inspector.
For failure to do this, there shall be imposed a fine of not less than
one nor more than five dollars in the case of each car so neglected to
be fumigated.
Sec. 218e.
Any persons, who shall expectorate or spit upon any part of a street car used in the city for the transportation of passengers, or upon the steps, vestibule, platform, or floor of any railway depot, church, hotel, theatre, postoffice, or other public building in the city, or upon the paved entrance thereto between the outer or property line of the sidewalk and such building, shall be fined one dollar for each offence.
Sec. 218f.
Whenever contagious or infectious diseases occur,
or are prevailing in the city of Danville and after provision shall be
made by the committee of health under the authority of the council by
the securing or erection of houses or suitable buildings for the reception
of sick and infected persons and the establishment of quarantine limits,
the health officer of the city or the physician charged with the care
of the patients affected or suffering with contagious, infectious or dangerous
diseases may, when prudent, compel the removal of all such persons and
patients as are affected or suffering from such infectious, contagious
or dangerous diseases, to the hospital or houses prepared for the reception
of such cases and within quarantine limits.
The mayor of the city is hereby authorized and requested to give such
aid to the health officer or physician charged with the care of and attention
to the accomplishment of the removal of persons infected or suffering
with such contagious or infectious diseases to the hospital or quarantine
grounds or place designated by said health officer or physician in charge
as hereinbefore indicated.
Any violation of this ordinance or resistance thereto when the same is
being carried out in a proper and legitimate manner shall subject the
offender to a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
Sec. 218g.
It shall be unlawful for any person to harbor
or conceal at any place within the corporate limits, or within one mile
of the corporate limits, any person or persons exposed to smallpox.
A fine of not less than five dollars shall be imposed for every such offence,
and not less than five dollars per day as long as such harboring or concealing
shall continue; and one-half of the fine shall be paid to the informer.
Sec. 218h.
(1) All persons, whether male or female, residing
within the city of Danville, and who have not been vaccinated within the
last __, shall have themselves vaccinated with genuine vaccine matter
at their own expense. Provided, however, that should any person or persons,
including children who attend the public schools, be unable to pay for
such vaccination, then such person or persons shall be vaccinated with
genuine vaccine matter at the cost and expense of the city. Any person
violating this ordinance shall be fined not less than two nor more than
ten dollars.
(2) Persons suffering with contagious diseases shall be excluded from
the public schools while in that condition, and the teachers shall require
of the pupils cleanliness of person and good behavior during their attendance
at the school and on their way thither and back to their homes; and no
pupil or pupils shall be admitted to said public free schools unless they
have been vaccinated, nor shall any person be allowed to teach in the
public schools of this city unless he has been vaccinated; provided, that
the operation of this clause concerning vaccination may be suspended in
whole or in part by the school board of this city for good cause. Any
violation of the provisions of this section shall subject the offender
to a fine of not less than one nor more than ten dollars.
(3) The board of health of this city together with the city physician,
shall designate such of their own number, and such other physicians of
the city in regular standing and practice as may be deemed necessary,
to vaccinate such persons as shall require to be vaccinated at the public
expense with good vaccine matter as in a former part of this ordinance
required. And any physician upon whom the work aforesaid may be devolved
shall inquire into the circumstances of the person applying to be vaccinated,
and if able to pay require the same of him. And in all cases where the
persons applying are not able to pay for such vaccination then the physician
to whom such application is made shall take the name, age and address
of such applicant, and place the same on the list of those for whose vaccination
the city will pay at the rate of __ for each person vaccinated. And the
accounts of the physicians rendering the services hereinbefore required
of them, shall at proper intervals be returned to the board of health
of the city, upon whose approval said accounts shall be paid. Any violation
or abuse of this section, shall subject the offender to a fine of not
less than two nor more than ten dollars.
(4) No person, whether teacher or pupil, shall enter upon and attend the
public schools of this city except and until such teacher or pupil shall
furnish to the principal of the school, which said teacher or pupil attends
a certificate from a physician, or other good evidence, that such teacher
or pupil has been properly vaccinated. A violation of this section shall
subject the offender to expulsion from the school which he or she attends,
in the discretion of the school board, and moreover to a fine of not less
than one nor more than five dollars.
Sec. 218j.
(1) No person shall by
himself or agents sell, exchange or deliver, any impure, adulterated,
diluted, unwholesome or skimmed milk, unless in the latter case the words
“skimmed milk” are plainly marked on the vessel containing time
same when delivered, the letters being at least half an inch high.
(2) By pure, unadulterated, wholesome and unskimmed and undiluted milk
is meant time natural product of healthy cows, which has not been deprived
of its cream; and to which no additional liquid or solid or preservative
has been added, and which at the temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit
shall have the specific gravity of not less than 1029, and not less than
three per cent. of fat. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prevent the sale of buttermilk, provided it be sold as such, and the purchaser
be in every instance notified of its character.
(3) Inspection of milk
shall be made by the sanitary inspector,
who may enter all places where milk is stored or kept for sale, and all
carriages and other vehicles used for the conveyance of milk, for the
purpose of inspection. The said inspector shall frequently and at irregular
intervals make inspection of all dairies furnishing milk to the city,
and places where milk is sold in the city, noticing especially the sanitary
condition of the same, and examine the utensils used for the reception
and dispensing of the milk. The said inspector shall at least twice a
year go through the stables, examine the cows and watch the milking in
those places from which milk is brought for sale into the city.
(4) If the sanitary inspector shall find any unsanitary condition in the
dairies, stables, sheds or other buildings used for the housing of cows
or the storing of milk to be offered for sale in the city; or if he has
good reason to believe that the cows whose milk is thus offered for sale
are diseased, he shall report the same in writing to the board of health.
He shall frequently examine the milk brought to the city for sale and
report to the board of health any violations of the provisions of this
ordinance. When the said inspector reports to the board of health, he
shall notify the owner of the dairy, or the person who offers impure milk
for sale, or has unsanitary conditions around his dairy, etc., that he
has made such report; and if in the judgment of the said board of health
and said inspector the continuation of the sale of such milk endangers
the health of the citizens of the city, he shall have the power to temporarily
prohibit the sale of such milk in the city until the unsanitary condition
has been remedied, and to order that the said milk be carried from the
city and none of it sold or given away therein.
(5) Should the cows of any owner be without the city and such owner desires
to sell milk from such cows within the city, then such owner shall allow
the inspector to inspect his milk, cows, dairy and method of milking,
and such owner shall obey all the provisions of this ordinance, otherwise
he shall not sell milk within the city; and it shall be the duty of the
said inspector to inspect such cows, dairy, stables and method of milking
as if the same were within the city.
(6) Any owner of cows selling their milk within the city shall have such
cows tested for tuberculosis by a reliable veterinary between April 1st.
and June 1st. of each year, and shall file with said inspector within
said time a certificate of said veterinary as to the condition of the
cows with respect to said disease, and should any of the said cows have
tuberculosis, no milk shall be sold by such owners within the city while
in possession of such tuberculous cow.
(7) Any person, firm or corporation selling or offering to sell milk within
the city and refusing to allow inspection of his milk or premises as above
set forth, shall be prohibited from selling milk in the city; and any
person, firm or corporation found selling or offering to sell impure,
adulterated, diluted, unwholesome or skimmed milk contrary to the above
provisions, or otherwise violating this ordinance, shall be fined not
less than $5.00 nor more than $10.00 for each offence.
Sec. 219.
Any person who shall wilfully, or through neglect, violate any of the foregoing provisions of this chapter, for which no penalty is herein otherwise prescribed, shall be fined not less than one nor more than twenty dollars. And such person shall further be required to comply with the provisions of the section he shall have violated; and as long as he fails to do so he shall be subject to a like fine every day until he shall have complied therewith.
Sec. 220.
It shall be the duty of the city physician to prepare and cause to be printed blank forms for certificates of deaths and births,
which blank forms shall be furnished to and used by every physician, accoucher and midwife, in proper cases, in reporting any death or birth which may occur in the city.
Sec. 221.
It shall be the duty of every physician, accoucher
or midwife, who shall be in charge of the birth of any infant within the
city, to report to the city physician, within six days after such birth,
stating distinctly the date of the birth, the sex and color of the child,
its physical condition, whether stillborn or not, and the name, residence
and nativity of the parents of such child. Any physician, accoucher or
midwife failing to make such report shall be subject to a fine of five
dollars as prescribed in section 226.
Whenever any person shall die within the limits of the city, it shall
be the duty of the physician who attended such person during his or her
last sickness, or the coroner, when the case comes under his notice, to
furnish within twenty-four hours after the death of such person, to the
family of such person, or to such person as may be in charge of his or
her remains, or to the undertaker or other person superintending his or
her burial, a certificate according to the form prescribed by the city
physician, setting forth so far as can be ascertained, the full name,
age, sex, color, residence, place of nativity, occupation and condition,
whether married or single, of the person deceased, also the date and cause
of death. For failure to make such report, there shall be imposed a fine
of five dollars, as prescribed in section 226.
The city physician shall keep from such reports to him, or from other
creditable information, a registry of births and deaths and make report
thereon monthly to the council. (back to top)
Sec. 222.
No person having charge as sexton, or otherwise, of any burial vault, burying ground or cemetery, within the city, shall bury any person who has died within the limits of the city in any grave, vault or tomb, in the city, without a burial permit therefor from the city physician, which burial permit shall be issued by the city physician, or in his absence by some member of the board of health, upon the presentation to him of the death certificate, required by sections 221 and 224.
Sec. 223.
No undertaker or other person shall remove the body of any person who has died within the city and has not been buried, to any place beyond the city limits for the purpose of burial, without a permit to do so from the city physician upon presenting to him the certificate required by section 221 hereof, either from the attending physician or the coroner.
Sec. 224.
In case any person shall die within the city without the attendance of a physician, or if the attending physician neglect or refuse to furnish the certificate required, it shall be the duty of any undertaker who may have charge of the burial, and the right of any other person acquainted with the facts of the case, to report the same to the city physician, who shall thereupon be authorized to give the required certificate, provided it be not a case requiring the attendance of the coroner.
Sec. 225.
Every sexton or other person having charge of any burial vault, burying-ground or cemetery, within the city, shall, before 12 o’clock noon of each Monday of each week, return to the city physician all the certificates received by him during the preceding week. The city physician shall also make a true copy of the same to the chairman of the committee on cemeteries at the end of each month.
Sec. 226.
In case any physician or coroner shall neglect or refuse to furnish the certificate required of him by section 221 hereof, he shall pay a fine of five dollars for every such offence.
Sec. 227.
Any undertaker, sexton, or other person, who shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties required of him by the provisions of this chapter shall pay a fine of three dollars for every such offence.
Sec. 227a.
In addition to the tax imposed, all dealers in the city of Danville in cast-off or second-hand clothing, shall be required to execute a bond with good security, each in the penalty of not less than $200.00 payable to the city of Danville, with condition that they bring no filthy or second-hand clothing infected with disease, or cast-off or second-hand clothing from any country or city infected with cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, or any other contagious disease,
into or within the limits of the city of Danville; and in case any dealer or dealers shall bring or offer for sale in this city any stock of cast-off or second-hand clothing, such dealer or dealers shall be required to show, if need be, that such cast-off or second-hand clothing has been properly fumigated and cleaned, and the stock of such dealers shall be subject to the inspection of the health inspector of the city at any time, and said officer shall have authority to order the fumigation of said goods if in his judgment deemed best, and the destruction of all such if found necessary after the same have been inspected or passed upon by the committee on health; but such destruction of cast-off or second-hand clothing as is herein provided for, shall only be made after proper notice to the parties interested and a proper valuation of the goods to be destroyed.
CHAPTER XIV. Sewerage.
Sec. 228.
Every owner of an improved lot, fronting on a street along which a public sewer and water mains are laid, shall within sixty days after the laying of such sewer and a branch to the line, between such lot owner’s property and the street, make connection for his premises with such sewer; and any person failing to make the connection herein required, within the time herein prescribed, and in the manner prescribed in this chapter, shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for every day he is in default in making such connection.
Sec. 229.
Under the direction and supervision of the city engineer and committee on health, the city of Danville shall, at its own cost and expense, build and construct all branch sewer connections to the front line of lots at the further or outer edge of the sidewalks.
Sec. 230.
In laying all branch connections, it shall be the duty of the engineer to see that they are aligned properly and graded to suit the adjoining premises.
Sec. 231.
All branch connections with the public sewer
shall be constructed of four-inch vitrified earthenware pipe of the best
quality, or four-inch cast iron pipe of the best quality free from all
defects.
The joints of the pipe, if earthenware be used, shall be made with gasket
and mortar of good fresh cement, and clean sharp sand in equal parts,
and if iron pipes he used, the joints shall be made with gasket and melted
lead, well calked; and all joints shall be water and gas tight.
Sec. 232.
If any person not acting under the authority of the sewerage committee or of the city engineer, shall uncover or connect with the public sewer or interfere with it or any of the parts pertaining to it, he shall for every such offense, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.
Sec. 233.
No person, except a regularly licensed plumber, shall construct any branch or part of a branch connecting with the public sewer, or make any repairs or alterations thereon, and any person who violates this section, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, and any plumber who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter, where the penalty is not otherwise specified, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for each offence.
Sec. 234.
All branch connections running from the line, between the street and the property to the wall of time house, shall be constructed of salt-glazed, vitrified, earthenware pipe, or cast iron pipe of the best and approved quality and four inches in diameter; from the wall up through the house, the material used shall be smooth, cast iron soil pipe, four inches in diameter; and all the material used and the workmanship employed in constructing these connections shall be in accordance with the “plumbing laws” and subject to the approval of the city plumber or other authorized agent of the city of Danville.
Sec. 235.
All the soil pipe shall be four inches in diameter throughout, and shall extend above the highest eaves of the house, and no trap or obstruction shall be constructed or allowed upon any branches between the street and the top of houses above the eaves. Traps shall be formed between baths, wash-basin, etc., and the soil pipe, in accordance with the plumbing laws.
Sec. 236.
All branch pipes shall be run in straight lines
and on uniform grades, and whenever a change of direction shall be required
it shall be effected by branches, and, when needed, 1–8 bends.
All outdoor pipe shall be laid not less than two feet under the ground.
All traps in connection with fixtures shall be ventilated in the most
approved manner, and as the city engineer or plumber shall direct, to
prevent syphonage.
Sec. 237.
Any person desiring to make connection with the public sewers, shall before doing so, make application for permission to do so, upon a form which the city engineer will furnish when asked for it. He shall accompany the application with a drawing, showing the full plan of the plumbing to be connected. If the plans conform to the requirements of the ordinance, permission to connect shall be granted the applicant, but if they do not, the application shall be denied. No change shall be made in any plan after permission to connect shall be granted, except upon a renewal of the application and on permission obtained in the manner above specified, nor shall any alterations in old work be made or allowed after connections are made, except by consent of the city engineer, and no work on time sewers or connections shall be covered up or concealed until the city engineer or his representative or agent shall have first inspected and approved it.
Sec. 238.
The city engineer shall be advised in writing by the plumber or owner of the premises of the completion of any job of sewerage that shall be done on his premises, and the city engineer shall inspect such work within twenty-four hours after receiving such notice.
Sec. 239.
Any person who shall use any sewer connections before they are inspected and approved by the city engineer, shall be liable to a fine for so doing of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.
Sec. 240.
The drawings showing plans of plumbing presented with applications for permission to make connections shall be made on sheets of white paper 14x11 1-2; shall be drawn in ink, and shall be filed with the application they accompany in the office of the city engineer.
Sec. 241.
The connections of the respective buildings and tenements with the main sewer shall be distinct and separate, unless otherwise authorized by written permission of the committee on health.
Sec. 242.
No owner of premises shall permit rain water from the roofs of the houses thereon or from the ground thereof, nor drainage from the yard or cellar thereon to run into the branch sewers. Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars.
Sec. 243.
No occupant of any premises shall throw, or allow to be thrown, into any of the fixtures connected with the sewers or into any sewer branch thereof, any cinders, vegetables, fruits, fruit peelings, ashes, rags, cotton, hair or any refuse matter or garbage, or any thing other than the ordinary discharges of water closets, liquid house slops and closet paper, and liquid waste refuse from factory dye houses, and any person violating this section shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offence.
Sec. 244.
Any person violating this chapter in any particular shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars except in cases in which a different fine is imposed in this chapter, and every five days’ failure to comply with this section shall be regarded as a separate offence.
Sec. 245.
No person shall be allowed to have or use any privy or earth closet upon any lot fronting upon any of the streets of this city upon which a sewer and sewer pipe have been constructed, laid and completed. Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than five nor more than ten dollars.
Sec. 246.
All persons owning lots fronting upon any of the streets of this city in which a sewer and sewer pipes have been constructed, laid and completed, and to which city water is or may be supplied, shall be required to enter and connect their said lots and premises with said sewer and sewer pipes in conformity with the laws given above, provided, that no owner or occupier of a lot upon which there are no buildings and improvements, shall be required to make the sewer connections above specified until buildings or improvements are made upon such lot. Any person violating this section shall be fined in the manner specified in section 228 of this chapter.
Sec. 247.
The committee on health through the city’s purchasing agent is authorized to purchase a sufficient amount of four-inch vitrified sewer pipe for the purpose of making connections from the property line on all streets that have been or may hereafter be sewered in conformity with the plan or system adopted, and the city engineer shall employ a force of hands and have said connections made in a suitable and convenient manner to accommodate the property, and all work shall be carried on only on one side of a street at a time.
Sec. 247a.
It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspector to report to the mayor and the council on the first day of each year, all houses fronting on sewered streets which have not been connected with the city sewer according to law; also all parties who continue to use earth closets on sewered streets
