thrown or allowed to run into any public waters, stream, water-course, street, road or public place. And every person or company conducting such manufacture or business shall use the best approved and all reasonable means to prevent the escape of smoke, gasses and odors, and to protect the health and safety of all operatives employed therein.

4. The business of bone and horse-boiling shall not be allowed, unless conducted under cover, the building to be provided with smokeconsumers, and a due regard be had to cleanliness in the disposition of the offal. No bone-boiling establishment or depository of dead animals shall be kept or erected in any part of this Commonwealth which is not under the jurisdiction of a local board of health, without a permit from the board of health or borough council of the nearest city or borough,

5. No permit shall be granted to any person or persons to carry on the business of boiling bones and dead animals, until after a careful inspection of the locality, buildings and apparatus, and of the plans for conducting the business, by an accredited Inspector of the State Board of Health, or, if such inspector be not accessible, then by an inspector appointed for the purpose by the board of health or borough council of the nearest city or borough.

6. No bone-boiling establishments or depositories of dead animals shall be kept or erected in or near to a thickly-inhabited neighborhood. 7. The floors of all bone-boiling establishments and depositories of dead animals shall be paved with asphalt or with brick or stone, well laid in cement, or with some other impervious material, and shall be well drained. All such establishments shall have such an adequate water supply as will enable thorough cleanliness to be maintained.

8. The boiling of bones and dead animals, etc., shall be conducted in steam-tight kettles, boilers or caldrons, from which the foul vapors shall first be conducted through scrubbers or condensers, and then into the back part of the ash-pit of the furnace fire, to be consumed, or by other apparatus equally efficient in preventing or counteracting the offensive effluvia.

9. When bones are being dried after boiling, they shall be placed in a close chamber, through which shall be passed, by means of pipes, large volumes of fresh air, the out-let pipe terminating in the fire-pit.

10. All proprietors of bone-boiling establishments not having, on the first day of July, 1886, permits to carry on the business, and violating these regulations, shall be liable to prosecution for failing to obey this order and also to an indictment at common law for creating and maintaining a nuisance.

11. The permit clerk of each local board of health or borough council shall have provided a book in which to enter the names of all persons engaged in the business of boiling bones and having depositories of dead animals; also, the location of works and appliances as reported

by the inspector, whether licensed or not, the number and date of permit and remarks.

12. No person or persons without the consent of the board of health or borough council of the nearest city or borough, shall build or use any slaughter house within the limits of this commonwealth; and the keeping and slaughtering of all cattle, sheep and swine, and the preparation and keeping of all meats, fish, birds or other animal food, shall be in the manner best adapted to secure and continue their wholesomeness as food; and every butcher or other person owning, leasing or occupying any place, room or building wherein any cattle, sheep or swine have been or are killed or dressed, and every person being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room or stable wherein any animals are kept, or of any market, public or private, shall cause such place, room or building, stable or market, to be thoroughly cleansed and purified, and all offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome and offensive matter to be removed therefrom at least once in every twenty-four hours after the use therof for any of the purposes herein referred to, and shall also at all times keep all wood-work, save floors and counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid, thoroughly painted or whitewashed; and the floors of such building, place or premises shall be so constructed as to prevent blood or foul liquids or washings from settling in the earth beneath.

13. No blood-pit, dung-pit, offal-pit, or privy-well shall remain or be constructed within any slaughter house. Any one offending against this rule shall be guilty of creating and maintaining a nuisance pre judicial to the public health, and shall be required to remove the nuisance within ten days from the date of notice.

14. The owners, agents, or occupiers of all slaughter houses are required, during the months of June, July, August and September, to distribute twice in each week not less than twenty-five pounds of chloride of lime about the premises, and also to remove the contents of any manure-pit or manure pile on the premises, once in each week, the said premises and contents of manure-pits being hereby declared to be nuisances prejudicial to the public health, unless subject to frequent disinfection and cleaning as herein indicated.

15. All constables and supervisors are enjoined, and all citizens are respectfully desired, to give information to the State Board of Health of any violation of the health laws, or of the regulations of the Board, so that the sanitary measures adopted by the latter to ensure the health of the people may be fully carried out, and all offenders promptly punished.

NOTE.-Section six of the act of June 3, 1885, confers upon the State Board of Health power and authority to order nuisances to be abated and removed in cities, boroughs, districts and places having no local board of health. Any person violating or failing to obey such order becomes liable, on conviction, to a fine of ore hundred dollars.

REGULATION IN REGARD TO THE SANITARY SUPERVISION OF TRAVEL AND TRAFFIC.

Upon satisfactory information of the approach to, or the transit through, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, of infected persons or goods, it shall be the duty of the Secretary, as executive officer of the Board, to cause the same to be stopped at the state line, or, if found within the limits of the state, to cause such persons or goods to be removed from cars, stages, vessels, boats or other conveyances, and securely isolated and disinfected; and he may, if, in his judgment, the emergency is such as to demand it, call a meeting of the "Committee on Travel and Traffic," to which his action shall be submitted, with his reasons therefor, in writing. But, in cases coming under the jurisdiction of national or municipal quarantine authorities, he shall co-operate with said authorities in all such action.

REGULATION OF TRAVEL AND TRAFFIC.

Regulations in Regard to Disinterment and Transportation of Dead Bodies.

Disinterment of Bodies.

RULE I. The removal of any body from its place of original interment is declared to be a nuisance dangerous to the public health, and is prohibited, unless the same be done under the direction and by permission of the local board of health or borough council.

RULE II. The above rule applies as well to the removal of a body from one grave or vault to another in the same cemetery as to its removal to another burial ground or place.

RULE III. The removal of dead bodies from any burial ground situated within the built-up portions of any city or borough is forbidden between April 1 and October 15.

RULE IV. The disinterment of the body of any person who died of any contagious or infectious disease is strictly prohibited, unless by speciai authority, and upon such conditions as the local board of health or borough council may impose.

Transportation of Bodies.

RULE I. The transportation of bodies of persons who shall have died from small pox, Asiatic cholera, typhus fever or yellow fever, is strictly forbidden.

RULE II. From October 15 to April 1, all other dead bodies may be transported without restriction, except those who shall have died of diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever or measles, which must be enclosed, as prescribed in Rule III.

RULE III. From April 1 to October 15, all dead bodies, when presented for transportation, must be enclosed in air tight zinc, copper or lead lined wooden boxes, or in air-tight iron caskets; or, if in any other form of coffin, said coffin must be in a hermetically sealed box, enclosed in a manner satisfactory to the local board of health, health officer or borough council.

RULE IV. No person or article which has been exposed to the contagion can accompany the body.

RULE V. Every dead body must be accompanied by a physician's certificate of death, and a certificate from the shipping undertaker that the body has been prepared for transportation in accordance with the rules of the State Board of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

RULE VI. In receiving any dead body which has been shipped from beyond or within the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia or Ohio, or the Province of Ontario, the rules of the State or Provincial Boards of Health of the same must be respected, and their transit permits will be honored without subjecting the body to delay, provided such rules do not conflict with any of the preceding rules in these regulations.

RULE VII. The following shall be the form of a transit permit for the transportation of a dead body within, into, or out of, the limits of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania:

NOTE. The rules and regulations of the State Board of Health are laws to be obeyed by every individual in the State.

2d Coupon taken at

Such an indorsement will answer instead of further coupons wherever the body is conveyed; and the Permit is to be surrendered at the place of burial. It, as well as every Coupon, should be preserved.