Louisville, Ky.: Venereal diseases-Notification of cases-Instruc- tions to be given patient-Examination of persons suspected of being infected-Quarantine-Prescribing, recommending, and com- pounding medicine-Unlawful for infected person to expose others to infection-Repression of prostitution-Issuance of certificates of freedom from venereal disease-Records to be confidential_______ Milwaukee, Wis.: Venereal diseases-Posting of notices in toilets by New Orleans, La.: Venereal diseases-Examination of prisoners for— Syphilis and gonorrhea-Notification of cases-Circular of in- formation and instructions to be given patient-Reports to be Venereal diseases-Examination of certain persons for-Labora- tory examinations-Treatment-Isolation-Hospitalization- Niagara Falls, N. Y.: Venereal diseases-Notification of cases-Treat- ment-Conduct of and precautions by infected persons-Pro- hibited occupations-Isolation-Hospitalization-Duties of physi- cians-Laboratory examinations-Circular of information and in- structions to patient-Examination of certain persons_. Philadelphia, Pa.: Venereal diseases-Notification of cases-Circular of information and instructions to be given patient-Quarantine- Venereal diseases-Notification of cases-Circular of instruc- tions and copy of ordinance to be given patient-Protective measures by health officer-Reports to be confidential-Exami- nation of persons suspected of being infected-Isolation- Quarantine-Treatment-Repression of prostitution-Issuance of certificates of freedom from venereal disease-Detention hospital-Bond or cash guaranty in lieu of isolation or quar- antine-Unlawful for infected persons to expose others to in- fection-Records to be kept by druggists__. Venereal diseases and sexual ailments-Advertisements concern- MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES, RULES, AND REGULA TIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH. ADOPTED DURING 1917-1919 BY CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES HAVING A POPULATION OF OVER 10,000 IN 1910. This volume is the eighth in the series of compilations of municipal ordinances and regulations pertaining to public health which have been issued by the Public Health Service. The preceding volumes are reprints Nos. 70, 121, 199, 230, 273, 364, and 388. The series, including this volume, comprises city ordinances and regulations adopted during the 10-year period from January 1, 1910, to December 31, 1919. In this volume no attempt has been made to publish all the ordinances and regulations received from the various municipalities. The primary object has been to publish ordinances and regulations which might be useful to health officers and others who are called upon to draft health legislation. Compilations of State laws and regulations pertaining to public health have also been published. These volumes are reprints Nos. 200, 264, 279, 338, 406, and Supplements Nos. 37 and 38. This series includes State laws and regulations enacted and adopted from July 1, 1911, to December 31, 1918. 15 ANIMALS.1 BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Swine-Keeping. (Ord. 658-C, Nov. 5, 1919.) SECTION 1. That section 1229 of the city code of 1917 be amended so as to read as follows: It shall be unlawful to keep within the city of Birmingham any hog or swine of any kind except within a pen or inclosure having a water-tight smooth floor made of cement or concrete, or other substantial mineral pavement impervious to wear, and which is connected directly with a sanitary sewer in accordance with the ordinances regulating the installation of plumbing and the laying or construction of sewers. All such pens or inclosures where hogs or swine are kept shall be thoroughly cleaned and washed daily in such a manner that all filth, manure, and other material shall go directly into the sanitary sewer and not upon the ground. Provided, That when not less than 2,500 square feet of ground space, well drained and free from standing water, is provided for each hog or swine a water-tight floor or sewer connection shall not be required. All pens or inclosures of any description where hogs or swine are kept or fed within the city of Birmingham, shall be cleaned and kept in such a manner as not to be or become the source of obnoxious odors or other nuisance. KANSAS CITY, KANS. Hogs-Keeping. (Ord. 16225, July 1, 1919.) SECTION 1. That no person or persons, company or corporation shall keep hogs within the corporate limits of Kansas City, Kans., without first having permission from the health and sanitation department of the city of Kansas City, Kans. SEC. 2. That said permission, obtained as aforesaid, may be at any time revoked when in the opinion of said health and sanitation department, the surroundings and conditions under which said hogs are kept may endanger the health and safety of the citizens of Kansas City, Kans. SEC. 3. That no person or persons, company or corporation shall keep hogs within the corporate limits of said city without providing for said animals a concrete, brick, or creosoted block floor covering the entire inclosure in which said hogs are kept, and without thoroughly flushing or cleaning said cement, brick, or creosoted floor and inclosure at least once a day, the washing from said flushings to enter a closed sewer and remain at all times under ground until finally discharged from the exit of said sewer. SEC. 4. That no slops or garbage or decayed vegetables, meats, or decayed substances of any kind be kept on or about the premises for the purposes of feeding said hogs. See also Meat and meat-food products, p. 260; Milk and milk products, p. 308; Stables and manure, p. 396. SEC. 5. That any person or persons, company or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than $5 or more than $500. LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Domestic Animals Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases-Prevention of Spread. (Ord. 2500, May 27, 1918.) SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to bring any animal having glanders, farcy, rabies, tuberculosis, or other communicable disease within the limits of the city of Little Rock, except for purpose of treatment or destruction. SEC. 2. Any person, persons, concern or corporation owning, keeping or harboring any animal having either or any of said diseases and every veterinarian or other person who is called to examine or professionally attend said animal so diseased, shall, within 24 hours after the discovery of said disease, or said examination or professional call, report, in writing, to the health department of the city of Little Rock the following facts in regard thereto : 4. The exact location of the diseased animal. b. The name and address of the owner thereof. c. The character and type of the disease. SEC. 3. Any animal being within the limits of this city when said disease is discovered shall immediately be treated, or killed, or disposed of under the direction of the health department. SEC. 4. The board of health of the city of Little Rock is hereby directed and ordered to promulgate suitable regulations, not in conflict with this ordinance, governing the care or disposition of any dead or diseased animal found within the limits of this city. SEC. 5. Any person, concern or corporation failing to comply with the prorisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than $25 nor more than $100. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Swine-Keeping-Feeding Garbage and Offal to. (Ord. 37465, Sept. 24, 1917.) SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep or to cause or permit to be kept, any swine upon any premises in the city of Los Angeles, unless such promises shall be comprised of an area of 1 acre or more. Every person, firm or corporation may keep one additional swine for each additional acre owned or controlled by such person, firm or corporation: Provided, however, That the number of swine that shall be kept upon any premises in said city shall not exceed five in number: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to those certain districts set apart as slaughterhouse districts, as set forth in ordinance No. 10909 (new series), or to that portion of the city of Los Angeles bounded and described as follows: [Description of certain area follows.] No swine shall be kept upon any premises in said city within a distance of 100 feet of any public building, church, school or dwelling. Every pen constructed or intended to be constructed and in which swine are kept, is hereby required to be floored with cement or concrete, or plank of not less than 2 inches in thickness. All floor joists shall be tightly calked and filled with tar 35495-21-2 or asphaltum, and every such cement, concrete or plank flooring is hereby required to be so placed and connected as to be properly and easily drained, and the same shall be drained into an accepted sewer or cesspool. Every such pen shall be provided with running water and the owner, lessee or person, firm or corporation having charge of or in control of any such pen is hereby required to keep any such pen in a cleanly and sanitary manner and condition. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to feed or cause or permit to be fed, any offal or garbage to swine upon any premises in the city of Los Angeles, except garbage from the household of the owner of such swine, without first obtaining a permit from the health commissioner of the city of Los Angeles so to do, as hereinafter provided. SEC. 3. Every person, firm, or corporation desiring to feed garbage or offal to swine in or upon any premises in the city of Los Angeles, except garbage from the household of the owner of such swine, shall make application therefor, and obtain from health commissioner of said city a permit so to do. Every such application shall be made upon blanks furnished therefor by the said health commissioner, and shall state the name and business address of the applicant, the location of the premises by street and number, wherein or whereon it is proposed to feed garbage or offal to swine, or if the same has no street number, then such description as will enable the same to be easily found; the character of the business proposed to be conducted or carried on by said applicant, and, if the applicant be a corporation, then the names and places of residence of the officers of such corporation, or if the applicant be a firm or partnership, then the names and places of residence of its members. Every such application shall be verified and signed by the applicant, and shall be filed in the office of the health commissioner. SEC. 4. If the existing sanitary conditions in said place comply with the ordinances of the city of Los Angeles, with the provisions of this ordinance, and conform to the rules and regulations of the health department of said city regulating the sanitary condition of such places, the said health commissioner shall grant the permit applied for: Provided, however, That if upon examination and inspection of any such place, it shall be found to be kept or conducted in an unsanitary manner, or in violation of the provisions of the ordinances of said city, or with the provisions of this ordinance, or the rules and regulations of the health department regulating the sanitary condition of such places, the health commissioner may suspend the permit granted to any person, firm, or corporation to conduet any such place until such person, firm, or corporation shall cause such place to be put in a sanitary condition and shall have complied with the provisions of the ordinances of said city, and with the provisions of this ordinance and with the rules and regulations of the health department regulating the sanitary conditions of any such place. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of health commissioner to enforce the pro visions of this ordinance, and the said health commissioner and his deputies are hereby empowered to enter any place in the city of Los Angeles, where swine are kept, to examine and inspect the same, to ascertain whether such place is kept or maintained in an unclean or unsanitary manner or condition, or whether any such place is kept or maintained in violation of the provisions of the ordinances of said city, or with the provisions of this ordinance, or with the rules and regulations of the health department regulating the sanitary condition of such places. SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to refuse to allow the health commissioner, or his deputies, to enter any portion of any such place, or to interfere in any manner with the examination or inspection |