sive material is swept or removed therefrom. Such garbage, refuse. filth, dirt, and other offensive material removed from the sidewalk, flagging, or curbstone may be piled in the gutter or roadway between the hours of 6 and 8 o'clock in the morning, but shall not be put or placed in, or swept, shoveled, thrown, emptied, or deposited into the gutter or roadway at any other time. No such owner, tenant, lessee, occupant, or person in charge shall allow anything in, on, or about such building or premises, or any condition arising or existing therein or thereon, to become a nuisance, or dangerous or prejudicial to life or health.

Residences and Business Establishments-Heating. (Res. Bd. of H., Oct. 17, 1918.)

Resolved, That article 12 of the sanitary code be amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 225, to read as follows:

SEC. 225. Heating of occupied buildings.-It shall be the duty of every person who shall have contracted or undertaken, or shall be bound, to heat, or to furnish heat for any building, or portion thereof, occupied as a home or place of residence of one or more persons, or as a business establishment where one or more persons are employed, to heat or to furnish heat for every occupied room in such building, or portion thereof, so that a minimum temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit may be maintained therein at all such times: Provided, however, The provisions of this section shall not apply to buildings, or portions thereof, used and occupied for trades, businesses, or occupations where high or low temperatures are essential and unavoidable.

PORTLAND, OREG.

Buildings Heating. (Ord. 34912, Jan. 8, 1919.)

SECTION 1. That article 5 of ordinance No. 32929 of the city of Portland entitled "An ordinance on public safety and general welfare, and declaring an emergency" passed by the council June 6, 1917, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 3, which new section shall read as follows:

SEC. 3. Minimum heat.—Every person, firm, or corporation in the city of Portland leasing or renting to another space in any building under agreement, express or implied, which includes the furnishing of heat by such person, firm, or corporation shall, during the months of October, November, December, January, February, March, April, and May of each year, furnish in such space so leased or rented heat sufficient to maintain a temperature of not less than 68° F. between the hours of 7 o'clock a. m. and 10.30 p. m. of each day, except in buildings that are regularly and customarily occupied only during the day by the lessee or tenants thereof said minimum heat shall be furnished between the hours of 8 o'clock a. m. and 5.30 p. m. of each day except Sundays and in buildings occupied at irregular intervals said minimum heat shall be furnished during the period of occupancy. It shall be the duty of the bureau of police and the bureau of health to enforce the provisions of this section.

STREATOR, ILL.

Theaters and Other Public Places of Amusement-Ventilation, Cleaning, and Disinfection-Toilets. (Ord. June 18, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, or any agent, managing officer, or employee thereof to operate or

permit to be operated within the limits of the city of Streator, any theater. moving-picture show, or other place of public amusement or recreation where the public congregate unless the same shall be cleansed daily and disinfected at least once each week and at such other times as may be required and in a manner to be approved by the board of health, or such officer or inspector as may be designated by said board of health. Every motion-picture theater shall be efficiently ventilated, either by natural means or mechanically. The floors of all theaters and other public places of amusement not vacuum cleaned or suction cleaned shall be sprinkled with water or damp sawdust or similar preparation before sweeping. Dusting with a feather duster or similar device is prohibited. All dusting must be done with cloths or other suitable material so treated as to retain the dust, or by the vacuum method. Twenty minutes after each sweeping or dusting, the place must be aired for at least 15 minutes before the public is admitted.

SEC. 2. That theaters accommodating 300 persons or more where water and sewerage systems are available shall be provided with sanitary equipments as follows:

In theaters, separate toilet rooms in connection with the main auditoriums shall be provided for males and females and, and in these shall be installed the following fixtures: One water-closet to each 20 females, one water-closet to each 300 males, and one urinal to each 300 males. The above number of fixtures shall be based upon the maximum seating capacity and it shall be assumed that the audience will be equally divided between males and females. Toilet rooms for males shall be clearly marked "Men's Toilet," and for females" Women's Toilet." SEC. 3. That whoever shall fail to comply with the provisions of these articles shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each and every offense.

TRENTON, N. J.

Weeds and Grass Over 18 Inches High Prohibited. (Ord. Sept. 5, 1917.)

1. The tenant or occupant of any leased or occupied lot or premises shall not permit weeds or grass over 18 inches in height to grow or stand on said lot or premises so occupied.

2. The person or corporation owning any lot or premises not leased or occupied by another shall not permit weeds or grass over 18 inches in height to grow or stand on such lot or premises so owned.

3. The tenant or occupant of any leased or occupied lot or premises shall not permit weeds or grass over 18 inches in height to grow or stand on the sidewalk abutting such lot or premises so occupied.

4. The person or corporation owning any lot or premises not leased or occupied by another shall not permit weeds or grass over 18 inches in height to grow or stand on the sidewalk abutting such lot or premises so owned.

5. A firm or corporation having rights, privileges, or franchises on any of the streets in the city of Trenton, shall not permit weeds or grass over 18 inches in height to grow or stand on any street or area, or any part thereof, which by the terms of its rights or franchises it is bound to care for, or to keep in good order, condition, and repair. 15m to slow 6 call 04 Saal loc or premThe owner shield.be deemed to be the person, firm, or corporation appearing as2oWiber nepsanthe plotiongsi ofourning theycityt ergipremiseslimot leased of the aurinse day of methem shall not perchitespersible gnalspurèshaBlénfores my húightion Brotherstand the sprayistons pfethisesringed.

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4. The person or corporation owning any lot or premises not leased or occupied by another shall not permit weeds or grass over 18 inches in height to grow or stand on the sidewalk abutting such lot or premises so owned.

5. A firm or corporation having rights, privileges, or franchises on any of the streets in the city of Trenton, shall not permit weeds or grass over 18 inches in height to grow or stand on any street or area, or any part thereof,

COMMON DRINKING CUPS AND COMMON TOWELS.

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Common Drinking Cups and Common Towels-Prohibited in Public PlacesCleaning of Eating and Drinking Utensils in Food and Drink Places. (Ord. Oct. 6, 1917.)

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to expose, keep, provide, or permit any drinking vessels to be used in common in any public, private, or parochial school or Sunday school, hotel, lodging house, boarding house, restaurant, depot, station, waiting room, boat, store, factory, hall theater, moving picture house, library, public institution, street, park, or any other public place.

SEC. 2. No glass, dish, cup, spoon, measure or other eating or drinking vessel or utensil used in or at any hotel, saloon, restaurant, drug store, soda fountain, or other place of public refreshment in the city of Louisville shall be offered or permitted to be used by any other patron unless it has been thoroughly cleansed since it was last used and is thoroughly clean at the time that it is offered for use.

SEC. 3. No person, firm, or corporation having the management or control of any factory, department store or other business establishment, school, hotel, theater, concert hall, restaurant, café, ferry boat, ferry house or river boat, public lavatory or wash room, shall maintain therein or thereat any towel or towels for use in common.

SEC. 4. The term common is hereby defined as more than one person. SEC. 5. Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than $1 nor more than $10 and each day's violating shall constitute a separate offense.

PORT CHESTER, N. Y.

Common Drinking Cups, Common Eating and Drinking Utensils, and Common Towels Prohibited in Public Places. (Reg. Jan. 21, 1918.)

Ch. 7. REG. 2. Common towel forbidden.-No person, firm, or corporation owning, in charge of, or in control of any lavatory or wash room in any hotel, lodging house, restaurant, factory, store, office, building, railway or trolley station, or public conveyance by land or water shall provide in or about such lavatory or wash room any towel for common use. The term common use" in this regulation shall be construed to mean for use by more than one person without cleansing.

REG. 3. Common drinking cups and drinking and eating utensils forbidden.The use of common drinking cups and of common drinking or eating utensils in any public place or public institution, except in hospitals for the insane, or in any hotel, saloon, lodging house, theater, factory, store, school or public hall, or in any railway or trolley car or ferry boat, or in any railway or trolley station or ferry house, or the furnishing of any such common drinking cup or drinking or eating utensil for common use in any such place is prohibited.

The term "common use" in th's regulation shall be construed to mean for use by more than one person without adequate cleansing.

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.1

ALAMEDA, CALIF.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases. (Ord. 145, N. S., Mar. 4, 1919.)

SECTION 1. Every physician or healer, licensed or nonlicensed, including any person of any cult or sect practicing or professing the science of healing, attending any person suffering from any of the diseases mentioned in section 3 hereof, must report the same in writing to the health office at the city hall within 24 hours after learning of the same, giving his or her name, and the name, sex, age, address, occupation of the patient, and date of the onset.

It shall be the duty of every nurse, or person acting as nurse, to report said cases in time, form, and manner as aforesaid, in the event that a physician or healer is not in attendance.

In case no such physician, healer, nurse, or person acting as nurse, is in attendance on the case, it shall be the duty of the head of the family occupying the premises or any other person having knowledge of such case, to make the report aforesaid. The words "head of family" to be construed as defined in section 1261 of the civil code.

SEC. 2. Every druggist having knowledge of any such case and knowing that the same has not been reported to the health office, as aforesaid, shall immediately report the same as herein provided.

SEC. 3. The diseases referred to in the foregoing sections, and which by the provisions of this ordinance are required to be reported to the health office in time, form, and manner as aforementioned, are as follows:

Acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), actinomycosis, anthrax, beriberi, bubonic plague, chicken pox, cholera, dengue, diphtheria, dysentery (epidemic), epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, erysipelas, German measles, glanders, gonococcus infection, influenza, leprosy, malaria fever, measles, mumps, ophthalmia neonatorum, pellagra, pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, influenza pneumonia, rabies (hydrophobia), relapsing fever, scarlet fever, smallpox, syphilis, tetanus, trachoma, trichiniasis, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus fever, uncinariasis (hookworm), whooping cough and yellow fever, or any other disease specified by the department of health.

SEC. 4. Every person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance or failing, neglecting, or refusing to report the existence of any of the aforesaid diseases which may come to his or her knowledge, who, by the terms of this ordinance is required to report the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon arrest and conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $50 or imprisonment in the city jail of Alameda for not more than 10 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such fine may be recoverable by civil action and be tried by the court without a jury.

See also Hospitals, homes, and nurseries, p. 226; Malaria and mosquitoes, p. 255; Venereal diseases, p. 399.

Diphtheria

ALLENTOWN, PA.

Quarantine-Disinfection

Hospitalization Carriers Contacts Sale and Handling of Milk and Foodstuffs. (Ord. Sept. 19, 1919.)

SECTION 1. That section 4 of ordinance No. 342, adopted by city council and signed by the mayor on the 4th day of March, 1916, be amended by adding the following sections after the word "removal" in line 14 of said ordinance.

SEC. 2. In all cases of diphtheria (membranous croup, diphtheritic croup, putrid sore throat) quarantine must be maintained for a minimum period of 14 days, or until the patient yields negative cultures from nose and throat-two negative cultures on successive days.

SEC. 3. No negative cultures from the patient made in less than 12 days from the onset of the disease shall be accepted for the purpose of terminating quarantine. All cultures must be taken by a representative of the department of health.

SEC. 4. Persons known to be diphtheria carriers must be placed in quarantine and isolated as far as possible. Quarantine of diphtheria carriers shall be raised after two negative cultures from the nose and throat of the carrier are obtained on consecutive days.

SEC. 5. All cases of diphtheria (membranous croup, diphtheritic croup, putrid sore throat) must be discharged by the attending physician, in writing, prior to the taking of any cultures for the release of quarantine.

SEC. 6. All children in the family where diphtheria is found should be given an immunizing dose of antitoxin, that is to say, a dose that will prevent diphtheria, unless upon test immunity from diphtheria is proven.

SEC. 7. Children under 16 years of age, continuing to reside on the infected premises must be confined to the building, house, or flat, as the case may be, until quarantine has been raised by the health authorities, and thereafter shall not be permitted to mingle with well children until a negative culture has been obtained from the nose and throat.

SEC. 8. Any susceptible child exposed to a case of diphtheria, even though not a member of the family in which a case exists and not residing on the infected premises, shall be kept away from all well children and shall be excluded from all schools, public, private, and parochial, Sunday schools, churches, and all public places for a period of seven days, unless a negative culture has been obtained from the child's nose and throat, following such exposure.

SEC. 9. The patient shall be nursed only by one person, who should stay in the sick room and not mingle with the rest of the family. After death, recovery, or removal of the patient the nurse must yield one negative culture from the nose and throat prior to removal of quarantine.

SEC. 10. Whenever, in the opinion of the health officer, that any person or persons affected with diphtheria (membranous croup, diphtheritic croup, putrid sore throat) under such circumstances that the continuance of such person or persons in the house, dwelling, apartment, flat, room, or rooms where he or she may be is dangerous to the lives and health of other persons residing therein, or in the immediate neighborhood, may cause the removal of such person or persons to a hospital for the treatment of the disease [sic].

SEC. 11. No person, patient, or contact, and no article of any kind whatso ever, shall be removed from the premises upon which a case of diphtheria (membranous croup, diphtheritic croup, putrid sore throat) has been found unless consent to such removal be first obtained from the department of health. SEC. 12. All persons (other than the patient) who wish to leave the infected house and live elsewhere during the continuance of the disease in the house