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In this Ac*: the following words and expressions shall Interpreta- ave the meaning hereinafter a.ssigned to them respectively, *'°" unless such meaning is inconsistent with the context, that is to say : (1) " Owner" means the pei-son for the time being receiving "Owner." the rent of the lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee of any other person, or who would so receive the same if such laufls and premises were let. (2) " Health DisU^ct " or " district " means any local muni- "Henlth i)i« cipality, or union of local municipalities, under the jurisdiction [V^l'" •« i o-a of a Local or District Board of Healtli, and " Board " shall include a District Board. Local Board lOcal or Board," and " Board. (.'i) " Htmse " includes schools, factories and other buildings, "House." huts and tents used for human habitation or work, whether such use is permanent or temporary, and whetiier the .same are >itationary ov moveable. '.;?f^ .;* ..:. E"! ■ H'i> • 'Street. (4) " Street " shall include every highway, road, square, row, lane, mews, court, alley and passage, whether a thoroughfare or not. V ■ Powers of 3. Whenever this Province, or any part thereof or place Boardto make t^^erein appears to be threatened with any formidable epidemic, regiiiationB for endemic, or contagious disease, the Provincial Board of Health mhlladon of*^ "'^^''y' subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in disease. Council, issue such regulations as the Board deems necessary, for the prevention, as far as possible, or the mitigation of disease, and may make, renew or alter any such regulations, or substitute new regulations ; and the said Board may, by such regulations, provide : • (1) For the frequent and effectual cleansing of the streets^ yards, and out-houses, by the local health authorities, or by the ownera or occupiers of houses and tenements adjoining thereto. (2) For the removal of nuisances. (3) For the cleansing, purifying, ventilating and disinfecting of houses, churches, buildings, and places of assembly, railway stations, steamboats railway carriages and cars, as well as other public conveyances by the owners and occupiei's, and persons having the care and ordering thereof. (4) For regulating, so far as this Legislature has jurisdiction in this behalf, with a view of preventing the spread of infectious disease, the entry or departure of boats or vessels at the different ports or places in Ontario, and the landing of passengers or cargoes IVom such boats or vessels, or from rail- road carriages or cars, and the I'eceiving passengers or cargoes, on board the same. (5) For the safe and speedy interment of the dead, and the conduct of funerals, with a view of preventing the spread of infectious diseases as aforesaid. (6) For supplying medical aid, and accommodation, and medicine, and such other articles as may be deemed necessary for mitigating such epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease. * (7) For hou.se to house visitation. (8) For preventing or mitigating such epidemic, endemic or contagious disea.se in such other manner as to the said Provin- cial Board seems expedient. 4. It shall be the duty of the Local Boards of Health to superintend and see to the execution of any such regulations ; or to execute, or aid in executing the same witnin their respective districts; and to do and provide all such acts, matters and things as are necessary for superintending or aiding in the execution of such regulations, or for executing the same as the case may rwjuire. Lociil Boards to bee to ♦'xecution of regulations. 3 5. The Provincial Board of Health may, by orcier, declare Provincial all or any of the regulations so made to be in force within the detenn^e^ whole or any part or parts of the district of any Local Board extent of of Health or any municipality, and, so far as this Legislature |jfhich*^e"uia- has jurisdiction, to apply to boats, vessels, railway carriages tions are to and cars, or other conveyances in any pox'tion or portions of '"■PP^y- the Province. 6. All orders and regulations so made shall take effect from Publication of the approval thereof, and shall be forthwith published in the re^^jat?on« Ontario Gazette and at least one newspaper within the district, or portion or portions of the Province, in which they shall be declared in force* 7. During the time that any such orders or regulations are Conflicting- in force in any Health District, as provided by the four next x-o^YBo^d preceding Sections of this Act, all by-laws of the Local Board su°8pended of such district which, in any manner, conflict with any such order or regulations, shall be suspended. 8. The expenses incurred by the said Provincial Board of Expenses of Health in connection with such epidemic, shall be defrayed out Locai"Boardif of any moneys appropriated by the Legislature specially for how defrayed! tiiat purpose, and the expenses incurred by the said Local Boards of Health in the execution or in superintending the execution of the regulations of the Provincial Board, shall be defrayed and provided for by the Municipal Corporations having jurisdiction over the respective places affected. 9. The Local Board of Health may also, from tinie to time, Prosecution direct any prosecution or legal proceedings for, or in respect [."■"".^^j^,^*'^' of, the wilful violation or neglect of any such regulation. 10. The Provincial Board of Health shall meet quarterly at Meetings of Toronto, and at such other places and times as may be fixed ®'"*'*^* under a resolution of the Board. Three members shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. 11. With the concurrence of that member of the Executive inveHtigations Council to whose department the Provincial Board of Health ^„u"ous of ii for the time being assigned by the Lieutenant-Governor in other disease.. Council, the Board may send its secretary, or any member or members of the Board, to any part of the Province when deemed necessary, to investigate the cause or causes of any contagious or other disease or mortality ; and at such investi- gation evidence may be taken on oath or otherwiae as the said secretary, member or membera may deem expedient ; and in such case the secretary, or any member of the Board present at the investigation, may administer the oath ; and tne said investigating committee shall have power by warrant, under the haml and seal of any one of its members, to call upon any person to give evidence regarding any matter in question in ^f: ML the said investigation ; and the said investigating committee shall have all the powers which may be conferred upon Com- missioners under The Act respecting Inquiries concerning Public Matters. Part II. — Local Boards of Health : Their Organization. pDwers, Local Boar«l» 18. (1) All the powers and authoiities conferred upon or thek^^constitu- ^^"^^^^ ^^ t-^© members of any municipal council or councils by tion and any statute of the Legislature of this Province, as health officers of the said municipality or municipalities, shall here- after be vested in the Local or District Board of Health which shall be formed in such municipality or municipalities as here- inafter provided. (2) There shall be a Local Board of Health in each township and incorporated village, to be composed of the reeve, clerk, and three ratepayers, to be appointed annually by the muni- cipal council. (3) There shall be a Local Board of Health in each town containing less than four thousand inhabitants, according to the municipal enumeration of the previous year, to consist of the mayor, clerk, and three ratepayers, to be appointed annually by the municipal council. (4) There shall be a Local Board of Health for each city and for each town containing more than four thousand inhabitants, according to the municipal enumeration of the previous year, to consist of the mayor and eight ratepayers, to be appointed annually by the municipal council. Appointment of iiiembero of Board. 13. (1) The first appointment of members of the said Board shall be made at the first meeting of the municipal council after the first day of May next. (2) The annual appointments thereafter shall be made at the first meeting of the municipal council after being duly organized, and any vacancy arising from any cause shall be filled at the first meeting thereafter of the municipal council ; but, if for any reason appointments are not made at the said dates, the same shall be made as soon as may be thereafter. Uni<;nof 14. Two or uiore couucils ujay, V>y concurrent by-laws, unite in ?me 'Health ^'^^i^' respective municipalities into a Health District ; and any District. of such couucils may withdraw its municipality from the District by a l)y-law passed prior to the first day of Decembei" of any year, and to take ettect on the third Monday of January following. ''mm' estigating committee conferred upon Com- '7iquiries concerning Their Organization. ties conferred upon or council or councils by s Province, as health icipalities, shall here- Joard of Health which municipalities as here- ealth in each township id of the reeve, clerk, nnually by the muni- I Health in each town labitants, according to ious year, to consist of I be appointed annually ^ealth for each city and thousand inhabitants, of the previous year, ayers, to be appointed nbers of the said Board the municipal council iter shall be made at uncil after being duly om any cause shall be |he municipal council ; not made at the said may be thereafter. Icurrent V)y-laws, unite [alth District ; and any lunicipality from the first day of D«'cember d Monday of January 15. The members of the District Boards of Health shall Constitution consist of three members from each municipality included in ^ District the District, namely : the head of the colincil, the municipal Health, clerk, and one other ratepayer not a member of the council, to . be appointed by the council. 16. Every District Board thus constituted and its members Powers of shall, in respect of the Health District for which it acts, gjf^^^g* possess the same powers, be subject to the same regulations, and perform like duties as a Local Board of Health of a municipality and its members. 17. Kvery Local or District Board shall elect a chairman, officers of and the Clerk of the Municipal Council shall be the secretary outri^ of the Local Board, and the District Board may elect one of Boards, its me.ubers, or appoint some other person as its secretary. 18. It shall be the duty of the secretary to report to the Secretary to secretary of the Provincial Board of Health the names of the g^^Jj^ary of members of the Local Board within one month after its first Provincial regular meeting, which shall be held on the second Monday ^""^^ ^Y after the members, who are not members ex offi^cio, have been members, appointed. - 19. When any municipal council neglects or refuses to elect Provincial members or a member of the Local or District Board of Health ^o*"^?^ "\*y as required by this Act, the Provincial Board of Health may Local Board appoint a duly qualified ratepayer or ratepayers to be a *"''?%^7'"j^ member or members of such Local or District Board of Health "o.^ «<= s o o to act with the ex oj§icio or other members. 30. Every Municipal Council may appoint a Medical Health Appointntent Officer and a Sanitary Inspector or Inspectors for the munici- v| ^^jr?*^]- pality, and may fix the salaries to be paid them, or two or more and Sanitary councils may unite in the appointment of any of these officers. Inspector. ?ART III— Powers and Duties of Local Boards. 31. The Municipal Council or Councils may vote such sums Appropriation as are deemed necessary by the Local or District Board for ''"■ ^^'"■''• the carrying on of its work. 33. The members of the Local and District Boards shall be Health Health Officers within tlio meaning of The Revised Statute ^*"'^»"8' respecting the Public Health, and shall have the powers and duties assigned to Health Officers by the said Act, and the other powers and duties assigned by this Act. 33. A majority of the number of any regularly constituted liuonnn. Board shall be a (juoruni for the transaction of business. ■b 6 may enforce its authority. Duties of !34. A minute book shall be provided in which the Secretary Secretary. shall record the proceedings of the Local Board of Healtli. The Secretary shall draft an annual report of the sanitary work done during the year, and of the sanitary condition of the municipality, for the consideration of the Board ; which report, when adopted, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Provincial Board of Health. The said report shall include the annual report of the Medical Health Officer. Mode in which 25. Whenever any Local Board of Health has any authority Local Board ^q direct that any matter or thing should be done by any person or corporation, such Local Board of Health ma}' also, in default of its being done by the person, direct that such matter or thing shall be done at the expense of the person in default, and may recover the expense thereof with costs by action or distress ; and, in case of non-payment thereof, the same shall be recovered in like manner as municipal taxes. Ai)i)eal to 36. Wherever the order of any Local Board of Health or County Judge Health Officer involves an expenditure of more than $100, the m certain , , . ^ . , i i i party against whom the order is made, or anyone chargeable with such expenditure, or any part thereof, may within four days from his being served with a copy of such order in writing, appeal therefrom to the County Judge, who shall have full autliority to vary or rescind the order made, and any order so varied may be enforced by the board or officer in the same manner as an order originally made by the board or officer. m certain cases, Recovery of costs and expenses of execution of provisions relating to nuisancen. Proviso. Proviso. 37. Any costs or expenses recoverable from an owner of premises under this , Act, or under any provision of law in respect of the abatement of nuisances, may be recovered from the occupier for the time being of such premises ; and the owner shall allow such occupier to deduct any numeys which he pays under this enactment out of the rent from time to time becoming due in respect of said premises, as if the same had actually been paid to such owner as part of said rent : Provided, that no such occupier shall be recjuired to pay any further sum than the amount of rent for the time being due from him, or which after demand of such costs or expenses from such occupier, and after notice not to pay his landlord any rent without first deducting the amount of such costs or expenses, becomes payable by such occupier unless he refuses truly to disclose the amount of his rent and the name and address of the person to whom rent is payable; but the burden of proof that the sum demanded from any such occu^^ier is greater than the rent due by him at the' time of such notice, or which has since accrued, shall be on such occupier: Provided, also, that nothing herein contained shall atf'ect any contract between any owner or occupier of any house, building or other property whereby it is, or may be, agreed that the occupier shall pay or discharge all rates and ^i in which the Secretary jcal Board of Healtli. report of the sanitary sanitary condition of of the Board; which ted to the Secretary of lid report shall include I Officer. jalth has any authority hould be done by any of Health maj' also, erson, direct that such )ense of the person in thereof with costs by L-payment thereof, the as municipal taxes. il Board of Health or of more than $100, the or anyone chargeable •eof, may within four opy of such order in mty Judge, who shall id the order made, and )y the board or officer lly made by the board able from an owner of iny provision of law !es, may be recovered jf such premises; and to deduct any moneys out of the rent from jf said premises, as if uch owner as part of pier shall be re(|uired it of rent for the time mand of such costs or notice not to pay his g the amount of such such occupier unless t of his rent and the 1 rent is payable; but landed from any .such y him at the' time of led, shall be on such lerein contained shall ;r or occupier of any re by it is, or may be, scharge all rates and dues and sums of money payable in respect of such house, building or other property, or affect any contract, whatever l)etween landlord and tenant. Nuisances, etc. , 38. It shall be the duty of every Local Board of Health to Duty of Local cause to be made, from time to time, inspection of its district, inspect*" in order to prevent the accumulation within the district of districts any dirt, filth or other thing which may endanger the public o^nuisances! health, and with a view to ascertain what nuisances exist call- ing for abatement under the powers of this Act, or of The Revised Statute respecting the Public Health, and to enforce the provisions of this Act and the said Revised Statute in order to abate every such nuisance 89. A medical health officer of a municipality may exercise ?c°^"'*,**^ any of the powers conferred upon health officers by sections 3 HeaithOfficer. 4 and 5 of The Revised Statute respecting the Public Health, and may, without being specially authorized by the Board, exercise any powers which under section 6 can be conferred upon two medical practitioners, and the Board may act on his report. 30. Information of any nuisance or unsanitary condition Informationof under this Act within the jurisdiction of any Local Board may LocdBoard. be given to such Local Board by any person aggrieved thereby, or by any two inhabitant householders, or by any officer of such Local Board, or by any constable or officer of the police force within the jurisdiction of the Board. 31. Whenever such information has been so given, it shall investigation be the duty of the Local Board of Health to investigate the l,,^ Board cause of the said complaint; and to hear the testimony of all persons who may be produced before it to testify in respeci of any such matter; and every Local Board or any two of its members shall have the same authority as a Justice of the Peace to require and compel the attendance of witnesses and the giving of evidence. 33. Whenever the Local Board of Health is satisfied of the Local Board existence of the nuisance, it shall serve a notice on the person J'^'^S ""*'"* by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or con- abatemeitt of tinues, or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance exists or from which the same arises, requiring him to abate the same within a time to be specified in the notice, and to execute such works, and do such things as may be necsssary for that purpose, pro- vided : nuisauceit. 8 ' First, — That where the nuisance arises from the want defective construction of any structural convenience, or wher there is no occupier of the premises, notice under this sectio shall be served on the owner ; Second, — That where the pei'son causing the nuisance cannc be found, and it is clear that the nuisance does not arise continue by the act or default of the owner or occupier of th premises, and it is therefore improper that such owner or occv pier should be required to abate the said nuisance, the Loos Board of. Health may report the facts to the municipal counc: or councils, and such council or councils may abate the nuif ance at the expense of the municipality or district. Power to 33. When a nuisance in any municipality or distrit c"[ur^f ^**^'^ appears to be wholly or partially caused by some act or defau nuisance arises committed or taking place outside of the said municipality o without die- district, the Board of Health of such municipality or distric may take or cause to be taken against the person by whos act or default the nuisance is caused in whole or in part, un proceedings in relation to nuisances by this Act authorize( with the same incidents and consequences as if such act o default were committed or took place wholly within its jui isdiction, so, however, that summary proceedings shall in n case be taken otherwise than before a court having jurisdictio in the municipality or district where the act or default i alleged to be committed or take place. trict. Recovery of costs and expenses incurred in abating nuisances. 34. All reasonable costs and expenses incurred in abating nuisance shall be deemed to be money paid for the use and a the request of the person by whose act, default or sufferanc the nuisance was caused, and such costs and expenses shall b recovered by the municipal council or Local Board of Healt or person incurring the same, under ordinary process of law and the court shall have power to divide costs, expenses an penalties between persons by whose acts or defaults a nuisanc IS caused, as to it may seem just. ■^ili ife? -:'-!'^fi |HK'f. ^^ w^. n^^' ^M'^ '"i , > ^ P" .^^ # ' ■ ■ Ifef " 1 J H^ii^£iji Restriction or 35. In case any person after the passing of this Act estal ofoffensWe"*^ Hshes, without the consent of the municipal council of th trades. locality, any offensive trade ; that is to say, the trade of : — Blood boiling, or Bone boiling, or Refining of coal oil, or Extracting oil from fish, or Stoi'ing of hides, or Soap boiling, or Tallow melting, or Tripe boiling, or Slaughtering of animals, or The manufacturing of gas, or any other noxious or offensive trade, business or manufacture :#?^K titm^mMMimi^' ■ ^;^MISXSm-i(.,'r!,^ or such as may become offensive, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $250 in respect of the establishment thereof ; and any person carrying on a business so established shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $10 for every day on which, after notice in writing by the Local Board, or an officer thereof, to desist, the offence is continued, "hether there has or has not been any conviction in respect of the establishment thereof. 36. (1) If on an investigation by any Local Board of Health Provision any nuisance or thing prejudicial to health is found to exist in ^gnt^of^"*"' a municipality in whicn it has jurisdiction ; and if, after the nuisance Board has required the removal or abatement of the same jjonglderations within a specified time, the Board finds that default in such of difficulty. removal or abatement has been made and the case seems to the Board one involving considerations of difficulty, owing to the fact that such removal or abatement involves the expendi- ture or loss of a considerable sum of money, or that any trade or industry is seriously interfered with, or owing to other circumstances, the Local Board of Health may apply to the Provincial Board of Health to investigate and report upon the same, and it shall be the duty of the said Provincial Board, with the appi'oval of the Minister of the Department, to make a full investigation and report. (2) If the said report recommends the removal or abatement of such nuisance or thing, the Local Board or any ratepayer of the municipality, or within a mile thereof, may apply to the High Court of Justice for an order for the removal, or abate- ment of the nuisance or unsanitary condition, and to restrain the proprietors of any such industry from carrying on the same until the said nuisance shall have been abated to the satisfac- tion of the Provincial Board of Health ; and the said judge may, if he thinks proper, issue such order upon the report of the Provincial Board of Health. 37. (1) Wherever information is obtained by the Provincial Proceedings Board that any remediable unsanitary condition or nuisance t"pjJfvim!Ui exists in any municipality, and that the local health authorities Board of have, after proper representation of the facts, neglected or f^®^"^' "^ refused to take such efficient measures as might remove such authority. condition or abate such nuisance, it shall be competent for the Provincial Board of Health to institute an investigation, and, if necessary, take sworn evidence concerning the condition or nuisance complained of. (2) If, upon such investigation it is proved that such remediable unsanitary condition or nuisance exists, it shall be within the province of the Provincial Board to direct its immediate removal or abatement by the individual or person responsible therefor, and to report the same to the Minister for the time in charge of the Department ; and if such individual or person neglects or refuses to remove or abate the same, the I 'a ^Zf Plans relating to proposed public water 10 Provincial Board of Health may cause such removal or abate- ment to be made, and collect the expenses therefor from such individual or person by ordinary process of law. Contemplated Systems of Public Water Supply, Sewerage, Drainage, etc. 38. (1) Whenever the establishment of a public water *jubiic wat^r ^'^PP^y ®^ system of sewerage shall be contemplated by the supply or council of auy city, town or village, it shall be the duty of the system of gaid couucil +0 place itself in communication with the Provin- suimdttwl to cial Board of Health, and to submit to the said Board, before Provincial their adoption, all plans in connection with said system. (2) It shall be the duty of the Provincial Board of Health to report whether, in its opinion, the said system is calculated to meet the sanitary requirements of the inhabitants of the said municipality ; whether any of its provisions are likely to prove prejudicial to the health of any of the said inhabitants, together with any suggestions which it may deem advisable ; and to cause copies of said report to be transmitted to the Minister of the Department to which the said Provincial Board of Health is attached, and to the Clerk of the Municipal Council, and the Secretary of the Local Board of Health of the District interested. (3) No sewer, or appliance for the ventilation of the same, shall be constructed in violation of any of the principles laid down l)y the Provincial Board of Health, subject to appeal to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. Unsound Meat, etc. Inspector to insjiect meat, etc. Power of 39. (1) Any Medical Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector H^^^itToffi '"^y- ^^ ^^^ reasonable times, inspect or examine any animal, or Sanitary carcase. meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit vegetables, grain, breail, flour, or milk exposed for sale, or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or for prepai-ation for sale, and intended for the food of man ; the proof that the same was not exposed or deposited for any such purpose, or was not intended for the food of man, resting with the party charged ; anier in default in a summary manner. 43. Where the owner or occupier of any house or part there- .S|>eciai provi- of is, from poverty or otherwise, unable, in the opinion of the *'""^J."y*';'f '' "' liocal Board of Health, efficiency to carrv out the re([uirements owner. of tie two preceding sections, such Local Board of Health may, without enfttrcing such retniireiiieiitH on the owner or occupier, clease or disinfect such house, or part thereof, and articles, and defiay the expense thereof. 44. In case the small-pox, or any other disease dangerous puworof Local to the public health, bn-aks out 'in any municipality-, the I.-',',''Ji',,'lp!i'vJ, health officers or Local Board of Health, in case the municipality IIMii> .. V. shall not have already provided the same, shall immediatel provide such a temporary hospital, hospital-tent or other plac or places of reception for the sick and infected, as they sha judge best for their accommodation and the safety of th inhabitants, at the cost of the municipality, and for tha purpose may (1) Themselves erect such hospital-tents, hospitals, or place of reception; or (2) Contract for the use of any such hospital or part of hospital or place of reception ; or (3) Enter into any agreement with any person having th management of any hospital, for the reception of the sicl inhabitants of their district, on payment of such annual other sum as may be agreed on ; or (4) Two or more Local Boards of Health may combine providing a common hospital. Provision of 45. Any Local Board of Health may provide, maintain, ^)er8(mH*"uffer^ ^^^'® ^ Carriage or carriages, suitable for the conveyances of per inK from dis- SOUS suffering from disease or accident, and may pay th expense of conveying therein any person so suftering to hospital or other place of destination. i: ease or acci dent Notice to be given by householder in case "i small- pox, etc. 46. Whenever any householder knows that any persoi within his family or household has the small-pox, diphtheria scarlet fever, cholera, or typhoid fever, he shall within twenty four hours give notice thereof to the Local Board of Health, oi to the Medical Health Officer of the district in which h resides, and such notice shall be given either at the office o the Medical Health Officer, or by a communication addresse< to him and duly mailed within the time above specified, an< in case there is no Medical Health Officer then to the Secrti tary of the Local Board of Health either at his office or b communication as aforesaid. Householder not to jtennit removal of [lersoii or of clothing. Removal of sick |K'rKonH and otherA in siinie houue- hold. 47. No householder in whose dwelling there occurs any c tile above mentioned diseases, .shall permit any person sutferin from any such disease, or any clothing or other property f be removed from his house, without the consent of the Boar or of the Medical Health Officer or attending physician, and tli said Board, or Medical Health Officer, or attending physicia shall prescribe the conditions of such removal. 48. No person sick with any of the diseases above specific shnH be removed at any time except by permission and und( direction of the Board of Health, or Medical Health Offici-r, ( attending physician, nor shall any occupant of any hoUHe which there exists any of the above diseasts, except typho fever, change his or her residence to any other place witho M'^^ 'iM' N^**.*!**, snts, hospitals, or places I hospital or part of a [ealth may combine in ling there occurs any of "mit any person sutt'ering ig or other property to llu' consent of the Board nding physician, and the or attending physician •enioval. diseases above specified permission and under [edical Health Ofiici-r, or Icupant of any house in 1 diseases, except typhoid Iny other place without 18 the consent of the Board or of the Medical Health Officer, or attending physician, who shall in either case presr ibe condi- tions, as aforesaid. 49. Whenever any physician knows that any person Report to be whom he is called upon to visit is infected with small-pox, physidan. scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or cholera, such physician shall within twenty-four hours give notice thereof to the Local Board of Health, or Medical Health Officer of the municipality in which such diseased person is, and in such manner as is directed by rules 2 and 3 of section 17 of Schedule A. 50. When the small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera. Precautions or any other contagious disease, dangerous to the public health, ^ain8**pread is found to exist in any municipality, the health officers or of infection. Local Board of health shall use all possible care to prevent the spreading of the infection or contagion, and shall give public notice of infected places by such means as, in their judgment, is most effective for the common safety. 51. Except the attending physician or clergyman, no person Sick i)er8on or affected with small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria or choleia, and fnl^^^ellfto no person having access to any person affected with any of the aick not to said diseases shall mingle with the general public until such '"'nfraipubUe. sanitary precautions as may be prescribed by the Local Board or attending physician shall have been complied with. eiitiM' joats, 52. (1) Where there is reason to suspect that any person who Power to has the small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, cholera, or typhoid ^»J>^'**''**"' fever, is in or upon any railway c adopted, and for the disinfection of utensils, bedding, clothing and oth< things which have been exposed to infection, such measures j have been,ormay hereinafter be.advised by the Provincial Boai of Health or by the Medical Health Officer, or such as ma have been recommended by the attending physician as equal] efficacious. •Votice to be 56. No person .surtering from, or having very recentl fn chaVge^of' " recovered from, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, choler conveyance in mcaslcs, or other disease dangerous to public health shi crtHin caseK. gxpose himself, nor shall any person expose anyone under h charge who is so suffering, or who has recently recovered fro any such disease, in any conveyance without having prev ously notified the owner or person in charge of such conve; ance of the fact of his having, or having recently had, su( disease. .J. .\ Conveyance to 57. The owner or person in charge of any such conveyani be disinfected. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ entry of any so infected person into h conveyance, allow any other person to enter it without havii sufficiently disinfected it under the direction of the Board Health or the supervision of the Medical Health Officer, Sanitary Inspector. PrfcantionB to 58. No pcrsou shall give, lend, transmit, sell or expose an rfh^-Httin bedding,, clothing or other article likely to convey any of tl clothing, etc. above diseases, without having first taken such precautions the board may direct as necessary for removing all danger < communicating any such disease to others. 15 59. Any Local Board of Health may provide a proper place Provision of or portable furnace, with all necessary apparatus and attend- DJig^j^j^n *^"' ance for the disinfection of bedding, clothing or other articles which have become infected, and may cause all such articles to be disinfected free of charge, or may make reasonable charges for the disinfecting of the same as may be provided by by-law. 60, Any Local Bo«ird of Health may direct the destruction Destruction of of any bedding, clothing or other articles, which have been Jj-^j^^f** ^'^' exposed to infection, and may give compensation for the same. etc. 61. N"o person shall let or hire any house or room in a Houses or house in which any of the diseases mentioned in section 46 p^^by'sick liave recently existed, without having caused the house and persons to be the premises used in connection therewith to be disinfected to b^/ "/^^ni? the satisfaction of the health authorities ; and for the purposes let. of this section the keeper of an inn or house for the reception of lodgers shall be deemed to let for hire part of a house, to any person admitted as a guest into such inn or house. 68, No person letting for hire or shewing for the purpose Persons let- oi letting for hire any house or part of a house, on being J'f ^^"e^aise t]uestioned by any person negotiating for the hire of such statements as house or part of a house as to the fact of there previously ^Ji >*»^fctiou8 having been therein any person suffering from any infectious disorder, or any animal or thing infected thereby, shall know- ingly make a false answer to such questions. 63. The provisions of sections 5 to 14, inclusive, of y/te H.S.O. c,i9i, Revised Statute respecting Vaccination and Inoculation, are apply tl. town* hereby extended to towns, incorporated villages, and townships; etc. Sec, 3 and section 3 of the said Act is hereby repealed. **^* * ' Assistance hy Constables, etc. 64. Any member of a legally constitutector, as a l»3'-la> of such Municipality, as if enacted by the Council thereo except in so far as they shall in the lueantitne or thereafter, li altered, amended, or repealed by the Couneil, (Schedule B. and the Council of every local Municipality shall have authorit .**•■ "^"WK-* 17 to pass by-laws from time to time in respect of the various matters dealt with by the said enactments. (2) In any Municipality which has no Medical Health Officer and Sanitary Inspector, or has only one of these officers, the said enactments shall, except as aforesaid, be in force unless so far as they relate to the officer which such Municipality does not possess. (3) Where two or more Munioipalities join in the appoint- ment of a Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector, such officer or inspector shall be deemed to be the Health Officer or Inspector of each of the said Municipalities. (4) W .ere any act or omission is a violation of any express Srovision of this Act and is also a violation of a by-law of a [unicipality in respect of a matter over which the Council of the Municipality has jurisdiction, a conviction may be had under either the Act or the by-law, but a second conviction shall not be made for the same act or omission. SCHEDULE A. {Sedum 169.) By-law in force in every Municipality till altered by the Municipal Council. 1. It shall bo the duty of the Mediciil Hcaltli Ollicer to assist and adviso the Hoard and itsotKcers, in niatturs relating U) public health, and to supurintond, under the direction of the' Board, the enforcement and tjbservanco, within this nuuiicipality, of Health By-laws or Regulations, and of Public Health Acts, and of any other Sanitary Laws, and, if thought advisable by the Board of School Trustees, to act as Medical Inspector of Schools, as well as advisory olKcer in matters pertaining to school hygiene, and to perform such other duties and lawful acts for the preservation of the public health, as may, in his opinion, be necessary, or as may be required by the Board of Health. He shall also present to this Board, before the IBth day of November in each year, a full report upon the sanitary condition of the district. 2. The Sanitary Inspector, besi him, of anything which may endanger the public health, or deposit upon, on, or into, any street, sf^uare, lane, by-way, wharf, dock, slip, lake, pond, bank, harbour, river, stream, sewer, or water, any manure or other refuse, or vegetable or animal matter, or other tilth. 5. It shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector, to keep a vigilant dupervision over all streets, lanes, by-ways, lots.or premises, upon which any such accuinulatiuu a« aibreaaid may bo found, and at once to notify ^he Dutv of Mpdi cal Health Officer. Duty of Sanitary lns|)ector. Chairman nf Boarfl of Health to report to Council. Deposits endangering; public health forbidden. Duty of Sani- tary Inniiector as to lands, etc. 18 parties who own or occupy such lota or premises, or who either personally or through their employees have deposited such manure, refuse, matter, dirt, or tilth, in any street, lane, or by-way, to cleanse the same, and to remove what is found thereon ; such parties shall forthwith remove the same, and if the same be not removed within twenty-four hours after such notification, the Inspector may prosecute the parties so oft'ending, and ho may also cause the same to be removed at the expense of the person or persons so offending. He shall also inspect at intervals, as directed by the Board of Health, all premises occupied by percons residing within its jurisdiction, and shall report to the Board each and every case of violation of any of the provisions of this By-law, or of any other regulations for the preservation of the public health, and shall also report every case of refusal to permit him to make such inspection. Examination 6. Whenever it shall appear to the Board, or to any of its officers, that of buildings or jj, jg necessary for the preservation of the public health, or for the abate- ianitarv In- '"®"* ^f anything dangerous to the public health, or whenever they or he specters. shall have received a notice signed by one or more inhabitant householders of this municipality, stating the condition of any building in the munici- pality to be so filthy as to be dangerous to the public health, or that upon any premises in the municipality there is any foul or offensive ditch, gutter, drain, privy, cess-pool, ash-pit, or cellar, kept or constructed so as to bo dangerous or injurious to the pu1)lic health, or tliat upon any such premises an accumulation of dung, manure, offal, tilth, refuse, stagnant water, or other matter, or thing, is kept so as to be dangerous or injurious as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector to enter such buildings or premises for the purpose of examining the same, and, if necessary, he shall order the removal of such nuitter or thing hs aforesaid. If the occupant, or proprietor, or his lawful agent or repre- sentative, having charge or contrt)! of such premises, after having had twenty-four hours notice fi 'Ui any such oHicer «)f the Board of Health to remove or abate such matter or thing as afoi'ostaid sluvll neglect or refuse to remove or abate tlie same, he shall be subject to the penalties impusec under section 18 of this by-law. 7. If the Board is satisticd upon due examination, that a cellar, room, tenement, or building within its jurisdiction, occupied as a dwelling- tary'*condition pl*ce, has become by reason of the number of occupaitts, want of clean or to quit liness, the existence therein of a contagious or infectious disease, oi same. other cause, untit for such purpose, or that it has become a nuisance, or ii any way dangerous to the health of the occupants, or of the public, the] may issue a notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them, requiring the said premises to be put in proper sanitary condition, or if they see tit requiring the occupants to (^uit the premises within such time as the Bonn may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, every persoi so offending shall be liable to the penalties imposed by section 18 of thif by-law, and the Board may cause tlie premises to be prctperly cleansei at the expense of the owners or occupants, or niay reujove the occupant; forcibly and close up the premises, and the same shall not again b( occupied as a dwelling-place until put into proper sanitary condition. Notice to put premises in proper sani- Distance of slaughter- house, etc. Inspection of ■'laughter- house. 8. No proprietor or tenant of any shop, house or outhouse, shall, no: shall any butcher or other person, use any such house, shop or outhous* at any time as a slaughter-house or for the purpose of slaughtering anj animals therein, unless such shop, house or outhouse be distant not lesi than two hundred yards from any dwelling-house, and distant not les than seventy yartls from any i)ublic street. 9. All sUughtcr-houses within this municipality r\\&\\ be subject t( regular inspection under the direction of the Board of Health ; and no per son sliall keep any slaughter-house unless the )>erniisNion in writing of th< Board for the keeping of such slaughter house has been tirst obtained, an< remains unrevoked. Such permission shall be granted, after approval o such premises upon inspection, subject to the condition that the said house shall be so kept as not tu impair the health of persons residing in thei -■'SvSt.\ t- m?' ■ 8, or who cither personally li manure, refuae, matter, > cluanHe the same, and to hnll forthwith remove the venty-four hours after such arties so offending, and he J expense of the person or iitervals, as directed by the pereons residing within its and every case of violation I any other regulations for ill also report every case of • to any of its officers, that lie health, or for the abate- 1th, or whenever they or he ore inhabitant householders [vny building in the munici- public health, or that upon iiy foul or offensive ditch, lar, kept or constructed eo u health, or that upon any anure, offal, tilth, refuse, ept so as to be dangerous or >f the Sanitary Inspector to ose of examining the same, of such matter or thing hs his lawful agent or repro- premises, after havinj,' had • t>f the Board of Health to jaid shall neglect or refuse to ct to the penalties imiiused nation, that a cellar, room, in, occupied as a dwelling- jf occupants, want ()f clean- js or infectious disease, or [las become a nuisance, or in )ants, or of the public, they t.s, or any of them, requiring condition, or if they see fit, vithin such time as the Board notified, or any of them, of the notice, every person posed by section 18 of this isos to be properly cleansed ir may remove the occupants he same shall not again be Dper sanitary condition. ouse or outhouse, shall, nor inch house, shop or outhouse purpose of slaughtering any outhouse be distant not less house, and distant not loss cipality shall be subject to loardof Health ; and no per- jterniission in writing of the i luis been first obtained, and ho granted, after approval of condition that the said houses of persons residing in their vicinity, and upon such condition being b)[v>i,.t' •' J ^ vaults, etc. 20 Deodorization before re- moval. Time for re- moval of de- cayed animal or vegetable matter. Time for re- moval of garbage. Hogs. Livery stable. ml 4- '' r< \i ^V'' tho 15th day of May, and from the 15th day of May to the Ist day of November in each year they shall bo thoroughly disinfected by adding to the contents of the vanlt, cess-pool or reservoir, once a month, not less than two pounds of sulphate of copper, dissolved in two pailfuls of water, or other suitable disinfectant. Rule 4. — Within the limits of this municipality no night-soil or con- tents of any cess-pool shall bo removed unless previously deodorized as above, and during its transportation the material shall be covered with a layer of fresh earth, except the removal shall have been by some odorless excavating process. RucH 5. — All putrid and decaying animal or vegetable matter must be removed from all cellars, buildings, out-buildings and yards on or before the 15th day of May in each year. Rule G. — Every householder and every hotel and restaurant-keeper or other person shall dispose of all garbage, for the disposal of which he is responsible, either by burning the same or by placing it in a proper covered receptacle for swill and house ofi'al, the contents of which shall, between the 15th day of May and the 1st day of November, be regularly removed as often as twice a week. Rule 7. — Between the 15th day of May and the 1st day of November, no hog shall be kept within the limits of this municipality, except in pens seventy feet from any house, with floors kept free from standing water and regularly cleansed and disinfected. Rule 8. — ^The keeper of every livery or other stable shall keep his stable and stable-yard clean, and shall not permit, between the 15th day of May and the 1st day of November, more than two waggon-loads of manure to accumulate in or near the same at any one time, except by per- mission of the Board of Health. 15. The following regulations regarding the construction of houses shall be in force within this municipality : Soil of build- Rule 1. — No house shall be built in or upon any site, tho soil of which Ji;S.!f^t2? ^^ '**"' b^en made up of any refuse, unless such soil shall have been removed """ '^ "" from such site, and the site disinfected, or unless the said soil shall have been covered with a layer of charcoal, covered by a layer of concrete at least six inches thick and of such additional thickness as may be requisite under the circumstances to prevent the escape of gases into such proposed house. Ventilation of Rule 2. — The drain of every house which may be connected with a drainn, etc. sewer or cess-pool shall be ventilated by means of a pipe extending upward from the highest point of the main soil or waste-pipe, and also by a pipe carried upward from the drain outside the walls of the house according to the principles shewn in the appended diagram. These pipes shall bo of the same dimensions as the said main soil or waste-pipe, and shall be con- structed of the same material or of stout galvanized iron, and no trap shall intervene between the said ventilating pipes. In case a trap shall intervene between the sewer or cess-pool, and the vetilating pipes already described, then a four-inch ventilating pipe of the same material as above described shall be carried from a point between such trap and the sewer. All such ventilating pipes shall be carried above the roof of the said house, and shall open above at points sutticiently remote from every window, door, sky-light, chimney or other opening leading into any house. No pipe carrying air or gas from any drain or soil-pipe shall be connected with any chimney in a dwelling-house, unless the same be a furnace chimney used exclusively for the purpose of ventilating such soil-pipe or drain. DeHcri|>tion of RuLE 8. — Every house-drain shall be constructed of vitrified earth- drain iJipoH. eiiware or iron pipe ; and every soil and waste-pipe, of iron pipe rendered impervious to gas or lic^uids, the joints thereof being run with lead and caulked, or of lead pipe weifrhing at least 6 lbs. Uj the stpiare foot ; and the waste pipe from every closet, sink, tub, wash-basin, safe or other servi'o shall have as near as may bo to the point of Junction with such seivice a diuinfected. of May to the Ist day of Illy disinfected by adding tir, once a month, not less d in two pailfuls of water, ility no night-soil or con- i previously deodorized as ial shall be covered with a ve been by some odorless vegetable matter must be igs and yards on or before I and restaurant-keeper or he disposal of which he is ,cing it in a proper covered ts of which shall, between ber, be regularly removed the 1st day of November, unicipality, except in pens o from standing water and bher stable shall keep his nit, between the 15th day than two waggon-loads of y one time, except by per- onstruction of houses shall any site, the soil of which il shall have been removed ess the said soil shall have by a layer of concrete at ckncss as may be requisite f gases into such proposed may be connected witli a r)f a pipe extending upward te-pipe, and also by a pipe s of the house according to These pipes shall be of ,ste-pipe, and shall be con- ranizeil iron, and no trap ipes. In case a trap shall he vetilating pipes already ;he same material as above II such trap and the sewer, the roof of the said house, note from every window, ig into any liouse. toil-pipe shall be connected the same be a furnace entilating such soil-pi{)e or tructed of vitrified earth- pipe, of iron pipe rendered being run with lead and o the 8([uare foot ; and the basin, safe or other servi-'o niction with such seivice a A — Extension upwards of soil pipe. B — Second ventilating tube. C— Veiitilntor for drain in case a trap is placed between the sewer and house. *'mm ,«!«#*»>•.■■* trap BO constructed, vented and furnished, that it shall at no time allov the passage of gas into such house. All joints shall be so constructe4 to prevent gas escaping through them. i ■ ^ Certain closets RuLE 4. — The construction of any closet or other convenience wl prohibited. shall allow of the escape into the house of air or gas which has been c fined in any part of it or from the drain or soil pipe, is hereby prohibit Refrigerator waste. Pilies supply- ing water to clot«f>t8 to be dittconnected with other pipes. Rulea re8|)ect- ing infect'ouB and contagious diseases. Duties of medical health otlicer. Forms, kind of. Rule 5. — No refrigerator waste shall be allowed to connect with drain. Rule G. — No pipe supplying water directly to a water-closet or uri: shall be connected with the pipe supplying water for drinking purposet lU. Every person who erects, or causes to be erected, any building'sh within two weeks of the completion thereof, deposit in the Resistry 01 of the Registry Division in which the building is situated, plans of drainage and plumbing of the same as executed ; and in the case of i alteration of any such plumbing or drainage, it shall be the duty of owner of the house, within two weeks of the making of the alteration deposit in the same manner the plan and record of any such alteration such alteration is made by a tenant, it sliall be the duty of the tenuni lessee to deposit or cause to be deposited the plan and record of such altt tion. 171 The following rules for preventing the spread of infectious and c tagious diseases shall constitute a part of this By-law : Rule 1. — The Medical Health Officer [or Secretary of the Local Bo of Health] shall provide each medical practitioner, practising within t municipality, witlt blank forms on which to report to the said Mcdi Health Officer [or Secretary] any case of diphtheria, small-pox, scarlet fc\ cholera, typhoid fever, measles, whooping-cough or other disease dan^ ous to the public health ; and, also, with other blank forms on whicl report death or recovery from any such disease. Rule 2. — All such forms shall be so printed, gummed and folded they may bo readily sealed, without the use of an envelope, so as to them from perusal until opened by the Medical Health Officer [or So( tary]. Rule 3. — Said blanks shall be in accordance with the following formt iJe/Kwf of Infections Disease, Christian name and surname of patient : Age of patient : Locality (giving street, number of house or lot), where patient is Name of disease : Name of school attended by children from that house : Measures employed for isolation and diHinfcction : (Signature of physician) : ^'• \ 1 ^' k & %> liJ> de Jt^ wh;. ^4 Report of Death or Recowrtj from Infertioiis Disease. Christian name and surname of patient : Locality (giving street, number of house or lot), where patient is : Name of disease : How long sick : Whether dead or recovered : < Means of disinfection employed, and when employed : (Signature of physician) : • >; S'V. "''''>'mmm^mm'^r--^mm 23 bhat it shall at no time allow of inta shall be so constructed as t or other convenience which air or gas which has been con- soil pipe, is hereby prohibited. e allowed to connect with any ctly to a water-closet or urinal, water for drinking purposes. > be erected, any building 'shall, , deposit in the Registry Office ding is situated, plans of the cuted ; and in the case of any Sje, it shall be the duty of the he making of the alteration, to jcord of any such alteration ; if ll be the duty of the tenant or ) plan and record of such altera- e spread of infectious and con- lis By-law : r Secretary of the Local Board ctitioner, practising within this to report to the said Medical ithoria, small-pox, scarlet fever, cough or other disease danger- ither blank forms on which to ease. nted, gummed and folded that 10 of an envelope, so as to keep Bdical Health Officer [or Score - Rule 4. — The Medical Health Officer [or Seoretaiv], within six hours Notice of after he shall have received a notice of the existence of scarlet fever, diph- diseaHe to be theria, small-pox, cholera, or whooping-cough, in any house, shall affix or T'ostcd up. cause to be affixed by the head of the household, or by some other person, near the entrance of such house a card a^ ^cast nine inches wide and twelve inches U>ng, stating that such diseue uw^ts in the said house, and stating the penalty for removal of such card without the permission of the Medi- cal Health Officer or Board of Health. Rule 5. — No person shall remove such card without the permission ,,f Not to be the Board of Health or one of its officers. removed. Rule 6. — No animal affected with an infectious or contagious disease AnimaU shall be brought or kept within this municipality, except by permission of affected, the Board of Health. 18. Any person who violates sections 4, 6, 7, 9 or 11 of this by-law, or Penaltisa. Rule 1 of section 15, or Rule 5 or G of section 17, shall be liable, for every such offence, to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $50 in the discretion of the convicting Justices or Magistrate, besides costs, which may also be inflicted if the committing Justices or Magistrate see fit to impose the same. Any person who violates any other provision of this by- law shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding $20, ■■.-[_ in the discretion of the convicting Justices or Magistrate, besides costs, which may also be inflicted if the convicting Justices or Magistrate see flt to irnpope the same. Every such penalty may be recovered by any person before any two Justices or a Polico Magistrate having jurisdiction in the municipality, and shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, with the costs of such distress and sale, by war- rant under the hands and seals of the Justiuus, or the hand and seal of the Police Magistrate, before whom the same are recovered, or under the hands and seals of any other two Justices having jurisdiction in the muni- cipality, and in default of sufficient distress the said Justices or Magistrate may commit the offender to the common gaol or to any lock-up or house of correction in the said municipality for any time not exceeding fourteen days, with or without hard labour, unless the auiount imposed be sooner paid. SCHEDULE B. ince with the following forms: Disease. ) or lot), where patient is : )m that house : infection : ^Signature of physician) : Form of Municipal By-law Amending the Above Bv-law. m InfertioHs Disease. or lot), where patient is len employed : (Signature of physician) : By-ktw Number intituled " A By-law respectiitg the Fublic Health By-law." Whereas it is expedient to amend or repeal some of the provisions of the by-law appended to The Public Health Act, 1SS4, so far as the same are in force in this municipality, and to suspend the operation of other provisions of the said by-law. Be it therefore enacted by the Municipal Council of 1. Section 13 of the said by-law is hereby amended by substituting the " Ist day of July of every second year" for " the Ist day of July in each year." ^ 2. Rule 7 of section 14 of the said by-law is amended by striking out the words "and disinfected " at the end of the said rule. 3. Rule 2 of Section 15 shall not be in force in this municipality until the Ist day of January, 1885, 4. Rule ^ of section 14 is hereby repealed. 5. This by-law shall go into force forthwith. PUMMPP^' ■jtn !w«(»M»iuK-K-* wi» » ■