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              BLIC HEALTH
LAWS II.
OF THE
STATE OF ARIZONA
REGULATIONS OF THE STATE
BOARD OF HEALTH
Published by the
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
1914
PUBLIC HEALTH
LAWS
OF THE
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REGULATIONS OF THE STATE
BOARD OF HEALTH
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Published by the
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
1914
AN ACT
To Provide for the Establishment of a State Board of
Health and County and City Boards of Health, and
Prescribing the Powers and Duties of Said Boards.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
CHAPTER L
Boards of Health.
Sec. 1. There is hereby established a State Board of
Health, composed of a President, a Vice-President, and a
Superintendent of Public Health. The Governor shall be
ex-officio President and the Attorney-General shall be ex­officio
Vice-President of such Board. The Governor shall
nominate and by and vvith the advice and consent of the
Senate appoint a Superintendent of Public Health, who
shall be a practicing physician of the State. The superin­tendent
thus appoint ed shall hold his office for two years
The several persons thus appointed shall hold their offices
for two years from the first Tuesday in April succeeding'
their appointment, and until their successors are appointed
and qualified.
Sec.. 2. The President of the Board shall preside at
the meetings thereof, and the Vice-President shall perform
the duties thereof in his absence. The Superintendent of
Public Health shall be Secretary of said Board He shall
keep a record of the proceedings of the Stat e Board of
Health, and of his own acts as such superintendent and he
shall perform such other duties as are prescribed by this
chapter, or which may be prescribed by the State Board of
Health. The records kept by the superintendent shall be
at all times open to the inspection of the public.
Sec 3. Th(~ several persons composing the State Board
of Health shall meet as often as once every six months at
such place in the State as they may appoint.
Sec. 4. The Board shall have power, and it shall be
its duty:
I.-To fix a time and place of the meetings of the
Board subject to the provisions of the preceding section.
2..-To make rules and regulations for the government
of the Board. its officers and its meetings.
3.-To make and enforce all needful rules and regula-
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tions for the prevention and cure, and to prevent the
spread of any contagious, infectious or malarial diseases
among persons and domestic animals"
4,-To establish quarantine, and isolate any person af­fected
with any contagious or infectious or epidemic and
endemic disease,
5,,-To isolate, kill or remove any animal affected with
contagious or infectious disease when necessary to protect
public health"
6,,-To remove or cause to be removed, any dead, de­caying'
or putrid body, or any decayed putrid or other sub­stance
that may endanger the health of persons or domestic
animals.
7,-To condemn or cause to be destroyed any impure or
diseased article of food that may be offered for sale
g,,-To superintend the several boards of hea]111 in the
cities and towns, and the county boards of health of the
several counties,
9,-To empower and direct the Superintendent of
Public Health fo do or cause to be done any and all of the
things mentioned in subdivisions four, five, six, seven and
eight of this chapter,
lO,,-To make such rules and regulations as it may
deem necessary to govern the preparation of dead bodies
for transportation, and to govern what classes of dead
bodies may be transported and the manner thereof
Sec. 5 The President and Vice-President of the Board
shall receive no compensation, but they shall be pajd ten
cents for every mile actually and necessarily traveled by
them in the performance of their official duties, and other
necessary expenses incurred by them,
Sec, 6 The superintendent of public health shall h,~
paid a yearly salary of one thousand dollars in equal semi·
monthly installments, He shall also be paid ten cents per
mile for every mile actually and necessarily travf'led in the
performance of his official duties. and such ot her sum or
sums as he may necessarily payor become liable to pay for
hotel or other incidental expenses, for the official books,
records and papers kept by him and for the printing of
his reports, and such circulars and blanks as may be
required for the proper conduct of the business of his
office, not to exceed in the agg-regate the sum of three hun-
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dred dollars. The accounts of the superintendent for his
mileage and other expenses of his office shall be audited
by the State Board of Health and the same, together with
his salary, shall be paid out of the State Treasury.
County Boards of Health.
Sec. 7. There are hereby established county boards of
health, composed of a President, Vice-President and a Sup­erintendent.
The chairman of the Board or Supervisors in
each county shall be ex-officio President, of the County
Board and the county attorney of such county shall be ex­officio
Vice-President of such Board. The Board of Super­visors
shall appoint a Superintendent of Public Health for
the county, who shall be a practicing physician within the
county and the superintendent thus appointed shall hold
his office for two years and until his successor is elected
and qualified.
Sec.. 8 The President of each County Board of Health
shall preside at the meetings thereof, a~ld in his absence
the Vice-President shall pt~rform the duties of the Presi­dent.
The County Superintendent of Health shall keep
a record of all the proeeedings of the Board and of his
official acts, and he shall, at the end of every month, make
a full report in wriling to the Superintendent of Public
Health of the proceedings of the' county board of health
and of his official acts, and shall, whenever the health of
persons is in danger, and when any contagious and in­fectious
disease occurs in his county among persons, im­mediately
report the same to the Superintendent of Public
Health.
Sec. 9. The several County Boards of Health shaD
meet at the county seat of their ~espectjve count.ies, at such
times within thirty days after the appointment of the
County Superintendent of Health, as he may designate.
Noti ce of the time and place of such meeting shall be made
by him, given to the other members of the county board at
least five days prior to such meeting, and thereafter the
hoard shall meet at the county seat as often as once in
every three months.
Sec. 10. The several County Boards of Health shall
have power, within their respective counties, outside of the
corporate limits of cities having a city board of health sub
ject to the supervisory control of the State Board of Health
and the Superintendent of Public Health:
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I.-To fix a time and place of the meetings of the
board subject to the provisions of the preceding section..
2..-To make rules and regulations for the government
of the board, its officers and its meetings.
3,-To make and enforce all needful rules and regula­tions
for the prevention and cure and to prevent the
spread of any contagious, infectious or malarial diseases
among persons and domestic animals.
4,,-To establish quarantine, and isolate any person
affected with any contagious or infectious or epidemic and
endemic disease.
5.-To isolate, kill or remove any animal affected with
contag'ious or infectious disease when necessary to protect
public health.
6.-To remove or cause to be removed any dead, de­caying
or putrid body, or any decayed, putrid or other
substance that may endanger the health of nersons or
domestic animals, ' •
T,-To condemn or cause to be destroyed any impure
or diseased article of food that may be offered for sale,
8,,-To empower and direct the Superintendent of
Public Health to do or cause to be done any and all of the
things mentioned in suhdivisions four, five, six, and seven
of this chapter,
9,,-To make such rules and regulations as it may deem
necessary to govern the preparation of dead bodies for
transportation and to govern what classes of dead bodies
may be transported and the manner thereof.
Sec" 11 (3) The President and Vice-President of the
Board shall receive no compensation, but they shall be
paid ten cents for every mile actually and necessaril:v
traveled by them in the performance of their official duties,
and other necessary expenses incurred by them,
All expenses actually and necessarily incurred by the
County Board of Health in carrying out the provisions of
this chapter shall be audited by the Board and certified to
the County Supervisors and shall be paid the same as other
county expenses are paid,
Sec" 12, The county superintendent of health shall
have charge of and superintend, subject to the approval
of the board of which he is a member, and supervisor;}'
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control of the State Board of Health and the superintendent
of Public Health, the establishment of quarantine and the
isolation of persons afflicted with any contagious, in­fectious,
epidemic or endemic disease, within this State,
Sec. 13, The president and vice-president of the Board
shall receive no compensation for the performance of their
official duties but shall receive ten eents for every mile
actually and necessarily traveled in the discharge of such
duties. The county superintendent of health shall receive
such compensation as the Boards of Supervisors may fix;
provided, that the eounty superintendent of health shall re­ceive
not to exceed the sum of three hundred dollars per
annum, and not to exceed ten dollars per day "vhen actually
and necessarily engaged, and ten cents for each mile
actually and necessarily traveled in the performance of
his duties and he shall also reeeive such other sum as he
may necessarily payor become liable to pay in carrying
out and performing the various duties imposed upon him
under the provisions of this seetion, or by the county board
of health; provided, however, that the board of supervisors
shall not be obliged to payout any sums for carrying out
and performing the various duties of the eounty superin­tendent
of health. unless the same is first directed to bG
done by the board of health, and that all such aceounts for
services, mileage, and other expenses shall be audited by
the board and certified to the board of county supervisors
and paid as an;\, other county expenses are paid,
Sec, 14, The superintendent of public health shall on
the first day of December of each even numbered year,
make a full report to the Governor, which report shall
show all that has been done by the State board of health
and by such superintendent during the two years preceding
the making of such report, the number of eases treated
by him in each county by the superintendent, the character
and extent dnring such time of all contagious and in­fectious'diseases
that have been reported to him, all ex­penditures
of the State Board, and in each of the organized
counties by the county board, and such recommendations
as he may deem advisable for the better protection of the
public health and the prevention and cure of contagious
and infectious diseases of persons,
Sec, 15" In case a vacancy shall occur in the office of
vice-president or superintendent, such vacancy shall be
filled by appointment by the Governor, and the person so
appointed shall hold office for the unexpired term., In
case a vacancy occurs in the office of vice-president or
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superintendent of health in any county board of health,
the president of such county board of health shall appoint
some suitable person to fill such vacancy and the person
so appointed shall hold office until a successor to such
officer has been appointed by the board of county sup··
ervisors,
Sec" 16 Nothing contained in this article shall in any
manner affect any board of health heretofore established,
or that may hereafter be established in any city or incor­porated
town, provided however. that all such boards of
health shall be under the superintending control of the
State board"
City Board of Health.
Sec, 17 There is hereby established in each incor­porated
city in this State a board of health, which shall be
constituted as follows:
The Mayor of such city shall, at the first meeting of
the city council in April in each year, appoint two members
of the city council who, together with the city engineer
and the health officer as hereinafter provided, shall con­stitute
a board of health and shall have and exercise the
powers conferred upon such board by law and by the
ordinances of such city,
Sec" 18, At the first meeting of the city council in
April in each odd number year there shall be appointed by
the Mayor and confirmed by the council, one health officer,
who shall hold his office until his successor is appointed
and qualified
He shall be a practicing physician and shall perform
sueh duties as may be devolved upon him by law or by
ordinances of such city Before entering upon the duties
of his office he shall take the usual oath of office, and give
a bond to be approved by the city council in the sum of
one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful perform­ance
of his duties, and shall receive such compensation as
the city council shall determine,
Sec" 19. Each city board of health shall perform the
duties and exercise the powers herein provided within the
limits of i he city for which it is established, Each county
board of health and city board of health shalJ he knovvll
as the local board of health"
Sec, 20. Each local hoard of health, within its juris­diction,
shall examine into all nuisances, sources of filth
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and causes of sickness and make such regulations regarding
the same as it may judge necessary for the public health
and safety of the inhabitants, and any person who shall
violate any published order or regulation, made by any
board of health shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, or
by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty
days, or both"
Sec. 21. Notice shall be given by each local board of
health of all general orders and regulations made by them,
by publishing the same in some newspaper, if there be one
published within the jurisdiction of such board; if there be
none, then by posting such orders and regulations in five
public places therein, and such publication of such orders
and regulations shall be deemed a legal notice to all
persons,
Sec, 22, "Whenever any nuisance. source of filth or
cause of sickness is found on private property the local
board of health shall order the owner or occupant thereof,
at his own expense to remove the same within twenty­four
hours, and such order may be given to such owner or
occupant personally, or left at his usual place of abode.
Sec, 23, vVhenver such owner or occupant shall fail to
comply with the order of such board. it shall cause such
nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness to be removed
and all expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by such
owner or occupant, or by such other person as has caused
or permitted the same.
Sec. 24 '\Vhenver anv local board shall deem it necps"
sary for the preservation 'of the health of the inhabitants
within its jurisdiction to enter any building or other struc
ture within such jurisdict ion for the purpose of examining
into and destroying. removing or prevenfin~ any nuisance,
source or filth or cause of siekness and shall be refused
entrance, any member of the board may make complaint
under oath, to a .Justice of the Peace within the jnrisdie­tion
of the board, staJing the facts in the case, so far as
he has knowledge thereof
Sec, 25. Such ,histice shall therenpon issue a warrant
directed to the Sheriff or other Peace officer. eommanding'
him to take sufficient aid. and accompanied by at least om~
member of the board of health. between the hours of snn­rise
and sunset. to have such nuisance. source of filth and
cause of sickness destroyed, removed or prevented under
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the direction of such member of the board of health as
accompanies him"
Sec. 26" ,Vhenever it shall come to the knowledge of
any physician or other person that a contagious, epidemie
or infectious disease exists within the jurisdiction of any
local board he shall immediately report to such board in
writing the name and place of residence, if known, of
every person afflicted with such disease, and if he is the
attending physician of such person he shall report not less
than twice in each week the condition of each person so
afflicted and the state of such disease"
Sec. 27. It shall be the duty of each practicing physi­cian
in this State to report in writing to the local board of
health the death of eaeh of his patients who shall have
died within the jurisdietion of sueh board, of any eon­tagious,
infeetious or epidemie disease. Sueh report shall
be made within twenty-four hours after sueh death, and
shall state the speeifie name and eharaeter of sueh disease.
Sec" 28. Each keeper of any private house, boarding
house, lodging house, inn or hotel, shall report in writing
to the local board of health, within whose jurisdiction the
same may occur, each ease of contagious, infectious, or
epidemic disease which may occur in his house, inn or hotel;
such report shall be made within twenty-four hours after
the existence of such disease shall have become known to
such person and shall state the name of each person af­flicted
with such disease and the nature thereof
Sec. 29, No person, shall, without a permit, from the
local or State board of health, carry or cause to be re­moved
from without this State, or from one building to
another within this State, or from or to any car or vessel,
any person afflicted with any contagious, infectious or
epidemic disease, or the body of any person who dies of
such disease.,
Sec" 30. Each parent or guardian, having the care,
custody or control of any minor or other person shall calise
such minor or other person to be vaccinated,
Sec,. 31 No principal, superin~endent or teacher of
any school and no parent or guardian of any minor child
shall permit any child having scarlet fever, diphtheria,
small pox, whooping cough, measles or any other dan.
gerous, infectious or contagious disease, or any child reo
siding in any house in which such disease exists, or has
recrmtly existed, to attend any public or private school
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until the local board of health shall have given permission
therefor.
Sec. 32. No person shall allow to be unburied the
body of any human being for a longer time than four
days, or, when death has been caused by infectious or
contagious disease, for a longer time than twenty-four
hours after the death of such person without a permit
from the local board of health, which permit shall specify
the length of time during which said body may be un­buried..
In all cases where death has been caused by an
infectious or contagious disease, the body shall, if directed
by said board, be immediately disinfected as may be di­rected
by it.. If the body remains unburied for more than
twenty-four hours, it shall be immediately enclosed in a
tightly sealed metallic coffin, which shall not thereafter
be opened, and the funeral of such person shall be strictly
private..
In the removal of such body for burial or otherwise",
only such hearses or other vehicles shall be employed as
may be authorized by said board, and no undertaker or
other person shall bury or prepare for burial the body of
any human being without a certificate signed by the at­tending
physician or the coroner, which certificate shall
state the name, age, sex and place of abode, and date of
death of such diseased person, the name and duration of
the disease of which such person died, and whether or not
the disease is contagious, and such certificate shall, after
the burial of such body, be filed with the local board oJ'
health, and whenever any such dead body shall be presented
to any common carrier within the State for transportation
by such carrier, it shall be accompanied by a duplicate of
sueh certificate signed by such attending physician or
eoroner, and no common carrier shall receive any such
body for transportation unless such certificate shall sjate
the disease of which such a person died is not contagious,
which duplicate shall be securely attached to and remain
upon the. outside of the eoffin or other reeeptacle contain·
ing such dead body.
Sec. 33. It shall be the duty of eaeh local board of
health when it shall come to its knowledge that a case of
small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or other infeetious or
contagious disease exists within its jurisdietion immediately
to examine into the facts of the case, and if such disease
appears to be of the character herein specified sueh board
shall adopt such quarantine and sanitary measnres as in
its judgment tend to prevent the spread of such diseasr,
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and may immediately cause any person infected with such
disease to be removed to a separate house, if, in the opinion
of the health officer or superintendent of public health,
such person can be so removed without danger to his
health, and, if such infected person cannot be removed
without danger to his health the local board shall make
such quarantine regulations as is deemed proper with refer­ence
to the house within which such infected person is, and
in such cases may cause the persons in the neighborhood
to be removed, and take such other measures itS it deems
necessary for the safety of the inhabitants, and shall im­mediately
notify the StaLe board of health of the existance
and nature of such disease, and of the measure adpted by
it with reference thereto
Sec, 84 Each local board of health may provide such
temporary hospital or place of reception for persons af­flicted
with infectious or contagious diseases as it judges
best for their accomodation and safety of the inhabitants,
and aU such hospitals and all private houses or other
places in which exists any infectious or contagious diseases
shall, during the existance of such disease, be under the
control and subj ect to the regulations of the local board of
health and all the inmates of such house or other place
chlring the existence of such disease therein must conform
to the regulations and obey the instructions of such local
board with reference i hereto,
Sec" 35" Any local board of health may cause to be
destroyed any bed or bedding, clothing, carpets or other
articles which have been exposed to infection from such
infectious or contagious disease and may allow reasonable
compensation for the same, or may provide a proper place
with all necessary apparatus and attendants for the dis­infection
of such articles and cause all such articll~s to be
disinfected thereby, and may provide a carriage for the
conveyance of such articles or of persons suffering from
such contagious or infectious disease
Sec, 36, Local boards of health may employ such
persons as may be necessary to carry into effect the pro­visions
of this chapter and the regulations established by
them, and such physicians as they deem neeessary, and
provide such necessaries of life as in their judgment shall
be needed for the maintenance, welfare and comfort of
persons afflicted with contagious or infectious diseases.
All expenses incurred by any local board of health in
carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter, and in
providing for the care and maintenance of such sick per-
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sons, and all expenses ineurred under any of the provisions
of this seetion shall-be audited and allowed by the board
ineurring the same; sueh expenses, in case of eity boards of
health shall be eertified to the eity auditor and paid out of
the general funds of the eity, and in case of county boards
of health, shall be certified to the eounty board of super­visors
and paid out of the general fund of the county; all
expenses incurred by suehboards of health for the care,
medical attendance or support of any such siek person
shall be a charge upon sueh person and upon the person
legally chargeable with the support of such person (except
where persons are unable to pay, 1hen such expenses shall
be ehargeable to the eounty in whieh such person resides)
and may be colleeted by suit in the name of the eounty or
eity which shall have inwrred such expense, provided, that
if a physician is called at the instance of such loeal. board
of health to attend a person infeeted with a eomagious or
infectious disease, it shall be at the expense of sueh eit;y
or county
See. 37. Any person who wilfully seeretes himself or
others known to have a contagious or infeetious disease, or
any health officer, superintendcnt of publie health or any
member of any local board of health who shall neglect or
refuse to perform any of the duties required to be per­formed
by him under the provisions of this chapter, and
any person who fails to comply with or violates any of
the provisions of this chapter, or neglects or re­fuses
to conform to any rule, regulations or meas­ures
adopted by the local board of health within
,,,hose jurisdiction he shall at the time be, and which
shall have bl"en published or shall have come to his
knowledge, or. refuses or neglects promptly to obey any
orders, directions or instructions given to him by such
board of health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not
less than ten or 1110re than fifty dollars, or by imprison­ment
in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by
both, and any physician convicted under this chapter shall
have his license revoked.
Sec. 38. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with
the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 39.. This aet shall take effect and be in force
from and after the first day of Oetober, 1913.
Approved May 7th, 1913.
TITLE XI, PENAL CODE,
R. S. 1913.
OFFENSES AGAINST THE PUBLIC HEALTH
AND SAFETY.
Sec. 383, Anything which is injurious to health, or
is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction
to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the com­fortable
enjoyment of life or property by an entire com­munity
or neighborhood, or by any considerable number
of persons, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use,
in the customary manner, of any navigable lake or river,
bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park square,
street or highway, is a public nuisance.
Sec. 384. An act which affects an entire community
or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons,
as specified in the last section, is not less a nuisance be­cause
the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted
upon individuaJs is unequal.
Sec. 385" Every person who maintains or commits any
public nuisance, the punishment for which is not otherwise
prescribed, or who wilfully omits to perform any legal
duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance, is guilty
of a misdemeanor,
Sec" 386 Every person who puts the carcass of any
dead animal, or the offal from any slaughter pen, corral
01 butcher shop into any river, creek, pond, reservoir.
str<"am, street, alley, public hig'hway, or road in common
use, or who attempts to destroy the same by fire within
one-fourth of a mile of any city or town, except it be in a
crematory, the construction and operation of which is
satisfactory to the board of health of such city or town;
any person who puts any water-closet or privy, or the
carcass of any dead animal or any offal of any kind, in
or upon the borders of any stream, pond, lake or reser­voir
from which water is drawn for the supply of the
inhabitants of any city or town in this state, so that the
drainage from such water-closet, privy, carcass, or offal.
may be taken up by or in such stream, pond, lake or
resprvoir; or who allows any water-closet or privy, or
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carcass of any dead animal, or any offal of any kind, to
remain in or upon the borders of any such stream, pond,
lake or reservoir within the boundaries of any land owned
or occupied by him, so that the drainage from such water­c]
os~t, privy, carcass or offal maybe taken up by or in
such stream, pond, lake or reservoir ;01' vvho keeps any
horses, mules, cattle, s,Yine, sheep or live stock of any
kind penned, corralled or housed on, over. or on the bor·,
del's' of any such stream, pond, lake or r~servoir, so that
the waters thereof become polluted by reason thereof, or
who bathes in any such stream, pond, lake or reservoir; or
who by any other means fouls or pollutes the waters of
any such stream, pond, lake or reservoir. is guilty of a
misdemeanor..
Sec.. 387.. The owner or person in possession of any
lot of land in any city, or town, corporated or unincor
porated, on which there is any water-closet, privy, or
cess-pool, who shall fail to keep the same in a healthful
condition, either by the use of disinfectants or otherwise,
or who shall permit the same to become unhealthful or
offensive to the public, or to any person, is guilty of a
misdemeanor
Sec 388. Every person who in putting up in any
bag, bale, box, barrel, or other package, any hops, cotton,
wool, grain, hay, or other goods usually sold in bags,
bales, boxes, barrels, or packages by weight, puts in or
conceals therein anything whatever for the purpose of
increasing the weight of such bag, bale, box, barrel, or
package, with intent thereby to sell the goods therein, or
to enable another to sell the same, for an increased weight.
is punishable by fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
for each offense"
Sec 389,. Every person who adulterates or dilutes
any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or
malt liquor, or wine, or any article useful in compound­ing
them, with a fraudulent intent to offer the same, or
cause or permit it to be offered for sale as unadulterated
or undiluted, and every person who fraudulently sells,
or keeps or offers for sale the same as unadulterated or
undiluted, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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REGULATIONS
OF THE
ARIZONA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Under authority of Section 4, Paragraphs 3 and 8,
Chapter I, of the Public Health Act of the Revised Stat·
utes of Arizona, 1913, and Section 1, Chapter II, of the
Vital Statistics Act of the Revised Statutes of Arizona,
1913, the following regulations for the control of com­municable
diseases; further defining the duties of county
superintendents of public health and city health officers,
and of local and county registrars of vital statistics; re­quiring
additional information as to the places where
diseases causing death have been contracted, or injuries
resulting in death received; regulating the sanitation of
dairies and of schools and the construction of school
buildings, are hereby adopted, and the regulations adopted
by the Territorial Board of Health on August 1, 1911, are
hereby repealed. .
Approved by the Arizona State Board of Health this
April 25, 1914.
GEO.. W. P HUNT,
Governor, Ex-officio President.
R N. J~OONEY,
Superintendent of Public Health, Secretary.
Section 4, Paragraph 3, Chapter I, Boards of Health, Re­vised
Statutes of Arizona, 1913.
The Board shall have power, and it shall be its duty:
To make and enforce all needful rules and regulations
for the prevention and cure, and to prevent the spread
0:1' any contagious, infectious or malarial diseases among
persons and domestic animals..
CHAPTER I
Control of Communicable Diseases.
Sec. 1. The following diseases are hereby declared
to be communicable and dangerous to the public health,
viz.: Bubonic plague, chicken pox, cholera (Asiatic or epi­demic),
dengue, diphtheria (diphtheritic croup, diph­theritic
sore throat), German measles, hydrophobia (rabies),
leprosy, malarial fever, nieasles, relapsing fever, scarlet
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fever (scarletina, scarlet rash), small pox (variola, vario­loid)
, typhoid fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, yellow
fever, infantile paralysis, epidemic cerebrospinal menin­gitis,
and tuberculosis, and shall be understood to be in­cluded
in the following regulations, unless certain of them
only are specified.
Sec" 2, Paragraph 1. Every .physician who shall
know or suspect that any person, requiring his or her ser­vices
professionally, is suffering from any of the diseases
IIamed in Section 1, shall forthwith make report in writing
to the local Board of Health, upon. blanks to be furnished
for that purpose by the local Board of Health. The re­port
shall be personally signed by the physician and shall
contain such items of information as are indicated on the
blanks aforesaid. Cases merely suspected shall be re­ported
as suspicious, or suspected cases, and the local
Board of Health shall be notified promptly upon a definite
decision being made as to the nature of the disease.
Paragraph 2. In case of Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague,
small pox and yellow fever, in addition to the card report,
the local Board of Health shall be immediately notified, by
the most expeditious method (telephone, telegraph, mes­senger)
and the executive officer thereof shall, except for
small pox, immediately notify the secretary of the State
Board of Health by telephone or telegraph. lJike im­mediate
notice, in addition to the card report, shall also
be given to the local Board of Health, of primary cases
in a community, of any of the following diseases, viz.. ;
Chicken pox, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever and whoop­ing
cough.
Sec. 3. Every keeper of any private house, board­ing
house, lodging house, inn or hotel, who shall know or
suspect that any person, boarder, lodger, guest, tenant,
or other occupant of premises owned, conducted, man­aged
or supervised by him or her, or any member of
his or her family, is suffering from any of the diseases
named in Section 1, shall forthwith make report in writing
to the local Board of Health, provided, that where a
physician or other person has professionally attended
such a person, the responsibility of such report shall de­volve
solely upon the physician or person so attending..
Sec. 4. Every health officer and every county sup­{>
rintendent of public health shall, upon receiving a re­port
of any case of any disease named in Section 1, forth­with
make such inspection and examination as may be
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necessary and make report in writing to the secretary of
the State Board of Health upon blanks to be furnished
for that purpose, Said report shall contain such items of
information as are indicated on the blanks provided for
report in such disease. Such health officer or county
superintendent of public health shall notify immediately
the school authorities of the existence of each case of any
of the diseases mentioned in Sections 9 and 10 of these
regulations.
Sec. 5, Paragraph 1 'rhe term Absolute Quarantine
as used in these regulations shall be construed to mean
and include first, absolute prohibition of. entrance to or
exit from a building or conveyance except by officers or
attendants authorized by the health authorities, and the
placing of guards, if necessary, to enforce this prohibi­tion;
second, the posting of a warning placard stating the
name of the disease in a conspicuous place or places on the
outside of the building or conveyance; third, the prohibi
tion of the passing out of any object or material from
the quarantined house or conveyance; fourth, provision
for conveying the necessaries of life, under certain re­strictions,
to those in quarantine,
The following diseases shall be placed under absolute
quarantine: Bubonic plague, cholera, small pox and yel­low
fever, and the quarantine shall be continued until
raised by an authorized agent of the Board of Health,
Paragraph 2, The term Modified Quarantine as used in
these regulations shall be construed to mean and include
first, prohibition of entrance and exit, as in absolute quar­antine,
except against certain members of the family
authorized by the health authorities to pass in and out
under certain definite rest rictions; second, the placing of a
plaeaed or placards as under absolute quarantine; third,
isolation of the patient and attendants The wage earner
is allowed, under modified quarantine to continue work
provided he at no time comes in contact with the patient,
and that he has and uses facilities for thoroughly cleanR­ing
his hands immediately before leaving the premises In
permitting house holders and wage earners to continue
work when their premises are under modified quarantine.
it shall be understood that such persons shall not be em­ployed
in an establishment maintaining the production.
sale or manufacture of candy or food products, including
milk and ice cream; nor shall such person be employed
ap a teacher of children nor in any other capacity that
brings them in intimate contact with children,
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The following diseases shall be placed under modified
quarantine: Diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, infantile
paralysis, and epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis; provided,
that where, in the judgment of the city health officer or
the county superintendent of public health, the health
of the community will be endangered by permitting the
liberties of modified quarantine, he may, at his discretion,
institute absolute quarantine,
Paragraph 3, The following diseases in addition to those
reqmrmg absolute and modified quarantine shall be
placarded and dated: Chicken pox, German measles,
mumps, whooping cough, typhoid fever and leprosy"
Paragraph 4" All the diseases named in this section shall
be subject to such special instructions as may be pro­vided
by the secretary of the State Board of Health and
the placards used shall conform to those described be­low
and be known as placard forms 1, 2 and 3, re­spectively"
Houses from which cases of variola or
varioloid are reported shall be placarded as small pox.
Houses from which cases of membranous croup or diph­theritic
croup are reported shall be placarded as diph­theria"
Form 1.
Form 1 shall be not less than six (6) inches wide,
nine and one-half (91j2) inches long, and shall bear the
name of the disease in letters not less than one (1) inch
high" The wording shall be as follows:
Until this placard is legally removed, all persons
not occupants of these premises are forbidden to enter.
N'o person may leave this house or remove any article
therefrom except by permission of an authorized agent
of the County (or City) Board of Health.
It shall bear the name of the local Board of Health
or of its executive officer as such,
Form 1 shall be used for small pox, scarlet fever,
measles, diphtheria, Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague,
typhus fever, yellow fever, infantile paralysis and epi­demic
cerebrospinal meningitis
Form 2.
Form 2 shall be of the same size and bear the name
of the disease in letters of the same height as Form L
It shall be worded as follows:
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All. persons are notified of the presence of this dis­ease
and on account of its contagious character are
warned against visiting or coming in contact with those
sick with it.
It shall bear the name of the local Board of Health
O1'of its executive officer as such.
:B~orm 2 shall be used for chicken pox, GermalJ
measles, mumps and whooping cough
Form 3.
Form 3 shall be not less than five (5) inches wide
and eight (8) inches long and shall bear the name of
the disease in letters not less than three-fourths (%)
of an inch high, It shall be worded as follows: '
All persons are notified of the presence of this disease
alid are warned of the danger of coming in contact with
the infection.
It shall bear the name of the local Board of Health
or of its executive officer as such
Form 3 shall be used for typhoid fever and leprosy
Sec" 6" No case of any of the contagious diseases
subject to absolute or modified quarantine shall be re­leased
from such quarantine prior to complete recovery.
and in case of scarlet fever. a minimum period of quar­antine
of thirty (30) days shall be observed; and in
diphtheria a minimum period of fourteen (14) days from
the disapp~arance of the membrane.
Sec, 7. Persons permitted access to and exit from
households under modified quarantine shall abstain from
attending places of amusement, worship or education, and,
as far as possible, from visiting other private honses
Sec, 8 No child or other person infected with any
of the following diseases belonging to or residing with
the family or any person residing in the ..same house in
which any person' may be loeat<"d who is infected with
any of the following diseases, namely: Cholera, small
pox (variola. varioloid), scarlet fever, typhus fever, yel­low
fever, diphtheria (diphtheritic croup, membranous
croup), measles, whoopin g cough infantile paralysis or
epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis,. shall be permitted to
attrnd any public, private, parochial, Sunday or othrr
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school in this State, and all principals, Sunday school
superintendents or other persons in charge of such schools,
are hereby required to exclude any and all such children
and persons from such schools, such exclusion to con­tinue
for a period of twelve days follo~wing the discharge
by recovery or death of the person last afflicted in said
house or family, or his or her removal to a hospital, and
a thorough cleansing of the premises; and all such child­ren
or persons as aforesaid, before being permitted to
attend ~ return to school shall furnish to said principal
or other perSOll in charge of said schools a certificate
signed by the medical attendant of said children or per­sons,
or by a physician to be designated by the health
authorities of such locality, setting forth that the twelve
days mentioned in this section have fully expired; Pro­vided,
however, that the health authorities may provide
by rules and regulations that such certificate shall be
given only by a person to be designated by such authori­ties
and in such case no other certificate shall be recog·
nized.
Sec 9, Paragraph 1. No child or other person who
is suffering from German measles, mumps, or chicken pox
shall be permitted to attend any public, private, parochial,
Sunday or other school; and all principals, Sunday school
snperintendents or other persons in charge of such schools
are hereby required to exclude any and all such children
and persons from said schools prior to the receipt of a
certificate of recovery issued by the health officer, or his
accredited agent, following the receipt of the physician's
certificate of recovery.
Paragraph 2 Other persons living in households where
the diseases mentioned in this section exist may be re~·
admitted to school at the end of twelve (12) days from
the date of onset of the disease, if well, and if they have
not been exposed to the sick for that length of time, pro­vided,
they present a permit issued in accordance with
the provisions of this paragraph by the health officer
Sec. 10. Pupils actually affected with the following
diseases shall be excluded from school during the exist­('
nce of the disease and shall be re-admitted upon th8
physician's certificate attesting to the recovery of the
patient, viz.: Tonsilitis, scabies (itch), pediculosus capitis
(head lice), pediculosus corporis (body lice), tinia circi­nata
(ringworm), impetigo contagiosa, favus, acute con··
lagious conjunctivitis, trachoma and erysipelas.
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Sec. 11, Paragraph 1. During the presence of measles
in a community (school district), pupils affected with
acute coryza or "cold in the head," or with acute bron­chitis
or "cold on the chest," and during the presence of
scarlet fever or diphtheria, pupils affected with any form
of infJammation or soreness of the throat, shall be deemed
to be in the prodromal stage of such disease as may be
present or prevalent and subject to all the restrictions
applying thereto
Paragraph 2. Principals and teachers shall take particu­lar
note of pupils at such times and the exclusion of those
found suffering from "colds" must be immediate and
continue until either the pupil be found not to be suffering
from a disease mentioned in Section 8 or until the regu­lar
period of exclusion as provided by these regulations
shall have elapsed.
Sec. 12. The mmlmum periods of school exclusion,
ealculated from date of onset. shall be as follows: For
small pox, thirty (30) days; scarlet fever, t,vo (2) months;
diphtheria, twenty-one (21) days.
See. 13 School teachers boarding or residing with
a family in which any disease subject to quarantine is
known or suspected to exist shall immediately remove to
premises not so infected, and provided they have not
been actually exposed to diphtheria, scarlet fever or
small pox, may be allowed to continue their attendance
at school.
See 14. The head of a family oceupying any house,
apartment, or premises, or the proprietor of any hotel,
hoarding, lodging or tenement house upon or near which
a placard or placards are placed, shall not remove, defaee.
cover up or destroy such placard or plaeards, nor sha]]
other persons unauthorized by the local boards of health
remove, deface, cover up or destroy such placard or pla­eards,
and if through accident, atmospheric conditions or
otherwise, said placard or placards shall be destroyed.
removed or defaced, the householder or proprietor shall
at once notify the health authorities of that fact
Sec. 15. No person shall let or hire any house, or
room in a house. in which a communicable disease re­quired
to be placarded has recently existed, until the
room or house and premises connected therewith have
been cleaned to the satisfaetion of the local Board of
Health; and for the purpose of this seetion, the keeper
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of a hotel, inn or other house for the reception of lodgers,
shall be deemed to let or hire part of a house to any
person admitted as a guest into such hotel, inn or house.
Sec. 16. All dogs, cats and pet animals kept about
premises infected with any disease requiring absolute or
modified quarantine shall be rigidly excluded from the
house until after the raising of the quarantine..
Sec. 17. ·Whenever there shall exist, in the opinion of
the State Board of Health, imminent ,danger of the in­troduction
of a contagious or infectious disease into the
State of Arizona, by means of railroad communication
with other states, the Board of Health may, and it is
her:eby made its duty, to make or cause to be made, under
the direction of the superintendent of public health, an
inspection of all railroad cars coming into the state at
such point, or between such points within the state limits
aR may be selected for the purpose. Such inspection shall
be made, where practicable, during the ordinary deten­tion
of a train at a station, or while in transit between
stations, and in all cases shall be so conducted as to
occasion the least possible detention or interruption of
travel or inconvenience to the railroad companies, so far
as consistent with the purpose of this rule.. Should the
discovery be made of the existence among the passengers,
of any case or cases of dangerous, contagious or infectious
diseases, the said Board of Health or the superintendent of
public health, under the rules and conditions prescribed
for them as being applicable to the nature of the disease.
shall have the power to cause the side-tracking or deten­tion
of any car or cars so infected, to isolate the sick, or
remove them to a Ruitahle place for treatment, to es­tablish
a suitahle refuge station, to cause the passengers
and materials in such infected cars to be subjected to
disinfection and cleaning before proceeding' further into
the state. and, in case of small pox, to offer free vaccina­tion
to all persons exposed in any car or at any station.
Sec. 18. Upon the removal to a hospital or other
place, or upon the discharge by recovery or death of any
person or persons who have suffered from bubonic plague,
cholera, diphtheria, leprosy, measles, scarlet fever, small
pox, infantile paralysis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis.
typhoid fever or typhus fever, the premises where
said diseases existed, together with the bedding, clothing,
and other articles exposed to infection, shall be disinfected
by cleansing, or cleansing and fumigation, to the satis­faction
of the local Board of Health.
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CHAPTER n
Sec. 1, Each county superintendent of public health
shall on the lath day of every month report to the secre·
tary of the State Board of Health, on blanks provided for
that purpose, the proceedings of the County Board of
Health and his official acts for the preceding month. Such
report shall include the following facts for the preceding
month:
(1) The num.ber of. premises from which quarantine
has been raised or restrictions removed"
(2) The number of cases of each disease mentioned
in Chapter I, Section 1, existing in his county on the last
day of the preceding month.
(3) The number of dairies, slaughter houses, butcher
shops, bakeshops, restaural1ts, boarding houses, hotels and
rooming houses inspected,
(4) The number of schools, jails, almshouses, hospi­tals
and other public buildings inspected,
(5) The number of corrals, stables, tanneries, hide
houses, bone boiling establishments and other offensive
trades or businesses inspected, the conditions found and
changes ordered.
(6) The number of premises, including yards, privies,
cess-pools, sewer connections, private stables, middens, gar­bage
cans, etc., inspeeted, the number condemned, ordered
destroyed, cleaned or otherwise changed
(7) The number of stagnant pools found, the number
ordered drained, filled or otherwise rendered unfit for the
propagation of mosquitoes.
(8) Any violations of the Public Health Act of the
Revised Statutes of Arizona, 19] 3, of the Vital Statistics
Aet of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1913; of Sections
383-389, inclusive, of the Penal Code, and of the regulations
of the State Board of Health, and the number of arrests
and convictions thereunder,
Sec" 2 Each city health officer shall on the 5th day
of every month report to the secretary of the State Board
of Health for the preceding month, Such report shall
include the following in addition to the facts required in
paragraphs 1 to 8, inclusive, of the preceding section:
(1) The installation of any extensions or modifica­t
ions of the sewerage sy8tell1.
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(2) The installation of, or any changes, or extensions
or additions 10 the',public water supply..
(3) The installation or any changes, or extensions of
the systematic collection or disposal of garbage and other
city wastos.. If possible, a map should accompany a report
of anything included in tbis and the two preceding para­graphs.
Sec.. 3.. Each county superintendent of public health
shall as often as once a year inspect each unincorporated
10wn, village, mining or other industrial camps having an
estimated population of one hundred or more witbin hiH
county. Such inspection shall include: The schools, dairies,
slaughter houses, butcher shops, bakeshops, restaurants,
boarding and rooming houses and hotels; the stables,
oorrals, hide-houses and other offensive trades and busi··
nesses; the water supply, sewage and garbage removal
and disposal; the sanitary oondition of the streets, alleys,
\ acant lots, ditches, yards and any public nuisances as
defined by these regulations or by the statutes of the State
He shall serve notice on all persons responsible for
conditions inimical 10 the public health or public comfort,
and shall give copies, or a list, of such notices to the con­stable
of the precinct with instructions to see that the
changes are made in accordance with his orders If con­sidered
necessary by him, a reinspection shall be made
after a sufficient time to see that the changes ordered
have been carried out in good faith.
Sec.. 1. County superintendents of public health and
city health officers shall make such report s to the secre­tary
of the State Board as may be required by said Board
and shall answer promptly all letters of inquiry of said
Board or of its secretary 'j'hey shall keep on file all offi-­c1al
correspondence reoeived and copies of all l(~tters and
reports sent by them. 'l']wy shall keep an accurate account
of all expenditures made by lheir respective boards and a
report of such expenditures shall be made to the secretary
of the State Board in snch manner as he may prescribe
Sec 5 All reports, certificates, relurns and records
required to be l{(~pt, returned and reported by local Boards
of Health, shall be in accordance with such forms as shall
be directed by the superintendent of public health.
Sec.. 6. Every county superintendent of public health
or city health officer on going out of office (or in case of
his death his legal representative) shall deliver to his suc­cessor
in office all property, books, account", papers, and
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documents in his possession relating to or connected 'with
his office or official duties He shaM also immediately
notify the secretary of the State Board of Health of thp
pertinent facts relating to his going out of office and in·
form him of the name and address of his successor.
CHAPTER III
Vital Statistics.
L Each local registrar shall on the fifth of every
month fill out and mail to the count,)T registrar a monthly
statement card, provided by the State registrar for that
purpose, showing the number of births and deaths reported
to him for the preceding month or months, and trans­mitted
by him to the county registrar, provided, that from
districts in which neither binhs nor deaths have been re··
ported, reports to that effect may be made upon the "No
Death" and "No Birth" cards provided by the Statr
registrar.
2. In addition to the duties prescribed by Section 20.
Chapter II, of the Vital Statistics Act of the Revised Stat
utes of Arizona, 1913, each county registrar shall examine
and verify the monthly 8tatement cards received from
local registrars and shall return for correction all incor­rect
statements. He shall enclose with the certificates
transmitted to the State registrar, a statement of the num­ber
of certificates of death and birth enclosed with their
numbers according to his county series, the number of
local registrars' monthly statement blanks, no death cards
no birth cards and the number of districts not reporting
3. In addition to the information required by Section
8, Chapter II, of the Vital Statistics Act of the Revised
Statutes of Arizona, 19B, the person certifying to the
cause of death shall, in case the death has been due to in­fectious
diseas(~ as defined in Chapter I, of these regula­tions,
or to tuberculosis, or violence, state where (geo­graphically)
in his opinion the disease was contracted or
injury received, and in the event that the state or foreig'n
country in which such disease or injury was contracted or
received is unknown to him, he shall specifically state
whether or not, in his opinion, the disease or injury was
acquired in Arizona.. In the event of disease of the fore­going
nature, or injury, haviug been acquired in Arizona,
the physician shall specify as nearly as may be the county
and the town, city, village or camp.
4 Still births of less than seven months gestation
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shall not be reported. A child which shows any evidence
whatever of life after birth shall not be registered as a
still birth.
CHAPTER Iv..
Regulating the Sanitation of Dairies and the Sale of Milk
and Cream.
Sec. L No building shall be used for stabling cows
for dairy purposes which is not properly constructed, well
lighted, well ventilated and provided with a suitable solid
floor of plank, cement or other impervious material that
can be readily cleaned, and laid with proper grades and
channels to carry off all drainage.
Sec.. 2. No water closet, privy, cess-pool or urinal
shall be located within any building or room for stabling
cows, or for the handling or storage of milk or milk pro­ducts..
No inhabited room or workshop shall be located
'within fifty feet of any such building or room, nor shall
any fowl, hog, horse, sheep, goat or other animal be kept
in any room used for milking or the storing of milk
products.
Sec 3.. All rooms and stables in which cows are milked
shall be thoroughly clean and in good repair, and shall be
painted or vvhitevvashed at least once a year.
Sec.. 4. All manure shall be removed daily from the
room or stable in which cows are milked, and shall not he
stored where odors from the same shall he noticeable ar
the stable or milk 1'00111.
Sec.. 5.. All persons keeping cows for the production
of milk for sale shall cause each cow to he kept clean and
groomed.
Sec.. 6. Every person using any premises for keeping
(lalry cows shall cause the yard or pasture in connection
therewith to be provided with a proper receptacle for
watering such cows, and none but fresh, clean, pure water
shall be stored in such receptacle.
Sec. 7.. Any enclosure in which cows are kept shall
be graded and drained so as to keep the surface reasonably
dry and to prevent the accumulation of water therein, and
no garbage, urine, fecal matter or other similar substances
shall be placed or allowed to remain in such enclosure,
and no open drain shall be allowed to run through it
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Sec. 8 All milk shall be removed, as soon as drawn,
from the stable to the milk room The milk room shall
be separate from the stable in which the cows are kept
and shall not be used as a living or sleeping room, but shall
serve for the handling of milk and cream exclusively It
shall be sanitary in construction, properly screened, sup­plied
with proper ventilation, light and pure water, and
suitable facilities for straining, cooling and storing milk or
milk products, and for washing and sterilizing all utensils
and apparatus in which milk is removed, stored and' de­livered.
SeG. 9. All utensils used for the reception, storage,
or delivering of milk or cream shall be made of glass,
stoneware, glazed metal or tinplate free from rust and or
sanitary construction, and such utensils shall not be used
for any other purpose.
Sec. 10 All cans, pails, strainers, coolers, dippers,
separators, bottles, churns, butter-workers, and other dairy
utensils shall be cleaned from all remnants of milk and
scalded with boiling water or live steam after each use
Sec.. 11. All milk or cream cans delivered to cream·
cries or dealers in cities shall be covered with tight fitting'
lids, and when conveyed in open wagons shall be covered
with clean canvas while being so conveyed.
Sec.. 12. No person, firm, association or corporation
l'uying, storing or receiving milk for the purpose of sell··
ing the same for consumption as such, or for manufactur­ing
it into butter, cheese, iee erea111, eOlldensed milk or
other human food, shall keep the same in utensils, eaus.
',essels or rooms that are une1ean, or have unsanitary sur·
roundings, or drainage, or under conditions favora hIe to
lmhealthfulness or disease, and milk to he sold for COIl­sumption
as sueh, within one hour after receiving the
same shall be cooled to a temperature not higher thitJ1 60
degrees F, and shall be kept at such temperatme until
delivered
Sec. 13. Every person engaged in the production.
storage, transportation, sa Ie, delivering or distribution of
milk, immediately on the occurrence of any case or eases
of infectious diseas(\ either in himself or his familv or
amongst his employes or their immediate associate~, or
within the building' or premises where milk is stored, sold
or r'jistrihuted, shall notify the local health authorities.
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Sec.. 14. No person having an infectious disease or
having recently been in contact with a person having an
infectious disease, shall handle milk or handle cows, meas­ures
or other vessels used for milk or milk products in­tended
for sale until all danger of communicating such dis­ease
to other persons shall have passed, as determined by
the local health authorities.
Sec" 15. No vessels which have been handled by per­sons
suffering' from infectious diseases shall be used to
hold or convey milk until they have been thoroughly ster­ilized.
Sec,. 16" No bottle, can or receptacle used for the
reception or storage of milk shall be remov"ed from a pri­vate
house, apartment or tenement wherein a person has
an infectious disease until such bottle, can or receptacle
shall have been properly sterilized under the direction of
the local health authorities.
Sec" 17 "Whenever any of the following diseases:
small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, measles,
becomes epidemic as adjudged by the local health authori­ties,
the use of milk bottles and such other containers as
are left on consumers' premises by milk dealers or their
employees, shall be discontinued until such time as exist­ing
health conditions warrant the permission of the health
authorities to resume their use. Both the householder and
j he milk dealer will be held responsible for any violation
of this regulation.
Sec" 18, '1'he regulations of this chapter shall not be
construed as applying to persons keeping cows whose milk
is not for sale or distribution; nor shall they be construed
to minimize the requirements of any local ordinance re­lating
to milk and its production"
CHAPTER V.
Sanitation of Schools.
Sec" L School authorities shall not crowd children
into school rooms in excess of one child to each two hun­dred
twenty-five (225) cubic feet of space, and it shall be
the duty of all health officers having juridiction to dismiss
forthwith any school room in which two hundred twenty­five
(225) cubic feet of air space is not supplied to each
pupil; and the school authorities shall without delay make
provision for pupils in accordance with the requirements
herein set forth.
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Sec" 2, All schoolhouses, before school opens in the
autumn, shall be thoroughly cleansed, The cleaning shall
consist in sweeping and scrubbing the fioors and thoroughly
washing all woodwork, including othe wooden parts of
desks and seats,
Sec, 3. Ventilation must be carefully attended to in
all school rooms, and when ventilating ducts do not exist
il shall be the duty of the teachers to fiood the school
rooms with fresh air by opening windows and doors at
recess and at noontime, and also whenever the air becomes
close or foul. All schoolhouses shall be supplied with an
abundance of pure drinking water,
All schoorhouse wells shall be supplied with troughs
and drains to carry away 'waste water, and under no con­ditions
shall pools, sodden places or small or large mud·
holes be allowed to exist near wells, Buckets and all open
Ivatel' receptacles are condemned and forbidden, for such
furnish most excellent opportunities for transmitting dis­ease
germs which occur in saliva, 'IVhen water is not
supplied at the pump or from water faucets, or from sani·
tary fiowing drinking fountains, then covered tanks or
covered coolers with free fiowing faucets shall be supplied,
The providiilg of a common drinking cup in the public
schools is prohibited,
Sec. 4, ,Vater closets, dry elosets and outhouses shall
be kept clean and sanitary at all times, and pupils should
be taught decency and promptly punished for indecency.
I'rater closets or dry closet s, when provided, shall be effi­eient
in every particular; and when said closets are not
provided, then good fiy-tig'ht, well ventilated outhouses for
t he sexes, separated by closely-built fences, shall be pro­vided
Good, dry walks shall leaa to all outhouses and
dosely-built screens or shields shall be built in front of
them Outhouses for males shall have urinals arranged
with stalls and with eonduits of galvanized iron or other
impervious material draining into a sewer, vault or other
suitable plaee, Facilities for washing the hands must be
provided in all sehools and teachers should instruct pupils
to use them after visiting the water closet or outhouse
The use of roller towels or any towels used in common by
two or more pupils is condemned and it is recommended
that schools furnish paper towels for the use of pupils and
teachers
Sec, 6, Health officers shall enforce these rules and
promptly enter prosecution for any violation thereof.
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CHAPTER VI
Construction of School Buildings.
Sec.. 1. All schoolhouse sites shall be dry, and such
drainage as shall be necessary to secure and maintain dry
grounds and dry buildings, shall be supplied. Said sites
and said buildings shall not be nearer than three hundred
fifty (350) feet to steam railroads or any noise-making in­dustry,
or any unsanitary or unhealthful conditions what­soever..
Good walks shall lead from the street or highway
to every schoolhouse and dry playgrounds shall be pro­vided.
Sec. 2. All two-story schoolhouses shall have dry,
well lighted basements under the entire building; said base­ments
shall have cement floors and the ceilings shall be not
less than nine feet high. The ground floor of all school­houses
shall be raised at least three feet above the ground
l(~vel to lower edge of first floor joists. One-room 8chool­bouses
shall have solid foundations of brick. stone or con­crete,
and the area between the ground and' the floor shall
be thoroughly ventilated, and basements are recommended..
Each pupil shall be provided with not less than two hun­dred
twenty-five (225) cubic feet of space, and the interior
walls shall be either painted or tinted some neutral color,
as gray, slate, buff or green..
Sec.. 3. All school rooms shall be lighted from one
side only, and the glass area shall be not less than one­sixth
of the floor area, and the windows shall extend to
not inore than one foot from the ceiling, all windows to be
provided with roller or adjustable translucent shades of
neutral color, as blue, gray, slate, buff or green.. In a]]
schoolhouses desks shall be so placed that the light sha11
fa]] over the left shoulders of the pupils.
See. 4. Blackboards shall be preferably of slate, but
of whatever material, the color shall be a dead black.
Sec. 5.. All schoolhouses shall be supplied with pure
drinking water and the water supply shall be from driven
wells or other source approved by the local health authori­ties.
,Vhenever it is practicable, flowing sanitary drinking
fountains which do not require drinking cups shall be
provided.. Vvhen water is not supplied from public water
faucets, sanitary flowing fountains or wells, then covered
tanks or covered coolers with free flowing faucets shall
be provided All schoolhouse wells shall be supplied with
troughs or drains to carry away waste 'water, and under
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no conditions shall pools or sodden places or mudholes
be allowed to exist near a well.
Sec. 6. Heating apparatus of all kinds, shall be cap­able
of maintaining a temperature of 70 degrees :B~ahren­heit
in zero 'weather and of maintaining a relative humidity
of at least 30 per cent.; and said heaters shall receive air
from outside the building and after heating, introduce it
into the school room at a point not less than five feet from
the noor and at a minimum rate of thirty (30) cubic feet
per minute for each pupil. vVhen direct-indirect steam or
hot water heating is adopted, then the openings or ducts
for admitting outside air shall be opposite the radiators..
Halls and office rooms may be heated with direct steam
or hot water radiators, but direct steam and direct hot
water heating are forbidden for school rooms Ordinary
stoves without jackets and inlets for fresh outside air are
condemned and forbidden..
All rooms shall be provided with efficient exit venti­lating
ducts of ample size placed near the floor on the side
of the room nearest the inlet.
Sec. 7. ,Vater closets, or dry closets, when provided,
shall be" efficient and sanitary in every particular; and
when said closets are not provided, then good ny-tight,
well ventilated outhouses for the sexes, separated by closely
built fences, shall be provided. Good dry walks shall
lead to all outhous("s and solid screens or shields shall be
built in front of them. Outhouses for males shall have
urinals arranged with stalls and with conduits of galva­nized
iron or other impervious material draining into a.
sewer, vault or other suitable place.
Sec. 8. These rules directing specific featurrs in 1he
construction of schoolhouses necessary to secure sanitary
conditions, shall apply to all ncw buildings erected and
to all old buildings rebuilt or remodcled after the passage
of said regulations, and all health officers shall see to the
enforcement of these regulations and promptly enter pros(~­eution
for any violation thereof.