no material improvement in the light and ventilation of such rooms can be had that would warrant the providing of new windows of the size and kind specified, may permit the occupancy of such rooms for living purposes in the following cases, provided such improvements or alterations as may be practicable and as are required by said department are made by the owner:

(1) Where there is an existing window or window opening from such interior to an outer room and such window or opening is not less than 10 square feet in area.

(2) Where there is an existing sliding door with translucent glass or an alcove opening of sufficient size from such interior room to an outer room.

(3) Where, owing to the size of partitions, arrangement of rooms, location of fixed closets or stairs, or the interposition of air shafts, it is impracticable to provide a sash window of the required size and a window as large as practicable is provided.

SEC. 3. Public halls, lighting and ventilation of-In all tenement houses erected prior to the passage of this ordinance the public halls and stairs shall be provided with as much light and ventilation to the outer air as is practicable. All new skylights hereafter placed in such houses shall be provided with ridge ventilators or fixed or movable louvers or with movable sashes, so that there may be an effective ventilating area of 40 square inches or more.

SEC. 4. Water-closets and sinks.-In all tenement houses erected prior to the passage of this ordinance the woodwork inclosing sinks or water-closets shall be removed, and the space underneath and around the same shall be left open. The floors and wall surfaces beneath and around the sink or water-closet shall be put in good order and repair, and whenever used by more than one family such floor or other surface, if of wood, shall be kept well painted with light-colored paint.

SEC. 5. Water-closets in tenement houses.-In connection with all tenement houses erected prior to the passage of this ordinance there shall be provided and installed at least one water-closet for every two families in each such house. When a sewer is accessible such water-closets shall be of durable nonabsorbing material, properly sewer connected, and with individual traps and properly connected flush tanks, providing an ample flush of water to thoroughly cleanse the bowl. Each such watercloset shall be located in a compartment completely separated from every other watercloset, and such compartment shall be located in or contiguous to the house, and shall contain a window of not less than four square feet in area opening directly to a street or yard, or on a court not less than 25 feet in area and open to the sky, or such compartment shall be adequately lighted and ventilated by a skylight. The floors of such water-closet compartments shall be waterproof, as provided in section 22 of chapter 2 of this ordinance, unless the same be placed in a bathroom. Where a sewer is not accessible, such water-closet shall consist of privy vaults located in the yard and constructed in accordance with the ordinances of the city relating thereto; in such cases the structure containing the water-closets shall not exceed 10 feet in height; such structure shall be provided with a ventilating skylight in the roof, of an adequate size, and each water-closet shall be located in a compartment completely separated from every other water-closet; proper and adequate means of lighting the structure at night shall be provided.

SEC. 6. Water-closets in dwelling houses.-All new water-closets hereafter placed within a dwelling house erected prior to the passage of this ordinance, or in a compartment contiguous thereto, shall be located and installed in accordance with the requirements of section 23, chapter 2, of this ordinance. Where outside closets are constructed they shall be in accordance with the ordinances of the city relating to such closets.

SEC. 7. Basements and cellars.-The floor of the cellar or basement of every tenement house shall be free from dampness, and when necessary shall be concreted with 4 inches of concrete of good quality and with a finished surface. The cellar ceiling of every tenement house shall be plastered when necessary to prevent the damp air of the cellar from reaching the rooms above.

CHAPTER 6.

SEC. 4. Penalties for violation.-Any owner, agent, manager, tenant, lessee, or occupant of any tenement house or dwelling house, or any architect, contractor, builder, or foreman, violating, disobeying, neglecting, or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 and costs of prosecution or by imprisonment in the county jail of Kalamazoo County for a period not exceeding 60 days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and in default of the payment of any such fine the court may imprison such person in said county jail until such fine is paid, not, however, exceeding 60 days; and any violation of any provision of this ordinance, if continued after prosecution is begun, shall be deemed a separate offense for each week such violation is continued.

SEC. 5. Registry of owner's name.-Every owner of a tenement house and every lessee of the whole house, or other person having control of a tenement house, shall, within three months after the passage of this ordinance, file in the health department a notice containing his name and address, and also a description of the property, by street number or otherwise, as the case may be, in such manner as will enable the said department easily to find the same, and also the number of apartments in each house, the number of rooms in each apartment, and the number of families occupying the apartments; and the failure to file such notice shall be deemed a misdemeanor and be punished as provided in section 4 of this ordinance.

SEC. 6. Registry of agent's name.-Every owner or lessee of a tenement house or dwelling house may file in the department of health a notice containing his own name and address or the name and address of an agent of such house, for the purpose of receiving service of notice or other process and also a description of the property by street number or otherwise, as the case may be, in such manner as will enable the department of health easily to find the same.

SEC. 7. Service of notice and orders.-Every notice or order in relation to a tenement house or dwelling house shall be served five days before the time for doing the thing in relation to which it shall have been issued. Such service shall be upon the person, if any, whose name has been filed with the department of health in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of this ordinance, and if no such name has been filed, then such service shall be upon the owner, agent, or other person or persons having control of such tenement house.

SEC. 8. The health department is hereby charged with the enforcement of all the provisions of this ordinance relating to the maintenance of tenement houses and dwelling houses, and the provisions relative to changes in such house involving the lighting, ventilation, or sanitation thereof. The building department is hereby charged with the enforcement of the remaining provisions of this ordinance. Each of said departments shall keep and preserve as to each such building a complete record of all inspections, permits, and orders issued pursuant to this ordinance.

SEC. 10. Ordinances repealed.-All ordinances and parts of ordinances, so far as inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed.

MAHANOY CITY, PA.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases, Quarantining, Disinfection, and Placarding. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 5, 1912.)

SECTION 1. Every physician practicing in any portion of this Commonwealth, who shall treat or examine any person suffering from or afflicted with, actinomycosis, anthrax, bubonic plague, cerebrospinal meningitis (epidemic), (cerebrospinal fever, spotted fever), chicken pox, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria (diphtheritic croup, membranous croup, putrid sore throat), epidemic dysentery, erysipelas, German measles, glanders (farcy), rabies (hydrophobia), leprosy, malarial fever, measles, mumps, pneumo

nia (true), puerperal fever, relapsing fever, scarlet feve (scarlatina, scarlet rash), smallpox (variola, varioloid) tetanus, trachoma trichiniasis tuberculosis in any form, typhoid fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, or yellow fever, shall, if said case be located in the borough of Mahanoy City forthwith make a report in writing to the board of health of said borough upon blanks supplied for that purpose, in which report he shall, over his or her own signature, state the name of the disease, and the name, age, sex, color, nativity and occupation, if any, of the persons suffering therefrom, together with the street and house number of the premises in which said person may be located, or otherwise sufficiently designate the same, the date of the onset of the disease, the name and occupation of the householder in whose family the disease may have occurred, the number of children in said household attending school, and the name or names of the school or schools so attended, together with such other information relating to said case as may be required by said board of health.

SEC. 2. Whenever any householder knows that any person within his family or household has any of the diseases named in section 1 of these rules he shall immediately report the same to the board of health, giving the street and number or location of the house.

SEC. 3. Upon receipt by the board of health of a report of the existence of a case of anthrax, bubonic plague, cerebrospinal meningitis (epidemic), (cerebrospinal fever, spotted fever), chickenpox, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria (diphtheritic croup, membranous croup, putrid sore throat), erysipelas, German measles, glanders (farcy), leprosy, malarial fever, measles, mumps, relapsing fever, scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), smallpox (variola, varioloid), typhoid fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, or yellow fever, the said board of health shall quarantine or cause to be quarantined the premises in which such disease exists, and any person or persons who has or have been exposed thereto; and shall post or cause to be posted in a conspicuous place or places upon the premises in which said disease may be located a placard or placards upon which shall be printed in conspicuous letters the name of the disease from which the person or persons in said home or premises is suffering, with the warning that the premises are quarantined, and shall so remain until the quarantine is removed by said board of health, or the State department of health, and the rules and regulations of said board of health relative to said quarantine and the penalties prescribed by law for violation of said rules and regulations: Provided, That variola or varioloid shall be placarded as "smallpox," and that diphtheritic croup, membranous croup, and putrid sore throat shall be placarded as "diphtheria," and that scarlatina and scarlet rash shall be placarded as "scarlet fever," and said placards shall remain in place until the expiration of such time as may be determined by said board of health or the State department of health, and shall be removed by a health officer after the restrictions prescribed by the rules and regulations of the board of health and those of the State department of health, regarding the destruction and disinfection of infected bedding, clothing, and other articles which have been exposed to infection, and the disinfection of the house, premises, and persons, have been fully complied with: Provided further, That in addition to the placarding aforesaid, said board of health may, for the purpose of enforcing quarantine regulations, place a guard or guards over said house or premises.

SEC. 4. No child or other person, suffering from anthrax, bubonic plague, cerebrospinal meningitis (epidemic), (cerebrospinal fever, spotted fever), Asiatic cholera, smallpox (variola, varioloid), typhus fever, yellow fever, relapsing fever, or leprosy, or residing in the same premises with any person suffering from any of said diseases shall be permitted to attend any public, private, parochial, Sunday, or other school, and the teachers of public schools, and the principals, superintendents, and teachers; or other persons in charge of private, parochial, Sunday, or other similar schools, are hereby required to exclude any and all such children or persons from said schools; such exclusion to continue for a period of 30 days following the release, by reason of

the recovery or death, of the person last afflicted in said premises or his or her removal
to a hospital, the removal of quarantine, and the thorough disinfection of the premises.
SEC. 5. No child or other person, suffering from scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet
rash), shall be permitted to attend any public, private, parochial, Sunday, or other
school; and the teachers of public schools and the principals, superintendents, and
teachers, or other persons in charge of private, parochial, Sunday, and other similar
schools, are hereby required to exclude any and all such children and persons from
such schools; such exclusion to continue for a period of 30 days, following the removal
of quarantine and the disinfection of the premises wherein such child or other person
shall reside; and no child, or other person, residing in the same premises with any
person suffering from scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), shall be permitted to
attend any public, private, parochial, Sunday, or other school; and the teachers of
public schools and the principals, superintendents, teachers or other persons in charge
of private, parochial, Sunday, and other similar schools are hereby required to exclude
any and all such children or persons from said schools until the expiration of the quar-
antine period for the last person in the said premises so afflicted: Provided, The person
or persons so afflicted has or have been properly isolated during the quarantine period;
otherwise, such exclusion to continue for a period of 10 days following the removal of
quarantine and disinfection of the premises, by reason of the recovery, death, or
removal to a hospital of the person last afflicted in said premises: Provided, however,
That any child or person who is immune from scarlet fever, by virtue of a former
attack-this fact being attested by the attending physician-may, on an outbreak of
the said disease in the premises in which he or she resides, be allowed, after taking a
disinfecting bath and putting on disinfected clothing, to remove therefrom, and take
up his or her residence in other premises occupied exclusively by adults, and may,
from and after 10 days from such removal, be admitted into any of said schools.
SEC. 6. No child, or other person, suffering from diphtheria (diphtheritic croup,
membranous croup, or putrid sore throat) or residing in the same premises with any
person suffering therefrom shall be permitted to attend any public, private, parochial,
Sunday, or other school; and the teachers of public schools, and the principals, super-
intendents, and teachers or other persons in charge of private, parochial, Sunday, or
other similar schools are hereby required to exclude any and all such children or per-
sons from said schools; such exclusion to continue for a quarantine period of 21 days
from the date of the onset of the disease in the last person so afflicted; or for a period
of 14 days from the date of onset of the disease in the person last so afflicted: Provided.
That antitoxin has been used for the treatment of the person or persons so afflicted and
for the immunizing of the inmates of the premises so afflicted: And further provided,
That two negative bacteriological cultures have been secured from the diseased area
of the person last so afflicted, on two successive days, said children or persons may, in
either event, thereafter, upon the removal of quarantine and disinfection of the
premises, be immediately readmitted to any of said schools.

SEC. 7. No child, or other person, suffering from measles, German measles, chicken
pox or mumps, or residing in the same premises with any person suffering therefrom
shall be permitted to attend any public, private, parochial, Sunday, or other school;
and the teachers of all public schools, and the principals, superintendents, and teach-
ers, or other persons in charge of private, parochial, Sunday, or other similar schools,
are hereby required to exclude any and all such children or persons from said schools;
such exclusion to continue during a quarantine period of 21 days, and until the said
quarantine is removed and the premises disinfected: Provided, however, That any child
or person who may have been exposed to any of said diseases, owing to an outbreak
thereof in the premises in which he or she resides, but who shall not have developed
the same, shall be allowed, after taking a disinfecting bath and putting on disinfected
clothing, to remove therefrom, and take up his or her residence in other premises occu-

pied exclusively by adults, and may, after 14 days from such removal, be admitted into any of said schools.

SEC. 8. No child or other person suffering from whooping cough or erysipelas shall be permitted to attend any public, private, parochial, Sunday, or other school; and the teachers of public schools and the principals, superintendents, and teachers, or other persons in charge of private, parochial, Sunday, or other similar schools are hereby required to exclude any and all such children and persons from said schools for a period of 30 days following the removal of the quarantine on the premises wherein such children or persons reside, respectively, and the disinfection of the premises and of the person or persons suffering from said disease.

SEC. 9. No child or other person excluded from any school by the provisions of these rules, shall be admitted thereto unless he or she, or some person on his or her behalf, shall furnish to the principal, superintendent, or teachers, or other person in charge of said school, a certificate setting forth that the conditions for such readmission prescribed by these rules have been complied with; which certificate shall be signed by the secretary of the board of health; and the registry of all public, private, parochial, Sunday, and other schools shall exhibit the names and residences of all children and persons excluded therefrom or readmitted thereto, agreeably to the provisions of these rules; and the said registry shall be open at all times to the inspection of the board of health and the State department of health and their respective officers and agents. SEC. 10. Blanks whereon to make the reports and certificates required by these rules shall be supplied by the board of health.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the board of health to furnish daily, by mail or otherwise, to principals, superintendents, teachers and other persons, in charge of public, private, parochial, Sunday, and other schools, a printed or written bulletin containing the name, location, and disease of all persons suffering from any of the diseases mentioned in sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of these rules upon receipt by them of reports of such cases from physicians, as required by section 1 of these rules.

SEC. 12. Upon the removal to a hospital or other place, or upon the discharge by the recovery or death, of any person or persons who has or have suffered from any of the diseases mentioned in section 3 of these rules, all premises which have been occupied by said person or persons while suffering from any of the said diseases shall be fumigated and disinfected and bedding, clothing, or other infected articles shall be disinfected or destroyed at such time and in such manner as may be authorized and required by the health authorities.

SEC. 13. No person suffering from any of the diseases mentioned in section 3 of these rules, nor anyone who has charge of the person so suffering, shall enter any hired vehicle or other public conveyance, or permit anyone in his or her charge who is suffering therefrom to enter such vehicle, without previously notifying the owner or driver thereof that he or she, or the person in his or her charge, is so suffering; and the owner or driver of such vehicle shall immediately provide for the disinfection of such conveyance, under the direction of the health authorities, after it has, with the knowledge of such owner of driver, conveyed any such sufferer.

SEC. 14. No person suffering from anthrax, bubonic plague, cerebrospinal meningitis (epidemic), cerebrospinal fever (spotted fever), chicken pox, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria, diphtheritic croup, membranous croup (putrid sore throat), German measles, measles, mumps, relapsing fever, scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), smallpox (variola, varioloid), typhus fever, yellow fever or whooping cough, shall willfully expose himself or herself in any street or public place or public conveyance, nor shall any person in charge of anyone so suffering thus expose the sufferer.

SEC. 15. No person shall, without previous disinfection, give, lend, sell, transmit, or expose any bedding, clothing, rags, or other articles which have been exposed to infection from any of the diseases mentioned in section 1 of these rules: Provided,