SEC. 2. The board of aldermen shall in January, 1913, and biennially thereafter, elect a sanitary officer, who shall hold his office for two years and until his successor is chosen and qualified, subject, however, to removal at any time by vote of the board of aldermen. Vacancies in said office shall be filled for the remainder of the present year by new elections. The present incumbent shall hold office until January, 1913, or until his successor is appointed.

SEC. 3. The sanitary officer shall devote his entire time to the performance of the duties imposed upon him by virtue of his office, and shall serve all orders and notices, and enforce all rules and regulations issued by the board of aldermen or the board of health, and enforce all ordinances and rules relating to nuisances or other conditions affecting the health and comfort of the public.

SEC. 4. The sanitary officer shall make such house to house inspections as are necessary to protect the public health and shall require the abatement within a reasonable time of all nuisances found; and shall give such advice and make such recommendations to householders and others as he may deem necessary to secure good sanitary conditions.

SEC. 5. The board of health shall prescribe a blank form upon which a complete record of the inspections made by the sanitary officer shall be entered; a record shall also be kept by the sanitary officer of all complaints made to him or to the board; of all orders issued, of all notices served, and of all nuisances abated. All the records kept by the sanitary officer shall be submitted to the board of health or the board of aldermen whenever called for.

SEC. 6. The sanitary officer shall see that all the provisions of the ordinance regulating or relating to sewers or drains are enforced. He shall inspect all private drains laid by any licensed drain layer before the same are covered, and shall report annually to the board of health and to the board of aldermen the results of said inspection, giving the name of the owner and of the occupant of the premises, the street and number, the position of the inlet employed, the size of the drain, inclination of the same and the manner in which it enters the main sewer, and shall perform such other duties in the enforcement of the provisions of said ordinance as may be authorized by the board of health or the board of public works; he shall also enforce the provisions of the city ordinances relating to the pollution of the water of Penacook Lake. In case any licensed drain layer shall have completed his excavating, and, on account of an approaching storm or other urgent cause, there is necessity that the work should be immediately connected and back filled, any member of the board of health may be required to act in place of the sanitary officer, if, from any cause, said sanitary officer is unable to be present.

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SEC. 40. The sanitary officer shall have the same power to make arrests as is by ordinance and law conferred upon the regular police of the city, in all cases where any person or persons shall violate the laws of the State, city ordinances, rules, or regulations relating to the health of the city; and shall wear a uniform or badge to be prescribed by the board of aldermen.

SEC. 41. The board of health shall provide themselves and the sanitary officer with such blanks and record books, at the expense of the city as are necessary, and shall at the close of each financial year, make a report to the board of aldermen of all complaints made to them or to the sanitary officer, and the cause for the same, with such suggestions pertaining to the health of the city as they may deem expedient to present, so much of the vital statistics as is necessary, the causes of death so far as possible, and such other sanitary information as may be called for by the board of aldermen. SEC. 42. The board of health may make such rules and regulations for the prevention and removal of nuisances, for the control and restriction of infectious and contagious diseases, and such other relations relating to the public health as in their judgment the health and safety of the people may require. Copies thereof shall be

printed and circulated among the citizens, and published in one or more of the daily papers of the city.

SEC. 43. The board of health shall meet at such times and places as it may deem necessary, for the consideration of matters relating to the public health or whenever requested by the sanitary officer; they shall investigate, inquire into, and advise in all cases referred to them for such purpose by the sanitary officer or the city physician and shall direct them in such cases. In case the sanitary officer is unable to attend to the duties of his office, through sickness or other good cause, the board may select a suitable person to act temporarily in his stead, and said person shall, while so acting, possess all the authority, with the same compensation given the sanitary officer under the provisions of the city ordinances.

SEC. 44. Any person or persons, company or corporation, who shall violate or cause to be violated, by agent or otherwise, any provision of this ordinance, or any order, rule, or regulation made by the sanitary officer or the board of health, under the authority of this ordinance, shall upon conviction thereof, before the police or other cour of competent jurisdiction, be fined not more than $20, with the costs of prosecution, for each offense, except in cases where the punishment is provided for by the laws of the State, in which cases the penalty so prescribed shall be imposed.

Nuisances Rubbish-Vegetable and Animal Matter-Domestic Animals. (Chap. XIII, Ord. Aug. 15, 1912.)

SEC. 7. No person shall place or leave, or cause to be placed or left, in or near any highway, street, alley, or public place, or in any pond or other body of water where the current will not remove the same, any rubbish, dirt, soot, ashes, hay, shred oyster, clam, or lobster shells, manure, swill, tin cans, decaying fruit or vegetables, waste water, or any refuse animal or vegetable matter whatsoever, nor keep in or about any vacant lot, dwelling house, barn, shed, store, shop, or cellar any of the aforesaid substances after the same have become putrid or offensive, or a menace to the public health.

SEC. 8. No person or persons shall suffer or permit any cellar, vault, private drain. pool, sink, privy, sewer, or other place, upon any premises or grounds belonging to or occupied by him or them, to become offensive or injurious to the public health.

SEC. 9. No person or occupant, or any person having control or charge of any lot, tenement, premises, building, or other place, shall cause or permit any nuisance to be or remain in or upon said lot, tenement building, or other place, or between the same and the center of the street, lane, or alley adjoining.

SEC. 10. No person or persons shall erect, maintain, or use within the compact part of any ward in the city, any swill house or building for rendering any offal, tainted or damaged lard, tallow, or any putrid animal substance, or for the deposit of greet, pelts or skins.

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SEC. 11. No person or persons shall keep or use any hog pen, goat pen, 1 coup or barnyard so near to any highway, park, or other public place as to be offensive or a menace to the public health, or adjoining or abutting any lot upon which any other person resides, if so near them as to be offensive, or in such manner that the contents of such hog pen, goat pen, chicken coop, or barnyard are discharged up said lot or upon any street, lane, or alley in the city.

SEC. 38. All petitions for the cleansing, removing, or abatement of any nuisance shall be made to the sanitary officer, verbally or in writing, stating distinctly the character of such nuisance, the premises where situated, and the reason for its removal or abatement; but if it becomes necessary to institute legal proceedings against the party or parties complained of, the complainant shall, before such proceedings are

instituted, file a complaint in writing with the city solicitor, who shall prosecute the same in his discretion.

SEC. 39. A notice served on an owner, agent, or occupant of any property, or left at the private residence of the owner, or agent, or occupant, or, if after due search neither can be found, posted on the front door or wall or fence of such property, and a like notice sent to his last-known post-office address, shall be considered sufficient. and ample notice.

Privies and Cesspools-Construction, Care, and Disposal of Contents. (Chap. XIII, Ord. Aug. 15, 1912.)

SEC. 12. The owner, agent, occupant, or other person having the care of any tenement used as a dwelling house, or any other building, shall furnish the same with a sufficient drain, underground, to carry off the waste water; and also with a suitable privy, which, if not properly connected with the public sewer, shall have a vault which shall be sunk underground, and built in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and f capacity proportionate to the number of inhabitants of such tenement, or of those having occasion to use such privy; and no person shall suffer any waste or stagnant water to remain in any cellar or upon any land by him owned or occupied, in the compact part of any ward of the city.

SEC. 13. All vaults, privies, and cesspools shall be so constructed that the inside of the same shall be at least 2 feet distant from the line of every adjoining lot, unless the owner of said adjoining lot shall otherwise agree and consent; and a like distance from any street, lane, alley, court, square, public place, public or private passageway. Every vault and cesspool shall be made tight, so that the contents can not escape therefrom, and shall be securely covered; and no person shall open a vault, privy, or cesspool, or remove the contents thereof, or haul such contents through any street in the city, between the first day of May and the first day of November, inclusive, except between the hours of 9 o'clock in the evening and 6 o'clock in the morning.

SEC. 14. Any person or persons intending to construct a privy, vault, or cesspool shall first obtain a written permit to do so, signed by the sanitary officer. Each permit shall designate the location on the lot, the distance from any house, well, or spring, the kind of vault or cesspool and the depth thereof, and shall contain a printed abstract of the State law and city ordinances relating to the construction of privy, vaults, and cesspools; but no cesspool for the reception of sink or other waste water shall be constructed within 100 feet of a public sewer; and no abandoned well shall be used as a privy vault, cesspool, or sink.

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SEC. 15. When any vault, privy, cesspool, or drain shall become offensive or obstructed, the same shall be cleansed and made free; and the owner, agent, occupant, or other person having charge of the premises in which any vault, privy, cesspool, or drain be situated, the state or condition of which shall be a violation of the provisions of this ordinance, shall remove, cleanse, alter, amend, or repair the same within such reasonable time after notice in writing to that effect from the sanitary oficer, as shall be expressed in such notice. In case of neglect or refusal so to do, the sanitary officer may cause the same to be removed, altered, amended, or repaired, as he may deem expedient, at the expense of the owner, agent, occupant, or other person

as aforesaid.

Garbage, Refuse, and Manure-Care and Disposal of. (Chap. XIII, Ord. Aug. 15, 1912.)

SEC. 16. The owner, agent, occupant, or other person having the care of any stable, barn, premises, or any other place where manure, swill, garbage, or any other animal of vegetable substances accumulate shall cause the same to be removed at such stated periods as the sanitary officer may designate.

SEC. 17. No person shall remove, or carry in, or through, any of the streets, squares. courts, lanes, avenues, or alleys within the city of Concord any swill or house offal, animal or vegetable, grease or bones, or any refuse substance from any dwelling houses, or other places in the city, unless such person so removing, or carrying the same, shall have been expressly licensed by the board of health annually.

SEC. 18. No person shall transport fat, bones, or decayed, putrified, or vile-smelling animal or vegetable substances within the city limits, except in water-tight, securely covered vessels from which no odor can escape.

Milk and Cream-Production, Care, and Sale. (Chap. XIII, Ord. Aug. 15, 1912.)

SEC. 19. The provisions of an act passed by the Legislature of the State of New Hampshire and approved March 22, 1901, entitled "An act in amendment of chapter 127 of the public statutes, relating to the inspection of milk," are hereby adopted to be in force in the city.

SEC. 20. The condition under which every cow is kept whose milk is sold or exposed for sale in the city of Concord shall be made known to the board of health if said board shall deem it necessary.

SEC. 21. No milk shall be sold or offered for sale unless the cow is free from disease dangerous to the public health.

SEC. 22. No milk kept for sale shall be stored, strained, cooled, or mixed in any room used in whole or in part for sleeping purposes or for the stabling of horses of cattle or other animals or for the storage of manure, offal, or other offensive matter. SEC. 23. All rooms in which milk is stored, cooled, strained, or mixed shall be kept constantly clean. Proper apparatus shall be provided for washing or sterilizing all utensils used in handling milk, and such utensils shall be washed with boiling water or sterilized by steam after being so used.

SEC. 24. No urinal, water-closet, or privy shall be located in the rooms mentioned in the preceding sections or so situated as to pollute the atmosphere of said rooms. SEC. 25. All milk produced for the purpose of sale shall be strained and cooled as soon as it is drawn from the cow.

SEC. 26. Milk kept for sale shall at all times register on test a temperature no higher than 50° F. and shall be stored in a covered cooler, box, or refrigerator. SEC. 27. All cans, bottles, or other vessels of any sort used in the sale and handling of milk shall be cleaned or sterilized before they are used again for the same purpose. SEC. 28. No person shall use a milk vessel as a container for any substance other than milk.

SEC. 29. Every person engaged in the production, storage, transportation, sale, delivery, or distribution of milk, immediately on the occurrence of any case or cases of infectious disease, either in himself or in his family or amongst his employees or their immediate associates, or within the building or premises where milk is stored, sold, or distributed, shall notify the sanitary officer.

SEC. 30. No person having an infectious disease, or having recently been in contact with a person having an infectious disease, shall milk or handle cows, measures, or other vessels used for milk intended for sale or in any way take part or assist in handling milk intended for sale until all danger of communicating such disease to other persons shall have passed.

SEC. 31. No vessels which have been handled by persons suffering from such an infectious disease shall be used to hold or convey milk until they have been thoroughly sterilized.

SEC. 32. No bottle, can, or receptacle used for the reception or storage of milk shall be removed from a private house, apartment, or tenement wherein a person has an infectious disease.

SEC. 33. No person, by himself, or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, firm, or corporation shall bring into the city of Concord for the

purposes of sale, exchange, or delivery or sell, exchange, or deliver any milk, skimmed milk, or cream which contains more than 500,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter, or which has a temperature higher than 50° F.

SEC. 34. The board of health shall keep a record of all inspections made under or by virtue of this ordinance and of the results of such inspections; and shall make a report each month to the board of aldermen showing all inspections made, and the results of such inspections, during the preceding month.

Vaccination of School Children. (Chap. XIII, Ord. Aug. 15, 1912.)

SEC. 35. No child shall attend any public, parochial, or private school in the city of Concord unless he has complied with the State vaccination law, and no pupil shall be allowed to attend school without a certificate of vaccination bearing the seal of the board of health, said certificate to be issued upon the presentation of such evidence as shall be deemed satisfactory by the board of health. If practical, such evidence shall consist of a certificate of vaccination showing the date of such vaccination and the fact that it was successful, made by a party deemed qualified by the board of health to vaccinate and it shall be presented to the board of health, and such certificate shall be indorsed by the board of health. If it is not practical to get such a certificate, or if a child has had the smallpox, the board of health shall, upon satisfactory evidence of vaccination, or that the child has had the smallpox, issue to such a child a certificate permitting him to attend school.

SEC. 36. The board of health shall keep a card-index record of all the vaccination cards indorsed by the board and of all the certificates issued permitting scholars to attend school as above provided for. The city physician shall at all times be prepared to vaccinate, at the expense of the city, any scholar who is unable to pay therefor. Communicable Diseases-Reporting of Cases of. (Chap. XIII, Ord. Aug. 15, 1912.) SEC. 37. It shall be, and is hereby, made the duty of every physician, surgeon, or other person attending upon a case of smallpox, epidemic cholera, epidemic dysentery, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, measles, yellow fever, or other dangerous, contagious, infectious, or pestilential disease, and of every householder, attendant, or agent, in whose house a case of any such disease occurs, to report every such case to the sanitary officer within 24 hours after first having knowledge of the same, giving the number of the house, the street, avenue, or lane upon which it is situated and the name of the occupant or occupants, with the name and age of the diseased person, if known. The board of health shall prescribe a course of action which shall be followed by the sanitary officer in all ordinary cases to prevent the spread of such disease. All cases of smallpox and diphtheria and others not covered by the general instructions shall be at once reported by the sanitary officer to said board, who shall take such further or different action as they may deem expedient, and who may in cases of emergency, with the approval of the finance committee of the board of aldermen, employ, at the expense of the city, such medical advice and assistance, in addition to the services of the city physician, as in their judgment may be necessary.

Births and Deaths, Registration of Interments. (Chap. XVII, Ord. Aug. 15, 1912.)

SECTION 1. The city clerk shall be registrar of vital statistics, and as such shall keep a full record of all births and deaths as is hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The attending physician, accoucheur, midwife, or other person in charge who shall attend, assist, or advise at the birth of any child within the limits of the city shall report to the registrar aforesaid within six days thereafter, stating the date of birth, sex, and color of said child (or children) born, whether stillborn or not, and the name, nativity, residence, and occupation of the parents.

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