met thi Boar t, a visions than can be herein conveniently set forth); that the word "Permit." of this Board, issued according to its by-laws, rules, regulations, and Sanitary Code; and that every "report" herein required shall be "Report." Oriat held to be a report in writing, signed by the person (and indicating his official position) who makes the same; that the word “light,” or "lighted," shall be held to refer to natural, external light; "Light." and that all words and phrases herein defined shall also include their usual and natural meanings, as well as those herein especially given. said cald part per and gers, cor "Street" Place." "Ashes." SEC. 2. That the word "street," when used in the Sanitary Code, shall be held to include avenues, sidewalks, gutters, and alth public alleys; and the words "public place" shall be held to "Publio include parks, piers, docks, and wharves, and water and open "spaces thereto adjacent, and also public yards, grounds, and ely areas, areas, and all open spaces between buildings and streets, and in view of such streets; the word "ashes" shall be held to include cinders, coal, and everything that usually remains after fires; the word "rubbish" shall be held to include all the loose and "Rubbish." decayed material and dirt-like substance that attends use or decay, or which accumulates from building, storing, or cleaning; the word "garbage" shall be held to include every accumulation "Garbage," of both animal and vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, decay, and dealing in or storage of held meats, fish, fowl, birds, or vegetables; and the word "dirt” shall be held to mean natural soil, earth, and stone. posi ared ar as ents), SEC. 3. That a "tenement house" shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let, or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied as the house, home, or residence of more than three families living independently of one another, and doing their cooking upon the "Dirt." "Tenement house." premises, or by more than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets, or privies, or some of them. A “lodginghouse" shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored or received, or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at one time, or any part of which is let for any person to sleep in for any term less than a week. A "cellar" shall be taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of any building or house of which one half or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street adjoining. The phrase "boarding-house" shall be held to include every building, and every story and portion thereof, which is at any time or usually used, leased or occupied, or intended so to be, by any number of persons, exceeding ten, as boarders thereat. The word "manufactory" shall be held to include every building, and every story and portion thereof, in which any sort of labor or work is done, which calls for the continual or usual presence of several persons during several hours of the day or night engaged about said work or labor; and the word "saloon" shall be held to include every portion of any building in which the business of selling meals, liquors, drinks, or refreshments of any kind, shall be conducted, and includes "concert saloons." SEC. 4. That the term "theatre" shall be held to include the building, rooms, and place where any play, concert, opera, circus, trick of jugglery, show, gymnastic, or other exhibition, masquerade, public dance, drill, lecture, address, or other public or frequent gathering or amusement, are, is, or may be held, given, performed, or take place, and the approach or approaches to and appurtenances thereof. SEC. 5. That the word "physician" shall include dentists, Ch. 358, § 11. Laws 1850, Ch. 275, title 3, § 34. Ch. 856, § 3. disease." and every other person who practices about the cure of the sick Laws 1863, or injured, or who has the charge of, or professionally prescribes for, any person sick, injured or diseased; that the phrase "contagious disease" shall be held to include all persons sick, affected, or attacked by or of a disease of an infectious, contagious, or pes- Laws 1868, tilential nature (more especially, however, referring to the cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, diphtheria, ship, or typhus, typhoid, "Contagious spotted [relapsing], and scarlet fevers), and also including any new disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by this Board dangerous to the public health; and every physician in said city shall at all times cause his or her name, office, and residence, and also his or names her kind and class of practice, to be registered within the Bureau of Records of Vital Statistics, and in a manner according to the regulations prescribed by this Board. Physicians to report address. and "Meat,' "Fish," and bles. SEC. 6. That the word "meat," whenever herein used, includes every part of any land animal and eggs (whether mixed Vegeta or not with any other substance), and the word "fish" includes every part of any animal that lives in water, or the flesh of which is not meat, and the word "vegetable" includes every article of human consumption as food, which (not being meat, or fish, or milk) is held or offered, or intended for sale or consumption, as food for human beings, at any place in said city; and all fish and meat found therein shall be deemed to be therein and held for such sale or consumption as such food, unless the contrary be distinctly proved. "Cattle," SEC. 7. That the word "cattle" shall be held to include all animals, except birds, fowl, and fish, of which any part of the etc., etc. body is used as food; the word "butcher" shall be held to include whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving, or slaughtering any cattle, or in selling any meat; the words "pri "Private Market." Responsibility for vate market" shall include every store, cellar, stand, and place (not being part of a public market) at which the business is the buying, selling, or keeping for sale, of meat, fish, or vegetables for human food. MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE. SEC. 8. That no person shall carelessly or negligently do, or carelessness, advise, or contribute to the doing of any act or thing dangerous negligence, and omis sion. to the life, or detrimental to the health of any human being; nor shall any person knowingly do, or advise, or contribute to the doing of any such act or thing (not actually authorized by law), except with justifiable motives and for adequate reasons; nor shall any person omit to do any act, or to take any precaution, reasonable and proper, to prevent or remove danger or detriment to the life or health of any human being. Contractors to comply with ordinances. Bpecial regu-, lations to be OBEDIENCE TO ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS. SEC. 9. That every contractor in these ordinances referred to, and every person who has contracted, or undertakes or is bound to do, or is engaged in doing, any one of those things, in respect of which these ordinances contain provisions or regulations, shall comply with these ordinances, to the extent that any contract, obligation, or duty requires or permits; and no direction of any contractors or persons shall excuse him for a noncompliance with any of said ordinances. SEC. 10. That every person shall observe and obey each and obeyed. every special regulation, and every order of this Board that is or may be made, for carrying into effect any of the ordinances or powers hereinbefore or hereinafter contained, or any law of this State, or otherwise, whether issued directly by the Board, or promulgated by any Bureau charged therewith, as if the same had been herein inserted at length. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES. Health In spectors. SEC. 11. That the Inspectors of this Department, and its proper Duty of officers and agents, shall make the inspections and examinations required by law; that the Board of Police of the City of New York, do execute and cause to be executed all the orders of this Board when so specially ordered; and all persons are hereby forbidden to interfere with or obstruct such inspection, examination, or execution. SEC. 12. That, except as herein specially or otherwise provided, or as may be hereafter provided, or as is otherwise made necessary by the laws of the State, the Board of Police of the Police Department shall, through its proper officers and men, and as near as may be according to its existing regulations, or amendments to be made thereto, on advice with this Department, and subject to the supervision of this Department, carry into effect and exercise the sanitary powers heretofore exercised by the Metropolitan Board of Police; and that said Board of Police shall keep this Department regularly advised of its action in that behalf, and shall conform to these and all future ordinances, and to all special regulations of this Department. BILLS OF HEALTH. Duty of Board of Police. Board o Police to enforce or dinances. Health, N. p. 41. SEC. 13. That no person, officer, or Board within said city Bill of (except this Board or its proper officers, or proper officers of any Y. H. Laws, bureau of this Department, and as the regulations prescribed by this Board shall provide), shall grant, sign, or deliver any Valentine's Certificate, or "Bill of Health." Laws, N. Y., p. 445. |