CHAPTER IV. No gut-fat to be brought to market. No person to sell fish unless certain parts have been removed. No decaved vegetables to be sold. No boardinghouse keeper to used. shall have ceased dripping therefrom) after its killing, nor until the entrails, head, (unless the same be skinned,) hide, horns and feet shall have been removed. Nor shall gut-fat, or any un wholesome or offensive matter or thing be brought to or near any such market. 33. That no person shall, in the built-up portion of the city of Brooklyn, or adjacent thereto, sell, or have for sale, any fish in or from any vehicle, or in any street or public place, from which all parts which are not usually cooked for food have not been removed. 34. That no decayed or unwholesome vegetables shall knowingly be brought into said city, to be consumed or offered for sale for human food, nor shall any such articles be kept or stored therein. § 35. That no person, being the manager or keeper of allow unwhole any saloon, boarding-house, or lodging-house, or being emsome food to be ployed as a clerk, servant or agent thereat, shall therein or thereat offer or have for food or drink, or to be eaten or drank, any poisonous, deleterious or unwholesome substance, nor allow anything therein to be done or to occur prejudicial to health. No diseased meat to be sold. No meat, etc.. false represen tations. § 36. That no cased, blown, plaited, raised, stuffed, putrid, impure or unhealthy or unwholesome meat or fish, bird or fowl shall be held, bought or sold or offered for sale for human food, or held or kept in any market, public or private, or any public place in said city. § 37. That no meat, fish, vegetables or milk, or unwholeto be sold under some liquid, shall knowingly be bought, sold, held, offered for sale, labelled, or any representation made in respect thereof under a false name or quality, or as being what the same is not, as respects wholesomeness, soundness or safety for food or drink. Every person having meat, keep stall in wholesome condition. § 38. That every person being the owner, lessee, or ocetc., for sale to cupant of any room, stall or place where any meat, fish or vegetables, designed or held for human food shall be stored or kept, or shall be held or offered for sale, shall put and keep such room, stall and place, and its appurtenances, in a clean and wholesome condition; and every person having charge, or interested, or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care, or in respect to the custody or sale of any meat, fish, birds, fowl or vegetables designed for human food, shall put and preserve the same in a clean and wholesome condition, and shall not allow the same, or any part thereof, to be poisoned, infected or rendered unsafe or un wholesome for human food. § 39. That no butcher or dealer shall keep in any market CHAPTER IV. any refrigerator or ice-box, unless the same shall be lined Butchers to with lead or some proper metallic substance, so as to be have refrige water-tight, nor unless the same be provided with a pipe of rators lined, lead, zinc or copper leading therefrom to the nearest gutter or proper waste pipe. etc. food. § 40. That it shall be the duty of every person knowing Every person to of any fish, meat, fowls, birds or vegetables being bought, report the sold or offered or held for sale as food for human beings, or wholesome being in any market, public or private, in said city, and not being sound, healthy or wholesome for such food, to forthwith report such facts, and the particulars relating thereto, to this board, or to one of its officers or inspectors. drink to be § 41. That no person shall, without consent of this No deleterious board, bring into said city for use as a drink for human brought into beings, or offer or have for sale in said city, as such drink, city. any poisonous or deleterious liquid. to be examined. § 42. That upon any cattle, meat, birds, fowl, fish or Unsound and vegetables being found by any inspector, or other officer of unhealthy food this department, in a condition which is in his opinion unwholesome and unfit for use as human food, or in a condition, or of a weight or quality in this code condemned or forbidden, he shall cause the same to be examined by two reputable persons, reasonably competent to judge in respect thereto, whom he may conveniently find; and if both said persons disagree with him in opinion in respect thereto, he shall take no action and give no order, relative to the same, till he has been instructed by the sanitary superintendent; and if one or both of said persons agree with him in respect to said articles, then said inspector or officer may forbid the same being offered or exposed for sale, or being sold for human food, till the owner or party in charge or other proper person has obtained the consent of the sanitary superintendent or of this board, to their being so offered, used or sold. And if both such persons agree with him in opinion, he may order the same to be removed; and thereupon, or if this board shall have approved the judgment of said inspector, it shall be the duty of the owner or party in charge to speedily remove such articles from any market, street or public place, and not to sell or dispose or offer to sell or dispose thereof for the purpose of human food. And in default of such removal, and also in case of disobedience of such order, and also in all cases where in his opinion such articles, by reason of their being in a decayed or offensive condition, would, if allowed longer to remain, be dangerous to health, the same (as this board may provide) may be caused to be removed by any inspector, police officer or CHAPTER IV. No deleterious drink to be given or sold. No distiller to manufacture unwholesome liquid. No person to out a permit. officer of this department, to some suitable place, at the expense of the party who should have removed the same, and the owner and party in interest must take notice thereof. § 43. That no person shall sell or give to any other person or permit such other person to get (having the right and ability to prevent the same) any drink, when such firstnamed person may have reason to think or believe that such drink may cause danger or detriment to life. 44. That no distiller, or brewer or other person, shall manufacture, or have or keep for sale, any liquid designed for drink or beverage for human beings which would be, if used, dangerous or detrimental to life or health. § 45. That no person shall sell, or deliver, or have for sell milk with sale or otherwise, in the city of Brooklyn, any milk from cows or other animals, without a permit therefor, in writing, from this board. No person shall have at any place where milk, butter or cheese is kept for sale, nor shall at any place sell, or deliver, or offer, or have for sale, or keep for use, nor shall any person bring or send to said city any unwholesome, skimmed, watered or adulterated milk, or milk known as "swill milk," or milk from cows or other animals that, for the most part have been kept in stables, or that have been fed in whole or in part on swill, or milk from sick or diseased cows or other animals, or any butter or cheese made from any such milk, or any unwholesome butter or cheese. Nor shall any person sell or deliver, nor have for sale, nor keep in said city, any milk of a less specific gravity than 1029 (distilled water being 1000), at a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. No swill milk to be sold. No vegetable or mineral substance to be thrown into waste pipe or reservoir. Duty of every § 46. That no person shall throw, or allow to run or pass into any public reservoir, water-pipe, or aqueduct, or into or upon any border or margin thereof, or excavation or stream therewith connected, any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance whatever; nor shall any person allow the same to be done (having power or right to prevent the same); nor shall any person do or permit to be done (having right or power to prevent the same), any act or thing that will impair or imperil the purity or wholesomeness of any water or other fluid used or designed as a drink in any part of said city; nor shall any person bathe (nor, except in the discharge of a public duty, put) any part of his person into such water, nor shall any unauthorized person open any erection or unscrew any hydrant holding such water. § 47. That it shall be the duty of every person, officer, person to pre department and board, having any authority and control in serve purity regard to any water designed for human consumption (and CHAPTER IV. within the proper sphere of the duty of each thereof), to and wholesometake all usual and also all reasonable measures and precau- ness of water. tions to secure and preserve the purity and wholesomeness of such water. any dirty, etc.. $48. That no person shall destroy, nor in anywise injure No person to or impair any drinking-hydrant, or part thereof, in the said destroy or put city; nor shall any person interfere with the use of or enjoy- substance into ment of the water therein, or therefrom, or interrupt the any hydrant. flow thereof, for, or as a drink; nor shall any person put any dirty, poisonous, medicinal, or any noxious substance into or near said water or hydrant whereby such water is made or may be regarded as dangerous or unwholesome as a drink. CATTLE, HORSES, ETC. No cattle, etc., or to be unloaded from § 49. That no cattle, sheep, horse, goat, goose or mule, to go at large, or any dangerous or offensive animal, shall be allowed by any owner, or by any person having charge of, or who cars. shall have charge of, the same, to go at large in any street or public place in the city of Brooklyn. And no pigs, swine or cattle shall be unloaded from any cars upon any street or public place in the city of Brooklyn, except pursuant to a written permit from this board. go at large, or § 50. That no person shall allow any pig, swine or goat No swine, etc.. to run at large in said city, and no person shall, within the to be allowed to limits of said city, keep, or permit to be kept, any pig, swine or goat, without a permit to do so from this board. to be kept within built-up portion of city. kept in un § 51. That no cattle shall be kept in any place of which No cattle to be the water, ventilation and food are not sufficient and whole- wholesome some for the preservation of their health, safe condition and place. wholesomeness of food. cows to be And All stables, etc.. § 52. That no person shall keep, or allow to be kept, in Number of any building, or any premises, or on grounds of which he allowed to an may be the owner, lessee, tenant or occupant, more cows acre. or other cattle than at the rate of fifteen to an acre, or, on an average, one to a city lot (in or near the built-up portions of said city), without a permit from this board. every such person shall cause every stable and place where any cows, horses or other animals may be, to be kept at all times in a clean and wholesome condition, and shall not allow any animal to be therein, while infected with any disease, contagious or pestilential, among such animals, without a permit from this board. to be kept wholesome. § 53. That no cattle, swine, pigs or sheep, geese, goats No swine, etc., CHAPTER IV. or horses, shall be yarded within or adjacent to the built-up to be kept with- portions of the city of Brooklyn, without the permit of this in built-up por board, or otherwise than according to its regulations. tion of city without permit. How cattle to be transported. § 54. That no cattle shall be placed or carried while bound or tied by their legs, or bound down by their necks, in any vehicle, in said city, but shall be allowed freely to stand in such vehicle when transported, and while being therein. How cattle to be kept and slaughtered. SLAUGHTERING AND SLAUGHTER HOUSES. 55. That the keeping and slaughtering of all cattle, and the preparation and keeping of all meat and fish, birds and fowl, shall be in that manner which is, or is generally reputed or known to be, best adapted to secure and conCattle not to be tinue their safety and wholesomeness as food. The slaugh slaughtered within built-up portion of city. Butchers, etc.. clean, and woodwork whitewashed. tering of cattle shall not be permitted or conducted at any place in the city of Brooklyn, without a special written permit from this board. $56. That every butcher and every person owning, leas shall keep yards ing or occupying any place, room or building where any cattle have been, or are killed or dressed, and every person being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room or stable where any cattle may be kept, or market, public or private, and, having power and authority so to do, shall cause such place, room, building, stall (and market, being private), and their yards and appurtenances to be thoroughly cleansed and purified, and all offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome or offensive matter to be therefrom removed at least once in every twenty-four hours after the use thereof for any of the purposes herein referred to; and shall, also, at all times (unless some public authority prevents), keep all woodwork, save floors and counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid, thoroughly painted or whitewashed. Cattle shall not within any alley. $57. That no cattle shall be slaughtered, dressed or be slaughtered hung, or the meat, or any part thereof, within said city, street or public wholly or partly within any street, avenue or sidewalk, or public alley or place; nor shall any blood, or dirty water, or other substance from such cattle, meat or place of killing, or the appurtenances thereof, be allowed to run, fall, or to be, in any such street, avenue, sidewalk, alley or place. cupied as No building oc- § 58. That no building occupied wholly or partly as a slaughter-house slaughter house, or any part thereof, or any building on or building on the same lot, shall, without a special permit from this be occupied as board, be occupied for a dwelling or lodging place; that same lot, shall |