said Mayor and Aldermen shall deem the health and interest of the City require. [47] SEC. 14. Be it further ordained, That no person or persons, unless duly licensed by the Mayor and Aldermen, shall throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited in any street, court, square, lane, alley, public square or vacant lot, or into any pond, any dirt, sawdust, soot, ashes, cinders, shavings, hair, shreds, manure, oyster or lobster shells, waste water, rubbish or filth of any kind, or any animal or vegetable matter or substance whatever. Nor shall any person or persons throw or cast any dead animal, or any foul or offensive ballast, in any dock or place, between the channel and the shore. Nor shall any person land any such foul or offensive animal or vegetable substance within the City. Nor shall any person cast any dead animal into the channel without securing thereto a sufficient weight to prevent it from floating. [48] SEC. 15. Be it further ordained, That if any of the substances in the preceding section mentioned, shall be thrown or carried from any house, ware-house, shop, cellar, yard, or other place, into any street, lane, alley, court, square, public place, or vacant lot, as well the owner of such house, or other place, whence the same shall have been thrown or carried, as the occupant thereof, and the person who actually threw and carried the same, shall severally be held liable for such violation of this ordinance; and all such substances shall be removed from the street, lane, alley, court, square, publie place, or vacant lot, by and at the expense of the owner or occupant of the house, or other place whence the same were thrown or carried, within two hours after personal notice in writing to that effect, given by the Mayor and Aldermen, the City Marshal or Commissioner of Health. [49] SEC. 16. Be it further ordained, That all dirt, sawdust, soot, ashes, cinders, shavings, hair, shreds, manure, oyster or lobster shells, waste water, or any animal or vegetable substance, rubbish or filth of any kind, in any house, warehouse, cellar, yard, or other place, which the Mayor and Aldermen, or City Marshal shall deem it necessary for the health of the City to be removed, shall be carried away therefrom by and at the expense of the owner or occupant of such house or other place, where the same shall be found, and be removed to such place as he shall be directed within four hours after notice in writing to that effect, given by the Mayor any Alderman, the City Marshal or Commissioner of Health. [50] SEC. 17. Be it further ordained, That no person shall sell or offer for sale, or have in his possession in any of the public or private markets, or in any other place, any un wholesome, stale or putrid meat, fish or fruit, or other articles of provisions; or any meat which has been blown, raised or stuffed; or any diseased or measly pork. [51] SEC. 18. Be it further ordained, That no person shall bring into the City for sale, nor shall sell, nor offer for sale, any halibut, cod, haddock, or mackerel until the same shall be cleansed of their entrails and refuse parts, which shall be thrown overboard below low water mark, or be kept on board the vessels or boats in which the fish were brought, in a safe manner, and be removed below low water mark at every flowing of the tide. And that no person shall sell, nor offer for sale in the City, fish of any kind, unless the same be kept in covered stalls, fish boxes or other houses, which shall always be clean and in good order, or in clean covered carts or boxes well secured from the rays of the sun. And no person shall sell and deliver from any stall, fish box, cart or other place, any fish of any kind, except salmon and shad, and also flounders, smelts, and other small fish, until the same shall have been cleansed of their entrails and refuse part, which shall be kept in some tight vessel, and be removed below low water mark at least once every day. [52] SEC. 19. Be it further ordained, That no person shall sell or offer for sale, fish, lobsters, oysters, or shell fish of any kind, in Market Square, Merchant's Row, South Marketstreet, North Market-street, or the street running from Long Wharf to Clinton-street, or in that part of Washington-street be. tween Hayward Place and Kneeland-street, those parts of Kneeland, Beach, and Essex-streets, between Front and Washington-streets, nor in those parts of Boylston and Eliot-streets, between Tremont and Washington-streets, except by permis sion of the Mayor and Aldermen, and on such conditions as they shall order. [53] SEC. 20. Be it further ordained, That no person hereafter shall bring into the City, or have in his possession for sale, or shall sell or offer for sale within the City, any vege tables whatever, (excepting green peas in the pods, and green corn in the inner husks,) which have not previously been divested of such parts or appendages as are not commonly used for food-and that no person shall have such parts or appendages in his possession, in any public or private market, or in any other place, cart, or vehicle in said city, used or occupied for the sale of vegetables or other articles of food. [54] SEC. 21. Be it further ordained, That no swine or goats shall be kept within the limits of the City, without the license of the Mayor and Aldermen, and in such manner as they shall direct. [55] SEC. 22. Be it further ordained, That the owners and occupants of Livery and other stables within the City, shall not wash or clean their carriages or horses, or cause them to be washed or cleaned in the streets, or public ways, nor otherwise encumber the same; they shall keep their stables and stable yards clean, and shall not permit more than two cart loads of manure to accumulate and remain in or near the same, at any one time between the first day of May and the first day of November; nor shall they within that period remove any manure, nor cause or suffer the same to be removed, except between the hours of twelve at night and two hours. after sunrise. [56] SEC. 23. Be it further ordained, That no persons shall land on any wharf or other place or shall otherwise bring into the City, any damaged grain, rice or coffee without a permit therefor from the Mayor and Aldermen, and in such manner as they shall direct. [57] SEC. 24. Be it further ordained, That whenever any person shall have been duly notified to remove any nuisance, or to cleanse, alter or amend any vault, or drain, or to perform any other act or thing which it may be his duty to perform, in obedience to the laws of the Commonwealth, or the rules, orders, regulations, by-laws or ordinances for the preservation of the health of the City, which are now, or which hereafter shall be made by lawful authority, and the time limited to the performance of such duty shall have elapsed, without a compliance with such notice, the City Marshal shall issue new notices from time to time, to such delinquents, until the duty shall be executed, and the nuisance remedied or removed. And the Mayor shall cause all persons who shall violate or disobey the said health laws and regulations, to be forthwith prosecuted and punished. And in case, in the opinion of the Mayor and Aldermen, it shall be for the health or comfort of the inhabitants. that any particular nuisance should be forthwith removed, and without delay, it shall be their duty to cause the same to be removed accordingly, at the expense of the owner or owners of the land upon which said nuisance exists. [58] SEC. 25. Be it further ordained, That the City Marshal, or his deputy, or any person authorized by the Mayor for that purpose, shall and may at any time between sunrise and sunset, enter into any building within the City for the purpose of examining into, destroying, removing or preventing any nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness therein; or in any cellar belonging thereto. And if any person shall refuse to admit such officer, or other person so authorized, into said building, the City Marshal shall on oath, complain to the Jus tices of the Police Court, and shall apply for their warrant, according to the statute in such case made and provided, and shall thereupon proceed, under the authority of said Court, to examine such building or other place, and to destroy, remove, or prevent any nuisance, source of fith, or cause of sickness, that may be found there, in such manner as the Mayor and Aldermen shall direct. And the said City Marshal, or his deputy, or any person authorized as aforesaid, shall, and may at any time between sunrise and sunset, enter into any yard or lot of ground, or into any out house, and examine any alley, sink, sess-pool, privy, vault, public or private dock or slip, or drain, or sewer, and shall report to the Mayor and Aldermen all such as the health, or security of the City may require to be cleansed, altered, or amended. [59] SEC. 26. Be it further ordained, That any person offending against any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than three or more than twenty dollars, to be recovered by complaint before the Justices of the Police Court, and in addition thereto, shall be liable to all the penalties provided by "An act of the Commonwealth to empower the Town of Boston to choose a Board of Health, and to prescribe their power and duty," and also, "An act concerning the regulation of the House of Correction in the City of Boston, and concerning the form of actions commenced under the ByLaws of said City, and for filling vacancies in the Board of Aldermen." [60] SEC. 27. Be it further ordained, That "An Ordinance prescribing Regulations relative to nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness within the City of Boston," and "An ordinance in addition thereto," "An ordinance regulating the removal of house offal in the City of Boston," "An ordinance regulating the sale of fresh fish," " An ordinance for the regulation of the sale of fish within certain streets and squares,' "An ordinance to prevent the sale of unwholesome provisions," "An ordinance for the preservation of the health of the City," "An ordinance to prevent the bringing unwholesome or useless vegetable substances into the City," and "the several ordinances in addition thereto," and all other ordinances cr parts of ordinances inconsistent with or repugnant to this, are hereby repealed. CHAPTER XXIV. Health. ORDINANCES OF THE CITY. PART II.QUARANTINE. discharged. [61 Department of Quar-be performed, vessels when to be antine confided to the Mayor and Aldermen, their duty prescribed. [62] Resident Physician to be appointed, his power and duties prescribed. [63] Resident Physician's salary. [64] Island Keeper to be appointed, his duties and power prescribed. [65] Island Keeper's salary. [66] Quarantine, what vessels to be subject to. [67 Quarantine, where to [68] Masters of vessels, their duty when discharged. [69] Vessels not to be visited while in quarantine, line designated on the Island, not to be passed. [70] Permits to visit the Island to be granted by Mayor and Aldermen. [71] Skins, &c. from certain places not to be landed or removed from vessels, unless examined. [72] Penalties. An ordinance establishing and regulating the Quarantine of Vessels. [Passed Aug. 10, 1833.] [61] SEC. 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled, That the department of Quarantine shall be placed under the superintendence of the Mayor and Aldermen, and they shall have the sole and complete control of Hospital or Rainsford Island, and all the vessels lying at Quarantine there, and of all persons employed on said Island in whatever capacity the same may be, or on board said vessels. And it shall be their duty to take care that all the Ordinances of the City and Laws of the Commonwealth relating to the Quarantine of vessels be duly executed and enforced and that the property there, belonging to the City or Commonwealth is protected and preserved. And annually, in the month of January, in each year, to file in the Secretary's office of this Commonwealth, an exact and true account of the property in and connected with the Hospital establishment on said Island, and of all money ex |