[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Health Officer
of the Town of Cromwell 9-2-1901. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Any complaint made to the Town Health Officer
may be required by him to be in writing and bear the signature of
the complainant.
Every physician shall report, in writing, to
the Town Health Officer, within 12 hours after his recognition of
the disease, every case of cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, leprosy,
smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
cerebro spinal fever, whooping cough, measles, pulmonary tuberculosis
or other contagious or infectious disease, except those of a venereal
nature.
Every householder in whose house any person
shall be ill with any of the following diseases: cholera, yellow fever,
typhus fever, leprosy, smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, typhoid
fever, scarlet fever, cerebro spinal fever, whooping cough, measles,
pulmonary tuberculosis (consumption) or other contagious or infectious
disease, except those of a venereal nature, shall report the same
to the Town Health Officer within 12 hours of the first appearance
of such disease, provided that no physician shall be in attendance.
Until permission has been received from the
Health Officer, no clothing or other property that may have been exposed
to the infection of cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, leprosy,
smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup or scarlet fever shall be removed
from the house; nor shall any occupant of such infected dwelling change
his residence without the consent of said Health Officer.
No superintendent, principal or teacher of any
school and no parent or guardian of any child attending school shall
permit a child sick with smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membranous
croup, measles, whooping cough, consumption, chicken pox, mumps, sore
throat, scabies (itch) or a child afflicted with lice to attend school;
nor shall any child residing in any household in which such disease
shall exist or any child afflicted with a rash or an eruption be allowed
to attend school without a written permit from the Health Officer.
No person affected with smallpox, diphtheria,
membranous croup, scarlet fever, whooping cough or measles shall attend
any public meeting or assembly or travel in any public conveyance.
Warning of the existence of diphtheria, membranous
croup, typhus fever, measles, smallpox, whooping cough, typhoid fever
or scarlet fever in any building shall be given to the public by placing,
in a place conspicuous to the public on the outside near each common
entrance to said building, a placard giving the name of said disease.
All cases of diphtheria, membranous croup, typhus
fever, smallpox, scarlet fever and primary cases of measles reported
in this Town or of which the Health Officer has information shall
be quarantined in such manner as he may direct.
No person shall allow to be retained or unburied
the dead body of any human being for a longer time than four days,
or whose death has been caused by cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever,
smallpox, typhoid fever, diphtheria, membranous croup or scarlet fever
for a longer time than 36 hours after the death of such person, without
a permit from the Town Health Officer, which permit shall specify
the length of time during which such body may remain unburied; and
when death has been caused by one of the diseases herein mentioned,
the body shall be immediately thereafter disinfected or enclosed in
a hermetically sealed coffin, which shall not thereafter be opened;
and the funeral of such person, except when death is caused by typhoid
fever, shall be attended at the house, only by the undertaker, his
assistants and persons living in the house, where such person died,
and by a clergyman, who shall take such precautions as the Health
Officer may direct. In the removal thereof for burial or otherwise,
the body shall not be carried in a vehicle with other passengers.
The bedding, clothing and furniture of the room wherein such person
died shall be thoroughly disinfected and otherwise treated as the
Town Health Officer may order.
No privy vault, cesspool or reservoir into which
a privy, water closets or sinks are drained, except it be watertight,
nor any other than a watertight sewer or drain shall be established
or permitted so near a well, spring or other source of water used
for drinking or culinary purposes as, in the judgment of the Town
Health Officer, to contaminate the same. When any privy vault or cesspool
is discontinued, the contents shall be entirely removed and the vault
filled with earth or other suitable material.
No person shall keep and maintain upon his premises,
at any time, any privy, water closet, sink, drain, cesspool, stable
or pigsty except in a clean and inoffensive condition.
No sewage drain, privy vault, cesspool or sink
shall empty into any stream, pond or other source of water or ice
supply; nor shall any privy, pigsty or stable be constructed so near
such stream, pond or other source of water or ice supply that its
contents will drain into the same.
[Amended TC 6-16-2014]
No person shall throw, dump or deposit any filth,
garbage or decaying animal or vegetable matter which may be prejudicial
to public health neither upon any vacant lot, highway or public place
nor in any brook, pond or spring. This does not preclude the proper
use of fertilizers upon the land.
No person shall spit upon the floor of any public
building or upon the floor or platform of any trolley car running
through or within the limits of this Town.
When the Town Health Officer finds that the
plumbing or drainage of any dwelling or habitation in this Town is
defective and dangerous to health or life, the owner or agent having
the property in charge shall have placed, within a reasonable time,
proper traps under every sink, basin and other fixture and shall have
each soil pipe carried through the roof to such height as the Town
Health Officer shall direct, not less than two feet and of undiminished
size whenever practicable, and if this cannot be accomplished, said
Town Health Officer shall order such efficient ventilation and such
repair of soil pipes as shall, in his judgment, prevent the pollution
of the premises by sewer gas. All drainpipes passing through the wall
of any building shall be of iron or vitrified, salt-glazed tile, of
such thickness as the Town Health Officer shall determine.
No person shall bury in, draw off or allow to
run into any street or highway in this Town the contents (or any part
thereof) of any cesspool or sink.
No person shall throw into or deposit in any
vault, sink, privy or cesspool any offal, meat, fish, garbage or any
other substance, except that of which such place is the appropriate
receptacle.
No person shall keep swine, fowl or goats in
any locality in this Town in such a manner as to become, in the opinion
of the Town Health Officer, a nuisance.
No person shall throw any butcher's offal or
garbage or any dead animal or any putrid or stinking animal or vegetable
matter directly into or where it may get into any street, sewer, receiving
basin or into any river, any standing or running water or upon any
ground or premises in the built-up portions of the Town.
All alleys, backyards, stables, privy vaults,
cesspools and other like filthy places shall be efficiently cleaned
and disinfected at regular intervals as prescribed from time to time
by the Town Health Officer.
All persons engaged in the business of boiling
or rendering of fat, lard or animal matter shall cause the scrap of
residuum to be so dried or otherwise prepared as to effectually deprive
such material of all offensive odors and to preserve the same entirely
inoffensive immediately after the removal thereof from the receptacles
in which the rendering process may be conducted.
When any malignant or contagious disease shall
exist in any house, the owner, occupant or person in charge of said
house shall carry out such quarantine and shall disinfect the premises
at such times and in such manner as the Town Health Officer shall
order.
Clothing, furniture, school books, library books,
etc., must not be removed from the quarantined premises until thoroughly
disinfected.
All necessary disinfection shall be done under
the supervision of the Health Officer.
As soon as the patient is convalescent, the
Health Officer shall be notified by the attending physician or, in
case of death, by the undertaker or person in charge of the body.
When death occurs from pulmonary tuberculosis,
the Health Officer shall be notified by the undertaker or person in
charge of the body.
All persons are forbidden to enter or leave
quarantined premises, unless permitted to do so by the Health Officer.
No person shall permit the accumulation in or
around the immediate vicinity of any dwelling house or place of business
under his control of refuse matter, such as swill, waste of meat,
sour flour, fish or shells, bones, dead carcasses or any kind of animal
or vegetable matter in a state of decomposition.
[Added 10-17-1902]
No superintendent, principal or teacher of any
public or private school, in this Town, shall permit any child to
attend school until such child shall have been vaccinated or shall
have produced evidence from a physician that in the opinion of said
physician it would not be prudent on account of sickness for such
child to be vaccinated.
