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OP TAR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THS TOWNSHIP OF PICLSRINC, RSSPSCTINB
THE PUBLIC REALTR•
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering
ENACTS AS FOLLOIiSI
1. It shall be the duty of the medical officer of health to assist and
advise the local board of health and its officers in matters relating
to public health and to superintend the enforcement and observance,
within this municipality, of health by-laws or regulations, and of
Public Health Aots, and of any other sanitary laws, and to perform
such other duties and lawful acts for the preservation of the public
health as may, in his opinion, be necessary, or as may be required
by the Department of Health of Ontario. Be shall also present to
the said board, before the 15th day of November in each your, a
full report upon the sanitary condition of the municipality.
2. The sanitary inspectors, besides performing the duties imposed by
t this by-law, shall assist the medical officer of health and perform
such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to them by
the local board of health or the medical officer of health.
3. The chairman of the local board of health shall, before the lot day
of December in each year, present to this council a report containing
a detailed statement of the work of the board during the year, and the
report of the sanitary condition of the municipality as rendered to
the board by the medical officer of health. A copy of each such
report shall be transmitted by the secretary to the Department.
4. No person shall, within the municipality, suffer the accumulation
upon his premises, or deposit, or permit the deposit, upon any land
belonging to him, of anything that may endanger the public health, or
deposit upon, on or into, any street, square, lens, byway, wharf,
dock, slip, lake, pond, bank, harbour, river, stream, sewer, or
water, any manure or other refuse, or vegetable or animal matter,
or other filth.
5. It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspectors to keep a vigilant
supervision over all streets, lanes, by-ways lots, or premises upon
which any such aecummulation may be found, and at once to notify the
persons who own or occupy such lots or premises, or who either pers-
onally or through their employees have deposited such manure, refuse,
matter, or filth, in any street, laps, or by-way, to cleanse the same,
and to remove what is found thereon, such persons shall forthwith
remove the sass, and if the same be not removed within twenty-four
hours after such notification the inspector may prosecute the persons
so offending, and he may also cause the same to be removed at the
expense of the person or persons so offending. He shall also inspect
at intervals, as directed by the local board of health, all premises
occupied by persons residing within the municipality, and shall
report to the board every violation of any of the provisions of this
by-law, or of any other regulation for the preservation of the public
health, and shall also report every *ass of refusal to permit him to
make an inspection.
8. Whenever it shall appear to the local board, or to any of its officers,
that it is necessary for the preservation of the public health, or
for the abatement of anything dangerous or injurious to the public
health, or whenever a notice signed by ono or sore inhabitant house-
holders of this municipality is received stating the condition of any
building in the municipality to be so filthy as to be dangerous to
the public health, or that upon any promises in the municipality there
is any foul or offensive ditch, gutter, drain, privy, asss-pool, ash-
pit, or cellar, kept or constructed so as to be dangerous or injurious
to the public health, or that upon any such promises an accumulation
of dung, manure, offal, filth, refuso, stagnant water, or other matter
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or thing is kept so as to be dangerous or injurious to the public health,
It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspector to enter such building or
premises for the purpose of examining the ease, and, if necessary, he
shall order the removal of such matter or thing. If the occupant or owner
or his lawful agent or representative having charge or control of such
building or promises, after having had twenty-four hours' notice from
any such officer to remove or abate such matter or thing, shall neglect
or refuse to remove or abate the same, he shall be subject to the penalties
mentioned in section 35,
7. If the local board is satisfied upon due examination that a cellar, room,
tenssent, or building within the municipality, occupied as a dwelling-
place has become by reason of the number of occupants, want of cleanliness,
the existence therein of a communicable disease, or other cause, unfit
for such p ose, or that it has become a nuisance, or in any way danger-
ous or injurious to the health of the ooeupants, or of the public, the
board may give notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them, requir-
ing the premises to be put in proper sanitary condition, or requiring
the occupants to quit the promises within such time as the board may does
reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of then, neglect or refuse
to comply with terms of the notice, every person so offending shall be
liable to the penalties mentioned in section Up and the board may cause
the promises to be properly cleansed at the expense of the owners or
occupants, or may remove the occupants foroibly and close up the premises,
and the same shall not again be occupied as a dwelling place until put
into proper sanitary condition,
S. No person shall at any time use any house, shop, or out-house as a
slaughter-house or as a place for slaughtering animals or fowls therein,
unless such shop, house or outhouse is distant not less than 200 yards
from any dwsiling-house, and not less than 70 yards from any public
street or road.
9. All slaughter-houses within the municipality shall be subject to
inspection under the direction of the local board of health; and no person
shall keep any slaughter-house unless the permission in writing of the
board for the keeping of such slaughter-house has been first obtained,
and remains unrevoked. Such permission shall be granted, after approval,
of such premises upon inspection, subject to the condition that the
slaughter-house shall be so kept as to amply with the regulations of
the Department of Health respecting slaughter-houses, and upon such
condition being broken the permission may be revoked by the board] and
all animals to be slaughtered, and all fresh meat exposed for sale in
this municipality shall be subject to like inspection.
10. All silch cows, cow byres and dairies, and all places in which alik is
sold or kept for general use, and all choose-faotories and areameries
shall be subject to inspection under the direction of the board; and the
proprietors shall obtain permission in writing from the board, to keep
any such dairy or other place in which milk is so sold or kept, or to
keep a choose factory or oreamsry, and the same shall not be kept by any
person without such permission, which shall be granted after approval of
such premises upon inspection, subject to the condition that all such
places are so kept and conducted that the milk shall not contain any
matter or thing liable to produce disease, either by reason of adulterathn
contamination with sewage, absorption of disease germs, infOeetion of
cows, or any other cows, or any other cause, and upon such condition
being broken the said permission may be revoked by the board.
11. No person shall error for sale within this municipality, as food, any
diseased animal, or any meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, milk, or other
article of food which, by reason of disease, adulteration, impurity,
or other cause is unfit for use.
L2. It shall be the duty of the owner of every house within this municipality
to provide for the occupants of the saes a sufficient supply of wholesome
drinking water; and if any occupant of the house is not satisfied with
tM wholesomeness or sufficiency of such supply, he may apply to the local
board of health to determine as to the sass; and if the supply is sufficient
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and wholesome, the expense incident to such determination shall be paid
by such occupant; and if not, by the owtv.tr; and in either case stich
expense shall be recoverable in the same manner as municipal taxes.
13. If tho local board of health or the medical officer of health certify
that any well should be filled In or otherwise treated, such well
shall be dealt with accordingly by the owner or occupant of the
premises. Pending complianoe with the ordor of the local board of
health, or the local medical officer of health, the local medical
officer of health shall take such measures as in his judgment may be
necessary to prevent the use of water from the said well. No well
shall be used as a privy, privy-vault, or oess-pool.
14. No privy-vault, osss-pool, septic tank or reservoir into which a privy,
water-closet, stable or sink is drained, shall be established until the
approval in writing of the medical officer of health has been obtainede
18. The next preceding; section shall not apply to privies or closets with
a water-tight container above the surface of the ground, but sufficient
dry earth, wood ashes, coal ashes or other material to absorb all
fluids of the deposit must be thrown upon the oontents of such privies
daily, and the contents covered completely with chloride of line once
each week. The contents, when removed, shall be disposed of in a
sanitary manner to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health
or the local sanitary inspector.
16. If the exigencies or circumstances of the municipality require that
privy-vaults, ease-pools and reservoirs shall be allowed in accordance
with section 14, they shall be cleaned out or disinfected or both on
the order of the msdical officer of health, or the local board of healthe
17, Within the limits of this municipality no night-soil or contents of any
come-pool, septic tank or reservoir shall be removed, unless the removal
is by sow odourless process,
18. It shall be the duty of the owner of every house, apartment and place
of business within this municipality to provide for the ocoupants,
employees and customers adequate sanitary closets and toilet socommo-
datione
19. All putrid and decaying animal or vegetable matter must be removed
from all cellars, buildings, out-buildings and yards on or before the
18th day of May in each year.
20. Every householder and every hotel and restaurant-keeper or other person
shall dispose of all garbage, for the disposal of which he is re,ponsible,
either by burning the same or by placing it in a proper covered
receptacle, the contents of which shall be regularly removed, at least
twice a week,
21. All restaurants or eating houses operated in this municipality shall be
required to have wash rooms and toilets, one for males and one for
females, for the accommodation of the public.
22a Swine shall not be kept within the limits of this snnnicipality, except
in pens, with floors kept free from standing water and regularly cleansed
and disinfected, and distant at least 100 feet from any dwelling house,
school house or church.
239 The keeper of every livery or other stable shall keep hie stable and
stable-yard clean, and shall not permit more than two waggon loads of
manure to accumulate in or near the same at any one time, and shall at all
time keep such manure in a proper covered receptacle*
24, No house shall be built upon any site, the soil of which has been made
of any refuse, unless such soil has been removed from such site, and
site disinfected, or unless the soil has been covered with a layer
e charcoal or ashes, covered by a layer of concrete at least six inches
thlek and of such additional thickness as may be requisite under the
sireumstanees to prevent the escape of guess into such proposed house.
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25. The drain or every house connected with a serer or oess-pool shall
be rly ventilated by mans or a pipe extending upward rror the
hi uaA point or the rein mil or waste-pipe and also by a pips
carried upward from the drain outside the walls or the house. such
pipse shall be or the ease dimensions as the main sell or waste-
pips, and shall be constructed or the same material or or stout
Sa venised iron, and no trap shall intervene between the ventilat-
ing pipes. Ir a trap intervenor between the sorer or Goss-pool and
the ventilating pipes, than a rour-inah ventilating pipe or such
material shall be carried rror a point between such tran cad the
sorer. Svs ventilating pipe shall be carried above fhs roof of an
house, and shall open above at points sufficiently remote from every
window, door, aky-light, ohisney or other opening leading into any
house to prevent the escape into it or gases free such ventilating
pipes.
26. No pips from any drain or sell pips shall not be oonneoted with
any ehimney in a dwelling house.
27. livery hewn-drain shall be constructed of vitrified earthenware or
Iroa the local rboaor of such other rd material as shall b approval or
and medical officer of healtnjand every well and
waste-pipe or iron pipe shall be rendered iopervtous to gas or
liquids, by the joints being run with lead and caulked or constructed
of lead pipe weighing at least six pounds to the aqua" root; and
the wasto-pi from every oloset, *Ink, tub, wash-basin or other
service shall have as rear as possible to the point of junction
with such service a trap so constructed# vented and furnished that
it shall at no time allow or the passage or gas into the house.
And all points shall be so constructed as to prevent gas escaping
through them.
28. The construction or any closet or other convenience which allow
or the escape from it or from the drain or soil-pipe into the
house or air or gas is prohibited.
29a No pipe supplying water to a wator-closet or'urlnal shall be directly
connected with a pipe supplying rater for drinking purposes.
30. The medical officer or health or the secretary of the local board
of health shall
provide each laggaafly qqualiriod medical proctitioer, practising
within this am'81ppaality, with blank forme on which he shell report
Osseo of commoloabie disease to the medical officer of health,
and also with other blank forms on which to report death or
reoovery from any such disease.
31. All such forms shall be so printed, gummed and folded that they
say be readily sealed, without the use or any envelope., and shall
0611 for the following informations
Robert or Kum
Christian now and surname or patients
Age or patients
Locality (giving name or village or lot and 0eneession)s
tame or diseases
Now of school attended by children from that houses
hbasures employed rOr isolation and dtainfaetiont
(Signature or Physician) t
Christian now and surname or patients
Locality (giving e>.I or village or lot and Oonaession)t
Now or diseases
now long sioks
Whether dead or reeovereds
Meant of disinfaetion employ"
and when esplayeds
(Signature of fhysiaian)s
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32, The Medical officer of health or one of the sanitary inspectors within
sit hours after he has received notice of the existence in any house
of any communicable disease in respect of which it is his duty to do
so, shall affix or cause to be affixed, near the entrance of such
house, in plain view of the public, a card at least nine inches wide
and twelve inches long, statin;- that such disease exists in the house,
and stating the penalty for removal of such card without the permission
of the medical officer of health, and no person shall remove such card
without his permission.
33. No animal suffering from any corm aAcable llseaco shall be brou.rt:t
or kept within this municipality except by permission of tho medical
officer of health.
34. Any person who violates sections 2, (i, 7, 9. or 11 of this by-law,
or section 24, or sections 32, or 33, shall for every offence incur
a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than t50+ aril any person who
violates any other provision of this by-law shall for every offence
incur a penalty of not more than $20, and such penalties shall bq
recoverable under The 8lmrnam Convictions Act.
35. This by-law is passed under authority of the Public ffealth Nct and
in the place anti stead. of the by-law forming Schedule B of the said
Act.
360 The said by-law forming Schedule B to the said Public Health Act is
hereby repealed, and by-law No. 742 and all other by-laws or parts of
by-laws of this Corporation that are contrary to or inconsistent with
the provisions of this by-law, be and the same air: hereby repealed.
PASSED December 2nd, 1929.
:. M. Forsyth
Reeve
Donald R. Deatou
Cle rk