Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures

Front Cover
Includes other annual reports and papers relating to the affairs of the city.
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 273 - The health officers may make regulations for the prevention and removal of nuisances, and such other regulations relating to the public health as in their judgment the health and safety of the people may require...
Page 148 - No sewage, drainage, refuse or polluting matter, of such kind and amount as either by itself or in connection with other matter will corrupt or impair the quality of the water...
Page 268 - One of the original members shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of five years...
Page 148 - ... water-course or any of its feeders within twenty miles above the point where a water-supply is taken. Upon the application of a city or town to the supreme court, alleging the pollution of its water-supply in violation of law, an injunction may be issued, or the polluting substances required to be so cleaned or purified that they shall no longer be deleterious. The limit of twenty miles in this law is a defect, but sanitary legislation is a thing of slow progress, and our friends in Massachusetts...
Page 167 - When any vault, privy, cesspool, or drain shall become offensive or obstructed, the same shall be cleansed and made free; and the owner, agent, occupant, or other person having charge of the premises in which any vault, privy, cesspool, or drain may be situated, the state or condition of which shall be a violation of the provisions of this chapter, shall remove, cleanse, alter, amend, or repair the same within such reasonable time, after...
Page 151 - ... wharf, or in any water where the current will not remove the same, any substance liable to become putrid or offensive, or injurious to the public health, he shall incur a penalty of not more than...
Page 270 - ... shall furnish the same with a sufficient drain under ground to carry off the waste water, and also with a suitable privy, the vault of which shall be sunk under ground and built in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and of a capacity proportionate to the number of inhabitants of such tenement, or of those having occasion to use such privy.
Page 271 - ... and no person shall suffer any waste or stagnant water to remain in any cellar, or upon any lot or vacant grounds by him owned or occupied, in the compact part of any ward of the city.
Page 167 - Rule 1, must be cleaned out at least once each year; and from the first day of May to the first day of November of each year shall be thoroughly disinfected by adding to the contents thereof twice each month two pounds of copperas, dissolved in a pail of water, or the contents be thickly covered with fresh lime.
Page 268 - ... election, be elected for terms of one, two, three, four and five years, respectively, or until their successors shall have been elected. And it shall be the duty of the South Carolina State Dental Association, at each subsequent annual meeting thereof, to elect a person for the term of five years to fill the place of the member of the Board whose term of office shall at that time expire, and also to fill such vacancies in the Board as may have occurred during the year.

Bibliographic information