7. Gratuitous vaccination was provided during the past year. Mostly scholars in public schools.

8. Undertakers have promptly sent in their returns of death.

WEST GREENWICH.

E. STANHOPE, Town Clerk.

1. Nothing new for the promotion of public health.

2. No water service for general use.

8. Returns of death have been sent in very promptly, so far as I know. W. N. SWEET, Town Clerk.

WARWICK.

1. No particular work for the promotion of public health by the town authorities.

2. Phenix Water Co.'s reservoir dam broken down by overflowing. South western section of town to be supplied by Warwick and Coventry Water Co.

3. No public sewerage.

4. No action in particular in abatement of nuisances, or for any sanitary purpose.

5. Board of health, the town council.

6. Health Officer, Dr. Albert G. Sprague.

As to propor

7. Gratuitous vaccination was provided during the past year. tion of the population vaccinated, Dr. J. B. Hanaford, Apponaug, has this data. 8. Undertakers have promptly sent in their returns of death.

J. S. LOCKWOOD, Town Clerk.

NEWPORT COUNTY.

JAMESTOWN.

1. Main sewer through the thickly settled portion of the town completed.

2. Water service for general use not yet introduced.

3. About one mile of sewer built.

4. No new ordinances in abatement of nuisances, or for any sanitary purpose, except as stated.

5. Board of health, the town council.

6. Health Officer, Abbott Chandler.

7. Gratuitous vaccination not provided during the past year.

8. Undertakers have promptly sent in their returns of death.

CHAS. E. WEEDEN, Town Clerk.

LITTLE COMPTON.

1. No work for the promotion of public health by the town authorities during the year.

2. We have no water service for general use.

4. There have been no new ordinances during the past year for any sanitary purpose.

5. No legal board of health beside the town council.

7. Gratuitous vaccination has not been provided in this town during the past year.

8. Generally, undertakers have promptly sent in their returns of death. F. R. BROWNELL, Town Clerk.

MIDDLETOWN.

1. No particular work has been begun in Middletown during the year 1889, designed for the promotion or improvement of the sanitary condition of its inbabitants.

2. There was no introduction or extension of water service for general use during the year 1889.

3. Nothing was done in the matter of sewerage. Middletown is not densely populated and no urgent necessity exists for the construction of a system of sewerage.

4. The town council have had under consideration a general sanitary code, but failure to agree upon some of the details thereof, has thus far prevented its adoption.

5. The town council is the only authorized board of health in Middletown. 6. John Peckham is Health Officer, and he has given time and diligent attention to cases of epidemic and contagious diseases and taken proper and effectual means to prevent their spread.

7. The town council did not provide for the free vaccination of the inhabitants of Middletown during 1889.

8. Undertakers for the last two years have been very punctual in forwarding returns of deaths to the town clerk, and the returns are, in most instances, full and complete.

ALBERT L. CHASE, Town Clerk.

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SANITARY CODE OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN, R. I.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF MIDDLETOWN, IN RELATION TO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

[Adopted January 20, 1890.]

The following recited Rules and Regulations made by the Town Council of the town of Middletown, acting as a Board of Health in and for said town, in pursuance of law, are hereby declared to be the act of said board and shall take effect from and after the twentieth day of January, 1890 :

RULE I. Every physician having knowledge of the existence of any case of cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, typhoid fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, diphtheria, small pox, scarlet fever, measles, intermittent fever, or of any other contagious, infectious or epidemic diseases within the town of Middletown, shall immediately make report thereof in writing to the Health Officer of said town, who shall forthwith take all necessary measures to prevent the spread thereof.

RULE II. Any physician who shall be furnished with a copy of this code, and shall neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of the first rule hereof, shall be fined not less than two, nor more than ten dollars, for each day of such neglect, after having knowledge of the existence of any of the diseases enumerated therein.

RULE III. No person living in a family where there is a case of either of the diseases enumerated in the first rule of this code, shall attend any school, church, or public meeting, nor shall any teacher of a public school knowingly admit any such person thereto, until the Health Officer shall furnish such person with a certificate that the danger of contagion or infection has passed, and that the dwelling-house where such person lives has been properly fumigated.

RULE IV. The certificate mentioned in the preceding rule shall not be furnished until after the elapse of time sufficient, in the judgment of a reputable physician, to show there will be no further cases, and that the peril of contagion has passed.

RULE V. No person having whooping cough, mumps, or chicken pox, shall attend any school or public meeting until complete recovery.

RULE VI. No undertaker shall conduct or allow to be conducted, public funeral ceremonies over the body of any person dying of any of the diseases enumerated in the first rule of this code without special permission from the Health Officer or Town Council, and any undertaker violating the provisions of this rule, shall be fined ten dollars for each offence.

RULE VII. The body of every human being buried within the municipal limits of this town, shall be so buried that the top of the coffin or receptacle containing said body shall be at least three feet below the usual surface of the ground where buried. Whoever buries or inters a body at a less depth without special permission from the Board of Health, shall be fined ten dollars for every such offence.

*This code was adopted after the report of the town clerk was made.

RULE VIII. The Health Officer shall complain of and prosecute to final judgment, all violations of the rules of this code, and shall be entitled to one-half of all the fines recovered by virtue hereof, and the other half he shall pay into the town treasury.

A true copy from the record.

Attest:

ALBERT L. CHASE, Council Clerk.

NEW SHOREHAM.

1. Nothing for the promotion of public health by the town authorities.

2. No introduction or extension of water service for general use.

3. No public sewerage.

4. No new ordinances in abatement of nuisances or for any sanitary purpose.

5. The only legal board of health, the town council.

6. Health Officer, Herbert S. Millikin.

8. Undertakers have promptly sent in their returns of death.

PORTSMOUTH.

A. N. ROSE, Town Clerk.

1. No work for the promotion of public health in particular.

2. No water service for general use in the town.

3. No public sewers.

4. No new ordinances in abatement of nuisances or for any sanitary purpose.

5. No legal board of health beside the town council.

6 No health officer appointed.

7. Gratuitous vaccination not provided during the past year.

8. As far as I know, undertakers have been quite prompt.

TIVERTON.

PHILIP B. CHASE, Town Clerk.

1. No particular work for the promotion of public health contemplated by the town authorities during the year.

2. No water service for general use.

3. No sewerage.

4. No new ordinances in abatement of nuisances or for any sanitary purpose. 5. Board of health, the town council.

6. Health Officers, Peleg D. Humphrey, Samuel E. Borden, Christopher Manchester, Austin Walker and Fernando A. Wilcox

7. Dr. Yale has been engaged to furnish gratuitous vaccination. Work not completed.

8. Generally, undertakers have promptly sent in their returns of death. I do not recall the name of any delinquent.

NEWPORT CITY.

J. T. COOK, Town Clerk.

1. Water services have been extended and sewers built by municipal action. A cremator has been put in operation whereby the city garbage has been disposed of by reducing to ashes.

2. See extract from Inaugural of Mayor Coggeshall, appended.

3. See same as above.

5. Newport city has a Board of Health.

Members 1889, C. F. Barker, M.

D., President; Francis H. Rankin, M. D., Secretary; Henry E. Turner, Jr., Executive Officer.

7. Gratuitous vaccination has been provided.

8. Undertakers have promptly sent in their returns of deaths.

The following extracts from the Inaugural Address, Jan. 6th, 1890, of Hon. Thomas Coggeshall, Mayor of Newport city, are pertinent in this connection :

BOARD OF HEALTH.

In multifarious ways the Board of Health guards the well-being of our city, watchful at all times of the highest interest of our people and zealously reminding the City Council, particularly the Board of Aldermen, of possible or probable danger to the health of Newport. Their statistical record is of exceeding value. Measured by the death rate of other cities and towns, we may properly be grateful to this board for years of fidelity to their responsible duties. We owe it to our permanent and temporary population alike to accept in sanitary matters the advice of this intelligent and wisely conducted board, always our prudent advisers. For a long period the Board of Health urged the Board of Aldermen to provide a method for the better disposition of garbage, etc. During the year just past the appeal was earnestly made, resulting in the building of the cremator on the city wharf. The committee entrusted with its construction reported it to have been properly built, and that the incineration of the garbage was satisfactory. The possible non-conformity to a feature of the contract has not yet been adjusted. When the contract is determined to have been complied with in its building, its cost must be paid from the city treasury.

The purity and abundance of the water supply is a material source of the prosperity of this city. A provision of the contract whereby, when the population of Newport is twenty-five thousand, the cost to the city shall be increased is a matter that your attention is called to, for it may be soon anticipated.

SEWERS.

Sewerage is now recognized as the very important element of health. The system adopted, and successfully tested, demands that further and extensive connections shall be made. Many sewers are too small and in portions of the