Report on the sanitary state of the City of Montreal. 1888-91Board of Health and Vital Statistics, 1889 |
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abattoirs aforesaid Ann's Antoine April August Avenue baths Board of Health Brought forward by-law Catholics cause Cellars Centre Cholera Church city of Montreal cleaned confiscated CONTAGIOUS DISEASES contractor Council Craig Croup cubic feet deaths from diphtheria December Dentition Diphtheria Diphtheritic Croup dirty DISEASES BY NATIONALITIES DISEASES BY STREETS disinfected Dorchester drain East February Fowl in houses French Canadians Gabriel Health Department Hochelaga Hôtel-Dieu January July June Lagauchetière Lane Lawrence Longueuil Louis LOUIS LABERGE Manure boxes March Measles Medical Health Officer Methodist Mignonne milkmen months Montreal General Hospital November Number of cubic number of deaths Number of houses Number of pits October odd numbers offal Ontario person population Presbyterian Privy pits Proportion per cent Protestants Sanitary Inspector Scarlatina September Sherbrooke Soil pipes St-Ann's St-Antoine St-Catherine St-Gabriel St-James St-Jean-Baptiste St-Lawrence St-Louis St-Mary TERENCE BUTLER total city mortality Typhoid Fever Vacant lots vaccination Varicella Ventilation Waste pipes water tax West yards
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Page 108 - Any person who knowingly lets for hire any house room or part of a house in which any person has been suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder, without having such house room or part of a house and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of a legally qualified medical practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
Page 107 - Where any local authority are of opinion, on the certificate of their medical officer of health or of any other legally qualified medical practitioner, that the cleansing and disinfecting of any house or part thereof, and of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or check infectious disease...
Page 107 - While suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder wilfully exposes himself without proper precautions against spreading the said disorder in any street public place shop inn or public conveyance, or enters any public conveyance without previously notifying to the owner conductor or driver...
Page 105 - Whenever it shall be certified to the Board of Health by the superintendent that any building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation, by reason of its being so infected with disease as to be likely to cause sickness among the occupants, or by reason of its want of repair has...
Page 108 - Any person letting for hire or showing for the purpose of letting for hire any house or part of a house, who on being questioned by any person negotiating for the hire of such house...
Page 105 - ... this State, requiring all persons therein to vacate such building, for the reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid. Such building or part thereof shall, within ten days thereafter, be vacated or within such shorter time, not less than twentyfour hours, as in said notice may be specified ; but...
Page 105 - ... has become dangerous to life, said Board may issue an order and cause the same to be affixed conspicuously on the building, or part thereof, and to be personally served upon the owner, agent, or lessee, if the same can be found in this State, requiring all persons therein to vacate such building, for the reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid. Such building, or part thereof, shall, within ten days thereafter, be vacated...
Page 57 - All connections of lead with iron pipes must be made with a brass sleeve or ferrule of the same size as the lead pipe, put in the hub of the branch of the iron pipe and caulked with lead. The lead pipe must be attached to the ferrule by a wiped or overcast joint.
Page 107 - Gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection from any such disorder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds...
Page 107 - ... authority, effectually to carry out the requirements of this section, such authority may, without enforcing such requirements on such owner or occupier, with his consent, at its own expense, cleanse and disinfect such house or part thereof and any articles therein likely to retain infection.