Vaults, carts carrying contents of, when not in use. 921 Vaults, carts carrying contents of, Vaults, contents of, to be disinfected before removal. Vaults, carts carrying contents of, not to stand in street. Vaults, carts carrying contents of, .87, 91 96 92 not to be needlessly offensive. 92, 96 Vessels, removal of sick from Vessels from quarantine require permit. 3333 34 26 31 Vessels not to unload skins, rags, hides, etc., without permit.... 35 Vessels, officers to report various facts. 36 Vault, care in transporting contents of Vaults, ashes, offal, etc., not to be put in Water from building not to pass on to walk. Water for human consumption to be kept pure 66 Vegetable," meaning of. 37 Water closets to have traps. Vegetables not sound and fresh 40 Vegetables, unsound, to be re Water closets to be ventilated and cleaned 75 75 79 86 86 ported... 48 Vegetables, decayed and unwhole Water closets to be provided in certain houses. 132 OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RELATING TO THE Metropolitan Board of Health, AND TO THE Metropolitan Board of Excise, PASSED IN 1866 & 1867. NEW YORK: BERGEN & TRIPP, STEAM PRINTERS, 114 NASSAU STREET. LAWS OF 1866. CHAPTER 74. AN ACT to Create a Metropolitan Sanitary District and Board The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Limits of dis SECTION 1. So much of the territory of the State of New York, and of the cities, villages and towns thereof, as now com- trict. poses the Metropolitan police district of the State, of New York, shall constitute, and is hereby declared, a district to be known as "The Metropolitan Sanitary District of the State of New York." commissioners. missioners. § 2. Within fifteen days after the passage of this act the GovMode of appointernor shall nominate, and, by and with the consent of the Senate, ment of nest shall appoint four suitable persons, residents of said district, three of whom must be physicians, and one of whom shall be a resident of the city of Brooklyn, who, with the Health Officer of the port of New York for the time being, shall be Sanitary Commissioners Sanitary Comin and for said district; and the said Sanitary Commissioners, together with the Commissioners, for any time being, of the Metropolitan Police, (not exceeding four, and being the present four and their successors,) shall constitute a board of health for the said Metropolitan sanitary district, and said board shall be denominated "The Metropolitan Board of Health ;" any five members of Board. which, at any regularly called or adjourned meeting, shall organize and constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and Quorum. the phrase "said board," or "the board," when used herein unless clearly referring to some other body, shall be construed to mean said "The Metropolitan Board of Health" and the phrase phrases. "said district," or "the district," unless the same clearly refers Designation of Meaning of |