Code of Ordinances of the City of New York

Amendment to Section 21 of the Sanitary Code.

Section 21. For all lodging-houses in The City of New York containing rooms in which there are more than three beds for the use of lodgers or in which more than six persons are allowed to sleep, a permit from the Board of Health shall be required, and no person shall have, lease, let or keep any such lodging-house or the lodgings therein, or assist in the keeping, hire, or assist in hiring, or conduct the business of any such lodging-house, or the lodgings therein, except pursuant to the terms and conditions of such permit. The beds in all lodging-houses and in every room in which beds are let for lodgers shall be separated by a passageway of not less than two feet, horizontally, and all the beds shall be so arranged that under each of them the air shall freely circulate and there shall be adequate ventilation.

Four hundred cubic feet of air space shall be provided and allowed for each bed or lodger.

Lodging-houses shall be conducted in accordance with rules and regulations adopted from time to time by the Board of Health and which are hereby made a part hereof.

Passed by the Board of Health, April 10, 1907.
Filed with the City Clerk, April 15, 1907.

Amendment to Section 56 of the Sanitary Code.

Section 56. No milk, cream, or condensed milk (unless such condensed milk is in hermetically sealed cans), shall be received, held, kept, offered for sale or delivered in The City of New York without a permit in writing from the Board of Health, and subject to the conditions thereof.

No milk which has been heated, pasteurized, sterilized or subjected to heat in any manner for the purpose of preservation, shall be received, prepared, held, kept, or offered for sale or delivered in The City of New York, unless the receptacle in which it is contained bears a label stating plainly the process to which the milk has been subjected.

Passed by the Board of Health, September 18, 1907.
Filed with the City Clerk, September 20, 1907.

Amendment to Section 184 of the Sanitary Code.

Section 184. No person other than a licensed physician shall practice midwifery in The City of New York without a permit of the Board of Health authorizing such practice, and no person unless authorized by law to do so shall conduct a lying-in hospital, home, or place for the care of pregnant and parturient women, or advertise, offer, or undertake to receive and care for them at such place, or at his or her home, without a permit from the Board of Health. Passed by the Board of Health, November 6, 1907. Filed with the City Clerk, November 11, 1907.

Amendment to Section 5 of the Sanitary Code.

Section 5. The word "physician "shall include every person who practices about the cure of the sick or injured, or who has the

charge of, or professionally prescribes for, any person sick, injured or diseased; and the phrase "infectious disease" shall be held to include all diseases of an infectious, contagious or pestilential

nature.

Passed by the Board of Health, November 20, 1907.
Filed with the City Clerk, November 23, 1907.

Amendment to Section 95 of the Sanitary Code.

Section 95. No fat, tallow or lard shall be melted or rendered, except when fresh from the slaughtered animal, and taken directly from the places of slaughter in The City of New York, and in a condition free from sourness and taint and all other causes of offense at the time of rendering, and all melting and rendering must be in steam-tight vessels, and the gases and odors therefrom must be destroyed by combustion or other means equally effective, and according to the best and most improved means and processes; and everything preceding, following, and in connection with such melting and rendering, and the premises where the same shall be conducted, must be free from all offensive odor, and other cause of detriment to the public health. No fat, lard, or tallow shall be brought into The City of New York to be rendered or melted, and none shall be rendered or melted that has come from any place outside of said City. The business of melting or rendering fat, tallow or lard shall not be carried on or conducted in The City of New York without a permit from the Board of Health. Passed by the Board of Health, December 23, 1907. Filed with the City Clerk, December 28, 1907.

Amendment to Section 119 of the Sanitary Code.

Section 119.

No person shall engage in the business of transporting manure, swill, ashes, garbage, offal or any offensive or noxious substance, or drive any cart for such purpose, in The City of New York, without a permit from the Board of Health.

Passed by the Board of Health, December 31, 1907.
Filed with the City Clerk, January 4, 1908.

Amendments to Park Rules to January 1, 1908.

New Section 31 of Park Rules and Regulations.

Adopted in Park Board of the City of New York, December 5, 1907:

The Park Board does hereby establish the following rule and regulation for the protection of the public parks and traffic roads of The City which shall be known as Section 31 of the General Park Ordinances, Rules and Regulations, Chapter 16 of the Code of Ordinances of The City of New York:

No automobile or horseless or other vehicle, wearing chains over the tires of their wheels shall enter the public parks or the traffic roads under the jurisdiction of the Board of Parks, without permission of the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

This rule and regulation shall take effect December 16, 1907. Filed with the City Clerk, December 10, 1907.