A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Connecticut.
Date:
1902
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Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    right to take samples of milk from any producer or vendor in quantities of not less than one pint, upon tender of the market price therefor, but he shall, if such producer or vendor so request, seal and mark a duplicate sample of such milk and leave the same with such producer or vendor. The warden of any borough or the mayor of any city may for cause remove the inspector. § 2593. Pollution of water from which ice is taken. Every person isse, wra, ura, who shall put any substance into waters from which ice is procured for con- Rev. 1888, sa»i. sumption which shall defile, pollute, or injure the quality of said ice, or who shall throw anything into such waters or upon the ice with intent to injure the quality of the ice or obstruct the cutting or gathering of the same, shall be fined not more than thirty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days. This section shall not affect the rights of any manufacturing establishment now ex- isting, or hereafter established, to use any waters in carrying on its business. § 2594. Pollution Of Waters. Every person who shall put or leave a r^. Jes* sawa dead animal or carcass in a pond, spring, or reservoir, the water of which is conveyed to any building, or who shall wilfully put and leave in any of the waters of this state a dead animal, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days. § 2595. Penalty for polluting drinking water. Every person who R(.v «™-s^ shall put anything into a well, spring, fountain, cistern, or other place from which water is procured for drinking or other purposes, with the intent to injure the quality of said water, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months. § 2596. Analysis Of water. Town, borough, and city health officers i899.ch.2SMi. shall, when in their judgment health is menaced or impaired through a water supply, send, subject to the approval of the county health officer, samples of such water to the state board of health for examination and analysis, and the expense of such examination and analysis shall be paid out of the funds appropriated to said board to investigate the pollution of streams. § 2597. Cutting Of ice regulated. Every person who shall sell or offer K|v i£}■ to sell for family, hotel, boarding-house, restaurant, or saloon use, ice cut or J^;'^:^]; taken from a pond, lake, or stream other than a river, into which any sewer »», eh. ss»', |a. empties, or from such part of a river as is below and within two miles of the See S3533- point where the discharge from any sewer enters such river, or ice cut from a body or stream of water within two hundred feet from where any house drain enters such body or stream of water, or ice cut from any body of water or stream the water or ice from which has been condemned as unfit for use or dangerous to public health by the local health officer of the town, city, or borough where such body of water or stream is located, or ice which has been placed in a yard, building, or cart, with ice taken from any of the foregoing sources. shaU be fined fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both Every person aggrieved by an order issued or made by a health officer under the provisions of this section may appeal, within two weeks from the date of such order, in the manner provided for appeals from the orders of town health officers.