two feet from the fixture. Each bath tub must be fitted with a four-inch pot trap having a one and three-fourth-inch seal. When a wash tray and kitchen sink are on the same waste pipe, they may be trapped together but the outlet must not be less than two inches in diameter.

A suitable grease trap must be placed under the sink of every hotel, restaurant, eating house, or other cooking establishment.

SEC. 34. Waste pipes from refrigerators, from safes under fixtures, or overflow from house tanks, shall in no case be directly connected with any soil or waste pipe, or with any drain or sewer.

SEC. 35. A lead pipe from two fixtures, such as sink and wash trays, or wash bowl and bath tub, shall not be less than one and one-half inches in diameter. The following sizes of lead pipes and traps shall be: water closets, four inches; slop sinks, three inches; urinals, two inches; bath tubs, one and onehalf inches; basins, one and one-half inches.

SEC. 36. All vertical waste pipes shall be of iron.

SEC. 37. All connections of lead supply, waste, vent, or flush pipes shall be made by means of wiped joints, and shall be supported their entire length by means of lead tacks, or clips screwed to boards provided for the purpose.

WATER CLOSETS.

SEC. 38. Water closets must never be placed in a cellar or in an unventilated. apartment. Each room or compartment must be of such size as to give at least two feet in front of the closet, and if containing a bath tub at least eighteen inches clear space in front of the tub for its entire length. It must be well lighted and ventilated to the outer air by a window of at least three square feet in area, and so arranged as to give a free opening of this size when open, or be separately ventilated by means of an approved shaft or air duct. In the latter case a suitable fixed window of at least twelve square feet in area shall be provided in the enclosing partitions, suitably arranged to admit the natural light from the adjoining room. When such room or compartment is located in or closely adjacent to a room used as a dwelling, bake shop, market, provision store, or in any case in which

escaping odors would cause a nuisance, all partitions must be made tight with lath and plaster or by such other method as may be approved by the plumbing inspector.

Closets and urinals when intended for public use shall be local vented into a hot flue, or if such flue is not available, a suitable exhaust fan shall be provided,

Lead waste connections from urinals shall in no case be less than two inches in diameter.

All water closets must be connected by a floor flange and gasket and must be leaded. Putty connections cannot be used.

SEC. 39. Pan-closets and iron hopper and plunger closets are prohibited. They will not be allowed under any circumstances and wherever removed shall not be replaced. Offset washout water closets shall not be placed in a new building, nor shall they take the place of another closet without a special permit from the Board of Health.

SEC. 40. All water closets must be supplied with an abundant flow of water for flushing, and where practicable from a tank.

VAULTS AND CESSPOOLS.

SEC. 41. When there is no sewer provided in the street, the privy vault shall be at least six feet deep, of the length and width of the privy building. The walls shall be of brick or stone, laid with a full joint of cement mortar; the bottom shall be covered with brick or stone, laid in cement mortar, and the whole interior of the vault shall be plastered with same, so as to be perfectly tight when completed. All privy vaults shall be at least fifty feet from a street or well and fifty feet from a house.

SEC. 42. A cesspool shall be provided and built in the same manner and of the same materials as described for privy vaults, except that an overflow shall be provided that may enter tiles laid under ground with open joints permitting liquids to permeate the land, provided there is no well within fifty feet of same. The cesspool shall be provided with a ventilated top and covered with a suitable opening for cleaning same. Connections with cesspool

shall be made in the same manner as connections to street sewer.

TESTS.

SEC. 43. The entire system of plumbing, including lead connections and drains within the building, must be tested by filling the whole system with water, and having it remain filled for at least twenty-four hours.

SEC. 44. When the plumbing is found to stand the test for the time specified, notice shall be given to the Board of Health, whose inspector shall within a reasonable time proceed to inspect same, and approve or reject it.

SEC. 45. Any such system put in and covered before it has been tested and approved by the inspector, must be uncovered for examination at the direction of said officer.

SEC. 46. When the entire work is completed and before it is used, it must be tested with peppermint or some other practical test in the presence of the plumbing inspector, and upon satisfactory completion of said work, the Board of Health shall issue a certificate of approval.

SEC. 47. Whenever any changes are made in the plumbing or drainage of houses already erected, all new work must be done in accordance with the preceding rules.

SEC. 48. Deviations and variations from these rules will be allowed when desired, if, in the opinion of the Board, they will not be, or are not liable to become, a source of danger to the public health.

Approved, January 25, 1910.

AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE LICENSING OF PLUMBERS.

Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council:

That Section 296 of the revised ordinances be amended to read as follows:

The Board of Health shall issue licenses to plumbers as hereinafter provided and shall keep a record of all licenses so issued. Every plumber carrying on his trade in the City of Hartford must, on or before the first day of April, 1910, apply to the Board of Health for a license as a plumber, and shall, before receiving such license, be examined as to his qualifications as a plumber, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the

Board of Health may prescribe. Every master plumber, while engaged in the plumbing business in the City of Hartford, who is not himself a licensed plumber, shall, after the first day of April, 1910, have in his employ at least one licensed plumber. Every master plumber shall display in a prominent and conspicuous place in his place of business his own license, or if he is not himself a licensed plumber, the license of at least one of the licensed plumbers who may at that time be in his actual employ, and shall not so display any license, other than his own, unless the plumber holding said license is actually working for him. Approved, March 1, 1910.

AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING SALARIES OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council:

SECTION I. That Section 57 of the revised ordinances of the City of Hartford, as amended by "An Ordinance Concerning Salaries in the Police Department," passed August 9, 1909, and approved August 10, 1909, be, and the same hereby is further amended, by striking out the words "Each Sergeant," the figures "$1,200.00" and inserting in lieu thereof the figures $1,300.00.

SEC. 2.

1910.

This ordinance shall take effect from and after April 1,

Approved, February 15, 1910.

AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE SALE OF HUMAN FOOD.

Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council of the City of Hartford:

No person shall sell or offer for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell for human food, in this city, any unwholesome, decayed or stale fruit, vegetables or provisions of any kind whatsoever, or any tainted, diseased, decayed or unwholesome meat, fowl, or fish, or any milk or other liquid used as food or drink by human beings that shall be so contaminated as to be injurious to the public health; or the flesh of any calf which weighed less than fifty pounds when killed and dressed, or which was less than four weeks old when killed.

Every person being the owner, lessee or occupant of any rooms, stall, vehicle or place where any meat, fish, birds or fowl, fruit or vegetables, or any breadstuffs, cake, pastry or confectionery designed or held for human food, shall be stored or kept, or shall be offered for sale, shall put and keep such room, stall, vehicle or place and its appurtenances in a clean and wholesome condition; and every person having charge or interested or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care or custody of any meat, fish, birds or fowl, fruit or vegetables, or any breadstuffs, cake, pastry or confectionery, designed for human food, shall put and keep the same in a cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall not allow the same or any part thereof to be poisoned, infected or rendered unsafe or unwholesome for human food.

Upon any meat, birds, fowl, fish, fruit, vegetables or any articles of food or drink being found by any member or inspector of the Board of Health, in a condition which renders them in his opinion unwholesome and unfit for use as human food, then such inspector or member of the Board of Health may forbid the same being offered or exposed for sale, or being sold for human food, until the owner or party in charge, or other proper person has obtained the consent of the Superintendent of Health to their being so offered, used or sold. And thereupon if the Superintendent of Health shall have approved the judgment of the said inspector or member of the Board of Health, said officer may order said articles destroyed or may permit the owner or any party in charge, to speedily remove such articles from any market, street or public place, but not to sell or dispose or offer to sell or dispose thereof for the purpose of human food.

Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance, or disposing of any condemned article without permission of the Superintendent or an inspector of the Board of Health, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than fifty dollars for each offense.

Section No. 288 of the revised ordinances of the City of Hartford is hereby repealed.

Approved, March 1, 1910.