APPENDIX III 



Regulations of the Health Department of the 

 District of Columbia Relating to House Flies 



EXTRACT from An Ordinance to Revise, Consol- 

 idate, and Amend the Ordinances of the Board 

 of Health, etc., as Amended by Commissioners' Orders. 

 Sec. 3. That manure, accumulated in great quan- 

 tities; manure, offal, or garbage piled or deposited 

 within 300 feet of any place of worship, or of any 

 dwelling, or unloaded along the line of any railroad, 

 or in any street or public way; cars or flats loaded with 

 manure, or other offensive matter, remaining or stand- 

 ing on any railroad, street or highway in the cities 

 of Washington or Georgetown, or in the more densely 

 populated suburbs of said cities, are hereby declared 

 nuisances injurious to health; and any person who 

 shall pile or deposit manure, offal, or garbage, or any 

 offensive or nauseous substance within 300 feet of any 

 inhabited dwelling within the limits of said cities or 

 their said suburbs, and any person who shall unload, 

 discharge, or put upon or along the line of any rail- 

 road, street, or highway, or public place within said 

 cities or their said suburbs any manure, garbage, offal, 

 or other offensive or nauseous substance within 300 feet 

 of any inhabited dwelling, or who shall cause or allow 

 cars or flats loaded with or having in or upon them 



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