Sanitary Regulations

Our city autliorities seein to be ín eavnest ( in tlieir eit'orts to guard oor beautiful city i against tlie ravages of tlie cholera, whieli promises to make a devastaling progresa l througli our land next yèar We do not i lieve that cholera is coatagious like the small pox, but it is co doubt epidemie like levers, aod dysentery, &c , anil while it may not be kept away IVoni our chores by quarantine regulations, its ravages may ba materially chetked by due attention to cleanliness of perron, premises, and streets. We, therefore, cheerfully give place to the foUowing proclamation by the Mayor : A' FIÏOCLAMAT1ON. To the Citizer.s of Aun Albor ; Wü creas, It having become certain that our land is nain visited by that terrible scourage tlie Cholera, and in all probability it will pass througb our whole country, , ing i u all places prepared by filth or miasma ', fcr its favorable reception, long epough to : pros trate or cairy off agreat proportion of the inhabitants of sucli K alhies, end, wliercas, thij Oommon Oouncil, in urder to prevent its ] lingei ing. with us, created a Board of Health, of ten selected from OIH1 most etlieient and judicious phySieians and other citizens, clotbing tfaem with power to visit and inspect any and I all places in tliis city, and cause lo be removed and abated all imisances and everything calonlated to créate disease of any kind: - Now, therefore, I horeby demaud of all persons that they rendar all possihle assistance to said board, or any niember of it in the discharge of their duty, by granting them every facility in inspecting such places as they may deern necegsary, and ir. removing such things as tUey may direct. 1 also request every one, j at once to set about cleansing their premises, i without waiting for such directious of all naut water and filth of any kind, so that Ann Arbor may continue to be tlie healthy and salubiioua place it has ever beeu justly ed lo be. Wheo the disease reaclies this ' gion we may exiect a great inilux of the inhabitants of less favorable places, fleeing from their sickly localities to our healthy and pleasant city. Let us do all id our power to welconie and quielly domestícate them arnongst , us until the dauger is over. ïïii. S. Matïabd, Mayor. We also append the following excellent regulations, which have been pieacribed by the newiy appointed Bo.ud of Health, and which, if enforeed, will certainly do much to protect and iusure the health of our city another year. The Board is on the right track, and the geueral cleaning up should take place now and nol Spring when l!ie full beneüts of it will be preveuted by the immediate approach of warm weather : The undersigned, having been appointed by the Conimon Oouncil of tlie city oí Aun Arbor, a Board of Health ior said city , and having beeu clothed with all needful uuihority for the abatement and removal of ali nuisances which they may deern detrimental to public health, submit the foUowing as the more prominent sources of disease, and hereby order their removal and abatement : . lst. AH iálaughter Houses situated in the First, Öecond, and Thiid Wards. 2udi All accumulations of decomposing ov decornposable auimal or vegetable matter which either are or may become sources of disease or otieusive on the approach of warm weather. 3rd. All eink or drain holes where waste water is suffered to accumulate on tliesurface of the ground ïhey insist upon and direct the filling up of'such oöeiisive places, and the construction of regular drains or cess-pools under ground, or ttie spreading of such slops and waate water over tlie gardens or grouuds of the occupants, in such a maiiner as sliall secure its immediate evaporation. 4th. All privies having no vaults, or w-hose vaults are not constructed in a good and substantial marnier of either brick, stoue or plank, or by reason of neglect have become so iilled up us to be oft'ensive or deleterious to health. They hereby order the immediate abandonment and covering upof thoseof the firot class, and the thorough cleauing and renovation of tliose of the secmd. They e:-uby orderan immedialeabatemeut of the nuisancog as above specitied, and iufonn the citizens that as soon as practicable every house, store, and shop within the city limita will be visited, and if the specilied uuisances are found to exiat, the owners or occupants thereof will not only be taxed with the expense oí the removal, but will be lined to such an amouut as in the judgment of the Board sball seem just and proper, not exceeding Une Hundred Dol ars, the limit of the Statute. The Board have determined upon the remo vnlof these souices of' disease thus early in the Winter, that the frosts may penétrate all t:oxious and unwholesome p'aces, and tlius prepare us to escape that scourge, the Cholera, that will doubtless pass over the country with the opening of Spring and visit all places where invited by accumulations of filth. - ■ They ask all citizens to aid them in the work of puriücation. S. II. Dodglass, Ch'n. It. S, Smith, Sec'y. G W. Voorheis, P. Paesoss. 0. B. Cook, 1'. A. Hor, W)[, LliWITT, G. H. RUODES, J. II. Hewitt. Ann Arbor, November llth, 1865. - In connection with the above, we give place iu another column to some suggestions and instructions from an eminent New York phystcian, a portion at least of which are equally applicable to this locality. Our readers would do well to preserve the article. SS The fall term of the Public Schools will close on Friday next, and we presume the usual examinaüons in the several departnients will take place on Thuraday and Friday.