31. Have you a fire-alarm and police telegraph? What system?

None.

32. What proportion of alarm boxes to area protected?. 33. Does the system thoroughly answer its purpose?

34 Have you an ambulance system in connection with your fire department and telegraph, for conveying wounded and sick to hospital? No.

HENRY D. KEMAGHAN,

Chief Engineer.

AN ORDINANCE to regulate and control the fire department of city of Bayonne.

The mayor and council of the city of Bayonne do ordain as follows:

SEC. 1. That the fire department of this city shall consist of one chief engineer, a first and second assistant engineer, and as many engine men, hook and ladder men, horsemen, and bucket men, as are now, or may hereafter become lawful members of fire companies established by the said city. No person shall become a member of the fire department over the age of fifty nor under the age of twenty-one years, and must be an actual resident of this city.

SEC. 2. The members of each and any company established by the city shall from time to time elect suitable persons (not exceeding the prescribed number) to fill all vacancies there may be now, or that may occur in their several companies, subject to approval of the council. Such persons shall be furnished with certificates by the city clerk, signed by the mayor, and thereafter be considered members of the fire department during the pleasure of the council.

SEC. 3. On the first Monday in January of each and every year, there shall be an election held by the various fire companies aforesaid for one chief engineer, a first and second assistant engineer, who shall be residents of different wards of said city, and who are at the time of election members of different fire companies of the said city. Each company shall hold said election in their respective houses (or regular places of meeting), polls to be open three hours in the evening of said Monday between the hours of seven and ten p. m. All votes given for chief or assistant engineers shall be by written or printed ballot, containing the name of the person voted for, also designating the office for which he shall be elected, and the person receiving the largest number of all votes so cast, by the members of the various companies of the city, shall be elected to their respective offices, subject, however, to confirmation by the council. In the event of a tie vote, at any election aforesaid, for chief or assistant engineers, the council shall appoint a person or persons to fill the office or offices till the next annual election.

SEC. 4. The chief and assistant engineers shall severally continue in office for one year, and until their successors are elected and confirmed (unless sooner removed by the council) in which case the council shall appoint a person or persons to fill the vacancy till the next election.

SEC. 5. The chief engineer in all cases of fire or alarms of fire, or threatened damage or destruction of property in consequence of fire, shall have, when present, the sole and absolute control and command over all the persons attached to the fire department, or any other company, or persons allowed to do fire duty. He shall direct their operations so as most effectually to prevent the destruction of life and property, using all the means of the department to this end. He shall have also power to call out once in every year all persons belonging to the fire department for review and inspection. SEC. 6. The assistant engineers shall at all times assist the chief engineer in the performance of his duties and obey his directions and commands when on duty at a fire or alarm of fire. In case of absence, or disability of the chief, then the first assistant in case the fire or alarm of fire occurs in his ward, and the second assistant in case it occurs in his ward, shall act in the stead of the chief engineer, and be clothed with all the powers and responsibility of the chief.

In case a fire or alarm of fire occurs in other wards than above (in absence of the chief), then either assistant present shall take full charge till arrival of his superior officer, who then shall assume command in place of the one then acting.

SEC. 7. The chief engineer shall devote such time and attention to the discharge of his duties as shall be necessary, and shall receive no compensation therefor, directly or indirectly, from the city. He shall examine once in every month, and oftener if necessary, all the engine houses, engines, and other apparatus, and properties belonging to the city, and shall keep a record of such examinations, and of the condition in which the said properties were found at the time, and shall report same every three months to the council, with date of said examination, also the number of fires which have occurred during the time, and amount of loss by fire or otherwise, as near as can be ascertained, with any recommendation he may deem necessary and proper for further effecting the usefulness or efficiency of the fire department.

SEC. 8. The chief engineer shall order, direct, and superintend all ordinary repairs to engine houses, engines, and other apparatus, and shall examine and certify all ac

counts for such repairs. It shall be his duty to keep on hand a proper supply of all articles needed by the various companies at their respective houses, and shall have power to procure such supplies, or make such repairs, or alteration, when the amount does not exceed the sum of ten dollars.

SEC. 9. He shall also keep in his book a record of all fires and alarms of fire which may happen in this city, with the cause thereof, when same can be ascertained, and the description of the building, or buildings injured or destroyed, and shall report at the close of every year names of all members of the department and the company to which they belong,

SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the chief or assistant engineers to cause order to be observed by the members of the fire department in going to, working at, or returning from a fire, or an alarm of fire, and at all other times when they are on duty. If any member of the fire department refuses to obey all proper orders of the chief or assistant engineer, or refuses to assist at a fire, he shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars. SEC. 11. All complaints by the chief or assistant engineers, against firemen for misconduct in the performance of their duty, shall be forthwith reported to the council for their action, and any officer or member of the fire department complained of as above may be suspended by a majority vote of his company until final action of the council on the subject of such complaint.

SEC. 12. The members of each fire company of the city shall elect once in every year, from their own number, a foreman and two assistant foremen, a secretary, and treasurer, and such other officers as they may deem proper. They shall also have power to make their own rules, and by-laws, not in conflict with charter or ordinances of our city, and each company, by a vote of the majority of its members, shall have power to expel any member for disorderly conduct, or neglect of duty, subject to approval of council. The secretary of each company shall promptly send in writing to the council the name of every person who is elected or dismissed, or may die, or resign from the various companies, and in case of dismission the cause shall be stated in full.

SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of the foreman of each company, to see that his engine, or apparatus, are kept clean and in good order, and shall report to chief, or assistant engineers, immediately, any repairs or supplies needed by his company. It shall be his duty to see that the engine houses are not defaced, or injured, and that the houses are not used as a place of resort, or loitering, or social gathering. It shall be his duty to see that each and every member of his company, are supplied with the proper badge, and he shall be responsible for return of same, when any person ceases to be a member of his company.

SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of every company to obey the directions and orders given them by the chief engineer, or assistant engineers, and when a fire is extinguished they shall not remove therefrom, but by the permission of the engineer then in command, and on such permission, they shall return at once to their respective engine houses.

SEC. 15. Each member of the fire department of this city, shall provide himself immediately with the proper badge, and shall wear the same, conspicuously displayed, at every fire, in order that he may be readily distinguished as belonging to this fire department. If any member of the fire department of said city shall be found wearing the badge of another member, or shall at any time, lend his own badge to any person, he shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars, and also be liable to suspension or expulsion from the department, by the council.

SEC. 16. The badge mentioned in the preceding sections shall be made of German silver, bearing the words "Bayonne Fire Department"; each badge shall bear a distinct number in raised figures thereon, of brass metal; said badge shall be struck from a metallic die, which shall be the exclusive property of the city. All badges shall be placed in the custody of the chief engineer, to be delivered as required to the foremen of the respective companies, and returned again to chief engineer, when any person ceases to be a member of the department.

SEC. 17. Each and every member shall be required to deposit the sum of fifty cents with the chief engineer, upon the delivery of said badge to him, which shall be repaid to the depositor upon the return of the badge to the chief in good condition, at any time after he shall have ceased to be a member of the department. All such badges shall be the exclusive property of the city.

SEC. 18. The chief engineer shall keep in his book a register of the badges so delivered, with the number of said badge, and the name of the person to whom delivered, and shall credit each depositor with the sum paid, and charge the said sum to each person to whom it shall be returned. He shall, once in three months, report to the council the number of badges delivered and returned, as aforesaid, and the amount of money so deposited and so returned, and shall pay over to the City Treasurer the balance of such moneys remaining in his hands, if any, at such time.

SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of all firemen, as often as any fire shall break out in this city, or upon an alarm of fire, to repair immediately to their respective engines or apparatus, and convey the same to the place where such fire, or alarm of fire, shall

happen. They shall obey the orders of their foreman and the by-laws of their company.

SEC. 20. No person, or persons, other than the members of the department, shall be permitted to have access to the houses of the respective fire companies. No person or persons, except the members of the company, and persons accompanying them, shall be permitted to enter any of the engine houses, hook and ladder, or hose houses in the city, or to handle, or meddle, or disturb any of the fire apparatus, without permission from an engineer or foreman; but the foregoing provision shall not be deemed to apply to the mayor, members of the council, or persons accompanying them, or those they may send, or to any police officer in discharge of his duty.

SEC. 21. No member of the fire department of the city, shall use the engine, or hook and ladder, or hose houses of the city as places of resort, or loitering, nor for any social gathering; neither shall there be at any time any card playing, or game, or games, of any kind whatsoever, within said buildings, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offence, to be collected of each and every member, person or persons found so violating this section of this ordinance.

SEC. 22. Every member of the fire department shall receive a certificate of membership, duly executed and signed, and the commencement of the term of service of each person, approved by the council as a member of the department, shall be computed from the date of such certificate of membership, and shall be entitled to all exemptions and privileges provided by law, and upon serving the term of seven years consecutively shall be entitled to receive a certificate as an exempt fireman, and same shall then be delivered to him, upon proper application therefor, and upon payment of one dollar into city treasury.

SEC. 23. Any person who has been expelled from any fire company, and whose expulsion has been confirmed by the council, shall not be allowed to join any other company, unless reinstated by a vote of two-thirds of the actual members of the company from which he was expelled, also the confirmation of the council.

SEC. 24. No fire apparatus of any kind shall be let out for hire, or loaned in any case without permission in writing from the council. No engine, hose or hook and ladder house shall be used any time or for any purpose other than housing its apparatus, or the meeting of the company, without permission from the council; provided, that nothing contained in this, or preceding sections, shall be construed to interfere with the use of said rooms for election purposes, if the council decide to have them used on such occasions.

SEC. 25. It shall not be lawful for the members of any engine, hook and ladder, hose, or other company belonging to the city, or otherwise, when returning from a fire, or an alarm of fire, to draw any machine or apparatus to which they may be attached, faster than by walking with the same; and it shall be the duty of the foreman or the assistant foreman of each company alluded to above to prevent their members from violating this section of the ordinance. Any and every officer, or any and every member of the fire department of this city, or any and every officer, member, or persons connected with, or belonging to, any other fire company, found violating this section of this ordinance, or detected in any conduct that may likely cause a breach of the peace, or would tend to reflect discredit on the fire department, shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of five dollars for each and every offence. Any engineer or assistant engineer, any foreman or assistant foreman, belonging to the fire department who shall not report such violation to the council, be it in his or any other company, shall be liable to be removed by the council.

SEC. 26. When the chief engineer shall report to the mayor that there are good and sufficient grounds of suspicion that any fire within said city has been caused by design, it shall be lawful for the mayor to offer such reward as he may deem advisable, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars for the discovery and apprehension of the incendiary, to be paid only on the conviction of the person or persons so offending. SEC. 27. That the complement of men allowed each hook and ladder company shall be forty, each engine company forty, and each hose or bucket company thirty, and the number shall not be increased or diminished except by consent of the council.

SEC. 28. Nothing contained in this ordinance shall deprive the council at any time of the power to disband any and all companies belonging to the fire department of this city.

SEC. 29. All fines and penalties prescribed in this ordinance or in any section thereof, shall be recovered before the recorder elected and residing in this city, in the manner provided by law, and the forfeiture so recovered shall be paid to the city treasurer. SEC. 30. All previous ordinances or parts of ordinances relating to the fire depart ment be and they are hereby repealed.

Passed March 27, 1877.

Approved March 30, 1877.

Attest:

W. C. HAMILTON, City Clerk.

HENRY MEIGS, Mayor.

SCHEDULE R.

Public health laws, regulations, sanitary officials, of the city of Bayonne, Hudson County, N. J.

1. Name of board of health.

Board health, city of Bayonne.

2. Bounds in which its authority is exercised.

Bayonne City.

3. When organized.

June 29, 1869.

4. Is it a special board of health, or is it the board of aldermen, or other public body, acting ex officio as such?

Special.

5. Give present health ordinances.

See ordinances 1872 and 1879.

6. By whom is the board selected, and on what recommendations?

The board is composed of the mayor, president of the council ex officio, health physician, and commissioner of health of council.

13. Is the chief health officer selected by or from the board, or how is he appointed By the board.

14. What number of assistant health officers has the board?

17. Do they make inspections unless when there has been complaint? Yes.

18. How often does the board meet?

Monthly.

19. Does the board derive its powers from State or city?

City.

20. Are the powers of the board specifically defined or limited by law?

Specifically.

21. Has the board authority independent of city councils and police to make and

enforce ordinances?

No.

22. Has it such authority at all times, or only in time of declared epidemic? In time of epidemic.

23. Has the board authority to abate, or only authority to define nuisances? To abate.

24. To what extent does the board take cognizance of defective house draining? Order abatement when ascertained.

25. Of defective sewerage?

Same.

26. Of possible contamination of water supply, public or private ? Same.

27. Of the condition of cesspools and privy-vaults?

Same.

28. Of the removal of garbage and cleansing of private premises? Same.

29. Of the condition of streets as to cleanliness?

Same.

30. Of methods of burial?

Permits obtained from health inspector.

31. Of the ultimate disposal of night-soil and organic wastes? No.

32. Of the fouling of adjacent water-courses, harbors, &c.?

No.

33. Are small-pox patients isolated?

Yes.

34. Has the board power to remove persons sick with contagious diseases to special hospital?

38. What measures are taken by the board to restrict contagious and infectious diseases!

See ordinance.

39. What vital statistics does the board register?

Marriages, births, and deaths.

40. Does the mortuary report show street, block, number of house?

Have no numbers, but shows street, block and ward.

41. How do the births, marriages, and deaths, respectively, become matters of record!

Reported to health inspector, who keeps record.

42. How often does the board regularly report causes of mortality and records of death?

45. With how many similar boards does your board of health exchange its annual or other reports?

None.

46. In what other manner does your board contribute to or receive aid from the labors of sanitarians outside of your own board?

No direct assistance.

APPENDIX I.

Report of the committee charged with making a sanitary survey of Memphis, Tenn.

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1, 1880.

At the meeting of the National Board of Health, October 13, 1879, it was decided that a sanitary survey of the city of Memphis should be made, and a special committee of the board, consisting of Drs. J. S. Billings, H. A. Johnson, and R. W. Mitchell, was appointed to take charge of the matter.

This committee was authorized to have made a house-to-house inspection, provided this was agreed to by the authorities of the city, and to employ two experts. It was also directed to visit Memphis at the close of the November meeting of the board. On the 21st of October the following resolution was received from the State board of health of Tennessee:

"Whereas proper sanitation, having for its object the promotion of the public health as applied to cities, can only be accomplished through the means of a thoroughly systematized and comprehensive plan, and the city of Memphis is now in such a condition as to demand the early adoption of a plan for future operations relating to its permanent sanitation; and

"Whereas the geographical position of Memphis and her relations by commercial intercourse place that city in a situation to imperil, in times of pestilence, the health of the whole Mississippi Valley; and

"Whereas neither the authorities of Memphis nor the board have the means at hand necessary to the accomplishment of this work: Therefore,

"Be it resolved, That the co-operation of the National Board of Health be requested for the purpose of making a thorough and complete sanitary survey of the city of Memphis at as early a date as possible, after the close of the present epidemic of yellow fever, with the view of indicating what conditions exist favorable to the production and spread of disease, and what measures should be adopted for their removal, with the methods of their accomplishment and the estimated cost of the same.