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Whereas, the Honorable W. M. Brumby M. D., State Health Officer of the State of Texas, acting in pursuance of the authority given him under an act of the Legislature approved April 6th, 1903, providing for the disinfection of public buildings, railroad coaches and sleeping cars and providing a penalty for the violation thereof as promulgated certain rules and regulations to become operative and in force Sept. 1st, 1907 with reference to keeping public buildings in a sanitary condition.
And whereas, said buildings includes the following,
Chapter 1.
Depots, Office Buildings, Club Houses, Buildings containing Moving Picture Shows, Opera Houses, and All Public Buildings not specifically Provided for Hereinbelow.
Chapter 2.
Hospitals, Public Sanitoria, Hotels, Boarding Houses, Restaurants, Eating Houses, Bunch Stands, Lodging Houses and Houses Where Rooms Are Let Temporarily for pay.
Chapter 3.
Jails, Prisons, etc.
Chapter 4.
Slaughter Houses, and Houses Where Animals Are Killed for Food.
Chapter 5.
Meat Markets and Butcher Shops or Stalls.
Chapter 6.
Bakeries, Confectionaries and Manufactories of Food Stuffs.
Chapter 7.
Schools.
Chapter,8.
Churches.
Chapter 9.
Railway Coaches and Sleeping Cars.
Chapter 10.
Lumbering Camps, Railroad Construction Camps, Boarding Cars, Pleasure Camps or Resorts, or So-Called Open Air Health Resorts.
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And whereas, it is the opinion of the Board of Commissioners that the enforcement of said rules and regulations will be conducive to the public health and welfare. It is therefore hereby resolved that the officers of the City of Fort Worth be required to co-operate with the State Health Officer in the enforcement of observance of the said rules and regulations in the public buildings, etc., situated within the City of Fort Worth and which are enumerated in the said rules and regulations.