and all houses let in several tenements and room-keepers, and the yards, gardens, or places belonging to such houses, to be cleansed and purified, and all nuisances prejudicial to health to be removed therefrom; and all public sewers to be cleansed, and where necessary, to be covered over, and all lodgments of standing water to be filled up or drained off; and also to cause and direct all other matters and things to be done for the ventilation, fumigation, and cleansing of any house whatever, in which fever or other contagious distemper shall have occurred, and for the washing and purifying the persons and clothes of the inhabitants of every such house, as shall appear to any such officer of health to be indispensably necessary for the preservation and security of the inhabitants of such parish against the danger of contagion, unless due precautions shall have previously been taken for such purposes by the inhabitants of such house; and it shall be lawful for all constables and peace officers, and they are hereby authorized, empowered, and required, to be aiding and assisting to such officers of health in the doing all matters and things whatsoever in the execution of this Act.
VIII. And be it further enacted, That in any parish or parishes in any city or town where any such officers of health shall be appointed as aforesaid, and where no power or authority is or shall be vested in or given to Magistrates or Corporation of such city or town, to regulate the sweeping and cleansing of the streets therein, and the collecting and disposing of the dirt, dung, and filth of the said streets, and also in any city or town whatever, where the scavengers or other persons who shall be entrusted with or contract for the cleansing and sweeping of the streets, under the direction of the Magistrates or Corporation or not, shall neglect or omit to cleanse and sweep the streets and lanes of such city or town, twice at least in every week, it shall and may be lawful for such officers of health to cause and direct such streets to be swept and cleansed, and the dirt, dung, and filth collected from the same to be sold and disposed of, and the produce thereof to be applied for the purposes of this
