PREVENTIVE MEASURES 
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the Congress of the United States) has not down to 
the present time appropriated sufficient funds to carry 
these regulations into full effect. Good regulations 
require an efficient force of inspectors, and efficient in¬ 
spectors must be paid. Dr. William C. Woodward, 
the health officer of the District, has called the writer’s 
attention to the fact that it really requires, from the 
practical standpoint, two inspectors to do one inspec¬ 
tor’s work, since a solitary inspector, coming into court 
with a charge of violation of the regulations against 
a given citizen, is invariably confronted with such a 
mass of testimony against his charge that he is sworn 
out of court. He must take some one along with him 
to prove it. The orders in question may be briefly con¬ 
densed as follows; their full text will be found in Ap¬ 
pendix III: 
All stalls in which animals are kept shall have the 
surface of the ground covered with a water-tight floor. 
Every person occupying a building where domestic 
animals are kept shall maintain, in connection there¬ 
with, a bin or pit for the reception of manure, and 
pending the removal from the premises of the manure 
from the animal or animals shall place such manure in 
said bin or pit. This bin shall be so constructed as to 
exclude rain water, and shall in all other respects be 
water-tight, except as it may be connected with the 
public sewer. It shall be provided with a suitable cover 
and constructed so as to prevent the ingress and egress 
of flies. No person owning a stable shall keep any 
manure or permit any manure to be kept in or upon 
