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We are sorry to state that there are still some conditions exist- 

 ing, which unless they are righted, will make it necessary to 

 start prosecution, and eventually revoke the licenses of the fac- 

 tories in which such conditions exist. A few of the clauses of 

 the Sanitary Law, with which ice cream manufacturers, as well 

 as creameries, are expected to comply, are as follows : 



(1) "The floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, 

 implements, and machinery of every establishment or place where 

 food is manufactured, shall at all times be kept in a clean, health- 

 ful, and sanitary condition, and for the purpose of this act un- 

 clean, unhealthful and insanitary conditions shall be deemed to 

 exist unless food in the process of manufacture is securely pro- 

 tected from flies, dust, dirt, and as far as may be necessary by 

 all reasonable means from all other foreign and injurious con- 

 tamination, and unless the refuse, dirt, and the waste products, 

 subject to decomposition and fermentation, incident to the manu- 

 facture are removed daily, and unless all other receptacles, 

 tables, utensils, and machinery used in mixing and all other 

 processes, are kept thoroughly cleaned, and unless the clothing 

 of the operators, employees, or other persons, therein employed, 

 is clean." 



(2) "The side walls and ceilings shall be washed clean and 

 every building room, basement or cellar occupied or used for the 

 preparation, manufacture, or distribution of food, shall have an 

 impermeable floor, made of cement or tile laid in cement, grouted 

 brick, wood or other suitable, non-absorbent material, which can 

 be flushed and washed clean with water." 



(3) "The doors, windows, and other openings of every food- 

 producing or distributing establishment during the fly season 

 shall be fitted with self-closing screen doors, and wire window 

 screens of not coarser than 14-mesh wire gauze." 



(4) "Operatives, employes, clerks, 'and all persons who han- 

 dle the material from which food is prepared or the finished 

 product, before beginning work or after visiting toilet or toilets, 

 shall wash their hands and arms thoroughly in clean water." 



(5) "Cuspidors for the use of operatives, employes, clerks, 

 or other persons shall be provided whenever necessary, and each 

 cuspidor shall be thoroughly emptied and washed daily with dis- 

 infectant solution and five ounces of such solution shall be left 

 in each cuspidor while it is in use. No operative, employe or 

 other person shall expectorate within any building, room, base- 



