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of the Commissioners of the District, and these orders, which may well 
serve as a model to other communities desiring to undertake similar 
measures, may briefly be condensed as follows: 
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 
therewith, 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 con- 
structed 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 any portion of 
the premises other than the bin or pit described, nor shall he allow any 
such bin or pit to be overfilled or needlessly uncovered. Horse manure 
may be kept tightly rammed into well-covered barrels for the purpose 
of removal in such barrels. Every person keeping manure in any of 
the more densely populated parts of the District shall cause all such 
manure to be removed from the premises at least twice every week 
between June 1 and October 31, and at least once every week between 
November 1 and May 31 of the following year. No person shall remove 
or transport any manure over any public highway in any of the more 
densely populated parts of the District except in a tight vehicle which, 
if not inclosed, must be effectually covered with canvas, so as to pre-~ 
vent the manure from being dropped. No person shall deposit manure 
removed from the bins or pits within any of the more densely populated 
‘parts of the District without a permit from the health officer. Any per- 
son violating any of the provisions shall, upon conviction thereof, be 
punished by a fine of not more than $40 for each offense. 
Ags with all such measures, the test comes with the enforcement, and 
during the present summer these regulations have not been well enforced, 
owing to the extremely small corps of inspectors allowed to the Health 
Department, and to other more pressing work. They can be made 
effective, however, and it is earnestly hoped that not only Washington 
but other communities as well will very soon be brought to a realization 
of the ease of house-fly eradication and its very great desirability. 
Approved: 
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 21, 1906. 
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