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Food-law officials, State of Maryland. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 

 STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 



Board established 1869; food inspection organized 1883; annual report and monthly 

 bulletins; enforces laws relating to milk, food, and drugs and arsenic in manufactured 

 goods; chemical examination of liquors, poisons, paints, oils, and turpentine are made 

 for police department. 



ORGANIZATION OF OFFICIAL FORCE. 



The inspectors are under civil-service rules, and are appointed for an indefinite 

 length of time; all other appointments are made by the board for an indefinite period, 



Food-law officials, board of health, State of Massachusetts. 



STATE DAIRY BUREAU. 



Established by chapter 421, acts of 1891; took effect September 1, 1891; Annual 

 Public Document No. 60; enforces dairy laws, including those concerning oleomar- 

 garin, renovated butter, adulterated milk, etc. 



ORGANIZATION OF OFFICIAL FORCE. 



The Massachusetts State dairy bureau is composed of three members of the State 

 board of agriculture, selected and appointed by the governor as members of the bureau; 

 term of office, three years. A provision of the law, however, provides that when 

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