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the udder wiped with a clean cloth tightly wrung out of clean 

 water, and used only for the udder. Antiseptic solution may 

 be used. 



Health of employees 



No person having an inflamed throat or suffering with any 

 infectious or contagious disease, or who is known to be a typhoid 

 carrier, shall be admitted to the stable or dairy building or be 

 allowed to handle the milk, the milk utensils, or any object that 

 directly or indirectly comes in contact with the milk. 



No person who has been exposed at home or elsewhere within 

 thirty days to any infectious or contagious disease shall be 

 allowed hi the stable or dairy building or to handle the milk, 

 etc., until a physician certifies that it is safe for him to do so. 



Children, strangers, and persons not actually employed in the 

 work or its supervision should not be allowed in the barns, milk 

 rooms, etc. 



A milk commission may require regular reports from certified 

 farms under its supervision as to the health of employees. 



On account of the great importance of the health of the per- 

 sonnel the recommendations on the "Medical Examination of 

 Employees" of the American Association of Medical Milk Com- 

 missions is here inserted : 



First. It should be ascertained whether any of the employees 

 are in contact with persons suffering from any diseases, and 

 whether that is contagious. If so, employee must leave the 

 house in which the disease is, or be excluded from the milking- 

 places. 



Second. The employee must be examined for any disease of 

 the skin. If a new employee comes to the farm, he should be ex- 

 amined for any disease of the skin which might have been con- 

 tracted at the former farm, such as cow-pox, and excluded until 

 all danger of conveying the disease is past. 



Third. An employee should be asked whether he has ever had 

 typhoid fever, as about four per cent of those having had typhoid 

 fever have the typhoid bacilli in the gall bladder for years, and 

 may pass them at any time by the intestinal discharge, and so 

 convey them to the milk or other food. Examination should be 

 made for the germs in any one having had the disease. 



Fourth. A careful examination should be made for symptoms 



