262 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

 [Ord. 65, Apr. 21, 1896, sec. 13.] 



52. It shall be the duty of any person owning or having control of cows used 

 for the production of milk for sale or exchange to submit said cows to the 

 tuberculin test for tuberculosis. 



[Ord. 65, Apr. 21, 1896, sec. 14.] 



53. It shall be the duty of any person having charge or control of any premises 

 upon which milk or cream is produced, handled, stored, or distributed to notify 

 the commissioner of health immediately upon the discovery of any case of 

 Asiatic cholera, croup, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid 

 fever, typhus fever, or any other contagious or infectious disease upon such 

 premises. No milk or cream shall be sold, exchanged, given away, or in any 

 other manner distributed from such infected premises until all danger of spread 

 of disease has been removed, and the commissioner of health certifies to that 

 effect. No person who attends cows or milks them, or who has the care or 

 handling of vessels for the sale, storage, or distribution of milk or cream, shall 

 enter any place or premises wherein exists any of the diseases mentioned herein, 

 nor shall any such person have any communication, direct or indirect, with any 

 person who resides in or is an occupant of such infected place. 



[Ord. 65, Apr. 21, 1896, sec. 15.] 



54. Strict cleanliness of the hands and persons of milkers and those engaged 

 in the handling of milk and cream, and of the bodies of the cows, especially of 

 the udders and teats, must be enforced at all times, to the end that no impurity 

 or foreign substance may be added to the milk or cream. 



[Ord. 65, Apr. 21, 1896, sec. 16.] 



55. Any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects, or refuses to comply 

 with, or who resists any of, the provisions of sections 40 to 54, inclusive, of 

 this article shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $25 for each offense. 



[Ord. 103. May 6, 1908.] 



55A. Permits. Every person or corporation desiring to sell, offer for sale, 

 expose for sale, dispose of, exchange, or deliver milk or cream in the city of 

 Baltimore shall make application to the commissioner of health for a permit so 

 to do. Such application shall be made on a printed form, to be furnished by the 

 commissioner of health upon demand, and the applicant, if an individual, shall 

 state therein his full name and residence, and if a corporation shall state therein 

 full name and residence of each of its officers. Such application shall also state 

 the location of the place at which it is proposed to carry on the business. It 

 shall also contain a statement of the number and character of wagons or other 

 vehicles to be used by the applicant in or about his or its business; also the 

 number of cows, if any, owned or controlled by the applicant, and such other 

 data concerning the conduct of such business as the commissioner of health may 

 require. 



The commissioner of health, upon receipt of such application, shall cause to 

 be investigated the place of business described in such application and the 

 wagons and other vehicles, if any, intended to be used by such applicant. If 

 such places of business and such wagons or other vehicles are found upon such 

 investigation to be in a sanitary condition ar>d fit for the use and purposes to 

 which they are intended to be put, said commissioner of health shall forthwith 

 register said applicant in a proper record to be kept for the purpose and issue a 

 permit authorizing such applicant to carry on, engage in, and conduct the busi- 

 ness of vendors of milk in Baltimore city at the place designated in such appli- 

 cation. All permits granted pursuant to this ordinance may at any time be 

 revoked by the commissioner of health for the persistent, repeated, or willful 

 violation of any law or ordinance or of any regulation of the commissioner of 

 health governing the sale of milk in Baltimore city: Provided, hoivever, That 

 no such permit shall at any time be revoked by the commissioner of health 

 unless he shall first have given the holder of the same not less than 10 days' 

 notice in writing of his intention to revoke such permit and an opportunity to 

 be heard by him as to why such should not be done, this proviso not to be taken 

 to apply to cases where the sale of milk or cream may be temporarily prohibited 



