THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTBICT OF COLUMBIA. 265 



[Ibid.l 



56c. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the 

 business of bottling or vending milk or cream to have on his, their, or its 

 premises, or in any wagon used in the delivery of milk or cream, any acid, 

 drug, chemical, substance, or compound to be used for coloring, adulterating, 

 sophisticating, or preserving milk or cream; and no such person, firm, or 

 corporation shall have any such acid, drug, chemical, substance, or compound 

 which can be used for coloring, adulterating, sophisticating, or preserving 

 milk or cream, unless such person, firm, or corporation shall have a written 

 permit from the commissioner of health in Baltimore city to keep the same 

 for experimental or other purposes not connected with or related to the color- 

 ing, adulterating, sophisticating, or preserving of milk or cream as such. Any 

 violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor 

 more than $100 for each offense. 



[Ord. 62, Mar. 19, 1904, sec. 1; ord. 87, May 16, 1894, sec. 1.] 



57. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell, offer for sale, 

 expose for sale, barter, deliver, or bring to another, or have on his, her, or their 

 premises, store, stall, stand, or vehicle, or in or upon the premises of any other 

 person or persons whatsoever, from or in which milk or any other food products 

 are sold or delivered, any impure, adulterated, sophisticated, or unwholesome 

 milk or other food products, or any tainted, unsound, rotten, or partly decom- 

 posed fish, fruit, or vegetables or meat, or any food product that is kept fresh 

 by salicylic or boracic acid or any other preservative. 



[Ord. 62, Mar. 19, 1904, sec. 2.] 



58. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to secrete or remove, 

 or assist in secreting and removing, any impure or unsound food products as 

 above specified, after the same shall have been condemned as unsound by or 

 by the authority of the commissioner of health, or in any way to impede or 

 hinder the action of the subordinates of his subdepartment in confiscating and 

 destroying the aforesaid impure food products so condemned as such; but noth- 

 ing herein contained shall be taken as imposing upon the said commissioner 

 of health or any subordinate of his subdepartment, the duty or expense of 

 removing the aforesaid impure food products so condemned as such. 



[Ord. 103, May 6, 1908.] 



59. Only pure, unadulterated, unsophisticated, and wholesome milk shall be 

 sold or offered for sale in Baltimore city, and such article shall be understood 

 to be the natural product of healthy cows, and which has not been deprived 

 of any part of its cream, and to which no additional liquid or solid or pre- 

 servative has been added, and which at a temperature of 60 F. shall have a 

 specific gravity of not less than 1.029, not less than 12i per cent of total solids, 

 and not less than 3* per cent of butter fats. All milk sold, received, kept, 

 offered for sale, or delivered in the city of Baltimore shall not in any particu- 

 lar be under the standard herein prescribed without being considered im- 

 pure, adulterated, sophisticated, or unwholesome. Nothing in this sub- 

 division of this article shall be construed to prevent the sale of skim milk 

 or buttermilk, or of modified milk under the prescription of a physician, pro- 

 vided they be sold as such and that the purchaser be in every instance notified 

 of their true character. 



[Ord. 87, May 16, 1894.] 



60. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of health to carry out the pro- 

 visions of this subdivision of this article, and to make or cause to be made 

 inspections of milk, meats, vegetables, fruits, and fish, wherever such articles 

 are sold, kept, or offered for sale in the city of Baltimore, and to obtain samples 

 of milk and all other food products whose qualities are to be determined by 

 chemical or microscopical examination. It shall also be the duty of the com- 

 missioner of health to make such rules and regulations as may be required 

 under this subdivision of this article for the better protection of the health 

 of the city. 



