292 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



SEC. 6a. All parts of stable except floors and windows must be painted in some 

 light color, or whitewashed at least twice a year. Stables must be kept free 

 from dirt, dust, cobwebs, and odor. Manure and urine must be removed from 

 stable at least twice daily, and if not taken to field daily, must be moved at least 

 30 feet from stable and placed where cows can not get into it. Manure must 

 not be thrown out through stable windows. If horses are kept in same stable, 

 a tight partition should separate them from cat&e. No other animals or fowls 

 will be allowed in cow stable. Floors must not be laid less than 1 foot higher 

 than outside surface level, so that good drainage can be procured; floors must 

 be constructed of asphalt, concrete brick with surface flushed with cement, or 

 of wood, water-tight. They must be kept in good repair at all times, and also 

 constructed with a gutter not less than 12 inches wide and 6 inches deep; a 

 4-foot walk back of cows and not less than a 20-inch manger hi front. (Front 

 half of cow stall may be made of clay.) 



Ceiling must be dust tight and kept free from cobwebs. 



Light. At least 3 square feet of unobstructed window glass must be provided 

 per cow and equally distributed; at least 500 cubic feet of space must be pro- 

 vided for per cow ; windows must be left partially open, if no other method of 

 ventilation is provided for. Stable yard must be well drained and kept clean. 



Sec. 7. Cows must be kept clean ; manure litter, etc., must not be allowed to 

 become caked and dried on them. They must not be allowed to stand in nor 

 wade through filth and manure. The bedding must be kept sweet and clean at 

 all times and of sufficient quantity to protect the animals from lying in filth. 



Sec. 8. Feed and water. Cows must be fed on clean, dry feed, neither decayed, 

 moldy, dusty, distillery waste, nor starch waste. If malt is fed it must not be 

 fed when sour. 



Pure running spring water or ordinary well water, free from contamination, 

 pumped in clean tanks, must be provided^ 



Sec. 9. Milkers. The milkers must thoroughly wash and wipe their hands 

 and the cows' udders before they begin milking. They must not use pails, cans, 

 strainers, etc., unless they have been thoroughly washed in hot water and soap, 

 or hot water and soda, and afterwards sterilized with boiling water or steam. 

 Care must be taken that the seams of the vessels are thoroughly cleaned with 

 a brush. They must refrain from milking or handling milk, in any way, when 

 in themselves or their families there is even 'a suspicion of any contagious or 

 infectious disease, such as smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, 

 tuberculosis, or the like. 



Sec. 10. Handling the milk. Immediately after milking, the milk shall be re- 

 removed from the stable into a milk room screened from flies and other insects, 

 aerated and cooled to at least 60 temperature, and put into perfectly clean 

 bottles or cans. Dairymen who use both bottles and cans in delivering milk 

 shall not fill bottles while on their delivery route. 



Sec. lOa. The milk house or milk room must be located at least 25 feet from 

 any other building and provided with a tight floor, either concrete or wood, laid 

 so as to provide drainage. It must be kept clean at all times and free from any 

 odor. 



Sec. 11. Care of cans or bottles. (a) All cans or bottles used in the distribu- 

 tion of milk must be thoroughly cleaned, either by hot water and soap or hot 

 water and soda, or other alkalies, rinsed and sterilized by boiling water or 

 steam before they are again used as receptacles for milk. Extreme care must 

 be exercised in cleaning the faucets to cans by use of a brush. 



(6) Milk cans must be washed and cleansed immediately after the milk or 

 cream is emptied therefrom, and in no case shall the washing be later than 24 

 hours after the receipt of the can. 



(c) No person shall use a milk bottle for other than milk purposes. 



Sec. 12. Quality of milk. No person shall bring into the city for sale, or shall 

 sell or offer for sale, any milk 



(a) Containing more than 88 per cent of water or fluids. 



(&) Containing less than 12 per cent of milk solids. 



(c) Containing less than 3 per cent of milk fats. 



(d) From which any part of the cream has been removed. 



(e) Having a specific gravity of less than 1.029. 



(/) Containing any dirt, foreign matter, or sediment. 



(g) Containing any boracic or salicylic acid, formaldehyde, or other foreign 

 chemicals. 



(h) Containing any pathogenic bacteria. 



(i) Containing bacteria of any kind, more than 500,000 per cubic centimeter, 



