THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. 299 



No. 



Floors: P ints - 



Asphalt, cement, or other smooth, vitrified floor, laid so as to allow 

 ready drainage with a slope of 1 inch to the foot, provided with a 



drain, and the drain provided with a standard metal trap 10 



Cement floor, with no slope 5 



Wood floor, water-tight, in good repair 



Ordinary wood floor, in good repair 1 



Otherwise 



Walls and ceiling : 



Sides provided with a baseboard made of concrete or other hard, 

 nonabsorbent, and nondecayed material, with sides and ceiling 



plastered smoothly, and kept in good repair 10 



With baseboard concrete or other hard, nonabsorbing, undecayable 

 material, sealed smoothly with boards and painted, and kept in 



good repair 



Smooth wood walls and ceiling in good repair 2 



Otherwise 



Light : 



40 square feet of glass to 1,000 cubic feet of air space 10 



30 square feet of glass to 1,000 cubic feet of air space 5 



20 square feet of glass to 1,000 cubic feet of air space 



10 square feet of glass to 1,000 cubic feet of air space 2 



Less than 5 square feet of glass to 1,000 cubic feet of air space 



Ventilation : 



A ventilator placed in the ceiling of the milk room and wash room 10 

 Provisions to open the top half of the windows to provide ventilation- 5 



No attempt to ventilate at all 



Total number points for milk house 50 



Equipment for milk house. 

 Milk room : 



Provided with concrete insulated tanks built with overflow outlets 

 and ice chambers and with good, well-painted covers. Everything 

 kept in good repair 10 



Provided with wood tanks with overflow outlets and ice chambers 5 



Wood tanks without ice chambers 2 



Otherwise 



Wash room : 



Equipped with hot water (temperature not less than 205 F.) for 

 cleansing and sterilizing utensils ; a sterilizing vat and place to lay 

 or hang utensils after being boiled. This place must be free from 

 dust, clean, well ventilated, and located where the sun's direct rays 

 have access to it at least three hours each day 10 



If nothing is prepared to take care of the dairy utensils, such as 



racks and hooks 5 



If the building is so located that the sun does not have access to 

 utensils at least a part of the day 2 



Otherwise 



Milk pails 



Use for no other purpose except for milking, and if thoroughly 

 flushed with solder so that there are no sharp corners or crevices 

 on the inside, plainly constructed with an opening not larger than 

 6 inches through which the milk passes 1 10 



Pails same as above with larger opening 5 



Otherwise 



Strainers : 



Plainly constructed, all points and crevices flushed and smoothly 

 soldered, with wire gauze having 100 meshes to the inch. And in 

 connection with this, provisions should be made so that the milk 

 passes through two thicknesses of cheesecloth with absorbent cotton 

 between. Both of the latter must be sterile, and a new piece must 

 be used before each milking- 10 



Strainers same as above, without cloth and cotton strainers 5 



Otherwise 



