312 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



BULES OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CAL., GOVERNING THE 

 INSPECTION AND REGULATING THE SANITARY CONDITION OF DAIRIES AND MILF 

 DEPOTS. 



SECTION 1. Milk from cows suffering from tuberculosis, actinomycosis, Texas 

 fever, abcess, mammitis, or any infectious or contagious disease, especially 

 abortion or other trouble associated with parturition ; and the milk from cows 

 20 days previous to, and 8 days after, calving shall not be marketed in the city 

 of Los Angeles. 



All cows during and eight days after calving must be separated from the 

 milch cows and excluded from the stanchions or place where milking is done. 



SEC. 2. Every person or firm controlling or having in possession any dairy 

 or milch cows supplying milk or cream to the city of Los Angeles shall provide 

 and maintain a suitable milk house for the purpose of cooling, mixing, storing, 

 canning, or bottling the same. Said milk house or room shall not be located in 

 or be part of any residence, or dwelling house, or barn. 



Milk or cream shall not be cooled, stored, mixed, or kept in any room or 

 place which is occupied by any person or persons as a sleeping or living apart- 

 ment, or occupied by horses, cows, or other animals, or fowls of any kind. The 

 cooling, mixing, or storeroom for milk or cream shall be used for no other 

 purpose whatever. All rooms or houses in which milk or cream may be cooled, 

 stored, mixed, or bottled shall be provided with such walls as can be kept clean 

 and will exclude flies and other insects, and the floors of said room shall be 

 made of such material as can be kept constantly clean. 



SEC. 3. No urinal, privy vault, open cesspool, stagnant water, accumulation 

 of manure or other filth shall be permitted within 100 feet of any room or 

 house where milk or cream is cooled, stored, mixed, or kept. 



SEC. 4. Every person or firm owning or controlling more than two milch cows 

 supplying milk or cream to the city of Los Angeles shall provide and maintain 

 suitable stanchions where said cows shall be milked. 



The stalls or stanchions or place where cows are milked shall be provided 

 with clean, dry floors with adequate gutters behind the cows not less than 12 

 inches in width and 4 inches in depth and sufficient incline to assure good 

 drainage. 



No horse stable, accumulation of manure, urine, stagnant water or other filth 

 shall be permitted in or within 50 feet of said cow stall, stanchions, or place 

 where milking is done. 



No privy vault or open cesspool shall exist or be maintained within 100 feet 

 of any such stall, stanchions, or milking place. 



SEC. 5. Every person keeping cows supplying milk or cream to the citizens of 

 Los Angeles City shall cause the inclosure in which such cows are kept to be 

 graded and drained, so as to keep the surface reasonably dry and prevent the 

 accumulation of water or urine therein. 



SEC. 6. The accumulation of manure, urine, stagnant water, or other filth 

 shall not be permitted in any corral, stable, or place where milch cows are kept. 



Every dairy shall be supplied with pure water and milch cows shall not be 

 allowed to drink from stagnant pools or water contaminated by any barnyard, 

 privy, or sewage of any kind. 



SEC. 7. Every person or persons using any premises for keeping cows for 

 dairy purposes which supply milk or cream to Los Angeles City shall keep the 

 entire premises clean and in good repair and the buildings shall be well painted 

 or whitewashed once in every 12 months. 



The walls, floors, and ceilings of all stalls or places where milking is done 

 shall be kept clean at all times. 



SEC. 8. No person having any communicable disease or one caring for any 

 person having such disease, shall be allowed to handle the milk or milk utensils. 

 Every person employing one or more milkers or attendants shall provide and 

 maintain clean and suitable housing and bathing facilities for the use of such 

 milkers or attendants. 



SEC. 9. All milkers or other attendants who handle the milk or cream which 

 is offered for sale or delivered in the city of Los Angeles, shall be personally 

 clean ; and all such persons before entering upon their duties connected with the 

 dairy shall thoroughly wash their hands with soap and warm water, and no 

 milker shall be permitted to wash the teats with milk or water in the milk 

 bucket, or to milk cows with wet or moist hands. 



SEC. 10. No bucket, can, or other receptacle used for the reception of milk, 

 other than the ones used by the milkers for drawing the milk in, shall be 



