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allowed in any stall or place where milking is done, and each bucket of .milk 

 shall be immediately taken to the milk house and cooled. 



No galvanized vessel shall be used as a receptacle for milk or cream. 



SEC. 11. No person shall mix the milk or cream drawn at night with the 

 milk or cream drawn in the morning. 



SEC. 12. No beet pulp or other fermenting food, shall be stored or kept within 

 50 feet of the milk house, or the stanchion, or other place where the milking is 

 done. 



SEC. 13. No pig or pigs shall be permitted penned, or running at large, within 

 50 feet of any corral where milk cows are kept, or within 100 feet of any milk 

 house, or stanchion, or other place where milking is done. 



SEC. 14. Any violation of these rules will be considered cause for suspension 

 of permit or exclusion of the milk from this city. 



Adopted by Board of Health of the city of Los Angeles, June 7, 1910. 



LYNCHBUBG, VA. 



FOOD-INSPECTION ORDINANCE. 

 [Adopted Oct. 14, 1908.] 



Be it ordained by the council of the city of LyncJiburg: 



(1) That it shall not be lawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, 

 offer for sale, or deliver, or have in any store, stall, stand, or vehicle, from or in 

 which milk is sold or delivered, any adulterated or unwholesome milk. The 

 term " adulterated " when so used in this ordinance means, first, milk contain- 

 ing more than 88 per cent of water fluids ; second, milk containing less than 12 

 per cent of solids; third, milk containing less than 3 per cent of butter fats; 

 fourth, milk drawn from unhealthy cows or from cows kept in a crowded or 

 unclean condition ; fifth, milk drawn from cows within 15 days before or 5 days 

 after parturition; sixth, milk from which any part of the cream has been 

 removed, or which has been diluted with water or any other fluid, or to which 

 has been added or into which has been introduced any foreign substance what- 

 ever ; seventh, milk the temperature of which is higher than 60 F. ; eighth, 

 milk which at a temperature of 60 F. has a specific gravity of less than 1.029. 

 The term " unwholesome " shall be construed to mean deleterious to health, or 

 causing derangement of the functions of the human body by the temporary or 

 continuous use of the unwholesome product. Nothing in this ordinance shall 

 be construed to prevent the sale of skim milk or buttermilk, provided they be 

 sold as such, and that the purchaser be in every instance notified of their true 

 character ; and in the case of the former the words " skim milk " be plainly 

 marked on the vessel containing the same when delivered, and the letters being 

 at least half inch high. Cream shall contain not less than 18 per cent butter 

 fats. The word " cream " as used in this ordinance means that portion of 

 milk rich in butter fats which rises to the surface of milk on standing or is 

 separated from it by centrifugal force. 



(2) It shall not be lawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, offer 

 for sale, or deliver, or have in any store, stall, stand, or vehicle, from or in 

 which food products are sold or offered for sale, any tainted, unsound, rotten, 

 or partly decomposed fish, shellfish, fruit, vegetables, meat, or any other food 

 product, whether or not the same is kept apparently fresh by sulphurous, sali- 

 cylic or boric acid, borax, formaldehyde, or any other preservative which is 

 deemed injurious to health. 



(3) Every person, firm, or corporation owning, leasing, or occupying any 

 rooms, store, or place where milk, cream, fish, shellfish, fruit, vegetables, meat, 

 or any other food product shall be stored and kept or offered for sale shall put 

 and keep such rooms, store, or place and its appurtenances in a clean and whole- 

 some condition; and every person having charge of or engaged in the selling 

 or care or custody of any milk or cream or other articles of food shall put and 

 keep the same in a clean and wholesome condition ; nor shall any person suffer- 

 ing from an infectious or contagious disease be allowed to handle or come in 

 contact therewith ; nor shall any meats be conveyed through the city except in 

 such manner as may be approved by the food inspector. 



