334 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



(8) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, or otherwise dispose of, or shall 

 transport, or carry for the purpose of sale, or shall have in his or their custody 

 or possession with intent to sell or offer for sale or otherwise dispose of any 

 impure, adulterated, or unwholesome milk, and no person shall sell adulterated 

 milk, nor shall any person sell or offer for sale or otherwise dispose of any 

 mik which is produced in whole or in part from cows kept in a crowded or 

 unhealthy condition or fed on food that produces, or is likely to produce, im- 

 pure, diseased, or unwholesome milk, nor from cows fed on any substance in 

 a state of putrefaction or rottenness, or upon any other substance of an un- 

 wholesome nature. 



(9) That the addition of water or any other substance or thing is hereby 

 declared an adulteration, and milk that is obtained from animals that are fed 

 upon any substance in a state of putrefaction or rottenness, or upon any sub- 

 stance of an unwholesome nature, or milk that has been exposed to or contami- 

 nated by the emanations, discharges, or excrements from persons sick with any 

 contagious disease by which the health or life of any person may be endan- 

 gered, or milk from tubercular cows, is hereby declared to be impure and 

 unwholesome. 



(10) That all prosecutions under this ordinance, if the milk shall be shown, 

 upon analysis by the inspector of milk and food supplies, chemist, or board of 

 health, or by any chemist or chemists appointed or designated by the board of 

 health to contain more than 88 per cent of watery fluids, or to contain less than 

 12 per cent of milk solids, or to contain less than 9 per cent of milk solids ex- 

 clusive of butter fat, such milk shall be deemed, for the purposes of this ordi- 

 nance, to be adulterated. 



(11) That if said inspector of milk and food supplies shall have reason to 

 believe the provisions of this ordinance are being violated, he shall have power 

 to open any can, vessel, or package containing milk, whether sealed, locked, or 

 otherwise, or whether in transit or otherwise; and if, upon inspection, he shall 

 find such can, vessel, or package to contain any milk which has been adulter- 

 ated, or from which the cream or any part thereof has been removed, or which 

 is sold, offered or exposed for sale, in violation of any section of this ordi- 

 nance, said inspector of milk and food supplies is empowered and directed to 

 take a sample of the same for analysis and put it into a can, vessel, or package, 

 to be sealed in the presence of one or more witnesses, and sent to the chemist of 

 the board of health or any chemist or chemists appointed or designated by the 

 committee on health; and also to condemn the same and pour the contents of 

 such can, vessel, or package upon the ground, or return the same to the con- 

 signor, and if, upon analysis, such milk shall prove to be adulterated, shall 

 report the offender to the police justice. 



(12) That the board of health shall cause the name and place of business 

 of every person convicted of selling adulterated milk, or of having the same in 

 his possession, to be published in two daily newspapers of the city for five times 

 consecutively. 



(13) That no meats, butter, fish, birds or fowl, fruit or vegetables, nor any 

 milk, not being then healthy, fresh, sound, wholesome, and safe for human food, 

 nor any meat or fish that died by disease or accident, shall be brought within 

 said city, or offered or held for sale in any public or private market, as such 

 food, anywhere in said city. 



(14) That no cattle shall be killed for human food while in an overheated, 

 feverish, or diseased condition; and all such diseased cattle in the city of 

 Richmond, and the place where found, and their disease, shall be at once 

 reported to the inspector of milk and food supplies by the owner or custodian 

 thereof, that the proper order may be made relative thereto, or for the 

 removal thereof from said city. 



(15) That no meat or dead animal above the size of a rabbit shall be taken 

 to any public or private market for food until the same shall have fully cooled 

 after killing, nor until the entrails, heads, and feet (except of game and 

 poultry 1 and the heads and feet of swine) shall have been removed. 



(16) That no decayed or unwholesome fruit or vegetables, no impure or 

 unhealthy or unwholesome meat, butter, fish, birds, or fowl shall be brought 

 into said city, to be consumed or offered for sale for human food, nor shall 

 any such article be kept or stored therein. 



(17) That no meat, butter, fish, fruit, vegetables, or unwholesome liquid shall 

 knowingly be bought, sold, held, offered for sale, labeled, or any representations 



i "And poultry " added by amendment of Nov. 18, 1904. 



