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enforce regulations to secure proper water supply, drainage, ventilation, air 

 space, floor space, and cleaning of all dairies and dairy farms within said 

 District ; to secure the isolation of cattle suffering from any contagious disease, 

 and to carry into effect the provisions of this act. 



SEC. 12. That the health officer of the District of Columbia, or his duly ap- 

 pointed assistants, shall have the right to enter, without previous notice, for 

 the purpose of inspection, any dairy or dairy farm within said District. 



SEC. 13. (Repealed by act of February 17, 1898. See Weigand v. D. C., 31 

 Wash. Law Rep., 730.) 



SEC. 14. That prosecutions under this act shall be in the police court of said 

 District, on information signed by the attorney of the District or one of his 

 assistants, and any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this 

 act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be pun- 

 ished for the first offense by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than 

 twenty-five dollars, to be collected as other fines and penalties, or by imprison- 

 ment in the workhouse for a period of not more than thirty days, and for the 

 second offense and each subsequent offense, by a fine of not less than fifty 

 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the work- 

 house for ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion 

 of the court, and if the person so convicted of a second or subsequent offense 

 hold a permit under this act, the same shall be canceled and no permit shall 

 be issued to said person for a period of six months : Provided, That any person 

 or persons under this act shall have the privilege, when demanded, of a trial 

 by jury as in other jury cases in the police court. 



SEC. 15. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the foregoing be, 

 and the same are hereby, repealed. 



Approved, March 2, 1895. 



APPENDIX Q. 



REGULATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT OF DAIRIES AND DAIRY FARMS, PROMUL- 

 GATED JULY 31, 1897, TOGETHER WITH AMENDMENTS OF NOVEMBER 5, 

 1910. 



[Health Department, District of Columbia, Washington.] 



REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF DAIRIES AND DAIRY FARMS. 



OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 



Washington, July 31, 1897. 



Ordered: That the following regulations made by the health officer of the 

 District of Columbia, pursuant to the requirements of section 11 of "An act 

 to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other pur- 

 poses," approved March 2, 1895, in lieu of the regulations on the same subject 

 made and approved June 26, 1895, are hereby approved: 



Section 1. No building or space shall be used for dairy purposes which is not 

 well lighted and ventilated, which is not provided with a suitable floor ; and, 

 if such room or space be a cellar or subcellar, or be located in a cellar or sub- 

 cellar, which is not properly concreted, guttered, and drained. 



Sec. 2. No dairy shall be located or maintained within any kitchen, wash 

 room, workshop, or inhabited room, nor in proximity to any water-closet, privy, 

 cesspool, or urinal, nor in any room or space which is not of such size and con- 

 struction as to permit the entire separation of all milk and milk products, both 

 in process of handling and storing the same, from all probable sources of con- 

 tamination either by dirt, noxious gases, infective organisms or substances, or 

 anything liable to alter unnecessarily the quality of such milk or milk 

 products. 



Sec. 3. Every person maintaining a dairy shall provide for the use thereof, 

 and shall use a sufficient number of receptacles made of nonabsorbent material 

 for the reception, storage, and delivery of milk, and shall cause them to be kept 

 clean and wholesome at all times ; and having delivered any such receptacle to 

 a consumer shall not again use the same for the reception, storage, or delivery 

 of milk or cream in any form until it has been, to his personal knowledge, 

 properly cleaned after such use. 



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