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reasonably be believed to be infected, and to exercise such other precautions 

 as may be directed, in writing, by said health officer. 



Sec. 15. Milkers and those engaged in the handling of milk or cream shall 

 maintain strict cleanliness of their hands and persons while milking or while 

 so engaged. It shall be the duty of every person holding a permit to maintain 

 a dairy or dairy farm to enforce this regulation in reference to such persons 

 as may assist them in the maintenance thereof. 



Sec. 16. That any person violating any of the foregoing regulations shall, 

 on conviction thereof in the police court, be punished by a fine of not more 

 than $10 for each and every such offense, to be collected as other fines and 

 penalties are collected. 



Sec. 17. That the regulations for the government of dairies and dairy farms 

 in the District of Columbia promulgated June 26, 1895, are hereby repealed. 



WM. C. WOODWARD, M. D., 

 Health Officer, District of Columbia. 

 JOHN W. Ross, 

 JOHN B. WIGHT, 

 W. M. BLACK, 

 Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 



[Health department, District of Columbia.] 



WASHINGTON, November 5, 1910. 



Ordered: That the following amendments of the regulations made July 31, 

 1897, by the health officer of the District of Columbia and approved by the 

 Commissioners of said District, pursuant to the requirements of section 11, 

 of "An act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for 

 other purposes," approved March 2, 1895, are hereby made by adding after 

 section 14 thereof the following sections : 



Sec. 14a. No new dairy cow and no new bull, which has not been demon- 

 strated by the tuberculin test to be free from tuberculosis and officially tagged 

 to show that fact, shall be brought upon any dairy farm in the District of 

 Columbia and maintained there for a period longer than is necessary to have 

 said cow or bull officially tuberculin tested. And any cow or bull so tested and 

 reacting to the tuberculin test shall be tagged so as to show that fact, and 

 killed or promptly removed from said farm. 



Sec. 14b. Whenever there is found on any dairy farm any cow or bull 

 presenting such physical evidence of tuberculosis as to make it appear to the 

 satisfaction of the health officer that such cow or bull has tuberculosis, then and 

 in that event the licensee or applicant for license to produce for sale milk on 

 said farm upon which such cow or bull is, shall, upon written notice from the 

 health officer, have said cow or bull immediately killed, or removed from the 

 dairy farm, or else separated from the dairy herd and officially tuberculin 

 tested; and if said animal reacts to the tuberculin test, then such licensee or 

 applicant, as the case may be, shall have said cow or bull forthwith tagged 

 so as to show that fact, and promptly killed or removed from the said dairy 

 farm. 



Provided, That nothing in section 14a or in section 14b, of these regulations, 

 shall in any way modify or repeal any of the provisions of the order of the 

 Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the suppression and prevention 

 of tuberculosis in cattle, promulgated November 26, 1909. 



Sec. 14c. With respect to all applications filed after October 1, 1910, prompt 

 action will be taken, and if all cattle on the dairy farm to which any such 

 application relates are not free from tuberculosis as shown by the tuber- 

 culin test, the application will in the discretion of the health officer be promptly 

 rejected. 



WM. C. WOODWARD, M. D., 

 Health Officer of the District of Columbia. 



By direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, November 5, 

 1910: 



CUNO H. RUDOLPH, 

 JOHN A. JOHNSTON, 

 W. V. JUDSON, 



Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 

 By order: 



W. TINDALL, Secretary. 



