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the Congress of the United States) has not down to 

 the present time appropriated sufficient funds to carry 

 these regulations into full effect. Good regulations 

 require an efficient force of inspectors, and efficient in- 

 spectors must be paid. Dr. William C. Woodward, 

 the health officer of the District, has called the writer's 

 attention to the fact that it really requires, from the 

 practical standpoint, two inspectors to do one inspec- 

 tor's work, since a solitary inspector, coming into court 

 with a charge of violation of the regulations against 

 a given citizen, is invariably confronted with such a 

 mass of testimony against his charge that he is sworn 

 out of court. He must take some one along with him 

 to prove it. The orders in question may be briefly con- 

 densed as follows ; their full text will be found in Ap- 

 pendix III : 



All stalls in which animals are kept shall have the 

 surface of the ground covered with a water-tight floor. 

 Every person occupying a building where domestic 

 animals are kept shall maintain, in connection there- 

 with, a bin or pit for the reception of manure, and 

 pending the removal from the premises of the manure 

 from the animal or animals shall place such manure in 

 said bin or pit. This bin shall be so constructed as to 

 exclude rain water, and shall in all other respects be 

 water-tight, except as it may be connected with the 

 public sewer. It shall be provided with a suitable cover 

 and constructed so as to prevent the ingress and egress 

 of flies. No person owning a stable shall keep any 

 manure or permit any manure to be kept in or upon 



