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selling milk is in communication with living rooms, as 

 happens in small premises, then it is positively neces- 

 sary to have the apartments separated by a thick door, 

 which shall be kept closed. 



c. The condition of health of the attendants. The same 

 rules that apply to attendants in the places of production 

 should be binding upon those at the salesplaces. How- 

 ever, as the enforcement of these rules naturally meets 

 very great difficulties, in most cities action has been 

 limited to making the regulation and then punishing 

 those guilty of offences that are, by chance, discovered. 



Several large concerns (e.g., some in Copenhagen) 

 have voluntarily enforced strict regulations in regard to 

 the health of attendants. In order to be sure that no 

 suspicious disease among them or in their households 

 shall escape being reported, they provide free medical 

 services and also pay full wages to every employee 

 who is temporarily absent from his work on account of 

 illness in his family. (Compare regulations governing 

 the producers for this society, page 178, and Appendix 

 I, page 241.) 



Moreover, the public health department of the gov- 

 ernment must be authorized possibly upon the pay- 

 ment of indemnity to close milk businesses for a longer 

 or shorter time, which are known to spread contagion, 

 even though it cannot be shown just where the infection 

 comes from. This authority must also apply to milk 

 shops, when cases of typhoid fever, scarlet fever or 

 diphtheria exist among people who work with the milk. 

 If it is proven that the infection did not occur in the 

 shop, the milk and the cream may be sold after steriliza- 

 tion, if care is taken to see that this is thoroughly done. 

 A milk shop is to be kept closed as long as there is dan- 

 ger that it may distribute infection. 



d. Marking and packing the milk. The requirements 



