256 MILK HYGIENE 



are easily distinguished by their shape and color from the 

 containers used for the regular milk. 



5. The company shall not employ any weakly persons, nor 

 any that are afflicted with an infectious disease or with any 

 repulsive skin disease, as tuberculosis or syphilis. Any em- 

 ployee so affected is to be dismissed. 



If any one of the employees shall contract typhoid fever, 

 gastric fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas or any 

 other virulent infectious disease, the affected person shall not 

 come upon the premises of the company or resume his work 

 until he shall present a certificate from a physician to the 

 effect that he is no longer capable of conveying infection. The 

 same applies to employees in whose dwelling any one of the 

 above named diseases may occur. 



If any one of the employees shall be afflicted with discharg- 

 ing or suppurating wounds on the face, hands or arms or 

 with any transmissible or repulsive disease or with severe 

 diarrhoea, the affected person shall not be employed, during 

 the continuance of the condition, in any work in which he 

 would come into direct or indirect contact with milk, nor 

 shall he be permitted to wash bottles. 



Every employee who may not work on account of illness, 

 or on account of disease in his family, is to receive his full 

 pay as though working. A physician is appointed with whom 

 the employees and the members of their families may consult 

 and who shall make frequent visits to the dairy premises and 

 keep an oversight of the employees as to their health. 



The company shall keep a special record showing the em- 

 ployees that are ill, when they are laid off, and the nature of 

 the illness. 



6. The milk shall be cooled to 5 C. (41 F.) as it is re- 

 ceived from the producers and shall be kept at this or a lower 

 temperature. 



7. All containers 58 are to be thoroughly cleaned by a 

 method approved by the committee. The bottles for nursery 



58 The milk is delivered to customers only in sealed cans or, in the 

 case of nursery milk, in bottles. 



