APPENDIX III 



EXECUTIVE OFFICE 



COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

 ORDERED: WASHINGTON, April 11, 1908. 



That, Pursuant to the authority vested in the Commis- 

 sioners by the "Joint Resolution authorizing the Commis- 

 sioners of the District of Columbia to alter, amend, or 

 repeal certain health ordinances" approved February 28, 

 1899, "An ordinance to prevent the sale of unwholesome 

 food in the cities of Washington and Georgetown" as 

 amended by Commissioners' orders of January 2, 1902; 

 April 21, 1903 ; October 6, 1904; April 24, 1906; May 31, 

 1907, and June 10, 1907, is hereby further amended by 

 inserting after the word "effectually" in section 13 thereof 

 the phrase "or effectually protected by a power-driven fan 

 or fans," so that said section shall read as follows : 



SEC. 13. Every manager of a store, market, dairy, 

 cafe, lunch room, or any other place in the District of 

 Columbia, where a food, or a beverage, or confectionery, 

 or any similar article, is manufactured or prepared for 

 sale, stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, shall cause 

 it to be screened effectually, or effectually protected by 

 power-driven fan or fans, so as to prevent flies and other 

 insects from obtaining access to such food, beverage, 

 confectionery, or other article, and shall keep such food, 

 beverage, confectionery, or other article free from flies 

 and other insects at all times. Any person violating the 

 provisions of this regulation shall, upon conviction 

 thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty- 

 five dollars for each and every such offense. This regu- 

 lation shall take effect from and after the expiration of 

 thirty days immediately following the date of its promul- 

 gation. 



Official copy furnished Health Department. 

 By order: 



WM. TINDALL, Secretary. 



Officially published in the Washington Herald April 

 1 6, 1908. 



