APPENDIX B. 



CHICAGO TUBERCULIN TEST ORDINANCE AND RULES OF THE 

 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. 



Ordinances Requiring Tuberculin Test of All Cows Supplying 

 Milk and Milk Products. 



Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago : 



milk. 



Section 1. No milk, cream, buttermilk or ice cream shall be sold, 

 offered for sale, exposed for sale or kept with the intention of selling 

 within the City of Chicago after January 1, A. D. 1909, unless such milk 

 or cream or the milk or cream contained in buttermilk and ice cream, 

 be obtained from cows that have given a satisfactory negative tuberculin 

 test within one \-ear ; the cows having been satisfactorily tested shall be 

 marked ' ' tuberculin tested ' ' and shall be numbered and a certificate 

 shall be filed with the division of milk inspection of the Department of 

 Health of the City of Chicago upon forms furnished by the Commissioner 

 of Health, giving the number, a brief description of the animal, the date 

 of the taking of said, test and the name of the owner. Said certificate 

 shall be signed b}' the person making such test ; provided, however, that 

 from January 1, 1909, for a period of five 3-ears, to wit, until January 1, 

 1914, milk or cream or buttermilk and ice cream made from milk or 

 cream, obtained from cows not tuberculin tested or not free from tubercu- 

 losis, maj' be sold within the City of Chicago if the milk or cream from 

 said cows is pasteurized according to the rules and regulations of the 

 Department of Health of the Cit}- of Chicago. 



Section 2. Any milk, cream, buttermilk or ice cream offered for sale, 

 exposed for sale or kept with the intention of selling within the City of 

 Chicago which shall be found within the City in violation of Section 1, 

 shall be forthwith seized, condemned and destroyed by the milk and 

 food inspectors or other duly authorized agents or employes of the De- 

 partment of Health of the City of Chicago. 



Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and 

 after January 1, 1909. 



butter. 

 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago : 



Section 1. No butter shall be sold or offered for sale or kept with 

 the intention of selling in the City of Chicago after January 1, 1909, uu- 



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