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with tlie business is scarcely feasible, both because it 

 would be an expensive procedure and because, in most 

 eases, it would meet with great opposition and tend to 

 increase labor difficulties. 



But the following regulations are regarded as neces- 

 sary and they should be incorporated in public ordi- 

 nances : 



The sale of milk shall cease immediately if typhoid 

 fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or other malignant in- 

 fectious disease breaks out among people living in the 

 farmstead ; *^ the sale shall not be resumed until a physi- 

 cian 's certificate has been received showing that all dan- 

 ger of infection is over.** 



Care must be taken that the milk does not come in 

 contact in any way with persons in whose household one 

 of the above-mentioned diseases exists, nor those who 

 have discharging sores or skin diseases of the arms, 

 hands or face. 



In addition, the local authorities should have the 

 right to forbid the sale of milk if this is known, or be- 

 lieved, to be the cause of an epidemic, even though no 

 source of infection be proven on the farms in question. 



Several of the large milk companies of Copenhagen 

 have established even more rigid regulations in regard 

 to the health of the personnel and they insure the en- 

 forcement of these rules by allowing the producer full 

 value for his milk, when he holds it back on account of 

 the occurrence of disease. The value of such a provision 

 is obvious. 



e. The water supply. Since typhoid bacteria (and 



*^ [The farmer's residence and the eow stable adjoin, so that they 

 are, practically, parts of the same building, on most of the small 

 farms of Denmark.] 



** [The danger of infection from persons recovering from typhoid 

 fever and diphtheria continues for a long time.] 



