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Proposition Stating the Main Points for an 



Ordinance Regulating the Sale of 



Milk in Large Cities. 



For the protection of the public against fraud and injury to 

 health, the following points suggest themselves. 



1. All dealers in milk should be licensed, and licenses be grant- 

 ed only to responsible parties. The sale of milk by unlicensed 

 parties is prohibited. 



2. A record should be kept of the names, residences and places 

 of business of all licensed dealers. 



3. Dealers should be acquainted with the use of the lactoden- 

 si meter, lactobutyrometer and litmus paper. 



The government should aid this education by free lessons and 

 printed statements explaining the use of these instruments. 



4. Only fresh milk should be brought to market, and it should 

 not be sold under the general denomination of " milk," but from 

 vessels marked clearly and in large letters, at a part easily seen, 

 stating their contents as : 



Whole milk. 

 Milk half creamed. 

 Skimmed milk. 



5. Excluded from sale be all milk from cows sick with pulmo- 

 nary fever, anthrax, tuberculosis, and aphtha epizootica (hoof and 

 mouth disease), likewise, bitter, salty, mucous, abnormally col- 

 ored, spoiled or adulterated milk. 



6. The greatest cleanliness shall be observed regarding the 

 vessels and measures for the milk, as well as the stores, which 

 must be airy, dry and cool, and which should in no wise be used 

 whereby the purity of the milk be endangered. It should never 

 be kept in places used for sleeping rooms. 



7. Inspectors are entitled to take samples from all stores or 

 other places where milk is sold, against receipt or payment. 



S. The inspection must always be done in the presence of at 

 least one witness, who niust countersign the record. 



