THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 291 



Sanitary Food Law. 



An Act to prevent the preparation, manufacture, packing, stor- 

 ing, or distributing of food intended for sale, or sale of food, 

 under insanitary, unhealthful or unclean conditions or sur- 

 roundings, to create a sanitary inspection, to declare that 

 such conditions shall constitute a nuisance, and to provide 

 for the enforcement thereof. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 

 nois, represented in the General Assembly : That every building, 

 room, basement, inclosure or premises, occupied, used or main- 

 tained as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, 

 slaughter house, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, gro- 

 cery, meat market, or as a factory, shop, warehouse, any public 

 place or manufacturing establishment used for the preparation, 

 manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food 

 as defined by statute, which is intended for sale, shall be prop- 

 erly and adequately lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated, and 

 shall be conducted with strict regard to the influence of such 

 conditions upon the health of the operatives, employes, clerks, or 

 other persons therein employed, and the purity and wholesome- 

 ness of the food therein produced, prepared, manufactured, 

 packed, stored, sold or distributed. 



Section 2. The floors, sidewalls, ceilings, furniture, recep- 

 tacles, implements and machinery of every such establishment or 

 place where such food intended for sale is produced, prepared, 

 manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, 

 trucks and vehicles used in the transportation of such food pro- 

 ducts, shall at no time be kept or permitted to remain in an un- 

 clean, unhealthful or insanitary condition; and for the purpose 

 of this Act, unclean, unhealthful and insanitary conditions shall 

 be deemed to exist if food in the process of production, prepara- 

 tion, manufacture, packing, storing, sale, distribution or trans- 



