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of the food inspectors assigned to the supervision of markets and 
green-grocery stores. In view of the considerable amount of time 
necessarily consumed in bringing samples of milk collected to the 
health office from the places of collection, and with a view to increas- 
ing the amount of attention paid to the sanitary condition of dairies, 
it has been deemed best to assign one inspector solely to the sanitary 
inspection of dairies, requiring him to collect no samples of milk, or 
to collect them as an incident to his other work. The other inspector 
is detailed primarily to the collection of samples of milk from dairies, 
lunch rooms, and grocery stores, and other places where milk is han- 
dled for sale, and from the railroad stations where milk is received, 
any inspections of dairies which he may make being merely incidental 
thereto. The average number of inspections to which each licensed 
dairy was subjected during the year ended June 30, 1907, was 22.8. 
The average number of inspections made daily by the inspector of 
dairies was 6.5. 
In the inspection of dairies, the inspector is guided primarily by 
the regulations for the government of dairies and dairy farms pro- 
mulgated under the authority of the act of March 2, 1905. He en- 
forces, however, any and all laws and regulations relating to the san- 
itary condition of the premises which he visits. Enforcement is or- 
dinarily effected through the service of a notice allowing a certain 
amount of time for the correction of the objectionable conditions. 
A carbon copy of each notice is filed with the health officer, with the 
daily report of the inspector, on the clay following the day of service, 
the original being left with the person to be notified. If the condi- 
tions which the inspector finds are so excessively bad as to warrant 
such action, he not only gives instructions for their immediate cor- 
rection, but, with the approval of the health officer, institutes crim- 
inal proceedings in the police court at once. In the ordinary cases, 
however, after the expiration of the time allowed by the notice which 
has been served, the inspector visits the premises and if objectionable 
conditions have been corrected he so reports. Otherwise, unless 
there is reason for allowing further time, police court proceedings 
are then instituted. A scheme for the rating of dairies has recently 
been devised and is now in use. 
In order to insure careful work on the part of the inspector, and 
to facilitate the keeping of the records in a form convenient for ref- 
erence, he is required to certify on each score card that all laws and 
regulations, except such as he specifies in his certificate, have been 
complied with, and that proper action lias been taken to correct such 
conditions as he reports as unlawful. If no exceptions are enumer- 
ated then the inspector must go on record as certifying that every- 
thing is all right. A copy of the inspector’s score card relating to 
any given dairy is filed in a jacket reserved for that dairy, with all 
