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or anything liable to alter unnecessarily the quality of such milk or milk 
products. 
Sec. 3. Every person maintaining a dairy shall provide for the use thereof, 
and shall use, a sufficient number of receptacles, made of nonabsorbent 
material, for the reception, storage, and delivery of milk, and shall cause them 
to be kept clean and wholesome at all times ; and having delivered any such 
receptacle to a consumer shall not again use the same for the reception, storage, 
or delivery of milk or cream in any form until it has been, to his personal 
knowledge, properly cleaned after such use. 
Sec. 3a. Elsewhere than in the proper parts of premises which have been 
duly constructed and equipped, and which are duly maintained for the handling, 
storage, and sale of milk or cream, no person shall fill or partly fill with milk 
or cream any receptacle intended for delivery to a customer unless such recep- 
tacle, at the time of filling, be furnished by the customer for whose service such 
receptacle is intended. — (Amendment of July 14, 1903.) 
Sec. 4. Every person maintaining a dairy shall provide for the use thereof 
a supply of pure and suitable water, sufficient for the proper washing of all 
cans, bottles, and appliances. 
Sec. 5. Every person maintaining a dairy shall keep the same and all 
appurtenances thereto clean and wholesome at all times, and shall change 
the water in the coolers at least once each day. 
Sec. 6. No building shall be used for stabling cows for dairy purposes which 
is not well lighted, ventilated, drained, and constructed, or which is not 
provided with stalls or with proper stanchions for anchoring the cows, so 
arranged as to allow not less than three and one-half feet width of space for 
each milch cow; or which is not provided with good and sufficient facilities 
for feeding the animals in a cleanly manner ; or which contains less than six 
hundred cubic feet clear space for each cow, unless the use of such building 
for stabling cows for dairy purposes has been authorized prior to the pro- 
mulgation of these regulations, in which case it shall contain not less than 
five hundred cubic feet clear air space for each cow. 
Sec. 7. No room shall be used for stabliug cows for dairy purposes which con- 
tains any water-closet, privy, cesspool, urinal or manure pit, nor shall any fowl, 
hog, horse, sheep, or goat be kept in any room used therefor. 
Sec. 8 . Every person using any premises for keeping cows for dairy purposes 
shall, when so directed by the health officer, erect and maintain in the stable, 
stall, shed, or yard connected therewith one or more proper receptacles for drink- 
ing water for such cows, and shall keep the same supplied with clean, fresh 
water and none other. 
Sec. 9. Every person using any premises for keeping cows for dairy purposes 
shall keep the entire premises clean and in good repair and the buildings well 
painted or whitewashed. 
Sec. 10. Every person using any premises for keeping cows for dairy purposes 
shall cause the dung to be removed from the stables at least twice daily, and 
always within one hour preceding every milking of the cows ; and shall not allow 
any accumulation of dung within the building occupied by the cows, but shall, 
whenever in the opinion of the health officer it is required by local conditions 
and surroundings, provide temporary storage for the same and for other refuse 
in a separate place, which shall be covered, and which, when so ordered by said 
health officer, shall be a water-tight receptacle. 
Sec. 11. Every person keeping cows for dairy purposes within the city of 
Washington or its more densely populated suburbs, or elsewhere in the District 
of Columbia, if, in the opinion of the health officer, local conditions require it, 
