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shall cause the inclosure in which such cows are kept to be graded and drained 
so as to keep the surface reasonably dry and to prevent the accumulation of 
water therein, except as may be permitted for the purpose of supplying drinking 
water ; and shall not permit any garbage, urine, fecal matter, or similar sub- 
stance to be placed or to remain in such inclosure, nor any open drain to run 
through it. 
Sec. 12. Every person keeping cows for the production of milk for sale shall 
cause them to be kept clean and wffiolesome at all times, and shall cause the 
teats and, if necessary, the udder to be carefully cleaned by brushing, washing, 
or wiping before milking, and shall cause each such cow to be properly fed and 
watered. 
Sec. 13. Any person using any premises for keeping cows for dairy purposes 
shall provide and use a sufficient number of receptacles, of nonabsorbent 
material, for the reception, storage, and delivery of milk, and shall keep them 
clean and wholesome at all times, and at milking time shall remove each recep- 
tacle, as soon as filled, from the stable or room in which the cows are kept ; nor 
shall any milk or cream be stored or kept within any room used for stabling 
cows or other domestic animals. 
Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of every person having charge or control of any 
premises upon which cows are kept to notify the health officer of the District of 
Columbia of the existence of any contagious or infectious disease among such 
cows, by letter delivered or mailed, within twenty-four hours after the discovery 
thereof, and to thoroughly isolate any cow or cows so diseased, or which may 
reasonably be believed to be infected, and to exercise such other precautions as 
may be directed, in writing, by said health officer. 
Sec. 15. Milkers and those engaged in the handling of milk or cream shall 
maintain strict cleanliness of their hands and persons while milking or while 
so engaged. It shall be the duty of every person holding a permit to maintain 
a dairy or dairy farm to enforce this regulation in reference to such persons 
as may assist them in the maintenance thereof. 
Sec. 16. That any person violating any of the foregoing regulations shall, on 
conviction thereof in police court, be punished by a fine of not more' than ten 
dollars for each and every such offense, to be collected as other fines and pen- 
alties are collected. 
Sec. 17. That the regulations for the government of dairies and dairy farms 
in the District of Columbia promulgated June 26, 1895, are hereby repealed. — 
(Order of July 31, 1897.) 
AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT THE SALE OF UNWHOLESOME FOOD IN THE CITIES OF 
WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN, AS AMENDED BY COMMISSIONERS’ ORDERS MAY 
15, 1871. 
[Except as otherwise indicated these ordinances were promulgated by the 
Board of Health May 15, 1871, and have been legalized by Congress on April 
24, 1880, and again on August 17, 1894.] 
Sec. 2. That no person shall offer for sale within the District of Columbia 
any liquor used for drink, whether malt, vinous, or ardent, or the milk of cows 
or goats, intended to be used for food or drink, which has been adulterated 
with any poisonous or deleterious ingredient ; and any person violating the 
provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not 
less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each and every such offense. 
Sec. 5. That no person, whether owner, manager, keeper of, agent, bartender, 
or clerk, in any saloon, restaurant, boarding house, or eating house, located 
