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the licensee and his consignee or retailer, if he have one, that such 
action has been taken. If thereafter the milk from that farm is 
brought into the District, the person at whose instance it is brought 
is prosecuted in the police court. 
INSPECTION OP DAIRIES. 
Two inspectors are available for the inspection of dairies — that is, 
of places where milk is sold within the District of Columbia — and for 
the collection of samples of milk. The number of licensed dairies 
within the district, independent of those located on dairy farms, is 
62. The number of places where milk is sold as a mere incident to 
some other more general business, which places must be regarded as 
dairies only for purpose of inspection and not for purpose of licens- 
ing,® is considerable, probably as many as 1,500. The exact number, 
however, is not known, as such places are registered only as grocery 
stores, lunch rooms, and so on, and not as milk shops. They begin 
the sale of milk at the pleasure of the proprietor, discontinue it when 
he is ready, and resume the business at will; and the health officer 
knows nothing of it. Many of the latter class of places, however, 
being grocery stores, come not only under the occasional observation 
of the inspector of dairies, but also under the more frequent observa- 
tion 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, 1909, was 20.7. 
The average number of inspections made daily by the inspector of 
dairies was 1.3. 
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, 1895. 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 
° See page 762. 
