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There is as yet no fixed standard for acidity in milk, hut any sample of milk or cream 
found to be, in the judgment of the health department, too acid will be regarded as 
unwholesome, and the seller prosecuted accordingly. The sale of milk, cream, or skimmed 
milk which has been colored or to which a preservative of any sort has been added is in 
violation of law. 
Dealers in foodstuffs, including, of course, milk, etc., are required by law to know at 
all times the quality of all goods which they sell. Prosecutions will therefore be insti- 
tuted in suitable cases without notice. 
, M. D., 
Health Officer. 
To 
Exhibit D. 
Laics and regulations relating to the production and sale of milk in the District 
of Columbia. 
ACTS OF CONGRESS. 
AN ACT To regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act 
no person shall, within the District of Columbia, keep or maintain a dairy or 
dairy farm without a permit so to do from the health officer of said District; 
application for said permit shall be made in writing, upon a form prescribed by 
said health officer : Provided, That no applicant for said permit shall be 
restrained from conducting business until said application has been acted upon 
by the health officer of the District of Columbia or his duly appointed agent. 
It shall be the duty of said health officer, upon receipt of said application in 
due form, to make or cause to be made an examination of the premises which 
it is intended to use in the maintenance of said dairy or dairy farm ; if after 
such examination said premises are found to conform to the regulations govern- 
ing dairies and dairy farms within the District of Columbia, said health officer 
shall issue the permit hereinbefore specified, without charge : Provided, That 
said permit may be suspended or revoked at any time, without notice, by said 
health officer whenever the milk supply from said dairy or dairy farm is exposed 
to infection by Asiatic cholera, anthrax, diphtheria, erysipelas, scarlet fever, 
smallpox, splenic fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus fever, or yellow fever, 
so as to render its distribution dangerous to public health. 
Sec. 2. That no person shall bring or send into the District of Columbia for 
sale any milk without a permit so to do from the health officer of said District ; 
application for said permit shall be made in writing, upon a form prescribed by 
said health officer, and shall be accompanied by such detailed description of the 
dairy farm or dairy where said milk is produced or stored as said health officer 
may require, and by a sworn statement as to the physical condition of the cattle 
supplying said milk : Provided, That no applicant for said permit shall be 
restrained from conducting business until said application has been acted upon 
by the health officer of the District of Columbia or his duly appointed agent. 
If after examination of said application said health officer is satisfied that said 
milk will be brought into the District of Columbia for sale or consumption 
without danger to public health, he shall issue, without charge to the applicant, 
a permit so to do, on condition that none but pure and unadulterated milk shall 
be, with knowledge of its impurity, brought into said District ; that in the man- 
agement of said dairy or dairy farm said applicant shall be governed by the 
regulations of the health office of the District of Columbia, approved by the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, issued for dairies and dairy farms 
