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the written consent of tlie owners of three-fourths of the property within two 
hundred feet cf the boundaries of the site on which such dairy or establishment 
is proposed to be located : Provided, That this regulation shall not apply to any 
case of rebuilding or enlarging, in the same location, any existing dairy or 
establishment for the storage or sale of milk or other dairy products . — Order of 
April 17, 1906. 
REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF DAIRIES AND DAIRY FARMS. 
Ordered, That the following regulations made by the health officer of the 
District of Columbia, pursuant to the requirements of section 11 of “An act to 
regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” 
approved March 2, 1895, in lieu of the regulations on the same subject made 
and approved June 26, 1895, are hereby approved : 
Section 1. No building or space shall be used for dairy purposes which is 
not well lighted and ventilated, which is not provided with a suitable floor, 
and, if such room or space be a cellar or subcellar, or be located in a cellar or 
subcellar, which is not properly concreted, guttered, and drained. 
Sec. 2. No dairy shall be located or maintained within any kitchen, wash 
room, workshop, or inhabited room, nor in proximity to any water-closet, privy, 
cesspool, or urinal, nor in any room or space which is not of such size and con- 
struction as to permit the entire separation of all milk and milk products, both 
in the process of handling and storing the same, from all probable sources of 
contamination, either by dirt, noxious gases, infective organisms or substances, 
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 recep- 
tacle 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 ap- 
purtenances 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 pro- 
vided 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 air space for each cow, unless the use of such building for stabling 
cows for dairy purposes has been authorized prior to the promulgation of these 
