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article, and shall keep such food, beverage, confectionery, or other article free 
from flies and other insects at all times. Any person violating the provisions 
cf this regulation shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not 
more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. This regulation 
shall take effect from and after the expiration of thirty days immediately 
following the date of its promulgation. — Commissioners' Regulation of April 11, 
1908. 
Sec. 14. Every manager of a store, market, dairy, cafe, lunch room, or of any 
other place in the District of Columbia where a food, or a beverage, or confec- 
tionery, or any similar article, is manufactured or prepared for sale, stored for 
sale, offered for sale, or sold, shall equip said store, market, dairy, cafe, lunch 
room, or other place, with running water, or other proper water supply if run- 
ning water be not available, and with facilities and material for the proper 
washing, and shall cause such washing to be done, of the hands of all persons 
employed therein, and for the proper cleansing, and shall cause such cleansing 
to be done, of said store, market, dairy, cafe, lunch room, or other place, and 
of all apparatus, utensils, and materials used in connection therewith. Any 
persons violating the provisions of this regulation shall, upon conviction thereof, 
be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for each and every 
such offense. This regulation shall take effect from and after the expiration 
of thirty days immediately following the date of its promulgation. — Commis- 
sioners' Regulation of May 31, 1907, as amended by orders of June 10, 1907, 
and April 11, 1908. 
Sec. 15. No person shall use any premises or any part of any premises in the 
District of Columbia for the preparation, manufacture, or storage for sale, or 
for the offering for sale, exchange, or delivery, of any food, drink, confectionery, 
or condiment for man, unless such premises or part of premises be provided 
with running water, or other proper water supply if running water be not avail- 
able, and with all necessary facilities, apparatus, and material for the proper 
cleansing of said premises or part of premises, and of all apparatus, utensils, 
and materials used in connection therewith, and for the proper cleansing of 
the hands of all the persons employed therein. Any person violating any of 
the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a 
fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense, and 
each day’s violation shall be deemed to be a separate offense. — Commissioners' 
Regulation of November 17, 1908. 
Regulations for the Prevention of the Spread of Scarlet Fever, Diph- 
theria, Measles, Whooping Cough, Chicken Pox, Epidemic Cerebro- Spinal 
Meningitis, and Typhoid Fever. 
Sec. 5. No person residing in any dwelling house or in any apartments where 
there is in said dwelling house or apartments a patient suffering from diph- 
theria, scarlet fever, measles, or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, shall, while 
so residing and during the continuance of such case, attend public or private 
school or Sunday school, or if the patient was suffering from diphtheria or 
scarlet fever, engage in the manufacture, preparation, storage, or sale of food 
or beverage. 
Sec. 6. No person who has resided in any dwelling house or in any apart- 
ments while there was in such dwelling house or apartments a patient suffering 
from scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis 
shall after the removal, death, or recovery of the patient, or after the removal 
of such person from such dwelling house or apartments, attend public or private 
school, or Sunday school, or, if the patient was suffering from scarlet fever or 
