Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-03
AN ORDINANCE
To Prevent the Sale of Un
wholesome Articles
of Food.
Be It Enacted By the Mayor and City
Council Of Nashville:

CECTIOE THAT NO PERSON SHALL
y bring into the city, or sell or offer for sale in
any market, public or private, any cattle, sheep,
hog or lamb, for slaug hterlL purposes, mat are
pregnant, OF in an unhealthy or uns0und cOndl-
ton; nor any neat nsh, game or poultry thaI
ls diseased, unsOund, unHhOlesOme, or that
for any other reason e judged 70 be
unit for human fOOd-(the fact that any
cattle, sheep, hogs OF lamb being IN any STOCK,
yard or slaughter-hOus6 pen shall be considered
that the same IL being exposed there for sale)5
and the fact that any carcass, or part thereOf OF
any cattle, sheep, hOgOr lamb Is found IN any
slaughter-hOusej OF any public or private mar
ket-place, dressed and prepared as such meats
usually are for market, shall be deemed sum
Cient evidence that the same is on salei and 10
animal, nor any part thereof, nor any hsh, game
or -poultry that las been inspected ana con-
demned By the Board Of Health, or the Inspec-
tor assistants, shall be held, sold offered for
sale for human food in this city.
Sec. p No person OF persons shall buy or offer
70 buy, for slaughtering purposes IN any stock
yard, street OF alley, or in any market public or
private, in this city, any cattle, hogs, sheep or
unsOund condition.
Sec. 8. No animal Of any kind sha1 be slaugh-
tered, dressed or hung nor part Of the meat
thereof, wholly OF IN part, within any street,
avenue or sidewalk, OF public alley or place in
the city.
Sec. 4. Nor shall any animal be slaughtered
while in a feyerish or Oyerhested conditions and
the meat Of any such animal shall not be held,
sold nor offered FOR sale for human food in this
city.
Sec. 5. No person shall bring into this city, OF
sell, OF offer for sale any cattle unit Tor use,
cattle which have been exposed to, or liable 70
communicate the cattle disease; nor the meat
nor the milk Of any such cattle. Al such cattle,
meat and milk shall be conhscated and de-
strOyed.
Sec. g. NoEcased, blown, raised, plated,
putrid, impure or unhealthy OF unEhOlesOme
meat, nor the meat Of shy animal that may have
died Of any disease or accident, or fish birds or
fowls shall be held, bought, sold, or offered for
sale, Tor human food, in this city.
Sec Z. No calf, pig or lamb, nor the meat
thereof, shall be bought, sold, OF offered for
sale, for human food, in this city, which when
killed was less than one month old.
Sec s No cattle shall be kept in any place Of
which the water, ventilation and food is not SUIT
ficient and Wholesome for the preservation Of
their health and good condition for human food.
Sec. 9. Fish shall not be eleansed Of their
scales or entrails in any public market, where
they may be offered for sale.
Sec. 10. No person shall bring or send into
this city for sale, any milk without permit 10
DO 90 from the Board Of Health, such permit TO
Be furnished grstuitousiy by said board TO al ap-
phcants, on condition that none but pure and
undiluted milk be sold within the city limits, and
subject 70 the approval Of the Heath Onicer.
Sec. IL. All milk wagons shall have the name
Of the owner and the number Of the wagon
painted thereon, plainly and legibly.
Sec. u All grOcers, bakers and other persons
having Offering for sale milk, shall at al times
keep the name or names Of the dairyman from
whom the milk for sale was obtained posted up
In a conspicuous place wherever such milk may
be sold or kept for sale.
Sec. Is. No person shall have or offer or have
for sale in this city any uuwhOlesOme, Watered
or adulterated milk, or milk known as sWill
milk, or mix from COWS that for the most part |
are kept tied up in stables, or that are fed on |
garbage, sWil or other like deleteriOus substance
or fluids, nor any butter or cheese made from |
such milk.
Sec. "A. No person shall sell, hold, or offer for
sale, OF bring into the city any decayed or |
Damaged vegetables or fruits.
Sec. Is. Any person or persons violating the i
provisions Of any section Of this ordinance, on /
thereof, shall be deemed guilty OF a Il
and shall be fined for each offense Il
not less than ten or more than fifty dollars, be-
fore or by the Recorder.
Sec. 16. All ordinances, or parts or Ordinan-
ces, in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Sec. II. This ordinance TO take effect from and i
after its approval and publication In the daily /
paders ten consecutive GAYS.
Sec. Is IL Is made the especial duty Of the
Mayor, Police, Marshal aud Assistant Marshal
10 have the provisions Of this ordinance strictly
enforced.
Approved July g, 1875.
MORTON Is. HOWELL Mayor.
5. A DULING, Recorder. jy2O lot