The Washington times., 1901-12-19
Important District Measure
Now Under Way.
REGULATES THE ENTIRE BUSINESS.
Senator Gallinger's Bill Now in the
Hands of the Senate Committee o
on the District and Expected TO
Be Reported After tho Holiday
Recess.

vi Nolullbia IS NorhlDB on Il OH 10 feEG-
late the production and sale Of milk in
the District. The measure proposes many
sweeping changes, and Senator Gallincer,
its author. has received assurances that
no objections will be offered and il will
become a law. II will be reported after
the holiday recess.
Under the new regulations dairymen
and milk dealers viii be compelled not
ONLY to supply pure fresh milk. but also to
make extensive alterations in the present
Arrangement Of their premises.
Provides for Special Inspectors.
Special milk and dairy inspectors will be
appointed who viii test the dairies and
the product every few days. Every dairy
must contain special appliances for cool
ing milk and keeping it cold. All re-
ceptRcles used must be cleansed with
germ-destroying fluids. Every COW used
For milking purposes will be given a med
Zeal examination every month, and if
found in any way unhealthy the owner will
be liable TO lose his license.
The terms OF the bill are so framed as
TO work directly against cholera, anthrax,
diphtheria. eryslpelas. scarlet fever, small
pox, splenic fever. tuberculosis. typhoid.
and typhus fever. all of which are men
TONED specifically. Seine of the impor-
tant sections of the bill are as follows:
Elaborate Applications for Permits
That no person shall bring any milk or
cream into the District of Columbia for
sale without a permit SO to do from said
health officer. Application for such per
NIT shall be made in ink, on a blank fur
nished by said health officer. and shall be
accompanied by such detailed description
as said health officer may require OF the
premises which are used or intended to
be used in connection with the production,
storing, and shipment OF such milk or
cream. and by a description of the
devices, apparatus. and utensils for
the cooling, storage, and shipment Of
milk or cream, and for the clean
ing OF such receptacles and measures
as are used in connection Herewith. Said
application shall be accompanied further
by sworn statement from legally quail
iied veterinary surgeon as TO the physical
condition of the cattle from which such
milk or cream is TO be derived.
Regulation OF ,he Traffic.
THAT no person shall knowingly sell.
exchange, or deliver, or have in his pos
session or custody with intent to sell, ex-
change. or deliver, any milk or cream
which has been brought without lawful
authority into the District Of Columbia.
THAT no person shall in said District
sell. exchange, or deliver, or have in his
possession with intent TO sell, exchange
or deliver, any milk or cream taken from
any COW less than fifteen days before or
ten days after parturition, or from any
COW which is suffering from tuberculosis.
splenic fever, anthrax, or any general or
local disease. condition. or injury which
is liable to render the milk or cream from
said COW unwholesome OF from any COW
insufliciently fed, or fed on any substance
liable to injuriousiy affect the quality of
the milk or cream from such cow.
Temperature Prescribed.
THAT no person shall in said District
Sell any milk or cream, or hold or offer
any milk or cream for sale which is not
clean and wholesome and free from for
eign substances, nor unless the same has
been cooled Immediately after coming
into his possession to temperature not
exceeding fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and
is and has been constantly kept below
such temperature, nor under any misrep-
reseRtation in respect thereof as to name
or quality, or as being what the came
is not as respects wholcsomeness, sound
ness, or safety.
Condensed and Skinned Milk.
That no person shall in the District
OF Columbia manufacture, sell, or ex-
change, or offer or expose for sale or ex-
change, any condensed milk, unless the
same be made Of pure. clean. wholesome
milk, free from preservatives, nor any
condensed milk made from milk from
which part OF the cream has been re-
moved, or from milk containing less than
twelve and one-half rer centum milk
solids, including three and one-half per-
centum OF fat.
That no person shall in said District
eell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his
custody or possession with intent TO sell,
exchange. or deliver, SKINNED milk con-
tanning less than nine and three-tenths
per centum Of milk solids, inclusive of
fat
Afflicted Persons Excluded.
THAT no person suffering from any
communicable disease. or who is liable 10
communicate any such disease to other
persons, shall in said District work or
assist in or about the production Of milk
or cream for sale or in or about the sale
thereof No person having power and
authority to prevent shall knowingly per-
nit any person aforesaid 10 work in or
about the production or sale of milk
That the Commissioners Of the District
OF Columbia be, and they are hereby. au
thorized TO make regulations to secure
proper water supply, drainage. ventilation.
air space, floor space and cleaning Of ali
premises on which milk or cream Is sold
or held, offered, or produced for sale 10
secure proper care Of such milk and cream.
and TO secure the Isolation on such premI-
ses Of CATTLE suffering from contagious
diseases. And said Commissioners are
further authorized 10 afhx to such regula-
tiors such penalties as may, in their judg-
ment, be necessary TO enable them 10 Sc
cure the enforcement thereof"
Fell From His Wagon.
Lloyd Chase, colored, fell from his
wagon at the corner Of Second and @
Streets northeast yesterday and was Sc
yeroly cut in the back Of the head. He
was taken 10 the Casualty Hospital.
where his injuries were dressed after