Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-28
NEW MILK ORDINANCE
UP TO CITY COUNC
PRESENTED AFTER CAREF'
STUDY AND CONSIDERABLE,
Not as Sweeping as Those in 70
in Many CitieS-Drdfted Will 4
View of Working as Little He l.
ship as P0SSible-Before Cay
Dads Again Last Evening.

and to work as little hardship as pos
sible. 1t is not as sweeping as O.
dinances in force in many cities. It
is published by the Leader upon re-
quest of several. 1t follows:
An ordinance governing the sale CT
milk and cream in the City of Water
town, Wisconsin.
Sec. l. After October LIST, 1896,
no person, persons, firm, corporation
or company shall sell, deliver or dis
pose of milk or cream within the
limits of the City Of Watertown with
out having first procured license
therefore from the City Clerk of said
City, which license shall be issued
to all applicants upon payment of ten
| 10) cents for each COW owned or cor
trolled for the purpose of furnishing
milk or cream to be used within the
| City of Watertown for which
license has been granted and who
shall have complied with the provi-
sions of this ordinance on the first day
OF October A. d. 1906, and annually
thereafter, expiring on the both day
of September IN each year. Each
licensee shall keep his, her or theiI
license constantly posted in a con
spicuous place upon the wall of the
room within which such sale of milk
is carried on, or in conspicuous
place on the vehicle used in the dis
tribution or sale of milk.
Sec. 2. Every person, firm, COZ
poration or company making APPLICATION
TOR a license to sell, deliver or dis
pose of milk or cream in the City of
Watertown shall make application IN
writing to the City Clerk in printed
form provided therefor in which shall
De stated =
First. Name, residence, postoffice
address and location of the place of
the applicant.
Second. The number Of cows from
which milk is obtained tor sale or con-
trolled by the applicant.
Third. If the applicant does not
keep COWS, then the source from
which he obtains milk for sale.
If after the issuance of the license,
any of the cows be disposed Of and
replaced by others, or if additional
cows be added to the number stipula-
ted in the certificate of health here
matter mentioned, OF if any change
be made in the the location of the
dairy or place of business, the owner
must forthwith inform the board of
health, in writing, of such change or
increase in the number of COWS.
See. 3. Every person, firm, cor
poration or company applying for a
license to sell, deliver or dispose of
milk or cream under this ordinance
:hall furnish with said application, a
certificate signed by a Veterinarian
who is d graduate Of recognized
and authenticated Veterinary College,
with the date of gradua ton, his degree
and the name of the college from
which the degree was received, to the
effect that all cows from the herd for
which said application is made, are
free from tuberculosis and all olher
contagious CT infectious diseases as
far as may be determined by physi-
cal examination and the Tuberculin
test. Said Tuberculin test and physi-
cal examination is to be conducted as
prescribed by the Board of Health of
this city. Said physical examination
and Tuberculin test shall not be made
more than (6O) Sixty days prior tc
said application for a license If
after the issuance of the license there
are introduced into any herd new
cows, or any which have not been ex-
amined or tested as herein before
provided, no milk or cream shall be
sold or disposed of from such herd
IN said city until said new cows have
been examined and tested as herein
provided.
Sec. A. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, corporation or company
to deliver, sell or dispose of milk or
cream in the city of WATERFOWL,
whose COWS, stables, wagons, stores
places where milk is kept, stored or
handled, or the utensils in which milk
or cream is kept, handled or conveyed
are not thoroughly clean or IN good
sanitary condition; or whose cows
are in any way diseased or not fed
on good wholesome food or not sup
piled with pure water; or unless all
persons caring for and milking cows
have their hands and the udders of
| the cows cleaned before milking, and
that such persons are free from any
and every Infectious or contagious
| disease and are not caring for or nurs-
| ing any person or animal having any
contagious or infectious disease and
no milk or cream shall be sold or dis
posed of for human food which was
drawn from any animals within days
| before or four (4) days after partura-
ton Or taken from any house, shop or
other place in which there is a conta-
! gious or Infectious disease, until all
danger of contagion or infection there
from has been removed and until per-
mission is obtained in writing from
the Board of Health authorizing the