The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-06
sulbscr,ptIon Rates.
FRANK B. HOWE. Editor and Publisher
Watching the Meat Supply.

Hereafter the state of Vermont in
tends to keep closer watch of
slaughter houses and meat shops and
violations of law will be followed up
and punished. Health officer Still
son is busy this week supplying each
butcher and meat dealer in town an
official copy of the regulations. These
regulations are as follows:
Rule |. (a) All establishments in
which animals are slaughtered, or the
meats and meat food products are pre-
pared, cured, packed, stored, or han
died, shall be suitably lighted, ventil.
ated, supplied with running water, and
maintained in sanitary condition.
All employees shall keep themselves
clean. All work in such establish
ments shall be performed in a clearly
and sanitary manner. All yards,
premises adjacent to such establish
ments, or parts of the building, whet-
her used or not, shall be maintained
in sanitary condition. The feeding
of swine or other animals on the re-
fuse of slaughterhouses will not be
permitted on the premises and no use
incompatible with proper sanitation
shall be made of any part of the prem
ises on which such establishment is
! located.
(b) Ceilings, side walls, pillars,
partitions, etc, shall be frequently
whitewashed or painted, or, where
this is impracticable, they shall, when
necessary, be washed, scraped, or
otherwise rendered sanitary Where
floors or other parts of building or
tables or other parts OF the equipment,
are so old or in such condition that
they cannot readily be made sanitary,
they shall be removed and replaced by
suitable materials or otherwise put in
a condition acceptable to the Local
| Board. All floors upon which meats
are piled during the process of cur
| ing shall be so constructed that they
can be kept in clean and sanitary
condition, and such meats shall also
be kept clean.
(c) All trucks, trays and other re
ceptacles, all chutes, platforms, racks
tables, etc, and all knives, saws
cleavers and other tools and all uten
sils and machinery used in moving
handling, cutting, chopping, mixing
canning or other process, shall b'
thoroughly cleansed daily, II used.
Il I'D The aprons, smocks or othe
outer clothing of employees who han
die meat in contact with such cloth
ing shall be of material that Il
readily cleansed and made sanitary
and shall be cleansed daily, If used
Employees who handle meats or mea
food products shall be required t
keep their hands clean.
(e) All toilet rooms, urinals, AM
dressing rooms shall be entirely seq
| arated from compartments in whicl
| carcasses are dressed or meats o
meat food products are cured store
| packed, handled, or prepared. The
| shall be sufficient in number, ampl
| in size, and kept in thorough san
| tary condition.
| (f) The rooms or compartments i
| which meats or meat food product
are prepared, cured, stored, packed
or otherwise handled shall be lighte
| and ventilated in manner acceptable
to the Local Board. and shall be s
located that odors from toilet room!
catch-basins, tank rooms, hide cellars
etc, do not permeate them. A
rooms or compartments shall be pre-
/, vided with cuspidors, which emplo!
ees who expectorate shall be require
to use.
(g) Persons affected with tubercl
loss or any other communicable di:
ease shall not be employed in any c
the departments of establishment
| where carcasses are dressed, meat
handled, or meat food prepared
Rule 2. (a) Butchers who dres
diseased carcasses shall cleanse thei
hands and all knives or other impl'
ments used in dressing such disease
carcasses, by thoroughly washing an
| then disinfecting them in lysol, sui
sequently rinsing them in clear watel
before dressing or handling health
| carcass.
Cd The attention of butchers an
J all other persons dealing in animal
which are to be, or the carcasses c
those that have been slaughtered
which are intended to be sold for foo
is called to Acts No. 175 and No. Is.
of 1906.
State Board of Health,
| HENRY ID. HOLTON
| Secretary and Executive Office
III From time to time inspectors wi
| visit the dealers in behalf of the stat
i hoard If baoltb ap1 violations of III