The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-23
ORDINANCE NO. Is.
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING DAI-
RIES, MILK DEPOTS AND THE
DEF livery OI1 MILK

hlEo, MILK DEPOIS AND THE
DELIVERY OF MILK.
Be 1t Ordained by the People of the
City and County of Honolulu.
SECTION 1. No builder, owner les
see, tenant, occupant, proprietor or
manager of any dairy within the City
and County of Honolulu shall either
cause or permit any matter or thing to
be or to be done, in or about such dairy,
building or structure therein contained,
which shall be dangerous to life or
health.
SECTION 2. 1t shall be the duty of
every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant,
proprietor, or manager of any dairy
within said City and County to tho
roughly and effectually cleanse at least
once in every twenty-four hours the
walls, floors and yards of every build
ing or structure, or part thereof, which
may be in use for the accommodation or
shelter of cattle, and also to remove
the contents of any manure pit or heap
on the premises once in each week
SECTION 3. No milk shall be taken
from any COW, goat or other milk pro-
ducing animal, unless such animal shall
| be in clean condition; nor shall any
such milk be taken from any such ami
NAL, except by an employee or other
person who is himself in a cleanly
/ wholesome and healthy condition
SECTION 4. No owner, lessee, te-
nant, occupant, proprietor or manager
of any such dairy shall feed to his cows
or other cattle or have in his pos
session with intent to feed to such cat
tie, any garbage, refuse, swill, ferment-
ed or other improper food, or shall
sell or offer for sale within the City and
County of Honolulu the milk from cat
tie so fed; nor shall any person within
! said City and County receive or sell or
offer for sale, or keep for sale, or have
in possession any such milk; nor shall
the milk or any cattle which may be
kept in any place where the water ven
| tilation, food and surroundings are not
wholesome, or are not conducive to
the health, safe condition and whole
milk, be sold, offered for sale, kept for
sale, had in possession or brought with
in said City and County.
SECTION 5. All sheds and barns in
which cows are MIXED shall be so con-
structed and of such size as to ensure
efficient ventilation. All milking sheds
and all barns or sheds upon the dairy
premises in which milk is produced,
stored or cooled shall be Enclosed by a
fence at least fifteen feet from such
shed or barn, and no COW or other ami
NAL shall be allowed within the space
between such sheds or barns and such
fence, except when being driven to or
from the milking shed
SECTION 6. The floor section of
sheds and barns where cows are stabbed
or MIXED shall be so constructed as to
, absolutely prevent all seepage to the
ground beneath. In said floor there
shall be provided a gutter drain, so
, constructed as to prevent seepage,
which shall connect with a common
drain or sewer pipe communicating
| with street sewer where one exists.
Where there is no street sewer the dis
charge must be carried so far from
the shed or barn, and so handled as to
effectually prevent contamination of
the milk or the atmosphere of the
dairy or barn therefrom Cows shall
not be permitted to stand in, or on, or
to have access to- accumulations OF
manure and urine, or either.
SECTION Z. Where the floor OF
stable, barn or shed in which cows are
kept or MIXED is to be reconstructed, 1t
shall be made of artificial stone, btu
men, asphalt or cement.
SECTION s. Food troughs and food
cars must be thoroughly cleaned at
least once a day The accumulation
of waste in or about food troughs, run
ways and food boxes is prohibited. The
walls of stables, milking barns or sheds