Evening star., 1909-05-02
FLY-SCREENED MILK
Dairy Farmers Required to
Provide Protection.
HEALTH OFFICERS ORDER
Will Lose Their Permits Unless Rule
Is Complied With.
OFFICIALS TAKING NO CHANCES
Close Inspection to Be Made to Guard
Against Injection Incident to
Warm Weather.
HEALTH OFFICERS ORDER
OFFICIALS TAKING NO CHANCES

Screen your dairies against flies" Is
the warning which will next week be
sent out to the dairymen who send milk
to the District by Health Officer w. {.
Woodward
Failure to comply, 1t is further stated
in the warning. will render the dairy
mans permit voidable or an application
for permit liable to rejection.
With the coming Of the warm weather,
when flies become numerous, the health
officer thinks that extra precautions
should be taken to protect the milk sup
ply of the District from contamination.
and on the recommendation Of DR.. A. L.
Murray he will soon send out circular
letter to all the darymen who send milk
to District homes. calling attention to
certain regulations governing dairies and
dairy farms with which compliance will
be strictly required.
In the opening of the letter attention is
called to regulation which declares that
no dairy shall be located within any
kitchen, washroom. workshop or inhabi-
ted room, nor in close proximity to any
place of possible contamination, nor in
any room or space which is not of such
size or construction as to permit the en-
tire separation of all milk and milk prod
ucts, both in the process of handling
and storing the same, from all probable
sources of contamination, either by dirt,
noxious gases, infective organisms or
substances, or anything liable to alter
unnecessarily the quality of such milk
or milk products"
The Danger From Flies.
Concerning the screening OF dairies, the
letter says:
1.-THE department considers that under
the above section all dairy rooms are
required to be effectually screened against
flies. Flies. whose habits cause them
to visit places where filth abounds, such
as manure piles and other occumulations
of refuse, are known to carry not only
small particles of refuse or filth on their
bodies and legs, but also to carry other
communicating matter, such as germs
which cause disease. Thus by excluding
a source of contamination by dirt and
disease germs, both of which are liable
to alter unnecessarily the quality of your
milk.
This letter is a warning and a notice
to you to screen effectually all openings
into your dairy room. including windows.
doors. cracks and all other apertures on
or before May Is, 1909. Failure to COM
ply with this notice will render your
permit voidable. or. II you are operating
to rejection.
Keeping "Score Cards."
Enclosed with this letter please find
new rating card for dairy farms recently
adopted by this department. This blank
is sent in duplicate with the request that
you score your farm as 1t now is and
return one copy of the completed score
card to this Office, retaining one for your
SELF
1.-THE inspector from this department
on his next visit to your farm will go over
this rating with you and explain wherein
your scoring comedies with the points al
lowed by this Office and also where 1t
differs. Further. he will endeavor to make
plain the conditions preventing you from
receiving the maximum score. thus en-
abling you, II you so desire. to increase
your score by correcting such conditions"
Inspectors Hold Meeting.
All the dairy inspectors under the local
health department held conference in
the District building yesterday to discuss
dairy farm problems and to outline the
work to be taken up in the warmer
weather when danger OF contamination is
greater. Present at the conference were
DR.. John Rome of Germantown, Md: DR..
G. H. Grapp of Frederick. Md; DR.. H. s.
Drake OF Leesburg, J. p. Turner, r. r.
Ashwood and II. Young of Washington.
besides the men at headquarters. Health
Officer w. c. Woodward. Assistant
Health officer II. F. SawteAe and Dairy
Inspector A. L. Murray.
They talked over another circular let
ter to be sent to the dairy proprietOrs
calling their attention to what is re-
quired by the laws of the District and Of
Virginia and Maryland in the line Of sani-
tary conditions in dairies. and that will
probably go out later in the month.