The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-22
BY AUTHORITY
ORDINANCE NO. 10.

DELIVERY OF MILK.
BE 1t Ordained by the People Of the
City and County of Honolulu.
SECTION /. 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,
4 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 a 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 clearly
wholesome and healthy condition.
SECTION T. No owner lessee, te-
nant, occupant, proprietor or manager
of any such dairy shall feed to his cows
or other cattle or have i'm 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
lsomeness of such cattle, or of their
milk, be sold offered for sale, kept for
sale, had in possession or brought with
in said City and County.
SECTION >. 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 inclosed 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 sucn
fence, except when being driven to or
from the milking shed.
SECTION g. 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 gutter drain, so
constructed as to prevent seepage,
which shall connect with a common
drain or sewer pipe communicating
with a 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 a
stable, barn or shed in which cows are
kept or MIXED is to be reconstructed, It
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
\ shall be whitewashed or lime washed
y at least once every six (6J months.
SECTION 8. All houses or sheds in
which milk is strained or stored shall
be so constructed as to prevent any
direct communication by means of
doors windows or other apertures with
the barns or stables in which cows are
\ kept or MIXED provided. that pipe
! with a funnel receptacle for receiving
the milk may be inserted through the
\ wall connecting said barns or stables
with the house or shed in which said
milk is strained, cooled or stored Said
y pipe and funnel shall be kept clean
and when not in actual use the funnel
I shall be securely covered.
SECTION 10. The floor of the dairy
} house, shed or barn in which milk is
strained or stored shall be water tight;
where such floor is to be renewed oil
l reconstructed it shall be made of ce
Q ment, artificial stone, asphalt or btu,
e men. Such fioorings shall have sur
q face drain connected with a sewer, OF
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