The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-07-02
RIGID MILK LAW
IS DRAFTED BY
HEALTH BOARD
Ordinance to be Approved
Today Calls for Pure Milk
and Cattle Inspection.
HIGH STANDARD is
DEMANDED BY LAW
Dairymen's License Must Appear
on Wagons and They Must
be Clean.

on Wagons and They Must
be Clean.
The Board CT Health will meet at
the Courthouse at 10 o'clock this morn
ing, to adopt rigid milk ordinance.
The Board prepared an ordinance
providing for the city dairy inspection,
and will submit the measure to the
City Council for consideration.
The proposed ordinance is as fol-
lows:
We, your committee, beg leave to re-
port the accompanying ordinance and
recommend its reference to the City
Council for consideration.
R. F. Wichterich,
r. p. Dalton,
w. T. Rolston,
Joel T. Num-.
Be it ordained by the Council of the
City of Cape Girardeau, as follows:
Section THE Board of Health and
the health officer of the City of Cape
Girardeau are hereby authorized and
empowered to provide the inspection
of milk and milk products within the
City of Cape Girardeau and for the
inspection of dairies and dairy herds
producing milk or milk products for
sale or consumption Hithin said City
of Cape Girardeau, and said Board of
Health and health officer shall pre-
scribe the duties of such inspectors as
are appointed to carry out the provi-
sions of this ordinance.
Sec. 2-No milk shall be kept, sold
or offered for sale, stored, exchanged,
transported, conveyed, carried or de-
ivered, or with such intent as afore-
said, be in the care, custody, control
or possession of anyone if it contains
less than eight and five-tenths per
cent solids not fat, or less than three
and five tenthS per cent butter fat, or
if the temperature shall be higher than
sixty-five degrees Farenheit; all milk
the temperature of which is found on
examination or test to be above sixty
five degrees Farenheit, shall be con-
fiscated, forfeited and Immediately de-
stroyed by, or under the direction of
the health officer.
Sec. 3-No person shall bring into,
hold, keep, offer or expose for sale, or
sell or deliver for sale or consumption
within the City of Cape Girardeau, any
milk during the entire period from and
including April 1st to and including
October 31st of each year, which con-
tains more than 100000 bacteria per
cubic centimeter, or which, during the
entire period from and including No
venfber 1st to and including March
31st of each year, contains more than
$4,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter
Sec.4-No person or dealer in milk
or milk products, and no employee or
agent of such dealer in milk or milk
products, except such as may sell for
consumption upon the premises where
sold, shall give, furnish, sell, offer for
sale, or deliver any milk or cream in
quantities of less than one gallon, un-
less the same be kept, offered for sale
exposed for sale, sold or delivered in
sanitary transparent glass bottles, or
such other receptacles of similar char
acter as may be approved by the
health officer, the same to be sealed
with a suitable cap or stopper. The
said bottles or other receptacles shall
be sealed Immediately after the filling
of the same, which filling and sealing
shall only be done in a milk house, or
creamery, the sanitary condition of
which has been approved by the health
officer.
Sec. 5-No Person, dealer, employee,
or agent of such dealer shall give,
furnish, sell offer for sale or deliver
any milk, cream, or other milk prod
uct in quantities exceeding one gal
Ion, unless the can or receptacle con-
tanning the same is securely sealed by
lock and chain. wire or other contri-
vance equally efficient; provided, how
ever, that the persons are dealers en-
gaged exclusively in the wholesale de-
livery or sale of milk, cream or other
milk products from wagons not carry
ing milk in bottles, may deliver the
same from unsealed, but tightly COW