Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-01
HEALTH LAWS OF STATE
Republication Of statute Regulating
Slaughter Of Animals For

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Reniamin.L. Purcell, Commissioners
of the State Health Department, has
requested papers in Virginia to pub
lish the law regulating slaughter
houses. The warm season is now
mon u.s., and close attention and OBJ
seryation of all requirements IN tins
line should be urged upon all engaged
in slaughtering animals for human
consumption. The following extracts
from the acts should suffice:
Every building or room used as .
slaughter house, abattoir, packing
house, sausage factory, rendering
nlant or similar establishment shall
be properly lighted, drained, plumb
ed ventilated, and conducted
with due regard for the purity and
wholesomsness of the meat food pro-
ducts therein produced and with
strict regard to the influences of such
conditions upon the health OF the
operatives, employees and clerks.
The floors, side walls, ceilings, re,
ceptacles, implements, machinery, and
the clothing of the operatives, shall
at all times be kept in clean, health
full and sanitary condition. The doors
and all the windows during
the fly season, shall be fitted with
self closing screen doors and wire
window screens of not coarser thar
fourteen-mesh wire gauze, and the
meat food products in the process
of preparation, packing, storing O,
distribution, shall be securely protect
ed from flies, dust, dirt and from
all other foreign or injurious contami-
nation.
The sleeping places for persons en-
ployed in such establishments shall
be separate and apart from the room
in which meat food products are
manufactured, packed, stored or dis
tributed. No person shall be permit
ted to work in any such establishment
who is known to be afflicted with an
contagious or infectious disease, or
any skin disease. Every such estab-
lishmert shall be provided with o
convenient wash room and toilet Of
sanitary construction, but such toilet
shall be entirely separate and apart
from any room used for the prepare
ton, manufacture or storage OF meat
food products. Every room or COM
partment in which meat or meat
food products are prepared, cured
rendered, stored, packed, or ether
wise handled, shall be free from odol
from toilets, catch basins, tank rooms
casing departments, or from hides
or other injurious contamination. Al
water and ice used in the preparation
of carcasses, meats or meat food pro.
ducts shall be pure, clean and whole
some.
No swine shall be maintained at OF
near any slaughter house, and the
offal from the slaughter Of animals
shall not be fed unless it be first sub
ject to proper tankage; ana every
slaughter house or abattoir shall bf
equipped with adequate facilities fol
the. tankage of the offali,incident t
the slaughter of animals, and all tn!
gross. offal' except the casing result
ing from tho slaughter of animal.
shall be tanked.
mo person, firm or corporation
shall operate or conduct any slaugh;.
ter house, abattoir,, packing house
sausage factory, rendering plant Of
place. where animals are Slaughtered
for sale for human food or where ami;
mails carcasses or parts thereof arg
prepared for human food, unless Iii
cense, for. which no charge shall be
made, has first been issued by the
dairy and food commissioner to the
owner, operator or manager of such
establishment.
Every license issued under the pro.
vision of this act may be revoked by
the dairy and food commissioner if
the provisions of this act have been
violated and the holder of such lie
ense has been convicted thereof, and
every person, firm or corporation who
shall violate any of the provisions of
this act, or who shall conduct OF
operate slaughter house, abattoir
packing house.. sausage factory, rem
dering plant or other place where
animals are, slaughtered for sale fol
human food, or where animals car
cases or parts thereof, are prepared
for humane food in violation of the
provisions of this act; or who shall
conduct or operate any such estab-
lishment without holding a license as