Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-03-30
HEALTH OFFICER
WARNS MILK MEN
Will Prosecute Niolators OF Health
Laws and Regulations.

DR. CuIley, city and county health
officer, with letter OF warning has
mailed to ali milk aud dairy men Of
this section a copy of the following
rules and regulations issued by the
Stat Board of Health.
REGULATIONS.
L. No person shall engage in the
production Of milk for sale in any
town or city, nor shall any person en-
gage in the handling Of milk for ship
ment into any town or city until he has
obtained a permit or license from the
local health authority This permit
shall be renewed between the LIST and
10th dal of April Of each year and
may BE- suspended r. revoked at any
time by the local health officer or by
the Mississippi State Board of Health,
or their agents.
>. The COW stables for the cows
supplying milk or milk products for
sale shall ne used for no other purpose
than for keeping cows, and shall be
light, well ventilated, anu clean. The
entire inside of the dairy barn, includ
ing the COW stables, partitions, walls,
beams, ceiling and shelves shall be
white washed or painted at least once
a year, and in the spring time. unless
construction renders it unnecessary.
The floors shall be sound.
B. Every milk farm should be pro-
vided with milk room that Is clean,
light and well screened. situated at a
distance from the barn and all toilets
and oGthouses. 1t shall be used for no
other purpose except the cooling,
handling, aud storage Of milk and al
he'd products Where no separate
milk room is provided the milk must
be handled under conditions approved
Of by the State Board Of Health.
4 When required by the State
Board of Health or by the county or
city health officer all daily cows Civ
ing unilkr for sale. shall be subjected to
the tuberculin test by a competent
veterinarian Every diseased (react-
ingl COW shall be removed from the
herd and no milk from such cows shall
be offered for sale.
5. Cows, especially the udders,
shall be clean at the time of milking.
8. No person shall milk cows. or
strain, bottle, distribute, or otherwise
handle milk for sale, or the utensils
used in the production, handling or
distribution of milk when suffering or
affiliated with, or eonvaleseing from
infectious, contagious disease, who has
recently had typhoid fever, or who is
suffering from disease transmissible
through milk. or who is nursing or
tending TO person i'll with an infecti-
ous disease
The State Board of Health, its
members, officers, agents, and APP
pointees, shall a. all times have ac
cess to all diaries or other places where
milk is produced for sale, and to all
establishments, plants, depots and
stores wherein milk is kept or stored
for sale; and il l. unlawful for any
person to prove or attempt to pre-
vent such Access and such prevention,
OF attempted prevention, shall be
deemed a violation Of this order
;. All manure shall be removed |
daily from the dairy barn and deposit
Ell not within two hundred feet of |
where the milk Is obtained, handled,
or stored.
2. Any person, arm, or corpora
ton producing milk or by-products
for public consumption in any public |
place, such as soda fountains, restau-
rants, or hotels shall conform TO all the
rules ond regulations Of the State
Beard of Health pertaining to diaries.
This regulation applies to every per-
son or corporation who sells milk, ir
respective OF the number OF cows milk
ed. All regulations conflicting with
this regulation are hereby rescinded.
DAIRY PREMISES AND UTENSILS.
/. The surrounding of every dairy
must be kept in sanitary condition
The utensils used in handling of milk
cream, and by-produets of milk must
at all times be kept in clean and
wholesome condition.
No person, firm, or corporation
shall sell, or offer for sale, milk or
milk products which are produced IN
der insanitary conditions
8 No milk intended for sale shall
be put into bottles, or other utensils,
until the said bottles or other utensils |
have been thoroughly washed and
cleansed.
4. Ans person, firm, or corpora
ton, who receives from any dairy, |
farm, or creamery, any cans, bottles,