The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-20

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time and place where animals are
slaughtered, or meat or meat food
prOudcts are being prepared for sale
OF for human consumption. Any car
cass or part thereof affected by dis
ease, or for other reason unfit for
food Tor human consumption shall be
freely slashed, saturated with kero-
sene and destroyed. Such condemned
parts however may be tanked
| SECTION 3. Be it further ordained
| that all Enclosed or indoor shops in
which meat or meat products are stor-
ed and exposed for sale shall be kept
scrupulously clean, All doors and
windows opening into such shops
shall be effectively protected against
the entrance of flies by the use of
| fly screens or Ofher affective me-
| chanical devices. No meats of any
description shall be permitted to hang
or stand in the open air exposed to
| insects or street dust, or other con-
| Eliminating influences but must be I'M
der glass or fly netting, and in sum-
mer months properly iced to prevent
| spelling. Blocks or stands upon which
meats are cut or chopped shall be
| kept scrupulously clean by frequent
washing and by scraping as often as
| in the judgment of the inspector
| seems necessary. Scales, knives and
implements of every description shall
| be cleaned at the close of each days
business. Ice boxes, racks and hooks
| shall be kept thoroughly clean by
| scrubbing and scraping and ice boxes
shall be secured throughout once each
| week and as much oftener as neces-
sary. Floors must be thoroughly
scraped and scrubbed; all used saw.
| dust must be removed and fresh saw
dust sprinkled or laid (where used)
| at least twice weekly. Meat cutters
| or other attendants who handle meats
| shall be clearly dressed, and they
shall be free from contagious and in
! fictitious disease. Their hands and
! outer garments shall be kept clean.
No refuse, scraps, bones, rancid fat,
or decaying flesh shall be kept in the
| ice box with fresh meats, nor shall
an ice box used for the keeping OF
| meats be employed for any other pur-
| pose. The wrapping of meats in old
newspapers or in wrapping paper that
is sohed or that has been used for
any other purpose, is expressly pro-
hibited. Every piece OF meat sold
shall be wrapped in fresh, clean wrap
| ped paper that has not been used for
any other purpose. Live poultry shall
not be kept, nor killed in the same
room or compartment in which meats
are prepared, stored, or exposed for
sale; nor shall live poultry be kept
in any room adjoining such room If
| TIE conditions are such that the room
used for the storage of the live poul-
try ventilates into the next shop so
that the odors from the fowls and
their cages may contaminate the
meats.
| SECTION 4. Be it further ordained
that fresh meats not slaughtered I'M
der State or Federal Inspection, when
sale, will be inspected or branded or
otherwise marked for identification
by the Health officer or assistants I'M
der the following conditions to-wit:
All carcasses must have the head and
all viscera except the stomach, blad-
der and intestines, held together by
natural attachments, and all such
carcasses before being offered for
SALE shall be brought to such place
or places in the city as shall be des-
ignated by the said Health Officer,
and shall at said place be inspected
by the Health officer or legally desig-
mated inspector.
SECTION 5. Be it further ordained
that all dairy barns shall be located
so as to afford natural drainage, or
adequate sewerage must be installed
to keep barn and lot free from con-
terminating surroundings and influen-
ces. Dairy barns shall be equipped
with concrete floor or other non-ab-
sorbing material. Floors must be
kept clean at all times. Walls, stalls,
partitions, and stanchions, if of wood,
| should be of dressed lumber and shall
| De pdlDlSu not lSSS THAN OhAC a yCoA
| if constructed of rough lumber they
shall be white washed twice a year.
Feed rooms and storage for feed must
be separated from the milking barn
by dust proof ceiling and partition.
Dairy barns shall be provided with
ample room and sufficient light; four
square feet of window space per cow
and not less than five hundred cubic
feet of air space per COW; and rea-
sonable protection for cattle during
| cold weather must be provided. 9th
er animals must be kept in the barn
or under the same roof only when
proper provision for sanitary condi-
tons are made. Hog pens, hog wal
los, cess pools, mud holes, surface
closets, or other sources of contain
nation will not be permitted within
one hundred feet of the barn. The
droppings in the barn must be collect
ed each day and removed. No manure
pit shall be less than one hundred
feet from the barn.
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