Imperial Valley press., 1916-06-06

sorbent material, and shall be washed
and secured daily. Such toilets shall
be furnished with separate ventilating
pipes or flues, discharging into soil
pipes, or on the outside of the build
ing in which they are situated. Lava
tories and washrooms shall be adja-
cent to toilet rooms, and shall be
supplied with SOAP, running water and
towels, and shall be maintained in a
clean and sanitary condition. Opera
tives, employees, clerks and all per-
sons who handle the material from
which food is prepared, or the finished
product, before beginning work and
Immediately after visiting a toilet or
lavatory shall wash their hands and
arms thoroughly in clean water.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, for the use of
operatives, employees, clerks and other
persons, shall be provided, and each
cuspidor shall be emptied and washed
out daily with disinfectant solution,
and not less than five ounces of such
solution shall be left in each cuspidor
while in use. No operative, employe,
clerk or other person, shall expectorate
or discharge any substance from his
nose or mouth on the floor or interior
side wall Of any building, room, base
ment or cellar where the production,
manufacture, packing, storing, prep-
aration or sale Of any food product is
conducted. Ii.
Sleeping-No person shall be allowed
to, nor shall he reside or sleep in any
room of bake shop, public dining
room, hotel or restaurant kitchen, con-
fectionery, or other place where food
is prepared, produced, manufactured,
served or sole.
Inspection-The members of the
State Board of Health, inspectors and
agents appointed by said boards, and
all local health officers and inspectors,
shall have full power at all times to
enter every building, room, basement,
cellar, or any place occupied or used,
or suspected of being occupied or
used for the production, manufacture,
preparation, storage, sale or distribu-
,tion of food, and tn inspect the prem
Uses and all utensils, implements, re-
iceptacles, fixtures, furniture and ma
chinery used as aforesaid, and if, upon
inspection, any such building, room,
basement, cellar or any such place,
vehicle, employer, operative, employe,
clerk, driver or other person is found
7 to be IN violation or violating any Of
the provisions Of this act, or if the
production, preparation, manufacture,
packing, storing, sale or distribution
of food is being conducted in a man.
ner detrimental to the health of the
employees or operatives, or to the char
acter or quality of the food therein
being produced, manufactured, packed
stored, sold, distributed or conveyed
the officer or Inspector making the ex-
animation shall at once make writ
ten report of the same to the district
attorney of the county, who shall
prosecute all persons violating any of
the provisions of this act, and also to
the state board of health. The state
board of health, from time to time
as in its discretion it may determine
may publish such reports in its month
ly bulletin.
Penalty-Any person, firm or cor
poration, whether as principal OF
agent, employer or employe, who vio-
;ates any of the provisions of this
oct shall be guilty Of misdemeanor
and each day that condition or actions
in violation of this act shall continue
shall be deemed to be separate and
distinct offense, and for each offense
upon conviction, he shall be punished
by fine of not less than $25 nor
more than $500, or shall be impris-
oned in the county Jail for term
not exceeding six mnths, or by both
such fine and Imprisonment.
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