The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-18
NOTICE.
Ordinance Governing the Production, Sale, Distribution and Handling of Milk for the City of Bridgeport.
 Adopted March 6, 1917.


 Sale, Distribution and Handling of MIX for the City of Bridgeport.
 Adopted March 6, 1917.
 Section l. Definition The world milk as used in this ordinance shall be construed to mean milk, cream, skim milk and butter milk.
 Section 2. Licenses
 No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in the production, sale, handling or distribution of milk in the City of Bridgeport. until they have obtained a license therefore from the Department of Health. This license shall be renewed on or before the first day of January of each year and may be suspended or revoked at any time for cause. The application for this license shall include such in : formation as may be requested by the Department of Health. Licenses or license numbers must be displayed in accordance with the directions of the Department of Health.
 Section g. Production of Milk
 The COW stables used for the pro- duction of milk shall be used for no other purpose than for the keeping Of cows, and shall be light, well ventila- ted and clean. The floors shall be sound, the gutters shall be water tight the walls and ceiling of the barn shall. be whitewashed at least once every year, unless it's construction renders it unnecessary. They shall be kept free from cobwebs. and dirt. All manure shall be removed prompt ly and disposed of so as not to be a source of danger to the milk, nor to furnish breeding place for flies or otherwise.
 Section 4. MIX Room
 Every milk farm shall be provided with milk room that is clean, light V and well screened. It shall be used for no other purpose than for the cooling, bottling and storage of milk and the operations incident thereto.
 Section 5. Cows.
 4 Every diseased COW shall be remov- ed from the herd at once and no milk from such cows shall be offered for sale. Cows, especially the udders; shall be clean at the time of milking. No milk as obtained from a COW fif- teen days before or five days after parturition. nor any milk that has an unnatural odor or appearance shall be sold. No unwho1esome food shall be fed to cows, used for the production of milk. Every producer shall per init the authorized agents of the De- partment of Health to examine his herd at any reasonable time, under the penalty of having his supply ex- cluded.
 Section 6. Employees
 All employees connected in any way with the production and handling of milk shall be personally clean and shall wear clean outer garments. The Department of Health shall be noti- fled at once of any communicable dis eases in any person that is in any way connected with the. production or handling of milk, or of the exposure of such persons to any communicable disease. No person living in a home in which there is a case of communi- cable disease shall be allowed to work in the production. handling or distri- button of milk without a written per- init from the Health Officer.
 Section T. Utensils
 All utensils and apparatus with which milk comes in contact during it's production, handling or distribu- ton shall be thoroughly washed and steriIized before it's use again. No milk utensils or apparatus shall be used for any other purpose than that for which 1t was designed. ~ 2lEe The owners name, license number or other Identification mark, the na- ture of which shall be made known to the Health authorities shall appear in a conspicuous place on every milk container.
 No bottle or can shall be removed from a house in which there has re- gently been a case of communicable disease, without written permit from the Department of Health.
 All metallic containers and piping shall be in good condition at all times. Every conveyance used for the transportation or delivery of milk, common carriers excepted, shall bear the. owners name, milk license num- Der, and business address in letters at least two inches in height.
 Section 8. MIX Standards (ChemicaD
 (A) All milk which is sold or ex- changed, or offered for sale or ex- change, shall be deemed to be sold, exchanged or offered as of standard quality, unless otherwise expressly stated at the time of such sale. ex- change or offer.
 (B) Milk of standard quality is de- fined as meaning milk which contains not less than 11.75 percentage of milk solid and not less than 3.25 percentage ' of butter fats.
 Skim MIX
 Skim milk shall not contain less than eight and three-fourths per cent of milk solids.
 Cream Cream shall not contain less than eighteen per cent. of butter fats.
 Section g. Grading of Milk
 All milk sold or distributed in the City of Bridgeport shall be classified in one of the following grades:
 A. Certified
 B. Grade A. raw.
 e. Grade A. Pasteurized.
 O. Grade B. Pasteurized.
 E. Grade c.
 F. Skim milk and butter milk.
 A. Certified Milk
 No milk shall be sold or offered for sa1ee as certified milk which does not conform to the regulations re- quired by the Department of Health and is certified by a milk commission appointed by recognized medical so- ciety. All milk sold as certified milk shall be conspicuously marked with the name of the commission certifying 1t. No medical milk commission shall give such certificates unless all cows producing such milk have been tested at least once during the previous year with Tuberculin, and any cow react ing thereto has been properly exclud-