Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-24

pitfalls and sanitoriums serving
skinned milk shall display sign
or placard in a conspicuous place,
with the words SKINNED Milk
Sold Here in letters not less than
three inches in height thereon. The
said placard or sign shall be so
placed as to be seen from all parts
| of the dining room or rooms.
| Skinned milk shall be listed as
such on the bill of fare.
| Sec. II, The City Health Officer
shall keep a systematic record of
all permits granted for the sale or
distribution of milk, and a record
| of all inspections made, and of all
meteorological and other examina-
lions of milk. Such records shall
be open to inspection of the public.
Sec. IL. In all sanitary inspec-
lions of dairies and milk plants
supplying milk for sale or distri-
button in the City of Albuquerque,
the standard score card of the Blu
reau of Animal Industry of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture shall be used, with such
modification to adapt such score
card of New Mexico conditions as
may be approved in writing by the
director Of the State Bureau OF
Public Health.
A statement of the scores of per-
mittees may be published by the
Health officer at such times and
such manner as may be deemed by
him to be advisable.
Sec. 10. When any milk sold or
distributed or kept or offered for
sale or distribution in the City of
Albuquerque, Is found upon inspec-
ton or examination to be in a con-
dition, or of quality, prohibited
by this ordinance, or produced or
handled in violation of the proyi-
sions of this ordinance, then the
City Health Officer, after giving
the owner thereof an opportunity
to be heard in defense of his prop
erty, may cause the same to be de-
stroyed or disposed of otherwise
than as human food.
Sec. IA. The following rules
shall apply as minimum require
ments to all diaries producing milk
for sale or distribution for human
food within the City of Albuquer-
que.
(a) Milking barns shall be sep
arate and used for milking pur-
poses only. Milking barns shall be
properly constructed and approved
| by Health Department, we'll lighted
and ventilated provided with a
sound water-tight, water proof and
readily cleanable floor of cement
concrete, which floor shall be laid
with proper grades and cutters to
carry off all drainage. Said floor
shall extend for at least three feet
| beyond the gutter. The gutter shall
be not less than eight inches wide
| and six inches deep. The gutter
shall be placed parallel to the line
of stanchions and shall be not less
than five feet distant therefrom.
The minimum thickness of con-
crete or other impervious material
in the floor shall be four inches,
There shall be window area or
other openings for light equal in
area to at least three square feet
for each COW MIXED in such barn.
CD No water closet privy, cess
pool, or urinal shall be located
within any room used for the pro-
duction or handling Of milk.
Co No privy, cesspool, pig
pen, horse barns nor other contain
mating thing or condition shall be
| located within one hundred feet Of
any milking barn or milk ROOM
except in case of horse barns in
diaries already licensed when with
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or alterations must be made to sep
arate barns entirely.
(d) Fodder and feed for dairy
cows shall not be stored in any
milking barn or milk room, unless
completely separated from the
milking barn by tight wall par
tition, and doors,
| (e) All manure shall be re-
moved at least twice daily from the
milking barn, and shall not be
stored where the odor thereof will
be noticeable in the milk room.
(f) Immediately before milking
the udders, flanks and posterior
| portions of all cows shall be cur
ried brushed or otherwise cleaned
| of all coarse dirt and manure and
the udders shall be we'll washed In
clean water and dried with a clean
cloth.
(g) Any enclosure or corral IN
which dairy cows are kept shall be
graded or drained so as to keep
the surface reasonably dry and 10
prevent the accumulation of water
thereon.
(h) All milk shall be removed
as soon as drawn, from the milk
| ing barn to the milk room. MIX
shall not be poured from the milk
ing pail In the milking barn.
G) Every dairy must have a
separate milk room which is used
solely for cooling, storing, bottling
and handling the milk. There shall
be at least two doors and solid
wall between the milking barn and
the milk room. The milk room
shall be we'll lighted and ventilated,
shall be we'll constructed. shall have
sound, water.tight and water
proof floor of not less than four
inches Of cement-concrete or other
Iimpervious material. and the in
terror walls and ceiling thereof
shall be we'll painted with white or
other light-colored paint. All open
ings shall be effectively screened
with not less than fourteen mesh
wire screen, which screens shall
be at all times maintained In good
condition so as to effectively pre-
vent access by flies to the milk
room. Every milk room shall be
provided with adequate facilities
for cooling. straining and storing
the milk or cream. The milk room
shall be provided with an adequate
supply of pure water.
I'd All dairymen now licensed
to sell milk or cream in the city OF
Albuquerque who do not at the
time Of the passage of this ordi-
nance have a separate milk-house
as provided in paragraphs (a), (d)
and ~ of this section shall pro-
vide such milking barns within 80
days, and milk rooms prior to De-
cember l, 1921. excepting such