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

ton, analysis and certification of
such milk, and the diaries and
milk plants producing and distrib-
uting the same, shall be performed
by a milk commission appointed
by a regularly authorized county
medical society.
Sec. II. Guaranteed Milk"
shall comply in all respects with
the following specifications;
(a) A special permit to sell
Guaranteed Milk shall be obtained
from the City Health Officer.
(b) The producing dairy shall
have minimum score of IS on
the standard score card authorized
by this ordinance. The score for
equipment shall not be less than
35; the score for methods shall not
be less than so.
(c) On delivery to the consum-
er, the bacterial count of the milk
shall not exceed 10000 bacteria
per cubic centimeter.
(d) All persons engaged or en-
ployed in producing or handling
such milk shall be subjected to a
thorough physical examination,
supplemented by such appropriate
| laboratory tests as the City Health
officer shall designate, prior to
such engagement or employment,
| and also at least once in every six
months durins which such persons
are so engaged or employed. The
| physical examinations required
herein may be made by any physl-
clan licensed to practice medicine
under the laws of the State of New
Mexico. The laboratory eXamina-
tons required herein may be made
by any laboratory approved for
such purpose by the Director of
the State Bureau of Public Health.
Each certificate of physical and
laboratory examination shall be
promptly filed in duplicate with
the City Health Officer, who shall
countersign and deliver to the per-
son so examined such certificates,
where the results of such physical
and laboratory examination show
that the person so examined Is free
from communicable disease, or is
not a carrier of the causative Or
ganisms of communicable disease.
Such certificates, when counter
signed by the County Health Off
Ger, shall be valid for a period of
six months, provided, that the City
Health Officer may at any time re-
quire the physical and laboratory
examination of any holder of such
certificate, whom he may have
reason to suspect has become af-
flicted with communicable dis
ease.
No person shown by an eXamina-
ton required herein to be afflicted
with any communicable disease
shall be permitted to work in any
dairy, milk plant, creamery, or any
other place where milk Is produced
or handled for sale or distribution
in the City of Albuquerque, until
such time as subsequent appro-
pirate examination shall determine
that such person il no longer at
flicted with such communicable
disc Sc.
Certificates required herein,
when countersigned by the city
Health officer, shall be kept post
ed at all times in a conspicuous
place on the premises where the
person holding such certificate Is
engaged or employed in the pro-
duction of or handling of Guaran-
teed Milk.
The City Health Officer shall
prepare and distribute to such per-
sons as may require them a form
OF certificate of examination as re-
CURED herein, and all such exam
nations shall be recorded on such
forms, in duplicate, by the person
or persons making such examina-
ton, over the signature of such
person or persons.
te) All dairy cattle shall be
proved Tree frocl tubercu osis,
prior to admission to the dairy
herd. by means of the intrader-
NAL tuberculin test, or subcuta-
neous tests. In addition, all 1T
tie In the dairy herd shall re-
ceive the intradermal tuberculin
test at least once in twelve
months, provided. that II any
such cattle shall by such tests
be shown to be afflicted with tu-
berculosis. the tuberculin test OF
the entire dairy herd shall be
repeated within six months
All dairy cattle shown by such
tests to be afflicted with uber-
cu'osis shall be forthwith ex-