DISEASED ANIMALS AND SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

Rule 28. No animal affected with an infectious or contagious disease shall be brought or kept within the limits of the jurisdiction of this Board, except by permission of the Board. No diseased animal or its flesh, and no decayed, diseased or unfit meat, fish, vegetables or fruit, or diseased, impure or adulterated milk or other article shall be sold or offered for sale as food.

Rule 29. No slaughter house or abattoir shall be established or used as such within the jurisdiction of this Board without a permit and unless kept free from all obnoxious smells, and all offal removed every day; and no melting or rending house, and no place for manufacturing or other business giving rise to obnoxious or injurious vapors or odors, shall be established or used as such within the jurisdiction of this Board, except by its special permission and location.

DAIRIES AND DAIRY CATTLE.

Rule 30. No building shall be used for stabling cows for dairy purposes which is not well lighted, ventilated, drained and constructed. No building shall be used for stabling cows for dairy purposes which is not provided with a suitable floor, laid with proper grades and channels to carry off all drainage; if a public sewer abuts the premises upon which such buildings are situated they shall be connected therewith and furnished with proper sanitary traps.

Rule 31. No building shall be used for stabling cows for dairy purposes which is not provided with good and sufficient feeding troughs or boxes, and with a covered, water-tight receptacle outside the building for the reception of dung or other refuse.

Rule 32. No water-closet, privy, cess-pool, urinal, inhabited room or workshop shall be located within any building or shed used for stabling cows for dairy purposes, or for the storage of milk or cream; nor shall any fowl, hog, horse, sheep or goat be kept in any room used for such purpose. No space in building or sheds used for stabling cows shall be less than five hundred (500) cubic feet for each cow, and the stall therefor shall not be less than four (4) feet in width.

Rule 33. It shall be the duty of each person using any premises for keeping cows for dairy purposes to keep such premises thoroughly clean and in good repair, and well painted or whitewashed at all times.

Rule 34. Every person keeping cows for the production of milk for sale, shall cause every cow to be cleaned every day, and to be properly fed and watered; and every person using any premises for keeping cows, shall cause the yard used in connection therewith to be provided with a proper receptacle for drinking water for such cows, none but fresh, clean water to be used in such receptacle.

Rule 35. Any inclosure in which cows are kept shall be graded and drained so as to keep the surface reasonably dry and to prevent the accumulation of water therein, except as may be permitted for the purpose of supplying drinking water; no garbage, urine, fecal matter or similar substances shall be placed or allowed to remain in such inclosure; and no open drain shall be allowed to run through it.

Rule 36. Any person using any premises for keeping cows for dairy purposes shall provide and use a sufficient number of receptacles, made of non-absorbent materials, for the reception of, storage and delivery of milk, and shall cause all milk to be removed without delay from the room in which the cows are kept.

Rule 37. No milk shall be kept in ice boxes or refrigerators which

are in any way connected with sewers or cess-pools; nor shall any milk be kept in the same compartment of any ice box or refrigerator in which meats or other articles of food are kept.

Rule 38. All cans, measures and other receptacles for milk shall be scalded with boiling water or live steam daily; they must not be rinsed in cold water before using, for the water may not be pure, and some of it remaining in the vessels may contaminate the milk. All milk cans coming from the dairies to dealers must be properly cleaned as above before returning to producer, thoroughly aired and kept turned upside down in a cool place.

Rule 39. All milk shall be strained through wire-cloth strainers, and shall be cooled to 58 degrees within forty-five (45) minutes after it is drawn from the cow. In winter weather said cooler should be guarded against freezing. The milk shall not exceed 60 degrees when delivered to the consumer or dealer.

Rule 40. All milk cans delivered to creameries or dealers in the city shall be covered with air-tight lids, and when conveyed in open wagons shall be covered with canvas while being so conveyed, said canvas to be kept clean by frequent washing.

Rule 41. All stripping, as well as first part of milk, shall be delivered. The night's and morning's milk shall not be mixed. No milk shall be delivered that is taken from a cow that has calved within twelve (12) days, or from a cow that will come in or calve inside of sixty (60) days.

Rule 42. Cows shall not be fed on feed which will impart a disagreeable flavor to milk, or upon any food which will not produce milk of a standard richness, or any sour, damaged feed or ensilage.

Rule 43. It shall be the duty of any person having charge or control of any premises upon which cows are kept to notify the secretary of the Board of Health of the existence of any contagious or infectious disease among such cows immediately upon the discovery thereof, and to thoroughly isolate any cow or cows affected, and to exercise such other precautions as may be directed, in writing, by the said secretary.

Rule 44. It shall be the duty of any person owning or having control of cows used for the production of milk for sale or exchange to submit said cows to the tuberculin test for tuberculosis, on the written order of the state veterinarian.

Rule 45. It shall be the duty of any person having charge or control of any premises upon which milk or cream is produced, handled, stored or distributed, to notify the health officer immediately upon the discovery of any case of diphtheria, measles, membraneous croup, scarlet fever, small-pox, typhoid fever, or any other contagious or infectious diseases upon such premises. No milk or cream shall be sold, exchanged, given away, or in any other manner distributed from such infectious premises until all danger of spread of disease shall be removed and the health officer certifies to that effect. No person who attends to cows or milks them, or who has the care or handling of vessels for the sale, storage or distribution of milk or cream, shall enter any place or premises wherein exists any of the diseases mentioned herein; nor shall any such have any communication, direct or indirect, with any person who resides in or is an occupant of such infected place. Strict cleanliness of the hands and person of milkers, and those engaged in the handling of milk or cream, and of the bodies of cows, especially of the udders and teats, must be enforced at all times, to the end that no impurity or foreign substance may be added to the milk or cream; such addition being declared adulteration by the statute.

Rule 46. No person shall add water or any other foreign substances to milk or cream offered or intended for sale or exchange. Milk offered for sale as whole milk, or sold as such, which contains more than eighty-seven (87) per cent of watery fluid, or less than thirteen (13) per cent of milk solids, including three and seven-tenths (3.7) per cent of butter fat, is prima facie watered, and such watering is declared an adulteration by the state statutes, the punishment for which is a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) for each and every offense.

TRANSPORTATION OF DEAD BODIES.

These Rules having been duly adopted and properly published, have the force of Law.

Rule 47. The transportation of bodies dead of small-pox, Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or Bubonic plague, is absolutely forbidden.

Rule 48. The bodies of those who have died of diphtheria (membraneous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), glanders, anthrax or leprosy, shall not be accepted for transportation unless prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by (a) arterial and cavity injection with an approved disinfectant fluid; (b) disinfecting and stopping of all orifices with absorbent cotton, and (c) washing the body with the disinfectant, all of which must be done by an embalmer, holding a certificate as such, approved by the State Board of Health or other state health authority. After being disinfected as above, such body shall be enveloped in a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, completely wrapped in a sheet and bandaged and encased in an air-tight, zinc, tin, copper or lead-lined coffin, or iron casket, all joints and seams hermetically soldered, and all inclosed in a strong, tight, wooden box. Or, the body being prepared for shipment by disinfecting and wrapping as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket, and said coffin or casket incased in an air-tight, zinc, copper or tin case, all joints and seams hermetically soldered and inclosed in a strong outside wooden box.

Rule 49. The bodies of those dead of typhoid fever, puerperal fever, erysipelas, tuberculosis and measles, or other dangerous, communicable diseases other than those specified in Rules 48 and 49, may be received for transportation when prepared for shipment by filling cavities with an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the body with the same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton and enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged and encased in an air-tight coffin or casket; provided, that this shall apply only to bodies which can reach their destination within forty-eight hours from time of death. In all other cases such bodies shall be prepared for transportation in conformity with Rule 48. But when the body has been prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by an embalmer holding a certificate as in Rule 48, the air-tight sealing may be dispensed with.

Rule 50. The bodies of those dead of diseases that are not contagious, infectious or communicable, may be received for transportation when incased in a sound coffin or casket and inclosed in a strong outside wooden box; provided, they reach their destination within thirty hours from time of death. If the body can not reach its destination within thirty hours from time of death, it must be prepared for shipment by filling cavities with an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the body with the same, stopping all orifices with absorbent

cotton and enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and incased in an air-tight coffin or casket. But when the body has been prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by an embalmer holding a certificate, as in Rule 48, the air-tight sealing may be dispensed with.

Rule 51. In cases of contagious, infectious or communicable diseases, the body must not be accompanied by persons or articles which have been exposed to the infection of the disease, unless certified by the health officer as having been properly disinfected; and before selling passage tickets agents shall carefully examine the transit permit and note the name of the passenger in charge, and of any others proposing to accompany the body, and see that all necessary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of disease. The transit permit in such cases shall specifically state who is authorized by the health authorities to accompany the remains. In all cases where bodies are forwarded under Rule No. 48 notice must be sent by telegraph to the health officer at destination, advising the date and train on which the body may be expected. This notice must be sent by or in the name of the health officer at the initial point, and is to enable the health officer at destination to take all necessary precautions at that point.

Rule 52. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket, and also present a full first-class ticket marked "corpse" for the transportation of the body, and a transit permit, showing physician's or coroner's certificate, health officer's permit for removal, undertaker's certificate, name of deceased, date and hour of death; age, place of death, cause of death, and if of a contagious, infectious or communicable nature, the point to which the body is to be shipped; and when death is caused by any of the diseases specified in Rule No. 48, the names of those authorized by the health authorities to accompany the body. The transit permit must be made in duplicate, and the signatures of the physician or coroner, health officer and undertaker must be on both the original and duplicate copies. The undertaker's certificate and paster of the original, shall be detached from the transit permit and pasted on the coffin box. physician's certificate and transit permit shall be handed to thę passenger in charge of the corpse. The whole duplicate copy shall be sent to the official in charge of the baggage department of the initial line, and by him to the secretary of State or Provincial Board of Health of the state or province from which said shipment was made.

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Rule 53. When dead bodies are shipped by express the whole original transit permit shall be pasted upon the outside box and the duplicate forwarded by the express agent to the secretary of the State or Provincial Board of Health of the state or province from which said shipment was made.

Rule 54. Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or cause, shall be treated as infectious or dangerous to the public health, and shall not be accepted for transportation unless said removal has been approved by the state or provincial health authorities having jurisdiction where such body is disinterred, and the consent of the health authorities of the locality to which the corpse is consigned has first been obtained; and all such disinterred remains shall be inclosed in a hermetically sealed (soldered) zinc, tin or copper-lined coffin or box. Bodies deposited in receiving vaults shall be treated and considered the same as buried bodies.

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FORMS FOR CERTIFICATES AND NOTICES.

TRANSIT PERMIT.

This Certificate must be presented to the Local Board of Health for Approval.

I hereby certify that the above is true to the best of my knowledge

This Permit must be properly signed, and with Physician's Certificate presented to the Railroad or Express Agent before a body can be shipped.

Rule 47. The transportation of bodies dead of small-pox, Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or Bubonic plague, is absolutely forbidden.

(If City or Town affix Corporate Seal.)

Signed

.M. D.

.Health Officer. Local Board of Health.

This Permit and preceding Certificate must be detached and delivered to the person in charge of the corpse.