Milk to be Tightly Covered.

Section 26a. It shall be unlawful to sell, offer for sale, expose for sale or ship into the City and County of San Francisco for human consumption, any milk or cream in any tank or container, holding more than three gallons, which is not provided with a proper and tight-fitting mushroom cover.-New Section added by Ordinance No. 697 (New Series), approved March 17, 1909.

Penalty for Violation of Provisions of This Ordinance.

Section 27. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars, and not more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than one hundred (100) days.

Section 28. Order No. 2944, approved January 16, 1896; Ordinance No. 1208, approved May 26, 1904; Ordinance No. 491 (New Series), approved June 23, 1908, and all Orders and Ordinances and parts of Orders and Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed.

Section 29. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after its passage.

ORDINANCE NO. 229.

Approved February 8, 1901.

Establishing Regulations for the Construction and Maintenance of Dairies and Punishing Violations of Such Regulations.

Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. No person shall, in any dairy within said City and County, erect or cause or permit to be erected or converted by alteration, or maintain any building or structure which, or any part of which, shall be inadequate or defective in respect to strength, ventilation, light, sewerage or any other usual, proper or necessary provision or precaution for the security of health or life.

Section 2. No builder, owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or proprietor or manager of any dairy within said City and County shall either cause or permit any matter or thing to be, or to be done, in or about such dairy, or any building or structure therein contained, which shall be dangerous or prejudicial to life or health.

Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, proprietor or manager of any dairy within said City and County to lease or let or hire out any building or structure therein contained, or any part or portion thereof, to be occupied by any person or to allow or permit the same to be occupied as a place in which or for any one to dwell or lodge, or sleep, unless such building or structure, or such parts thereof, shall be sufficiently lighted, ventilated, provided and accommodated, and shall be in all respects in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness for which this Ordinance provides; but in no case whatever shall it be lawful for any owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, proprietor or manager of any such dairy either to cause or to permit any person whatever to dwell, or lodge, or sleep within any building or structure whatever, or any part thereof which is occupied by cattle of any kind, or used as a place of shelter for cattle of any kind.

Section 4. The living quarters of the employes of all such dairies shall be contained within buildings or structures which shall be wholly

separate, distinct and disconnected from the buildings or structures wherein the cattle of such dairies may be housed; the beds in all such living quarters, and in every room in which beds are kept or provided for such employes, shall be separated by a passage way of not less than two feet, horizontally; and all such beds shall be so arranged that under each of them the air shall freely circulate, and there be adequate ventilation; and five hundred cubic feet of air space shall be provided and allowed for each bed or employe, and no more beds shall be permitted than those provided for according to the terms of this Ordinance, unless free and adequate means of ventilation exist, to be approved by the Board of Health, and a special permit in writing be granted therefor, specifying the number of beds or the cubic air space which shall under special circumstances be allowed.

Section 5. Every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, proprietor or manager of any such dairy shall cause every part thereof and its appurtenances to be put and shall thereafter cause the same to be kept in a cleanly and wholesome condition and shall cause every part thereof in which any person may sleep, dwell or work to be adequately lighted and ventilated according to the direction and to the satisfaction of the Board of Health; and proper accommodations for urinals, water closets, bath tubs and washing utensils shall be provided, according to the directions and to the satisfaction of the Board of Health; but in no case shall any open urinal, or water closet, or manure pit, or dung pit, or privy well be allowed or permitted within any building or structure, or any part thereof, in which cattle are milked.

Section 6. It is hereby made the duty of every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, proprietor or manager of any dairy within said City and County to thoroughly and effectually cleanse at least once in every twenty-four hours the walls, floors and yards of every building or structure, or part thereof, which may be in use for the accommodation or shelter of cattle, and also to remove the contents of any manure pit on the premises once in each week.

Section 7. No milk shall be taken from any cow, goat or other milkproducing animal unless such animal shall be in a clean condition; nor shall any such milk be taken from any animal except by an employe or other person who is himself in a cleanly, wholesome and healthy condition.

Section 8. No owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, proprietor or manager of any such dairy shall feed to his cows or other cattle, or have in his possession with intent to feed to such cattle, any garbage, refuse, swill or other improper food, or shall sell or offer for sale within said City and County the milk from such cattle; nor shall any person within said City and County receive or sell, or offer for sale, or keep for sale, or have in possession, any such milk; nor shall the milk of any cattle which may be kept in any place where the water, ventilation, food and surroundings are not wholesome, or are not conducive to the health, safe condition and wholesomeness of such cattle, or of their milk, be sold, offered for sale, kept for sale, had in possession or brought within said City and County.

Section 9. No person shall bring within said City and County or at any place therein sell, or deliver, or offer, or have for sale or retain in possession, any unwholesome, watered or otherwise adulterated milk, butter or cheese, or milk known as "swill milk," or milk from cows or other animals that for the most part have been kept in stables or that have been fed in whole or in part on swill, or milk from sick or diseased cows or other cattle, or any butter or cheese made from any such milk, or any milk, butter or cheese produced by or from any such cattle which may have been exposed to emanation from or infections by any communicable disease.

Pure skimmed milk shall be permitted for sale or delivery, provided that the cans or vessels containing such skimmed milk shall be distinctly labeled "skimmed milk"; and further provided, that such "skimmed milk" shall not be carried in wagons or vehicles in which "whole milk" is carried,

sold or delivered, or pretended to be carried or sold.-As amended by Ordinance No. 340, approved August 8, 1901.

Section 10. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor more than five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Section 11. This Ordinance shall take effect on and from its passage.

ORDINANCE NO. 1273.

Approved August 11, 1904.

Regulating Dairies, Milk Depots and the Delivery of Milk.

Be it Ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. Sheds and barns in which cows are milked shall be so constructed and of such size as to insure efficient ventilation.

Section 2. The walls of milking sheds and milking barns shall be provided with an average door and window space of not less than ten (10) square feet in every ten (10) linear feet. Sheds and barns must be properly and adequately ventilated.

Section 3. The floor section of sheds and barns where cows are stabled or milked shall be so constructed as to absolutely prevent all seepage to the ground beneath. In said floor there shall be provided a gutter drain, so constructed as to prevent seepage and connect with a common drain or sewer pipe communicating with the street sewer, where one exists. Where there is no street sewer the discharge must be carried so far from the barn and so handled as to effectually prevent contamination of the milk or the atmosphere of the dairy or barn therefrom. Cows must not be permitted to stand in, or on, or to have access to, accumulations of manure and urine or either.

Section 4. The floor space between the stable sections shall be so constructed that unnecessary recesses and angles are avoided. Food boxes shall be so constructed that they can be thoroughly cleaned and all the recesses between the troughs wherein dirt or refuse may lodge be so constructed that they may be thoroughly cleaned. And they shall be properly cleaned at the time of the general cleaning of the barn.

Section 5. Where the floor of a stable, barn or shed in which cows are kept or milked is not more than one foot above the ground and said floor is to be reconstructed, it shall be made of artificial stone, bitumen, asphalt or cement; provided, that in case only two sides of such stable, shed or barn rest directly upon the ground, the floor may be of wood.

Section 6. Food troughs and food cars must be thoroughly cleaned at least once a day. The accumulation of waste in or about food troughs, runways and food boxes must be prevented. The walls of stables and milking barns shall be whitewashed or lime washed at least once every six (6) months.

Section 7. The houses or sheds in which milk is strained or stored shall be so constructed as to prevent any direct communication by means of doors, windows or other apertures with the said barns or stables in which cows are kept or milked; provided, that a pipe with a funnel receptacle for receiving the milk may be inserted through the wall connecting said barns or stables with the house or shed in which said milk is strained or cooled. Said pipe and funnel to be kept clean, and when not in actual use the funnel shall be securely covered.

Section 8. The floor of the dairy house, shed or barn in which milk is strained or stored shall be water tight; where such floor is to be renewed or reconstructed it shall be made of cement, artificial stone, asphalt or bitumen. Such flooring must have a surface drain connected with a sewer, or with a common drain in case there is no sewer outlet.

Section 9. The walls of dairy houses, depots, sheds and barns where milk is strained or stored shall be so constructed as to be tight and allow of easy and thorough cleaning.

Section 10. All windows, doors and ventilators of dairy houses or sheds in which milk is strained or stored shall be provided with a screen of wire mesh. The screen of the windows and ventilators must be securely and permanently fastened.

Section 11. Immediately after the main receptacle bucket has been filled with milk it shall be taken covered to the milk house and emptied into the strainer from a platform outside of the milkhouse. The receptacle buckets shall be hung upon hooks or rest on a platform at least three (3) feet above the floor, and must be so covered as to be protected at all times from exposure to dirt or discharges and must not be allowed to rest upon the floor of the milk shed.

Section 12. Milkers and other helpers not directly concerned in the straining, separating and filling of containers, shall not be allowed within the milkhouse while milk is being strained or handled; nor shall any domestic animal be allowed therein.

Section 13. Vats or troughs used to cool milk, if of wood, shall be painted white and shall be of such a depth that the water contained therein shall not rise above the shoulder of the milk can. They shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once each day and at all times shall be free from scum, slime, stagnant or impure water.

Section 14. The milkhouse shall be washed and hosed down daily with fresh water; and at least once each week the floors and drains within all milkhouses and sheds shall be sprinkled with lime or gypsum.

Section 15. Persons handling milk within the milkhouses shall be personally clean.

Section 16. Milk awaiting delivery shall not be kept in a room used for domestic purposes.

Section 17. No milk container or milk vessel that is rusty or rust eaten or otherwise unfit shall be used.

Section 18. No person shall drink from any vessel or utensil, or the cover thereof, which is used for the delivery of milk nor shall any can, bottle or utensil used for the purpose of delivering milk be used for any other purpose; nor shall such can or utensil be placed in, on or about a stove or other heating apparatus.

Section 19. In houses where contagious disease is known to exist, no bottles, cans or other utensils in which milk is delivered, shall be collected until the houses have been fumigated, and said bottles, cans and other utensils sterilized.

Section 20. No person suffering from any contagious disease, or in whose place of dwelling any contagious disease is known to exist, shall be allowed upon the premises of any dairy, or to deliver milk from any dairy or milk depot.

Section 21. Where contagious disease occurs in any dairy, the person or persons suffering therefrom shall be strictly isolated and kept in quarantine, and any person who may be in contact shall not be permitted to work in the dairy until such time as may be designated by the Board of Health.

Section 22. All persons acting as milkers shall be personally clean and free from contagious disease.

Section 23. No cow shall be milked unless the sides, bellies, haunches, udders, teats and tail of the cow shall be clean.

Section 24. Before handling or milking the cows, milkers shall thoroughly wash and scrub their hands and otherwise be thoroughly clean.

Section 25. Milkers shall reject the first three (3) sprays of foremilk from each teat before milking into the bucket.

Section 26. Colostrum milk shall be rejected, and also milk into which manure or discharges have entered while milking or which is bloody, stringy, thick or unnatural in appearance. Milking pails shall be thoroughly cleaned before being used.

Section 27. All milking stools must be kept clean.

Section 28. No sick cow or cows showing signs of tuberculosis, contagious abortion, mammites, mammary, abscess, disease of the udder or teat, or actinomycosis (lumpjaw), shall be allowed in the herd from which milk is drawn, and the milk of cows within thirty days of calving or five days after calving shall not be mixed with that of the herd or marketed.

Section 29. Cows showing signs of ill health or disease, or that are off feed, shall be isolated and quarantined, as provided in Ordinance 198, approved December 12, 1900.

Section 30. In dairies and milk depots, all cans, bottles and other utensils, after being used shall be thoroughly washed in a water containing lye or sodium carbonate (sal soda), or some substance containing a mixture of these with or without soap.

Section 31. Not more than twenty (20) cans or fifty (50) bottles shall be washed in a tank or tub containing less than ten (10) gallons of water, unless said tank or tub is filled with a fresh solution as provided in Section 30 of this Ordinance.

Section 32. All cans, bottles and other utensils shall be thoroughly rinsed, after being washed, as provided in Section 30 of this Ordinance, in a tank or tub of clean fresh water. The rinsing tank or tub, while in use, must have a constant inflow and outflow of pure, clean, fresh water. After being rinsed all cans, bottles and other milking utensils shall be subjected to the action of boiling water in a closed vat or to the action of steam. After being so subjected to boiling water or steam, said cans, bottles or other milk utensils shall not be allowed to stand in any place where they are exposed to dirt, dust, flies or other contamination; but shall be placed upon racks without pegs, said racks being at least three (3) feet from the floor, and wash tanks and rinsing tanks used for the cleaning of cans, bottles and other milking utensils shall not be used for any other purpose.

Section 33. The floors of wash houses of dairies and milk depots shall be water tight, and where such floor is to be renewed or reconstructed it shall be made of cement, artificial stone, asphaltum or bitumen, and shall have a surface drain connected with a sewer, and where there is no sewer, connected with the common drain.

Section 34. Wash tanks and tubs for cleaning and rinsing milking utensils, if of wood, must be metal lined. Wash tanks and tubs and the floors of the washroom must be cleaned daily.

Section 35. All brushes, scrapers and other appliances used in cleaning cans, bottles and other utensils must be sterilized daily, and at all times must be free from incrustations and accumulated dirt.

Section 36. Every dairy shall be supplied with pure water, the source whereof shall not be contaminated by any barnyard, privy, sewer or other possible source of contamination. Cows shall not be allowed to drink from stagnant pools and shall have full access at all times to a supply of pure water.