such funds as, in their opinion, are necessary and desirable for the purpose of making effective the provisions of this section. Condensed, Evaporated, or Preserved Milk-Manufacture and Sale. (Ch. 348, Act Apr. 9, 1920.) 66 66 SECTION 1. That chapter 532 of the acts of the general assembly passed at the January session, 1900, as now codified in section 249 of article 27 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title Crimes and punishments," subtitle Health, milk, pure, skimmed," be, and the same is hereby, repealed and reenacted with amendments so as to read as follows: SEC. 249. No condensed, evaporated, or preserved milk shall be manufactured. sold, or exchanged, or offered or exposed for sale or exchange, except as hereinafter in this section authorized and provided, unless the same be manufactured from or out of pure, clean, healthy, fresh, unadulterated, and wholesome milk, from which the cream has not been removed, either wholly or in part, and unless the proportion of milk solids of same shall be in quantity the equivalent of 12.50 per centum of milk solids in crude milk, and of which milk solids 3.50 per centum shall be butter fats. No person shall manufacture, sell, or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, any condensed, evaporated, or preserved milk unless the same be put up, packed, or contained in packages with the name of the manufacturer of the said milk distinctly branded or stamped thereon. Whoever by himself or another violates any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100, or be imprisoned for not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment for the first offense, and by a fine of $100 or imprisonment for three months, or both such fine and imprisonment, for each subsequent offense: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall prohibit the manufacture, sale, or exchange of condensed, evaporated, or preserved skimmed milk in bulk for manufacturing purposes, if sold as such in containers which hold not less than 10 pounds avoirdupois thereof each, and which are conspicuously labeled "Condensed skimmed milk" in capital letters, each of a size not less than 2 inches square. Adulterated or Unwholesome Food and Drinks-Destruction or Disposal. Misbranded Food and Drinks-Relabeling Required. (Ch. 316, Act Apr. 9, 1920.) SECTION 1. That section 153 of article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Health," subtitle "Adulteration of food and drink," be, and the same is hereby, repealed and reenacted so as to read as follows: SEC. 153. Whenever the said board of health, or its proper officer, shall be satisfied that any article of food, condiment, or drink has been adulterated, or is otherwise unsound or unwholesome, the said board or its proper officer shall forbid the sale or disposal of such article for human food, and order it to be destroyed or disposed of so as to prevent it from being exposed for sale or used for the food of man; and the person or persons to whom the same belongs or did belong at the time of exposure for sale, or in whose possession, or on whose premises the same was found, refusing or neglecting to destroy or otherwise dispose of such unsound or unwholesome article as directed, shall be liable to the penalty imposed under the provisions of section 151. Whenever the State board of health, or its proper officer, shall be satisfied that any article of food, condiment, or drink has been misbranded, the said board or its proper officer shall forbid the sale or disposal of such article for human food until such article of food, condiment, or drink has been relabeled in accordance with an order in writing by the State, board of health or its proper officer, and any person or persons to whom the same belong, or in whose possession, or on whose premises the same was found, selling or offering for sale or deliverying any such article of food, condiment, or drink, before the same shall have been relabeled in accordance with the aforementioned order, shall be liable to the penalty imposed under the provisions of section 151. Foods and Drugs-Standards for Quality, Purity, and Strength of. Ice Cream-Standards for. (Ch. 333, Act Apr. 9, 1920.) SECTION 1. That section 171 of article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title, "Health," subtitle "Adulteration of food and drink," be and the same is hereby repealed and reenacted so as to read as follows: SEC. 171. The standard under sections 166 to 177 for the quality, purity. and strength of drugs shall be the standard set by the United States Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary. That any standards of quality, purity, and strength for foods or for drugs not already standardized by the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary the standards heretofore adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture are hereby declared to be the standards of purity, quality, and strength for such foods and drugs in the State of Maryland, except in the case of ice cream, in which case the standards are declared to be as follows: (a) Ice cream is a frozen product [made] from cream and other milk substances and sugar, with or without a natural flavoring and containing not less than 8 per cent of milk fat, to which may be added fresh eggs and not exceeding 1 per cent of pure gelatin, gum-tragacanth or vegetable gum, without statement of such fact, and such goods may be called ice cream, provided the required percentage of fat is maintained. But such product when containing 8 per cent and upward of milk fat shall be labeled, showing the percentage of milk fat; if imitation flavoring materials are used, the label must state the fact. (b) Fruit ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar, and sound, clean, mature fruits, and containing not less than 6 per cent of milk fat, to which may be added the same substances as in case of ice cream under the preceding subsection (a) and subject to the same provisions for labeling. (c) Nut ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar and sound, nonrancid nuts and contains not less than 6 per cent of milk fat, to which may be added the same substances as in the case of ice cream under the preceding subsection (a) and subject to the same provisions for labeling. Poultry Soaked in Water-Sale Prohibited. (Ch. 650, Act Apr. 9, 1920.) SECTION 1. That a new section be and is hereby added to article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Crimes and punishments," to be under subtitle "Fraud-poultry," to be known as section 184-A, to follow immediately after section 184 of said article, and to read as follows: SEC. 184-A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell or offer for sale any poultry soaked in water, or to have in his, her, or its possession for the purpose of selling or offering for sale any poultry soaked in water. Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 for each and every offense. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect June 1, 1920. such platforms or racks shall be kept in a clean REG. 9. No room used for domestic purposes with a bakery. REG. 10. The proprietor of every bakery shall health any suspicions he may entertain of the pre ease or ailment dangerous to the public health an or connected with his bakery, or any suspicions posure of any of said persons to said diseases. shall immediately, upon receipt of said report, made under the provisions of section 8 of this act. REG. 11. Whenever the board of health of a ci received information that any persons working bakery have been exposed to a disease or ailmen this act, said board shall immediately cause an provided in section 8. REG. 12. The board of health of a city or town presence of any disease specified in section 7 of bakery products within the jurisdiction of said boa within said jurisdiction, shall immediately notif health of its suspicions, giving all available inform public health shall immediately make such exa necessary. REG. 13. Smoking or chewing, or other use of t part of a bakery where the actual preparation or p is being carried on. REG. 14. Every owner or proprietor of a bake properly covered, metal, water-tight receptacle fo material of the business. Every such receptacle and shall be cleaned after such emptying. such appointment. After appointment the tenure of office of a local or deputy local registrar shall be permanent until he resigns, unless by reason of his conduct the State registrar, with the advice and consent of the State board of health, requires him to vacate his office. Each deputy local registrar appointed as herein provided shall accept the appointment in writing, and it shall be his duty to act as local registrar in his stead in case of absence, illness, or disability, and when it is necessary in order to promote public convenience to do so, and who shall be subject to all rules and regulations governing local registrars. No local registrar or deputy local registrar shall issue any permit for the disposition of any dead body excepting upon the presentation of a proper and correct certificate of death, nor shall he in any case issue a permit for the disposition of any body already interred, entombed, transported, removed, cremated, or in any other manner disposed of except as provided in this subtitle. Each deputy local registrar shall, on the last day of each month, transmit to the local registrar all certificates of birth or death in his possession. Every local registrar shall, on or before the fifth day of each month, transmit to the State registrar of vital statistics in the envelopes furnished for that purpose, the originals of all certificates of birth or death remaining in his possession on the last day of the month next preceding, and if there are no such certificates of birth or death remaining in his possession, he shall immediately certify such fact to the State registrar in writing. The local registrar shall, at the time of mailing his returns to the State registrar, mail to the county registrar a copy of all certificates of birth or death, certified as correct under his hand and remaining in his possession on the last day of the month next preceding. Provided, That the State registrar may in the event of unusual sickness or mortality or for the purpose of legal, legislative, or other inquiry, require of any local registrar returns at shorter intervals. It shall be the duty of all local registrars and deputy local registrars to receive death certificates and issue burial permits thereon, as hereinafter provided, and accept birth certificates, and shall note over his signature the date on which such certificate was filed and shall forward all certificates in his possession as hereinbefore provided, and shall also perform all the other duties of a local registrar provided in this subtitle. No sexton or person in charge of any premises in which interments are made shall inter or permit the interment or other disposition of any body unless it is accompanied by a burial permit, as provided in this subtitle. And each sexton or person in charge of any burial ground shall indorse upon the permit the date of interment, over his signature, and shall return all permits so indorsed to the local registrar of his district within 10 days from the date of interment. He shall also keep a record of all interments made in the premises under his charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial, and name and address of the undertaker. SEC. 13. Application for a permit to disinter a human body shall be made to the local registrar or deputy local registrar on the form prescribed by the State registrar. Upon receipt of such an application properly made out, the local registrar, or deputy local registrar, shall issue a permit for the disinterment. The permit for a disinterment shall be made upon a form prescribed by the State registrar of vital statistics under the provisions of this subtitle. No disinterment permit shall be issued in any case where death was caused by infectious disease within one year, except by permission of and under the direction of the State registrar of vital statistics. SEC. 14. Every physician, who shall have professional charge of the mother at the birth of any child, shall, within four days next succeeding the birth, lation. Cattle Destroyed Because Tuberculous-Paymer (Ch. 470, Act May 18, 192 Section 6 of chapter 90 of the Revised Laws is h out the word "forty," in the eighteenth line, and sub Births, Deaths, and Marriages for Certain Years (Ch. 44, Resolve May 12, 19 Resolved, That there may be allowed and paid Commonwealth a sum not exceeding $12,590, to be ex of the secretary of the Commonwealth in the prepa marriages, and deaths for the years 1914 to 1918, in not be available until appropriated by the general c Town Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Pr Distribution of Printed Copies by the Secretary May 28, 1920.) SECTION 1. Whenever the record of the births, mar to the year 1850, of any town in this Commonwealth fied in the manner required by the supervisor of pub of public libraries in the department of education, a shall appear to them to have been done with accu Commonwealth shall purchase 500 copies of the reco 1 cent per page: Provided, That the written copy become the property of the Commonwealth, and sha 9 Reprint 279 from Public Health Reports, p. 82. |