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or toilets shall not open directly into any room in which milk or milk utensils are handled.

SEC. 10. No cats, dogs, or other animals shall be permitted in rooms where milk is handled or stored.

SEC. 11. Rooms for pasteurization, cooling, bottling, and storing milk shall not be used for other than dairy purposes.

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SEC. 12. An adequate supply of pure water shall be provided.

SEC. 13. All weigh cans, storage vats, mixing vats, and other apparatus shall be constructed of tinned copper, or other material approved by the dairy and food commissioner, and all angle joints shall be smoothly soldered. They shall be provided with smooth-fitting metal covers.

SEC. 14. All milk pipes and pumps shall be of sanitary construction and so arranged that they may be easily opened or taken apart for cleaning. The use of tightly closed elbow joints is prohibited. Water and steam pipes shall be kept clean and free from dirst and rust.

SEC. 15. Surface coolers unless located in a room used only for cooling milk shall be protected by suitable metal or glass covers.

SEC. 16. Caps for bottles shall be secured in sterilized containers, and be protected from contamination until used, unless milk is pasteurized in bottles. SEC. 17. The apparatus or device used in bottling milk or capping milk bottles must be so constructed that the milk and caps used in the process will not come in contact with human hands. The apparatus or device shall be subject to the approval of the dairy and food commissioner.

SEC. 18. The building in which milk is handled and the surrounding premises shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.

SEC. 19. Suitable facilities shall be provided for washing, sterilizing, and the storage of all apparatus, bottles, cans, and utensils, and they shall be cleaned and sterilized immediately after use. All pasteurizing apparatus shall

be resterilized immediately before the pasteurizing process is begun. SEC. 20. All persons while handling milk shall wear clean washable outer garments. The use of tobacco and spitting are prohibited in any part of the pasteurizing plant.

SEC. 21. Before employment and at least once a year thereafter the proprietor or manager of a pasteurization plant shall require every person employed in the plant who handles milk or milk utensils to secure from a physician, approved by the State commissioner of health, a certificate stating that he is not afflicted with nor suffering from any communicable disease, and a copy of such certificate shall be forwarded to the dairy and food commissioner on blanks provided for the purpose by the dairy and food commissioner. In case of an outbreak of any communicable disease among employees of any pasteurization plant, the person in charge shall immediately notify the local health officer.

SEC. 22. Wherever there is an organized health department with a competent milk inspector the duty and power of enforcing these regulations may be concurrent with the dairy and food commissioner.

DELAWARE.

Prostitution, Lewdness, and Assignation-Examination and Treatment for Venereal Diseases of Persons Convicted of. (Ch. 65, Act June 21, 1920.)

SECTION 1. That chapter 233, volume 30, Laws of Delaware, be, and the same is, hereby, amended by repealing sections 4, 5, and 6 and substituting in lieu thereof the following sections to be known and styled as the respective numbers appear at the beginning of each of said section [s]:

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(b) That probation or parole shall be granted or ordered in the case of a person infected with venereal disease only on such terms and conditions as shall insure medical treatment therefor and prevent the spread thereof, and the court may order any convicted defendant to be examined for venereal disease.

School Buildings-Construction or Alteration-Rules Governing, to be Prescribed by State Board of Education. Pupils-Health, Physical Welfare, and Physical Inspection-Rules Governing, to be Prescribed by State Board of Education. School Medical Inspectors and School Nurses-Employment. (Ch. 48, Act June 24, 1920.)

SEC. 9. The State board of education shall prescribe rules and regulations for the hygienic, sanitary, and protective construction of school buildings. It is empowered and shall in its discretion condemn for school purposes publicschool buildings that violate these rules and regulations. No contract for erection of a new public-school building or for a material alteration of an old public-school building, costing $300 or more, shall be valid unless the plans and specifications for the same shall have been approved by the State board of education: Provided, That should the city of Wilmington accept the provisions of this act as provided in article 5, section 119 of this chapter, the board of education of said city of Wilmington may make a valid contract for the alteration of an old public-school building or the erection of a new public-school building costing not more than $5,000, without the plans and specifications receiving the approval of the State board of education.

SEC. 10. The State board of education shall prescribe rules and regulations for the protection of the health, physical welfare, and physical inspection of public-school children of the State.

SEC. 35. The State commissioner of education shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adoption by the State board of education, rules and regulations for the hygienic, sanitary, and protective construction of school buildings. He is empowered and directed to recommend for condemnation for school use by the State board of education all buildings used for public-school purposes that violate these rules and regulations.

SEC. 37. The State commissioner of education shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adoption by the State board of education, rules and regulations for the protection of the health, physical welfare, and physical inspection of the public-school children of the State.

SEC. 121. The special school districts herein created and designated and special school districts hereafter created by the State board of education to continue to exercise the privilege of a special school district and of operating its schools according to the provisions of this article shall meet and continue to fulfill the following conditions:

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Boards of education of special school districts may also employ medical inspectors and school nurses, subject to the provisions of article 8 of this chapter.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Dogs-Muzzling Required. (Reg. Commissioners, June 22, 1920.)

That under the provisions of section 7 of the act of Congress approved June 19, 1878, entitled "An act to create a revenue in the District of Columbia by levying a tax upon all dogs therein, to make such dogs personal property, and for other purposes," the commissioners hereby give notice that every dog in said District shall, for a period of one year from and after July 9, wear a good, substantial muzzle, securely put on, so as to prevent it from biting or snapping; and any dog going at large during said period without such muzzle shall be taken up by the poundmaster and impounded.

Offensive Trades-Location-Conduct. (Reg. Commissioners, July 6, 1920.) That the police regulations of the District of Columbia are hereby amended by adopting a new article to be known as Article XXa, to read as follows: ARTICLE XXα. No abbatoir or slaughterhouse, no soap or candle factory, no bone-boiling or other establishment whereby offensive or unhealthy odors or gases are generated shall be established or conducted within the fire limits of the District of Columbia, nor outside the fire limits of said District if located within 250 yards of a dwelling, unless there shall have been filed with the health officer of said District the written consents of the owners of threefourths of the real property within 250 yards of said premises and permit therefor shall have been issued by said health officer.

A butcher shop in which animals are killed or butchered solely for disposal at retail on the premises may be established when, in the opinion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the location or conduct of such establishment will not prove detrimental to health, depreciative of surrounding property, or constitute a nuisance to the neighborhood in which located, and permit therefor shall have been issued by the health officer of the District.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this regulation shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished for the first offense by a fine of not more than $100 and for a second or any subsequent offense by a fine of not more than $300, or by imprisonment in the workhouse for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Buildings to Be Used in Conduct of Offensive Trades-Erection or Alteration. (Reg. Commissioners, July 6, 1920.)

That the building regulations of the District of Columbia are hereby amended by striking out the first paragraph of section 168a and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

SEC. 168a. No building to be used as an abbatoir, slaughterhouse, butcher shop, soap or candle factory, or bone-boiling or other establishment whereby offensive or unhealthy odors or gases are generated shall be erected or altered until there shall have first been obtained from the health officer of the District of Columbia a permit for the location or conduct of such establishment, as provided in Article XXa of the police regulations.

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FLORIDA.

Railway Sanitary Code. (Reg. Bd. of H., Feb. 10, 1920.)

I. TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS HAVING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

SECTION 1. Persons not allowed to travel.-No person knowing or suspecting himself to be afflicted with plague, cholera, smallpox, typhus fever, or yellow fever shall apply for, procure, or accept transportation in any railway train, car, or other conveyance of a common carrier, nor shall any person apply for, procure, or accept such transportation for any minor, ward, patient, or other person under his charge, if known or suspected to be so afflicted.

SEC. 2. Persons not accepted for travel.-Common carriers shall not accept for transportation in any railway train, car, or other conveyance any person known by them to be afflicted with any of the diseases enumerated in section 1.

SEC. 3. Restricted travel.-Common carriers shall not accept for transportation on any railway train, car, or other conveyance any person know by them to be afflicted with diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, anterior poliomyelitis, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, pneumonia, epidemic encephalitis, septic sore throat, rubella, chicken pox, or erysipelas, or any person known to be a carrier of the disease, unless such a person is placed in a compartment separate from the other passengers, is accompanied by a properly qualified nurse or other attendant, and unless such nurse or attendant shall agree to comply and does comply with the following regulations: (a) Communication with the compartment within which the patient is traveling shall be restricted to the minimum consistent with the proper care and safety of the patient.

(b) All dishes and utensils used by the patient shall be placed in a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid or other fluid of equivalent disinfecting value for at least one hour after they have been used and before being allowed to leave the compartment.

(c) All sputum and nasal discharges from the patient shall be received in gauze or paper, which shall be deposited in a paper bag or in a closed vessel and shall be destroyed by burning.

(d) Said nurse or attendant shall, after performing any service to the patient, at once cleanse the hands by washing them in a 2 per cent solution of carbolic acid or other fluid of equivalent disinfecting value.

SEC. 4. Typhoid and dysentery.-Common carriers shall not accept for transportation on any railway train, car, or other conveyance any person known by them to be afflicted with typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, or dysentery, unless said person is placed in a compartment separate from the other passengers, is accompanied by a properly qualified nurse or other attendant, and unless said nurse or attendant shall agree to comply and does comply with the following regulations:

(a) Communication with the compartment in which the patient is traveling shall be limited to the minimum consistent with the proper care and safety of the patient.

(b) All dishes and utensils used by the patient shall be placed in a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid or other fluid of equivalent disinfecting value

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