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said seizure, be paid to the owner of such property. If the board of health seizes or condenins any such carcass or meat for the reason that it is affected with a contagious disease, it shall be immediately give notice to the board of cattle commissioners of the name of the owner or person in whose possession it was found, the nature of the disease and the disposition made of said meat or carcass.
Sec. 71. The board of health may in- spect all veal, offered or exposed for sale or kept with the intention to sell in this city or town, and if, in its opinion, said veal is that of a calf less than four weeks old when killed, the board sha .!! seize and destroy or dispose of it as pro- vided in the preceding section, subject, however to the provision thereof relative to the disposal of money.
Sec. 72. Whoever prevents, obstructs or interferes with the board of health in the performance of its duties as pro- vided herein, or hinders, obstructs, or interferes with any inspection or exam- ination by it, or whoever secrets or re- moves any carcass, meat, fish, vege- tables, fruit or provisions of any kind. for the purpose of preventing the same from being inspected or examined under the provisions of sections seventy to seventy-six inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 73. Whoever knowingly sells, of- fers or exposes for sale or has in his possession with intent to sell for food any diseased animal or any product thereof, or any tainted diseased animal or any product thereof, or any tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed or unwhole- some carcass, nieat, fish, vegetables, pro- duce, fruit or provisions of any kind.
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shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ot vy im- prisonment for not more than sixty days. or by both such fine and imprison- ment; and whoever knowingly sells any kind of diseased, corrupt or unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink, without making their condition fully known to the buyer, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred collars or by imprisonment for not more than six months ..
Sec. 74. Whoever kills or causes to be killed or knowingly sells, offers or ex- poses for sale or has in his possession with intent to sell for food the veal of a calf killed when less than four weeks old, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for hon more than sixty days, or by both such fine and im- prisonment.
Sec. 75. The board of health for the city or town in which any animal or property has been condemned under the provisions of sections seventy and sev- enty-one may cause a description of the place in which said condemned property was found, the name of every person în whose name it was found and the name of every person convicted of an offense under the provisions of the two preced- ing sections to be published in two rewspapers published in the county in which such property was found.
Sec. 76. Whoever knowingly sells or exposes for sale poultry, unless it is alive, before it has been properly dressed by the removal of the crop and entrails if they contain food, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. The Boards of Health shall cause the provis- ion of this section to be enforced in their respective cities and towns.
AN ORDINANCE.
Relative to the Sale of Milk.
Be it ordained by the City Council of North Adams, as follows:
Section 1. No milk shall be sold in the city of North Adams after the passage of this ordinance, except from cows that have been subjected within one year to examination that shall be satisfactory to the board of health and to the inspector appointed by the mayor and the council of the city of North Adams under section 12, chapter 90 of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts, and pronounced free from the disease known as tuberculosis or any other disease that may render the milk injurious to man.
In case an examination made by any person other than the inspector of the city of North Adams, shall be unsatis- factory either to him or to the board of health, a proper examination shall be made by said inspector for the city of North Adams, and his decision shall be final.
Section 2. Any person selling or dis- tributing milk, or keeping cows from which milk is sold or distributed in the city of North Adams, shall, upon the ad- dition of any cow or cows to his dairy, immediately give notice to the board of health of such addition, and the board of health shall thereupon order an examina- tion of such animal or animals to be- made, as provided in section 1 of this or- dinance.
Any persons selling or distributing milk in the city of North Adams, shall at. the time of taking out his license, inform the board of health, in writing, of all sources from which he receives his sup- ply, and upon making any change what- ever in the sources of his supply, shall immediately give notice to the board of health of such change.
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Section 3. Whenever the board of health shall deem it necessary, but not less frequently than once during each year, it shall make or cause to be made an inspection of all dairies and other places from which milk is sold in the city of North Adams, and shall keep a written report of the result of such in- spections on file in its office for public ex- amination and reference.
Section 4. All such premises, and all vessels and vehicles used in the business of selling or distributing milk, shall be kept in a perfectly cleanly and sanitary condition and at all times acceptable to the board of health, and no person who refuses to allow such inspection to be made in accordance with section 3 of this ordinance, or who fails to keep his prem- ises, vessels and vehicles as above men- tioned in such cleanly and sanitary con- dition as shall be satisfactory to the board of health, or fails to comply with the written orders and recommendations of the board of health, or to provide such proper light and ventilation of his stables and such sources of water supply as the board shall deem necessary, shall be al- lowed to sell or distribute milk in the city of North Adams.
Section 5. Every person keeping cows from which the milk is sold in the city of North Adams, shall have a room en- tirely apart from the stable, (although it may be in the same building if de- sired,) in which the milk shall be strained and cooled, said room to have a tight floor and the side walls and ceilings to be made of matched lumber or battened, unless lathed and plastered. No water- closet, earth-closet or privy shall be with- in or communicate directly with this room. The walls and ceilings of all cow stables shall be cleaned and white-washed at least twice a year, and oftener if re- quired bv the board of health; nothing
in this section, however, shall beinter- preted to prevent the cooling of milk in spring houses when same are properly constructed.
Section 6. No person who is suffering from, or who is suspected of having ty- phoid fever, diphtheria or any other con- tagious disease, shall, while so suffering, be engaged in the care of cows or the handling of milk in places from which milk is to be sold or distributed in the city of North Adams.
Section 7. Every person selling milk or offering it for sale in a store, booth or stand in the city of North Adams, shall keep such milk in a refrigerator or other perfectly tight receptacle entirely separate from any food or other con- taminating product, said refrigerator or other receptacle to be provided with ice during the warm months, or at any other time when required so to do by the board of health.
Section 8 .- Any person, party or cor- poration violating the provisions of this ordinancee, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) for each offence.
Section 9. Any person, party or cor- poration after being notified by the board of health to discontinue the sale of milk in the city of North Adams who shall sell or distribute any milk in the city of North Adams until he receives permission in writing so to do from the board of health, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) tor each offence, and his license to sell milk in this city shall be revoked.
Section 10. Chapter sixteen of the Re- vised Ordinance of nineteen hundred is . hereby repealed.
Approved May 6, 1903.
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Addenda: "Every person being in any way engaged in or connected with the production, handling, selling or dis- tribution of milk or cream sold or offer- ed for sale in the city of North Adams is required to immediately report to the board of health of North Adams all cases, or suspected cases of contagious disease occurring in the family or house- hold of said person."
THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMP- TION.
Consumption is the most destructive disease of New England, the number of persons dying annually from this cause in Massachusetts amounting to nearly six thousand.
The disease is infectious and can be communicated from one person to an- other. The chief danger exists in the expectoration of the sick, and if this expectoration is carefully destroyed lit- tle danger need be feared.
Consumptives should be instructed not to spit upon the floors of rooms, pub- lic halls, street and railway cars, and other vehicles, but into pieces of cloth or receptacles made for the pur- pose, cantaining water or a saturated solution of carbolic acid (one part car- bolic acid crystals to about fifteen parts of water). Such bits of cloth should be destroyed by fire before the Sputa be comes dry, and other receptacles should be cleansed with scalding water, their
contents having been destroyed or otherwise carefully disposed of. Hand- kerchiefs which may have been used from necessity should be boiled half an hour before washing.
A healthy person should not sleep in the same room with a consumptive.
Remember that sputa must never be allowed to become dry.
ADDENDUM TO RULES AND CAU- TIONS.
All members of the family and other persons residing and being upon the premises shall not leave the same for work or any other purpose without first having obtained the permission of the Board of Health. They must keep out of the sick room at all times. The board. may grant permission in writing to any person or persons on the quaran- tined premises to attend to their daily vocations, but such privilege shall not in any event give them the right or privilege to attend public entertainments or assembles, and persons to whom said written permission is given to work, who in violating them, attend public enter- tainments or assemblies, shall be con- sidered as having violated quarantine as established by this rule.
BOARD OF HEALTH OF NORTH
ADAMS.
DR. GEO. A. FAGAN,Chairman, CHARLES H. GOSSELIN. DR H.J. MILLARD.
BOARD OF HEALTH, NORTH ADAMS DR GEO. A. FAGAN, Chairman
CHARLES H. GOSSELIN, FRANK P. NUGENT, Agent
DR. H. J. MILLIARD
HENRY A. TOWER, Inspector of Meats and Provisions Meetings Every Friday Evening at S FRANK P. NUGENT, Inspector of Plumbing
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