PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. MEAT. SEC. 1. Public slaughterhouse.-No person shall slaughter any four-footed animal for sale or food or cause or allow the same to be done, except in the public slaughterhouse maintained under the supervision of the City Assessor and Collector: Provided, That suckling pigs may be slaughtered on private premises, for personal use only and not for sale. SEC. 2. Appointment of superintendent, etc.-The City Assessor and Collector shall appoint one of the employees in the Department of Assessments and Collections superintendent of the public slaughterhouse and shall employ as many laborers therein as may be necessary. SEC. 3. Duties of superintendent.—The superintendent of the public slaughterhouse shall have entire charge thereof and shall enforce this ordinance and such regulations for the slaughterhouse, not in conflict with the provisions hereof, as may be adopted from time to time by resolution of the Municipal Board; shall be responsible for the good order, cleanliness, and sanitary condition of the slaughterhouse and for the collection of the fees hereinafter fixed; shall be present whenever meat is being weighed or fees collected; shall pay to the cashier at the office of the City Assessor and Collector before nine o'clock on each morning all fees collected during the previous day; and shall see that the animals and meat at the slaughterhouse are inspected each day by the authorized inspector of the Board of Health, and immediately report in writing to the City Assessor and Collector whenever such authorized inspector fails to appear at the slaughterhouse and make such inspection. SEC. 4. Regulations.—No animal, the ownership of which is in dispute, shall be admitted to the slaughterhouse; nor shall any animal remain in the slaughterhouse for over twenty-four hours. No person shall slaughter any animal except an expert butcher regularly assigned to that duty. SEC. 5. Condemning of animals or meat.—The decision of the authorized inspector of the Board of Health condemning any animal for slaughter, or any meat, as unfit for food, shall be final. No such animal shall be slaughtered, and all such meat shall be cremated at the slaughterhouse. SEC. 6. Fees.-There shall be charged and collected for each kilogram of meat, including the tongue, heart, and liver of any animal, a fee of three cents, Mexican currency, and no meat shall be taken from the slaughterhouse until such fee has been paid to the superintendent, or in any transportation other than that authorized by the Municipal Board. SEC. 7. Sanitation.-The slaughterhouse shall be kept at all times in an orderly and sanitary condition and shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once in the morning and once in the evening of each day. The skull and all other discarded parts or contents of any animal shall be removed from the slaughterhouse as soon as practicable after such animal has been slaughtered. SEC. 8. Resisting superintendent.—No person shall resist, obstruct, or molest the superintendent of the public slaughterhouse or any employee therein in the exercise of his duties as superintendent or employee. SEC. 9. Superintendent must not be financially concerned in transactions.-No superin 103 tendent or other person in charge of the public slaughterhouse, or employed in or about the same, shall purchase, sell, or be directly or indirectly interested in the purchase or sale of any animal for slaughter, or of any meat taken from such slaughterhouse. SEC. 10. Penalty.-Any person violating any provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both, for each offense. SEC. 11. Repeals.—All ordinances, orders, and regulations and parts thereof inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of September, nineteen hundred and two. (Enacted, August 23, 1902, by the Municipal Board of the city of Manila, Ordinance No. 35.) PORTO RICO. GENERAL FOOD LAWS. 336. Fraudulent increase of weight; penalty.-Every person who in putting up in any bale, bag, box, barrel or other package any sugar, tobacco, coffee, rice or other goods usually sold in bales, bags, boxes, barrels, or other packages, by weight or otherwise, puts in or conceals therein anything whatever for the purposes of increasing the weight or measurement of such bale, bag, box, barrel or other package with intent thereby to sell the goods therein or to enable another to sell the same for an increased weight or measurement, is punishable by fine not less than twenty-five dollars for such offense, or confined in jail for not less than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. 337. Adulteration and dilution.—Every person who adulterates or dilutes any articles of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or wine, or any article useful in compounding them, with a fraudulent intent to offer the same or cause or permit it to be offered for sale as unadulterated or undiluted, and every person who fraudulently sells, or keeps or offers for sale the same, as unadulterated or undiluted, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 338. Tainted or unwholesome products.-Every person who knowingly sells, or keeps or offers for sale, or otherwise disposes of any article of food, drink, drug, or medicine, knowing that the same has become tainted, decayed, spoiled, or otherwise unwholesome or unfit to be eaten or drunk, with intent to permit the same to be eaten or drunk, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Revised Statutes and Codes of Porto Rico, 1902; Penal Code, title 14, p. 553. ) 356. Infected animals.-Every person who owns or has the custody of any cattle, horses, mules or asses infected with a contagious disease, and fails to immediately report the same to the insular health authorities, or conceals the existence of such disease, or attempts so to do, or wilfully obstructs or resists the said health authorities in the discharge of their duty as provided by law, or sells, gives away or uses the meat or milk, or removes the skin or any part of such animal, is punishable by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars or imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. (Revised Statutes and Codes of Porto Rico, 1902; Penal Code, title 14, p. 556.) 480. False weight or measure defined.-A false weight or measure is one which does not conform to the standard established by law. 481. Using false weights; penalty.—Every person who uses any weight or measure, knowing it to be false, by which use another is defrauded or otherwise injured, shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding six months or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both. 482. Stamping casks falsely; penalty.-Every person who knowingly marks or stamps false or short weight or measure, or false tare, on any cask or package, or knowingly sells or offers for sale, any cask or package so marked, shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding six months or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both. 483. Full weights of sugar, coal, etc.; penalty.—In all sales of sugar, coal, and other commodities, usually sold by the ton or fractional parts thereof, the seller must give to the purchaser full weight, and any person violating this section shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding six months or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both. 484. Full weight or measure of all commodities; penalty.-In all sales of merchandise, wares, articles of food or drink or whatever else is purchased by weight or measure, the seller must give to the purchaser full weight or measure, and any person violating this section shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding six months or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both. ( (Revised Statutes and Codes of Porto Rico, 1902; Penal Code, ch. 10, p. 590.) SEC. 11 (765). Specific duties of the superior board of health.-To inquire into and report upon all infractions of laws governing the purity and good condition of foods, beverages, medicines and drugs; to submit to the consideration of the Governor, through the Commissioner of the Interior, rules for the repression of occupations prejudicial or dangerous; report concerning any special cause of danger to life, and make suggestions in connection therewith; and to call upon the local boards of health for the enforcement of regulations made by it in the respective districts. SEC. 12 (766). General jurisdiction of the superior board of health.-To inspect through its inspectors and see to all things which concern public health and individual security. And further, to intervene and have general direction in all things concerning the following matters: Public water supply, markets, bakeries, general grocery stores (pulperías), milk stalls and meat stalls; purity and good condition of foods, beverages, liquors, drugs and medicines; Provided, that in all matters specified in sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, the Superior Board of Health shall direct to the local boards of health, the performance of all duties related to those matters in their several communities. * (Approved, March 1, 1902. Revised Statutes and * * * * * Codes of Porto Rico 1902; Revised Statutes, p. 278.) CANDY. 353. Adulteration a misdemeanor.-Every person who adulterates candy by using in its manufacture terra alba or any other deleterious substances, or who sells or keeps for sale any candy or candies adulterated with terra alba or any other deleterious substance, knowing the same to be adulterated, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Revised Statutes and Codes of Porto Rico 1902; Penal Code, title 14, p. 556.) DRUGS. 335. Labels; deviation from prescription; misdemeanor and felony.-Every apothecary, druggist, or person carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, or person employed as clerk or salesman by such person, who, in putting any drugs or medicines, or making up any prescription, or filling any order for drugs or medicines, wilfully, negligently, or ignorantly omits to label the same, or puts an untrue label, stamp, or other designation of contents, upon any box, bottle, or other package containing any drugs or medicines, or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed or ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than that pre scribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow, in consequence of which human life or health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if death ensues, is guilty of a felony. (Revised Statutes and Codes, 1902; Penal Code, title 14, p. 552.) MEAT. SEC. 1. Inspection of slaughter houses, meat, etc.; fees.-That the killing of animals for food and the sale of their flesh in each municipality of the Island shall be subject to the inspection of the local authorities, who shall see that the provisions of this Act are complied with. For the use of the municipal slaughter-houses and the occupation of stands in municipal markets, charges which shall also cover the inspection charges, may be levied and collected according to the rates established in the budget of each municipality. Slaughter-houses and market stands of private ownership shall be entirely free from municipal restrictions or taxes or imposts other than general taxes and imposts, but may be subject to municipal inspection for the purpose of enforcing compliance with the provisions of this act and fees not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) for the inspection of each head of bovine cattle or fifty cents ($0.50) for any other animal slaughtered in such private slaughter-houses or carcass of any animal brought in from outside the municipality, may be fixed in the municipal budget and collected from the owner of the respective slaughter-houses; or the person so bringing in carcasses of animals for consumption. Each municipality shall have at least one inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon or the municipal health officer and whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of this law are enforced; examine all animals offered for slaughter with the intention of exposing the meat to public sale; inspect slaughtering operations, markets, market stands, and all places where fresh meat is exposed for sale, and see that diseased animals and condemned meat are destroyed. Appeal against the ruling of local inspectors in matters of the fitness or otherwise of animals for slaughter and food shall lie to the Superior Board of Health, whose decision therein shall be final. (As amended March 12, 1903, p. 119.) SEC. 2. (11) Sanitation of slaughter houses; regulations for slaughtering.-No slaughter house shall be constructed within the outskirts of any town or village, or within one hundred (100) metres of an inhabited building, or in a location such that the free circulation of air is interrupted or interfered with. Slaughter houses must be provided with a pavement of brick or tile or cement, so inclined as to facilitate the drainage of refuse matter, and must be provided with proper drains. They must also be supplied with abundant running water, and with a trough from which the animals intended for slaughter shall be watered twice daily. They must also be provided with a shed for the shelter of the stock to be slaughtered. Persons engaged in the slaughter of animals and the handling of meat shall be free from communicable disease and shall be subject in that regard to the official inspection. While engaged in the slaughtering or handling of meat, they shall wear clean clothing, other than that worn by them at their homes, or in going and returning to and from the slaughter house. Offal and fat shall not be rendered in the same building as the slaughter house, or within one hundred (100) metres thereof. No animal shall be slaughtered unless it has been inspected not more than twenty-four, (24) and less than six (6) hours before killing, and animals intended for slaughter must be provided with food and water at least once in the twenty-four (24) hours preceding the killing. The blowing of slaughtered animals to facilitate the skinning of the carcass is forbidden. Offal or refuse from the slaughter house shall not be fed to any animal or fowl intended for slaughter or consumption. The slaughter of animals shall take place between the hours of four (4) and eight (8) in the afternoon, except when special permission to slaughter at other hours is granted by the local inspector, in accordance with rules prescribed by the Superior Board of Health. |