1854 ARTICLE ;43

prepared, produced, or sold for any purpose whatever, shall be under the
supervision of the State Board of. Health of Maryland, which said State
Board of Health, with its officers and such agents as may be appointed
by it, is hereby vested with power and authority to carry into effect the pro-
visions hereof.

This and following sections referred to in construing and upholding constitutionality
of ordinance of Baltimore City regulating slaughter houses, etc. Baltimore v. Bloecher,
149 Md. 660.

See art. 58, sec- 25, and art. 43, sec. 102.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 202. 1912, sec. 177B. 1914, ch. 678.

202. The said State Board of Health of Maryland shall cause to be
inspected at reasonable hours, and as often as practicable, all Factories,
Canneries, Bakeries, Confectioneries, Creameries, Milk Plants and Dis-
tributing Dairies, Hotels, Restaurants or Eating Houses, Packing and
Slaughter Houses, Ice Cream Plants, and other places where food products
are manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, pro-
duced or sold for any purpose whatever, and to enforce the correction of
all unsanitary conditions and practices found therein.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 203. 1912, sec. 177C. 1914, ch. 678.

203. The said State Board of Health of Maryland and its agents and
inspectors in the discharge of their duties under the provisions hereof and
every person, firm, association or corporation .engaged in the handling of
food and food products, shall be governed by the following rules and regu-
lations, which are hereby made the law of this State:
(a) The floors, side-walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements
and machinery of every establishment or place where food is manufactured,
packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks and vehicles used
in the transportation of food products, shall at all times be kept in a clean
and sanitary condition. Unclean and unsanitary conditions shall be deemed
to exist if the food in the process of manufacture, preparation, packing,
storing, sale, distribution or transportation, is not protected as far as
practicable from flies, filth, and all foreign or injurious contamination; or
if the refuse, dirt and waste products subject to decomposition and fermen-
tation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling,
distribution and transportation of food, are not removed daily; or if all
the trucks, trays, boxes, baskets and other receptacles, chutes, platform,
racks, tables, shelves and knives, saws, cleavers and other utensils and other
machinery used in. moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning
and all processes, are not at all times kept clean, or if the clothing and body
of operatives, employees, clerks or other persons therein employed, are not
kept as clean as the nature of their employment will permit.

(b) The side-walls and ceilings of every bakery, confectionery, cream-
ery, cheese factory, ice cream plant, milk plant and distributing dairy,
hotel and restaurant kitchen, shall be kept clean; and the floor of every
building, room, basement, cellar or other place occupied or used for the
preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, selling or distribution of food,
must be kept clean.

(c) Every building, room, basement, cellar or other place occupied or
used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, canning, sale or distribut-
ing of food, shall have convenient toilet or toilet rooms which shall be kept
separate, or partitioned from the room or rooms where the process of pro-