The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-19
WHAT PEOPLE EAT.
Revelations Before tho American social
science Association In Boston.
NEW York Timeal

science Association In BOst0n.
New York Tlmesl
BosTos. Jan. s.-Mr. George r. Angel read
| paper before the American Social Science
Association here to-day on "Public Health
Associations,' In which he made some start
| He said:
Cayenne pepper Is adulterated with red
| lead, mustard with ehromate Of lead, curry
powder with red lead, vinegar with sulphur
| rio acid, arsenic and corrosive sublimate IL
| Ia stated that probably hnlf the vinegar now
| sold In our cities is rank poison. One Of our
Boston chemists analysed twelve packages
Of pickles put up by twelve different whole
sale dealars, and found copper In ten OF
them. Many OF our flavoring oils, syrups.
jeles, and preserved fruits contain p0isons.
The authorizations Of ten are too numerous to
mention. Coffee 10 not only adulterated, but
| patent has been taken out for moulding
chocory into tho form OF coffee berries. and
! am told that clny is now moulded aud per-
haps ilavored with mn essence, to represent
coffee Cocoa and chocolate are adulterated
with various mineral substances.
Several mills In New England, and probably
many elsewhere, IRE now engaged In grinding
white stone into u fine powder for purposes Of
adulteration. At some Of these mills they
and -four grade 1t sells for about half u cent
n pound Flour has been adulterated In Eng
land, and probably here, with plaster of
Paris, bone dust, sand, clay, chalk. and other
articles. ! am told that large quantities Of
damaged and unwholesome grain are ground
ID with -four particularly with that kind called
Graham Hour. Certainly hundreds and
probably thousands OF barrels OF terra alba, -
or white earth, are sold In our cities every year
70 DO mixed with sugars In our confection-
cry aud other white substances. / am
told by an eminent physician that this tends
TO produce stone, kidney complaints and va
| riOus diseases Of tho stomach. A Boston
chemist tells me that he has found 75 per
cent Of terra alba" In what was sold rs
cream Of tartar used for cooking large
New York house soils three grades Of cream
Of tartar. A Boston chemist recently analysed
a sample Of the best grade, ard found so per
| cent OF terra alba In that. Much OF our con-
fsctionery contains 30 per cent or more Of
tionery frequently contains lead, mercury,
arsenic and copper. Baking powders are
widely sold which contain large percentage
OF tern alba and alum.
IL Ii not water alone that is mixed with
milk. Thousands Of gallons, and probably
hundreds OF thousands, are sold In our cities
which have passed through large tins, or vats,
In which IL has been mixed with various sub
stances. Recipes for the mixture can DO
bought by new milkmen from old, on pay
ment Of the required sum. I am assured,
upon what believe TO be reliable authority,
that thousands Of gallons OF so-called milk
have been and probably are, sold In this city,
which do not contain one drop Of the genuine
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animals more or less discussed nre sold In our
markets. Cows IN tho neighborhood Of our
large cities are fed upon material which pro-
duces % large flow Of unwholesome milk.
Poultry are fed upon material which pro-
duces unwholesome eggs. Meats and fish are
made unwholesome, frequently poisonous, by
careless and cruel methods Of killing
California chemist recently analysed many
samples Of whisky, purchased ut different
places In San Francisco. Hefound them adu-
terated with creosote, salts of copper, alum.
and other injurious substances. He states it.
Ia his published report, MS his opinion that
there is hardly any pure whisky sold in that
city. A gentleman recently purchased from
n prominent Boston firm cask of pure
sherry wine for his sick wife. His wife grew
worse. He had the wine Analysed, and found
there was not drop Of the juice OF the grape
It 1t. An eminent medical gentleman of Bos-
ton said to me: "The adtituration of drugs
In this country are perfectly abominable" /
say that laws should be enacted and enforced
prohibiting the manufacture and sale OF these
poisonous and dangerous articles under So
we're penalties, and compelling the manufnc-
turers and sellers Of adulturated articles 10
tell buyers the precise character Of their adul-
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