The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18

grade and flour grade.
In regard to milk, it was estimated few
years since by a Boston sanitary commas
sion that in single year was paid in that city
nearly $500, 900 for water mixed with milk, and
that this water was probably taken in many IN
stances from dangerous sources, and was liable
to contain and carry germs OF disease. - al
pears from this years report OF the boston
Milk Inspector, and Prof. Avery. who IS en-
ployed to analyze milk seized by the Inspector,
that probably the city of Boston paid during
last year more than $6S0,00O for water mixed
with milk. How much of that water contained
lead poison, or was taken from wells which re-
ceive the drainage of cesspools, 1t Is OF course
impossible to determine. [ have evidence that
in at least two of our large cities from 80 to %
per cent of all milk sold is adulterated before
it reaches the consumer, and that the death
rate of infants in my own city has been found
to be in given time more than four times
what it was in a given population outside the
| city. Ihave evidence that both the lactometer
and creamoter are entirely unreliable to detect
adulteratiOas; that cream is made from white
| glue, and that various articles are added to
milk to conceal the addition Of water.
Now let us take up Oleomargarlne butter and
| cheese. More than go 600. 000 pounds of these
articles were manufactured in the United States
in 1878, much and probably most of 1t so care
fully disguised that it is sold in the markets
| without detection Mr.. John Mchels, an en-
in the process of manufacturing the oleomar-
garine butter and cheese the fat used is never
subjected to higher temperature than l2O de-
grees Fahrenheit; that such butter may be still
considered to be in a raw state; that any germs
of disease, morbid secretons, or embryos OF
parasites in the animals from which the Oil
was obtained are liable to be transferred in
living condition into the systems of those who
use this butter; that animals used for food are
subject to the attacks of internal parasites
! that lodge in countless multitudes in all parts
of their bodies; that some of the most danger
GUS forms will also live and thrive in man; that
the trlchlnR which enter the body at once
breed by the million, and invade the whole sys-
tenn from head to foot; that it is well known
that living organisms have Wlthstood q temper
AZURE much higher than that which caul fat is
subjected to in the preparation Of oleomarga-
rine, and that even 100 degrees have been re-
sisted by these germs: that it would not be
strange if the caul fat from diseased animals,
whose meat is not used for food should often
be sold fer thispurpose; that he has found in
oleomargarine animal tissues, with fragments
and cells Of suspicious nature; that he has rea-
son to believe that refuse fat of at least one
pork packing establishment is used in it's man
ufacture. and that he views with anxiety its in
PRODUCTION as an article of food. ,~
Prof. Church states that he has found in
oleomargarine, by analysis, horse fat, fat from
bones, and waste fat, such as is used for MAX
ing candles.
In regard to drugs, an eminent medical gen.
tleman of Boston said to me some time since:
" The authorizations of drugs in this country
are perfectly abomlnable."
In regard to our meats I have the most over
whelming evidence that thousands of tons of
the meats of diseased animals are annually sold
in our markets, and that the detection OF these
meats, after they have been dressed, and put
into the stalls is in most cases impossible
Now let us consider the subject of poisoning
by arsenic The amount of arsenic imported
into this country during the year ending June
30, 1875, was two million, three hundred and
twenty-seven thousand, seven hundred and
forty-two pounds e, 327, 742 Each pound con-
tanned a fatal dose for about 2, 800 adult human
beings. It is sold in our markets almost as
freely as wood and coal, at a wholesale price of
from cent and a half to two cents pound.
What becomes of it?
| answer lit is used in Wallpapers, paper cur
tains, lamp-shades, boxes, wrapping papers for
confectionery, tickets. cards, children's kinder
garten papers, artificial flowers, dried grasses,
eye-shades and numerous other articles.
Among the articles frequently made dangerous
by this or other poiscns may be named also
ladies' dress goods, wells, sewing silks, threads,
stockings, gentlemen's underclothing, socks,
gloves hat-linings, Innings of boots and shoes,
paper collars, babies carriages, colored enam-
eled cloths, children's toys, various fabrics of
wool, silk, cotton, and leather in various colors
Arsenic has been found also in toilet powders
and candles Prof. Nichols, of our Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, found eight
grains of arsenic in each square foot of dress.
Another chemist found ten grains of arsenic in
single artificial flower. A chlld in Troy, N.
Y, some time since, died in commissions by
taking the arsenic from a veil thrown over its
crib to keep off the flies
A case has been recently brought to my
knowledge of Boston gentleman so severely
poisoned by wearing poisonous underclothing
that for several days he could hardly see. Pos
slbly the largest use of arsenic is in the prep
aration of our Wallpapers. The Massachu-
setts State Board of Health, in their report for
1872 gave twenty-five pages to this subject /
These poisonous papers are of great variety
OF colors-green, blue, red, yellow, pearl, and
other colors. Some are cheap, some costly,
some figured, some plain, some glazed, some
unglazed. There is but one way OF surely de-
tecting them, and that is by chemical analysis.
1t has been estimated that fully three quarters
OF all our Wallpapers now manufactured con-
tain arsenic. The Michigan State Board OF
Health has recently published book contain
ing seventy-fye specimens OF these papers, and,
by order of that board, it has been put into ev-
cry important public library of Michigan, as
warming to the people of that State. 1t bears
the very appropriate title of Shadows from
the Walls of Death. This book states that
these papers are sold in every city and import
ant village of that State, and their use is in
creasing. 1t advises a. the use of no wall-pa-
per at all; ~ never to use wall paper without
first having it tested for arsenic; and (3) if
arsenical paper is already on the walls, and can
not well be removed, then las some protectionl
to cover 1t with coat of varnish. @
There can be no doubt that thousands of
people in this country are now suffering, and
many have died. from the effects of arsenical
wallpapers. Yet their manufacture and sale
are permitted to go on without restriction,
when | was in Germany" said an eminent
Boston chemist to me, Il discovered arsenic
in two specimens of wallpaper, and the manu-
facturer was in Jail before night Here have
analysed hundreds OF specimens in a single
year and found arsenic in large proportion of
them, but nobody was prosecuted"
AS remedy for this wholesale pois-
oning, Mr.. Angel recommends the or
ganization in every city and village of
a protective health association, whose
duty it shall be to test and analyze all
articles of diet offered for sale, publicly
commencing the good and condemning
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