The morning news., 1889-02-18
DANGER IN BAD MEAT.
THE SANITARY AUTHORITIES
KEEPING A CLOSE LOOKOUT.

Inspector DesverRers' Investigation
Of Supposed Case Of Selling Meat
OF a Diseased Cow-The Corner Meat
Shops under Suspicion-Everyda
Caees that Come under the Inspect
ore Notice
1t Is always best for one 70 know where
the marketing comes frong In the light of
the following incident which is related by
Sanitary Inspector Desvergers:
Last Wednesday morning a man offered
for sale on Market square the meat of
cow which had a suspicious appearance,
the velas ia the flesh being well rounded
lHdiestahg that the animal bad not been
eatehered. The meat had such an unsanl-
tary hook that IT attracted attention, and
gentleman, after narrowly examining it,
left ia quest ef the inspector. The man
wac had the meat for sale suspected that
trouble was in store for him, and, before
Inspector Dssvergers could be found, he
hitehed up the t.aces of his cart and drove
off hurTledly.
The Inspector began at once to investigate
the matter, and IN the line Of his investiga-
tions he learned that COW had laiB in a
helpless condition for several days oa the
Ogeechee road, several miles from the city,
and finally had died; that the carcass was
skinned, the pauneh emptied on the ground
near by, the meat quartered and hauled off
in wagon,
CoRReBoRATIVE EVIDENCE.
The Inspector went out to the place
which had been designated as the locality
where the cow had died, found the pauncn
Just where he was informed 1t could be
atyfIa hot amir al
had been down upon the ground there for
several days, had been skinned, and the
tracks of wagon wheels were visible, show
ing that the meat had been conveyed away
In wagon. AS the Inspector was on foot
several miles from the city, and had TO hurry
back to town to make his regular morning
market inspection, he was able to get only
slight elews that day, but on Friday morn
ing he returned to the neighborhood where
the COW died, and renewed the broken
thread of his Investigations, determined to
sft the matter to the bottom. He found
the older colored people in the vicinity
Teticent, but he said that he finally learned
that two colored men, George Shaw and
Edward Carter, had skinned the COW and
carried the meat away in the wagon. The
inspector then hunted up the men, and sue
ceeded in tracing the hind quarters TO one
place, the tripe and head at another place,
and the forequarters at a third place. The
meat was or course destroyed.
Shaw and Carter state that the owner of
the cow, a colored woman by the name of
Williams, had given them permission to
skin the carcass of the animal and take the
meat away, and they had divided it out
among several neighbOrs to feed to their
degs, but this statement has fishy appear
anee, to say the least, as some of the dis
eassd meat found its way to market, and
only prOunpc action prevented its sale.
DRIVEN FROM THE MARKET.
That there is a great deal of tainted meat
being sold from the uptown markets since
it has been driven from the city market, is
uHdeHiable, The attention of the inspector
was brought to the fact last week. One
Gentleman reported that his cook had been
sent back with meat to three different up
town markets in one morning, and as last
resort was eempe led to purchase bacon, as
it was impossible to get piece of fresh
meat for dinner in the neighborhood,
A short time since a MORNING NEWS re-
porter passed q little colored girl in the Old
Fort taking back a piece of beef 10 the
dealer, and the stencil arising from the
meat was nauseating, and yet the dealer
met her at the door with rude reproach
for returning it, when he ought to have
been prosecuted for having such putre-
factive matter about his promises much
less trying to force it on his customers.
The little girl was crying because she had
been sent away rudely from home because
she Mad bought ''rotten meat" and the
dealer was in an i'll humor because it had
come back on his hands, when it was fit
only for the crematory, as a elf-respeoting
dog could not have stomached it.
UNsANITARY FOOD.
Much ot the sickness among the colored
people II due to the poor quality of the
meat which is sold them, and they are
largely 10 blame for they buy it because it
is cheap, The fatality among the colored
classes is largely in excess of that
OF the white people, and as the general
health Of the community is endangered by
the lack of sanitation in any quarter, the
Citizens Sanitary Association will have
begun a good wOrk if it directs its attention
to the sale of stale meats and vegetables
throughout the city, for it is an abuse that
Is practically unrestrained.
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