The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-20


meeting last night with Mr.. Dupuy in
tho chair. The following members an.
swcrcd the calling OF the roll: Boehm,
Boswell, Duggen, Dupuy, Fackenthal,
Hawkins, Hough, Johnson, Loughery,
McClelland, Moomaw, and Stevenson.
Messrs. Pattie and Payne dropped In
few minutes later.
Under suspension of the rules
petitions were referred 70 the committee
on lights requesting that electric ligh IS
be placed at the corners of Franklin
road and King George avenue and
Mountain avenue and Fifth street.
The report of the health committee
was presented and is given herewith in
full:
1.-The health committee desires to call
your attention to specific case in
which improper anu tainted food was
sold by huckster at the city market.
Personal inquiry OF the market master
brought out the statement that the
market master had not sufficient au-
thority to deal with this or similar
cases; that he knew the huckster in
question sold tainted poultry, but that
he (the market mastery could not
prevent him from SO doing. We ask the
opinion of the city solicitor as to the
power OF the market master to condemn
and seize tainted supplies, and in case
he confirms our opinion that the market
master has plenary power OF seizure and
complaint, recommend prompt action
by Council to place the market house
in such hands that the health of citizens
may not be endangered by the sale to
them OF spoiled food.
eff thara ia ne,,Hininpt ontbAr;Lu IN
the hands Of the market master, we
suggest amendments to the ordinances
authorizing and directing him t, seize
food offered for sale, which may be un-
hit, and to prosecute at once tho de-
tenders. We further suggest an or.
dinance declaring any huckster oe
dealer from market house privileges
who shall be twice convicted of selling
or Offering for sale spoiled supplies.
The case in question is this: On Sat
urday evening, April s, S. j. Akers, a
huckster dealing at the northeast curb
of the city market, sold to q servant Of
the chairman of the health committee a
baafy tainted or rotten chicken and
some rancid butter, either of which il
they had been eaten would havo en-
dangered the health of tho consumer.
The chairman Of the health committee
called on said Akers the following
Tuesday, at which time said Akers adj :.
United that he knew the poultry was
spoiled at the time of the sale and
promptly offered to refund the money.
His sole excuse was that he told the
servant that tho poultry was spoiled
when he sold it to him. This the SER
want denies.
complaint hal at previous time
been made to the health com mittee that
said Akers kept tainted meat at his
shop opposite the market house and in
vestigation sh owed it to be SO.
when the attention of the market
master was called to the manner in
which Akers kept his place, and to the
tainted supplies he was selling, he
claimed inability to remedy the matter
and especially to prevent said Akers
from selling tainted meats, and ro.
marked that he (Akers) always had
and always would sell rotten meats.
I'm this come ction we beg leave to
state that the danger arising from eating
tainted meats cannot be overestim ted.
|. is not only liable to cause protracted
cases Of serious illness but Immediate
death TO the consumer.
eve would also call the attention of
Council to the large amo int of offal left
on market square by the farmers, COM
posed OF remnants of the vegetables,
etc, scattered over market square,
which should be removed by the farmers
who bring same to market. We think
it should be tho duty of the market
master to compel farmers to remove
said materials or pay fine. BY close
attention to this our sanitary work
would be much loss and the atmosphere
much better in front of the market.
"Our city is generally in good,
healthy condition, but this, the spring
OF the year, is the time to guard against
all kinds of sickness, and our best pre-.
cautions arc to be careful OF tie food we
cat and the air we breathe. Proper
ordinances, we'll observed at the mar.
ket, will add more to our city in that
respect than anything else.
The committee also recommend that
pond be filled up on Salem avenue
between c and D streets, and that q
wagon be purchased for the health de-
partment a q cost of $3S."
The report OF the health committee
was then taken up by sections. 1t was
found that tho needed authority OF the
market master was fully granted by
existing ordinances. 1t was then d.
rected that the clerk OF the market
appear before Council and explain why
he did not enforce the ordinances The
various recommendations contained in
the report were adopted with the OK
ception Of the one suggestion that a
new wagon be purchased.
The committee on public property
reported that one Of the Junior Hose
Company's horses was in bad condition,
and recommended that new one be
purchased IL the finances OF the city
justified it.
Mr.. Pattie stated that there was a
horse belonging to the city which in
size and color almost matched tho horse