The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-17
FOOD INSPECTION.
Tho Terms of tho Ordinance Now
Pending Before Council,
THE POWERS OF THE new OFFICIAL
Defined, aud Restrictions Placed on
tho Sale of Inferior F'ood-Tho Only
Objection to II on tho Score OF an
Empty rrcasury-A Much Needed
Measure.

Tho rcal necessity for IN inspector Of
food in Wheeling seems TO hayo i'm
pressed itself or tho people generally.
No objection has boon heard except on
the score OF increased expenditures at a
time whom money Is scarce and tho city
In need Of increased revenues. Tho
cost, however, would not DO au Item
worth thinking about in comparison to
the good to be accomplished in pro.
tecting tho people from adulteratod or
diseased food, and so far us 1t goes the
ordinance now pending in council
seems TO meet tho ends aimed at. The
only improvement suggested by those
who have given it thought is that it
should BIO made more thorough.
The ordinance provides that bienni-
ally the committee OH health shall
present to council tho names Of three
persons deemed fit to occupy tho posi-
ton OF inspector OF Food" and one Of
these shall be selected by Council to
serve Tor two years. The ordinance con-
tinuos:
Section .. That it shall hereafter be
unlawful to sell, or expose or offer for
sale, within the city OF Wheeling, for
food, any butter, eGgs, milk, whether
SKINNED or not, cream, beef, mutton,
lamb, pork, or flesh OF any animal,
whether OF n domestic or wild nature,
or OF any fowl OF any kind or the flesh
thereof. or any fish OF any kind or tho
flesh thereof, or any vegetable or any
other article, thing or merchandise used
for food. which by reason Of any injury,
defect, disease. faint or adulteration is
unfit or unwholosome for food or dan.
Gerous to health. And tho exposure OF
tho same at any market. store room or
place where articles OF food arc sold. or
in any vehicle used for conveying tho
same, shall be prima facic evidence OF n
violation Of the provisions OF this ordi-
nance.
Section 8. II any person or firm shall
expose or otlor Tor sale, or shall sell for
food, any article. thing or merchandise.
contrary to the provisions OF the second
section OF this ordinance, such person
or tho member Of such firm who shall
expose or offer the same for sale, or who
shall sell the same, shall DO arrested
and brought before the police court OF
the city OF Wheeling, and il upon hear
ing, the said court shall adjudse such
person to DO guilty OF any such oIense
rs aforesaid. the said court shall impose
upon such offender, n fine Of not exceed
ing - dollars for the frat olense. and
tho costs OF prosecution, and not ex-
ceeding - dollars and - DAYS i'm
prisonment for the second or n other
than tho first otiense, and the costs OF
prosecution; and the said court may
a!so adjudgc the property go unlawiuIly
exposed for sale to be forfeited TO tho
city oil Wheeling. and be- disposed Of rs
the "Inspector OF Food" may deem best.
II skinned milk contains less than 6
per centum Of cream by volume or less
than . $40 per centum Of lat BY weight,
and il the specific gravity at sixty de-
grees Fahrenheit is not between ono
and thirty-two thousandths to one and
thirty-seven th%ousandths, it shall DO
deemed to be adulterated.
The inspector is given police powers,
and it is made q part OF the duty OF the
police to assist in enforcing the proris-
ions OF the ordinance.
The committee on ordinances has not
yet been called to consider the new
measure, which was referred to it by
council.