The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-01

and adtopsied $50. or 1917 per cent Every
one, with possibly two exceptions, were shown
Dy the autopsies TO be tuberculous. In about
three months more the whole of the 1000 head
of cattle in Santa Clara County will have been
inspected officially. Now what is the result
from sanitary and monetary standpoint
At low es innate $50 of these cows gave three
gallons OF milk per day, and by their destruc.
ton the consumption of 1850 gallons of dis
eased milk daily has been stopped. In addi-
ton to this constant inspections as to other
authorizations are carefully made. and diaries
and barns inspected and no means left untr1ed
to enforce the proper feeding, housing and
handling OF cattle.
DR.. ]. G. Spencer, City Bacteriologist,
followed with an address on Milk" He
said the average milk, while full of mi
crobes. is not SO badly infested with ma
lignant germs as some people imagine.
He advocated the pasteurization of milk
at public stations by submitting it to a
temperature of about $50 degrees Fahren-
heit.
Ellwood Cooper of Santa Barbara deliv-
cred an interesting address on the adul-
teration OF olive oil, showing that II is
tempered with more than anything ex-
cept vinegar. LESS than 81 per cent of
what is sold is pure" he said, "being
made of cottolene, lard, cotton seed oil
and other like deleterious ingredients OF
an indigestible and even dangerous char
acter." He concluded by saying that the
man who brands authorizations as Callfor-
mia made goods is traitor TO the State.
B. M. Lelong of the State Board OF
Horticulture made even more startling
statements about olive oil. He said:
Out of forty brands of olive oil which I ex-
amined few years ago in this market, !
found but three pure samples, and most OF
the brands had less than per cent OF olive
oil. 1 found II samples labeled, "California
olive OIL and there was no olive oil in any
I,nr, told r,,n ha hnlf hat
more than 500 persons had been killed by
adulterated oil con tanning sulphuric acid and
cotton-seed oil. Even the imported oils are
often bad, and the oils here are often sold at
less than the cost OF production OF the genuine
article
State Chemist w. B. Rising of Berkeley
read an interesting paper, wherein he
held that it is the duty of the State to pro-
tect the people against the adulteration OF
food. He said:
Authorizations destroy legitimate business
and undermine the health of the people. We
are food-producing State, and it ought to lie
the ambition OF every loyal Californian to see
that the quality of our product is as good as
its variety and quantity, otherwise millions OF
dollars in damage will be done to the State by
the producers OF spurious goods. Butter, olive
oil and other staple products have earned
their standing and name through long years
of service, and the man who counte rfeits them
ought to suffer.
A. Sbarboro delivered ap address on
wines which was heard with marked at
tention. Among other things he said:
On account of the abundance of our juicy
grapes, wine is rarely adul terated in Califor-
MIA, but our great competitors are the five
story vineyards in the city of New York,
where it is well known that large quantities
of wine are manufactured without drop OF
the Juice OF the grape, and what is worse still
while our California wines are sold under
French la bells, the spurious articles artif-
cially produced are labeled California wines.
This fraud must be stopped, and l would
therefore offer the following resol utlon for
the consideration Of the committee on reso lu-
tons:
.Resolved That our representatives. in Con-
gTess be requested TO use all honest means to
have passed by Congress pure food law, in
GLIDING in the same the prohibition of adul-
iteration or sophistication of wines"
Let the off GERS OF the Board of Health con-
tinue their meritorious work, and then we N av
again sit al table with our families and enjoy
the blessing OF good meal, made entirely of
pure food, which blessing will be due to the
model Board of Health of San Francisco, to
whom is due our most grateful thanks.
Professor Emory E. Smith of Stanford
read an a BILE paper on "Pure Food Educa-
ton" saying in part:
Educational effort must be made chiefly in
two directions. commercial for more immedi-
ate results and scholastic for ultimate success.
Commercial conscience is largely matter
OF co IiJlOn, e0NlTOumeul anu trdue GUS
tom, and can only be successfully dealt with
by law and public sentiment.
The enactment of laws affecting commerce
which are to be rigidly enforced are democrat
izing in their tendency.
Good laws, actively enforced even cannot
stamp out the evil, so long dishonesty dis
posed persons are supported in their evasions
by public sentiment.
| No spasmodic agitation regarding the pur
| ity of any special food or class of foods will
| prove sufficient; the question must be handled