The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-28
ICE FOR HEALTH TOPIC
Dealers Expert and Health Off.
Gals Tell CounciImen About
Purity Standards.

The city council committees on sanitary
regulations and municipal laws took their
lhlfd lesson last night in learning some
Ihlng about the Impurities IN ice ana how
pest 70 guard against the sale OF this
kind of commodity under the ruise al
pure stuff The proposed amended ordi-
nance 10 more strlngeEtly regulate the in
spectl0n of Ice and permit its sale Is. pend
ing in the council, and now the members
are presumed TO be advised of an need
tul information on the subject
ON behalf or the smaller ice dealers.
who desire numerous notifications IN the.
ordinance, favorable 10 their interests.
Professor kingsbury reiterated his Dosi-
meeting and cited many authorities TO
show that there is = wide difference of
opinion as 70 what should constitute
standard OF purity of water He suE-
gested an amendment allowing as much
as sixteen parts of albuminoid ammonia.
II from vegetable matter. before condemn
ing ice for any use except refrigPratfne
purposes where IT would not come in con-
tact with food, and further, that in case
chemical tests OF samples analyIed BIZ
the health department and by the ice
dealer disagree. a test made By a third
chemist shall decide.
Health Commissioner King pointed out
the advisa bility of having a standard OF
purity OF ice fixed by ordinance in the
interest of the public health. He submit
ted that the measure before the council.
which is modelled after the Chicago ordi-
nance, ought not TO be amended as sug-
geSued by the protesting dealers expert.
and IN support of his contention cited that
pure water might be made INTO bad ice
from contaminated ponds.
To rebut the contention that proper in
spectiOn of ice when it is gathered from
ponds is all that is necessary for the pro-
lection of the public health, DR.. King re-
marked that what might be good ice
when harvested is often polluted in de-
livery. and for this reason he wanted the
provision to stand that inspections may
be made whileIice is in course of delivery,
the same as applies to milk.
DR. King maintained that the proposed
standard Of purity is low enough, for ice
must necessarily Oe quite dirty to reach
the maximum limit of impurity pre-
5cribed As to the contention that dealers
of their product before it is
harvested, he maintained that the deal
ers could determine Just as well as the
health department can whether they are
harvesting impure ice.
City Chemist Harms explained how
varied are the tests made on ice samples
to determine purity, all for the purpose
Of checking and arriving at exact re-
suits.
In pleading for modification by pro-
yiding for duplicate and Tiphcate
analyses, Chairman Eardley asked City
Nye if it would not be on the
of arbitration
The attorney replied in the affirmative,
but followed with the declaration that II
would be Just as reasonable to try a man
accused of crime by arbitration He sub
nitted that such a proposition would be
very Objectionable in the ordinance from
a legal standpoint.
All of the other cOuncilmen were very
careful not TO butt in when the ice oues-
ion was under discussion from scientific
views.