Arizona republican., 1906-06-05

hands into the meat to be converted ! into such food products as sausage, dried beef and other compounds.
 "One of the large plants erected with in recent years has most of the defects | of the other buildings. In impressive ! contrast to the conditions that we saw in the stock yards of Chicago, is an es- tablishment that Mir. Reynolds visited in New York City. It well merits de scription in those particulars in which it is vastly superior to similar condi- tions in Chicago.
 ventilation is everywhere excellent and light abundant. both these matters having evidently received careful con
 sideratiOn in planning the building. The effect of all it's excellencies of con- struction and arrangements is evident
 in promoting the care of the products and in elevating the morals of the
 workers.
 ''rhe same principles of sanitation and same care of the health and clean l liness of the workers would revolu- ] tinnize the stock yards of Chicago. and the attainment of such a standard should be the concern of the national 1 government and of the city of Chicago. Under existing conditions the bur den of protecting the cleanliness and ! wholesomeness of the products and health of the workers and of improv- ing the conditions under which the
 work is performed. must fall upon the
 national government The parts that are sent from the cooling room to those
 in the departments of the packing houses in which various forms of meat products are prepared are hsndled
 with no regard whatever for cleanli-
 ness. In some of the largest establish
 ments sides that are sent to what is
 known as the boning room are thrown
 in a heap upon the floor. The work
 CTS climb over these heaps of meat,
 select the pieces they wish and ire
 quently throw them down upon the
 dirty floor beside their working bench Meat scraps were also found being
 shoveIed Into receptacles from dirty floors where they were left to lie until
 again shoveled into barrels or into ma
 chimes for chopping. We saw meal
 shoveled from filthy wooden floors
 piled on tables rarely washed, pushed
 from room to room in rotten box carts . ! in all of which processes it was in tn,
 way of gathering dirt, splinters, floOl l hlths and the approximation of tuber culous and other diseased workmen.
 "As an extreme example of the en
 tire disregard on the part of the em ' ployes of any notion of cleanliness il n handling dressed meat, we saw a hoi f that had just been killed. cleaned
 washed and started on it's way to tn
 cooling room fall from the sliding rad ', to a dirty floor and slide part wa if into a filthy mems privy. It va - picked up by two employees place
 upon a truck, carried into the coOlin ', room and hung up with other car "a casses, no effort being made to clean i = "The radical defect in the presen ,s system of inspection is that 1t does no " go far enough It is confined at pres n ent by law to passing on the health -s fulness of animals al the time C ,- killing; but the meat that is used i , sausage and in various forms ,e canned products and other prepare ,- meat foods goes through many pro IS cesses. in all of which there is possi " bility of contamination through UT .g sanitary handling, and further dangt n. through the use of chemicals Durin re all these processes of preparation thel d. is no government inspection and T m assurance whatever that these mes d food products are fit for food, despi