The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-06
MILK MUCH
IMPROVED
Two Months With None
Bad-.Vile Salmon
Condemned.

R. A. Duncan, Food Commissioner
and Analyst, submitted a lengthy re-
| port to the president of the Board of
Health, covering the months of October
| and November.
Milk has a clean slate for both
I months, 20 samples in October and 80
in November having yielded none be-
low standard.
Salt salmon yielded an abomina BILE
record, with 6S impure samples against
II fit for food.
Soda water was found all right in 81
samples and below standard in s.
Condensed milk had one good and
one bad sample tested. Jam had the
same record.
Distilled liquors, Al samples; fer
l sample, are all in the column of cup
to or above Standard Two examin-
ations of water and two psychological
bring the total of examinati ons up to
332.
Food condemned and destroyed com
prised 50 barrels salt salmon and 16
doz. tins condensed milk.
''The milk supply during two months
has been of good quality, the inspec-
tors samples showing no adulteration
being practiced,'' Mr.. Duncan says.
:" Four dairies were visited during No
vember and instructions 6 iven for san
itary improvements The work of the
past few months in the inspection of
dairies and calling the attention of
owners to insanitary conditions has
resulted in many improvements. When
it is taken into consideration that there
Is no law relating to proper equipment
of diaries, and the present inspection
is only in the line of suggestion to
dairymen for the production of clean
milk, there has been much good accom-
plished. Dairymen have met your in
spector in the proper spirit and seem
DESTROYS to furnish clean, as well as
unadulterated milk. The passage of a |
law giving the Board of Health power |
to make regulations governing the /
production of milk is much needed.
During October and November for
ty-six (46) samples of liquor were /
analysed and reports of analyses sent !
the Treasurer OF the Territory, in ac |
cordance with Act 81, Session laws of |
1905. |
Fourteen samples of cheap sweet |
wines sold in Honolulu saloons were
taken by this office and analyses made |
for the purpose of ascertaining the |
quality of the cheap wine sold. The |
prices of the wine varied from 10 cents |
to % cents per quart bottle.
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ash and acids to be normal. Consider |
able variation in extract and alcoholic |
strength is noticed. These wines be- |
ing sweet and fortified, the solids and |
alcohol should be correspondingly high. |
One wine falls as low as 135 per cent |
alcohol by volume, a limit below that |
usually considered normal. 1t is doubt
full II wine below Is per cent. alcoholic |
strength is shipped, or should be ship |
ped, to this climate, on account of diff
Guilty of keeping without ferme ntation.
Where the alcohol is low preservation
is to be suspected, and in one sample,
Port, an antiseptic was detected. This
sample was obtained from the Greater
New York Saloon, r. w. Condor, pro-
prietOr, corner LiIiha and King streets
Sa1icylic acid was present: this an
tiseptic is prohibited in foods by the
stance; and is also forbidden in wine
by the United States Pharmacopoeia,
which is the standard for dry red and
white wines of the Territory. A sample !!
of Madeira from the same dealer con
tanned 13.5 per cent. alcohol and 5.35
per cent. extract both figures below
the commonly accepted standard for
sweet wine. This wine is undoubtedly |
watered. All samples containing less
than IS per cent. alcohol and per
cent. extract, while they may not be
adulterated, are unquestionably of in
ferio quality and should not be sold !
In absence of legal standards for sweet
wines it is impossible to take action
against these dealers at this time
Mr.. Duncan here gives the names of
dealers from whose places samples of
and Port wines were analyz-
ed, together with the analyses, the
main results of which are given above
''Fiftyone samples of soda water
representing all the soda water manu-
facturers of Honolulu We're obtained
and tested for substitutes for sugar
In one instance saccharine, a chemi-
cal substance of marked sweetening
power. was detected. Saccharine has
$50 times the sweetening power of
cane sugar and is commonly used to
adulterate wines soda water, etc. 1t
was formerly used in Honolulu but up
On notification all dealers stopped it's
use with the exception of S. J. Allen
castro, proprietor of the Enterprise
Soda Works. Mr. Alencastre has been
TO see me in regard to the matter and
has promised to Immediately stop the
use of this substance. Not only is sac
charine a cheap substitute for cane
sugar, but there is also some question
about its healthful qualities. 1t may
De we'll for all interested to take no.
ice that enough has been said about
;accharine and the next case of this
sdulteration of soda water and foods
Will result in prosecution.
shipments of salt salmon to this port
Turing the last part of August and the
month of October were of inferior