Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-01

Enough Destroyed Annually tS Fee
1000 Persons.

"a AGa4lA aAl 4cSklOAtN AZ tbs ~4t@
in year. If accumulated in one spot.
would make pyramidal hill two
hundred feet broad atihe base an1
three hundred feet high In quantity
il would be sufficient 10 iced 5000
persons throughout the year. supply
ing them with meat. FISH game and
poultry, vegetables, groceries, all va
rieties OF fruit and confectionery.
There is q eeaseless vigilance IN
New York TO insure pure food for its
inhabitants This does not mean that
thousands OF tons Of adulterated and
harmful foods are not eaten yearly
for the channels by which they may
reach the tables of rich and poor are
many, and the carelessness Of house
keepers and cooks are responsible for
much. But at the gates Of the city
where food Is admitted by rail and by
water. at the wholesale markets. at
stores and among the push-cart ven
defa OF edibles the inspectors OF the
health department are always al
work. During the ripe-fruit season
they are most active. and their work
Is the heaviest Their authority is
almost supreme. and they can order
the destruction of train load or 4
ship load OF fruit or vegetables. or a
hundred head OF cattle infected with
ol case, involving a loss 10 the own
efs of thousands OF dollars
In the last twelve months 7.172.347
pounds OF food stuffs were con
demned seized and destroyed some
81 this especially fruit brought in
b.. ships ont 10 sea and was
dumped in The briny deep. The en-
tire hipload was a loss through a de-
lay2d voyage in hot weather causing
fermentation TO set in among the per-
ishable cargo Many a shipload OF
bananas have gone that way.
OF the more than 100000 pounds
OF food destroyed in the last year.
G39.G90 pounds were fruit. Meat
came next-more than million
pounds having been deemed unfit to
use. Vegetables were close third.
III, ice pounds.
IN addition to this, solid food. the
alaonDt of milk destroyed in the year
has been $1,000 quarts. This, seen
at once in all its bulk. is lot of milk.
II Is however. but "a spoonful out
of the great river of the LIQUID food
that pours into the metropolitan CITY.
IN a year j50.000.000 quarts of milk
are consumed i'm New York. 1.5OO. 900
quarts a day.
The effort to protect the city from
Impure or innutritious milk has re-
suited through years of legislation
and careful Inspection In making the
dealers careful that the milk they
bring TO the city meets the legal re-
qarements. These requirements in
one way place premium on poor milk
while guarding the city from milk that
is unhealthy or entirely worthless.
Tie law calls for not less than 3 per
cent of butter fats in all milk sold in
New York. This is not high stand.
afd. and many dealers avail them
selves OF the small percentage re-
CURED to reduce the nnIritiye quality
oi their milk to this low standard.
Many consumers of milk in New
York pay dearly for milk that is above
the legal standard of purity and nu.
tritiousness. II will surprise some
people to know that milll-not cream
lis sold in this city as high as 90
cents quart A sworn statement ac-
companies this milk. as to its freeness
from injurious qualities-bacteria
ETC and as TO its richness in butter
fats. The cows from which this milk
Is taken are selected registered Dur.
hams and Holsteins. The sanitary
arrangements for the care of the cat
tie and the milk are as perfect as ex-
penditure of money and scientific
Skill can make them The milk is kent
and delivered at proper tempera.
ture
MIX left uncovered in the living
room of a tenement house for few
hours has been found to contain as
many as 50,000,000 bacteria per cubic
cSntimetre. The expensive milk
served by the expert dairymen NAV
contain less than 500 bacteria 10 the
centimetre. This milk is bought
chiefly for feeble and ailing children.
or the food condemned in this CITY
by the health department but a small
proportion rs OF adulterated food.
Less than a hundred tons of groceries
and confectionery have been seized
in the last year because of harmful
adulteration.
In addition 10 this vast amount of
food condemned and destroyed by or
der Of the city's health department.
the people of New York are notori-
oasly wasteful in the food they throw
away-the refuse from dining rooms
and kitchens that goes to the garbage
barrels This adds some hundred
thousand tons TO the condemned foods
that find their way, in the iron tanks
OF the garbage boats, to Barren isl.
and There this huge mass is tried
out IT'S oils extracted and its fertil,
ieiag elements reduced TO powder and
sold
In the year 1901 half a million tons
Of food stuhs from the kitchens of the
city and of the foods condemned by
the health department were fed TO the