The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-07

act. making appropriations for the de-
partment of agriculture for the fiscal year
senate, this being commonly
known as the Beverage amendment.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Inc White House, Juns =, 1906.
Uncleanness Everywhere.
A synopsis of the report of Reynolds
and Neill follows:
The report says that two and one-half
weeks We're spent in the investigation in
Chicago. during. which we went through
the principal packing houses in the stock
yards district, together with a few Of the
smaller ones. a day was spe,it by Mr..
Reynolds in New York city in the investi-
agtion of Its leading slaughter houses"
The report says that in many OF the
rooms where water is used freely the
floors are soaked and Shiny and the dark
and dingy rooms are naturally not kept
suitably clean. An absence of cleanliness
was found everywhere in the handling of
meat being prepared for the various meat
food products; The parts that are sent
from the cooling room to these depart
ments where various forms of meat pro-
ducts are prepared are handled with no
regard whatever for cleanliness. The
the pieces they wish and frequently throw
them down upon The dirty floor beside
their bench.
Meat ShoveIed from Filthy Floors.
In a word the report adds, I'VE saw
meat 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 the way Of
gathering dirt. splinters, floor filth. 1t
was always the reply that this meat would
afterwards be cooked and that this steri-
l Ez You'd y preyeSt any danger from its
meat SO handled is sent out as smoked
PRODUCTS and in the form of sausages,
which are prepared to be eaten without
being cooked.
"A particularly glaring instance of I'M
cleanliness was found in a room where the
best grade of sausage was being prepared
for export
The report says that the radical defect
IN the inspection system is that it is con-
fined at present by law to passing on the
nealthfulness of animals at the time of
killing, but that the meat that is used in
sausage and the various forms Of canned
products and other prepared meat foods
goes through many processes, in all Of
which there is possibility OF contamination
through unsanitary handling and further
danger through the use of chemicals. Dur
ing all these processes there is no govern
ment inspection although these products
when sent out bear a label stating that
they have been passed upon by govern
ment inspectors. The report arraigns the
Unable and says that men and womea
plunge their unwashed hands into the
meat to be converted into food products.
The report says the burden Of protecting
the cleanliness and wholesomeness of the
products the health of the workers and
improving the conditions must fall upon
lit lldliOIldl government.
tuberculosis Contagion.
Department superintendent "seem to
ignore all considerations except the ac-
count book and proper care of the pro-
ducts and of health and comfort Of the
, employees IS impossible and the consumer
consequently suffers.
Tuberculosis victims expectorate on the.
spongy wooden floors of the dark work.
rooms from which falling scraps of meat
are later shoveled up to be converted into
food products.
Even the ordinary decencies of life are
completely ignored says the report in
Women employees rpe The report tOs says sise" ana
The whole situation as we saw it In
these huge establishments tends neces.
sarily and inevitably to the moral degrad-
alton of thousands of workers, who are
forced to spend their working hours under
conditions that are entirely unnecessary
menace not only to their own health, but
to the health Of those who use the food
products prepared by them"
What Is Needed.
The report urged compulsory examina-
ton after slaughter.
inclusion of goats, now exempt from
inspection intended for foreign or inter-
state in the last subject to the
inspection of the bureau of animal in
dustry, and that they should be equally
controlled by the regulations of the secre-
tary of agricultural
The report ASKS for increase of inspec-
tors for night inspection and special work:
legislation prohibiting declarations of gov
ernrnent inspections of food products un-
less subject to government inspection at
every stage of preparation: prohibiting
interstate transportation or any meat or
meat food products not inspected and
labeled; urges considering the question OF
specific labelling of all carcasses sold as
fresh meat which upon examination after
Strengthening show signs of disease but
are still deemed suitable for food: and
recommends study of inspection standards
Of other countries.