Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-04
LONDON NEEDS
A MUCK-R RAKER
ANALYSES SHOW BORlC ACID
IN TIMED MEATS
Still, inspectors say Quality Of Goods
Is Fair-cant Tell How Much
Came from Diseased Animals.
Wants All Goods Dated
by ALBERT HEDGES
BILE to The Herald.

BY ALBERT HEDGES
Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON. Nov. 3.-Dr. A. Wynter
Blyth, medical officer of health and
public analyst for Marylebone, re-
ports to the borough council the past
three months he has analysed in his
laboratory ninety mine samples of
timed and preserved meats, forty
eight of which were obtained in
Marylebone and the rest elsewhere. He
says:
"The results, so far as regards pre-
servatives showed the wide prev
alence of additions of boric acid; in
no less than Sc per cent of the sam
pies boric acid was found, varying
from traces up to little over 2R
grains per pound. Hence even the
maximum quantity of boric acid pres
ent was quite small BY far the ma
jority of the samples were good and
clean, and certainly fit for food.
1.-THE chief fault lay in the American
brawns. Six samples of brawn de-
rived from Chicago were filthy con-
tanning dirt, bits of snaw, woody fiber,
hair, hogs bristles, shreds of skin
with the bristles attached, and other
matters, giving one the impression
that some portions of the contents
was made up of floor sweepings. One
was about as bad. A sample of
corned beef from Chicago was also
very dirty, and two samples contained
much gristle, fat and skin.
"The important question as to
whether any portion of the samples
was derived from diseased animals
cannot be decidedly answered, for,
save in few parasitic diseases, it is
not practicable to distinguish between
diseased and healthy flesh after be-
ing sterilized and potted, by either the
naked eye appearance or by micro
scopical examination.
Wants Them Dated
DR.. Blyth suggests that al imported
goods of the kind should not be ad-
mitted into the United Kingdom save
or bottled appear on the label. The
samples of each consignment should
be examined in the same way as tea
is examined by the customs officials.
Further, he is of the opinion that some
sort of public notice should be given
that after a certain date any canned
meat found to contain borlc acid or
other preservative, not in fit state
for consumption, would form the sub
ject of a prosecution by the local au-
thority.
The Cunard Steamship company has
Just completed arrangements by which
travellers may book a trip round the
world for $3.50. The journey can be
made in three months, but the tickets
are available for two years.
Travellers will sail to New York
from Liverpool and cross the American
continent to Seattle by way of Chicago
and st. Paul.
They will then journey by steamer
to Japan, visit Hongkong, Singapore
and Colombo, and from Ceylon they
will return to London through the
Suez canal and the Mediterranean
The fare works out at slightly less
than a penny mile.
OF the 500 teachers who Lave been Sc
lected to visit the United States in
order to study American educational
systems, five sailed today, and the last
will sail on March 20.
Alfred Mosely. who took out the
education commission in 1908 which
bears his name, and is the moving
spirit in this scheme, explained its
purpose.
Why Teachers Come
"The main object is to enable Eng
lish teachers to get first hand a thor
ough insight into the American edu-
cation system. Committees are all
ready being formed in all the principal
towns and cities to take charge and
to show them all that there is to be
seen at the smallest expenditure of
time and money"
Remarkable statements were made
at a meeting of railway men held at
the Battersea Baths the other even
ing.
one speaker declared that the
Americanization of the driving sys-
tenn was sending men into their
graves years before their time, The
stupendous engines now in use were
hauling double loads, but the engine
men shared none of the saving of
wages which this meant to the COM
panieS.
1t was stated that to give the 100000
railwaymen an increase Of $3.50 week
on their wages, and to reduce their
hours to eight a day, would cost the
companies $70,000000, but 1t was argued
that they could spare this out of their
gigantic profits of $205,00O0O0
Mr.. Zangwill, president of the Jew
ish Territorial organization, has Sc
lected the names of the geographical
commission of five which he was en-
powered to appoint at the recent ses-
sion of the International council to
advise upon the best territory for
Jewish colonization.
The following have consented to
serve on this commission; Lord
Rothschild, the Hon. Oscar S. Straus
of New York, Herr James Simon,
president of the Hilfsverein der
Deutschen Juden; Dr. Paul Nathan of
Berlin, and Prof. DR.. Mandelstamm of
KieV.