The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-24

it rips into the flesh, and the ar
whizzes out. Result? Mr.. goose IS
as fiat as pancake !
This practice is particularly danger
Gus inasmuch as the air from the
lungs. filling the skin of the goose
will contaminate it, and this has ac-
counted to a large extent for the
spread of tubercular trouble on the
East Side. All meat exposed to the
open air is marked by the inspector.
The name of the butcher is taken II
, he does not refrain from the method
of advertising his roasts and steaks he
is arrested. He must pay fine or
work out the time on the Island.
In summer the greatest difficulties
the officials have to combat is clean
illness and refrigeration. The supply
of ice is as small as possible, for the
Hebrew has an adherence of spend
ing money for something he must see
slowly melt away and which must be-
supplied anew each day. +.
A fruit inspector does not have
quite the simple work one may think.
He must also look after the vegetables
that appear on the green grocers' "
stands.
The small fruit dealer usually lives
down under the sidewalks. He also
stores the fruit away in this large rat
hole, as may be imagined, the liv-
ing place of man, wife and two or
three children, and the storage house
for fruits and vegetables, cannot be
very healthy, either for the family or
the vegetables.
These places must be investigated
by the inspector, and when the con-
ditions are found to be absolutely
dreadful, they do not wait for the
slow grasp of justice to deal with
them the more mediocre, but just as
effective, hand of the police tumbles
the vegetables, fruit and family out
of the place.
The fruit and vegetables may be
kept up on the sidewalk and cover
made to protect them in winter, then
the family may live below stairs, but
not otherwise. This is about the
only necessary investigation to make
in fruit, save one in using artificial
means of coloring berries and lettuce.
Some of the very tempting white
lettuce we see is bleached in the dark
cellars by means of chemical known
to the fruit men. When an inspec-
tor finds a particularly white lot Of
lettuce, he purchases head of it,
takes il to the Office for examination,
and if it is found to be bleached the
dealer is summoned to court. Of
late, fruit inspectors have carried
atomizers filled with chemical that
turns the bleach to deep red.
A great deal of white lettuce is all
right and natural in fact, nowadays,
little bleached salad is sold, for so
rigid has been the discipline exercised
by the inspectors that the fruit man
finds it does not pay to tamper with
his vegetables.
It hardly seems worth while to EN-
ploy men to examine bread, but when
one realizes that twenty men are
working on this sort of business it
may seem bit of Importance. Bake
ries of small sort are examined and
the conditions must be sanitary.
When the bread has reached the store
it must be sweet, and must not be so
filled with alum that there is very
little nutriment in it.
An expert bread inspector can tell
instantly if there is too much alum
in the bread also taste of piece of
crust will suffice to tell him whether
or not the flour has been little musty
or the sponge soured.
The retailer and wholesaler are
alike liable, for the man who will
knowingly buy impure bread to vend
to his customers is held, by the au-
thorities, to be as guilty as the man
who makes it.
Day in and day out the men on the
Board of Health staff work at inspec-
tions of this sort. If it was not for
them we would have a most dreadful
condition of contaminated food. As
it is, it has been ascertained by COM
parison of statistics that New York
has the purest food of any of the very
large cities, either foreign or of our
Union, and when one considers that
many millions Of people are fed, he
may partially realize what stupen
dous undertaking it is to try to pro-
vide "pure food" for the multitude.
-B,oadway Magazine.