The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-19
WATCH YOUR FOOD
NEW JERSEY WOMAN'S AID.
DRESS AT JAMESTOWN.
Miss Lakey Tells of the Need of Clean
illness and Constant Care by
the Consumer.

NORFOLK, Va, July 19.-Among the
speakers at today's session of the Ma
tional Pure Food Association was Miss
Alice Lakey, of Crawford, n. j., chair
man Of the food committee of the Ma
tional Consumers League. In the
course of her address Miss Lakey said:
1t is a self-evident fact that the food
Law and the meat inspection law can never
be fully enforced until there is in every
home an alert, conscientious consumer
cooperating in the work of enforcement
Today one cause of poor food Is the aver
age consumer indifference.
the necessity of clean milk and whole
some meat. but he too often roundly de-
nonnces the new. food laws as the cause
of his increased living expenses.
! He Is ant to overlook the fact that clean
milk and wholesome meat mean a lowered
death rat6 hence less expens. for physi-
clans fees.
The farmers and mllkmen supplying
New York city with milk have been htely
passing through a strenuous period of
education owing to the controversy on
Happily the victory WIS won for clean
milk through the efforts Of the milk COM
mittee of New York, and no milk will
new be pasteurized unless 1t is unsafe
to use it raw. The city Board of Health
has asked for S175,O 600 to improve the work
of inspection.
OuI OCiiS dko a iiiiAh 0o'
started in a New Jersey town. The State
inspector found seven polluted wells sup
plying local diaries with water. also one
herd OF tuberculous cattle. The cows were
killed; new wells lug. What happened
Did the grateful consumer thank the lead
ers of the crusade? On the contrary they
were roundly denounced for the increased
price of milk. Had the consumers been
educated and known that polluted wells
may mean Uphold and other Ills they
might have been less indignant.
1--WE may now change the pronoun ana
say of the consumer that she should be
instructed how to care for milk after II
comes into the home. What good TO enr
force an ordinance compelling the dairyman
to keep his milk at a certain low temper
ature when the careless consumer leaves IL
uncovered In a warm kitchen or unchlilei
icebox? Why go to the expense OIL enIor-
cling public ordinances for the care or milk
when the average consumer handles 1t as
she would potatoes? The thoughtless con-
sumer appropriates the poor milkman S DOT
ties at all times of the year and uses them
for all sorts of things. One thrifty con-
sumner has been known to use the bottles
for catsup containers when putting up the
autumn tomatoes.
The average consumer Is not vet aWake
to the fact that tuberculosis may be con-
veyed to human beings through both dirty
milk and meat that is diseased. AT one
of the stock yards in New Jersey where
federal inspectors are maintained cattle
thai ire rejected because tubercular have
been bought by a local dealer. killed and
SOlu lOI lOOds L III td III thia iItooNN
meat sold 1t in five stalls in a New York
mhrket. The active work done by the
New Jersey State Board of Health has
now closed out his trade.
The speaker recently accompanied the
State inspector of New Jersey on a tour
of inspection of certain dairies and slaugh-
terhouses in the State. The places where
federal inspection was maintained, with
one exception, were conducted with all due
regard for the laws of sanitation. This
one exception was a hog-slaughtering
Hoo - tho r~ANrfofOr hac hoan RannrtnA
by the State inspector as maintaining a
nuisance.
AS to the diaries, they were, with two
exceptions, horribly dirty. The stables
cows feet in one place, showed that the
animals were never exercised. There Is no
need of describing these conditions 10 you,
clean milk If once they saw how unclean
milk was produced.
George Mcclure, state Food Inspector
of New Jersey, suggests that local
slaughter houses might be limited to q
certain number in each county, where
| State inspection could be maintained. HI
also suggests that a State could liml-
ports of entry for cattle to certain towns
where strict inspection could be made OF
all cattle sent into the State. BY this
means not only the meat. but the mill
supply of the State would be partially
safeguarded from the danger of tuber-
culosis.
One of the new plans of the leagues
food committee is the organizing of q
State food committee of the Consumers
League of New Jersey. The specific work
at first will be directed toward %arousing
the as to the perils of dirty
milk. filthy slaughter houses and diseased
meat. II the movement succeeds in New
Jersey 1t will be tried in other States.
Do you not hin that this aroused con-
sumner will secure the passage and enforce
ment of a law that failed to pass at the
last session of the New Jersey Legis-
lature? namely, a law TO provide for
slaughter house inspection. 1t is in this
way that the committee hopes to rouse
consumers, and 1t Is to you that they
look for inspiration and guidance.