The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-06
Did you smell it?

have shifted the air, and said there
could be no doubt about it. 1.-THE
meat was bad,' they said, "and
that's what made us all sick. y
Wenatchee's usually pure air has
been charged with gossip about taint-
ed meat for week. Everyone in
town seems to know a little about it,
but no one seems to know it all.
The current agitation over alleged
meat grew out of an epidemic of
stomach and bowel trouble which
ran through the town during the
past ten days The gossip of the
town attributed this sickness to i'm
pure meat. Several citizens bought
meat in the local markets which was
bad, and the incident has created no
little discussion
When the rumor reached the ears
of the mayor, he instructed DR.. Culp,
the city health officer, to make an
Investigation. DIR. Culp made the
rounds of the city, including the
premises Of all retail meat dealers
and the cold storage department Of
the Wenatchee Canning company. At
the latter place he found meat which
he considered unfit for food, and re-
ported this fact to the mayor.
Under the pure food law prose-
cutions against violators of its pro-
visions must be instituted by the
state food commissioner, except in
cases of emergency. DR.. Culp tele-
graphed on Thursday to Elmer E.
Heg, secretary of the State Board
of Health, who wired back that We
natchee's plight came under the jur-
isdiction of the food commissioner at.
Davenport, and a telegram received
here this morning by DR.. Culp states
that an inspector is coming from
that place.
The doctors Of the city say that
the recent epidemic of stomach all
ments is not necessarily attributable
to diseased meat, that this illness
may have arisen from impure milk,
bad water, or kindred causes. In
the lay mind the community's sick
ness was generally assigned to bad
meat, for the simple reason that
many people in the community had
received bad meat in their homes.
Meat is Good Now.
DR.. Culp, when seen by a World
representative this morning, said Il
have recently made thorough ex-
animation of the various retail meat
markets in the city, and found every
thing clean, sanitary and in fine
shape. The meat on sale is fresh
and in good condition, and the peo-
pie need not worry, or be afraid to
buy it,
Arnold Says They Never Had Bad
Meat in the Cold Stores.
F. w. Arnold, who has charge of
the Wenatchee Canning company,
was called UP on the telephone by the
World Office this morning, and asked
about the rumor that bad meat had
been found in the cold store vaults of
his plant He said, IF the doctors
of this town would place the cause
of sickness to some other source than
bad msat they would strike it right
There is no bad meat here, and there
never was any. We don't keep it.
If the inspector comes he is perfect
ly welcome to come in and see our
plant, and everything that is in the
building"
''Is it not true that the city health
officer investigated your premises.
and found some bad meat there?"'
was asked
NO" answered Mr. Arnold, "they
don't know bad meat when they see
II. Juot ucCduSe MSdl Is Htlic
mouldy is no sign it's bad"
did DR.. Culp visit your cold store
rooms in company with Marshal Fer
guson, and find some meat there
which he pronounced unfit for food.
and ask that it be laid aside pending
the arrival of the state Inspector"
the World man asked Mr.. Arnold.
He was down here; don't know
whether the meat he. said was bad
has been saved or not. 1 haven't
been down in the cold store rooms.
II these doctors would pay as much
attention to ice cream, and milk, and
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