The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-06

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than this, it is provided that it shall
be unlawful to sell milk-"from cows
winch have been fed on the refuse of
distilleries, or from sick or diseased
COWS or milk collected
ana Kept or handled under conditions
which are not cleanly and sanitary"
This clause makes it possible to pun
ish for offering for sale or selling dirty
milk. AS dirt in milk is dangerous TO
health and life, and as added water is
only fraud, it is plain that the i'm
portance of excluding dirt and keeping
milk under extra sanitary conditions
Is OF the greatest Importance. 1t may
be said that while the sword has
slain Its thousands, dirty milk has
slain Its tens o. thousands, and this
Is true. The dirt found in milk not
collected with cleanliness, is generally
found to be minute particles of man.
ure from the TANKS and bag of the an
imal. This manure is covered with
millions Of germs and they find milk
rich soil to grow upon. Unless the
grees or below and kept there, these
germs proliferate and the product of
their life processes is poisons called
toxins. These toxins, according to
their virulence and quantity, cause
collie, Indigestion, diarrhoea, cholera
infantum and all forms of intestinal
disturbances. OF all infants dying of
Intestinal disorders, about 80 per cent
are bottle fed. and their death is from
poison-laden milk.
Clean, Sound Meats.
An inspection of the slaughter
houses of the state made by The state
board of health in 1906, disclosed some
horrible facts. The summary of the
report showed that over "a per cent of
all slaughter houses were so unsani-
tary as to forbid the use of the word
sanitary In any form in connection
with them. They were almost always
dilapidated frame structures, filthy In
the extreme, with rotting offal, and
rotting blood and maggots beneath.
Shallow dug wells, which furnished
the water for washing the meat, were,
with few exceptions, highly polluted.
Many such wells received surface
drainage from the slaughter-house
yard where hogs fed upon offal; they
also contained dead rats, and the wa
ter was yellow with rottenness. In
score OF places wash water was taken
from branch to which animals had
access, and which drained the slaugh-
ter-house yard. In summer and au-
tumn months swarms of flies, the we'll
known buzzing blow-fiy among them,
covered the fresh carcasses, and close
looking rarely missed discovering that
the meat was fly blown. It is there
fore fair to assume that the carcasses
Of many animals slaughtered in the
summer time in the common slaughter
houses are washed with polluted wa
ter, arc dirty and are fly blown. The
new food law contains section which
will soon do away with the unsanitary
slaughter house and the uncleanly
handling of meats. Section 4 fnrbids
the sale Of any meats prepared, kept
or handled under unsanitary condi-
lions, and defines conditions as fol-
lows:
II the slaughter house is dilapidated
and in state of decay; If the floors
or side walls are soaked with decaying
blood or other animal matter; IL eff
cient fly screens are not provided; II
the drainage of the slaughter house or
eli ~ l. - L. qposo a..
II maggots or filthy pools or hog wal
lows exist In the slaughter-house yard
or under the slaughter house; II the
water supply used in connection with
the cleansing and preparing is not
pure and >unpolluted: II hogs are kept
In the slaughter-house yard or fed
therein on animal offal, or II the odors
of putrefaction plainly exist therein;
II carcasses or parts OF carcasses are
transported from place to place when
not covered with clean white cloths,
or IL kept in unclean, bad-smelling re-
friger ators, or II kept in unclean or
bad-sinelling cold storage rooms. The
penalty is seizure and destruction of
the meat, and the enforcement sum-
mary On this point the law says:
'It shall be the duty OF all peace
and all health officers to seize any an
imal carcass or parts of carcasses, or
any domestic or wild fowl, eggs, game
or fish found to be unwholesome and
which are intended for sale or Of
| fered for sale for human food or which
have been slaughtered and prepared.
handled or kept under unsanitary con-
ditions az herein defined, and shall
deliver the same forthwith to and be
fore the nearest police judge or JUS
tice Of the peace, together with all
information obtained, and said police
| Judge, or said justice of the peace
shall issue warrants OF arrest for all
persons believed to have violated any
of the provisions of this section, and
said cause shall be tried at an early
date thereafter. Any person, persons,
firm or corporation found guilty Of
violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be fined not less than
$40 nor more than 800 for each Of
Tense, and the meat in question shall
be drenchel with kerosene oil or rem
dered into grease and tankage as the
court may direct.
VIII Prevent Misbrandlng.
great evil long existing in connec-
ton with foods and drugs, is misbrand-
ing. Articles are branded absolute
ly pure" when they were wholly false.
Syrup made of glucose, little cane
sugar, colored with caramel and fla
vored with decoction Of corncobs or
hickory bark, Is labeled "Pure Maple
Syrup" This is a glaring fraud, for
pure maple syrup price is charged,
and a lie told Endless examples
could be given OF misbranding, and all
done to deceive and defraud. On the
subject Of misbranding the law says:
THAT the term 'misbranded' as used
herein shall apply to all drugs or ar.
ticles of food or articles which enter
into the composition of food and drugs,
the package or label of which shall