The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-14


a small outlay Of money would meet
all requirements Of the United States
/ department of agriculture and Obtain
government inspection.
Insist on Inspection.
DR. Stewart. myself. and. no doubt.
all the rest Of the party, viii insist on
an ordinance compelling all fresh meat
+ brought into the city and sold for hui
man consumption to be government
, inspected passed and stamped with
/ the government stamp before being
/ sold. except farmers who kill their own
veal and hogs raised by themselves A
/ certificate must accompany this class
/ of meat. properly filled out and signed
/ by the producer OF farmer killing and
shipping the same. as to its being
/ healthy and sound at the time of kill
| ing.
L understand that in Omaha and
/ Cleveland. o.. they have such an or
/ dinance, and why should not salt Lake
/ City fall into line and even take the
/ lead in pure food matters of this ma
ture?"
Filthy and Disgusting.
Conditions more filthy and disgust
ing than ever nauseated readers Of The
Jungle exist today in some Of the local
slaughter houses said DR.. n. r. stew
art, city health commissioner. What !
have 10 say does not apply to the plant
Of the IntermOuntain Packing COM
pany. which is thoroughly sanitary. or
the Murray Meat company, which ap-
proaches the same standard. ~ for
the others visited, they are unspeakabie.
The boards OF health ought TO be
clothed with authority to obliterate
such places as being a menace 70 the
community Dirt and disease have
often been coupled In the relation Of
cause and effect. The filth. the stencil
and the shocking disregard for the
lmost elemental principles Of sanitation
in the local slaughter pens are sugges-
tive Of a pestilence. With conditions
as they are nov, the prospect for the
lhot weather season IS too awful to con
template There is only one safe aud
sure method Of dealing with this evil.
and that is to prohibit the sale Of meat
unless il bears the government stamp.
If the consumers IN this city once grasp
the conditions as they actually exist.
there will be q great wave Of vegetar-
ianism until such time as the local mar
kets shall provide their customers with
inspected meats"
Two Good Plants.
Councilman ODonneH described the
trip much after the same manner as
Mr.. Frazier. adding severe comment
THE plant Of the Intermountain people
was found 10 be an ideal one. II is
under government inspection" he said.
I'VE were shown tine manner Of detect
ing the presence of disease in slain
stock For example, one of the gov
eminent inspectors showed us a hand
{ ful Of a part Of the anatomy of a steer
that was infected with disease. Had IL
] not been for the presence Of the in
spector this animals affection might
not have been detected. and we are
quite certain that in some places the
| presence Of the tuberculosis would have
been winkeJ at.
AT one of the smaller slaughter
t houses we found conditions 50 dreadful
: that I have not eaten my dinner yet.
. and have no desire to do 50. We found
newly slaughtered meat hung against
filthy boards that carried on their sur
/ face the accumulation Of years OF
= blood. dirt and hair. II must have been
{ an inch thick. Already there were flies.
+ and in pens where the hogs were there
l was an indescribabic condition. The
: floor was covered with blood and slime
and little. if any, attempt appeared to
have been made TO conform to the com
mon decencies Of sanitation.
s Ready for an Inspector.
= What 1 say about this place was
: true Of at least three other places. it
! was a relief when we came to the plant
of the Murray Meat-compary. at Four
= teenth South and state streets. For an
. old establishment, this is really a re-
tmaTkable one. It has been improved
to conform to the government reglla-
: tions. and the manager told us that
: within sixty or ninety DAYS he would
he ready TO ask for a government in
iSpector. The floors are an Of cement. as
well as the stock pens. The water scry-
e ice is good and che sewage ample"
Mr.. Hall Would Be Lenient.
- Councilman =. y. Hal said. II be-
{ Iievc the small butchers should be given
: Z chance to save themselves. 7 would
b. favor some sort Of system by which the
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