The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-15
COMBINATIONS
WERE NUMEROUS
FoodStuffS in Many Stores Are
ConfisCated in Stringent
Inspection.
FrOm Saturdays Advertlser)

From Saturdays AdvertiserJ
Eight hundred and ffty.four pack
ages of food destroyed is the record of
the food commissioner department
during the month of October, according
to the report of Inspector Myhre to
Food Commissioner Blanchard, and the
work indicated by it has received the
hearty appreciation of President Mott.
Smith of the board of health.
The seizures were made in one hun.
dred and fifteen stores out of the four
hundred and forty.nine which were in
spected and they were left with per
fectly clean stock as everything found
tainted, stale or otherwise unit for con.
sumption was promptly destroyed.
The figures presented by Why're of
the work done by himself and Blanch.
ard together are important for several
reasons. A foot note appended to his
| reports states that the fishmarket was
inspected daily and the names of sew.
eral stallkeepeIs there appear in the list
of those who suffered from the inspee
tion.
supposed TO rest with inspectors ap.
pointed by the board of supervisors for
that purpose, but so many have made
reports to Blanchard about the condi.
tions there that he personally inspected
it in his territorial capacity, with re-
suits. Several arrests have been made
of those who refused to abide by his
orders and in all cases those arrested
ba &c H.
personal inspection also gave rise to
the new proposed food ordinance which
has been drafted but not yet presented
to the supervisors and which would
have been unheard of had not Blanch.
ard Is laboratory experiments shown Just
in what state the food sold in the mar.
kets was.
There are numerous cases of pto.
maine poison being reported from all
quarters lately without receiving much
publicity as it is seldom serious and
seldom requires the patient to 60 to
the hospital. This epidemic of pto-
maine is directly cause by just such
conditions as have been discovered.
Food Destroyed.
At the head of Myhre s list of de-
stroyed food is sos pounds of dried cod
fish. The discovery of large quantities
of this in nearly all the small stores in
the city was one of the results of the
present campaign for pure food. Most
of it was destroyed as it was found
to be full of weavils and vermin in gen.
eral and wholly unfit for food. Several
arrests arose out of merchants refusals
to destroy the goods at Blanchards
orders, but as a general rule no opposi-
ton was manifested towards the con-
fiscation.
The Goldfish was of japanese pack
ing and was the only item on the
list so marked. Blanchard has found
that while the japanese goods have not
always met the inspection requirements
demanded by the government, they are
put up IN a fairly clean manner and
are seldom in an unsanitary condition.
Chinese goods destroyed included
bean cake and bean souse, but most of
the balance were American goods.
Canned fish were destroyed as follows:
80 tins of sardines, ~ of herring % of
oysters, 81 of shrimps IL of crabs, of
Holsters, and smaller amounts of Chi
uese fish and shell fish.
Canned vegetables came in for little
attention, two tins each of corn and
peas being all that was found bad. |
Bottled mustard, horse radish and chow |
chow were destroyed in slightly larger !
Quantities.
SIXTY bottles of mixed pickles were |
also destroyed, these having been found |
slowed away on the back shelves of |
some small stores in such a filthy con-
dition that they could not possible |
have been sold. Experiences such as |
this, showing that the Chinese store |
keeper will destroy nothing, has been a |
common one with the inspectors
One hundred and twenty-seven tins
of assorted Californian fruits are also |
on the list. These were mostly found |
in stores where they had reposed for |
great length of time and their bad |
condition was not original with them, |
but acquired.
Fresh fruits were destroyed in large
quantities. One hundred and sixty.one |
hands of bananas lead the list, this |
fruit spelling as quickly as its owners |
are 10th to dispose OF it. Thirty-six |
papayas, eighteen alligator pears, three
baskets of peaches, four of apples and
one of grapes were the only other fruit
confiscated.
Thirty-fye tins of plum pudding de-
stroyed shows a somewhat lax appre-
citation of the holiday of the year, as
those tins found had safely survived
several Christmases. Canned meats
were not found as bad as might be
expected, only the following items be-
ing listed: tins of pork and beans,
of sausage, of sheep tongues, II
of eurried chicken, . of curried turkey,
| nf nd - .F al hn..
Miscellaneous items listed we're: ~
tins Of jelly, 20 OF jam, "a of milk,
Z Of California pineapples, 3 of tam
ales, % bottles Of pepper souse, and 7
of clam bouillon
The list OF stores where the goods
were seized reads Ike directory Of