The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-09-13
KILLS MANY
Chemical Preservatarhs Cause Many
Deaths Yearly.
|DR. WILEY SUSTAINED

DIR. WILEY SUSTAINED
Rutledge Rutherford, Food Expert
and Editor Declares That The
Chemicals Work Especial Injury
to the Young-Some Of the Dis
eases Caused by Them.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
children were killed last year by pois-
oned foods according to Rutledge
rutherford, a food expert and edito
of a food magazine.
He declares that more people an
dlled by adulterated food in on
year than the number engaged in the
Spanish-Amercian war. Counting the
leaths Of the babes alone he says,
they number more by $4,000 than
he total of all the soldiers that were
1illed in all Of the four years Of the
Civil War.
In the mad race to increase profits
through the cheapening the cost Of Il
production recognized poisons are be-
ing inserted in foods in order to
made use Of poor grade Of raw prod
ucts.
Such poisons find their way into
sood factories Of many descriptions,
ind are especially numerous in can
lies, soda fountain beverages, ice
:ream products, bakery goods and
other cheap "dainties" devised as
magnets to attract pennies from the
children. {;
Saceharin deceiyes children into
believing product is sweetened With
sugar. Coal tar dyes deceives them
nto believing it is colored with fruit
Juices or made Of fruit products. For>
naldehyde, or other chemical EN-.
>loyed to keep milk from turning, de
,eives them into thinking the milk is
.resh. In such cases, he says, th4
chemical hides the Ill taste and smell;
Thirh are natures means Of warning
he consumer that the products are
| poisonous.
Some of the instances of food adu1-
seration related by Mr. Rutherton
| are almost too shocking to admit of
| Belief. Yet he shows from otneial
records, seizures and government and
State reports that they actually oc-
,ur, and that conditions are rapidly
going from bad, to worse since DR.. 81.
| w. Wiley, chief Of the government.
Bureau Of Chemistry, has been over
'uled in his efforts to prohibit the
lse of chemical preservatiyes.-
Mr. Rutherford prints a list Of
.he dead and injured which he has
been able to get from reports of cas-
,alities traced directly to the results
# food adulteration. The list totals
| t,12o deaths and 26,5S2 cases OF
sickness. But this serves only as a
oundation on which to base an esti-
nate Of the actual number of such
casualties. For, he says, the gem
sraI effects of the chemicals employ
ID in food authorizations are to slow
Y impoverish the system, so as t.
iuperinduce other disease, ind tha
ieath is usually ascribed to this di1
ease.
When asked what he woul give 3
IN estimate Of the total number c.
,duIts and children that died fron
he effects Of food adulteration last
rear, Mr. Rutherford replied:
81 think a conservative estimate
would be 550,o00."
Three million persons were need
llessly i'll in the United States last
year, he asserts, and chemicals are
charged with being mainly response
Bile. He names several diseases that
are often the results Of chemicals.
Kidney disease may result from
saccharin in foods he declares, as is
shown by the governments own re-
port.
Appendicitis frequently results
from consuming boracic acid.
| Ptomaine poison is nearly always
the result Of eating partially decom-
POSED foods, especially milk and milk
products, fish and meat, when the
signs of decomposition have been con-
;ealed by .benzoate of soda, formal
dehyde, supplies or other chemical.
Dyspepsia and other forms of indi-
yestion are the inevitable conse-
luences of consuming sacchariu in
excessive quantities, saccharin being
$50 times sweeter than sugar.
TYPHOID fever is a disease most fre-
luently caused by drinking milk or
eating ice cream and other milk prod
ucts in which chemicals are employ:
d to cover up the evidence Of decay.
Bright's disease is kidney trou-
ole which often comes from taking
TOO much saccharin.
Headache, drowsiness, nausea, and
| other ailments are caused oy conSum-
ing salicycle acid and benzoate of
soda
In concluding discussion Of the
effects of chemicals the author says:
I'm addition to their own harmful ef-
fects, chemicals are sources of great
sr danger in hiding from our senses
the impurities in the foods which
otherwise we might detect in the i'll
taste and odor Milk, eggs and fish
are three foods especially which be-
come dangerous when decomposit'~n
sets in.
'The vilest, most malodorous fac
tory refuse may be made pleasant to
theS sight, taste and smell through
the magical effects Of benzoate of
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