Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
AFTER LUNCHROOMS
Those Not in Sanitary Condi.
ton Must Go.
FIFTY MAY BE affected
Health Department Official Declares
Licenses Will Be Refused.
RESULT OF RECENT CAMPAIGN
Grocery Stores, Owners of Some
Having Been Prosecuted,
May Also Suffer.
FIFTY NAY BE affected
RESULT OF RECENT CAMPAIGN

Following its vigorous campaicn during
the summer and fall for a stricter OBJ
servance of sanitary regulations in gro
Gerry stores and eating places, the Dis
t1ct health department is planning to
report unfavorably on applications for
renewals OF licenses by more than fifty
lunchroom proprietors. This announce
ment was made last night by an official
Of the department.
The new license year begins November
l, but the District assessor may not is
sue license to the proprietors Of a lunch
room until after the application has been
approved by the health department SAM
tary conditions In more than fifty eating
places, 1t Is said, have convinced officials
or the department that licenses for these
places should not be issued for another
year. The trouble Is said to be due
to the fact that the buildings are old and
in state which it would be difficult to
make sanitary.
Every year the department has to de-
termine whether certain buildings in
which lunchrooms are located have de-
twelve months previous that a License for
the lunchroom to continue there should
not be issued said an official of the de-
partment. Sometimes 1t is difficult to
terioration has been, although there can
be no doubt but that the sanitary con-
dition Of the building makes it unfit for
the purpose Of lunchroom.
Fifty May Lose Licenses.
This year the department Is planning
to report unfavorably on all license APP
plications for lunchrooms to be located
in buildings Of this class. The result will
be that fifty or more lunchrooms will
have to be moved to new locations or
discontinued.
There doubtless Will be protests on the
grounds that not sufficient change in
conditions has occurred to warrant the
turning down of license applications in
the case OF lunchrooms that were issued
licenses a year ago. This, however, will
recommend the licensing only OF those
eating places which are regarded as
being sanitary at'the present time
The health department, 1t was an
nounced yesterday, has conducted more
prosecutions this summer against pro-
prietors Of grocery stores and eating
places charged with maintaining unclean
premises than ever before in its history
The plan to turn down on a wholesale
scale applications for license renewals in
the cleanup crusade that has been in
progress.
Department More Stringent.
The fact that more prosecutions have
been made this summer and fall is
due to the department having pursued
more stringent tactics than formerly,
it was explained yesterday. Hereto
fore, II was said, the food inspectors
have endeavored to explain the re-
quirements of the sanitary regulations
and attempted to have them observed
by cooperative methods, as far as 1t
was practicable. In numerous In
stances this plan has worked success
fully. but, in some quarters, 1t is said,
it has met with but little support. The
educational regime is believed to have
accomplished all that 1t can and, from
now on, 1t will be the strong arm of
the law that the inspectors most fire.
quently will rely on.
Proprietors of the grocery stores
and lunchrooms should not overlook
the fact that flies do not entirely dis
appear before winter, and that prose-
cutions for food exposed to the insects
may be made now as well as in mid
summer, said a member of the food in
spectiOn branch of the health depart
ment yesterday The vigorous cam
not abate, and, where violations are
found, prosecutions will follow, said
this official.
There have been fifty-seven prosecu-
tions in the last five weeks, and 1t is
likely that the number will be con-
siderably augmented by the first Of
the year.