Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-09-10
NO RELIEF FOR
 LOCAL BAKERS BOARD OF HEALTH DECLINES TO RESCIND ITS ACTION ORDERING
 BREAD WRAPPED
GANTT MAKES PLEA
Bakers Say They Were Given No Chance to be Heard-May Increase
 Price of Leaves.

Despite an eloquent appeal made yesterday before that body by their attorney, N. J. Can't, the Board of Health, at a special meeting called yesterday afternoon for the purpose of giving the bakers of the city an
 opportunity to be heard, declined to
 modify it's resolution of several weeks ago, urging the City Council to adopt
 an ordinance requiring all bakers to
 wrap each loaf of bread in parafine
 paper as soon as it taken from the
 oven. At the request of the Board of
 Health the Council passed an ordin-
 ance embodying the resolution and it
 became effective upon passage. The
 bakers and their attorney protested
 against the resolution and the ordin-
 ance at that time, but the Council
 gave them no relief.
 It was thought that if the matter
 was properly presented to the Board
 of Health that that body might be in-
 duced to bring about a modification of the law, but no action was.s taken
 to give the bakers the relief sought
 Dr. B. H. Gallagher said that he could
 see no reason for re-opening the mat
 ter, as the Council had spoken and
 the Board of Health could not con
 'scinded especially after the city's
 legislative body had acted at the re- quest of the health board Dr. A. G. Thompson, who presided, said that the Board of Health members were receiving no pay for their services, but merely served the city to preserve the health of the community. It was nor their desire, he said, to work hardship on anyone. In justice to an imagined or real wrong the bakers should be given hearing he thought. He made it known at the beginning, that he had no idea of resembling the former action of the Board of Health. He said the bakers were due a hear ing and MT. Can't was asked to state his complaint.
 Mr. Can't declared that when the Board of Health acted some weeks ago they did so without any of the bakers being given hearing or being in- formed of its intention The Council, he said, had been asked to suspend the enforcement of the law until the bakers could appear before the Board of Health and explain their conten- tions. He argued that the action of the Board of Health was unnecessary for the public health. He declared that the use of parafine paper would increase the cost of manufacture of bread, necessitate additional help and the purchase of more pans for baking and the result would be that the bakers would have to raise the price of bread and lose out through compe- tition with those of other cities. The handling of bread by so many differ ent people in the shops, in wagons, in kitchens and in other ways, he said, rendered the law ineffective, No other city or town in the world, said MT. Can't, has such law. He said the bakers are willing to comply with any reasonable ruling of the Board Of Health or City Council, but that the recent order would work a hard ship on them and seriously interfere with their businesses.
 The Board of Health also took up the matter of the unsanitiary condi- tion of the building occupied by Me- Cannon and Son., on Main street. This building. it is said, stands over a pool of stagnart water. It is some- thing over which the tenants have no control. The building is owned by Dr. J. F. Simmons. A committee. of Dr. Gallagher. Dr. John and Dr. Woodul. was named to in- vestigate the matter.
 The meeting yesterday was attend ed by Dr. A. G. Thompson, president of the Board; Dr. William Breathwit, pr. B. H. Galligher. V. o. Alexander, of the Board: Dr. T. W. City Physician w. T. Lowe and City Sanitarian A. P. Turney.