The evening world., 1911-11-14
Witness Before Factory Inspec-
ton Commission Tells of
Visit to 100 Shops.
SICKNESS Is PREVALENT
Senator Wagner PresideS for
First Time Since Illness
Health Dept. Scored.

Senator Robert Wagner presided at
the hearing resumed to-day by the Leg
islative Factory Commission in the city
Hall for the first time since he was
FRUSTRATED by sickness. lie stated that
the commission now Intended to delve
deeply into the bakeshop inquiry. which
had been brought 20 the attention OF the
commission by many letters sent from
all parts of the city. He added II was
the intention Of the commission to hear
personally from Health COMMISSIONS
Lederle and Sanitary Superintendent
Walter Bcnsel,. who, the Senator stated.
was in possession OF a number Of inter-
esting facts relative to bakeshops.
Miss Frances Perkins OF the Con-
sumers' League. who had investigated
one hundred bakeshops In this borough,
testified that she had discovered n con-
dltion OF things which she declared war;
ranted immediate remedy. She fJuad
bakers sleeping on flour sacks. men and
boys suffering from colds. sick women.
bad ventilation and n general ~unsanitary
condition In most OF the places visited.
All hut ten OF the bakeshop. she WIS.,
tied. she testified, were found to be in
Easements with the only windows for
ventilation on the level of the sidewalks.
Bad lighting facilities together with a
general. uncleaply condition prevailed.
In one bakeshop on Oak street Miss
Perkins found hlthy s%weeplngs mingled
with dough that was In process OF bak-
ing. She testified that In several Of the
bakeshops she saw rats running about,
and In one instance , litter of newly
born kittens nestled In n bakepan where
they had been born.
THE personality OF the owner OF tn
akeShop IL the only salvation sait
q witpess. When he Is clean his sur
1nndiAgs are clean. fregret to have Il
ear here tina the cieaniy p~ersonalit,
"a. most cases Is lacking-absent.
Invariably added Miss Perkins. Z"
found q filthy. uncleanly n unsanitar.
situation in the bakeshops l visited. tn
plumbing was bSd. too. Dirty water wa
seen seepnig into white dough" pre-
pared for cake purposes"
The dough became No black from tn
dirty water, Miss Perkins said. that sh'
mistook the dough for chocolate. Mis-
Perkins stated that the employees II
the bakeshops she visited invariabl.
chcwed tobacco. and e~xpectoration wa
common.
Only yesterday she found In q bake
shop q sick woman who was being At
tended by her husband who himself wa
foSbls. In another Oak street baker,
leyss Perkins saw 4 boy who vas SUI
fGrin9 from a severe cough n VIII
supsctorated every few minutes durin
tho period Of her inspection.
plgNT OF WORK FOR TIL
HEAirH DEPARTMENT.
- Perkins in Offering remedial sng
GoO4nrs said in Response TO q quer
from Abrsm 1. Elkus. Counsel to III
Cunmission, 80 long az bake shop
aee permitted in Easements. unsanitar
ana uncleanly situations are bound I
exist. I bel1eve that the Health De
pastment has the power, right now.
compel better conditions.
AT present the Health Department
- he Labor Department are suppose
20 make rigid Inspections, but q clas
Of euthonty exists.
II the Health Department assert
RS authority every employee OF a bak
SHOP - we'll a. the proprietor himse
should be subjected to a physical e,
animation. These physical examination
should be made with great ~frequenc
ana regularly. The bakers orgsinzatio
Itself now has a rule TO the effect this