The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
FOOD PROBLEM OF HAMBURG, GERMANY How UnsOund Meat Is Made Fit for the -"Frei-
 bank" Scheme
From The London Chronicle.

From The London Chronicle
 Some interesting information regarding the newly established Hamburg "Frei- bank was given few days ago in the Hamburger Fremdenblatt. The follow ing Is a summary taken from the jour- nal:
 The Freibank Is not an institution to provide meat free of cost. Its purpose is to protect the public from paying high prices for inferior meat, and to provide meat at low prices for those who could not otherwise obtain meat at all. The saughterhouse commissioners divide the meat into three grades:
 l. High quality, or no meat possessing full nutritive and gastromic qualities. 9 Inferior. or meat from well nour- | ished animals which, owing to some slight illness. is of poor colour, but moi so harmful that 1t cannot be eaten raw, and
 3. Conditionally fit, or meat from ab-
 normally old or tubercular animals, mag. | goty, or tainted.
 It Is to protect the public from tho last
 class that the Freibank has been pri- | with by veterinary surgeon, freed from the sick parts. treated in a tremendous sterilizng apparatus. and after once more being subjected to expert opinion, is sold
 In small quantities to consumers Pre- viously this meat used to be sent Into the open market
 The Freibank Is limited liability company consisting of local cattle com
 mission agents and the butchers, guild It was affiliated with the cooking in- stitute established le the city in 1907 to check economic waste" or to supply to | the poor meat that was formerly sent to the knacker. The institute now bears the name of the Freibank and in If is conducted the sale of inferior and con ditionaily it meat in raw and cooked conditions. | The conditionally fit meat will eonse- .quently continue to be sold as of old as cooked meat, and the inferior meat which hitherto went into the open market will now no longer come to the shons but as being unfit for the Bank" will De sold at low prices at. the Freiba nl, unoer government control in small quan- titles. the intention being that the meat should only be used fin the consumer z own house and not, for instance be served in the eating houses as bSeb o,,aI- ity meat. 4uai- If eating house proprietors use inf. rlor meat in their establishments tbev must according to law. put up a notice Tn prominent position to this effect on their premises.
 The inferior meat Is confscated in tho siaughterhouse by the inspector. the no- ice then decide if the meat is to ba snl, ana 1T so the person delivering the mest receives from the Freibanlx tho corras bonding proceeds. The new law extends to all meat rna.r the Jurisdiction of the city police. as wei, as to the meat officially inspected ana ,r troduced for sale outside of this dstr,ot
 During the first days of it's institutioa me Freibank" could not meet all tba wishes of the public. The crowd wa. se iarge that many had to be sent away be. cause tne hours for the sale were too snort. The sale hours are between a,,e II a. n., and from to ' D m. From tha entire city district, as we'll as from the 1urthest suburbs. and even from inc pr,,n san neighborhood, the buyers oome
 Hamburg in erecting its "Freiban,,, |.
 re'sw following system which has h.ar many. oueh Ger