New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-11
TO GUARANTEE OYSTERS
Board of Health Will Revoke
All Permits for Sale.
NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED
Dealers to Have Time to Com
ply with Demand for In
formation About Purity.

The Board OF Health will revoke all
permits now In force for the sale oil
oysters in this city Dealers were so In
formed In letter sent out yesterday py
Health Commissioner Lederle. New per
m,ts will be issued only on the condition
that information be furnished TO the
| Health Commissioner in respect 10 inc
oysters sold by the applicant for sueh
permit and embodying the following III
formation:
First-Name Of grower. ..ors
Standardization from which oysters
are obtained. ...,..,.n a.
Third-Defnite location OF drinks IL
any.
Fourth-Proof Of purity Of water.
Commissioner Lederle said 1t was I'm
possible to guarantee every oyster pu'
the new regulations would make 1t peril
Gus for dealer in oysters to purvey those
that had been polluted He said Offenders
would be prosecuted criminally. In his
letter TO the dealers the Commissioner
said
Your attention is hereby called to the
following resolution adopted by the Boafd
of Health of the City Of New 1a95 at !
/ .
Resolved That IL shall be uniaWIui
TO float oysters and other shellfsh In
polluted waters In the city OF New iork,
and no oysters or other shellnsh tnat ndSe
been foated or treated with polluteu
water or which are shown by examination
TO be polluted shall be brought into the
city OF New York or held, kept, SOLD or
offered for sale at any place In SAID CITY
In reference to this resolution the Com
missioner declared In his letter that all
existing permits would therefore be re-
voked, permitting time for the dealers to
make the application for appropriate
blanks. The letter said further:
Application blanks are now being pre-.
pared and will be sent TO all holders OF
oyster permits and TO others who desire
10 apply for such permits. 1t is expected
that dealers of this city will Immediately
take the necessary steps TO determine the
character Of water which is used Tor
drinking" purposes by the oyster grow
ers from whom they obtain their supplies:
In the event OF the Department OF
Health obtaining evidence OF the sale OF
polluted oysters or oysters Whlch nave
been freshened or drunk In polluted
waters prosecution will be made or the
dealers responsible for such sales.
At the time the new oyster provision
was passed by the Board Of Health and
made a part OF the Sanitary Code II was
said by Commissioner Lederle that inves-
LEGATIONS had shown that when cases OF
typhoid fever had followed the use Of pol
luted oysters such oysters were found TO
be subjected TO washing. floating or drink
ing in waters polluted with sewage.
This is the most farreaching step ever
taken by the Department OF Health TO
guard against the purveying OF contami-
mated oysters. Some oystermen, II was
learned yesterday. place the amount OF
"hoated" oysters sold in this city as 70
per cent Of the total supply sold here, but
they also said these oysters were foated
in unpolluted water.
The Department OF Agriculture put a
ban on all fattened oysters last year.
whether they were placed in contaminated
or uncontaminsted water. Commissioner
Lederle has been at work on a plan 70
regulate the sale OF oysters in this city
for more than a year.