Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-05
SAFEGUARDING
|. OF PUBLIC HEALTH
BY LEGISLATION
State Dairy, Food and SAM
tary Inspector Makes Re
port to Governor and Rec
ommends New Laws.

health and sanitation and a request for
the creation of the offices of state meat
inspector, state drug inspector and a
deputy weight and measure inspector
are features Of the biennial report is
sued yesterday by James H. Wallis.
state dairy. food and sanitary inspector
In his letter accompanying the re-
port to Governor Hawley and the mem
bers Of the state board OF health Mr.
Wallis argues for the enactment OF a
good sanitary law for Idaho He de-
clares also that the drug laws should
be amended to require all itinerant
vendors Of medicine to secure a license
in order that the authorities may keen
In touch with them to properly inspect
their wares. Another amendment IA
vored by the state inspector is one to
make it felony to carry upon ones
person or in ones possession any illeg-
ally obtained cocaine or morphine. The
names of additional deadly drugs should
also be Incorporated in the present law
restricting the sale of poisons, Mr..
Wallis says.
Adulterated paints and oils, which the
inspector declares are sold in Idaho.
are also attacked and law to abolish
this practice will be passed if the rec
ommendation Of the inspector IS fol-
lowed BY the legislators
Interesting figures regarding the vol
ume of inspection work done by the de-
partment during the period covered by
the report, as well as many valuable
suggestions and considerable data by
the inspector is contained in Mr. Wal
lis letter In part as follows.
Number of hotels and lodging
houses inspected AIS; restaurants. ice
cream parlors, soda fountains, board
ing houses. etc, 1876: slaughter houses,
f54; drug stores, SIS; dairies. us.
Many of these places have been in
spected numerous times
In addition to this. we have in |
spected the dining cars operating
this state, as well as construc- |
ton camps meat wagons run by farm |
ers and others not regularly In the
meat business, milk wagons in different
towns and cities, goods damaged by fire |
in grocery stores and made many mis- !
cellaneous Investigations covering var
ious phases of the work
The pure food statutes also place
upon US the duty Of inspecting all food
products In grocery stores, meat mar
kets. bakeries, creameries, canning
factories, etc. Further, 1t is our duty
to inspect the weights and measures
81 the state scaling those that are in
condition To be used and condemning
those that are false or not up to the
standard We have. as YOU will OBJ
serve from the detailed tables in this
report, made very large number of
~ ~ Ham "A
help.
Had 1t not been for an opinion rem
dered by the attorney general to the
effect that we We're authorized under
the law to employ dairy inspectors and L
pay them from the state dairy. food
and sanitary fund, we would have been
unable to accomplish as much iHspec-
ton work as we We're able to do under
the circumstances. With the aid Of two
good dairy inspectors, recommended BY
the best dairy interests of Idaho, we
have done u great deal of work under
the new milk law in the way OF scoring
1airies and helping dalrymen to mar
<et cleaner. purer product than they
had been IN the habit Of placing before
HE public trade
In addition TO the deputies now al
Owed US, we should have a meat in
spector, q drug inspector and q deputy
o look after weights and measures
This is the least amount of help we
sonld gel along with and faithfully dis
sharge the obligations imposed upon
is By the new laws and those that were
n existence at the time ! assumed the
position | now occupy.
In justification of my recommends