The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-26
Rotten Chickens. Tainted Beef
and Ham Covered With PtO-
maine Mold Discovered
During Morning Tour
SAUSAGE FACTORIES
VIOLATE FOOD LAWS
Tools Are Dirty and Flies and
Filth AbOund-Board of
Health Blamed

spector, after q visit Monday morning
to several meat houses
1t IL the fault OF the local Boar(
OF Health II conditions are bad here.
Z continued the Inspector These loca
inspectors have all the necessar,
faeilities with laboratories and trans
portation and they are responsible 1
things are not properly watched Tbs
state board has the whole state &
look after, including many towns
where there are no local healtt
boards, and cannot cover the grounC
as carefully as the health board could
When man tells you he washes the
meat hooks once year when he Il
using them every day, as one die
Monday morning. 1t looks as II some
sort Of inspection 10 lacking"
Inspector Lincoln and Inspector
Henry Collins, OF Detroit. began
Monday morning. thorough investi
CATION into meat shop conditions
which was ordered by James w
Hslme, state dairy and food commits
sioner, and will continue until the
public Is informed OF true conditions
and the places cleaned up.
Sausages consisting largely OF pr
tato -four and cereal paste, half the
weight OF which Is water, cold storage
chickens that reeked OF rottenness
and scented a whole ice box. hams
encrusted thick with ptomaine mold
tainted meat and dirty tools-ail
these things were found by the Ia
sIectors, Monday, although they were
handicapped by Lack of an automobile
and could cover only small part OF
the territory in one morning
This is no job for fastidious
man." said Inspector Collins IN the
sausage factory OF Peschke & Killian.
situated In an alley behind No l40l
RTard-st.
STANDING out in the hot sun we're
bHrreis OF salt solution in which float
q the castings into which were to be
sbffed the sausages. Dead lies float
q on the top OF the solution and the
s b heat beat down upon 1t through
s. arms Of bugs. The proprietors
Ire told to screen the barrels and
kep them covered.
inspectors Seize Samples.
The sausage meat itself was sailed
q d mixed on a huge table where a
n IN stood with his arms thrust to the
e bows In the heaps OF scraps and
Z INNINGS. Although the law allows
IQy two peg cent of cereal matter in
Il mixture. the sausage taken in this
f1tory and from wagons selling the
me product on the street were a
PIE pink In color instead OF a healthy
red. The inspectors took samples TO
be analysed for coloring matter and
adulteration and warned the pro-
~ nat 20. h. Ice
the sausages were to be stamped
Sausage with cereal and water"
There is nothing unhealthy about
the cereal preparation" said Inspect
or Lincoln. 1T Is fraud on the pub
lie. that's all Under the new law,
which went into effect Aug. Is, the
limit Is two per cent. Before that
we found many places where as much
a. 20 per cent of sausage would be
cereal matter.
fWhen housewife buys string
of frankfurters or a piece of ring
sausage she is paying the price OF
meat When cereal is used she is
g1tting mostly cheap -four and wa
ter"
0fhe first slaughter house visited by
the inspectors, owned by Joseph
Heinrich al No $50 Trombley-ave.
was clean and in good condition. The
six or seven cattle that stood In the
y4rd we're fine, clean animals, and
the icebox and killing room were
fairly clean.
They then visited the meat shop or
Victor Miller. No. 967 Trombley-ave.
where they were put on the trail OF
cereal filed sansages
Gives Dishonest Weight.
1T is interesting TO travel around
these butcher shops" SAID Inspector
Lincoln, after coming from one shop,
because every one has a new trick
that you never heard OF before. one
fellow back there, for instances had
over an ounce of paper wrapped
around the plate OF his scales. In a
week he could steal severay@ounces
o. meat from his customers that way
AID the weight inspectors never catch
him at It."
"a sanitary notice was served On
"6ike' Elbanowski. who runs a shoI
aS No. 719 Harper-ave. The inspect
ors examining his icebox found STA
or seven chickens lying in the drip
pings OF his icebox. They were beinl
'4hxwed" from cold storage. One
Was pulled forth and by holding hi
nose with one hand the Inspector
managed 10 get the chicken out into
the light and fresh air. The aroms
of those chickens were permeatlnl
the icebox and they were all put in 4
pail In the backyard and the inspect
orr poured kerosene on them to be
sure they were not sold A ham thai
had taken on sickly greenish hue
Wa added TO the kerosene bath.
The inspectors were only started IL
their work Monday morning and vii
keep II up for several days Inspect
or Collins knows conditions in De
troit. and Inspector Lincoln. who's,
home Is I'm Bar Harbor, was at one
time engaged I'm the butcher business
The pure food special, after 10 day
IN Detroit, left Sunday night. II wa
Visited by over 5000 persons wis
\ harmed something about the foo,
they were eating and what Il ough
(. % be. The Two cars viii be on exhibI
fton again during the state fair.
The work OF the state inspector:
<zw11l continus for several days, tn,