The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-17
BOARD OF HEALTH
 ISSUES ORDERS
 FOR CLEANLINESS
Prepares Circular to Merchants Directing Them to Keep Food
 Stuffs Clean

Bridgeport must keep it's streets, yards, markets and public displays of food in a more sanitary condition. Par
 ticalarly must those displaying for sale l fruits. candies or other commodities l which are not provided by nature | against the reception of life-destroy- 1 ing germs use greater care. The pub
 lie themselves are warned to be more 1 particular as to what and where they 1 buy.
 These are the Instructions issued 1 by the Board of Health Commissioners | to inspectors, merchants and the pub i lie in general. The health officials are ] ordered to enforce to the letter of the | law all ordinances and health regu1a- 1 tions.
 A special circular now being print 1 ed is to be sent to every local ped 1 dler, merchant or man displaying 1 fruit berries or candy on the streets
 and sidewalks of Bridgeport that un- | jess such articles as are not wrapped l in. sanitary paper, covered by nature such as the orange and banana, or
 covered with glass to prevent accum- ultaion of dust, arrest and prosecution will follow.
 'It has been found,'' said Conmis- sioner L. F. Schwerdtle in discussing the question with a reporter for The Farmer, that the public are not as careful as they might be in the selec- ton of their foodstuffs. They will walk right up to a fruit stand, pro- jecttng in some instances nearly to the street gutter. and select berries or fruit which is covered with dust and germs and deliberately eat it with out washing.
 For such persons careless of their own health as we'll as that of others, the board must act. I
 Section 1 of the bylaws of the Board of Health, adopted May g, 1911, reads: No person shall expose, sell or offer for sale for human consumption, any breadstuffs, cake, pastry, candy con- fectionery, dried fruits or shelled nuts outside of any building, or in any window or doorway, or in any alley, street sidewalk or thoroughfare, un- less such food is properly protected from insects. dust, dirt and other for eign or unwholeSone material, by slit able coverings.
 This section of the bylaws is now to be vigilantly enforced without re- snect to persons. We believe that af- ter thesrecent epidemic of scarlet fever and the manner in which it was min- irnized by recent preventative meas ures upon the part of the health de- partment, both the prosecuting offi- cials and the public will aid in the campaign. We are aiming for clean CT city along all lines and our in spectors are instructed that they will OOS@- justi1able prosecutions they may or der"
 Pointing to a banana peel thrown into the gutter the commissioners sig nified that even that was a violation fthe law. Asked by the reporter: Where could it be thrown" the commissioner indicated that it might either be left with the merchant from whom purchased or thrown into pub lie receptacles furnished by the city upon street corners.
 It was later learned that a num- Der of cans were at one time about the city streets for the reception of paper and refuse, but had not recent ly been in evidence.
 At the Board of Health offices it was said that considerable progress was being made in the cleaning of yards though several orders issued during l the month of Junev had not as yet been compiled with and radical action 1 might soon be taken to enforce the 1 demands of the department.
 A complaint from, H. M. Zerounian, 1 dealer in rugs. on Fairfield avenue near Park, that street paving contrac- tors are nightly burning creosote soak ed blocks causing the nearby resi- dents to sleep in fouI-sme1ling and lily ventilated rooms, bIackened by soot, | will probably be investigated today with a view to abating the nuisance.