The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-09-30

note the improvements. The inspec-
tor visits hotels, bakeries, restau-
rants and other eating places, mar.
kets. stores, shops, creameries and
factories. Here are some OF the things
she has found: Employees handling
food products while wearing soiicd
clothing. She has found dirty floors,
walls, refrigerators, coolers. back
rooms, cellars and back yards, some
of which might better be termed vile,
and disease inviting. She has found
that flies frequently get ground up IN
sausage and hamburg steak; that
quarts of flies daily go swimming in
creamery tanks. that rats and cats
frequent grocery stores, that help
working III Laksi les often allow per-
spiration to drip into food which they
are preparing, and that some men ac-
tually smoke pipes as they work,
squirting tobacco-juice anywhere and
everywhere, as is found most cons e.
nient She has found sidewalks &C
tually running with liquid filth which
had been expectorated by street loung
ers. When this dries, the wind takes
it up and disease germs are thus car
ried into homes otherwise clean and
sanitary. Women inspectators have
found some cooks actually working
from twelve to fourteen hours day
for seven days in a week. AS ,le
best qualified people cannot he found
Who will do such inhuman dru..Scry,
any kind of help is accepted. The IN
spectors to their surprise have learn
cd that many of these workers were
suffering from scrofulous, and veneer
cal diseases, and some were affected
with tuberculosis were handling food
products in hotels. eating houses, fac
tories, stores and shops. Inspectors
have learned that rotten eggs, wormy
raisins, buggy. weby nuts were going
into cakes, and that semi-rotten foods
were sprinkled with injurious preser-
yatives, that food products have been
colored with poisonous dyes that
housewives were getting short weight
short measures, and short package
foods, and that stomach troubles are
increasing, and these women inspoc-
tors have declared to the world That
it is quite time more women came TO
the aid of men who have been strug-
Cling with municipal Housekeeping
problems which were quite beyond
them, and which have been entirely
out of their sphere
Some men have charged women in
spectors with being "gossipy and sen
sational" in their methods, and they
say you cannot fix things up with a
woman by offering her a drink, a CT
gar or even box of chocolates
The women see everything from one
view point. namely, their home and
their family: they realize only too
well that dirty and improper food is
liable to mean sickness. expensive
medical attention and perhaps death.
Some times proprietors have refus-
cd to clean up. The woman inspec-
tor then takes along a reporter on her
round. and she points out the dirt and
filth. The reporter sends to the morn
ing paper a most interesting, and per
haps humiliating account Of the exist
ing conditions. which the whole com
munity may read. One demonstration
of this kind is usually sufficient to
cure the worst offenders. Every place
Of business inspected is given a dehn-
lite per cent rating: they are watched
and kept clean; how clean any Gus
toner may know by CHANGING al
card which is furnished the proprie
tor each month by the woman inspec-
tor who always carries a duplicate.
10 per cent constitute a perfect mark
in all departments. and the total
equals 100 per cent for place found
clean. neat and sanitary. which in
ciudes the clothing OF the proprietor
ana his employees. These inspectors