Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-20
WATCH YOUR ICE!
Literary Digest for Septembei
Contains interesting
Article e.. -

Under the heading watch Y0ui
lee The literary Digest explains
that Ice Is not necessarily phrt
ljffst because II Is cold II MAJ
contain the germs or disease Ice d
used with food for two purposes q
cool Is and to eat, lift Is used simply
as a cooling agent. as IN q reffjesrA
tor. without touching the food. il may
be very dirty without doing harm, al
though even then one would pref t.
keep Il clear 81 diseasegefma But /;
| Il Is ID be eaten. or q come into con
tact IN any way with food or drink
then Ii should be absolutely pure Thf
dilerent methods Of iee1yfOd ilction
and the ways IN which Ice al1ay be.
come dirty or infected are clearly de.
scrfbed In an article published IN The
Nurse Baltimore. Aughstlg Says the
writer II
While Ii Is unusual abroad 20 place
ice in drinks and food, It Is the uni
yersal custom In our country 70 .driHs
iee-water, to use crushed ice IN ont
soft and other, drinks and 70 apply
iit directly TO foods which are eaten
cold or line0oked. 81
TT is used ID every household and
has come into contact with many oi
our foods before we secure them
|Sanitarians and fT1tellieent people
generally now know the important
part piayed by food in conveying the
Infection Of preventible diseases, such
as typhoid fever. dyse1terg aud other
intestinal diseases. Some outbreaks
OF these diseases have been attrib
|uted 70 ice. and II seems pertinent,
therefore, to decide whether there be
danger to the Individual III the use
Of this important article Of diet.
The various methods OF cooling
the brine or other substances III Ice.
machines do moi, necessdrllY afect the
sanitary qualities OF tie ice hut the
two methods Of Applying water to be
frozen are quite Important. They are
called the can and the plate meth.
DDS In the former method winter t.
placed In cans subn1krged IN brine
maintained below DE- G. ond KEN there
for a time. dependent upon the size
Of the can.
s AS has been stated, freezing expels
alnlcat all Of the Impurities; but a.
the can IS full the impurities present
are iIhpeiled toward the center and
top OF the can as The stlrfaeeS neareH
the brine freeze first Even air causes
cIondiness. and the pfeaenca Of iron
salts "a red and 81 lime and niaeHe.
stun q whstish core. 10 Obtiate this
and secure pure, clear lee. the wafer
Is generally distilled, the water fiofs
the condensers furnishing over hal:
Of the amount necessary 0fNcoursei
distiFation destroys all disease organ
isms present IN the water.
4Recenfly, however, Ia one system
the cans have been made larger AMI
an aifspipe. passed down the center
the cakes later being cut into smaller
ones, eliminatin9 the dirty core.
eIn another can-systeri, about six
inches Of water 10 kept fiuld BY a0itnf
tati4r BY sir-pipet and thts ; ticIok
temsins into Nnieh inipusit ties are sek
Yelled.
both Of these systems are held tc
eliminate the necessity for distillation
OF water. and this IS fact to be re-
membered.
The Hawaiian Electric Company use
the Agitation System IN the manu-
faeture or their Crystal lee which
they furnish for household purposes;
besides this the water from which the
ice Is manufactured Is nfst distilled
and then filtered, which iii conjunction
with the Agitation system Or fteez
inc insares an ice that ID absolutely
pure and sanitary adv. 3.