The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-04
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TYPHOID FEVER
 SAY MAKERS OF |CE
 CREAM AND CONES
Maintain All Products Are Made With Pure Ingredi- ents in Clean
 Factories
PACKERS AND FRUIT MEN CAREFUL WITH
 EVERYTHING SOLD

Screens Plentifully Used and All Meats, Butter, Etc, Are Kept in
 Refrigerators-Frui and Vegetables Screened The ice cream men of the city are strong in their assertions that ice cream is
 not responsible for typhoid. They state that the products of their factories are absolutely as pure as good ingredients
 can make them, and that they leave the factory in that condition, and are de- livered to the retailers in that condi- tion./
 we use milk that comes from in spected dairies," said A. E. Jones, man ager of one of the large ice cream manu- featuring concerns here, yesterday. "The city inspectors pass on all milk used in the making of our ice cream. and every thing we use is of the best to be had. Every precaution is taken to guard against flies and everything Is screened. Dirt is tabood in our factory, and every
 man who has anything whatsoever to do
 with the making of the cream is required to be clean.
 q have never heard of ice cream being the cause of any case of typhoid, although
 some physicians was quoted as saying ice
 cream cones carelessly handled had caused more than one case.' xy
 that the city authorities had put some of the blame on ice cream, when as a
 matter of fact Commissioner Hornady
 said that it was only careless handling of ice cream cones to which members of
 the committee of health objected. CONES NOT RESPONSIBLE One of the largest manufacturer of ice
 cream cones in the city yesterday after
 noon said the blame for typhoid could not be laid on the cones. You can smear arsenic over cone and poison anyone
 with it." he said, "but when 1t leaves our factory it is absolutely germless and is packed in airtight tins.
 "Our cones are made of cake and ex- posture to the air for as long as 30 minutes would destroy their value as cones.
 Therefore, the dealers who handle our cones must keep them in airtight con- tainers and keep them in a sanitary man ner or lose their investment in cones. They won't keep unless they are kept air. tight any more than fine cake will keep when exposed to the air. The cones can not be held responsible for the typhoid
 situation"
 CAN'T BLAME PRODUCE
 The produce merchants of Birmingham and the packers of meats were prepared when the epidemic of typhoid struck Bir-
 mingham and they maintain that not a single case of typhoid that has been re-
 ported was caused from any of their products, whether it be fruit, vegetables, meats, or butter. They point to the screening that encloses all doors and win
 6ows, and to the refrigerating plants that are kept at a very low average tempera- ture as proof of their assertions.
 The produce merchants are careful with everything they sell. Peaches, canta- loupes, tomatoes in fact, fruits and vege- tables of all variety except, possibly beans and peas, are screened to prevent the possibility of damage from flies. When these articles are placed on the wagons and truck for delivery, the ship ping clerks are required to see that every package is covered thoroughly. and that there is absolutely no likelihood of fly gaining access to even one bit of fruit. ! The butter all is packed in cartons. first being placed in parafined paper. then ile
 the pasteboard box, which then is cov- cred with paraf1ned paper.
 | None of the produce and fruit mer- | chant on Morris avenue cared to be quoted when seen by an Age-Herald re- porter yesterday, but they all stoutly | maintained that the typhoid fever so prevalent in Birmingham was not caused | by their products-not even one case. PACKING PLANTS CAREFUL | The packing plants of Birmingham, too, | are certain that their products have had nothing to do with the rapid spread of | typhoid recently. They point to the | screens, which cover every entrance to
 exercised in packing every piece of meat
 for shipment.
 q am frank to say that I believe the | dry closets of Birmingham are respon- sible for the typhoid said w. s.
 Moughon, local manager for Armour Ss Co.,, yesterday. 'I am certain that none of Armour's products can be held re- i sponsible.
 we place all meats in a refrigerating room which Is kept at a very low tenn | perature, so low, in fact that flies could
 not exist in it, and,. in addition to that, everything is screened. The meats are
 packed in a fly-proof room, and are
 wrapped in heavy paper, over which bur | lap is placed. "Our butter is wrapped in parafined paper before being placed in the cartons, and the cartons then are wrapped in the same kind of paper. making the package absolutely germproof. The butter Is packed by operatives whose hands are germless, and the butter itself is pure.
 The sliced bacon we sell is handled in a similar manner, and there is not the re-
 motest possibility of a fly getting into l the bacon slicing room.
 "Our refrigerating rooms are kept at ] such low temperature that a typhoid germ could not live, even if brought in | by one of the employees. But. to make as- surance doubly sure. all of our employees
 will he inoculated with the typhoid ser um, and thus obviate any possibility of
 any of our products becoming contami- nated.
 Marriage Licenses l The following marriage licenses were issued from the probate court yester- day:
 | H. M. Nesler. Chipley. Ga.. and Miss Fannie May Crawford.