Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-28

difficulties placed in the way of food
reform by petty local interests. which,
unhappily, in the United States are
usually given preference in matters
affecting public health.
Statements by DIR. G
No strangers can come into R
and make it appear that it is a little
two by four piker town because the
wife of a sorehead with a crouch has
made complaint to an outsider, in
stead of bringing the matter to the
attention of the health board here.
b appear ridiculous when New
York is rotten? Why, I found milk
cans in New York under the health
departments Jurisdiction that con-
tanned garbage and indescribable
filth.
I'm one can I found a hatful OF
maggots and in another can the body
of dead baby wrapped in a paper.
These cans were simply washed with
cold water under my own eyes.
notified the New York Board of
Health of the facts.
Yes, I would let my family eat
sodium sulphite in meat
Statement by DIR. A
Il don't care what the federal law
states. The federal law is unpust in
forbidding the use of sodium sui
phites in meat
statement by DR.. b
II do condemn the use of sulphites
sary to ruin mans business in put
ting an end to the abuse. The Federal
law is right in forbidding the use of
sulphites."
Statement by DR.. Il. o. b.
"All this is the result of lax State
law which Is utterly rotten. In fact,
we make no legal interference here
mi dxtrifn nd oho orft
1t seems too bad that under the
shadows of even more serious abuses
these butchers should receive such a
blow. although there is no excuse of
any kind for using sulphites in food.
| am interested, first of all, in the
health of the people. and in refusing
TO take part in conspiracy of sup
pressing tho facts am ready to take
the consequences for my conduct"
Statement by DIR. r.
Meats of proper kind do not re-
quire the use of sodium sulphite. New
Jersey should not be an exception
when the federal law specifically for
bids the use of this preservative. The
federal law, even though 1t does not
apply to the States except in inter-
State commerce, Is enough for me.
certainly would not allow my children
to eat meat containing sodium sui
into this painful controversy, but
there is nothing for me to say except
that sulphites must go even though in
the going a few prominent people are
EN- barrassed."
The surprising disclosures which
grew out of this little disturbance in
R turned the attention of the en-
tire State of New Jersey in the direc-
ton of a secret abuse concerning the
practice of which the public had
never heard the remotest mint.
Notwithstanding the general dis
cussion inspired by this episode, the
meat industry became so active at
once that the use of sodium sulphite
in all the butcher shops of the State
was legitimatized by the authorities.
AS a result the people of New Jer-
sey must be satisfied to practice
vegetarianism or to eat doped meat
whether they want to or not.
The extraordinary incidents which
have led to this condition in the State
of New Jersey throw so much light
upon unsuspected local affairs in
other States that they will be related
here in the hope that the nation wide
traffic in sulphurous acid, sulphur
dioxide and sulphites, which now
curses the United States, will be in
some measure discouraged thereby.