The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
FOOD DEPARTMENT
MAKE INSPECTIONS
DECEMBER ACTIVE MONTH FOR
STATE FOOD INSPECTORS, WHO
VISITED MANY PLACES.
PROSECUTE LAW VlOLAT0RS
Grocers, Hotels, Restaurants, Meat
Shops, Bakeries, Drug Stores and
Fruit Stands Are Among the List
Most Frequently Prosecuted.


Most Frequently Prosecuted.
Nashville.-The report OF the Ten
nessee department of food and drugs
shows that during the month of De-
cember, SIS days were devoted to in
spection work by the department,
equivalent to an average of 80 men
in the field for each of the seventeen
working days. The inspectors visited
fourteen towns, distributed over
twelve counties Eighteen concerns
were prosecuted for violating various
laws administered by this department
Food handling establishments visit
ed numbered 1923, and hotels visited
were eight making total of 1,O36. Or
the food handling establishments In
spected 286 were groceries, 1873 res
taurants, 274 soft drink stands, l1S
meat shops, Is fruit stands, 20 bak-
cries, % confectioneries, II candy
factories and A drug stores; the re-
mainder were lunch stands, produce
houses, ice cream stands and other
miscellaneous food handling estab-
lishments. Sanitary orders were is
sued in 331 places; 697 establishments
were passed as o. k.
In the course of these inspections
four lots of food we're condemned as
unfit for use. OF this there were
44,912 pounds of flour, 10000 pounds
of Irish potatoes and ten pounds OF
canned sauce.
Under the drug store liquor law SIX
Investigations were made and under
the anti-narcotic law two investlga-
lions were made,
Prosecutions under the sanitary
food law we're: Chattanooga, three
guilty, each fined $40 and costs;
Nashville, eleven guilty seven fined
each $40 and costs and four cases
compromised
Prosecutions under the food ana
drug law were: Chattanooga. one
guilty, fined $40 and costs; Nashville,
one guilty, fined SO and costs.
Two were prosecuted and found
guilty under the drug store law at
Pulaski, and each was bound over to
the grand jury.
Correction notices were issued at
five of the eight hotels visited, the
other three being passed as o. k.
The food and drug laboratory re-
ported twenty food samples and four
drug samples tested during the month.
Thirteen food samples and two drug
samples were recorded as illegal.
Insurance Revenue Increases.
The comparative statement OF re-
ceipts of the department of insurance
from 1911 to 1917, inclusive, issued
by Insurance Commissioner l.. K. Ar
rington, shows an increase over 1916
in the gross income of that depart
ment of $51, 429.27. Mr.. Arringtons
report also shows a decrease in ex-
penses for the year of $43.77.
All sources of income for the de-
partment show material increases
with the exception of interests de-
posts, which show a decrease. This.
however, is due to the fact that the
insurance commissioner now RENTS
the treasury all funds on hand at the
end of each month, with the exception
Of department expense funds; where
as. formerly all funds were held for
longer period of time, thus increasing
the interest earnings to the credit Of
the department.
The financial condition of the de-
partment of insurance as compared
with former years reflects much
credit. on the administration of Com
missioner Arlington. Mr.. Arlington
succeeded w. F. Dunbar as insurance
commissioner in 1915; previous to
that time he was a deputy in the in
surance commissioners office.