The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1919-10-28
INSPECTOR FINDS
BAD CONDITIONS

| NJ. b. Baros of the Territorial
| Board of Health, returned to Homo.
lulu last Saturday after spending
week inspecting the food stores, res.
taurants. coffee shops, hotels, baker
les, soda works. meat shops, candy and
cake factories, poi shops, ice cream
parlors, etc.
Local Inspector Frank Cook, ac.
companied Mr.. Bairos, and together
they inspected 1876 places Of business.
The purpose of the inspection was
to look into the quality Of food and
drugs kept or offered for sale, as to
adulterations misbranding and food
insanitation. Mr.. Bairos reports that
the conditions were found to be about
the same as found on the other isl
lands; some excellent, some salts
factory, and some very bad.
The most frequent offense found
was that of carelessness and untidy-
ness. This was especially marked in
storerooms, and was found in the
large as well as small stores.
1t was found necessary to ask a
few of the filthy places to close UP and
clean up or to be subject to legal pro-
secution.
The worst places found were those
of Hop Sing opposite the school in
Hanalei, whose store and bakery were
found to be in a very untidy and
filthy condition; Wing Wo, of Hama.
pepe, absolutely filthy place for food
and Chinese drugs; Hop Wo, of Ka-
paa, kept food in very dirty condi-
ton; Yee Sing, restaurant keeper of
Hanapepe. had very dirty kitchen;
X. Uneo, of Waimea, had his store in
such a untidy condition that it was
almost impossible to inspect the
goods.
Following are some Of the most
important faults noted: Soda water
not labeled; no statement of net
weight on candy and soda water;
salt salmon fly and maggot infested;
food on filthy shelves; swelled tin
goods on shelves; bakery with tables
and shelves dirty; insect infested
dried fish; use of newspaper for
wrapping food and merchandise;
decomposed salt salmon; poison on
sale without proper license; cough
medicine on sale misbranded; poi
shop unsanitary; food in dirty and
untidy store rooms; bread loaves be-
low standard weight; ice cream be.
low standard dried fish contami.
mated by leather beetle; smoking
while preparing food in re restaurant;
soda water bottles not properly wash.
ed; decomposed meat in ice box;
common drinking in use; dirty fish
pedlar wagon; food exposed to flies;
soda water containing much sedi-
ment, etc.
The inspectors destroyed quite a
quantity of food during their tour,
most of which was tin and bottle
goods. There was, however several
pounds of salt salmon, cod fish, her.
ring and other salt and dried fish,
dried apricots, prunes, peaches, ETC.
Mr.. Bairos says he did not find a
single place on the island where the
ice cream came up to the standard.
The law requires that all ice cream
shall contain at least IA per cent but.
ter fat. According to the formulas
given him, some of the so-called ice
cream contained no more than two or
three per cent, butter fat, the best
grade found having about seven per
cent. He informed the proprietors of
the refreshment stands that If they
desired to sell to the public this in.
ferior grade OF goods they must dis
play a sign plainly stating that they
the selling frozen sweets" and not
ice cream