Show PUTRID MEAT ON THE BlOC 1 Seventeen Seattle Butchers Fined an Aggregate of More Than for Their Of Offense Offense Offense and Others Arrested STATE AUTHORITIES MAKING THINGS WARM Sensational Charges Against Government System of In Inspection Inspection Inspection Repudiated by Am American American American Health AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT 4 4 MM M e 4 4 Seattle Oct 21 The Imposition yesterday of fines tines amounting to more thai upon seventeen butchers who sold putrid meat made male 9 odorless by sodium sulphate was wa followed today by b the arrest of seven 4 other butchers who sold doctored meat mat yesterday to Deputy State Food t commissioner William H Adams Mr r Adams announces that the prose prosecutions pro e here will be followed by b en enforcement enforcement of the law In other cities f He said saidI I have collected samples of ham hamburger hamburger 4 burger steak from Aberdeen n Ho 4 4 Centralia Cent raila Che halls Olympia 4 and In number 4 and have been advised by State 4 4 Chemist Elton Ellon Fulmer of the state college ollege at Pullman that 4 of the samples had been treated M 4 te t e t t t t M t t t t t 4 Richmond Va Oct ocr 21 The American Public Health association at Its meet meetIng meetIng meeting Ing tonight repudiated the sensational charges made last night by Mrs Caro Care Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo Mich regarding the government system of meat inspection The association unanimously adopted and without debate a resolution practically declaring the charges have not been sustained I To substantiate the charges that In se so secret I cret orders called service announce announcements ments the bureau of animal in industry advised its agents to pass meats if they were not too badly bad diseased d Mrs Crane showed photographic phot reproductions of the orders Diseased Beef Tongues A quotation is taken from one of the ther r secret orders regarding the dispo e lion of beef tongues pur p ting ng to show that although microscopic examination of tongues tong es demonstrated the presence of fungi in 45 4 per percent cent of them it had been decided that If no characteristic ulceration and i tion are ate present pr and there Is no lymph K g gand and Involved and no abscess abs ess forma fonna formation tion t Cn is observed there tre can be bo no rational ica cais for the entire condemnation of such food products After the removal of the abrasions the tho th order is said to have stated the re remaInder of the organ may ma therefore be passed for food toed A quotation Is taken from frem one of the supposed orders of secrecy purporting t ti show that Dr A D Melvin Melvln chief of the tho bureau of animal Industry declared that the service announcement was only 1 I tended to disseminate Information and to persons In the service of tt n hy bureau and cautioning them against swing copies to outsiders |