Show THE PUBLIC HEALTH Intelligent Effort Now Being Made to Improve It THE FOOD INSPECTOR AT WORK Mn Kendall Talks Upon Diseased Pork and Kindred SubjectsPreparations Being Made to GIve Dairymen a Shaking Up There are people in every community who are apathetic as to rates of taxation public improvements and the various questions ques-tions with which municipalities are concerned I con-cerned They are the people who are not affected at all or so remotely that it can hardly be traced by such things There is one question however that interests everyone every-one be he prince or pauper and that is the question of public health All the wisdom that a municipality can bring to its aid in Keeping down the rate of mortality and improving im-proving the general health of the city is used Tho intimate relation of food to health Is of course recognized but sufficient suffi-cient attention has never been given hereto here-to having the food supply wholesome The matter is now receiving the consideration to which its importance entitles it The shops from which the great bulk of the supply obtained by the consumer are now watched by an officer whose duty it is to protect the public against Ignorantly or wilfully purchasing articles not fit to be eaten MEASURES TAKEN TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC The ordinance prohibiting the keeping or sale of unwholesome food ind drink and regulating the sale of milk and other food products was passed on September 30th and on November 18th A H Kendall was appointed food Inspector His record so for shows that ha is endeavoring to faithfully faith-fully discharge the duties of his office He is clothed with ample power to protect tho public and is not at all backward in using his authority to that end Ho certainly has ample opportunity to follow the scriptural scrip-tural injunction and magnify his calling Mr Kendall is rapidly systematizing his work and familiarizing himself with his peculiar duties I takes time to initiate anew a-new movement of this kind but that Mr Kendall has been kept pretty busy and has nccomolisaod not a little is shown by his record On November 20th for instance he condemned three boxes of peaches four boxes of pears 163 ducks seventytwo I chickens 225 pounds of sweet potatoes 127 quail 215 pounds of fish one tub of butter sixteen turkeys 105 pounds of grapes THE INSPECTOR TALKS All of these things were in an advanced stage of decomposition said Mr Kendall to a HERALD man yesterday and the lot would have done a great deal of harm Do you have much difficulty in discharging dis-charging your duties asked tho reporter Wen not more than might ba expected in inaucurating the movement Many persons however appear to misconstrue I the law in presuming that the intent is simply to prevent the sale of condemned foodstuffs Hence they think they have aright a-right to give the articles away or feed them to animals which is just as much a violation of tho law as the sale of them Tho only object of the ordinance ia to prevent pre-vent such stuff from being eaten and causing caus-ing disease How far has this selling of unwholesome unwhole-some food stuffs been iTo i-To an alarming extent I should say I have seen poultry offered for sale which L was actually green and decomposition was so far advanced that the skin and flesh would separate at touch Now the i ordinance not only forbids the sale of such stuffs but forbids tho keeping of it It is full of poisonous disease germs and would certainly cause trouble if eaten Salt Lake is rather a center for tie accumulation accum-ulation of tainted poultry and game because be-cause an immense amount is shipped in L from distant points They come in carloads car-loads and need especial watching as they arrive here frozen and quickly decompose I after thawing out What disposition is made of condemned I JWell J Well as you say I keep a record of It and each day notify the sanitary mopector to call at the store for it Last weal I I I condemned a lot of ducks sixtyeight in I number and loft word for the inspector to II I call for them next day Beforo the inspector I inspec-tor got around however I met a swill man who was taking away that particular lot of ducks to feed pigs Now while I have no I jurisdiction over such a matter I shall condemn con-demn market those pigs when they come into the THE DOG RANCHES I There is considerable talk about diseased dis-eased pork being in the market i j Yes and 1 regret to say there has been I grounds font I know that hogs on these I I ranches close to the city have been fed right along on putrid meat What kind o f I meat do you suppose is BUtmlied by such animals The best butchers in town tell I me that the moment they touch one of them I the fact that it has been fed on putrid I meat becomes apparent The flesh is flabby and oily and the prominent characteristics j of wholesome pork are absent AF1ER TIE DAIUrMBK i i How about milk I Wo recognize the importunes of that subject and shall do something in regard I to It just as soon as the testers which have f been ordered arrive I havo looked the field over already and find a large number num-ber of dairies close to tho city Inmost In-most cases too food consists almost entirely of malt which IB cheap costing only 10 cents G bushel and when in good condition It makes an excellent feed for cows It should be perfectly fresh tUough and i kept twentyfour hours turns as sour as swill and is entirely unfit to feed to cows Owing to this its use is prohibited in irost cities The malt is hot when the I dairymen get it but as soon as it becomes cold it sours The effect upon babies of milk from cows fed upon this stuff nan easily be imagined In some oases too I I found that cows were kept continually tied in stalls the only exerciaogiven thorn beicg when they are taken to water The health I department will not issue permits to dairymen dairy-men who keep their cows In that way r s germs the milk is vary apt to contain poisonous I THE ICBMEN TOO I How about ica f That will be given attention in due season I find that there are a number of Ice ponds close to the city which are con atru tad with an inlet but no outlet In Expectation of a cold snap the water is turned in but the cold snap doesnt come Meanwhile the water stagnates and when it does finally freeze is full or disease germs There trill be none of that Kind of ice in the market next summer I can assure as-sure you Although I have only had a chance to look the field over It i apparent that there is plenty of work ahead in bring log the city up to a proper standard in this regard The importance of tho work grows upon mo as I become more familiar fULUar with 1 MAKING ASSURANCE DOUBLY SURE How do you make it certain that the stuff condemned by you will be turned over to the creiriatory Inspector Very easily I simply pour kerosine oil over i and after that operation it is safe to Bay that it will neither be sold nor fed to the hogs Dr T B Beattie was seen yesterday afternoon and he lid The sale of un wholosomo food products in this city has through neglect assumed appalling proportions pro-portions and the health department has a big task on hand in suppressing tho evil Such stuff CD is condemned is not only a direct cause of disease through the existence exist-ence in it of ptomaine but ia also offensive to the sensibilities This is especially true of fish and canned roods It is the inten tionof the health department to PDSH TIE WORK vigorously The adulteration of liquors will also be looked into soon the ordinance giving the same powers with regard to that as to foodstuffs |