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Show City-County Health Department Warns Against Buying Fish From Peddlers sources which have been ann,- by the Health Department d If peddlers of fresh fish or m come into your community Pn-Veat the City-County Health ment. These items can only be 1 through stores and meat markt who are properly equiped to hanrii such products. and'e During the winter months peddlers ped-dlers appear in our communities with fresh fish to sell. Some dealers mav have fish which are fresh and wholsome, while others may not. It has been reported by some of our neighboring states that fish which have been rejected for sale in their states have been brought into Utah and sold. Some dealers may advertise adv-ertise fish from other states when actually the fish are from Utah Lake, the cesspool of many of our larger cities. of rigor mortis. Fish in this condition cond-ition are always very fresh. Even though they may be well iced, fish soon become stale and begin to detoriorate. The flesh becomes soft and flabby and a strong fish smell developes. Fish which have been taken from1 clean waters and properly handled are perfectly good to eat. To be sure of products from approved sources buy only through your grocery stores or dealers or from The literature received contains numerous refrencs to outbreaks of disease which have been attributed attribu-ted to consumption of fish which have been grown in unsanitary conditions. con-ditions. Several cases of poisoning from eating fish have been attributed attrib-uted to toxins produced by organisms organ-isms similar to Clostridium botulism. bot-ulism. One author reports several outbreaks of typhoid fever caused by the consumption of infected, improperly cooked fish. A tapeworm may infect many from the eating of infected fish. When these are eaten by man, encysted larvae are freed in the stomach and discharged into the small intestine where they develop into a tapeworm which may grow to a length of 6 to 30 feet. Fish become infected by pollution of the ..'f-L (nv.m.TnPTYi r rrrra -FrTiTYI feces of hosts. It has been pointed out that infected human excretis as well as those of dogs and other raw-fish-eating mamals are important imp-ortant factors in contaminating lake and streams with tapeworm ova. Fish decompose perhaps more rapidly than any other meat. Soon , after fish die, the flesh becomes ( stiff and passes into the condition , |