Show i Uail Daily Health Service C i Food Higher Due to Processes to Keep It Clean Editors Editor's Note This Is the second cond of a series o of 26 timely articles by Dr Morris Fishbein on Food Truths and Follies dealing denting with such much discussed discussed discussed dis dis- dis- dis cussed but little known subjects a. a as a. calories vitamins minerals digestion and balanced diet By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical 1 Association and of Hy- Hy geLs gela the Health Magazine Magarine Whereas the medicine of a previous previous previous pre pre- era concerned Itself largely with dl disease and the control of disease by drugs modern medicine gives as much attention to diet as to any other single factor In the control of the human body dJ Modern medicine is 15 concerned with appetite and with di dl- dl It has learned to control many diseases through control of or the diet and to Influence the appetite and the body structure by the use of foods properly prepare prepared l. l In addition to all of ot the attributes of at foods that have been m mentioned there comes finally the question o of food poisoning and food Infection The development of transportation inthe inthe in inthe the handling of or food has brought problems of food contamination that are of or the greatest Importance in re relationshIp relationship relationship re- re to health and disease Previous to the publication of Upton Upton Upton Up Up- ton Sinclair's book The Jungle but little attention was given to the cleanliness of food Previous to the time when it became realized that typhoid fever dysentery and similar infections were spread by contaminated contaminated food little attention was given to sanitary control Indeed there used to be a proverb to the effect that everyone had to eat a peck o of dirt in order to be civilized Everyone can remember when milk mUk used to be left leftIn leftIn leftin In a bucket at the family doorstep when un unwrapped Tapped bread was tossed from the wagon to the grocery clerk when vegetables were polished with saliva and a dirty towel Our point of view it can be seen has changed in regard to food el cleanliness Nowadays Nowadays Nowadays Nowa Nowa- days bread is baked untouched by human hands wrapped in iri sterilized wrappers and delivered to the purchaser purchaser pur pur- chaser in the original wrapper Milk Is collected under sanitary conditions transported with refrigeration pasteurized pasteurized pasteurized pas pas- and delivered to Ito the purchaser purchaser purchaser pur pur- chaser in a bottle bottJe that has been boiled boned and scaled sealed with bacteriologIc cleanliness When anyone complains of the in increased increased increased in- in creased cost of food today he should be reminded of ot the increasing fastidiousness fas fas- fas- fas of ot civilized man in relationship relationship relationship rela rela- to food cleanliness Even fruits and vegetables are today thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- washed and wrapped in in individual individual In- In wrappers before delivered |