Show Daily Health Service By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Because use oysters used to arrive on the dining room table highly contaminated con conS laminated by sewage most states and cities have definite laws regulating the sale and production of ot shellfish In the sanitary code of the department depart depart- ment of ot health of ot New York City Is the statement that no shellfish shall be brought into held kept or offered of fot for sale anywhere in the city without a permit issued by the board of health Today oysters are shipped into New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City from New York state stale Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- Delaware New Jersey Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia and Massachusetts Other sections sections sec sec- of the country too receive their oysters from these places and also alsofrom alsofrom from tram other states along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Gulf Gult of or Mexico Shippers who W want to supply oysters oysters have to submit certificates that the water flats rIals and shellfish shell fish tish beds are arc free from tIon In many places they are forced to show that every handler of ot shellfish shellfish shellfish shell shell- fish is free from infectious disease Incommunicable in incommunicable incommunicable communicable form Every package must bear the shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping number the name of the water from which the oysters were taken the bed number and the date on which the oysters were dredged Furthermore health departments are likely to take samples on arrival to make a bacterial study to determine deter deter- m mine le whether yh ther they are c. c contaminated until ten years ago the sale and consumption of contaminated oysters was common Today this is exceedIngly exceedingly exceedingly exceed exceed- rare The chief chIc danger was from typhoid fever because the oysters oysters oysters were contaminated with sewage which contained germs from people who had typhoid fever There was a time when no one dared to eat oysters during a month without an r for the simple reason the germs tended to multiply more rapidly in hot weather than in 10 cold Nowadays Nov with good refrigeration and with proper inspection of ot oyster oster beds and with definite rules regarding regarding regard regard- ing lag the handling of shellfish it is safe sate to cat eat oysters almost anywhere at any time The oyster is a valuable food because because be be- cause it is especially rich In certain vitamins in iodine and in protein |