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Show The Truth Sees Daylight WHEN The Telegram two weeks ago on this page asked why revolting conditions at several local slaughter houses and pecking plants were permitted to exist at great peril to the public health, we confess we did not know thev were quite as bad as was set out in the report presented to the city commission by Msynr E. B. Erwln on Thursdsy. The mayor will be applauded for making the report matter of record, despite that the board of health, unit of the public safety department ever which ha presides, has been incomprehensibly incompre-hensibly remiss In enforcing its own rules, in following up and backing; up Its own, Inspectors and abating; filthy establishments supplying homes and eating places with meat and meat products unfit for human consumption. We published the complete text of the veterinarians' veter-inarians' findings in our news columns Thursday. Thurs-day. They disclosed that diseased and Injured food animals were slaughtered for market In filthy establishments where) tools, benches and ether equipment were In far from sanitary condition, con-dition, where workers' clothing was dirty, where flies gathered on carcasses and where dogs and eats had free run of the place. We refrain from reciting other details, some even more disturbing. The public should understand that the condition con-dition reported were uncovered only at plants not under federal Inspection. It should understand, under-stand, too, that thia lax enforcement of city health ordinance is of long stsnding. The whole blame doe not rest with the board of health as now constituted. The present board, however, must assume full responsibility for permitting theee abominable condition to continue after they were discovered and reported as an inheritance in-heritance from predecessors who manifested equal unconcern for the public health. Surely the public expect the board to be Biore than a bureau of archives, a repository for vital statistics and a place for filing perfunctory report of inspectors. Its first and most important duty and responsibility 1 health protection through disease prevention. Foremost among |