Show DANGEROUS FISH the connection between foul flab fish and disease has baa recently been pointed out by competent medical authority and emphasized in a bulletin by the theu U 8 S flab fish the out brek ot of cholera iu in 1893 in ID the fishing ports ot of grimsby ani hull and several cases of death are to the consumption ol of tale stale oysters cackles and various kinds of fish in a state of decomposition it is ia gouer aliv known that thai people who subsist on the yield of the tn sea ea and woo who an aa a general rule are not vold noted for cleanliness olea oline are prone to various diseases in Aa for instance ons the he place of the sturgeon and caviar it to shown that the population would become extinct were it not for the constant from other sources 10 lo 1878 when cholera decimated the in habl of the fatal cases oc corr corred among the laborers employed finfish in diab salting the poverty of these theme laborers is so extreme that bread to ie often beyond their reach and they subsist chiefly on the interior inferior parts of 01 the be fib bob the remains are left in so ac masses to rot on the banks banke of the rivers riven and the be atmosphere Is ie further vitiated by the offal from fat flab bob oil and isinglass lein glaBa works menelee Mea elee smallpox scarlet fever favor and other bevera Is IB the there reou euK it it has been ascertained that hat wounds caused by the handling bundling of decomposed d fish are olten often very serious eer loue in norway the chalers whalers know this and ut ute uce e harpoons poisoned by a 8 prepared from such matt material rial when the whales are struck with the poison ono oas harpoons they show sign of ex baust lon in twenty four hours baurs eup as aa a of septic polson log and are then readily captured the harpoons are again recovered and preserved for future use from tue toe facts observed it is evident that the question ol of putrid food is one of great importance at many fish markets where the A t hygienic rules is great and conse conae que filth filthiness indea prevailing fish is ie left uD gutted and until sold rho fhe kin to is repeatedly soaked so as to give JL ik a bright appearance but really hastening on the process of decampo siaion what is exported to the marketa in the interior is often infected by impure preservatives as unclean salt mit at 01 toe ice irom from impure water bacteria are arc sure to be transported with it is by these means it has further been proven that poisonous matter of this kind cannot be destroyed by boiling there 1 ie therefore no way of avoiding io to isible janger danger in putrid food except by destroy destroying ing it to in properly constructed fur entices the conclusion drawn from all thic is that decaying fish is one of the most potent factors in the production of disa asee it Is evident evide tit I 1 however that the dangers are ol of such a nature that by proper attention to the matter they can be remedied fish like other slaughtered animals intended ini ended for food should be bleda bled properly y cleaned and treated with pure pre nerva tives in this country thiu this Is ie more generally the rule in other countries anu it is therefore a ghou deal more safe to use the ht hi me m product than that irom from most foreign inar manketo keu where fish is preserved for export |