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Show COUNTY INSPECTOR RE -EMPLOYED BY CO. COMMISSIONERS At the regular meeting of the county commissioners Monday, it was decided to continue with the office of sanitary inspector for Beaver county. Many citizens were delegated to meet with the comrnissioners from all parts of the county. Petitions asking for the retention of the office were numerous as well as the people personally per-sonally requesting the county to retain re-tain the office. With the showing so obvious for re-employing the inspector and very little opposition opposi-tion toward such a move, the commissioners commis-sioners decided to continue that office, of-fice, and to include all produce in the regular inspection. This will it was stated, insure the citizens getting fruit and vegetables free from disease. di-sease. Dr. Parker was offered the position posi-tion of sanitary inspector at a salary for the present time of $125 per month. The experiment recently made of employing a county meat inspector proved so satisfactory, and the benefits bene-fits derived therefrom so apparent, that the establishment of his office as a permanent factor will meet with the approval of a large majority of the residents of the county. Following is the report of work accomplished ac-complished by Dr. Parker during the few months he was employed in the capacity of county inspector: A county meat, milk and sanitary inspector was appointed June 15, 1931 for the county of-Beaver who was empowered to inspect, condemn and destroy such foods as he consid ered unlit for human consumption. Prior to this apointment there has been no restriction whatever as to the meat or milk offered for sale within the county. While we may have existed in the past, or some of use have, it is well known that the infant mortality rate has been lowered greatly in our country since adoption of sanitary measures which have insured -pure milk for the babies. During the three months of inspection in-spection 204 carcasses were inspected inspect-ed out of which 60 livers were condemned con-demned as unfit for food due to the findings of fluke worms, abcess formations and etc. 1 hind quarter due to improper cooling, 1 front quarter due to abcess formation and infection of shoulder, 1 quarter due to bruise and injury, 4 heads adjacent adja-cent parts due to lump jaw, 1 carcass showed tuberculosis Iessions of lungs, 1 carcass condemned for filth and improper dressing 10 dairys supplying sup-plying whole milk checked and conditions con-ditions improved in handling raw milk and cream, 50 recommendations recommenda-tions made for handling milk and cream going to our creameries in the county. In connection with the above article ar-ticle we wish to add that State and Federal inspectors who have been conducting tuberculin tests in the county say: "In the eradication of diseases, some of which are transmis-ible transmis-ible to man, sanitation is of as much importance as detection and treatment treat-ment of the disease. In fact sanitarv measures are the only method we have by which we can combat some dairy cattle diseases. Unless we adopt a rigid plan of sanitation, infectious in-fectious disease are going to continue to take their toll from our livestock in increased volume." A word in the matter of meat inspection; in-spection; with due regard to our local lo-cal butchers, a large amount of meat is daily consumed through out the United States which is unfit for human hu-man consumption, which would have never been offered to the public had the vendors really understood what they were selling. Home of our worst outbreaks of hog cholera throughout the United Stales have come from the feeding of garbage in which were meat scraps from tables of hotels and dining rooms. This Is conclusive evidence that we have consumed meat which contained enough septic material to be highly-dangerous highly-dangerous to human health. |