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Show "PEOPLE STIRRED OVER CITY INSPECTOR'S REPORT Cattle Suspected of Being Infected With Tuberculosis Disappear in a !'. In last night's Standaid 1 read the report of an interview with Mr. V. D. Child, city food awl dairy iiispec-tor. iiispec-tor. Ab startling as it Is, It is nothing new It is only the same thing ro-peaicd. ro-peaicd. It is one more exposure of the lrightful conditions prevailing at some of the slaughter houses. We had similar exposures In June, 1910, and tho only losult at that time was a temporary improvement. In the Ogden Morning Examiner of Juno 2G. 1910, appeared a report of "An Old Subscriber's" visit to some of our slaughter houses It read in part: 1 "Here is a place where the meats we cat arc prepared. The blood from the animals slaughtered runs through the cracks of the floor. The entrails arc thrown right outside the door. In undir the floor and outside out-side the door in all of this corrupted matter the maggots thrive by the millions The meats that aro put on the blocks the next day in Ogden hang in the center of these diseaso breeding surroundings, the air so foul that it compels neighbors for miles around to complain. To complete the scene we have swarms of flies alighting on this corruption cor-ruption and carrying this filth onto the meats, and yet we wonder where all our sickness and disease come from when such meats actually are sold at some of what we call our best meat umrkcts in the city. I visited one moro slaughter house, but I could inspect this on the outside only, but if the Inside was to be judged from the outside, the condition was far from what could be desired. Our city quarantines places where Infectious diseases exist; we havo a pesthouse in case of epidemics; It protects us against unclean and polluted pollu-ted water, and yet It affords us absolutely ab-solutely no protectiji' against meat5; which endanger the health- of tho community. That we hear of it only now and then does not mean that it does not eIst all the tini. In fact, only a few of the shocking conditions are I revealed to tho public. Had the government gov-ernment jurisdiction over the local slaughter houses, not one of them would be allowed to run another day. However, owing to the sovereignty guaranteed by the constitution to each state, abbatoirs doing business within the state only cannot be reached by the government. Only last winter a certain number of beeves were brought to Ogden. These beeves had been tested for tuberculosis tu-berculosis and showed signs of being infected. Because of the notoriety often of-ten connected with handling this class of animals, the Ogden Packing and Provision company refused to slaughter slaugh-ter them. Although they knew that every animal which actually had tu- berculoiis would bo condemned by their government inspector, yet ,tha publicity given to it often creates the wrong impression with the public. Theso cattle disappeared in a mysterious mys-terious way. All that tho city officials were ablo to learn later on was tliat the cattle had been purchased by a local deHler, who did not kiow what had become of them. ' It is also a notorious fact that If the farmers have any live stock of doubtful health, they do not tako it to the government inspected packing plants, .earing that it might be condemned, con-demned, but market it at places where no inspection oxists Yet we never hear of any animals being condemned con-demned at uninspected slaughterhouses. slaughter-houses. Secretary Wilson's report for tho year 1910 shows, (n round figures, 114,-000 114,-000 entile carcasses and 87-1,000 parts of carcasso. condemned, or very near 1.000.000 animals out of 49,000,000 inspected in-spected Were it not for the control of these packing plants by the government, govern-ment, most of these meats would undoubtedly un-doubtedly have been sold to the unsuspecting un-suspecting public. It seems to me that every citizen of Ogden would demand a thorough Inspection In-spection of all places where meats are handled It should be as complete com-plete as the government Inspection, and any place that would comply with It in every dotnil Eliould "be prevented from marketing its products in Ogden Og-den City Under the present conditions, no one is safe. Most markets handle both Inspected and uninspected meats. Even though tvc demand government inspected meats, we do not know what we are getting, unless wo Heo It cut from tho carcass of an animal which shows the government inspection stamp, or buy it from some market lhat handles nothing but government Inspected meats. The state board of food commissioners commis-sioners are doing all In thoir powor to remedy these conditions, but tho number of their force is entirely inadequate inade-quate to copo with the conditions of a state the size of Utah. This board has only three men to cover the entire en-tire state, while the government has three Inspectors stationed at the plant of the Ogden Packing and Provision company. The only remedy is for the city to enact an Inspection law and then to employ a competent and conscien tious veterinary surgeon, who should have complete jurisdiction over every slaughter house In regard to cleanliness cleanli-ness and sanitation, and inspect every carcass of meats offered for sale within with-in the city limits. This much other cities are doing for their citizens. Why should not Ogden? AN OGDEN CITIZEN. - |
