"FILTHY FOOD."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 1956, 22 May 1920, Page 11

"FILTHY FOOD."

DIRTY KITCHENS AND BED. MORE TRADERS FINED. Meat safes overrun with cockroaches. Slimy icAhest. Prepared dinners covered with dirty underclothing. Nest of cockroaches in fish-frying flour. Filthy mattress on a dirty bed. Ice cream 75 per cent, deficient of milk-fat. The aliore indicate several instances of the conditions of city restaurants revealed by the Board of Health in the Central Strenuous Court, Sydney, last week, when Inspector Kencli, before Mr Jennings, S.M., conducted further proceedings under the Pure Food Act. Inspector Patton gave evidence of a visit, lie made to a George, Street restaurant kept by Harry Samios and Kon Cassidy, who were charged with having kept unclean premises. He found a large safe used for the storage of cooked fish in a dirty condition. All the eievic.es, corners, and the body of it generally were overrun by cockroaches, and the fish itself was lying on newspapers. These conditions obtained in spite of repeated warnings to the proprietors.

Mr Jennings inflicted a fine of £-1. Ice Cream at the Show. Harriette Lawson Williams was charged with having sold adulterated ice cream at the Royal Show. It was stated that the inspector purchased some ice cream at defendant's refreshment booth, and when it was analysed was found to contain 2.5 per cent, milk fat —a deficiency of 75 per cent. The Government Analyst's report showed that the sample contained starch. Mrs Williams was fined £2. A charge of having had for sale food not kept clean and free from insects was preferred' against Emanuel Mavroniatis, restaurant keeper, of George Street. He was fined £5. The inspector said he found in these premises three hams stored in a bathroom. They were hanging over the bath. Some tinned food was stored in an unventilated bedroom, and two galvanised iron receptacles containing flour, in the yard, were covered with soot and dirt. In this flour, which was used for frying fish, was a nest of cockroaches. An examination of a bedroom revealed a filthy mattress and blankets on a dirty stretcher. Plate of Steak, i Charges of having unclean premises , were answered by Peter Melonas and Algerios Savas, restaurant-keepers, in .George Street and Erskine Street respectively. It was stated in the case of the former that a small safe in the kitchen contain, ing a plate of steak was infested with cockroaches, and the undersides and cracks of a crockery draining board were full -of offensive slime, dirt, and cobwebs. Referring to the inspection he made of Savas's premises, Mr Patton stated that on a table in the kitchen was a plate containing meats prepared for dinner, covered with a dirty piece of underclothing. Meat on Ellthy Bag.

Other cut-up meat was lying on a filthy bag. On the other side of the room was a plate of meat infested with flies, and/the woodwork of the scullery was one accumulation, of slime and dirt. There were a number ef rotten tomatoes on a shelf, the officer added, and a dirty liquid ran down the sides and front of an ice-chest. A fine of £4 was inflicted on Melonas. Savas was fined £lO. Savas said before he left the court that he had sold out. In each of the above cases the gaol option was one week for each £1 of tho fine.