SALE OF BREAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 19

SALE OF BREAD.

Perusing the columns of the "Star," I was amused with the rc|K>rt on the various suggestions regarding the sale of bread. Really, I think shortly we shall bo obliged to take all our foodstuff to the Health Department before we are allowed to consume it. If our authorities are so vitally concerned about how our foodstuffs are handled in the shops and wish to take expensive and elaborate precautions, why not go further and visit every house in Auckland and see under what conditions the food is kept after leaving the shops, and it is there I think they will find the evil if any exists. It is useless to harass the shopkeepers with a lot of expensive red tape, unless people are compelled to keep both inside and oiitside of their houses clean and sanitary, which thousands to-day are not. After all, with, our armies of sanitary inspectors and health officers, modern drainage and a hundred and one health-pro-tecting ideas, our overcrowded public and private hospitals are a wonderful advertisement to the efficiency of the modern precautions that have been taken to protect the health of the community. Emphatically I say, it is not the conditions under which our bread is sold, but the conditions under which it is kept after leaving the shops. I am a resident of Auckland of close on (10 years, anil remember when butchers' shops had no windows and the meat was exposed to dust, flies and germs, our milk was delivered in the old float and tipped into our billy, water drawn from wells, fish hawked round in the old barrow; in fact, all our food was roughly handled, and yet we had less disease in our generation than you have to-day with all the mollycoddling precautions, and I am a standing and living advertisement of that generation, not having had a day's illness during my life, with no thanks to the "modern hygiene ideals." OLD AUCKLANDER.