PURE FOOD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 2

PURE FOOD.

EVILS TO GUARD AGAINST. (BY TEIiEGHAFII.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT).! Auckland, June 3. In an article on the adulteration, of food, the "Herald," which has interviewed a number of doctors on the point, remarks:— Adulteration is not, the only evil against which the careful housewife has .to guard in connection with the daily food supplies of tbo household.. Protection from contact with ,various\ forms ■of dirt is a ivory important point. One of the doctors, . with whom the reporter conversed on the- sub- , ject, said: "There is a great deal'of dirt about our streets in summer, and all sorts of food should be carefully protected, mora ' particularly meat, fruit, and vegetables, . that are eaton uncooked. It seems to me," ho said, "to he a .relic of barbarism that meat should be hung up in an v open shop and exposed to all the dessicated disease germs, that are blown, off the street by-the wind in millions.- No doubt a great many of theso germs are destroyed-in cooking', , but the danger is greater in regard to fruit and vegetables that are to. be eateji without being cooked. One-does not think of washing apples and pears, but wo ousht to do so. Tho washing that the salad vegetables . 1 ' get in the-summer time is hardly sufficient to onsure them being-..free from the germs that aro flying about,-.-. Then, again, .take our milk supply," the doctor continued. "I think it is certainly better now than it has ever been before,:but still, if one went to the trouble, of collecting the sediment at the bottom of every glass-of-.milk, tho aggregate in the country would amount to.probably somo tons of manure ..in the course of a year. Many of tho frequent cases- of gastro - enteritis that occur are, I honestly bejieve, traceahlo to the milk,;..not to" any impurities in the milk itself, but to outside germs deposited in it. The Health Departs ment is hard'at work, and we aro ing, but there is still much to bo donerbeforo wo can . claim perfection in these matters." -