AN AWKWARD BLUNDER.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 131, 1 December 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

AN AWKWARD BLUNDER.

i « A friend of mine, says a writer in , " St. Paul's " who lived in thecountry - was commissioned by the editor of - the " Era" to go to the theatre and r write a criticism of the play after- > wards, which necessitated his sleeping , in London. He accordingly wired , the fact to his wife, and when he got 9 home next day, he was confronted x with and asked to explain his telei gram, which ran : "Am staying in a town with Eva."

THE DANGERS OP ICE CREAM «. Dr. Alfred Harris, medical officer to the parish of St. Mary, Islingt n. recently caused samples of ice creams sold in the North of London to be taken, and also personally inspected the premises at which Italians manufactured the article. Generally (the doctor reported to the Public Health Committee of the Vestry), the commodity was manufactured in close yards, and the articles used in the manufacture were flour, milk, eggs, sugar, and flavouring essences, for the most part stored in evil-smelling sleeping rooms. In no instance were the shells of the eggs that had been used broken. They were pierced at each end, and then blown by the mouth. He was* informed that the perfect shells were sold to the proprietors of shooting galleries. Three samples of water taken from the barrows, and three samples of ice cream, were submitted to Dr. E. Klein on Sept. 18. Dr. Klein reported that the first three samples were much turbid by small flocculi in suspension, in each case there was a flocular white precipitate. A microscopic examination revealed in each of the samples an abundance of microbes. The reports of both medical men were the subject of discussion, and it was suggested that representations should be made to the Local Government Board, urging them to introduce legislation to empower local authorities to register the vendors of these articles, as there was nothing in the Public Health Act to prevent such sale.