CLEANLINESS IN BUTCHERS" SHOPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 94, 18 October 1910, Page 2

CLEANLINESS IN BUTCHERS" SHOPS.

Whan Mr. H. C. Cameron, Produce Commissioner for the New Zealand Government, criticised last week at the conference of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association, tho manner in which meat is exposed for in this country, he was referring to a subject which has frequently exercised the minds of medical officers in London. Mr. Cameron urged that no -meat should be sold, unless protected by glass from the contamination of the streets. j A well-kno\vn medical officer, in supporting this view, says that two years ago the London County Council secured the passing of an Act which pxirporfced to deal with the question. In its wisdom the House of Commons saw fit to strike out a clause under which glass windows for butchevs' shops might have become a necessity. "At the present time, I am informed, jnanv butchers find it necessary tO6pray sulphurous acid over their meat, to p receive it. This certainly gives it a nice red colour, but I do not know that the practice has anything else to recommend ic. Even with the preservative the meat does not keep so long as it would if kept under proper conditions.. "In this matter we have something to learn from Vienna. There, 1 believe, they have a, regulation requiring that all foodstuffs shall be protected from dust and contamination of any kind, while street stalls must be covered with gauze. "Here in London one often sees meat being carted through the streets without any covering ; and I have seen drivers hitting on carcases which were obviously intended for food. This ought not to be, tint 1 if medical ofncei'3 of health were mined with wider pow««* the public , jrould clearly benefit* '•*•