Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — Aged Ice Regarded Safe for Health [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Aged Ice Regarded Safe for Health

Philadelphia. —The Natural ice Association of America, including dealer! in natural Ice in Philadelphia, has begun a “campaign of education’’ to inform the public that aged ice is free from bacteria. Bacteria are the little wlgglera In water that get into the insides of peo pie and often give them typhoid, diphtheria and other diseases. A quart of water contains a million or two of these bacteria. Some of them, not all, are dangerous to health. But the natural ice men say—fend •they produce scientific argument to support their assertions—that although the bacteria are frozen into the fee when the water congeals, they are killed off bo rapidly that in 24

hour 90 per cent, of them are dead and within a few weeks the ice li sterile—absolutely free from bacterial life of any kind. One Philadelphia natural Ice dealer said recently: “Natural ice is cut in December, January and February. Seventy per cent, of It is used between June and September, when it is any where from sixteen to twenty weeks old, and when the bacteria are frozen in it, and have been without air, motion, warmth and food from four to five months." , - A paper recently sent out with the indorsement of the national body of natural ice dealers Bays; ’ “The buyer of Ice should really be as anxious to obtain, and the dealer in natural ice as quick to advertiiL. that he sells old ice, as the green grocer" is to seek trade on the strength of the freshness of his tomatoes or peas, and the butter and egg man on his new laid or freshly made products. Old io« is pure ice, sterile ice, free from bao teria harmful or helpful." ' »