Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1911 — You Take a Chance When You Eat In a Cafe, Indicates Hurty. [ARTICLE]

You Take a Chance When You Eat In a Cafe, Indicates Hurty.

Under the heading, “Sights Not Quite Sanitary I Have Seen in First Class Cases,” Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, will publish a series of drastic arraignments of Indianapolis and Indiana cases in the forthcoming bulletin i>f the state board. The list in part follows; I have seen a waiter wipe his sweaty forehead with the towel he carried on hip arm for wiping dishes. I have seen knives, forks, spoons and tumblers, after having been used at the table, rinsed in greasy, yellowish dishwater and then wiped with a tea towel, which was an approach to rubber roofing In color. I have seen restaurant kitchen help pass their hands through their hair and then handle sliced bread. 1 have seen tyro mice jump out of a bread box, and the sliced bread therein sent to the table. 1 have seen a bowl of sngar spilled on the floor, then picked up with the hands and carried directly to the table. 1 have already probably seen too much and will cease with the observation that we eat heaps of microbes without receiving any harm, and then anon harm does result. The good of all this is to secure the co-operation of the people with the State Board of Health in some extra efforts it will presently put forth to remedy such evils as here are depicted. The state health official declared that in many of the instances cited, impure food had been served on the tables of Indianapolisr cases and restaurants, and declared that the larger cases here are as amenable to the charges as are ’ others. The state board will begin a crusade against such practices within the next few months, said Dr. Hurty.