Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — TO INSPECT ALL FOOD HANDLERS [ARTICLE]

TO INSPECT ALL FOOD HANDLERS

|H. E. Barnard, State Food and * Drug Commissioner, Issues an Order. HADE EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1 Proprietors Who Do Not Comply With ' Law Will Be Reported to Commissioner as "Bad” and Penalty Enforced. Indianapolis.—H. E. Barnard, state [food and drug commissioner, issued an (order, effective October 1, which is intended to result in compulsory medical examination and successful passing of such examinations by all persons employed in food-handling establishments In the state. The medical inspection of such food (handlers has been going on in some localities of the state for some time, hut the state-wide order is intended (to compel such inspection and the 'elimination of all persons affected "with communicable disease, or carriers of such disease, from food-hand-ling occupations throughout the state. The order to all inspectors of the state board of health carries a penalty for proprietors of such establishments who fall to comply with the law’s provisions. Wherever such an employer does not comply with the law hereafter his place of business will be reported as “bad” to the state food and drug commissioner, and he will thereupon net on a recommendation from the inspector that the place be “condemned” by the state board of health, the condemnation “to remain in force until the required medical certificates have been filed with the local health officer.” The order follows:

“Beginnning October 1, 1916, you .will give special attention to the inspection of the following types of food producing and distributing establishments, to-wit: Bake shops, groceries, hotel kitchens and dining rooms, restaurants, ice cream parlors, soda fountains, saloons and other places where food or drink is prepared qr served.

“In addition to the customary sanitary inspection, you will require of the proprietor if he personally engages in his business, and all clerks, cooks, waiters, bus boys or other employees who come in contact with or handle food, a medical certificate showing such proprietor or employee to be free from infectious or contagious disease. “You will make personal inquiry to determine whether the proprietor or employees have at any time suffered from typhoid fever, and if you find such to be the case, you will determine whether or not the necessary clinical •tests have been made to prove th absence of the bacillus typhosus in the excretions of the persons examined.

“In the event you find that the proprietor or any of his employees as specified above has no certificate of health, or having had typhoid .ever, is not proven to be a noncarrier, you will score the establishment ‘bad’ and recommend thaft the state commissioner of foods and drugs issue a ‘condemnation’ order against it, to remain in force until the required medical certificates have been filed with the local health officer.

“This order is issued in conformity with section 9 of the sanitary food law and the rule of the state board of health, adopted in January, 1916, ordering employers engaged in the production and distribution of food to require a certificate of good health of all employees. “H. E. BARNARD, “State Food and Drug Commissioner.”

Who Suggested Name? The honor of suggesting the name of Indianapolis for the Indiana state ,capital will be divided between Samuel Merrill and Jeremiah Sullivan, so far as William C. Langdon, master of the pageant of Indiana, to be produced at Riverside park, October 2 to 7, is concerned. Several students of Indiana history have given their opinions to Dr. Harlow Bindley. They disagree as to which suggested the name.

“In view of what Doctor Lindleyhas received,” Langdon says, “it seems to me that the weight of opinion is in fa(vor of Judge Jeremiah Sullivan of Madison. On the other hand, Judge Sullivan himself said that Mr. Merrill [was influential In getting the name adopted, and I have decided to represent the suggestion as having been made by the two together, giving Judge Sullivan the preference.”

Among those who came to the defense of Jeremiah Sullivan when the state archivist wrote for opinions was Reginald H. Sullivan, great-grandson of the pioneer statesman. He said in a letter that it had always been unjderstood in his family and by all his-

torians who have written on the subject that Jeremiah Sullivan first suggested the name. Mr. Sullivan quotes from Col. W. R. Holloway’s history of Indianapolis, which relates that the legislature on January 6, 1821, confirmed the choice of the state capital made by the commission and called the new city “Indianapolis.” Afterward, Holloway’s history records, Judge Sullivan gave the following interesting account of the christening of the town: “I have a very distinct recollection of the great diversity of opinion that prevailed as to the name which the new town should receive on legislative baptism. The bill (if I remember rightly) was reported by Judge Polk and was in the main acceptable. A blank (of course) was left for the name of the town that was to become the seat of government and during the two or three days we spent in endeavoring to fill the blank there was in the debate some sharpness and amusement. “General Marston C. Clark of Washington county proposed ‘Tecumseh’ as the name and earnestly insisted on its adoption, and when it failed he suggested other names that I have forgotten. They were all rejected. A member proposed ‘Sewarron,’ which met with ho favor. Other names were proposed, discussed, laughed at and voted down and the house, without coming to an agreement, adjourned till the following day. I had gone to Corydon with the intention of proposing ‘lndianapolis’ as the name of the town, and on the evening of the adjournment, or the next morning, I suggested to Samuel Merrill, the representative from Switzerland county, the name I proposed. He at once adopted it and said he would support it. We called on Governor Jennings, who had been a witness of the amusing proceedings of the day before, and told him what conclusion we had come to and asked what he thought of the name. He gave us to understand that he favored it and would not hesitate to so.express himself. When the house met and went into convention on the bill I moved to fill the blank wdth ‘lndianapolis.’ The name created quite a laugh. Mr. Merrill, however, seconded the motion. We discussed the matter fully, gave our reasons in support of the proposition, the members conversed with each other formally in regard to it and the name gradually commended itself to the committee and was accepted.”

Fare Unit Decision. That towns and cities in Indiana, through which interurban lines are operated, are passenger units and that no more than 5 cents fare can be charged within the limits of the unit is held true by the public service commission, which has decided a case at Elkhart, through a letter written by Charles A. Edwards of the commission to Rev. F. J. Jansen, a Catholic priest there.

Mr. Edwards said the Elkhart situation was the only “case of the kind” he knew of in the state. He said everywhere in the state a fare of's cents is charged for all travel within the city or town limits. Whether the passenger boards the car some distance from the central station of an interurban company in any city or town, or whether he boards it at the station, makes no difference in his fare from that city to another city and makes no difference in the 5-cent fare charged between points in the same city, Mr. Edwards said. If the passenger leaves the car beyond the central station of an interurban, but still within the city or town limits to which he has paid his fare, no additional charge can be made, Edwards said. Rev. Mr. Jansen complained to the commission that the interurban car on which he was accustomed to travel to the rectory of the church stopped at the Elkhart central station, and that the conductor insisted on collecting additional fare from him if he rode on a few blocks to the rectory.

State Fair a Success. The finery of the state fair gave way to wreckage. Tents fell, exhibits were packed up and caravans of live stock moved out of the gates for home or for other fairs, while the state board of agriculture loaded its books on a truck to move its headquarters back to the state house. Members of the board were gratified over the results of the week.

About 90 per cent of the fair’s premium money went into the hands of Indiana exhibitors, although there was keen competition from other states in all live stock departments. J. Crouch & Son of Lafayette led the list of winners with $1,427. C. M. Bottema of Indianapolis won $250 with his dairy cattle; M. K. Gleason of Indiunapolis was about the largest winner of farm products, his premiums amounting to $462. The Hope Poultry Breeders’ association of Hope led in poultry winnings with $307. T. S. Simpson of Downers Grove, 111., won $513 on his ponies. Mrs. Minnie Smith of Converse was one of the largest winners in the show of table luxuries, her awards amounting to $lO5, while Mrs. Ben Hardin of Indianapolis won $73 on pies and cakes. Baby Plague-Victim. Remington.-—The death of the seven-year-old son of John Walters of this county from Infantile paralysis is reported. Cases «u-« also reported at Patton, this county, and Burrows, Carroll county.