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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1924)
TWO SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1924 TWO SECTIONS TODAY PART PAGES 1 to 8 jf. i i l V i 1 f I i 4 FOOD POISONING AND ITS RELATION TO CANNING METHODS Th tragic outbreak of botulism that recently occurred at Albany has so focnsed the attention of the entire State of Oreson or. the problem as to regard it in the light of gravest concern. Recent epldem i logical (observations have shown that thte term "food poison ing" should probably be limited to the intoxication of B. botullnls and the poisonings by food con taminated with the organisms of ne para-typhoid-enteritidis s'oup and perhaps other bacteria. Out breaks of food poisoning are ex plosive in character, usually short of duration and frequently disre caded, unless there are spectacu lar features or the outbreak is bo tulism, similar to the oaurrence at Albany. It can be noted by the discus sion in the foregoing paragraph that there are two types jot food poisoning. The symptoms are - distinct and; tfcey should be easily recognized and dirfererliaied. The first type'i. popularly known as 'ptomaine" and is rhar:u-ieri.?il by an incubation period of hp it ally 4 to, 6 hours, practically no mor tality, nausea, vomiting, abdomi nal pain, prostration, diarrhoea, and rise olf temperature. This type is due to food previously con taminated with the bacteria of the paratyphoidj group through the agencies of ji carrier, contact with polluted waller and milk 'supplies. rodents, ana otuer animals. In this type always suspect ffeshly x cooked or "warmed over' food, eKpecially if there has been some previous period of heating. These i bacteria are comparatively- easily 1 destroyed by heat, therefore canned foodd are not involved, and they rarely ever cause spoilage of food. ! - I lot ul ism i ., .'. In the majority of cases of bo tulism the incubation period is from 24 to j 4 8 hours, thoug the onset may occur earlier or mav 1k delayed. The characteristic evi dences of the disease recorded in botulism are iiioteil in their usual 'order as follows: Delayed onset. marked muscular weakness, gas trointestinal symptoms, disturb ances of vision, with double vision, loss of ability to swallow or talk, constipation, rapid pulse, and sub normal temperature, rarely any pain, death from respiratory fail ure, and a mortality rate of some times 100 per cent. In this type of food poisoning always suspect preserved foods and meat products such as saus ages. The food causing outbreaks of botulism has often been ob served to be spiiled and house wives are warned not to taste su-h foods. ltel.it inn of Canning to Rolulism The majority of outbreaks of botulism have been due to under heated or underprocessed foods. It is fundamental ths.t methods of cauning must - insure uff icieuf heat penetration and make allow ance for altitude, and the acid or alkaline concentration of the pro ducts. Sanitation by the thor oughly cleansing, proper storane, and the use of fteslt products is primarily essential. There have been no outbreaks of botulism traced to common ially canned food since February 1!22, while there-have been in the same per iod twenty-eight ,utbreaksattri l uted t. home canned foods. it would , appear that the precautions taken by the commercial t annins? industry have been efficacious. The minimum temperature used should -be 240 degrees F.. but a complete knowledge of the abov requirements would replace scien tific methods for empiricisms. To summarize: When in doubt of your "food destroy it or boil it thoroughly before serving. HONGKONG AND CHRISTMAS, 1923 To begin with I am sure this bit of composition will not be eu phonic to the ears of our learned critics, but being a commoner 3 among the common this so called Asiatic dope 'will no doubt interest t few. j In the following lines I will en 1 ieavor to enlighten a few of our readers of the beauties of the Ori ntal City of Hongkong and to tell of an experience a few of us boys had on thu ,day before Xmas. 13 I'vktv; www. " j ... . that the majority of the people in UJ3;A. picture Hongkong as one of China's largest cities. Are they right First of all this allusion must be cleared and so, this bit oi history. Hongkong, an island having about 25 square miles in area, vises out of the coastal sea of South China. The City of Vic toria situated! on the southern side of this island, is known as Hong kong. Just across a wonderful mountain sheltered harbor on the mainland is the suburb of Vivtorja, or tfie City of Kowloon as it U called. Both Hongkong and the Cityof Kowloon ,are the property of the British and under British rule. . If you are a mathematician wjth 1 an imaginative mind you may be able to picture a city layed out the way Victoria is. Hongkong Island is just the remains of some pre historic rumpusaused by some i distant volcano. ' In other words it is the peak of some great sub merged mountain of days gone by. Credit is certainly due to the engineers who attempted a city on this stht and also the authors of hucIi a beautiful park likfr product. Figure ' for yourself a mountain rising from sea level to a height of 1,800 feet with a base about a bait mile long. Here on this incline theso engineers have built what is ; rightly known i-as the Pearl of the Orient. Great wide well paved streets, modern build ing's, beautiful public parks and a scenic railway reaching to the mountain's height. The foreign section is Just one grand park, with its beautiful driveways, lanes and up to date homes. These beautiful homes look out over the business section of the city and on what is com monly termed one of the world's best barbrs. At night this hill city Js one glorious twinkle of a million electric lights and one feels greatly enchanted by its beauty. , Atii mn into this beautiful city a harbor we dropped anchor the day before Xmas, , I9Z3. ; On th afternoon of the 24th, a bunch of us set out to see the tdpht nt Honekonir Island. After the usual, preliminaries of wetting ties we hired a large tour ing car for our trip. The beauties nt ttita aemi-troDical island are mad accessible by a concret high wow nntner 11 n fin A down ' its W J A UUhIHB T length. I cay up and down for ' m tit wav starts at "sea level 'and rises to about 1,600 feet ele- ration. It beta a good 20 miles around this driveway .we 'spent nttnnt two hours on the trip. found an immense summer hotel, used exclusively by the well to do tourist3. This hotel is located on one of the prettiest spots in Hong kong. As the tourist sits out on the spacious verandas overlooking tennis and gold courses in perfect condition, and the open smiling sea he realizes that this alone is well worth his trip to China. The interior of this hotel is decorated, perhaps beyond the average humcn's imagination with its "Oriental draperies and furnish ings. Curious idols can be found throughout the halls and we are told these are . lit up at night. Some of these are quite hideou3 enough to give you cold chills, but the tourist thinks these are all the go, and it is to these idols the hotel attributes a liige part of their success. After finishing: our tour of the Island we stooped in a restaurant to obtain our daily ration, and here we met a few shipmates from a destroyer then in port. During the confab one of the boys sug gested we call on an Amercan lady who had lived in Hongkong for the last 23 year3. No sooner said than done when we found our selves oour way to her home. On our way up we purchased a huge bouauet of flowers as a slight remembrance. The fellow with the flowers remained outside while the rest of us went streaming in. After being introduced around we called to the flower bearer to make the presentation. I wish you could have seen her face wl. saw they .were for her. She tried to thank us but words failed her and all she. could do was just sit down in a chair and stare at the bouquet. When she looked up there Were tears in her eyes and she told us it had been a long times since she had been remem bered by, her own people. , Then she told us she was leaving the Orient for good next year and was going to return to, her home In Indiana. She played the piano for us while we attempted tj sing all the old songs we knew and then bidding her a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year we took our leave. 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