TWO
SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR
SALEM. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1924
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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. ! -
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., .'. 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.
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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.
None of us had much to say
after leaving the house for 1 guess
we were all thinking of home and
our mothers and wondering if
they were happy too this Xmas
eve.
Asiatics Regard Idea Anom-
aly "Losing witn Honor
LONDON', Feb. 8 (Mail).
Sports are hygienic but it is
doubtful if they are an unmiti
gated blessing for the Japanese,
said B. J. Wilden-Hart, professor
emeritus at the Imperial Japanese
university, In a paper before the
Japan society recently.
"It is very difficult," he said,
"for an Asiatic to grasp the idea
of 'login? with honor' or 'being
defeated but not disgraced. The
old attitude of the fatalistic and
feudalists east was 'Win or die. "
'At any rate ; nobody accuses
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