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i Xij_ Twenty-third Annual Report of the
There were issued uring the year, 2,223,464 tags and
1,007,552 stamps of the different denominations, represent-
ing a value of $30,449.57.
Division of Foocl Control Work. Professor Allen re-
' ports: The lines of work in which this Division ·has been
engaged are:
· (a) A summary of the meat survey of the State for
publication and the co-operative work with the State Board
of Health to establish a practical remedy, in the way of
municipal abattoirs and ordinances, for the very unsatis-
_ factory conditions of disease and filth that were found in ·
a majority of the slaughtering houses of the State. The
study of such problems is specifically contemplated and
provided for in section 11 of the Kentucky Food and Drugs
Act. There are, however, a number of Hagrant abuses
found in the slaughtering houses, which we are preparing
to prosecute. The Act provides for the establishment of »
regulations to carry out its provisions with respect to the
unsanitary practices which will be deemed violations
_ thereof, and it provides that such regulations shall be
collaborated in connection with the State Board of Health.
(b) A very general clean-up can be announced as the
result of the work in the bakeries throughout the State,
and there has been an elimination of the ingredients known »
to the bakery supply trade as "dope" and consisting of J
such materials as artificial jellies and jams; artificial colors ~ i
to make products look like they contained the yellow of
V eggs; artificial egg substitutes, containing such materials _
as soap bark. The appeal from the verdict given by Mag-
istrate Berry, in Louisville, against a baker who had been }
warned several times and whose place was finally prose- %
. cuted, because of ivery unsatisfactory conditions, has been I
passed by Judge Gregory of the Criminal Division of the `.
Jefferson Circuit Court and the warrant and the law were 5
sustained on every point raised by the counsel for the de- A ·
fendant. This decision was of particular importance in
that the Court holds that the Legislature intended the Act ,