This week's "Municipal Gazette,' for once in a way, Was truly exciting. The sudden and totally unexpected blacklisting of nine of the leading caterers and confectioners—prominent amongst them being the Astor House and Palace Hotels—for producing ice cream unfit for human consumption was a verity able bombshell. Thera will ba other shots to follow, for we have reason to know that some other samples also have failed to pass the test.. The history of this surprise attack is interesting. The Municipal Health Department has been handicapped for a long time through being short of the staff necessary to do all the work which it was believed necessary to undertake for the good of the ratepayers' internal organs. Recently, there has been an acquisition of strength, especially in the laboratory.
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