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MARYLAND. 



From Dr. James A. Stuart, secretary of the State Board of Health: 



The amount of information the State Board of Health is able to give iu regard to 

 the adulteration of food and drugs is very meager, owing to the very limited appro- 

 priation made l>y the State legislature for this purpose. Since my appointment in 

 April I have employed two inspectors, one for marine and the other for animal 

 foods. The general results of such food inspections as we have been able to p rose- 

 cute have been remarkably good for such limited opportunities. There are local 

 laws, both State and municipal, but too vague and without support of inspectors. 



A national food and drug law would be of great use and benefit to this as well as 

 all other communities in this country. 



From Dr. Tonry in the Baltimore Sun : 



If you really want a fruit jelly which is made wholly and entirely from raspber- 

 ries, strawberries, or currants do not expect to find it commercially, but procure the 

 fruit and make it for yourself. The best commercial jelly imitations are made 

 from good apples to which is added glucose, sugar to sweeten, tartaric acid to give 

 tartness, and the composition is transformed into fruit jelly by the addition of the 

 sirups after which it is named. 



A common article is made from the cores and parings of apples and the addition 

 of glucose, tartaric acid, aniline colors, and a little salicylic acid, and the compound 

 is converted into a fruit jelly with the addition of a little of the fruit sirup to help 

 the illusion. The cost of this article by the bucket will not be over 4 or 5 cents a 

 pound, while the better quality will cost 12 to 15 cents. In this line of goods, when 

 you purchase in the market or at the grocery store an article to which the maker is 

 ashamed to attach his name, you may expect to find, as I did iu an article purchased 

 in one of our markets, very much glucose, no sugar, aniline enough to give color, 

 and no raspberry sirup. The article cost 15 cents a pound and. had 011 the package 

 a printed label with the words, "Raspberry jelly." Only that and nothing more; 

 but the vendor assured me that the article was really a pure raspberry jelly, and as 

 I find it not always advisable to appear to know too much I did not express my 

 doubt of the manifestly false assertion. Personally, I do not object to pure apple 

 butter with a little pure glucose and some raspberry sirup, sugar, and tartaric acid. 

 It would be easier and better to adopt a name which would give a more correct idea 

 of the compound, but I think I would draw the line, between good and suspicious 

 articles of this class, at apple skins and apple cores, second or third grade glucose, 

 and aniline colors. 



From Dr. E. T. Duke, secretary of board of health, Cumberland, Md. : 



There are some adulterations in certain essences, laudanums, paregoric, etc., sold 

 in the country stores. These goods are purchased in large cities. The adulterants 

 are not injurious to health, I think. 



From Columbus V. Enrich, druggist, Baltimore, Md. : 



I am unable to give you any reliable statement as to adulterations of food, drugs, 

 etc. That it prevails to a very great extent is, I think, oiearly the case, and the evi- 

 dence of that to my mind is the advertised rates at which man y goods are offered and 

 sold. As men do not work for work's sake and glory, it is reasonable to suppose that 

 goods offered far below rates at which goods can be bought at firsthand, are prepared 

 for the special rates at which they are offered. This, however, is not the information 

 you wish, but the general condition is all that I am aware of so far as direct evidence 

 will go. 



Dr. Chancellor, secretary of the Maryland State Board of Health, in 

 an address before the convention of the National Food and Dairy Com- 



