UNWASHED VEGETABLE FOOD.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3323, 16 August 1879, Page 1

UNWASHED VEGETABLE FOOD.

Whatever advantage*, real or ithagin* ary, may attend the consumption of raw vegetables, it is abundantly evidto^t that peril must beset the use of tMs dSseirijjtion of-food, unjess the articles'eatett^art most thoroughly _ cleanjed. ' ;.Fpr':. ytiaj&Sto, water cresses grow ml •halt6^stife|imi|>r ditches, and are apt to befoule^.^v^Cjg"* .which are known to „be infested with intestinal vermin*;,SfUjthe cresses so produced are not scrupulously washed—and nothing less than the most painstaking brtfsuing übde^f tffafor; can cleanse them—they are more than likely to convey into the stomach, entangled in their leaves or attached to' the^ i^iaa^ Uie oVa; of tapeworms and,.other paraslfts. fhis. is ; a '.distasteful and disgusting reection, '.but. it .is one JbaUnjseds^o^e made, because there cannot be any reasonable dpubt that cresses, salads, and fruit growing low,, oa.- the ground are exposed to every form of contamination, aud some, at the,inspaxjtjf|i,^ith which they jnay bo defiled willpsoJwWy act as vehicles for 'the transmiMQ»rf>f ■pui«iite"dtte«sei^Bofr ftiiewry«ilwgMiißVJ, bnt dangerous.—Lancefer *:;