"Ice Cream Cone
Push Carts Dangerous," from the front page of the June 1, 1916, issue of The Review, High Point, N.C.
Did you ever stop
to think that the push carts selling ice-cream cones are a menace to the
public's health, or at least those who patronize them?
Take a dry, dusty
street, and all streets are in this condition when there isn't frequent rains,
and when the ice cream can is opened and the cones and cream exposed dangerous
dust naturally gets into the cream and on the cones and this is taken into the
stomach, possibly laden with disease germs. No matter how careful the seller is
such things will happen.
The City Council
should require glass covered wagons and every safeguard thrown around such
wagons or refuse to grant this disease-breeding wagons license to do business.
Greensboro has refused to grant the ice cream cone push carts license for
another year and HIgh Point would do well to take the matter in hand.
The best thing is
to refuse them license. We are not careful enough of our people's health
anyway.
The Review has
repeatedly called the City Council's attention to such matters of health. We
have tried to get a monthly analysis of the milk and butter supply just like
all other towns who care something for the health of its citizens, towns which
place the public's health beyond dollars and cents.
It looks like High
Point is retrograding in this all important step and surely it is high time we
were doing something.
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