This newspaper hates to tell it folks, but it must be told. L.G. Whitley, Chief Sanitary Inspector of the State Board of Health, swooped down on the hotels and restaurants in Elizabeth City this week and found them unspeakably bad, he says.
“I had to shut my eyes to keep from bringing a wholesale indictment against the hotel and restaurant business in Elizabeth City,” said Inspector Whitley. “If I rates them at all by what I found on my inspection Tuesday morning, I would have to give them a rating under 70 per cent, and that means that they are indictable under the law.”
But instead of hauling the hotel and restaurant men into court, Inspector Whitley gave them until Friday, October 10, to clean up. He will make another inspection this morning and he promises indictments without mercy in future if they don’t keep within the law.
“I am sure if you could look into the moldy, slimy, unsightly and unsanitary ice boxes in most eating places in Elizabeth City, you would never have the stomach to eat another meal in these places,” said the inspector. And said much more.
And so visitors to the Fair this week should be thankful that the Chief Sanitary Inspector came to town when he did.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Independent, Friday, October 10, 1924
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