A Thousand Women Are About to Storm City Hall Over Filthy Food
Organized Tacoma clubwomen, claiming a thousand members behind them, have investigated the city's kitchens and markets and found them unclean — and on Monday they march on the health committee to demand a pure-food ordinance.
The greatest flutter of skirts ever known in the city hall is promised for next Monday forenoon, when the club women of Tacoma will appear before the health and hospital committee to urge the passage of the new ordinance for pure food and clean food in Tacoma.
The club women's movement represents 1,000 of the most cultured of Tacoma's women, and they have been making an investigation of the food conditions in this city. They have discovered that much of the food served the people is not only unclean but in many cases is kept and produced under conditions absolutely filthy and outrageously unsanitary.
The women want this condition changed, and the ordinance prepared at their request is aimed to accomplish the result.
“They have discovered that much of the food served the people is not only unclean but in many cases is kept and produced under conditions absolutely filthy and outrageously unsanitary.”
A century before restaurant inspection scores were posted in windows, Tacoma's clubwomen did the inspecting themselves and carried the findings into city hall. The argument they made — that food sold to the public must be produced under conditions the public can see — is the same one behind every modern health department. What's changed is who is expected to do the counting.
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