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June 2, 1908 CLAREMORE WANTS CHILDREN.
Oklahoma Town Sends for Kansas City Boys and Girls.
The Chamber of Commerce of Claremore, Ok., has offered to care for a number of Kansas City children free in order to demonstrate to the people of the West that the noted mineral waters there have curative properties superior to any in the West. The following letter was yesterday received by Mayor Crittenden;
June 1, 1908
Hon. T. T. Crittenden, Mayor, Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir; -- The fact has never been extensively advertised, but at the city of Claremore, Ok., there flows from artesian wells the most wonderful curative water yet discovered in the world for the cure of skin diseases of all kinds, eczema, rheumatism and stomach trouble. In ever city in the United States there are hundreds of poor children suffering from skin diseases and afflictions of the eyes, whose lives are torture and misery. The parents of these children cannot afford to send them to this watering place for treatment, consequently, knowing the hundreds of cures that have been performed by this wonderful water, the Chamber of Commerce and the good women of Claremore, Ok., desiring to relieve the suffering of these little ones, make you the following proposition:
Through the Young Woman's Christian Association of Kansas City, the Chamber of Commerce of Claremore, Ok., desires that you select twenty poor children, afflicted by any form of skin disease, eczema, sore eyes, rheumatism or stomach trouble, send them to Claremore, Ok., and the Chamber of Commerce and the good women of Claremore, Ok., will take care of them, see that they are given every are and treatment of this wonderful curative water.
God, in His infinite wisdom, having sent us this wonderful curative, we firmly believe that it is our duty to place it at the disposal of as many of the suffering and afflicted as possible. It is our intention to make this same offer to every large city of the United States, and we respectfully request that you place this matter in the hands of the Young Women's Christian Association of Kansas City and that they at the earliest possible date make known to the Chamber of Commerce at Claremore, Ok., their desires in co-operating with us in this humane work All we ask is that the city sending these poor children pay their railway fare between their home city and Claremore, Ok., and return; the citizens of Claremore will do the rest.
Claremore, Ok., is on the main lines of the Rock Island-Frisco railway system and the Missouri-Pacific Iron Mountain route direct from Kansas City. I am, sir, your obedient servant,
P. C. LAVEY,
Secretary Claremore Chamber of Commerce, Claremore, Ok.Labels: charity, children, health, Mayor Crittenden, organizations, railroad May 23, 1908 FELL PARALYZED ON THE STREET.
Miss Nellie Burns Had No Warning of Coming Affliction.
When a young woman fell on Tracy avenue between Eight and Ninth streets about 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, it was at first believed that she had fainted. The ambulance from police headquarters was called, and Dr. W. L. Gist examined her. She had been suddenly paralyzed on her left side. She gave the name of Nellie Burns, 21 years old, and said she lived at 21 South Mill street, Kansas City, Kas. She has been employed at the Swan laundry, 556 Walnut street. She said she felt weak and fell. That was her first intimation of trouble. Miss Burns refused to go to the emergency hospital, and was taken home by a man who had stopped in an automobile.
"It is a most unusual case," said Dr. Gist. "It is not unusual that persons should become suddenly paralyzed, but it is extremely unuual that a young woman 21 years old should be so afflicted.Labels: doctors, health, Kansas City Kas, Walnut Street May 8, 1908 TWO GIRLS ESCAPE FROM PEST HOUSE.
UNFUMIGATED, THEY ARE WAN- DERING ABOUT THE STREETS.
POLICE LOOKING FOR THEM.
ONE GIRL IS 12 YEARS OLD, THE OTHER IS 13.
Edna Sickler and Grace Kaufman Elude the Guards and Go Visit- ing, No One Seems to Know Where.
If you should meet two girls, one 12 years old, light hair, blue eyes with a squint in her right eye, wearing a red calico dress and red coat, and the other 13 years old, dark hair, eyes and skin, and wearing a gray coat and dark skirt, it might be advisable, if you are not equipped with a fumigating apparatus, for you to climb a tree or jump in a well until they have passed.
Girls of this description took French leave of St. George's hospital in the East Bottoms yesterday about noon. The city's smallpox patients are quarantined there. The 12-year-old girl is named Edna Sickler. Her home is at 6415 East Fourteenth street and her mother and two small brothers, 3 and 7 years old, are still in quarantine. Grace Kaufman is the 13-year-old. Her home is at 2307 East Eighteenth street and her mother and a sister 11 years old are still at the hospital.
"The girls have been down here nine days," said Dr. George P. Pipkin, who has charge of the hospital. "Both of their cases were very light, but they are endangering the public as they left here wearing the same clothes in which they came and were not fumigated. I have given their descriptions to all the police stations and want them returned here at once."
With five other children the two girls were playing about the hospital grounds about 11 o'clock yesterday. Telling the other children that they were going up the river bank to gather flowers they disappeared. As that is a custom, nothing was thought of the incident until the girls failed to show up for dinner at 11:45 o'clock.
Fearing that some accident had happened them the mothers went in search but got no trace of them. Then the matter was reported to Dr. Pipkin who, with Morris S. Sharp, a guard, made a search in the immediate neighborhood. That, too, was fruitless. Sharp then took the wagon and drove toward town. From a man working near the Crescent elevator in the East bottoms he learned that the girls had passed there, seemingly in a great hurry to reach the Fifth street car line, just about noon. Then the matter was reported to the police.
From the mothers Dr. Pipkin learned that both girls had been given a nickel in the morning. They wanted to buy a candy at a little store nearby, they said. The doctor also learned that the girls had taken particular pains to wash up in the morning, and one of them complained that her dress was not clean.
Sharp came to the city and went to the girls' homes, but they had not shown up there. When he went to a flat near Twenty-eighth and Wabash avenue, where the Kaufman girl's father worked as janitor he was informed that Kaufman had been gone two days. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman are separated. When informed that her husband had gone, sh said she feared that the girl was with him. The father and three sisters at the Sickler girl's home said they would inform Dr. Pipkin if Edna came home.
Men at the smallpox hospital are watched very closely, but it has never been deemed necessary to place a guard over children. They have always been given as much freedom as possible as it was known to be good for them. These two girls are the first to ever run away from the institution. The police believe the girls are still in the city and hope to land them back at the hospital today.Labels: children, clothing, doctors, East bottoms, Eighteenth street, health, hospitals, smallpox, Twenty-eighth street, Wabash avenue April 9, 1908 SMALLPOX CLOSES THE PARK SCHOOL.
PRINCIPAL CRIPPEN IS TAKEN WITH THAT DISEASE.
He is Sent to the Pest House -- One Pupil Had Smallpox and Was Permitted to Return to School Too Soon.
The Park school, located at Twenty-fourth street and Central avenue, Kansas City, Kas., has been closed by the board of education on account of the prevalence of smallpox there. In the school are six teachers and 200 pupils. The step taken by the board was the first announced last night.
About three weeks ago Marguerite Gardner, 11 years old, was taken down with the disease, but little attention was paid to the matter by the authorities of the school, it is said, so when she reported for classes two weeks later she was admitted by the principal, C. I. Crippen, and allowed to take her accustomed place among the scholars. Several members of the Wallenberg family, living in the vicinity, were also affected, but they, with the exception of a grown daughter now working in a Kansas City, Mo., department store, were quarantined in the home.
Wednesday, April 1, Principal Crippen became violently ill while hearing a class at the school. He was taken at once to his home at 2313 North Fifth street, where the attending physician pronounced his case smallpox and he was removed to the pest house. Then it was the school board decided totake measures preventing the further spread of the disease in the Park school, so without waiting to inform the board of health the assistant principal was instructed to close the doors until it could be thoroughly fumigated.
"In my mind, action in this matter was not taken soon enough," said W. J. McCarty, a teacher who lives near the Park school last night. "Matters of this kind should be taken under the advisement of the school board as soon as reported, and should be reported by the principal without a moment's delay.
"It is evident that Marguerite Gardner was allowed to return to school too soon. Perhaps that was her parent's fault, perhaps the blame rests on the principal, the board of eduation or the board of health, if they knew of the cases. I understand all the affected ones are improving."
This is the first school to be closed because of smallpox in Kansas City, Kas., for several years. District 44, where it is located, is an outlying one. Yesterday afternoon all the class rooms were fumigated after a careful cleansing with lye water, and they will be fumigated several more times before the close of the week. Members of the school board say pupils may return there next Monday for recitation.Labels: children, health, Kansas City Kas, schools, smallpox April 4, 1908 HADLEY MUST GO TO A DRIER CLIMATE.
ADVICE OF PHYSICIAN TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
May Make a Public Announcement of His Retirement From Poli- tics Soon -- Loss a Blow to the Party.
Attorney General Hadley's deferring his announcement is causing some of the Republican managers here to pick up hope again. A week ago it was almost conceded that the attorney general would retire from the race for governor owing to ill health. He was examined in Kansas City on Saturday by two physicians, and on being asked the result as related to his future public movements, the attorney general said he would in a few days make a public statement. Yesterday a political and social friend of his made the prediction that when the announcement would be forthcoming it would say that Mr. Hadley has decided to quit politics.
"I know," said this informant, "that right now letters have been sent to friends in Texas, toward the end of finding a suitable place to which Mr. Hadley may go to rebuild his strength and conserve his health. I am told that under no circumstance will he be permitted to follow the bent of his own ambition or comply with the demands of his Republican friends to the extent of making the race for governor, and with that information comes the added hint that he may not even be allowed to remain in Missouri till the end of his present term of office."
Mr. Hadley's lungs were found on examination, so it is said, to be in good condition, but his physical state is such that pneumonia or other such ailment attendant upon public speaking, and the vicissitudes of a political campaign in fair and foul weather, could not be repelled, but., to the contrary, would be invited with perhaps disastrous consequences. The immediate friends of the attorney general are genuinely alarmed over his health and are anxious to get him to a drier and higher altitude, where he could be built up and put in shape to return to his home in a few years, when he would still be a young man.Labels: health, Herbert Hadley, politics March 29, 1908
TYPHOID GERMS IN SPRINGS.
Dr. Cross Says Al Such Sources of Water Should Be Filled.
"They City's Drinking Water" was the subject of Dr. Walter M. Cross's talk before the City Club at its luncheon at the Sexton hotel yesterday at noon. "The danger is in springs and wells," Dr. Cross said. "Every well in the city that receives its water from the surface should be filled up. They are dangerous as breeders of typhoid germs. These springs and wells are responsible for most of the typhoid fever that exists in our city. Only two wells in the city have water that is absolutely safe and they are artesian. All others should be condemned."
Labels: City Chemist Cross, health, hotels, organizations March 1, 1908 WOMAN DRINKS CARBOLIC ACID.
Mrs. J. T. Woodford Was in Ill Health and Despondent.
Mrs. J. T. Woodward, 50 years old, the wife of J. T. Woodford, formerly an elevator man at the city hall, drank a half ounce of carbolic acid at her home, 1121 Harrison street, about 6 o'clock yesterday evening. A call for a physician was sent to the emergency hospital from this address at 10:20 o'clock last night. Dr. R. A. Shiras answered the call and found Mrs. Woodford in a semi-comatose condition from the effect of the acid. She was revived and may recover.
Woodford had not called in a physician before he sent the call to the emergency hospital. He told Dr. Shiras that he had not thought it necessary, knowing that his wife had swallowed only a half an ounce of the liquid. He thought that she would recover without the assistance of a physician, And he would thus escape the notoriety.
Mrs. Woodford is said to have been despondent and in ill health.Labels: city hall, emergency hospital, Harrison street, health, poison, Suicide February 10, 1908 HE WOULDN'T BE VACCINATED.
So David Kelley Was Arrested and Spent the Night in Jail.
Rather than be vaccinated along with a crowd that the police and assistant city physicians rounded up last night at the Helping Hand institute, David E. Kelley, a tinner from Minnesota, allowed himself to be arrested and spent the night in the police holdover. He said that he had a family dependent on him and considered it dangerous to be vaccinated.
Kelley, who is about 45 years old, siad he was looking for employment. He had paid 15 cents for a bed at the Helping Hand institute only three hours before the raid.
Kelley said that vaccination had never "taken" on him, but that he once had a kind of "cow pox." He was booked and locked up for refusing to be vaccinated, on complaint of Dr. Cook, an assistant physician.Labels: doctors, health, Helping Hand, jail, smallpox, visitors February 6, 1908 HE IS OFFICIAL VACCINATOR.
Dr. Frank A. Denslow Will Do This Work for Board of Health.
At a meeting of the board of health yesterday it was decided that to be within the law it would be best to have no volunteer physicians in the city's vaccinating squad. One man, Dr. Frank A. Denslow, was appointed for that special work. Chief Clerk C. H. Cook will direct his movements.
Mr. Cook, with Victor Ringolsky, an inspector and an officer detailed by the chief will accompany Dr. Denslow on all of his tours. So many cases have been turning up within the last few days from "bunk" houses in the North End that several of them, from which cases have been taken, will be visited tonight.
"As soon as a case of smallpox arises in a house, be it public or private," said Mr. Cook, "the inmates of that house shall be vaccinated at once."
It is understood that if there is any refusal on the part of landlords to admit the vaccinating squad it has the power to immediately declare the building in quarantine and keep it so until all inmates are vaccinated and the premises thoroughly fumigated.
Eugene Benton, a negro who said he lived in the East Bottoms and worked in Armour's packing house, walked into the emergency hospital late last night and asked for "some medicine for a hurtin' in my neck." When examined it was discovered that Benton was suffering from smallpox. He was sent to St. George's hospital.Labels: board of health, doctors, East bottoms, emergency hospital, health, North end, smallpox February 1, 1908 PREVENT SMALLPOX SPREAD.
Seventy-Five Men at Salvation Army Quarters Vaccinated.
Marshalled by C. H. Cook, chief clerk of the board of health, Drs. Paul Lux and H. A. Lane and R. A. Shiras went on another vacccinating tour last nigth. Only one place was visited on account of the inclement weather. That was the Salvation Army Citadel, at 1300 Walnut street, and it was selected on account of the fact that a virulent case of smallpox was discovered there yesterday morning.
Seventy-five men were found in the smoking room and sleeping apartments at the Citadel, and all were vaccinated. One old man said he would leave the city before he would "stand for the scratch." When Patrolman August Metsinger and Victor Ringolsky, an inspector started with him to the Walnut street station, however, he changed his mind quickly.
The number 13 played an important part with the man who had smallpox at the Citadel. The number of the building is 1300, the man had room 13, had been in the room 13 days and he "broke out" on Friday, January 31, which is 13 reversed. He was sent to the St. George hospital for treatment.
A man dressed like a prosperous mechanic appeared at the board of health late yesterday and asked to be examined. It was soon discovered that he was suffering from smallpox. He had arrived here on a Missouri Pacific train from Omaha, and was en route to Boston. He was at once transferred to St. George, Kansas City's smallpox hospital in the East Bottoms.Labels: board of health, doctors, East bottoms, health, hospitals, railroad, Salvation Army, smallpox, Walnut Street January 30, 1908 MORE MEN ARE VACCINATED.
Health Officers Caught 157 in North End Rooming Houses.
An impromptu vaccinating expedition was organized at the office of the board of health last night. Drs. H. A. Lane and George Dagg, Harry Heaton, a druggist; Victor Ringolsky, an inspector; and Charles H. Cook, chief clerk at the board of health, constituted the raiders.
The marauders paid their first visit to the Helping Hand annex at 308 Main street, where ninety-two men were cornered and successfully vaccinated. From there they made a rapid flank movement and succeeded in corralling sixty-five more "suspects" in 301 Main street. Patrolman Peter Campbell went along in blue and brass to represent the majesty of the law. One suspicious case was found at 308 Main street. The man is now isolated in the detention room at the emergency hospital until his case can be investigated.
Last Saturday night over 350 men were vaccinated in the North End rooming houses. It is the intention of Dr. Sanders to keep up this gait until every man in that section of the city has been rendered immune -- as far as possible. Few objected last night, and a poke in the ribs by Campbell helped them to make up their minds.Labels: board of health, doctors, druggists, health, Helping Hand, Main street, North end, police, rooming house, smallpox January 29, 1908
HUNT GERMS IN STREET CARS.
City Chemist Has Been Making Tests With Culture Plates.
Are the street cars a menace to public health, and do they carry germs that are producers of disease?
With a view of determining this point the city pure food department and City Chemist Cross have been making tests with culture plates. During the rush hours on the street cars, morning and night, these culture plates have been placed in the Brooklyn, Vine, Rockhill, Troost and Indiana cars. The plates are of glass, and floating germs adhere to their surface.
The exposures show the glasses to be completely covered with atoms of variuos descriptions, but whether these are impregnated with disease germs it will take from three to five days to develop. The plates exposed in the Vine street cars showed the greatest accumulations.
Dr. W. M Cross, the chemist, says that the air is filled with disease-carrying germs which settle on the clothing and shoes of passengers and in that way are carried into cars, and if cleanliness is not maintained that the germs enter the systems of passengers and cause fevers and illness of various degrees.Labels: City Chemist Cross, health, streetcar January 28, 1908 THEY'LL FIGHT CONSUMPTION.
Negroes Band Together to Battle With the White Plague.
Six hundred negroes, eager to fight the white plague, met last night at Allen chapel, Tenth and Charlotte streets, and organized a colored people's branch of the Society for the Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Mayor Beardsley and Dr. R. O. Cross addressed them, explaining in part the plans of the city for a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Among the negro speakers who followed, several declared that there will be vigorous work done now to educate their own people who are living in crowded tenements as to how to fight tuberculosis. Also it was said that the negroes will contrubute their part financially to the proposed $10,000 fund to be given to the city by way of destroying the idea that it is a city charity for paupers.
The negro society's officers are Dr. J. E. Dipple, president; W. C. Houston, secretary; Professor R. W. Foster, treasurer; Rev. F. Jesse Peck, chairman of the executive committee.
Others who spoke were: Dr. E. B. Ramsey, Dr. W. L Tompkins, Dr. A. E. Walker, Dr. J. E. Perry, Nelson, Crews, and Mrs. Cora Calloway, a trained nurse.Labels: Charlotte street, churches, City Chemist Cross, health, Mayor Beardsley, organizations, race, Tenth street October 12, 1907 NEGROES WANT OLD HOSPITAL.
Are Afraid No Arrangements Will Be Made for Them Now.
Kansas City negro physicians are again agitating to a slight extent the old proposition to have the present hospital building made into a separate department for negroes, with negro physicians and nurses in charge. Notwithstanding the agreement realized some months ago by a committee composed of Drs. T. C. Unthank, J. e. Perry, J. E. Dibbs, J. S. Shannon and J. N. Birch, representing the Negro Medical Society of Kansas City, and Aldermen Young, Eaton, Greene, Woolf and Mayor Beardsley, city council hospital committee, the negro doctors are somewhat dissatisfied and may ask that the council reopen the matter.
By the terms of this agreement a negro ward is to be established in the new general hospital with internes and nurses of that race. Here, it was promised, the negro physicians might take their patients and hold suitable clinics, with quarters ample for all their needs.
There is a well defined suspicion among the negro doctors that in the bustle of rearrangements this agreement will be forgotten.
"So far as we know," said Dr. Untank last night, "the promise of the council committee will be kept. But we have not observed any very marked degree of activity towards carrying it out, and many of us are inclined to believe we shall be left holding the bag when the readjustment is made. Just now if one of us has the amputation of a finger to perform, he must take his patient across the line to Kansas City, Kas. Naturally we are very much worried as to what will be done for us hereafter in this matter. We can not see even yet any real reason why we should not be given the old hospital as we asked at first.
"At least 90 per cent of the negro cases in Kansas City are handled by negro physicians. We have no clinical facilities whatever, and but few facilities for taking care of those of our race who may be in need of suitable hospital care -- at least for those of the 90 per cent we have under our charge. We shall be satisfied if we are given the quarters at the new building we were promised. I am sure, however, another attempt will be made to secure the old building for our purpose."
A number of councilmen w ho were asked about the matter evaded the question yesterday, declaring they had too many present problems to worry them to bother about this until it became necessary. It is generally believed that the new building will be ready for occupancy in January or February.Labels: doctors, health, hospitals, Kansas City council, Mayor Beardsley, race October 11, 1907 SAYS HE EATS POKE ROOT.
Remarkable Habit of Man for Whom Police are Caring.
Patrolman Hall found a man sitting on the sidewalk at Twenty-eighth street and Wabash avenue late Wednesday night. He was very weak and incoherent and the policeman sent him to headquarters for "safe keeping."
When the "safe keepers" were released early yesterday morning this man, who gave the name of Calvin A. Miller, 40 years old, was still unable to take care of himself. Dr. W. L. Gist examined him,, and Miller said he had been chewing poke root.
"I gathered the herb myself," said Miller feebly, "and became so fond of it that it became a necessity. It has undermined my constitution so that I can not work any more."
Miller had been acting as janitor of the flats near where he was found, but the eating of poke root had so incapacitated him that he could not work. Although only 40 years old, he looks and acts like an aged, broken down man. Dr. Gist sent him to the general hospital for treatment.
"I have seen and heard of many persons who use drugs," said the doctor, "but this is the first case of a person being addicted to poke root that I ever heard of."
The pokeberry plant is a common herb, of the genus phytolacca. It is non-poisonous, possessing emetic and diuretic properties. The tincture made from the root is is extensively used in the treatment of disease. Poke root may be found in profusion in all parts of Jackson county.Labels: doctors, Dr. Gist, general hospital, health, narcotics, police, Twenty-eighth street, Wabash avenue October 11, 1907 REFUGE FOR CONSUMPTIVES.
Tuberculosis Society Officers Approve City's Site for Building.
Dr. R. O. Cross, president and C. B. Irving, secretary of the Jackson County Society for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, accompanied the board of public works and the work house committees from the lower and upper houses of the council, to Lee's Summit yesterday afternoon, and approved the plans for the proposed sanitarium for consumptives to be built in the city.
The site of the proposed sanitarium is on the west forty acres of the 140 recently purchased by the city for the location of a work house. The ground to be used for the "white plague" sanitarium is on a slope with a southeast exposure, and has excellent natural drainage. The city contemplates erecting a permanent building for the segregation and treatment of consumptives.Labels: City Chemist Cross, health, Kansas City council, Lee's Summit, public works, workhouse September 27, 1907 WIPE OUT TUBERCULOSIS
OBJECTS OF A SOCIETY FORMED LAST NIGHT.
Building and Endowing of a Tent Colony and a Sanitarium Among the Purposes of Promoters.
Fresh Air, Fresh Milk and Fresh Eggs.
That's the motto of the Jackson County Society for the Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis, organized last night. The leading men of the city -- doctors, ministers, priests, lawyers and officeholders -- attended the meeting and promised their assistance in putting the society in shape to do real work.
The programme of intentions outlined for the next few months is:
The building and endowing of a tent colony and a sanitarium near the city for the treatment of tuberculosis patients.
The employment of nurses to visit in the homes of consumptives and teach the people how to live properly when afflicted with the disease.
The enactment of laws by the city council to compel the reporting of all cases of tuberculosis, and to clean and disinfect all houses in which consumptives had lived or died.
The distribution of literature and the holding of public meetings to educate the people in healthy living -- fresh air, baths and wholesome food.
"Kansas City is twenty years behind Eastern cities in dealing with tuberculosis," said Dr. C. B. Irwin, one of the organizers of the society, last night. There is no fumigation, no reports of deaths from the disease, and practically no effort to check the spread of the plague. I know one house in this city from which there men have been carried out dead from consumption in the past five years. It's easy to know how the last two got it. As fast as one family moved out another moved in.
"Since in 1880 New York city began fumigating houses in which tuberculosis patient had died, began educating the people and commenced a systematic fight upon the disease, the death rate from it had fallen 50 per cent. The same is true of Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
"In the Western cities one death in every seven is from the white plague."
The directors of the society, chosen last night, are: Rev. Father W. J. Dalton, Dr. E. W. Schauffler, Judge H. L McCune, Mayor H. M. Beardsley, Frank P. Walsh, R. A. Long, Rev. Matt S. Hughes, Hugo Brecklein, Dr. St. Elmo Sauders, Congressman F. C. Ellis, Mrs. Robert Gillam, Ralph Swofford, Albert Bushnell, F. A. Faxon, George F. Damon and J. W. Frost.
The others are: Dr. R. O. Cross, president; Dr. C. B. Irwin, secretary, Albert Marty, treasurer; John T. Smith, Rev. Wallace M. Short, J. W. Frost and E. A. Krauthoff, vice presidents; chairman finance committee, Mrs. Kate E. Pierson; chairman soliciting committee, Mrs. E. T. Brigham; chairman legislative committee, J. V. C. Karnes, and publication committee, Dr. E. L. Stewart, chairman; Dr. E. L. Mathias and Clarance Dillon.Labels: City Chemist Cross, Congressman Ellis, doctors, Frank Faxon, health, ministers, organizations September 14, 1907 WHAT CAUSES DEATH RATTLE.
Emergency Physician Explains While Working on Dying Man.
It was while William Montgomery, of Joy and Liberty streets, who was fatally shot by his wife, lay dying in the emergency hospital last night, that one of the physicians was asked what caused the "death rattle."
"There are two possible causes," the physician replied. "One is the lodgement of saliva in the throat and the other is the flabbiness of the throat muscles just before the approach of death. the relaxation of the throat muscles, along with the falling of the tongue into the throat, is the most common cause of the rattle. If a dying man was turned over on his stomach, there would be no rattle to his throat.Labels: death, doctors, emergency hospital, health, Liberty street August 9, 1907 WARNING AGAINST WELLS.
Health Department and City Chemist Tell of the Danger.
A warning has been issued by the city health department against drinking well water.
"It would save a life every week in the year if the city would close up all wells and springs in the residence and business part of the city with the exception of three artesian wells," said Dr. W. M. Cross, city chemist. "There are fifty or sixty lives lost every year by reason of typhoid germs in wells. Healthy people can drink impregnated water without harm, but let those same people get a little under the weather and typhoid will get them. There is no reason for a well or a spring in a modern city. If there is doubt about the city water there are good filters, and always there is the tea kettle to boil the water in. The city should pass an ordinance to fill up the wells and to bar all springs."Labels: City Chemist Cross, health August 2, 1907 BUT THEY WERE TOADSTOOLS.
Book Agent Ate One, Taking It for a Mushroom.
W. S. Bundy is a book agent. He is 37 years old and lives at Lister and Linwood avenues. He has a "neat little patch of ground," to use his own words. Bundy stepped into his back yard and saw what looked like a patch of "pretty, round, fresh mushrooms."
"I believe they are toadstools," said his wife.
"Well, I'll just taste one," said Bundy. "If they are toadstools I'll find it out. If they are not, you can cook them for supper."
Thereupon Bundy made his word good by "tasting" one. That was 9 a. m. The pursuit of his business found him on the third floor of the R. A. Long building about noon. Not until then did Bundy realize that he had eaten a toadstool. He was so completely prostrated that the ambulance from the emergency hospital called and took him away. When he reached the hospital he was unconscious. Dr. Paul Lux worked with him all afternoon. At 5 o'clock he was considered out of danger.
"Telephone my wife not to cook those toadstools," were his first words.Labels: food, health, illness, Linwood avenue, Lister avenue July 29, 1907 HE BREAKS HIS FAST
HARLAN SUCCUMBS TO BEEF- STEAK ON THIRTEENTH DAY.
Weight Is Reduced From 275 to 237 Pounds -- Finds That His Ap= petite Is Easily Ap- peased Now.
P. H. Harlan, the faster, with the newly formed "never eat" cult on his hands, has capitulated on his thirteenth day. But now, though he has given his stomach carte blanch, he find it next to impossible to eat.
Harlan believes it was not necessity that caused him to break over, but the fact that his first intent was to make two weeks his goal. "And as that time drew near I found that I couldn't argue myself into going beyond it," he said yesterday.
"Instead, Saturday I commenced to get fiercely hungry. I fought off the idea of surrendering until midnight. Then I felt I was going. As a last resort I thought I might walk it off. Charlie McGannon here at the office, who has been my adviser throughout the fast, went along and tried to talk me into sticking a few days longer anyway, but at 1 o'clock beefsteak had won the argument. In fact the beefsteak's victory was so complete that I tipped the waiter in advance to have the order railroaded. And then, to think, I couldn't eat it. I actually got down less than a dozen mouthfuls. Stranger still, this so satiated me that at 9 o'clock this morning, when I tried toast and coffee, that wouldn't go down. The toast actually stuck in my throat. For 2 o'clock dinner I thought I'd try chicken. Chicken is the one thing that has all my life been most tempting to me but I could only nibble at it."
This experience of his inability to eat convinces Harlan that he would have found it easy to continue fasting, and he thinks, proves that any one who succeeds in fasting two weeks need not fear that his body is suffering for food.
His loss in weight in the thirteen days was 48 pounds, almost an average of 3 pounds a day, his weight being reduced from 275 to 237 pounds. Dr. I. J. Eales, the Belleville, Ill., physician who fasted the entire month of June, lost 71 pounds, going in thirty days from 235 pounds down to 164 pounds. He was the inspiration of Harlan and Hogan's fast.
Cliff Hogan, an automobile dealer next door to J. C. Duffy's where Harlan is employed, started to fast two days before Harlan, but stopped at the end of nine days. He was suddenly tempted into eating by seeing a plate of doughnuts,, and unlike Harlan found himself eating ravenously before he knew it.
Harlan's weight fell off more rapidly in his last two days which were cool than in the intermediate days of his fast when extreme heat helped make him drink a great volume of water. The first four days his loss averaged six pounds a day.Labels: food, health July 25, 1907 DRUGGISTS OPPOSE IT
SAY LAPP'S ORDINANCE IS TO GIVE DOCTORS JOBS.
Import of the Measure Is to Require Prescriptions for Sale of Opium, Cocaine or Any of Its Preparations.
"That ordinance is evidently intended to make business for young doctors who have but little practice under the guise of making it impossible for people to buy opium, cocaine or any of its preparations," declared a delegation of druggists that visited the city hall yesterday to protest against the passage of Dr. J. G. Lapp's ordinance regulating the sale of these drugs.
Alderman Lapp, the author of the ordinance, is a physician and in defense of his measure says it is the only way that the sale of opium and cocaine can be checked.
The ordinance provides that no druggist nor pharmacist or any other person shall offer for sale opium or any of its preparations, except upon the written prescription of a regularly licensed practicing physician.
"Should the ordinance become effective," declared a druggist, "it would be impossible for a person in an emergency to get a little laudanum for a sick person without first hunting up a doctor and paying him a dollar to write a prescription. If this isn't an imposition I do not know what else it can be termed. There are other preparations from opium that are a family medicinal necessity, and to ask its users to pay $1 to a doctor every time they want a prescription filled is an outrage."
The ordinance stipulates that no prescriptions for opium or any of its preparations, excepting Dover's powder or paregoric, shall be refilled.
The penalty for a violation of the ordinance is a fine of not less than $1 nor more than $500.
Alderman Lap says that he has been induced to present this ordinance on account of the many evils growing out of the unrestricted sale of opium and its preparations by druggists. He claims that it is not a shaft at the better class of pharmacists, but at those whose principal stock in trade is opium and cocaine, and who make a pretense of conducting drug stores. He feels, he says, that no legitimate druggist would be in any wise injured by the enforcement of the ordinance. The doctor may yet amend the ordinance so as not to prohibit the sale of laudanum in small quantities without a written prescription.
The druggists also call attention to the fact that there are many patent medicines that contain opium or the preparations thereof, and they represent that if the Lapp ordinance becomes a law they will be prevented from selling these medicines without a prescription.Labels: doctors, druggists, health, narcotics July 25, 1907 FALLS TO TEMPTER
DOUGHNUTS PROVE TOO GREAT FOR ONE OF FASTERS. HUNGRY ALL OF A SUDDEN
CLARENCE HOGAN, WHO NOW WEIGHS ONLY 201, IS EATING. P. H. Harlan, Disgusted With Com- panion's Action, Says He is Going to Keep Up Abstinence From Food -- Eating Only a Habit, He Says.
Clarence Hogan, who conceived the idea of fasting for two weeks in order to reduce his girth and at the same time to improve his health, yesterday fell because he looked too long through a baker's window at some delicately browned doughnuts.
Hogan, who is the manager of the Crescent Automobile Company, immediately sought out his favorite restaurant, near Fifteenth street and Grand avenue, and ordered milk and doughnuts.
"I thought about it a long time," said Hogan. "I hated to break my compact with P. H. Harlan, who is also fasting, because I told him what a great idea it was, and I sat and looked at the doughnuts a long time before I ate them. But then I decided I was not really breaking my compact, because doughnuts can hardly be called actual food, anyway, and I decided to eat them.
"Well, after that there was nothing to it. I left the restaurant, and walked up the street toward my shop. I had not been hungry for several days; but now I was ravenous. The bill boards began to look good to eat, and I think that if I had been able to walk clear to my automobile shop at Fifteenth and McGee streets, I would certainly have eaten the tires off one of the machines. It was all over. I couldn't stand it.
"When I went back to the restaurant I immediately ordered ham and eggs, a steak, cantaloupe, and all the vegetables on the menu. The water' eyes stood out when he heard my order, but I was hungry and didn't care.
"No, I didn't mind it at all when I was actually fasting," concluded Hogan. "It was only after eating the doughnuts that I got hungry. I think fasting is a good idea, and I may try it again. But not right away."
Harlan of the Duffy Undertaking Company was very much disgusted at Hogan's fall from grace.
"Huh!" said Harlan. "I understand he's eating regular now. No, of course it wasn't necessary for him to eat He simply didn't discipline his appetite. He's intemperate as far as food's concerned, that's all. Personally, I am going to fast until I reduce my weight to the 200-pound mark. There's no use in a man my size eating after he has got out of the habit. For eating is all a habit, after a man has so much surplus flesh. I am going to keep u the fast."
Harlan has now succeeded in reducing his weight from 275 pounds to 240. Hogan managed to get down from 227 pounds to 201.
"And that's enough," says Hogan.
Hogan and Harlan began the fast July 16.Labels: Fifteenth street, Grand avenue, health, McGee street, undertakers July 24, 1907 WOMAN BITTEN BY WORM.
Faints After Knocking Wooly Crawler From Her Neck.
Mrs. C. F. Thompson, 1626 Washington street, was bitten on the left side of the neck by a worm yesterday afternoon, and immediately a place about the wound swelled to almost the size of a baseball. Mrs. Thompson had been in her yard caring for her flowers and walked into her kitchen, when she felt a sharp stinging sensation on the neck.
She placed her hand to her neck and felt a woolly worm about an inch in length. Knocking it from her neck, she fainted. Dr. George F. Berry, 609 West Sixteenth street, was summoned. The worm that bit Mr. Thompson is believed to be what is known as a fever worm, and its bite, though not necessarily fatal, is said to be of a poisonous character.Labels: doctors, health, poison, Washington street July 20, 1907
FAT IS ROLLING OFF.
ONE OF FASTING MEN LOSES 24 POUNDS AND THE OTHER 14.
Voices Are Getting Weak, but P. H. Harlan and Cliff Hogan Are Sticking to Abstinence --- Cigarettes, Too.
"I've lost twenty-four pounds in just four days," announced P. H. Harlan, the fasting undertaker, as he stepped from the scales last night, and Cliff Hogan, who had a day and a half the start of me, has lost only fourteen pounds."
"It was a mistake to say I wasn't hungry up to yesterday, for I was, but that was my third day and with it my hunger really left me, as it did with Hogan and with Dr. I. J. Eales, the Bellville, Ill., physician, whose fourty day fast inspired us to start."
Dozens of telephone messages, picture postcards and letters are pouring in on the two fasting neighbors at Fifteenth and McGee streets. Tempting invitations to dine on spring chicken and inch-and-a-half sirloins tumble out of the mail along with serious inquiries from other fat men who are anxious to see the experiment kept up and who will themselves try it if found practical.
Clifford Hogan, who manages the Crescent Automobile Company, was not at his place of business until evening, for he had worked all day at moving his household goods from Mount Washington to Twelfth street and Wabash avenue. He found the unusually hard work on a very empty stomach did not exhaust him. But his voice was weak, and so was Harlan's, though the latter says his wind is better than it has been for years.
Harlan, whose hands and one leg have daily become puffed up, says that since the second day of his fast they have not swollen. He did a great deal of walking yesterday and is so delighted with the results that he may not stop short of the month limit set by Dr. Eales.
Harlan, too, has the title of doctor, having been a practicing dentist in Chicago and Wichita until the size of his belt became so great that he could not get near enough to his dental chair to reach the patients. Then he returned to the undertaking employment, where the patients are not so nervous, anyway.
When Harlan banteringly discusses with Hogan the length of their fast, the automobile man recounts that a week's fast was all he promised himself for sure, and after the first two days he really planned that all the money he saved on meals for the week he would spend for Sunday dinner in breaking the fast.
But he thinks he will probably stay with Harlan on a two or three weeks' fast. He is remembering now that while he was soldiering in the Philippines and ill he lived for five weeks on malted milk alone, and possibly he has visions of tapering off from actual fasting on such a diet, but his running mate stands firm for absolutely no nutriment.
"My second and third days," said Hogan, last night, "every time I passed a restaurant or smelled food, I had a sensation in my jaws as of having mumps. But that left when my hunger disappeared.
"I'm using the fast to break the cigarette habit, too, which was fastened on me. I have switched to cigars, which I could not enjoy before. I always inhaled cigarettes, and I know that if I did now it would make me sick. I suppose that proves that I'm getting down from abnormal to normal, and from depravity to healthfulness.
"Having been reared on a farm, I know that fat in a hog's body is merely the storage of nutriment for use in case a period comes in which no food is available. Then a hog can live off of his fat without injury or inconvenience. And so I see no reason why Harlan and I should not live to advantage for a time off our surplus supply."Labels: cigars, health, Twelfth street, Wabash avenue June 22, 1907 KNIFE TO ALTER DISPOSITION.
Operation on Dewey Marcuvitz Next Monday Morning.
Lewis Marcuvitz, clothing dealier who lives at 15 East Thirty-second street, the father of Dewey Marcuvitz, now held in the detention home as incorrigible, has consented to allow the boy to undergo an operation upon his throat with the hope of remedying the boy's disposition. Dr. E. L. Mathias and a surgeon, whom the boy's father will select, will operate next Monday.
Dewey, who is only 8 years old, has twice been arrested for stealing horses and has been arrested for other offenses. He is an intelligent boy for his years, but has been pronounced incorrigible by the court officers. Dr. Mathias believes that his disposition has been made nervous and melancholy by reason of throat trouble and hopes that an operation will make him a good boy.Labels: children, detention home, doctors, health June 6, 1907 HIS BODY STILL FOR SALE.
EDWARD MURPHY BESIEGED BY SYMPATHIZING VISITORS.
He Receives Much Advice and De- clines a Possible Offer of Mar- riage -- His Case Hopeless, Says Examining Doctor.
Edward Murphy, who left the Jackson county poor farm with the firm intention of selling his body for enough money on which to live a few days at his own expense, is still at the Helping Hand Institute. Many people called to see him yesterday. Most of them called to cheer him up.
"One fellow took me to see Colonel Scott of the Salvation Army," said Murphy. "But he as the wrong idea. I nave never said I was going to commit suicide. I only want to sell my body for $5 or $10. The purchaser may do with it as he sees fit. My hope is to be put out of the way by some painless method, however."
Dr. O. E. McKillup, physician for the institute, examined Murphy yesterday and pronounced his case hopeless. He has epilepsy, partial paralysis, rheumatism and heart disease. While Murphy was in front of the place last night a negro in the garb of a minister approached and asked to be directed to the man who wanted to sell his body. When Murphy was pointed out the man said in ministerial tones:
GETS BELATED INFORMATION.
"Dear brother, I have been directed to you by the Lord. I read of your intentions in the papers, prayed over the matter and the Lord sent me here."
"Is that so?" asked Murphy. "What'd he tell you to say?"
"That there was hope for you, brother," was the reply. "I bring a message of hope to you. Happiness and health await you."
"Well," replied Murphy with a drawl, "all I've got to say is that you've been an awful long time finding it out."
A woman called at the Helping Hand during the day with a propsition that actually startled. She was a small woman, not good looking, probably 40 years old and modestly dressed.
"Is it true that he really will sign a contract to sell himself?" she asked.
"Yes," she was told, "but he prefers to be put out of the way when he as lived up the purchase money -- buying his own bed and board for a time."
"Is he good looking?' she asked timidly, "I hear that he is only 40 years old. Is he incurable? Don't you think that the proper treatment under different conditions would benefit him -- that eh might get entirely well? Do you think that he would mind if a woman bought him and --"
"What would you like to do with him?"
"I would like to see him first. If he suited me -- my tastes, I mean, I might spend a little money on him and possibly get him in condition. He might be a very different man if cured, you know, and --"
THE ETERNAL INTERROGATION.
"Would you marry him, then? Is this what's on your mind?" she was asked.
"I have not come here to discuss that," she replied. "Stranger things than that have taken place."
"He's not in just now, anyway," the woman was informed. "A man took him out for a car ride a while ago. Will you leave your card or call again later?" the man asked her.
"I'm sorry," she said, sadly. "I may call again tomorrow."
When Murphy was told that a woman had been there to see him and that she was inquiring about his age and his looks, he laughed.
"I've had enough trouble in my forty years of life," he said, "without getting a woman mixed up in the case."
Tehn he talked to himself in an undertone: "Sell myself to a woman to do with as she pleased. Not much. Not for Murf."
Murphy said that half of his life was spent in the logging camps of Michigan and Wisconsin, where he waded in rivers of broken ice waist deep half the year. He said that his rheumatism started there. Murphy was reared a Catholic, but had never been confirmed until two years ago in Quincy, Ill., where he went for treatment.
"I got my first good meal in this place that I have had in a long time," he broke in. "Had eggs, too -- first I've seen in months. Had steak that I could chew, good bread, butter and coffee and onions. Yes, sir, I did."Labels: health, Helping Hand, ministers June 5, 1907 MRS. PATTERSON TO FIGHT ON.
With Three Lawyers She Will Resist Order of the Court.
Judge H. L. McCune yesterday made his ruling in the case of Robbie Patterson, whom a jury in the juvenile court found to be a delinquent child and to be neglected by his mother, Josephine Patterson, of Tenth street and Troost avenue. The court followed the advice of Dr. J. D. Griffith, who is the Pattersons' family physician. The mother was ordered to send the boy to the country for the remainder of the summer and in the autumn to take or send him to Arizona. The lad is frail, and, according to Dr. Griffith, is upon the verge of an attack of tuberculosis and unable to attend school. If the lad's health is improved after the winter in Arizona, the court said, he shall return to Kansas City and attend school.
Mrs. Patterson announced, after the decision, that she would take the case to the Kansas City court of appeals. She is wealthy and has three lawyers in her employ.Labels: children, doctors, health, Judge McCune, Tenth street, Troost avenue June 3, 1907 THIS CALLER HAD SMALLPOX.
Police Hustled Him Out and Sanitary Forces Took Charge.
"He walked right in, turned right around and walked right out again."
A young man, who later gave his name as Oran Cain, entered police headquarters yesterday afternoon and made inquiry for a doctor.
"What's the matter with you?" innocently inquired Lieutenant Michael J. Kennedy.
"Smallpox!" shouted a policeman.
Then several patrolomen scooted out a rear door. The lieutenant backed away and directed the caller to the emergency hospital. Cain was promptly sent to the pest house, and both the police station and emergency hospital were thoroughly fumigated.Labels: emergency hospital, health, hospitals, police, smallpox May 17, 1907
THE SMALLEST BABY.
TINIEST SPECIMEN OF NORMAL HUMANITY IN THE WORLD.
IS HAPPY IN AN INCUBATOR.
TWELVE DAYS OLD AND NOW WEIGHS TWO POUNDS. Lung Power Well Developed and Ap- petite Excellent -- First Baby to Bless the Thirteen Years' Married Life of the Coltons. GRANDMOTHER OF THE COLTON BABY AND THE BABY HIMSELF.
In a home-made incubator with a pagoda-like top at 406 White avenue there thrives the smallest baby in Kansas City. His name is Kenneth Crowder Colton and he is 12 days old today. He is believed to be the tiniest specimen of normal humanity in the world. Local medical authorities have searched their memories and can recall no other perfectly formed child so small. The baby weighed a trifle less than one pound eight ounces when he was born.
"But now! Well, just look at him," said the proud mother, Mrs. Ruby H. Colton, yesterday afternoon, as she lifted the pagoda-shaped top of the incubator, covered with warm flannel, and showed the little fellow sleeping peacefully. He was smiling, and occasionally he would crow in his sleep in the happiest way imaginable, unconscious that the very fact of his being alive is considered phenomenal.
"See how big he is! Why, he's getting to be a man already. He's a foot long and weighs two pounds. Think of that! When he was born he was only seven and one-half inches long, and he weighed a pound and a half. At his birth his head was hardly larger than a salt cellar, and now is as big as a tea cup.
"And his hair! It'll soon be long enough to cut. Do you see it? But, of course you do. You can't help it. It's an eighth of an inch long and dark, like his father's. His hands and feet are nearly and inch long each. He's perfectly developed in every way. See how sturdy his arms and legs are getting to be. I do believe you could almost feel his muscle."
Mrs. Colton showed a picture of her son. "Look at this, taken with his grandmother when he was 3 days old," said Mrs. Colton. There he is, wrapped in one of my smallest lace handkerchiefs. Notice how much too big for him it is. And you wouldn't think he could cry very loud. But when he is hungry I can hear him if I am out in the yard and the door is closed. Yes, his lungs are developing splendidly.
The baby's mother is small. She is about five feet four inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. The father, who is a carpenter, is five feet ten inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. This is the first child to be born to Mr. and Mrs. Colton. They have been married thirteen years.
The incubator which is Kenneth's home is made from an inverted kitchen chair, with most of the seat cut out and replaced by sheet iron. The baby lies on blankets over the sheet iron, and beneath it a lamp is kept constantly burning. The chair is wrapped in heavy woolen curtains. A square cover with a pointed top, made of flannel with wooden stays to keep it in shape, fits loosely enough over the top to allow ventilation. There is a large thermometer on the side, and the temperature is kept at 75. Kenneth is fed every three hours.
"He eats enough for a baby twice his size," said Dr. W. H. Crowder, the family physician. "I think there is no doubt he stands as good a chance to live now as any other normal baby."Labels: children, doctors, health May 31, 1907 FORTY-TWO CASES INOCULATED.
Test Made Last Night to Develop Tuberculosis Forty-two cows selected from dairies in the northeast part of the city were inoculated at 8 o'clock last night with tuberculosis virus by City Milk Inspector Wright and L. Champlain, veterinarian of the city pure food inspectors, for the purpose of determining if any of the herd are afflicted with tuberculosis. The temperatures of the cows treated were taken at three different times yesterday, the last shortly before the tuberculosis virus was injected. It takes twenty-four hours for tuberculosis to develop in a cow, and the real results of the tests made last night will not be known until tonight. Labels: health, Northeast, pure food commission, veterinarians March 18, 1907 MEASLES IS DYING OUT.
The Epidemic in Kansas City Has Reached Its Zenith.
According to the board of health, the epidemic of measles which has been sweeping over the city for the past three weeks has reached its zenith, and the daily reports of physicians show a marked decrease in the number of cases.
"Measles have had their day in Kansas City," reported Charles Cook, record clerk in the health department, yesterday. "A week ago as high as ten and twelve new cases were reported daily, but these have dwindled down to two and three a day. From a conservative estimate, I should judge there has been 600 cases of measles reported in the last forty days, but it is my opinion this does not represent all the children that have been afflicted. Measles is an old-fashioned disease, and old-fashioned mothers think nothing of being the doctor themselves and never call in a representative of the medical profession. It is these cases we have no report of, but if these mothers who applied home remedies only knew they were violating the law in not reporting to the board of health, they would have been more considerate. There have been very few deaths from measles."Labels: board of health, health March 18, 1907 WRIGHT MUST HAVE MONEY.
Before He Can Experiment on Cows for Tuberculosis.
"Before tests can be made to determine the prevalence of tuberculosis in cows," said A. C. Wright, city milk inspector, yesterday, "it will be necesary for my department to have an appropriation with which to buy the baccilus with which to make experiments. I have no funds for such purposes. They will have to come through the board of health and if the board meets Monday I will make a request for an appropriation.
"For the past two or three days with Dr. Lloyd Champlain, veterinarian of the pure food commission, I have been making inspections of the hundreds of dairies within the limits of the city and we detected some very suspiciuos appearances among many cows. I am not prepared to say that this was caused by the presence of tuberculosis."Labels: board of health, health, pure food commission, veterinarians March 3, 1907
HALF CAR OF BERRIES "OILED".
Food Inspector Uses Kerosene on a Shipment from Texas Food inspector Cutler anointed 262 crates of Texas strawberries yesterday with coal oil, to give them that rich, nutty flavor that is so unpopular with hasheries. Reading in the nespapers that the inspector was in wait for a car load of moldy berries, htere was a crowd in the Frisco yards yesterday when Dr. Cutler hove on the scene. They expected he would dump the berries on the ground, and they were ready with their pans and their boxes to sort the rejected fruit and effect some salvage. Instead of that, Dr. Cutler kept the berries in their crates, and gave the owner of the car till noon to sell the moldy berries, 262 crates out of a shipment of 440 crates, to some vinegar factory. When noon arrived and no sale had been made, the coal oil cans were brought into play. Although berries are seling from $3.50 to $5 per crate, and there were 200 good crates in the car, the consignee got stampede and sold the lot for $60, not quite half of what the freight on the shipment was. "Moldy berries are highly dangerous," explained the food inspector after the seizure, "although, it is the mold which makes viengar, and as vinegar the berries would have been all right. However, as fresh berries they would have been good for orders for several physicians and maybe an undertaker or two." Labels: Dr. W. P. Cutler, food, Frisco, health
March 2, 1907 HOSPITALS MUST HAVE PERMIT.
Judge Slover Upholds City Ordinance --Notice of Appeal Given
Judge Slover in the criminal court yesterday sustained the action of the police court in imposing a fine of $50 upon Dr. E. O. Smith for conducting a hospital in the city without a permit from the board of health. Dr. Smith gave notice of an appeal to the supreme court and says he proposes to carry the litigation to the court of last resort.
The Smith case is of considerable interest to all members of the medical profession who are maintaining private hospitals. Dr. Smith opened a hospital on North Wabash avenue several moths ago. A protest was made by people living in the vicinity of the institution and the police ordered it closed. An application was made to the board of health for a permit by Dr. Smith, but it was refused. He continued to keep the hospital open and was finally arrested by the police. He then instituted injunction proceedings against Chief of Police Hayes and the members of the board of health, asking that the be restrained from further interfering with him and his business. He withdrew his application for an injunction before it came to a hearing and brought mandamus proceedings against the board of health to compel it to grant him a permit for the hospital. This was heard in Judge Seehorn's division of the circuit court and the writ denied.
Later, Dr. Smith was arrested a second time by the police and fiined $50, which Judge Slover says he must pay. The validity of the city ordinance under which the board of heaalth is given discretionary poower in the granting or refusal of permits was raised before Judge Slover, but he held the ordinance good. I. N. Kinley, who was representing Dr. Smith, says he will take the case to the supreme court and see if that tribunal will hold that the city council has the right to delegate legislative powers to the board of health.Labels: board of health, circuit court, crime, criminal court, health, hospitals, Judge Seehorn, Judge Slover, Police Chief Hayes January 19, 1907
SHAM MARASCHINO CHERRIES.
Samples That Contain Coal Tar and Are Flavored With Peppermint. Maraschino cherries -- Dyed with coal tar and flavored with peppermint. Maraschino cherries -- Flavored with extract of wild cherry and dyed with nitric
amyl. Confectioners' Paste -- Colored with coal tar.
When the man with a thirst and 15 cents stands on the outside of the bar and wants a luscious red cherry in his cocktail he will hereafter say to the mixiologist: "A little coal tar flavored with peppermint." Again when the demure miss strays into the ice cream parlor and orders a dish of cream made tempting by a little bouquet of cherries, she will murmur to the waiter, "Those of wild cherry flavor and doctored with amyl." If she doesn't eat more than two or three of the cherries, she will not experience any disagreeable results, but if she goes over three there is every likelihood that she'll feel like summoning the doctor. Amyl will be the cause. The inspectors of the staff of Dr. W. P. Cutler, city pure food inspector, were out yesterday selecting promiscuously bottled and canned goods from diver stores, among the lot the alleged Maraschino cherries, which were labeled as such and the confectioners' paste. Maraschino is a pure and exquisite preservent, and when added to cherries makes it tempting and sought after by high livers. It is a tasteful and soothing adjunct to mixed drinks, and large quantities of it are used. Therefore the temptation to adulterate and impose on gullible humanity. City Chemist Cross made an analysis of the Maraschino cherries and brought forth the shams described. "What are you going to do about it?" Dr. Cutler was asked. "If the dealer from whose place these samples were taken has any more in stock he will have to paste on the label the word 'adulterated,' together with the names of the adulterations contained. The pure food law does not forbid the adulterating of food stuffs when the adulterant is not down right poisonous." Labels: City Chemist Cross, Dr. W. P. Cutler, food, health, pure food commission |
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