The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-17
THE FILTH WE DRINK
More Opinions on the Danger
we Invoke.
PEOPLE BECOMING ALARMED
DR.. Benedict says If the City Authorities do
not abandon the Camp then the Courts
Should be Invoked.

THE HERALD mail is incumbered with
letters concerning the camp in City creek
canon. 81 have moved into town." writes
one lady, ''to evade drinking the water
from open wells; now l am going back be-
cause l cannot swallow the city water"
An individual with John Hancock auto
graph exclaims exoitedly: ''Good God is
this real filth, or only political flths l am
a Liberal, but / couldn't stand sewerage in
NINE" Another person asks THE HERALD
to give the number of deaths in Salt Lake
City from diseases engendered by foul
ater since the camp in City Creek canon
was started. A postal card reads: 1.-The
filth we drink-it makes me sick to think
of it."
Common sense and medical opinions
agree that this camp is source of danger
to the health of the city. The political
hucksters who would rather see an cpl
demic sweep through the city than lose q
single district in the coming election real
ize the peril, and to soothe the feelings
of the people, they caused it to be pub
iished that DR.. Standard was one of the
members who with Mayor Scott visited the
camp and investigated its sanitary con-
dition, when they must have known, and
indeed did know, that DR.. STANDARD was
not one of the party. and that his eminent
authority was used to deceive and mislead
with malice aforethought. The president
of the Salt Lake Medical society is on re-
cord in condemnation of the camp.
ANOTHER VIEW.
The following letter on the same subject
is certainly disinterested and authoritative:
| Ifob 100
To the Editor SALT LAKE HERALD:
| DEAR SIR-In THE HERALD OF YESTERDAY I
notice an account OF the condition of the canp
most assuredly 1t is a menace to the health OF
any community drinking the water from the
creek.
Decomposing organic matter from the closets
and kitchen must pollute the stream. AS the
ground slopes precipitously they ought to be
placed at least 200 yards from the creek, as per
collation. of foul matters has been known to
occur at greater distances even than that.
water supply so contaminated must ulti-
mately induce high death rate from diarrhoea
dysentery, diphtheria and typhoid fever. might
mention by way OF example the city Of Bangor.
in Wales, England There the water supply
became impure from percolation of deoompos
ing matters into it. Typhoid fever and its allies
killed hundreds OF people in the city. When
the source of contamination was remedied the
epidemic ceased.
City creek ought to be kept pure, lest SINH.
lar calamity befall Salt Lake city. l am yours
ETC., SAMUEL HUGHES,
M B. Q. M Edinburgh University Member
Royal College of Surgeons, London, etc. etc.
DIR. BENED1or's VIEWS.
DR.. Benedict, one of the most prominent
and reliable physicians in the city, whose
wide experience with zymotic and other
diseases, qualitles him to speak on the sub
jec', said in response to the queries of
reporter yesterday: 1.-THE maintenance Of
this camp of sixty or one hundred men a.
the present location in the Gallon is men
ace and danger to the lives of our citizens
The fact is so patent 10 everyone that Il
to prove 1t. YOU" he said to the re-
porter, land others were debarrec
of the privilege of camping few
weeks in the canon because it was insisted
by the council that such camps were liable
to accumulate refuse that would eventually
find its way into the creek and thus fou
t the only water supply the city has. Thi!
lies who found health and strength for thu
q little ones during the hot spell in the coo
1 breezes, pleasant nights and pure water!
! of the canon. When the law forbidding
. our citizens to camp in the caflon, was
z passed, l thought it a little severe, but jus
| titled it on the ground that the waters
| might possibly be defled to a limited ex
9 lehS ny unS SaupClss anu ySL, Ia view U
i all this, the city officials are nov
: maintaining gang Of men il
the canon who will do more t.
: foul the water in one day than all tn
t campers in the canon would in month
V The people who were debarred from camp
ing in the canon for short time eacl
D summer were bona hde residents who wer
d interested in keeping the water suppl,
Il pure and undefled, and l know, from m
frequent visits to the tents of the camper
: couple of years ago. that they exercise
every care possible to that end. They ha
an interest-their own interest-in seem
to it that no filth was allowed to reach tn
: stream. But how different the presen
: case. If the city officials do not at ono
q order the removal of the camp, then GU
j. citizens should take legal measures to com
9 pei them to do SO "
y And such is the filth we drink.
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