Evening star., 1894-01-04
I 0 EVERY H ON E
Contagion is Apt to Come for Lack
ofa Hospital.
MATTERS BEFORE SANITARY LEAGUE
A More Rigid Inspection Of Milk
Recommended.
T. ~ IN
ALTERS BEFORE SANITARY LEAGUE
THE COURSE OF LECTURES

Two matters of vital interest to the resi-
dents of the District were discussed in re-
| ports which were presented at the meeting
| of the council Of the Sanitary League held
/ last evening in the rooms of the board of
trade. The president of the league, Mr. Il.
Ross Perry, presided. The two reports pre-
sented were read by Mr.. Theodore W.
Noyes as acting chairman Of the sanitary
committee.
The committee on a hospital for conta-
gious diseases, consisting of DIR. A. L. A.
King, Archibald Hopkins. S. w. Woodward,
George Truesdell and E. Francis Riggs,
submitted the following report, which was
adopted, and the committee was empowered
to carry into effect the recommendations:
| Contagious Hospital.
The committee having considered the
matter or establishing hospital for con-
tagious diseases, beg to report as follows:
| 1st. That 1t is eminently desirable 10 have
hospital for contagious diseases in this
| city.
I'd. 1t being generally admitted scientific
| fact that there Is no known instance in
| which the coptagtum Of measles diphtheria
| scarlet fever and hopping cough has been
| conveyed by atmospheric transmission for
| distance of 100 feet it follows that il
| such a hospital be located 200 feet distant
| from other habitations there would be no
danger Of conveying the above named dis
eases from the hospital to other dwellings
Sd. From the liability of contagium to be
| conveyed in other ways than atmospheric
transmission. viz. by persons. clothing and
| other materials, it is eminently inadvisable
| that hospital for contagious diseases
| should be associated with any other hos
| hov
ton and stand apart from any other in
stitution. with regard to it's personal at
tendants. its cuisine it's food supplies and
other material belongings, its laundry, its
sewage, its grounds for convalesceuts and
| in all other respects
4th That 1t Is desirable for such a hos
pital to provide pay rooms for ''pay pa
TENTS, for the accommodat ton of patients
residing in hotels. boarding houses. &C.,
where proper care OF them cannot at
| present be taken, where they are liable to
neglect from their attendants fearing con-
tagion. and where they become centers Of
| Infection. Such pay patients would thus
| institution.
| 5th 1t is the opinion of your committee
that such a hospital should not be placed
at any considerable distance from the CEN
| ter OF the city on account of the danger to
| patients In being carried a long distance
especially in cold weather. 1t is believed
that there are several suitable sites for the
hospital within the city limits that might
be utilized for this purpose without jeopar-
dizing the health of the surrounding in
habitants.
9Th The proposed hospital should not ad.
init smallpox cases; separate institution
| is already provided for persons with this
disease. So 1t should remain
Nh FINALLY, your committee respectfully
recommend that the Sanitary League urge
upon the honorable Commissioners of the
| h 10 fh0 fvv.V.
prompt settlement of this ma tier, in order
that the proposed hospital may proceed to
its establishment without further delay
Dr. King spoke in regard to the report
and said that 1t was important that people
should be educated to the necessity for
greater care in preventing the spread of
disease from infection and contagion. He
believed that lectures ought to be given ON
| methods of averting disease and of taking
care of sick people who had such diseases
There was an outcry about one CONTAGIOUS
hospital in a city while in fact people toll
Grated great number of them, as every
place where a contagious disease was To-
Gated was as dangerous and perhaps more
| so than hospital devoted to the purpose
In hospitals scattered throughout the city,
in hotels, boarding houses and in priva te
residences contagious diseases were liable
| to break out at any time and Il was inn
possible to remove the patient. for the rea-
son that there was no place to take them
| to-
Inspection of Milk.
The following report from the subcom-
mittee, consisting of H. o. Hall and VIM
b. King, of the committee on dairies and
| food supply, of which Prof. Charles F..
| Munroe is chairman, was adopted and the
| committee empowered to carry the recon-
| mendations into effect.
! THE subcommittee on legislation of the
| committee on dairies and food supply of
| the Sanitary League have had under con-
| sideration, in accordance with the direc-
| tions of the committee. the question of
| legislation for the protection of the milk
supply of the District and beg to report rs
| follows: The law at present in force in
| the District fOrbids the Offering for sale of
! unwholcsome, watered or adult era ted
milk Prosecutions have been brought by
| the health authorities under this provision
| of law and sustained by the Police Court
| where 1T was shown that there had been
! improper additions TO the milk offered for
| sale.
| Prosecutions were, however, instituted in
| number of cases in which dealers sold
SKINNED milk as milk. These prosecu-
| tions failed because the Police Court held
| that whatever might be the fraud on the
customer in Offering and selling SKINNED
| milk as milk it did not come within the
| statute in force, this provides against
| the sale of milk to which improper addi-
| tions had been made, but does not include
| milk from which nourishing constituents
have been subtracted. 1t is not the opinion
| of this committee that the sale of skinned
milk should be absolutely prohibited al
| though this is the law in some jurisdic-
! tions, but they are of the opinion that the
sale of skinned milk as milk should be
prohibited. They therefore recommend that
| a bill be framed for presentation to Con-
gress, amending section Z of the ordinance
| to prevent the sale Of unwholesome food
| in the cities Of Washington and George
| town. which was legalized by joint reso-
| luton of Congress of April ~, 1880 (see
| first supplement, Revised Statutes BOD, so
| as to forbid the sale or Offering for sale
| of SKINNED milk as milk, providing, how
ever. that it may be sold If suitable sign
is displayed upon or above the vessel in
which the milk is kept and in sight of GUS
| toners. stating that it is SKINNED milk
| (See extracts from laws of n. J. on this
| subject annexed)
THE subcommittee have also made some
| examination into the means adopted by the
| health authorities of the District for the
protection of the milk supply They ex-
| press their qualification at the care which
| has been shown in this respect by the
health office and particularly by the intel
| ligent interest and activity displayed by
| Prof j. d. Hird inspector of dairy pro-
ducts. While some additional legislation
| beside that above outlined is deemed neces-
! sary for the entire protection of the Dis
| trict, particularly regards the construc-
| ton and conduct of dairies and care and
| feeding of cows. &c, the subcommittee are
satisfied that the most pressing need at
| the present time is a sufficient appropria-