The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-18
COUNCIL COMMITTEES.
FRANK HARRIGAN's CLAIM UP FOR
CONSIDERATION AGAfN.
The Warm Springs Lease-Dr. DaIby
Springs observation-disclosures
Passed Upon.

! Among the council committees in ses-
sion last night the '"Ticheborn claim
ant" more modernly known as the
Frank Harrigan claim for $1,000 for
grade work was being "sweated" by a
special committee consisting of Messrs.
MCMILLAN. Lynn and Corum.
The committee on public improve.
ments took up the Barnes and Byrne
Warm Springs lease and considered the
extension of five years lease. Mr.
Barnes showed that the Salt Lake
Sanitarium had reduced the revenue
less than $3.50 a month The COM
mittee VIII recommend new lease
with allowances for repairs, etc, as
asked for, and the city attorney will be
instructed to draft the same immedi-
ately.
While the council will make no APP
preparations for the payment of any kind
of claims for some time to come, a
number of bills were gone over and
passed upon and made ready for re-
commendation by the finance COM
mittee.
During the sessions of the committees
DR.. Daily was present to present a
vitality important matter before the
sanitary committee, but was called
out to attend an attempted suicide, and
during his absence the councilmen
went home. Upon his return he recfted
the purport of his errand to Council
man Cohn.
1t appears. according to the state
ment of Dr.. Daily that on East Eighth
street in the neighborhood of Third
South street, man allowed his child
to die of diphtheria without medical
attendance simply because he did not
believe in doctors.
1t seems that shortly after the child
took sick the neighbOrs suspected that
it was either a case OF scarlet fever or
house The neighbors let the matter
go until they found that the father
would do nothing about doctor so
they reported the case to DR.. Daily
and the next day that physician sent
an assistant to investigate. He found
q most malignant case of diPhtheria
and uuarantined the house, to which
quarantine, however, the father paid
no attention. DR.. White was called
when the child was dead.
During all this time the father con-
tinued his usual avocatiOn.
DR. Daily states that owing to the
incomplete state of the present city
ordinance it is impossible for him to
take the proper care of such fragrant
and outrageous cases of deplorable ig-
norance and wanton criminality. AS
health commissioner, DR.. Daily has no
power to compel such people to have
a physician when death stalks into
their households, but the public de-
mands protection from such cases, and
yet he is powerless to afford the same.
The city council must pass an ordin-
arce that win fit such cases without
a moments delay.
The man in this case claimed, Or
Daily said, that the undertaken who
buried his child knew more about the
ills of humanity than a doctor did, be-
cause he, the undertaken, buried more
That was his argument.
eff one ignorant family like that can
be allowed to thus spread contagious
disease all over a whole city. it is high
time to call a halt" concluded the
health commissioner in his talk with
Councilman Cohen.
Mr.. Cohen asked DR. Daily to pre-
pare a most thorough communication
to the city coucil and be assured that
he would advance it far as possible
next Tuesday night.