The herald., 1897-09-14
Diseased Meat and Sewage
Irrigated Vegetables
HEALTH BOARD TAKES ACTION
REEKING SLAUGHTER HOUSES
AND TUBERCULoUs MUTTON
Frightful Condition Of the City's Food
Supply-New Sanitary Regula-
tions-Stringent Measures

The board of health held one of the
most important meetings since there has
been such an organization in the city of
Los Angeles last night. Information was
given Of abuses in the supply of food to
the city which will be made the basis for
criminal prosecution, provided the board
can secure evidence to substantiate the
allegations made to it by certain per-
sons, and publicly repeated before the
meeting by members to whom the infor
nation had been impaired. Among
other things it was stated that meat had
been discovered ready for market which
was thoroughly impregnated with germs
of consumption and also with those GER
tain to produce pneumonia In persons
who should have happened to eat large
portions OF such stuff Another start
ling revelation was that there Is every
reason to believe that calves have beer
sold in the local market which were
slaughtered only a few days after birth
and were wholly unfit for food. Health
Officer Powers intimated that he was
working on information in which it was
alleged that in one instance calf had
been taken from a slaughtered COW and
sold for food, but whether delivered in
market or not he was unable to say.
The danger of contagion from the use
of certain vegetables which had been
raised on land irrigated with the sewage
Of the city was also discussed at length,
and the fact was brought out that the
city itself was in measure responsible
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of selling this sewage, disposing Of 1t TO
a company which sells the right to use 1t
to others Both matters will be made the
subject of careful investigation and IL II
is discovered that the law Is not ade-
quate to stop the evils, laws that Will
stop IT will be enacted by the city coun-
Gil.
OSTEOPATHS ON THE RACK
The meeting was called to order by
Mayor Snyder at o'clock with a full
attendance of the members OF the board
The meeting had been called for the con-
sideration of such matters as had ac-
cumulated and which needed attention,
the last meeting having been held An
gust 18th. After the approval OF the
minutes the privilege of the floor was
granted to representatives of the Pacific,
School of Osteopathy, who had presented
a petition for permission to carry on
dissections of cadavers within the CITY,
The permission of the board was neces-
sary before dissection can be lawful In
the city limits, and in addressing the
members upon the matter the represent
atives of the school stated that such per-
mission was almost necessary to the life
of the school here, as the basis of the
science is anatomy. 1t was stated that
as instructor in anatomy the school had
secured the services of Clifford e. Henry,
NJ D.. of Philadelphia, and that an obli-
CATION would be entered into with the
city to secure the proper sanitary pro-
lection in the neighborhood in which the
work was carried on. Then followed
discussion of the methods of practice
used and followed by the oeteopaths,
into which the representatives. OF the
school were reluctantly led. They stated
that they used no medicines, but effected
their cures by mechanical means, basing
their treatment upon anatomy. Asked
il they would treat all diseases, the an
swer was that a cure would be under
taken, but not guaranteed, in all diseases
in which cure is possible. The men,
bers of the board entered freely into the
discussion of the matter and made the
most searching inquiries as to what
would be done in cases which were cited.
DR.. Henry attempted to explain the os-
teopathic system, but when questioned
closely and confined to the questions
asked he became confused and his an
swers were anything but satisfactory to
the board One answer which he made
which was afterward discussed by the
board, adversely to the petition, was that
in typhoid fever he and his colleagues
did not believe in the use of medicines.
Action on the matter was deferred until
the next meeting.
COMMUNICATIONS READ
A communication from the agricul-
tural department at Washington with
reference to the use Of tuberculin was
read. 1t stated that this article, which
/ is used in tests for tuberculosis, would
be furnished free by the department,
with certain restrictions. One of these
restrictions was that there must be the
proper laws for the destruction of anil
mails upon which tests were made and
that there must no cost whatever at
tach from it's use to the person upon
whose stock it Is used. The matter was
referred to the health officer to ascertain
the rights of the board and to secure me
cooperation of the county health OFF,
Ger in the matter.
An official notice of the conference
meeting of the boards of health Of the
state to be held at San Francisco Octo-
Der 11th and 18th, was presented, and
an earnest invitation was appended that
the Los Angeles board cooperate. Mayor
Snyder urged some of the members to
CO. but none of them could tell whether
they would be able to or not The mat
ter was laid over for the present.
| Certificates to practice were granted
to the following physicians: Homer
Rodgers, Foster w. Bassett, Milbank
Johnson and Herman J. Bayless.
SANITARY REGULATIONS
The following additional rules of the
board of health, intended as protection
to the school children from contagion,
were adopted:
Sec. 10. The health officer shall report
in writing the name and residence OF