The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-02
DR.. j. N. HURTY'S PLANS
HE HOPES TO SEE A LABORATORY
OF HYGIENE ESTABLISHED,
Is Intensely Interested in the Anti
Pollution Bill-What 1t Ii
Designed For.

There seems to be somewhat of a mis-
understanding in regard to the 'anti-pol-
luton bill which the State Board of Health
will present TO the Indiana Legislature at
it's next session. said DR.. ]. N. Hurry,
secretary of the board, last night 1.-THE
bill is designed to protect all streams,
ponds, lakes and open bodies Of water from
pollution and to control and conserve all
industries and corporations which pour or
place offal sewage or other waste matter
into streams. This includes towns and
cities, which are the worst offenders The
plan proposed is not new or untried, for it
is in use throughout Germany and has
been adopted with signal success in the
State of Massachusetts,. Before IL is posi-
BILE to dispose of any kind of putrescible
waste in a sanitary way analyses and in
vestigations must be made. To do such
work laboratory In charge Of scientists
is necessary. BY chemical and bacteriolog-
zeal Investigations a basis will be discov-
cred upon which to found a publication
method. When such a method Is fully
worked out it will be imposed upon the in
dustries through the aid of the courts In
this way pollution will be prevented from
serving both the streams and the industries
will be accomplished. The creating of a
laboratory of hygiene under the control of
the State Board of Health will, of course,
involve a considerable investment-not less
than s1O,OOo-and skilled scientific men must
be employed. This means an additional
Sl00 600 ger annum for support of such de-
partment, but this amount of money is a
mere bagatelle compared with the enor-
nous saving which will be effected. When
We consider that the industries which are
now threatened with destruction represent
capital of not less than $40 600, 900, and pay
out annually from $5000,O00 to s7000000 in
wages, and also that they pay large taxes
it will readily be seen how small the cost
of preservation really is. This laboratory
will not be used solely for the great work
outlined, but will also be used for the en-
forcement of the food law and for making
sanitary Investigations which will be Of
vast interest and benefit to the people.
AT the present time, continued DIR.
Hurry, Indiana seems to be the dumping
ground for vast amount of impure and
unwholesome food products Professor
Vaughan, the eminent sanitarian, and dean
of the medical department of the Univer-
sity of Michigan. at Ann Arbor, tells of
having been in Toledo recently, at which
time he visited sausage factory. He found
sausage being made there out of meat
OF Health The professor inquired the rea-
son for permitting this factory TO make
such food, and was informed that Ohio has
no law preventing the manufacture of
such products. but they cannot be sold
within the State. Where are they sold.
then? inquired Professor Vaughan IN
Indiana, principally was the reply Tt is
| very probable that not few of the cases
OF sausage poisoning which have been re-
corded in Indianapolis this summer have
proceeded from this source. 1t is neither
economical nor rational to discover that
| certain foods are poisonous or unwhole-
some by trying them human beings The
scientific method would be TO pass these
| food products through the laboratory and
| discover the poisons or other deleterious
| substances there.
| 1T Is perhaps not generally known" said
DR. Hurry. that the members of the Indi-
| ana State Board Of Health receive no COM
| pensat.on whatever for their services. They
| do not ask for any They do. however de-
| sire the opportunity of doing all of the
| good work which have outlined"