Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-18
Boards Of Health in Leading Cities
OF the Country All Taking
The Matter Up.
BREATHING OF VITIATEO AIR.
Tends to Produce Low Vitality Re-
suits of Present Movement Await.
cd With Interest.
sneclnl Corresnondence.

Special Correspondence.
Washington July l5.--According to
reports received here the local boards
of health OF New York. Broolyn, Bos-
ton, Chicago ST. Louis, Baltimore Cin-
clnnatl, Cleveland, and several other
cities, have taken up the matter Of Sc
curing the proper ventilation of street.
cars, churches. halls and places OF
amusement, where the public congre-
gate In large numbers, the ventilation
and sanitation Of which come within
their purvlew as guardians Of the mu-
nlolpal health and which can be reg
ulated by local ordinances. Ventilation
and sanitation are so closely allied that
these investigations, following the gem
eral and highly successful crusade
against indiscriminate eNpectoratlon,
which was conducted under the same
auspices, have attracted much attention
from the United states medical officers
and health specialists as well as from
the general public.
WILEY VENTILATED HOTELS,
In dealing with various epldemics and
stamping out the major contagious dis
eases such as yellow fever bubonio
plague, ETC., the officers OF the marine
hospital service found that continued
residence in vilely ventilated holes, such
as existed In the underground passages
I'm chinatown" San Francisco, low
cred the vitality of the inhabitants and
rendered them an easy prey to the dis
case.
BREATHING BAD AIR.
The breathing Of vitlated air is also
held directly responsible for ship fe-
YER" and in view of the possibility Of
an increase In immigration under the
stimulation OF the steamship rate war
and the unusually crowded condition OF
the Storage, resulting therefrom, add
tiona information on the subject of
ventilation will be welcomed by the
United states medical authorities,
When the experiments are concluded,
reports will probably be made to the
United States marine hospital service,
which fills the place of national board
Of health. receiving weekly reports from
the local boards Of all the large cities
and compiling the information contain
cd therein.
AUTHORIZATION MOVEMENT.
The widespread movement against
consumption has forcibly drawn public
OF light and air, or their adj
mission In insufficient quantities,
is primarily responsible for the
growth Of the disease, and the success
attending the open air treatment Is UNI
doubleday responsible for the inyestiga-
lions now being made by the city
boards Of health for the purpose Of So
curing the proper ventilation of public
places not only with a view OF protect
ing healthy persons from n germ lad
en- atmosphere but 10 obviate the neces-
sity Of their inhaling yitiatcd air from
which the life-glving qualities have
been exhausted with the attendant evil
results,
MUCH GOOD ACCOMPLISHED.
Much good has already been accom-.
pllshed in this direction by the munich
pal authorities In the tenement districts
and in the public schools, but little
has been attempted until now with
other places Of public character
Consequently, the result of these ex-
perlments, especially In Brooklyn, New
York, and Boston. will be awaited with
much interest by the public In the
hope Of an amelioration OF the physical
discomforts resultant from Improper
ventilation OF cars, places of amuse-
ment, churches, schools etc, and By
scientists because OF the additional
light which may be thrown on the
general subject and on It's relation 20
the public health.
A SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
Surgeon General Wyman OF the Unit.
ed States marine hospital service. IA
presiding officer Of the organization OF
state and territorial health officers
which meets annually under act of
Congress and ~ view OF the general in
terest In this subject and It's Importance
It is possible he may appoint a special
committee on ventilation from these
officials.
C, o. HAMILTON.