The San Francisco call., 1905-06-16
PUTS MEDICINE
UNDER THE BAN
Health Board Adopts Report
That Liquozone Contains
Some Harmful Compounds
POLICE CHIEF TO ACT
Works Board Requested to
Prepare Plans for New
City and County Hospital

The initial step in the proposed crusade
of the Board of Health against impure
drugs was taken yesterday when Health
officer Ragan filed preliminary report Of
the result of chemical analyses by City
Chemist Bottle Of medicinal prepara-
ton to the effect that 1t contains dele
terious ingredients. The medicine re-
ported upon is commercially designated
as ''liquozone' and the board at its meet
ing adopted the following recommends
tions of Ragan!
l recommend that 1t be condemned by the
Commissioners Of Health as a pernicious and
unsafe drug. It may be used as a disinfectant
no objection could be urged against it's external
by Individual.
in respect to this deleterious drug as is prose-
cuted by your honorable commission In the case
Of impure foods VIZ; That the Police Depart
have 1t removed from the shelves of all dealers
handling this drug. and that the selling. ex-
in the city and county Of San Francisco con-
stitute an offense the violation of which will
be followed by arrest of the offenders.
I submit appended report from the laboratory
respecting the analysis of .'liquozone,' an ad-
ventised nostrum purporting to be agent in
recommended for all of the ills which human
flesh is heir to. This subject has been taken
in England and the analysis from our labora-
tory is In harmony with the analysis made by
the chemists of the laboratories in the various
cities where this particular subject has been
investigated. LiquoZone contains. no free oxy-
gen nor ozone but is mixture of acidulated
water Water constitutes 9S69 parts per 100.
while the acids used sulphuric acid and
sulphurous acid in proportions of 1854 per
cent of the former and .2016 per cent of the
It's use, therefore. as an internal medicament
is prejudicial to the individual health and its
use to any extent in a community. in the same
manner, is prejudicial to the public health
Reference is made in the report to the
death of Dorothy Hay Sheppard two
year-old child in London, alleged by
physician to have died al1er drinking the
medicine.
Ragan also calls attention to the ar
rests of dealers for selling Of condemned
catsups, condensed milks and evaporated
creams and of butchers who colored their
meats with red chemical.
The board adopted resolution asking
the noard Of Works in the interests of
the ill-conditioned City and ounty Hos
pltal to proceed with the preparation of
plans and specifications for the construc
ton of the proposed new hospital under
the bond issue.
The positions of two food inspectors
were created and John Derham and T.
Lydon were appointed thereto from the
civil service list They have been acting
az laboratory assistants and the board
appointed w. T. Jane and C. T. Kendall
as their successors.
The board ordered premises at 367, 377
and 379 Golden Gate avenue, 1853, 465, 469,
All. Els, 521 522 and 523 Jessie street, AT,
429 and 431 Stevenson street to be vacated
on the alleged ground that they are un-
sanitary and set the hearing on the same
for June % next
The owners OF premises at 66s, $40 and
672 McAlister street were given two
months to raze the buildings and to re-
construct them IL they 80 desired.
Miss NJ. Hawes was appointed auxiliary
inspector of maternity MONIES and the per-
NIT of Mrs. j. Wilson, 1913 Cough street.
to keep children to board was revoked.
r. B. Teehan was appointed clerk at
the County Hospital. vice NJ. A. Walsh.
who served one day and resigned