The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
DID FRICTION
BREED DEATH
AT HOSPITAL?
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did not suggest that they came from
the same source as the first one. The
witness replied. yes"
After the second case had developed
DR.. Ward said he conferred with his
staff and that the spring was suspected.
This conference took place after
April 10.
No effort was made TO find the source
until after one week had elapsed.
Then an examination of the spring was
made by looking at it. After that an
analysis of the water was made.
DIR. Ward said the water was not
analysed at once, because the spring
had always been a good one. He testi-
fed tina chemical analysis OF the
spring had been made, but none to
find out as to the presence of disease
germs.
Mr.. Backes asked If 1t wouId not
have been wise to have had examine
lions of the spring water made from
time to time. DR.. Ward replied that 1t
might have been, but he did not con-
slider 1t by him as necessary.
DR.. Ward testified that he had not
made an examination of the COW yard,
because milk was not suspected as
having been the cause of the disease.
Neither did DR.. Ward make an exam
-ination of excretions near the spring.
DIR. Ward said he had not visited the
COW yard in a long time because the
ward was not in his Jurisdiction. He
testified he considered the milk fed the
patients as wholesome because ne
drank it himself.
"You don't set it up as a justifica-
ton for feeding filthy milk to the
patients that you drank it yourself?'
asked Mr.. Backes.
mo- replied Ward.
Mr.. Perkins objected to the question as
to Filthy milk on the ground that there
was no evidence to this effect. 1t was ex-
planed that the testimony was that the
milk caus and clothes were filthy
DR.. Ward said the presence of human
exoreta in the COW yard, In his opinion,
would not contaminate the spring through
sepage because OF the distance Of the
spring from the COW yard. As to the scav-
enger dumps near the spring, DIR. WARD
testified they are 400 or 500 feet from the
spring and on lower ground than the
spring. DR.. Ward said he did no find the
spring other than he had often found 1t.
He said he never wanted any possible
contamination near the spring and then
testified as to the presence OF a stable
and sewage wall within 500 feet Of the
spring.
He said he had made a recommendation
in 1856 to the old board OF managers to
have these conditions removed. Since then
he has made Informal complaints. He said
a butcher shop had formerly existed near
the spring. but that this had been re-
moved. He testified that the stable and
sewage well would be a serious menace
to the spring il II were not for the fact
that the rock of the land slope toward the
river and away from the spring.
He then testified as to how excreta from
typhoid patients is treated. He said it is
disinfected and then thrown into the clos
cts and passed into the river. He testified
that he was not sure that the excreta from
the first patient of typhoid was disln-
fected.
This wa dumped into the sewer and
went into the Delaware River above the
intake of Trenton's water supply.
He testified that while this practise
was not dangerous to the hospital, il
might have been dangerous to Trenton.
DR.. Ward testified he never saw a ty-
phoid germ. Then Mr.. Backes produced
a real germ, which had been developed
DR.. Ward said hen he had never seer
a germ in water. DIR. Ward said he be
came convinced the spring water was con-
taminated after DIR. Hammond had made
an analysis. The date of his conviction
was April 30. twenty-five lays after thu
first case appeared.
Tn use of the water was not discon'
tinued until some time in June.
Explaining this DR., Ward said he die
not speak Of II because the spring was no
under his jurisdiction. He said this mat
ter belonged to the business part of IN
hospital. n that he did not consider
he had a right to stop the water. ant
that he did not even request It be stopped
He said It is his opinion that Il tn
water had been stopped the fever woul'
have gone right on and has been spread
10 some manner
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