The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-02
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evidence that will prove that if the
warden had lone his duty to the State
there would not have been a spread of
the disease"
Inspectors of the State Sewerage
Commission. assisted by experts, be-
gan last Monday to investigate the
causes of the pollution of the spring
from which the State hospital. until
last June, obtained its water supply.
The work has been prosecuted night
and day, and yesterday afternoon the
first definite results were obtained.
Quantities of aniline dye were run
into the sewer, and during the day this
purple d~iscoloration made Its appear
ance in the recently abandoned spring.
1t had already been demonstrated to
the satisfaction of the experts and the
State health authorities that the city
sewer was defective, inasmuch as 1t
was not provided with any means for
flushing and was partially stopped up.
The volume of the discoloration in the
spring was such that the experts esti-
mated that with the sewer completely
stopped up, not less than 10000 gallons
Of sewage, or a 5 per cent contamina-
ltOtS WOulQ pass lIIOuBn LII SplAli6
daily. 1t is now accepted by the State
Board and its experts that the outbreak
Of typhoid is directly due to the condi-
ton of the city sewer.
The discovery upsets the theories adj
vanced by the ~paid~experts of h As
sembly investigating committee and
substantiates he theory originally adj
vanced by DIR. John w. Ward, former
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ton was responsible for the typhoid
epidemic and came not from local con-
ditions about the hospital, but from
the city sewer. This theory was ridi-
culed by the hired witnesses at the As
sembly investigation, n DR.. Ward
was sharply criticised for the position
he took, but always asserted his con-
1dence that this theory was the cor
rect one.
DIR. Rafferty,, who is now in charge
Of the hospital. in his testimony before
the investigating committee was strong
in his statements that the spring raj
contaminated from the sewer.
The spring is about 300 feet from the
sewer, and it is said the water has
been dyed red by the scepage.
With the State board of managers
meeting and the presence Of DR.. Alton
S. Fell, of the, local Board of Health,
George w. Mcguire, State dairy and
food commissioner; DR.. B. f. Fitz-
Randolph, director of the State labora-
tory of hygiene, and DIR. Phelps, a dis
tinguished government bacteriologist,
yesterday was an exceptionally busy
day at the New Jersey State Hospital
for the Insane.
~ ntt4 Da.5o1~I, .,isitnd tho qu-
|lum under the direction of DR.. Henry
Mitchell, of the State Board of Health,
and was accompanied by DR.. Fell and
Dairy and Food Commissioner Mcguire.
DIR. Fell, when seen at his office on
East State street, shortly after his re-
turn from the asylum, said:
EVERY time the spring is examined
the apparent conditions are worse than
ever. Large quantities Of colon bacilli
and chlorine, larger thar ever before,
are found to exist in the spring, and
this is direct evidence of sewage pollu-
ton. 1 requested City Engineer Abram
Swan to get busy in remedying the
sewer. From close observation 1t was
learned that along the line of the city
sewer the ground was evidently satu-
rated with the sewage. In some places
the earth had caved in, and this
sunken condition of the ground is be-
lieved to be attributable to a leakage.
Things are in fairly good shape
about the hospital premises In spite
of the meteorological investigations
made by one DIR. Joseph Arthur Nc
Clintock. Although there are no really
imminent dangers, the outside sanitary
conditions are not in the shape that
the Board of Health would like to have
them. However,, the local Board OF
Health will keep after the hospital au-
thorities until h much-needed SAM
tary Improvements on and about the
State Hospital premises meet with the
approval of the Health Board"
DR.. Phelps, who is said to be a grad
nate of the Illinois School of Tech
nology and a scientific man with a
government reputation, came from
Boston early Wednesday morning and
spent part of Wednesday afternoon
and Yesterday in Investigating the
sanitary conditions in n about the
hospital. DR.. John c. Felty, the senior
physician mt the hospital, accompanied
DR.. Phelps on his tour of inspection.
The learned bacteriologist, who Is in
the employ of the United States Gov
rnmen at Washington, made an abb
solutely authentic report relative to the
pollution and contamination of the
mississippi River for the State of Ili-
nois some years & He left this city
about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
had In his possession samples of water
from the spring, and also samples of
the milk used at the asylum. In a rev
DAYS. after completing his bacteriologi-
cal tests, he will submit his report of a
true analysis of the conditions found
to the local Board of Health.
DR.. Peter P. Rafferty,. acting medical
director at the State hospital, has is
sued an order that every employee
connected with the institution in the
kitchen and others who serve meals
shall hereafter wash their hands IN a
disinfecting solution every half hour
while preparing or serving meals.
Chlorinated lime will be the active
principal of the solution, and five tons
of it have been ordered. 1t VIII be de-
uyered in one-ton lots of 25-pound cans