Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-08
BABE DIES RESULT
Of COFFEE BURNS
Pitiful Case of Little Son OF
Herman Hittenmark Ends !
With Ease in Death
MOTHER CARING FOR NEW BABE
While Still Charity Patient in ST.
Thomas Hospital, Where Babe Was
Born, 4-Year- Old Son Pulls Pot of
Boiling Coffee From Stove = Not
Given Proper Attention.

While the mother lay in st. Thomas
hospital, charity patient, after hav-
ing brought into the world another lit
tie soul, her little 4-year-old son pulled
from the hot stove pot Of boiling cof-
fee, and as a result died at 1850 this
morning, after suffering the terrible
agonies that burns alone can produce.
The little home of Herman Kitten
mark, All South Sixth street, sur
rounded by squalor on every side. is
sadder than usual today. 1t has held
nothing but grief for years, but grief
in any form would be bearajble could
the little one come back.
Freddie Alfred, the babe who died.
would have been years old next April.
The most severe burn was on the
right arm, extending from the wrist to
the elbow. There are five children
| left in the family.
Proper Treatment Not Given.
That the little patient did not re-
ceive proper medical treatment seems
evident. All night Monday. from 9
O'Clock until the end came, efforts
minister unto the dying child. Some
doctors were busy with other calls;
others, knowing the case to be county
charge, referred the family to the
county doctor. At Dr. Singleton's hos
pital today it was stated that all tele-
phone calls last night were answered.
Two doctors had seen the case soon
after the child was burned, and gave
lotions to soothe the burns. Dr. Lie
big, to- whom Hittenmark also applied,
furnished vial of carronoil, an old
fashioned remedy for burns. According
ito Overseer Of the Poor Pemberton,
however, no application was ever made
to the county for medical treatment
in this case. He says he did not know
that the child was even sick, until he
heard of it's death.
Infiamed Burns by Turpentine.
Doubtless thru ignorance, and pos
sibly because he did not realize how
badly the child was burned a1itten-
mark used spirits of turpentine as
home remedy. When he told DIR. Liebig
what he had done, the doctor told him
to quit its use Immediately, and never
use it again. This, according to medical
practice, is one of the worst things
that could have been used. Outside of
its antiseptic qualities turpentlne
would tend to in1ame the burned sur
face, and would not have the least ten
dency to soothe the burns. If there were
a sufficient amount of turpentine used,
on large enough area of burned sur
face, physicians say that it's use might
easily prove fatal.
( One Of the older girls in the house,
as soon as the babe was burned, had
the rare good presence of mind to bind
the arm up in soda. This is one of the
best remedies that could have been APP
piled.
FamiIy's Plight Pitiabie.
The plight of the Hittenmark family
is pitiable Poverty stricken, and
county charge are not enough to con.
tend with, it seems. A few years the
father while working for the, county.
was injured in his right foot. Blood
poisoning developed and a public, sub
scription was taken to help him to an
operation for the removal of the. leg.
Mrs. Hittenmark is suffering from a
malignant trouble, necrosis of the
spine, and for months and months was
a patient in st. Thomas hospital
where DR.. Burroughs performed an OPP
GRAFTON for her
Only two weeks ago she gave birth
to new baby hoy at the hospital,
and was cared for thru her confine-
ment free of charge.
DR.. Nichols attended her without a
books, and the sisters at the hospital
without cost
County Assisting Family.
While Hittenmark is leading the
public to infer that he and his family
have not been furnished sufficieof
treatment as county charges, Overseer
Pemberton says his books show other
wise. Only last Saturday, Mr.. Penn
berton says, he furnished the family
with a ton of coal, sack OF flour, and
groceries to the amount of about $3.65,
including in all eight or ten different
items. This list was cut down two
or three items from what the family
asked. Pemberton says the county has
been helping the family all winter.
Subscription to Bury Babe.
The county, under the competitive
bid system of county burials, pays
nothing for its county funerals. Be-
cause tho county's allotment at River
side is filed, the county now insists on
all burials being made at the county
farm Hittenn1ark was, very DESTROYS
of having his babe buried in Riverside.
and accordingly started out with
subscription paper to defray the ex-
pense of purchasing a small lot A few
extras, such as are not furnished by
tho county ara to he donated by the