The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-22
STEWART At HOME
FROM CONVENTION
City Health Commissioner Talks
Entertainingly of What
He Saw.
A NUMBER OF
BIG CITIES WHILE AWAY
He Also Looked Carefully Into
Methods of Handling
Garbage.

After attending The Health Commits
Sioncrs convention in Atlanta, Ga, and
visiting most of The Iargcr eastern
cities and inspecting their municipal
methods Of controlling various contagl-
Gus and infections diseases, DR.. NJ, r.
Stewart, city health commissioner, re
turned Monday morning from a two
weeks vacation trip, prepared to inau-
guratc campaign of popular cduca-
tion on these matters, with A view TO
having new health ordinances passed
IN Salt Lake
DR.. Stewart investigated sanitary
conditions in Chicago, Washington,
Philadelphia, New York. Jersey City
and Atlantic City, especially with re-
gard 10 the attitude of the authorities
concerning the regulation of slaughter
houses, the requirements as to meats,
and the various prohibitory ordinances.
In nearly all of the larger eastern cities,
he says, meat is quickly shipped, and
is promptly inspected by municipal IN
spectors, who follow the lines Of fed
eral inspection in the big packing
houses.
Handling Of Garbage.
DR.. Stewart stated that he was cs
pecially impressed by the eastern meth
DDS Of handling garbage. lie said that
ordinary rubbish was hauled 10 n cen
tral garbage plant by men and teams
employed by the business men TO do this
work every day. Garbage cans must
be placed on the front property line,
we'll covered. to prevent the entrance
of flies. Tho garbage man rings gong
as he goes along the street, warning
residents TO put out the garbage cans
for collection.
DR.. Stewart believes that the day
VIII soon arrive when municipal health
authorities VIII he supplied with the
new typhoid vaccine, Just as they now
are with smallpox vaccine and diphthe-
ria anti.toxin. He says that this ty
phoid vaccine is to be adopted by the
United States army, so successful have
been the experiments with 1T. In one
experiment, 1000 men in the army, who
had not been inoculated with the vac
cine, developed ) Is per cent typhoid,
while out Of 1000 others who had been
inocuIated, only | O3 per cent became
infected. though they were exposed to
the most severe typhoid conditions,
After Housefy.
All Of the big medical authorities
are devoting much attention to the
study Of dissemination of disease by in
sects, particularly the common housctiy,
according 10 DR.. Stewart In all the
eastern cities, he SAYS, there arc strict
ordinances concerning every possible
hy-brccder. In Washington, D. c.,
horse owners arc compelled, under pen
atty of severe fine, to move manure
twice week. This ordinance is based
on the theory that flies germinate in ten
days, aud that if manure piles are
hauled away at frequent intervals this
method will not only destroy the larvae,
but prevent millions of other fresh eggs
from Matching,
DR.. Stewart stated that the United
States government will now furnish the
Pasteur treatment for rabies 10 any city
in the country, on receipt of telegraphic
order, Formerly, it was difficult to Sc
cure this treatment except by rushing
the patient TO an eastern hospital,
where hYdrophobia treatment is spe-
cialty Under the new arrangement Of
the government, however, the Pasteur
treatment may he secured by express in
two days, In this way, it is believed, |
many patients will be saved.