Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-09
SLAUGHTER Of
THE |NNOCENTS.
Two Babies Dead, the Cause
Believed to be Impure
Milk.
.HovyARD's DAIRY UNDER TEST
Harms Making Investigations
Dairy Previously in Question.


Within an hour last Saturday. two
babies, less than a, year old, died Of!
stomach and Intestinal trouble, which
1T is believed was caused by milk which
they had been fed. AS a result Walter
j. Frazier, city food and dairy commits
.sioner, is inspecting the dairy Of s. s.
Howard Of Bountiful today, who FUR
,nished the milk for both families. Sam
pies Of the milk, which was delivered
Saturday to the family residences are
being tested and analysed by. City and
State Chemist Herman Harms TO ascer-
attn the standard and find out IL the
milk contained any Impurities.
In each case the child was taken
before medical attendance could be
summoned There seemed to be an
acute gastro-intestinaI infection. which
was probably caused by the milk
q Dr. w. r. Beers was called to attend
the four-months old child OF w z. II.
9Houghton of 221 north Fifth West
street Saturday afternoon. when & 1t A
went into commissions. Before Dr..
Beers arrived the child was dead He
was unable to setate what had caused
Sthe trouble which led to the conVulsions
but admitted that impure milk might
have caused 1t. {i g$
Lerena, the lomonth-old daughter Of
4 Fl. w. Cools of 81 west Third North
street. died the same afternoon in d
4 similar manner. Another, child In the
f Goods family Is seriously III from the
4 same trouble. ills believed now, how
v ever that this child will recover @
hen the matter was reported to
+ ommissioner Frazier he INN diatelys
began an iiiyestiga ton into the milk
supply, which had been implanted of
before, Several children have been sicI
I inNtlat neighborhoo ina similar man
{ ner and the sicknes was al tributed to
the milk and the hot weather. For
some time Mr.. F'raz ier has been watch
ing the milk which has been delivered
4 In this neighborhood from the Howard
dairy. ii 4. 5s S. ST. &.
ONE MOTHERS BELIEF.
Mrs. Houghton is; firm in her belief
that the milk was responsible for ne,.
&child's death. For. several days, the
milk had a peculiar odor and she COM
planned to the inilkman about ii. He
was sure, however, that the milk waS
good. saving that 1t was pasteurized.
B The child had been restless for n
couple of days before 1t was taken with !
55conyulsions. The Cools also believe
that the milk was the cause of the
death III their family.
After securing samples Of the milk,
Mr.. Frazier went to Bountiful to score
the dairy this morning Last year, the
dairy scored g, which is % points below
this standard. At that t5ne, Howard
had no milk cooler and his barns We're
in a deplorable condition. His COWS
We're not tuberculin tested and the gen
era conditions We're characterized in
the scoring report as bad. 7, Unless
Towards dairy is found up to the
standard today, Mr.. Frazier will prob 4
ably contiscate every gallon Of milk
that is shipped here by: the dairy for
consumption. Mr.. Frazier intends to
finfict drastic measures from now on
in his crusade against the dairymert
who are not living up to the laws. IL 4
the samples sent to Mr.. Harms for an
alysis show that tile milk is not up d.
to the standard or contains any inns
spurities. Howard VIII be prosecuted.
The tests will probably be completed
tomorrow.