Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-03


lecture room and library. are here
frankly dedicated to the elimination
of those diseases peculiar to Industrial
employinents Already twelve scien-
tific men are cooperating with the d.
| rector, Or. Devote, although the iap-
oratorics we're not opened until MarSl
90 In one OF the hospital wards the
director. is giving snccial attention 70
IA patients. One OF these, iih'i
trembling with the peculiar palsy que
to mercurinl poisoning, began "ofk ~;
IL hat factory when ~ years y. ~
and felt the effects Of the poisot, u.
most Immediately. Another patlcnt
suffers With lead collie" the result
of his work us IL house painter. seven
OF his thirteen children died during
tho first few months after they came
into the world. on account perhaps OF
the presence of poison In the ia.her
! system. Other patients are oeii,s
trented for Ills accustomed by work III
high temperatures III. dusty OF pois1 ,..
GUS atmosphercs. and for the results
of ovcrstrain. Che laboratories, too.
nre fully equipped Here we ind
treadmills In which dogs patiently
trot IN endless hills In order that their
blood Icorpuscles may disclose new
truths concerning the toxin OF fatlsuc.
Machines register on revolving discs
the tluctuating curves inscrlpea ny
long series OF muscular strains, III or
der that the effects OF overwork ana
artificial stimulus NAV be correlated
with Immunity from disease. Here.
too. "lcnded' mother goats and guinea
nips add to our fund OF, knowledge
concerning the effects of lead poison
Ing upon premature birth and the
supply of mothers milk. These cx-
perimcnts, moreover, arc OF nnueh
more than ordinary laboratory inter-
est. A practical provision EXTENDS
the activities Of the clinic ino IN
dust,ial establishments, and supple
mcuts the work OF sovernment factory
inspectors. DR.. Carozzi. who has de-
voted much time to this important
work. Is fully supplied with portable
nir-test devices. When called upon by
tho department. he is authorized 10
enter establishments to Inspect SAM
tary conditions.--John d. Andrews
Sccrcary American Association Tor
Labor Legislation, in the Survey.
Christmas There IRE some gifts this
Gifts country heeos. Iii',s Mu,,,a,
= : stocking. If she does not.
America will go without them, day ny
day, throughout year after year and
suffer for the lack. One is the gift OF
pure food, In every honle--pure 1000
which never will be reached until the
women of the United states insist upon
its manufacture. its presence on inc
grocery shelves, its safeguarding by
adequate law. Another gift needed is
that of the right of every American
child to live to be educated until It's
fourteenth year. to be protected against
the forces of greed and of evil Chris
tianity means this or 1t means noun
ing; and yet babies all over the land
die by the thousand, poisoned by staie
milk or murdered by tenement condl-
lions: and little children toll. dwarted
and exploited, in American mills ana
mines and sweatshops. Not until every
woman helps to give every child It's lltc
and its rights in our land has she come
Into the true national spirit or CHRIST
mas. A third Is the gift of health 1t
rests with the women to create the
home, the school, the municipal condi-
tons Of wholesome living in each COM
munity Pure air in every room, clean
surroundings, sanitary laws--these are
no mystery beyond any woman.s learn
ing, or beyond the power OF Woman s
concerted action to gain inside and oni,
side their homes. All men agree. All
doctors repeat. that woman alone can
confer this gift of public health in all
its details and its fulness. There are
Others. But Just these three--if 1910
silw them given, what a Christmas
Uncle Sam would have, and how he
would rise up and call the givers
blcssed!--Harper's Bazaar.
Russian The following Is one of the
thirst for storieso of working girls col
Learning. lected by the National Con-
sumers' league and pub
lishef in the December McClure's: AN
other unskilled worker of 20. Sarina
Bashkitseff. intended to escape from
her monotonous work and low wage by
educating herself in a private evening
school. For this she contrived to save
81 a month out of her Income Of 81 n
week. Sarina packed powders in a
drug factory from s to 6 O'clock. Will,
three quarters of an hour for lunch.
She was beautiful and brilliant girl.
who used to come to work IN the winter
dressed in her summer coat, with a
little wooden underjacket to protect