The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-05-12

water was UP.
And yet, while he was maxi
was making a blood test in the 1
Ill and under the doctors care.
All of which simply indicates
that the political freebooters who
are using the new mayor like so
much putty to further their own
political ends are playing a very
inconsistent and disreputable
game with the new mayor in rip
ping up the city government for
the purpose of filling the jobs
with their friends to the detri-
ment of the professional reputa-
tion of a competent young lady.
Ever since Mayor Seymour
went in he has been scheming
to get DIR. Anderson on the shelf
to make room for some one his
political clackers want to induct
into the office. He tried to get
her to resign. DR.. James, the new
health officer went to her and
suggested that she had better re-
sign. She was told that 1t was
charged she had. not been doing
the chemical work but sending 1t
out. She went to the mayor, dis
proved the charge and he sent her
back to James. But she did not
resign.
So new means were undertaken.
The annual trouble that comes
up with Tacoma water was made
the signal for starting an on
slaught on her yesterday in the
hope of forcing her to resign.
Called Efficient.
"She Is very efficient" said
DR.. e. M Brown, the health Of
ficer under whom she worked
last year. 81 never heard a
charge made against her. A few
times when patients were disap-
pointed at being in quarantine
and doctors wanted to let them
go they have asked whether
thought she was efficient in her
tests. But in every case where
they themselves made the test 1t
showed she was right. She has
done an enormous amount oil
work and done it WELL
DR.. Quevli, who was once
health officer of the city and
who knows of DR.. Anderson's g
work declares he believes her es-
pecially efficient. Other promi-
nent leaders In the medical pro-
fession all give the same testi-
mony. In fact, they unanimous
ly endorsed her in their medical
meeting.
Yet Seymour says she is not
efficient after he failed to get
her to resign.
It was supposed w. w. Sey-
mour was broad minded man.
1t was at least expected he
would be a chivalrous man but
the political game being played
at the city hall is not reassur-
ing to some of his best friends
DR.. Katherine Anderson came
to this city a couple OF years ago
a stranger comparatively. She II
from a family Of doctors. Hel
father is among the leaders in the
profession in New York. She has
two sisters who have risen high
as physicians. She graduated
in the literary course, and In
1904 in medicine at Ann Arbor,
one of the greatest universities
of the land. Three years she was
Iinterne at Northwestern hospital
in Minnesota. Later Dur. Ander-
son practiced a couple of years
In Salt Lake. She came to Ia
coma and became inferno at Fan
ME Paddock hospital.
She Made Good.
Their Mayor Fawcett called her
to the office of bacterioloGist and
chemist and she has made good.
To try to get something on
her the mayor ebrings UP the an
|nual trouble with the city wa
ter.
I'VE have always had this
trouble with the water" said DR.
Brown today. And there is just
one remedy, boil it. To put
chemicals In it would be very
lunwise. Any chemical strong
enough to clean the water would
lbe enough to be detrimental wher
fused constantly. In the army
work we used chemicals some
times but instructions always
were, boil the water.
There is vegetable matter II
the water but that is not nee
essarily disease breeding. It ma,
be irritating and sometimes caus,
bowel trouble but we have had
Ito contend with that always here
Or. Anderson has made repeated
denominations OF the water and Il
always shows above standard al
though it nray not always be
good.
Mayor Seymour said the firs1
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