The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-22
MRS. P. N. COOK To
Be CITY INSPECTOR
Will Be First Woman to Hold
Such Position in Salt
Lake.

With the passage this morning Of
the new city health ordinance the first
step toward the reorganization Of that
department will have been taken.
Immediately following tho passage
OF the ordinance it is expected that a
number of appointments will be made
in the department.. One of the number,
which it is said was fully determined
upon Yesterday afternoon. will be the
naming OF Mrs. r. N. CoeR, society
and club woman, as an Inspector in the
division Of meat and food inspection.
Mrs. Cook. will have the distinction
of being the first woman inspector who
has ever held Office in Salt Lake. She
will be put on the work of restaurant,
grocery store and meat market inspec~
tion. Her appointment is said to be
the result Of the combined efforts of
the women's clubs of the city. Tho
club women have on several occasions
made suggestions to the commission,
asking for various things Among those
suggestions the most recent was one
advocating the appointment of a woman
as inspector in the health department.
Prominent Club Woman.
Mrs. Cook is prominent in Salt Lake
club circles, especially along the
lines of social and civic betterment,
and is chairman of the civic commit
tee of the Utah Federation of Women s
Clubs. She is an active worker in the
LADIES' Literary club, and introduced
the subject Of eugenics in that club in
an excellent paper delivered something
over year ago. She was On the pro-
eramme Of the last meeting of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs in
Ogden last October to handle the same
topic. She is also q member of q
committee appointed several months
ago for the purpose of organizing n
society for social research in Ctah. |
Mrs. Cook has done much toward the |
of sanitary conditions Of |
Ocal groceries and meat markets, both |
.brough personal work and articles |
contributed to the newspapers,
Another change of a rather radical
nature which is said to be determined
lDon will be the dismissal OF the pres
mt employees in the food aud dairy
livision, which. under the reorganiza.
ion, becomes the milk and dairy di-
'ision, and the appointment as chief of
hat division Of DR.. r, W. Ashley, who
l. the present time is the city
4allacher Is Selected.
The appointment of DR.. Ashley s
as bacteriologist has not yet ,
cen decided upon, nor have the as
istsnts in the milk and dairy division q
cen chosen. 4
All Of the other department heads of g
ne health department will be re-
aiued, according to the present slate.
But one new inspector is said to have
cen determined upon. Johu GALLAGHER
i'll be appointed TO an inspectorship,
nd will probably act with Mrs. Cook r
the inspection of restaurants and t
ores. n
The new health ordinance, the details v
which were recently exclusively
lblishcd in The Tribune, provides for :,
ven divisions under the general b
pervision of the board Of health and nj
o direct supervision Of the city
Iysician, who becomes the health com. ii
issioner. is
The divisions will be the division of "
alth, division Of sanitary inspection, OF
vision Of chemistry, division of bnc- n
riology, division Of milk and dairy o. Q,
spcction, division Of meat and food in N N
ecton and the division Of weights and -