Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02

De SalQ later, MADE IL necessary 1oI
tie Health Department to act as a
tool of the oystermen in order to ''re-
fute" the governments charges.
The Health Departments research
laboratory, operated under the direc-
ton of DIR. William II. Park, could
find no evidence of sewage in oysters
grown in waters that received fifty
million gallons of sewage daily.
The failure of the Health Depart
ment to \find evidence of sewage in
sewage-fed oysters was not surpris-
ing.
At the oyster trial Director Lucius
P. Brown quizzed me as to what ]
knew of Mr.. Wallstein's mysterious
activities in connection with his
slaughterhouse investigation.
AS he spoke / had in my pocket a
report to Health Commissioner Dr.
Haven Emerson bearing Browns sig
nature.
In this report it was stated that DIR.
William H. Park had failed to find
evidence of tuberculosis in the tuber-
cular LESSONS taken from animals
killed in the slaughterhouses of Brook
lyn and passed by the Health. De-
partment in consideration of bribes
paid to Health Department officials.
In the report made by Director
Brown to the health commissioner
under date of February Is, 1916, ap-
peared these words:
This report is made to RE-
FUTE the statements made by Nc
Cam February 4 to the effect that the
Department of Health has done moth
81 n with n to-,
of slaughterhouses.
January 6, 1916, n small piece OF
meat was submitted by McCann, said
by him to be tubercular and to have
been passed by one of our veteri.
narianS at SIaughterhouseS under de.
partment control. This sample was
submitted to the meteorological lab.
oratory, which reports that smears
were negative"
The small piece of meat consisted
of a caseo-calcareous lesion excised
from q hindquarter, q photograph oi
which, bearing the Health Depart
ment's inspected and passed. stamp
is in my possession.
The word negative" was provided
by the Health. Departments labora-
tory as it had been provided on many
other occasions.
The report continued
"January 10, 1916, McCann nc.
ported that he had found one hind.
quarter affected with tubercuIaI
lesion. Inspection was made by di'
rector, assistant director, and Tn.
spector Cooncy with the result thai
they found four hindquarters af.
fected with a calcificd abscess a
stifc joint.
''Thc meteorological laboratory re,
ports that smears give negative rc.
sults.''
Again the word negative" wa:
asked to confront the hideous facts
which at that moment Commissioner
Wallstein was unearthing.
The inaccuracy and bias of the re.
port was further revealed by the
statement that the Health Depart.
ment officials, as result of my re-
porting that I had found one Lind
quarter, had found four other hind
quarters. The officials had not found
those four hindquarters as reported
by Director Brown to the commits
sioner.
Two hours prior to my calling the
officials to look at these hindquarters
| had bought item, paid for them and
hung them up for their inspection
They were my property.
AT the same time I had also bought
the stripped pleura of an old COW from
Johnson avenue bearing the Health
DepdTllneIlL SJdmp. lnlS stripped
pleura ] also turned over to the of.
flcials. The report, signed by Mr.
Brown, made no mention of this fact
The report continued:
january 10, 1916, McCann re.
ported to MFR. Fiskc, secretary OF the
commissioner, that he had found
another tubercular hindquarter which
could be seen in his office,
"Mr. Ffske, Mr.. Salthe, and In
spector Dittler visited McCann's of.
flee and found the hindquarter, the
stifie joint of which had a ,caici.
fed abscess.
another hindquarter was also
found by Mccain. This was ex-
amined by Inspectors Dremm and
LaZard, who reported that Ii had q
tubercuIar Iesion.''
The untruthful description of this
diseased specimen, made over the sig
nature of the director to the commits
sioner, was consistent with the Health
Departments desperate efforts to
save itself from the collapse so soon
to come.
The carcass had been sold by s. &
II. Plaut to the retail butcher in
whose shop I discovered it and from
whom l bought it. It harbored gross
and extensive LESSONS, one of Which
was as large as grapefruit.
The specimen was so morbid that
many of the twenty witnesses who
examined it were nauseated and had
to leave the building.
A half-tone photograph of it was