The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1903, Page 6

THE SE. BATTLE 87 STAR. The Doctors Are Forced to W agel THE FORMALDEHYDE | FIEND AT WORK Unequal Battle Against the F ormaldehy de Fiend Sesanaeseccen ’ SLisT OF CHILDREN WHO DIED FROM ols. = m EASES CAUSED BY THE ADULTERATION « AND POISONING OF MILK DURING THE @ . MONTH OF qr ° KATHERINE MILLER, aged 2 months, a6th avenue north. IRENE LUCAS, aged 4 months, Green Lake. RUTH T. LAUDE, aged 8 months, 41 Evanston avenue. THADEUS JACKOWSKI, aged 8 months, 2209 Sth avenue. CARL JOHNSON, aged rr months, 1822 45th ave. INFANT MARIAN, aged ro Gays, 2815 ‘st ave WILLIE DE CARO, 4 months, r4rt 20th avenue LAWRENCE ARTHUR SEWALL, aged 5 months, Green Lake. WILLIAM HERBERT O'CONNELL, aged 6 months 11 days, 1119 roth avenue. ECHO VIOLA SCHMIDT, aged 3 months, 2515 rgth avenue JOHN LEE, aged 2 months, Green Lake VERA A. MARANDA, i 4 months, 430 agth av. MARY A. EVANS, aged 3 months 5 days, 406 28th avenue south. MYRTLE PETERSON, aged 1: months 20 days, 9304 agth N. E. MIRAM ORMSTON, aged § months to days, South Seattle. ELIZABETH HANSON, aged 4 mon’Ss 8 days, Baker between 6th and 7th. HARRY DUFFY, aged 1 year 1 day, ro1o Re- publican street. ESTHER WILHELM, aged 5 months, 810 Howard street. LEO ANDERSON, aged 3 years, 408 Harrison reet. ROBERT KINSMAN, aged 3 months, 2822 West- ern avenue. SOUP RUE E REESE SE PERE EE SERS EE ‘The city is awakening to the menace of death that is ing the hundreds of litule children within its limits. Z sickness and disease and death shown by the public health —) Fecords is alarming the e people to the need of drastic meas. | ae eee ete ernie ‘ead eae distributes poison broadcast in his mille cans, P The physicians of the city have been fighting their bat- flee with: death over the sick beds of hundreds of stricken lit ones, and while they have Worked to keep the spark of life fam going out, they have been endeavoring to figure out the ining of new phases of infantile diseases that have arisen bundreds of cases all over the city. | When the formaldehyde fiends began to fall into the hands | "the law and the city analyses of milk made public the dia- E | | ACTA cal preservatives used by them, conjecture grew into cer- and every physician in Seattle now knows that he must with deadly poisons when he fights for life beside the ‘cradles of the little ones on his daily rounds. - > “Personally, I have not a doubt in the world but that an degree of serious illness and many deaths are caused “Little golden-haired mites, rising bright-eyed and healthy from their morning naps, have clambored up in their high the poi edulséretions ediainietered in milk,” said Dr chairs and smilingly rubbed the charm of the sand man from their eyelids, while fond mothers pinned on the little bibs and penritast [wet before them the bow! of porridge temptingly swimming in milk, not knowing that in the bow! there lurked the poison of hton, chairman of the Health and Sanitation Committee of |). 5 Idehyd di ray ‘City Council, in en interview, thie morning. “For the past pee jehyde murderer, waiting to seize upon the healthy little bodies and stiffen them in the coldness and rigidity of pee the physicians all over the city have been coming ¢ of children’s ailments have also been marked. Un- {of tittle boys and girls innocently at play in their own door- n doubtedly these have been due to impure milk, and I have no | yards, For the oltanad profit Ot a pennies to the pint side tation in saying that the persons who have been guilty of | the formaldehyde fiend closes his eyes and his ears to the re | milk containing these preservative drugs, are also guil- | sults, and indifferent of consequence, preserves his stale and of murder in not a few instances ; certainly they are re lcurdling miik, umwholesome enough of itself, with deadly ble for a great amount of sickness and suffering. poison, distributing it broadcast to all who will pay the cost The attitude of Dr. Crichton is typical of the opinions of | Aside from the monstrous crime of concealing fatal drugr other prominent physicians, and all agree that under the pres- | in one of the chief necessaries cf life, the preservative fiend is conditions the lives of the children of the city under four jan imposter who should not be allowed to escape punish. of age, are greatly imperiiled, while the health of persons | ment even for the lesser crime of selling inferior and unwholee support will be gladly accorded the city officia cians who are identifying themselves with Seattle of her gravest menace. tual effects of adulterations used in milk ren tions, be an impossibility, as it may result in an innoce: person, L. INSURED Beneath Its Walls children and adults enabde them to escape the immediate | little or no effect upon the imposter and the murderer, and of the little ones. - = ‘the hands of several persons perhaps, each of whom may dis- ‘claim any adulteration of it, and in meting out punishment officials will be compelled to take measures which will so H Glarm restaurant keepers and others dealing in milk, that they Wellington Goiliery Company at Vie- toria---Police Have no Clue No measure, however severe, can be too drastic when the Srotection of the public health is sought, and when numbers is subject to undermining through the work of the in jsome food wares, and his offenses, coupled together, leave hin Something ought, manifestly, to be done. The only dif- : a ty in dealing with the situation is that the offender may ct himself behind the shoulders of other persons, and arrange his fiendish work that the law cannot make sure doubt as to which person is criminally guilty. “Be- 4@ any one of those concerned, the law may perhaps miss the b | | i | actual criminal. Will not dare to tamper with the milk themselves nor to re- it without positive knowledge that it has not been tamp- of human lives are at stake. The motive behind th ughter of littl ch milk-poisoner, although the stronger constitution of | no claim for mercy whatever. The mere payment of a fine has teaching the consumer, the poisoned miik passes through ‘This fact, however, wil! no longer offer protection. The i ‘people are awakened to the shameful condition, and public Thie $s Plundered the Pay Sacks of the ered with. Waren is one of greed merely. The sordid love of miserable bt You WOULD AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Hemombaer thae Up lo date. exclusive sed became there | COmranr Phone, James 10k, QUEEN ANNE FLOUR HAWMOKD PILLING OO., Scarne w GEO. H. woobnousr ) 1409 Second Avenue ERGOLE OP TIGA! coum, New Yors thoes. strange phases of infantile diseases, and the amount and pennies prompts the killing of the babes in their cradies and | imprisonment is, to say the least, no more than his crimet The Star has taken up the fight against impure foods, par- ticularly adulterated milk, and its strongest assistance and and physi ie movement to rid Here is a signed statement by Chemist Tanzer on the ac- “An error in the analysis must, under any and all condi- he conviction of “The analysis of milk for a dulterations or preservatives is! ~ no means an oney task, seentecing tins woes stenber of out the vast number of sub WORKMEN |New York Structure Falls With a Crash, Burying Victims Beattio trans for Ce. Freight Pas. eer and HERE ARE NAMES OF SEATTLE’S LITTLE ONES WHOSE FRESH MADE GRAVES ARE MONUMENTAL TO THE INHUMAN GREED OF THE MILK POISONERS ae \Dr. Crichton, Member of the City Council, Substantiates State- ments of Health Officer Ludlow and Chemist Tanzer cuéhbedbesuberbewtectssaune “I am sure, beyond any doubt whatever, that 1 have lost at least two of my patients during the past month through the adulteration of milk with poisonous drugs. I have at present also, the case of a little child . . ® = ® @ whose life I have been struggling to save for weeks, ® and I think by constant care and caution I will be able ® to bring her back to her good health again. I am pos ® itive that her illness was caused by formaldehyde or &® some similar poisonous preservative administered in ® milk. Str has been very sick for weeks, so very sick ® that her recovery has seemed almost a miracle. No s Sure taken to prevent dairymen or restaurant keep ® ers from seliing adulterated milk can be too severe & Once positive evidence is secured, the offender should 8 be imprisoned to the maximum extent of the law.” —Dr @ Jj. KE. Crichton, Chairman of Health and Sanitation B Committee of City Council - s me | | ne) stances used by milk dealers to preserve their milk, all of them are more or less injurious to the heajth All antiseptic and preservative drugs act injuriously upon ny ithe stornach, impairing digestion and in the cases of m Inflammation, irritation and ldrugs, causing poisoning cular convulsions are various forms of the immediate effect and the eventual effect cannot fail to seriously endanger the health of an adult, while it undoubtedly imperils gravely the |life of a little child BUSINESS MAN TOUGH ON | RSUICIDE =| = WASHINGTON Had Money and Accounts! 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