Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-26 | Page 14 | Every Salt Laker Has His Personal Little Coal Mine

EVERY SALT LAKER HAS HIS PERSONAL LITTLE COAL MINE Carbon Deposits Found on Lungs by Local l Medicos 1 cos cosA A carboniferous example of or the effect ef et- ef- ef feet o of smoke on on lungs and a sub sub- I argument in favor or of the Jm im- immediate me mediate abatement of the smoke nuisance nuisance nui nui- sance sauce l In this city were disclosed yes- yes y at the local health department b bureau u I A student of tho the school of or medicine I at tho the University o of Utah submitted a s. of a human lung which hall hail been removed from a subject under I dissection The organ was saturated with Ith a foreign orel n substance g secreted durIng dur- dur Ing ng the tho subjects subject's inhalatiOn n of or his quota of or tho local atmosphere Analysis Anal Anal- sis determined the large black deposits to o be he carbon particles tho the amount of ot which a way was estimated to bo be nearly two ounces The subject whose name is withheld is said t to td have Vc been a lifelong lIe lIe- life life- long ong resident of Salt Lake and was CO GO years old at the time of or his death a acar year car ago Not So Several such examples have o been submitted l to the government go experts stationed here to st ld study the smoke evil according to Dr Perry Perr G. G Snow dean ean eanor of or the school of ot medicine at tho un uni ier i- i V er 0 rs I ty Whenever a a. bod body is brought ht to the school for dl dissection tho the lungs arc are always closel closely observed said Dr Snow It Is mi an Interesting fact that In n nearly every case th the or organs ans arc are completely blackened with carbon In Inho Inthe inthe the ho cases when the subjects have been rf residents of this elt city for Cor any length th of time IJo However while It ma may appear alarming this deposit of or carbon is not so disastrous ro ls as one might imagine nut Hut L' L Lun Lungs The Tho only direct et or organic harm hann to come como from front tho the carbon deposits in the lungs lUnS's is Js a decrease in the efficiency of ot that particular organ org When the extremities of ot the lungs arc are obstructed carbon dioxide does not fill Cill t the e organ OlIan at each inhalation as it should and this his condition facilitates tho the entrance and deposit of other bacilli thus makIng mak- mak mak-i mak inS inS' ng tho the system more susceptible to disease I Dr Sno Snow said the tho department p of medicIne is offering every e po possible co cooperation cooperation eo- eo operation and assistant to the government government govern govern- ment experts In their efforts to abate ho tho nuisance In this work many microscopic examinations of lung luns- ti tissue tissue sue havo have been male made in an endeavor lr to o determine to what extent tI tb th of or the tho city affects respiration and ind the rapidity with which the carbon is de de de- posited