Show jl STEWART URGES IJ 1 MANY CHANGES t o Annual Report of City Health L 1 Commissioner Is Full of oft J t Recommendations r H r f WAR ON HOUSE FLIES 1 t FAILURE TO VACCINATE IS THE THEr r CAUSE OF SMALLPOX 1 i H H H H HII II DR STEW A I 1 4 f 4 4 Appointment nt by Instead of 4 r 1 4 beard hord of at education of a medical In Int 4 B tr of ot schools h t 4 against the common commO houe house i f fly and of a nyman i t f 4 A city and county contagious t 4 ease hospital In connection with St Jf Ei f Marks MarkK ho hospital I ft 4 Prosecution to the limit of those f II f who illegally sell morphine cocaine f 4 and poisons f S I f Enlargement of ot the crematory cremator f t of regular police sur aur t soon goon f of sewer system f H t t MM t t t M t tI t M M I The common house fly tiT or IB Is held responsible re by Dr M I R It Stewart J I city health heth commissioner in his annual I report handed to the mayor maor yesterday t for tor the most deadly work in the dissemination d sem In of disease dl elUe particularly of ty typhoid t and tuberculosis In view of at the fact that UJ t the United Stats States government t and many elites elUa of the east are waging h x a l moat mot energetic warfare on this pest for forIt j Its It destruction as well as to prevent th the contamination of foods by It it becomes b f f the duty duly dut of every evory city to join In the cru crusade i sade sadi says gays Dr Stewart He urges that I I all food stuffs such as meats milk and andI I i butter buter be kept in places not accessible i i to files lOB and that a 0 man be appointed to te tejI t jI 5 f look aft r nil nU places place where w re flies files breed breedi i and to see to It that such places pla should bo ho kept clean so as to reduce as far tar 11 sa saV B V possible this thle source of at disease Valuable aid he says could be rendered by such a IS nyman lyman in visiting all ail typhoid i ji cases s In the city and compelling these thOde tho m In mcharge charge to observe rules or of r sanitation and to tg see that patients should be isolated f behind fly screens If It only this latter 1 I duty were performed in relation to ty s i Mold Ur Tir Stewart believes belleve it would profit the 0 public a It thousand fold Colit I j Inspection of Schools I 4 I Dr Stewart insists that there Is 1 no let def definite C t 1 mite JnUe plan iIan at present of medical inspection f 1 of schools To get the right kind of InI In Inspection f I I the right man should be obtained 4 I and he hI should be us paid p kl enough lie He roe rec recommends 1 that th t the city propose to the board or ot o education the appointment of or f such a person lerson and nd agree to t pay 1 at least leasta I a part art of the expense He lie objected to extension of or time being given glen to any an one to make connections J with About 10 connections are aret t being made monthly and the city It is ISI I Witching up ill J He lie says that the urgent need of more Ii sewers Is I apparent constantly The Thc south couth southa a end of State Main West Temple Tempi and First ViraL West streets including cross crons streets street and alleys are particularly bad b d and hi I hii I i recommends that the sewer system be completed throughout these localities lie Uv believes that after the proposed leg lea leaI Is enacted the county and city I p will soon be able to complete arrange arrangements arrangements ments with St Marks hospital for an ana ant t J 2 isolation hospital In connection for sear scar scarlet a let fever and diphtheria i i i A few trw trips to the police station II 11 says tIe tI commissioner clI will soon con convince vine vince any an one of the need of or the en enforcement fri of our laws lawe against the sale HIe Ie of or J morphine and cocaine and I 1 respectfully that the chief of police be re reo requested quested to prosecute Pr to the limit all cases eases of lit the Illegal megal sales iles of these the drugs or pot poi poisons sons ICons where they are art used with suicidal In Intent Intent Intent tent tentS S Comparative Death Table The persists In giving the th I monthly average I rage of actual residents In Inthe Inthe Inthe the average monthly death rate lie III says 5 that the th department ent points with pride to the vital vII statistics lie then gives the total monthly month average of ot death deaths or orILia 1878 ILia per WOO 1 00 to t t Following this Is what the department deportment i calls all the total monthly average of actual 1 residents O B deaths or 86 6 per 1000 itco In Inthis Inq q 1 this are put lut only the deaths tb of or those who vho f have ha resided a year ear or more in the city Cn 1 t The following comparative death table C 9 a I 1 It Is given t n 1 Average death de th rate per 1000 J Portland Jortland SiS i Tacoma acoma rj San nn Francisco ioie Los Ioe Angeles 1811 Salt Lake city Now ow York 1403 1409 Colorado Springs 1575 New Xen Orleans 1671 1674 Boston Doston 1691 Dr r Start ay ys that while the number of births bl during tin the year INU was 61 more than than in it It 1007 lOOi he felt certain that at least SO oj more children were we born bern h m In the city Ui thun n were Ore reported ported He IT tails falls to give e the dumber of ot tho thoP those reported altogether I Smallpox There were 1ST IS eases aH of smallpox and no deaths from that disease In 1903 This disease says sa Dr Stewart hiu he troubled the tJ e department de only during the tho months of ot November and December prior to which it was as only normal During those tho months a II few tow mild mill cases calleS developed and not be bl blinK bein InK in severe enough nough to cause alarm no nl advice adrice was called As AB a result the disease spread and there were ere US eases cases In the two months m All mode made good recoveries and not a death was reported from the th disease Failure to practice I fr vaccination in tn the th city and stats state is he ht says lI responsible for the periOdical prey prevalence alence lence 11 of this affliction Ire says sa It Is 18 the practice of some phy ph sd t 1 others ethera to make requests of ot oft u t f i pm m 1 s at 01 th 11 u i i e and j tx nut out that the tM department In refus refusing ing In such requests Is only carr ing out the law as It Is bound to do dor r There are ar twentynine private te alleys in inthe inthe inthe the city to be paved twelve are I 1 ed d and fifteen n partially completed and two not started Dr Stewart makes no 1 comment on the fact that these have bays not been completed aa as the law requires ex except exI I capt pt to say cay sa that the council granted an n nt t I extension of time to the owners of ot Broad Broadway 4 1 way war ay until spring t I 1 I The duties imposed on the commissioner ii t 1 an ant and l his assistant Dr S G 0 Paul Pil at the IS 1 Jail jal have become m so 80 great that the ap appointment apI j I p of a police surgeon sur eon i Is recommended j 1 mended m During the year ear ISO surgical MUr 1 and an andI Rl I medical cases were handled at the tt jail |