Show COSTLY ECONOMY IT T T orIEN that an attempt by bya y 1 a government to save mosey money brings out oat a storm of at e honest ui Uen but En England and has Just furnished bed such an example What is ia known as the I Blanket scandal has aroused the JInK Eug JInKI lish ish I people to a high bich pitch of Indignation tion and properly so BO In order to cut cutoff oft off an expense ex which speaking peaking would have bees been trilling trifling England less has caused a number of deaths and nd placed in jeopardy many lives Toward the th end of March ten eases cases of typhoid fever broke out ut almost t sl on the Cornwall training i ship lying oft off Purfleet A medical of ef officer fleer fiver from the port of Loudon was seat sent to investigate the cause cau e He carefully went over the ship but could find And noth neth nothing nothing ing jag in the water supply or surroundings by which th tile the outbreak could be De ex explained x Finally he began an in Inspection Inspection tion of the stores Before it had progressed far he found that army blankets secured from a city merchant had been furnished to the bays beys An AA Inquiry developed the fact that these blankets had ad made part I of a lot tot of SM shipped front from South S Uth Africa to London t of the t purchased were used u ed on the tile ship I twentynine given leR to a shore share hospital sad and the remainder were in iD storage A careful analysis of ot the blankets according to the British newspapers s snowed u a serious sates and dangerous state of infection In of ot them Further ua a large number were soiled so ed with blood Mood and ad other ether I matter er and on one swore same e lumps of ot dirt were sticking and there appeared to have been Deen no noat at attempt tempt at cleaning or dl be before fore fere skipping shipping Word W onI was at once onee sent to te South th African army headquarters i to stop atop shipping the blankets but bat the mischief has ha been done doneA A conservative estimate places p s ees the number ber of infected blankets shipped s to tod England d from South Africa at 8 Front Frain London these blankets have hare been sent in small lo Iota 0 to fifty tty different towns in the United Unite Unite Kingdom and no nobody nobody body knows know how now many have ave been sent to tic t other O ter points Perhaps the United States has haa received some of them And W 9 these possibilities bUi ea eaD D have been mused caused e through an effort e ort of the war department to save pave money not through the dishonesty of ofa ofa ofa a quartermaster The Tile blankets were sold with the knowledge of or the war wa department although al although although though the regulations provide that db cr ded blankets must mu t be torn born to into four foor pieces so that they cannot be used for anything except rags rap They were baled without being disinfected disinfect d not notwithstanding withstanding R the fact that typhoid and aad andt t ty typhus patients had lain upon them as aswell aswell vi well ell as patients suffering from other in infectious and aDd contagious diseases e The blankets used u ed on OR the e training ship were purchased front from a dealer r at t a greatly reduced price Had it not t been for tills this fact the t e crime of the war department for it cannot be described In any other ether wa might t not nave been discovered for fer a long Jonc time |