Show DES DIES FOR LCK LACK I OF PROPER CARE 1 AND GOOn FOD Stricken With Diphtheria Jim i Oleson Wastes Away in i Rooming House i PATIENT MAINTAINS U PITIABLE QUARANTINE QUARANTINE t MESSENGER BOYS DO WHAT THEY CAN AND COUNTY PHY PHYSICIAN PHYSICIAN DOES NOTHING t 1 t 4 44 4 t James C Leddington a former 4 o known among his as us associates t tt t as Jim Oleson Oleon died Friday f 4 from lack of proper food care cro and 4 I attention during and following a se Ie f 4 ft 4 t vero attack of or diphtheria 4 4 and probably hundreds hundres of or persons person In 4 f 1 4 Salt S lt Lake were subjected subject to the ter f 4 Infection of o the disease diee Re Be 4 I 4 ported to the county physician W V 4 4 4 R B Calderwood to he be b suffering from Crol 4 4 f 4 4 diphtheria by Dr E D Hammond H 4 1 1 t Leddington was left for nearly three 4 4 weeks in a room in the Orpheum ho hotel 4 t tf f 4 tel wih with no oneto onEto care carp for him ex 4 f 4 4 his friends among the messenger f 4 boys bos with wih no food fod except that 4 1 4 4 brought by his friends with wih no prop 4 4 er disinfectants and with little pre pre 4 4 tense at maintaining a proper juar 4 4 His friends were not re re 4 4 1 4 strained from visiting his room and 4 4 then mixed with the throngs upon f 1 4 the streets or where wherever er they might f 4 be b and the dishes di and utensils In 4 4 which they brought the sick boy by food 4 4 and drink w were wre re returned to the tho vari van vanous arl 4 4 ous restaurants and ant Irli stands t 4 4 without pi at itt It 4 After Leddington was W removed from 4 1 4 quarantine he lie wandered about abut the f 4 streets In a weakened condition for 4 4 four days dars and after aler being removed 4 e 4 to the home borne of oC Mrs Irs W V H Hill HU at 4 t 4 South Sixth East street street died two j 4 days later from rom heart failure super 4 4 induced by b lack of oC nourishing food foo 4 i 4 and proper care caret 4 t M M M t f t M t M t 4 I 1 Giving freely to him of oC their scanty t earnings risking the Infection of oC a terri ten terrible ter I Ible ble disease dLease to carry carI him a cheering word and food and drink to keep kep life In his hl body bod the messenger boy bo friends of oC James JamesC Jame I IC i C Leddington known to them as Jim f Oleson were faithful to him both In life and in death t Fader the leadership ot of Bert K E Crock Crockett Crockett t ett they the supported him paid his bi room i I rent anti and gave gae him food fo for mouths months f he was unable to work on account of Ill iii Illness il ness When he was stricken with t they cure nd ance nc and fed him him After ACter he was wa released from a pseudo I quarantine they looked looked after him and j when they the found after his death deth that hU his hi body bod under tinder the pauper laws l ws of the state I I was to be given to the medical school or orthe orthe the University of oC Utah rth for dissection th they v I I raised burial rise 1 35 with witti which tp to give ghe him t His Stormy Career Seven Seen years rs ago a o Leddington was Wa left Iee by b his father to shift for himself He be became became became came a tt messenger and held that employ 7 ment for six years Jer During that tat time tm as associated associated associated as he was with wih the most de dc depraved de I prayed element of the under world he ac acquired acI acquired the opium habit I Early Earh In DOS luS JOs he lie made a determined ef er effort effort fort ort to break away from the habit and finding it Impossible to t do so s while a a messenger left heft the service and went to live on a farm west of oC the city While hie there he was crippled with rheumatism and being unable to do the work required of oC him he lie Ie was sent seat back to Salt Sal Lako Lake on July 21 2 without money and unable to tok work k l His friends among amon the messenger boys u I secured a room for tor him at the Orpheum hotel and saw that ho he h had food foo and 11 clothes He was treated treat gratuitously for forthe forthe the rheumatism by br b Dr E E D Hammond r T whom he convinced cO of oC his earnestness in inthe inthe t the terrific struggle he lie was making against the drug habit habit About four weeks week ago he came to Dr Hammond suffering I 1 from a severe case of or sore throat Dr Hammond prescribed for him and ha he went back to his room Three days later hater he was unable to leave leap his bed and Bert Crockett notified the doctor who exam examined examIned Ber ined med him and found him to be suffering from a severe attack atack of or diphtheria diphtheria Dr Hammond at once notified the thc board boar oZ or health and in company with Assistant County Count Physician Raley finley Raey visited Ledding Leddington ton Dr Hammond Hamond notified the county county physician that he would visit the sick boy and the county count physician authorized hint him hin 1 to purchase antitoxin for the case ce That and the nailing up of oC a yellow elow flag fag Is tho th extent of or the care cre given ghen the indigent boy Y for whom the te law of the state requires requirEs that food medicines and proper medicine care car should be b provided presided Lying on a Stairway A week from last lat Thursday Theodore Theore Leddington Ledington the brother of or the sick boy 0 who Is 15 employed at a de dt department store as a a a cash boy heard that his brother was sick sick and went to room a i 1 at the Orpheum hotel When en he tried to push the thedoor door open hits his hi brother called cale to t I thim him not to come in as he had diphtheria r rAt At that time the young Joung brother states 1 there was no quarantine flag to be seen Keen Jt Theodore Theore Leddington asked aske his hl brother what he could do for him and ad was told J that he would be released from front quarantine i ithe t the next day dav Theodore Theodor then went vent back I to Mrs rs Hill Hi with whom he lives hives and anil I told tOil her of oC his brothers condition ant anji the kindhearted woman at once told him ant i t tto I to bring his brother to her house He no noI noI I Continued on Oi Page 2 Z I I I I r DIES FOR LACK OF PROPER CARE AND GOOD FOOD Continued from Page 1 titled his brother who promised to come cometo cometo to Mrs Irs Hills when he was released from quarantine A week w k ago a o last Friday Dr Hammond called at his room and told him he be was released rel from rom quarantine He was still weak eak but was recovering from his illness He did not come to Hills home that day orthe or the next and Theodore was unable I to search for him Saturday or Sunday asbe as ashe asbe be he was compelled to work late at the store Last 1st Monday he was told at the tM Orpheum hotel that the boy had left for Mrs Hills HUls home fearing that his I brother had bad fallen fallon from weakness or was I already dead the younger brother started a a thorough h search and Tuesday night dis discovered discovered covered his brother lying on the stairway alongside the World orld messenger m enger office at atM 29 M II Commercial street He persuaded his brother to come came to Mrs rs mils Hills home at once When hen he ho arrived there Mrs Ino Hill HUl states that h ht ho was vas terribly emaciated and andin andin in hi a condition of collapse Before he could reach a chair he reeled and said Dont b be frightened Mrs Irs Hill Im rm go so Ing to faint feint He was put to bed and Dr J 1 was summoned He at once said that the boy could not be moved to a hospital and that at It was doubtful dou if he could live Ue Mrs Irs Hill tended him with mth loving care and Dr ron called seven seen times to see Jlee him but he be was seized seised with vomiting and violent palpitation of the heart Friday afternoon and passed ps away while Mrs Hill HUl was get getting getting getting ting him a cup of o tea to warm his shiv shivering shivering ering body Mrs Hill made an attempt to get Dr Calderwood to toO come to see the boy as she is in somewhat straitened circum circumstances stances stan s and could it afford the tl e extra ex expense expense expense pense of ot medical attendance Bb Bhe secured the cooperation of Mrs George m nanc k chairwoman of the orphanage committee Mrs Mus Hancock k not only telephoned t d Dr Calderwood but went Weal to see him and he promised pro to call cali About 9 S Friday night Dr Raley came to a neighbor n s house bouse and Inquired where here the sick boy bov bo was on being told that he was dead the doctor went away without seeing Mrs Hill or the body Mrs Hill felt that she could not afford the expense of or the funeral and the body was turned over oer to S 3 D Evans Eans ing ins parlors unto until It could be sent Ilent to the dissecting room of the University of Utah medical school Learning that it was to be sent to the tanks where the pauper bodies are put In Ina Ina ina a solution preparatory to going on the dis dissecting dissecting tables the messenger boys boTS who had bad known Leddington raised 3 and andre secured se secured cured him a decent burial The burial took place at noon yesterday esterday and the In inI I was In the City cemetery James lames short shan life was tu full 1 of tragedy When but 15 years old his bis i mother was consigned to the state mental i hospital after having been separated from her husband The children have hae been known under their mothers name of Meson Oleson His father brought his family of or six small children to Salt Lake and tried to find them a home He was ful until be he came to Mrs Hilt Hill who ho agreed aeed to take the three little girls The two I I younger boys were sent to the orphanage I 1 and James was left to make male his own way I The youngest child died about a year I l ago The two little girls twins are now It lIt years old and together with Theodore I 15 lb years old still sun live fire with Mrs Irs HUL Dewey ag aged ed d S is an inmate of the or orphanage Theodore who Is a cash boy bo had hardly dee d decent nt t doilies enough to attend his brothers funeral and was presented with witha a new De outfit by Mr Yr Putnam the Lle depart department department department ment manager under whom be he works The messenger boy friends mends of the dead boy went in m and aad out oat of his room unchecked un unchecked checked cheeked by It any an warning except what was given by the sick boy himself hI They pro provided provided provided vided him hint to the best of their ability but I did not know what he be should eat or what should be done for him They have hare un doubt exposed hundreds to the In during illness fines both by personal contact and by hy the dishes and utensils which they took out of his room I I I I Dr Hammond states that the boy had bad enough to eat Indeed more than enough at times but that the boys who were feed ing tug him did not know What wat to get let him The Th county physician it is asserted a made no effort eUort to aid beyond authorizing the purchase of antitoxin Dr Calderwood lWOOd when asked last sight night with regard to the Leddington case ca said that he be had bad no DO knowledge of the case CUe at atall atalL atall all He admitted that the matter had hd been beat reported by Dr Hammond but said sail that the case had been attended bv by b Dr i Raley Dr Calderwood stated that ti at if the be quarantine had bad been violated the mat ter was up to the city physician ph cIAn and his assistants |