Show I SOUllESS l f TRUST Price Doubled for the Only Known wn Remedy for the Terrible Scourge of Child Life Legal Proceedings To Be Instituted In r I I Jan iThe 16 The Chicago chica gO gOM Car C j Medical M society clety i yd nd the Illinois III State Medical association aS will wm it is expected begin legal al ag against the antitoxin trust tiM er the antitrust law Jaw Secretary of the health department said today that he had information to tu that effect I An official statement regarding tho I death trust taunt in antitoxin was waa Issued I Otay oday by Secretary Pritchard The Th statement says ays I The antitoxin trust is In nothing more I or lor less lepa than t an a traffic ftc in Jiff I Three concerns concer which a and practically control the antitoxic I supply of almost the entire country have bave seen Ren fit to arbitrarily advance the price of their product 1 per cant This Thin Idl discovery covery was wag made by the department de tm nl of ot health helth of the city of Chicago when whop ordering its IUt needed supplies for tor charity work It was war met with thess Th h ss Increased ed i quotations i iI I Only Known j The department felt c mp to ie j I I call public attention to the evidence e e j that a combine Had td been b n tensed fanned which effectually controlled the price of f tha only known remedy for the most moat dread 1 scourge to the child life Ufe of the country i Primarily our oar object was to call atten attention I tion to the immediate effect this would I have on the death rate of ot children in inthe inthe I the city or of Chicago Since the th discovery Y YI I cry ery of antitoxin the department depar ment of ot health has ba done all aU in its power en encourage encourage i courage coulA its use UM It has furnished hed lu Ita j jOn own On medical inspectors to administer l and has provided the antitoxin hi hr all aU allce I ce where people were too tOUr poor to purchase it IL Cost Is Doubled The ho increase e in price made by the trust means that the City elty ctt of Chicago Chi go will be compelled to appropriate appropriate double the tile sum to do the tb same amount of or charity work in diphtheria cases for 1904 that It did in 1103 This I the city can do and doubtless will do but outside of must be remembered r I ll red that this burden will fall faU heal heaviest est eIt on the e fig f g heads of families 8 of modest incomes ito To lo till all II such should diphtheria their homes and they will be compelled to o pay the increased prices the burden put mit upon them by D the antitoxin trust will wW indeed be grievous Whole Country Affected It should be noted that the increased prices quoted bi bF the th trust to the city are the Ute prices of the manufacturers to tol top p l jobber This applies not only to Chi Chicago hl hi cago cage but practically to the entire coun country COUntrY try The publicity ty already given las has aroused the medical l ft to the highest indignation and no doubt will result in some action speedily being taken raken to provide a supply of antitoxin anU tom from source other than that of the combine A F Nightingale one of the trustees I of at f Ute the University of Blinds today said saidI I r think that every state in the tb Union U I should hould have a laboratory for the manu manufacture facture of antitoxin serum for use in that state |