Show AWFUL CARELESSNESS There must have been an appalling St looseness In the methods of the when It was Louis Health Department possible for a janitor to give out something some-thing elsq In l place of the diphtheria I antitoxin after that Imd been exhausted ex-hausted He says he gave the spurious I out because I he did not believe It was bad enough to kill children It is need of I less to point out that the opinion lItlcBomcdl such a man on the qualities I cines arc worse than useless and positively posi-tively dangerous when lie has the han I dlingof them In this case his deplorable lack o Judgment caused the death of elevenchildren The Idea of a Janitor j having the opportunity to commit such I awful havoc In life is shocking we cannot Imagine how the Jrieaun IAUUJU could allow such loose methodsto creep Into management of Its affairs But If the janitor tells tjie tfuth when he says further that his former denials qf what he had done were to protect the whole office then the affairs of the Board were In a condition of scandalous mismanagement that was nothing short of criminal Surely if there la not law enough in Missouri to prose cuLe the nersons Kiiilty of this state of affairs there ought to betand < Jf there is It should be applied speedily vigorously and without remorse To have a community relying on the beneficial bene-ficial agency of a specific remedy and have an ignorant person hand out Instead in-stead of that remedy a virulent and deadly poison > to the destruction of eleven lives before any one noticed what he was doing Is condition so terrible that without the positive evidence evi-dence Itcould not be believed It Is a trifling with human life both alarmIng alarm-Ing and felonious Justice d i 1uinds that the persons responsible far that slaughter slaugh-ter by negligence callousness or Ignorance Igno-rance or all combined be hed to an accountability strict and severe |