Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-20 | Page 1 | Preference is Given to Wounded Men

LOOKING INTO DEATH OF A FACTORY GIRL She Is Believed to Have Contracted Anthrax From "Wearing a Cat-fiur Cat-fiur Neckpiece. NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Dr. C. T. Graham Gra-ham Rogers, director of the bureau of industrial in-dustrial hygiene of the state labor department, de-partment, began an investigation today Into the -death yesterday of Miss Sophia Rosen, a factory girl, who is believed to have died from anthrax contracted from wearing a cat-fur neckpiece. Dr. Rogers said an effort would be made to trace back the handling of the neckpiece neck-piece to the time when It was prepared from the animal. The physician declared that (there was a great deal of cheap dye In the fur, especially that of cats, being used on women's clothes and that he believed be-lieved anthrax was much more likely to originate from these fin's than from the more expensive varieties.