Show bOPE FIEND AND FATHER LIVE IN SQUALOR ICKENS AND HOP MAKE STRANGE BEDFElLOWS of Bottles of Patent Killer Found y by Authorities tUG UG ENSLAVES SON lugh gh h Medicine Cont Contain Containing inis in- in ing ng is Large Per Cent of f pium Responsible I I Sy By y AM AMY ARMSTRONG II files iles of empty dope bot- bot I bot-I I K broken down furniture con- con ons Ions of squalor beyond belief yet many books by the best hors incongruous as they med there there there-an an unthinkable for human beings beins to in was in-was was unearthed yester- yester by the board of health in round of inspection and war var war tuberculosis L a frame Irame bull building at io North it gt West Vest street not b by any means looking on the buts outside ide d a man perhaps 80 SO years ol old Invalid and cripple and his son iut t 30 he condition of ot the four rooms list place was h beyond yo d the Son toil on of any n person who did not them and the Ute life led b by th the could not be depicted in ade ade- i Ce 0 e terms to picture Its degrada degrada- he rhe Inspection nurses were con conS that the old man had tuber tuber- osis although the they have not yet vet n in able to ascertain for cert certain in was ws toUte to tl 1 l The young man from Indica I ns us was addicted to the use of gs and lie he must have haye consumed m sin in great quantities Judging by bye e bottles lying Iving in heaps about the them m im lie be occupied more or less ashamed of or habit he had buried hun hundreds re s the Ithe bottles just outside or of the k door making in the house room get ef around But the pile pilo at tho ho back bac door ardly m made an impression on he h. great heap still left in in tho the edro m. m Tho The bottles were all ather small many many of them bear boar ng rig the Ule label of a Q patent cough This medicine medici e accord ng g to the label comes just within In he law covering opiates which ays tays that such medicines sh shall lot ot contain more than 2 per cent cant Under the cot bod hod where he were more of the bottles consumed as he lie lay and topped as aa emptied iThe The labels on the bottles were ware ill li It fr fresh ah and cle clean ln as was also lie he glass gloss of the bottles showing jn ii contrast at as they were to tho layers ayers of dust on everything else elso about that the consumption of all the contents content had been within a short space of time In Lu n these surroundings piles of ot filled tIlted every corner cornerS table and lair air Ir not taken up b hy by the tho empty There WItS was a whole set of or Dickens Dickens- f ore rc J were re war ar memoirs there ere ro books on religion Dombey Son was vas open at the tenth chape chap chap- he hc place e had llad not been cleaned cars Cobwebs were In net D r the dust Inches e every thick Cook Cook- cau and sleeping e in the he sam same room The were dishes all I kettles were apparently tied ed eals never nd yet the t have itself would been heen half bad If taken care There were four Ite ta largo rooms and tho structure I l ii to tn in sat a good god sized I lot Jot hc yeun I CI man was not such I II I ROOM OOM in which drug enslaved ed man and invalid father have lived for or many months note the rows of eJ empty pty R dope bottles on the shelves L 4 4 14 i 4 1 r It r t tL X r r Iu x fet L i 3 4 ij 3 I J I c L g gA gk A 4 4 k L t p 4 I 7 iS tc t i 4 Y ir 17 c 1 k r JA jJ r 5 Ay r 4 I I t p v I t y 4 4 5 JA c 4 l lr m r r L 4 1 f 5 a n bad looking sort say tho the health officers but they could not get j much satisfaction out of him All i the protest made by the old man I when ho he was told that he was to tobe tobe I Ibe be r removed d was wa a question It I isn't the poor house where you I arc going to take me is it Rumors about bout the tho neighborhood I I are that the old man had plenty of money At least they seemed to have sufficient to get got along and the tho younger of the two found the money some Gome place to buy his dope So many bottles could not have been procured without funds One da day when the he health Ith officer c called ed ho found a a bottle on oi the table in the tho room occupied pied by the father but he asked the former to take it away awny and throw jt it in in the other room He Ho said slid his son put it there and ho wanted It out of his sight ight Con Conditions such a as J those In which these two men lived are are arc such as foster oster tuberculosis and and spread it about the community The board of ot health heath has taken care of the thet t father ther and and has haa talked to the young man In plain terms making him acate vacate vacate va a cate the premises We e pity the nurses who had to give the old man mana a bath Inspectors said this morning morn morn- ing lag He lie admitted that he ha had not had one for three years The place where he be lived is to be fumigated In direct contrast to this tills is 18 the home of another man s suffering from Crom sIs The Tho board of or health has been in touch with his case for tor some time and has made his condition condition con con- as comfortable as It can be under the circumstances The Tho family tam lam ily In this case has lias given every possible pos pos- sible aible cooperation co The man was formerly a miner earning from 5 5 to 10 10 a da day After Atter being visited b by bythe bythe the nurses of the health department he himself became an enthusiast for tor every possible precaution against the spread of the tho disease |