Show HEALTH AND REMEDIES I I II Or Dr M R Stewart Formerly City Health Commissioner Fies Files Annual Report Report SOME RECOMMENDATIONS Takes Up tile the Garbage o Situation Spread of In Diseases I Sewel I It cost cORt to operate and main maintain tain tam the health department In 1909 ac according cording t to the annual report or of Dr M R Stewart former formerly cl city health commissioner which wa was submitted to Mayor John S Bransford this morn mornIn ln In Of tills this amount was spent In removing garbage for tor tile the isolatIon hospital for tor the tho crematory ane and for the health department In his regard to the garbage sItuatIon Dr Stewart 15 that the rapid growth of the tho city elt hn has taxed the ter tern to the utmost and that new routes had to be established during the year ear to handle It properly He recommends that the ct city build another garbage staton station alon along the Saltair railroad at atthe atthe the cost ot and make water con connections connections which It Is estimated wi vili cost 57 O He says sas that the tise crematory cremator Is working to Is its ful full capacity and that thata a larger garbage garbe staton station Is absolutely necessary THAT EDITORIAL WE Dr Stewart mentioned the fact that Salt Lake Lako had an epidemic ot of fever feer last spring But Dr Stewart says sa s wo soon the source to tIme dairies In Woods Cross and stamp stamped ed It out by Isolating teso these places and quarantining the tho mik milk The we that Dr Stewart refer refers to was the state board or of and Walter J Frazier Fraler city food and dalr dairy commIssioner Scarlet fever Is continually spreading In the et city Dr Stewart says sporadic cases out He declares that hula eases cases are ama not reported because the cases are arc In a light form and not even a physician consulted Tills Is tile the principal reason he assigns wh why the scarlet fever fevel situation cannot be con coil trolled In the following table lIe he gives I a statement of the tho con contagious contagious es 1903 Deaths 1909 Deaths 0 30 S Scar fever 20 7 0 33 IS 1 2 21 1 SQ i I i l I As the result of the number of con contagious diseases Dr Stewart Steart J ms that a hospital for tor contagious disease diseases be bui built b by the et city and county according to a state law which was passed bY the last legislature He declares that It would practically solve solvI tile the situation and reduce the number or of ori cases considerably D DEATH ATH RATE INCREASE The rhe death rate In Salt Lake City has Increased material materially In the last yer year and stands the highest In time the among United States Dr says sas that tIme the death rate last year ear was 1502 per pel thousand In the following table Sal Salt Lake stands frh fifth Portland 1866 Boston 1715 NewYork New NewYork York Ne New Orleans 1539 Sal Salt Lake 1502 Colorado Springs 1271 Los Ls Angeles 1252 1212 and San Francisco 1070 Dr St Stewart wart says sas that the property owners ate are dilatory In with the sewers Ho Hc says sas that cesspools are detrimental to the public health and that the counci council ought to compel tile the residents to connect with tile the sew w ers ems as soon as they are completed There weme 1193 connections mado clur Ing Imig tile the year Tile The officials of the public schools are arc praised in th the report for the man manner mannor nor ner In which Is reported among the pupils He says that tile the teachers prIncipals and the superintendent have assisted the de great greatly In from becoming exposed to contagion He recommends n a receiving hospital at tile the police station a physician and anda a nure In attendance daily There were score medical cases treated at the hospital rind and sur surgical cases a total of during tile the year oar The receipt receipts which Dr Stewarts office turned over oer overto to the treasurer amounted to He also declares that lat last year eal there were ere births In Salt Lake which were not reported to the health do de department |