From The Indianapolis Times, Tuesday, June 28, 1921: Having been criticized for three years for dilatory “buck passing,” the board of sanitary commissioners and the board of public health took action today to stop pollution of Pleasant Run and Bean Creek. Four public health inspectors started surveying the streams to find private sewers, improperly operating sewer interceptors, vaults which are draining into the waterways, and other sources of pollution. Where violations are found, orders will be issued to private property owners from which sewage is flowing to immediately connect with sewers, or if not available to build septic tanks. Meanwhile, the board of sanitary commissioners will attempt to enforce orders issued last year to Citizens Gas Co. and American Creosoting Co. to cease emptying wastes into Pleasant Run, and to Weber Milk Co. to stop throwing waste into Bean Creek.
From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, July 8, 1921: Of the eleven dogs found in the kennels at the Indiana College of Medicine, two were in such deplorable condition that they required immediate attention of humane officers, according to a report given at a recent meeting of the Indianapolis Humane Society board of directors by Dr. George Butler, a member of the committee on inspection of the college. The society directors determined at a secret meeting to protect the medical college from any criticism of its use of dogs for experimental purposes by suppressing the report, and society members were threatened with expulsion and other “dire calamities” if they revealed to any one that the society was failing to take steps to properly see that the dogs at the medical college were being humanely treated in accordance with its public pledge.