, 1874-01-06
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Issuing of Vegetables to the
Poor.
The Relative Merits Of Different
Sirups and Tinctures.

4 regular meeting Of the County Commits
Eioners Was held yesterday afternoon, President
Ashton in the chair. The following Commits
sioners were also present: Doguo, Singer,
Busse, RUSSELL. Roe1le, Burdick. Clougb, Jones.
Lonergan, Harris, Hertiug, johnson, and Har-
rison.
LETTERS FROM THE CLERKS.
4 petition from the Clerk ct tho Circuit
Court for furniture for the court was referred
to the Committee On Public Sery.co
4 communication was received from the same
official, complaining that tho quarters now oc-
cupicd by him wcro too small aud lily ventilated,
the floor unsafe, and the walls dangerous. It
was also referred to the same Committee.
The County CLERK presented q communication
calling tho attention Of tho Board to certain ir-
rog1larities in the payment OF fees. This. with
another communication from Mr.. Pollak explain
ing 1t, was referred to tho Committee Oh Judi
ciary.
VEGETABLES YoR THE POOR
A communication was received from Sanitary
Superintendent Miller as follows:
The attention Of the Board has BEEN called to tho
fact that your honorable body are not issuing to 1he
poor who helped At the County Agents Office any
portion Of vegetables, but In lieu thereof have subsi
tutcd beans and ho,niny.
your attention to the above, and ask you to coasid
tbs results. At present you hnse about 4,978 families
the books Of tie office, which will four per-
to tho family. Th1s makes about +0l persons
receiving aid from the county, wholly or in part,
large portion OF whom have no other means Of sup,
port TIE failure to 14sre vegetabes will necessarily
cut off large portion from Using anything of that
kind, for many OF them are aged and decrepit, and
= hzge percentage Of the others are feeble,
Of the deprivation Of vegetables will be tendency to
develop scorbptc Diseases and an increased delth-
rate. While depreease Tie idea Of increasing the
expense ut :his time, I would ask Tour honorable
Doad to arrange the rations issued to the poor that
they will receive fair proportion Of vegetables II
this cannos be done for Ill, would recommend that
to the oged hud feeble. II this ia dcne, it will In the
end be saving to Cook County, and on will have less
not done, it wild not only increase the sickness and
dcathrnte, but 1t will increase the expense OF caring
for them.
convenience, remain your obcdc.t servant,
BEN c. M1LLER,
Sanitary Superintendent.
The communication WAS referred to the Com
mittee on Public Charities, with power to act.
Tho special committee to whom were referred
the several bids 70 supply toe county with drugs,
reported having examined several bids for the
Insane Asylum Hospital and Poor House The
Asylum and poor-House, s1,2ls.03; uurlbut l.
Edsall, Poor.House and Insane Asylum,
S2,01734, aud Hospital, S3,76i.41; T. J. Blu
thardt, Insane Asylum aud Poor-Housc,
%, IS. and County Hospital, ss,737.9i;
Dycha i Co., Insane Asylum and Poor-Houte.
s., ,129.4s, and Hospital. 81. $40 %; ". N. Dale.
Insane Asylum and Poor-Housc, -, 1864, Hos
pital 81, G46.Y5.
Commissioner Cloush moved to give tao con-
tract for supplying the poor-Ilouse and Asylum
to Mr. II. L. uuyck, the lowest bidder.
Commissioner johnson moved to ameud by
giving the contract for Ill the supplies to Dir.
Dlutnardt, because OF lis tincturcs and sirups
and sirups and tinctures. Mr. J0huson thought
nurlhus /; Ed6a'l's tinctures and tirups were
bad, aud tho sirups aud tincsarss OF Buthards
ue,o better than the tincturcs aud sisups not
only Of Hurlbut l. Edsall, but better even than
the sirups and tinctures Of any other man. Al
though his bid VAS little higher than that OF
some others. the superior qualities OF his ting
tinctures and si1ups, ought to give him tne
bid.
Commissioner Harrison thought that the
Board would find it cheaper to abolish advertise
ing for bids, aud save time and expense by
clec.ing contractors from among tha friends OF
the members.
Mr.. Clough ineistcd On giving the Invest bid
der a chance, especially as his bond "as un1m-
peachably good -
On motion tho whole question WAS laid on the
table, AMI the bread question taken u2 for an
airing,
Commissioner Cloush moved that the whole
matter be recomulit Ted to the Committee, with
instructions to report q recommendation that
the contract be awarded to the lowest bidder.
Alter considerable discussion. the question
Was fiuai1y disposed OF by awarding the contracts
to Messrs. Schweinfurth, I,einbaus, and Baer
respectively.
The Doaid adjourned..