Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-06
OUR BOARD OF HEALTH.
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Letter from DR. Ciuness.

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Letter from DIR. Ciuness.
As heretofore stated, Dr. T. W. Hunting
ton resigned from the Board of Health on
Tuesday, and yesterday Drs. W. r. Cluness'
G. L. Simmons, Jr., and w. H. Baldwin
also resigned. This leaves DR.. G. B. Glove
as constituting the entire Board within
himself, until the Board of Trustees again
meets and makes another effort to I'LL the
sadly demoralized panel. In resigning, DR..
Cluness yesterday filed the following letter,
tersely expressing the merits Oh the case
SACRAMENTO, May 5, 1886.
HIM j. Q. Broom, Mdyor and President BoGrdof
Irustees-DEAR SIR l hereby tender my reslgna-
ton as member of the Board of Health OF this
city, TO take effect at once. IN taking TINS step,
desire to express my appreciation OF the hohor
conferred by you, and the assurance that II
would have afforded me much pleasure under
ordinary circumstances, to have compiled with
the request of each of you that would serve II
re-appointed but, believing that the sanitary
interests of this or any other city should never
be made subservient to politics, can no longer
remain, directly or indirectly, party 10 so I'M
Warranlable wrong as is being perpetrated by
your associates upon the people, nor can pros
titute my own SeltreSpect or in any manner
sanction the degradation of my profession, by
being associated with man who perslstently
violates professional. ethics.
In view, however, OF the publicity given TO the
subject of the appointment of Health Oincer,
and the eyowed determination OF your assoei-
ateS to defeat the peoples choice, Walter b.
ferral, for that position /. is deemed proper that
| shall give expression to a few OF the reasons
which have prompted my actions IN the premi-
ses, and will be as brief as possible
When asked the question by YOURSELF as well
as by each of the other members ofyour Board,
II would accept position upon the Board of
Health, If reappointed, replied that there was
but one reason which would induce me TO do
so, viz: the reelection of the present lncum-
bent, Walter Il. Frrral, to the position of Health
Officer. Having been a member of the Board
for over twenty years, during which time sew
eral persons have occupied that position, felt
II my duty, as ] informed each of you, to bear
testimony to his having developed a capacity
and tact 50 far superior to that possessed by any of
his predecessors, as to demand his retention in
Office
To this, as well as many other observations
complimentary to Mr.. Ferral, each one of you
assented. Mi Jones ard Mr. Ryan saying, in
reply - That will be all right, doctor that VIII
be all right. Thus tacitly asserting 10 my eX-
pressed wishes, and inducing the belief in my
mind that no objection would be offered to the
Ieappointment OF Mr. Ferral
1t soon, however. became 81 town talk that
both OF your associates were bitterly opposed to
the candidate in question, and would appoint
Us my associates gentlemen who We're inimical
to his election.
Subsequent events are too well known TO vour-
self and the public TO require repetition. To me
they have been very distasteful to say the least
And when inquired of Mr.. Jones last Monday
evening why he had no informed me of his OBJ
lection TO Mr. Ferral prior to my appointment,
he made no reply.
Entertaining the conviction that had been
unfairly dealt with; that there exists on the
part of the gentlemen named an avowed de
termination to defeat Mr. Ferral, TO the serious
detriment of the sanitary interests of the city.
and that, as 81 last resort, they have placed upon
the Board of Health a medical man with whom
they, as well as the doctor in question, knew |
could have no professional relationship, l am
reluctantly constrained to beg that you will
present this, my resignation, at your next meet
ing.
With my highest appreciation of the interest
you have manifested in the Board of Health and
the sanitary interests of the city, | am very re-
Spectfully yours, w. R. CLUNEss. NJ. b