Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-04


 and justified by the Chief Magistrate of our city in his inaugural address to the new, Board of City Councilmen.
 The Mayor says that the Department of Health has become an important arm of the city government. Granted. But when His Honor adds that it is fully organized to fulfil the offices for which it was estab- | lished, we are at liberty to ask what these offices are The dispensation of doses of physic in periods of epidemic-and this through circumlocutory red-tapeism = does not realize to the judgment the useful ness of the system or the efficacy of it's enforcement to the extent boasted of in the official message. To educate the pub and habits is, of course, great point gained in promotion of general healthi- ness. But there still remains the question of questions in this regard an hospital for emergency cases of accident; reception house for relief of the afflicted poor, deni- zen or stranger.
 Indeed, the Mayor himself does not over look this necessity. He says-and we make no apology for reproducing his words from our paper of yesterday Dependent now on the town with | it's meagre accommodations, it is often distressing to care for those who have become maimed by acci- dent, to say nothing of those who become afflicted with contagious disease, and who through want or compulsion it becomes necessary to remove to hospital. Ere quently our police are called upon to take into custody, or care forsd rsdnfortunates, who have attempted suicide, been maimed by accident or quarrel, or been stricken with disease. No proper place is provided for such cases. It is hoped that our city will soon have hospital with proper appoint ments." Hoped-Mr Mayors Yes, we join in the hope, but the hope will not raise the hospital building or provide the proper ap- pointments. We must labor as we'll as hope. The citizens must give something more than good wishes and iattering expectations. They have done well already; but there is opportunity for better doing; and there is no man more fitted for the duty of creating com bined public action in aid of the hope, than the civic dignitary who so pointedly lays before the City Council, Jour great want in this matter of Hospital accommodation. As Mayor of the City, MT Boughton can call an aggregate meeting of citizens without
 mourning the danger-of being accused of
 Presumption. This perhaps, cannot be
 said of any other in the community. What
 private citizenship in delicacy would shrink from, he can undertake as 8 simple
 a party or sectarian complexion. = Human
 ity has no politics. Charity is at the base
 of all religious denominations. and an Hospital for the relief of suffering should } not have in it's advocacy, in the means of } it's attainment, in the accessories of such an institution, or in the conditions entitling the sufferer to relief, any barrier to general 7 usefulness. Think over it MT Mayor; and ) strike while the iron is hot; and give prac- : tical effect at once to your message of Mon day, by converting meeting of your fel ) low citizens. Think over it, ye of ou1 ) community blessed with the worlds wealth; and share little with your "for : lorn and shipwrecked brothers. Think : over it, ye Ministers of the Most High, no matter at what altar you serve, and hell on the good work of the 3wine and oil' 5 for the wounds of the stricken and the suffering. Think over it, ye citizens of al conditions, for every little will be some 3 thing in the aggregate of the aid required 7 for the Waterbury Hospital.