The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-03
DIR. BONDY GETS THERE.
Counsellor Tom Noonan
Rakes Up a Witness
and a Petition.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH YIELDS
The "Willow Flats" Made the Sub
ject of Another Protest.

DIR. Bondy may now practice medicine
in this county. The Board Of Health
gave him permission to register yester-
day. This is the result Of O professional
warfare that has been waged for nearly
year between the Health Board and the
physician.
DIR. Bondy. when he applied for per-
mission to practice, said that he had lost
his diploma, and he and the Board en-
tered on voluminous foreign cores
pondence, which resulted in showing
that one DR.. Bondy had graduated from
the College of Prague and was licensed
to practice in Austria. This failed to
satisfy the Board and it insisted that DR..
Bondy should prove that he was and
always had been and forever intended to
be the DIR. Bondy who graduated at
Prague.
The doctor began more correspondence
and employed a couple of lawyers who at
different times appeared in his behalf
and pleaded for him to the Board. That
body was obdurate.
Then as a last straw the doctor em-
ployed Counsellor Thomas F. Noonan to
intercede for him. Tom had been MEM
ber of the Legislature two.terms and was
posted on Board and committee meet
ings. He also knew the failing that doc
tors have of using words in conversation
that no one can understand, and thus he
was prepared for the battle, for when it
comes to words that carry weight and are
especially marked tech. or obs. or some
other term of distinction when they occur
in the dictionary (Which isn't often, Tom
is the best man east of the Comanche res
ervation.
WITNESS FOUND.
1t didn't take him long to find one
Marcus str ,cker, of Constable Hook q
Justice OF the Peace, who was ready to
make affidavit that DIR. Bondy was Dr.
Bondy, and that he was the same and
identical and persevering DR.. Bondy who
received diploma at the College of
Prague. The Justice even recoilected the
doctor in his boyhood's days and his emil
nently respectable and aristocratic FAM
lily. That was all Tom wanted of the doc
tors countryman, although there was
plenty more material if he wanted it,
Like clever ex-member of the Assem-
bly,, Tom had great faith in petitions and
numbers of signers, as well as the quail
ity thereof, and so he called on Register
Fielder, ex-Sheriff Heintz, Sheriff Davis,
Under Sheriff MePhilips, Surrogate
O'Neil, John Boyd, Frank Gallery, j. A.
Stegmair, M. D., p. HommelI, NJ d.,
Architect L. Fl. Giele, Henry T. Simon
and Carl H Ruempler. All of these gem
tlemen signed the petition the counsellor
presented them, which set forth their be-
lief that DR.. Bondy is DIR. Bondy, and
that he ought so be permitted to practice
in this county. In fact the carefully
worded paper left an impression on those
who read it that the entire salvation Of
the county's population depended ON per-
mission being given the physician to
practice.
Thus provided, Tom prepared for his
attack on the enemy with firm inten-
tion of driving them from their strong
hold AS ] said before, Tom knew the
weakness of the Board of Health for
polysyllabic expressions, no matter how
unintelligible they were, and Tom had
plenty in store. When permitted to plead
for his client he shot off such string OF
these words without finding even
comma for a breathing spell that in
three minutes the astounded Board
recognized how sadly it had sinned
against DR.. Bondy and deserted its flag.
1t made an unconditional surrender, and
DR.. Bondy may now dabble in smallpox,
cholera, yellow fever and all the other
luxuries of PHYSICIANS life Counsellor
Noonan was congratulated.
COMPLAINTS TO THE BOARD.
A complaint was made to the Board
that DIR. HornbloWer had failed to report
a case of scarlet fever.
Undertaken Griffith sent a communities
tion to the Board, which set forth the in
justice of the health rule, established two
weeks ago, making it compulsory for all
corpses to be conveyed to the burial
ground in hearse OF covered coffin
wagon. The undertaken said this worked
great hardship to the poor, and compelled
them to pay S. more than would be neces-s
sary if coach could be used. The Board
considered the matter and amended the
rule so that it now applies only to cases
of contagious disease.
A number of owners of sunken lots
tba ri 4, aff fhaxr
them in, and communication from one
Fitzsimmons, of "W1llow Flats Ho-
boken, was read which set forth that the
flats are breeding places for diphtheria
and in an unsanitary condition, the base
ments are filled with water and half-grown
frogs, and that Landlord Carney refuses
to make any repairs. DR.. Salstonstal said
he had served notices to have the nuis-
ance abated, and the Board ordered the
Council to investigate the matter.
Inspector Allen reported that John
Hanley No. 226 Palisade avenue; Win
field Kendall, No 40 Jefferson avenue,
and Herman Muir, OF Prospect street,
were laying earthen soil pipes contrary to
law, and counsel was directed to stop it
NO DIPHTHERIA IN NORTH HUDSON.
The complaint of a diphtheria epidemic
in North Hudson. made by Mrs. Mary A.
Fleery, two weeks ago, was found to be
untrue when investigated, and that but
II
The counsel to the Board reported that
bridge tenders cannot demand a transit
certificate for funerals coming from New
ark if State permit is provided and a
burial certificate from this county OBJ
tanned. The Board was recommended to
proceed against Charles Henning, of
Union Hill, for illegal practice by appear
ing before the Grand Jury. and to take
the same action against a man said to be
DR. Lawrence, of the Philadelphia
Hotel He gives advice free and charges
for his medicine. Counsel also reported
that he had obtained an order from the
Chancellor to show cause why the New
York Manure Co., at Kearney shall not be
prevented from dumping there.
Dr. Gordon told the other members that
ne had been informed that the entire
faculty of the Eclectic College OF Physi-
clans and Surgeons OF New Jersey had re-
signed and that their places would be
filed by regular physicians.
Warmer Weather.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 5, 1889. The
storm developing yesterday in Dakota