The morning call., 1893-04-22
DO NOT WANT IT.
Where Is the Pestffouse to
Be Placed =?
The Supervisors Hear Energetic OBJ
jections to Putting the Lazaretto
in the County Hospital.

Supervisors Kennedy, Ryan, FOrman.
Refs and Dandon are getting pretty well
used to large delegations in the Health and
Police Committee rooms but when about
200 indignant citizens Gro wded in yesterday
they began to feel bit nervous.
There were fully seventy delegates from
the Potrero-ayenue Improvement Club
alone, and many of them were men who
had given up days work to see that the
Pesthouse is not located in the County
Hospital grounds. AdoIph Sutro was there
also with big stick and fixed resolve
that the AImshouse tract should not re ceive
the undesirable Improvement There were
nearly a hundred protestants with Mr..
SutrO, about equally divided between genu-
Inc MIssonites and persons who had bought
outside lands in good faith.
Chairman Kennedy started the bah roll
ing by saying that everything possible 10 be
said about the matter had already been
said, and the committee was now ready to
hear what remained.
This broad hint did not satisfy any of the
delegations, and least of all did it satisfy
Mr. Sutro, who began q little speech
Chairman Kennedy interposed, Mr..
Sutro. We cannot hear anything from yOu
on the subject"
The sturdy engineer of the Comstock
was not 10 be silenced so easily.
dHl iuA SUiDB 10 MAKE z Speech, ne SAlu.
But the poorest aud the worst place Tor the
Pesthouse is in a hospital. Physicians may
say the other patients will not be affected,
but the general belief is the other way The
section around the County Hospital is a
growing neighborhoOd and the amount OF
properly that will be deprecated must
greatly diminish the revenue of the city.
The AlmShOuse tract Is also no place for it,
for the fatal reason that there is no sewer,
unless you construct oae three miles long to
3 l.
would be left to polule the neighboThOod.
1t would be simply criminal. The country
around there is tull of springs, ana the
ponds Of the Spring Valley Water Company,
which supply hall of the city with water,
could not fail to be contaminated. Just
think of il! One hundred and fifty thousand
people are to he injured for the sake of a
few thousand dollars in city with rev.
enue of 100000"
An interruption of Chairman Kennedy
and Supervisor Dundon angered Mr.. SutrO
greatly and he said:
IF the money of the city we're not stolen
and the people robbed" Here there was
another interruption, and Mr.. Satro still
more angriy. exclaimed: 81 am going to
have much more TO say before get through.
Your duty is clear as daylight You
have TO select place which is least objec-
tionable and will hurt the fewest people.
Every man of intelligence in san Francisco
Will say that such place IS TO be found on
the east shore of the peninsula, where the
wind is blowing all the time into the bay
But ii you put the Pesih0use in the center
OF the city The people viii rise 10 rebellion,
because 1t is neither right nor a proper
thing"
Supervisor Forman-Don't you know that
every physician says it would be fatal to
move smallpox patient ali that distance?
Mr.. SUtT0-N0t ii there is proper am
bulance. In New York City such patients
are moved 10 an island eight miles away.
think it fortunate that this city has such an
island as Shag Rock, and that it is wrong
to object 10 il.
Supervisor Dundon - There are people
down there Just as much entitled to be
heard as YOU are, and who object Just as
much as you.
Mr.. Sutro-Their property is not so valu-
able and there are fewer of them.
Supervisor Dundon-The people Of South
San Francisco have paid more taxes on
their property than any other part of the
city to-day.
Mr.. Su;ro-Tnere is such thing as honor
and manhood in this Morid. There is Il
proposition 10 put the PesthOuse on a tract
close to where 800 poor devils arc living who
have nothing left In this world, aud TO EN-
bitter their days by visions of pestlence.
1t Will 20 forth to the world That San Fran
cisco labOTs under such economic men that
they are going TO PIT the PesthouSe in the
vicinity Of the Almshouse.
Mr. SutrO here closed, and T.. Mcnamara
and Secretary Dwyer of the Potrero NJ
proyement Association were heard in oppo-
sition 10 locating the PeslhouSe on the City
and County Hospital grounds.
Chairman Kennedy created laugh when
DIVER said If their petition was granted
they wouldn't come any more. Yes. but
tic other fellows will!' he said.
Supervisor James declared thar the COM
mittee could not possibly decide on the
hospital grounds.
Contractor Hollis followed in the same
strain.
supervisor FOrman remarked that IL was
the unanimous recommendation of the
Board OF Health that the County Hospital
lot was the proper place Moreover, Mayor
Ebert has refused 10 sign any order author
izng Il purchase CT property while the
ely 0Wi so many OTIS of It's own.
Supervisor James-Mr. Ebert told me he
would veto any order that came up for the
purchase ~ the Partridge tract but would
consider and would not veto anything that
would not cost more than $500.
Chairman Kennedy here cut matters short
by assuring the Potrero avenue delegation
that the Supervisors had not as yet selected
the Cry aud County Hospital grounds as
the site OF a pesthouse, with an intimation
that they are not likely 10 do SO.
The delegation then withdrew.