The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-03
COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH.
A Deal on an Appointment not Car
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A Deal on an Appointment not Carr
rEed Out.
DR.. Converse was not present at the meet
ing of the County Board of Health yesterday
and his absence prevented the consummation
Of a deal. which. if rumor is true, was to
make Daniel j.. Tierney, the saloon keeper
at York and Van Worst streets, an inspector
in the place of Inspector John Allen. Drs.
VaricE and McNeal evidently did not desire
to make such an unfit appointment unless all
the members Of the board were present.
After the meeting was over, | asked Dr.:
Varick if it was true that that the board
contemplated appointing Tierney! ! told him
had heard a rumor to that effect. lie re-
piled evasively.
..Tnere are all kinds of rumors afoat."
eyes, | said; s'but how much truth is
there in this ons?'
DR.. Varick looked at me with a knowing
expression on his face, and made no reply.
During the meeting, Clerk Rooney read
the financial report for the year ending De-
cember, 1893. 1t showed the receipts to have
been So, 1921; the expenses, $2,S13.54, and a
; balance on hand of $780,. Under the law,
the Board of Health must turn over to the
County Collector all balance on hand over
$500, and a warrant for Sl5.67 will be, sent to
County Collector Dugan,
Communications from DIR. Saltonstall and
from Frank G. Huttle, of No. 1902 Avsnue
D.. Bayonne, called the attention OF the
board to the delapidated and unhealthy con-
| dition of School No. 3, Ward 3, Bayonne.
The complaints showed that the walls were
cracked, the ceilings stripped of plaster. the
| wind whistles through the building like a
deserted barn, and the cellar to be flooded
with water.
Counsellor Winfield advised the board
! that Bayonne has a Board of Education and
a local Health Board, and that he thought
! the County Board of Health had no author
ity for interfering in the premises. After
! some discussion it was decided to send an in
| spector to the school to make an official in
| spection Of the building and to report the re-
| suit at the next meeting.
Rupert & Donovan, OF No. Ill Broadway,
| New York, requested the board to have
| some one supply them with a record OF
| births, with the names and addresses of the
fathers of each child. Clerk Rooney was
i directed to ascertain what object. this firm
had in securing such information before ar
ranging to furnish it.
Up to date it has been the bad practice OF
| the Board OF Health when application has
been made supported by afidavits to change
the record by simply scratching from the
record the name, age, date or other matter
alleged to have been wrong, and to write the
correction in the book OF record. This,
while doubtless honest in intention resolves
itself into simply classifying the official
record, and the registry books on file in
the office of the Board Of Health
are filled with just such erasures and
rewriting of names, dates, etc, etc. There
is scarcely a meeting of the board at which
from one to half a dozen corrections OF that
character are not asked for. By advice Of
counsel to the board this practice was dis
continued yesterday when " application,
for corrections, accompanied by the usua
a~ffidavits, were presented. It was decided
to consult with the New York Board o.
! Health and ascertain its method of making
such corrections.
The report Of contagious diseases for De
| cember was read by the clerk as follows
Jersey City, diphtheria, 81; scarlet fever, Is
membraneous Group, s; typhoid fever. Is
measles, 4. Harrison, diphtheria, 8. Towr
Of Union, diphtheria, 2; scarlet fever, 8
| West Hoboken, diphtheria, 5. North Bergen
scarlet fever, 2; membraneous Group, |
Kearny, diphtheria, i; typhoid fever, 3
Union Township membran@eols Group, l Wee
| diphtheria, so; scarlet fever, 90; membrane
ans Group, I; typhoid fever, n, aud measles, A