The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-06
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Suggests that Police Favor Certain
prcsklyn Physicians.
Wants an Investigation in the 4th
and 21st Precincts.
Policeman and Doctor Make q
Peculiarly Coincident Mistake.

Health Commissioner Emery, of
Brooklyn, to-day sent a letter to Police
commissioner Welles asking for an in
yestigation of the he Kalb and Clermont
avenue stations with regard to the
method of administering the law re.
latng to the night medical service.
The city allows 81 200 per year for this
purpose. Any physician may register in
the police station nearest his home,
and the officers select from this list a
physician to attend any person who may
ask for assistance after IL L. NJ.
Or. Emery's letter is follows:
Leonard II. welies. Commissioner OF Police
Dear Sir: 1t Ia my duty to call your attention t.
the following facts, which, in my judgment, de-
mand an investigation: DIR. p. J. Curran,l OF 1T
Carlton avenue. resides and is registered in the
Fourth Precinct. and is therefore entitled to his
share OF the night medical calls in this precinct
As matter CT fact he secures them all, and
they are so numerous that his bills for this
service amount to nearly one-third Of the entire
appropriation.
Dr. Curran also receives many calls from the
Twenty first Precinct, In which as a nonresident
stances may admit OF a satisfactory explanation,
butt they certainly Justify the suspicion that
night medical calls are being ncedessly multi
nlied In the Fourth and Twenty first Precincts
for the beneht Of one physician.
A further suspicious circumstance has come re-
Gently to my notice Dr. Curran reports that he
18th ut. and the report OF the officer detailed
as messenger corroborates this statement giving
the name OF the patient as Mary Mccarthy.
Dr. Curran afro reports that he attended a
patient at So RAYMOND street on the Both nit.
giving Mary Mccarthy as the name of this pa
tent also | have since ascertained that Or; Cur
MADE his S S On the 2h and Gn
street and that he promised on the latter oeea-
At So Raymond street there is no such person as
Mary Mccarthy; Mistakes will happen. but 1t
seems to mo little singular that both the oficer
and the doctor should make the same mistake
In address that both had visited only two days
previous. 1t may be that in case of every cali
that comes to the Fourth Precinct the preference
that he is the nearest registered physician. 1t
may he true that the residents y the Fourth and
sending to the police station for doctor after IL
p. NJ. than are the residents of other portions OF
the city; It may be that the Captain OF the
Twenty-frst has good and legitimate reasons for
sending into another precinct for doctor.
Apparently however, there is something wrong
law in these two precincts. and an investiga-
ton is hereby requested Yours RESPECTFULLY,
T. TAYLOR EMERY.
Commissioner OF Health.
Health Commissioner Emery refused
to talk about the matter when re-
porter called at his office. He was sur
prised that 1t had leaked out. He said
he had not intended that it should be
made public.
&C. Com% az ss,'e Welles has !, ordered
capt. EdSOn,' the lie halD avenue
station, and Capt. Hardy, of the Cler-
r.ont avenue station, to make a written
report in answer to the Health Com
nlissioners letter.
Police Commissioner Welles wrote a
reply to Health Commissioner Emery
x. Which he states that Capt. Eason re-
cert that DR.. Curran, since May ], has
responded to eleven calls, which, with
: Jingle exception, were In the district
hound ID by Raymond street, De Kalb.
Fudson and Myrtle avenues.
may be mistaken" says Commits
s,oner Welles, but this number does
no.h-cein to be an excessive demand in
ah<. Erection"
tr rssoro to the premises at 6s and sc
Efymcnd street, Commissioner Welles
Jlyy ne has no positive information, bu.
he ieVes from the statement of the Cap
taip of the Twenty first Police Precinct,
nat 1t was due to transposition Of fig
urls in reporting the number.
Commissioner Welles says he has in
formed the Captain of the Twenty first
Precinct that in future he must call a
registered physician. who resides in his
own precinct, instead of calling Dr.
Commissioner Welles declares his be
lief in the Captains statement that HI
thought DIR. Curran lived within his pre-
clint. DIR. Curran lives In the Fourtf
Precinct, near the boundary line of thu
Commissioner welles, in conclusion
says no Partially or favoritism will be
shown In the Police Department. espe'
clally IN professional way.