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

Health Commissioner rmerv =,
brookiyn' to-day sent a letter to Police
commissioner Welles asking for an in.
Vestigation of the lie Kalb and Clermon,
Avenue Stations with regard to tbs
method of administering the law ro-
lating to the night medical service.
The city allows 1000 per year for tb,.
purpose. Any physician may register 4,
the police station nearest his home
and the officers select from this list !,
physician my tcL to attend any person who ma,
Dr. Emery's letter Is follows:
Leonard X. Weues Commissioner Of Police
Dear SIR; 1t s m ydnty TO call your attention u
the following facts which; in my judgment, d.
Carlton avenue, resides and is registered in ths
Fourth Precinct. and is therefore entitled to His
share OF the night medical calls in this precinct
As matter OF fact he secures them ali an;
they are 80 numerous that his bills for mi.
appropriation. Wv 'n'is
Dr. curran also receives many calls from I'm.
Twenty-hrst Precinct, in which a non resident
stances may admit Of a satisfactory explanation
but they certainly Justify the suspicion tha;
night medical calls are being needlessly multi.
piled In the Fourth and Twenty first Precinct,
for the benefit OF one physician.
further suspicious Circumstance has come 70.
Gently to my notice. Or. Curran reports that III.
attended patient at SIS Raymond street on thu
2sth ult., and the report OF the orioer detailed
as messenger corobora.es this statement. giving
the name OF the patient az Mary Mccarthy
DR.. Curran also reports that he attended a
patient at s6 Raymond street, on the 3oth ult.
giving Mary Mccarthy as the name OF this ps
tient also. | have since ascertained that Dr. Cur
ae %.ds hs M Nal, % the sh and '
street. and that he promised on the latter occa-
sion to call again,
At ss Raymond street there is no such person a,
Mary Mccarthy Mistakes will hapnen hut
seems to me little singular that both the ofacer
and the doctor should make the same mistake
In an 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 preferenc,
for Dr. Curran is expressed by the patient, or else
that he is the nearest registered physician. |,
may be true that the residents OF the Fourth and
Twenty first precincts are much more given ia
sending to the police station for a doctor after ii
P. NJ. than are the residents Of other portions d
the city; 1t may be that the Captain Of til,
sending into another precinct for doctor
Apparently; however; there is something wrons
law in these two precincts. and an investiss
ton is hereby requested Yours respectfully
2. TAYLOR EMERY
Commissioner OF Health.
Health Commissioner Emery refused
70 talk about the matter when a 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.
Capt. Eason, OF the De Kalb avenue
station, and Capt. Hardy. of the Cler1
mont avenue station, to make a written
report in answer to the Health Conf
missioner's letter.
Police Commissioner welles wrote !
| reply to Health Commissioner Emer1
| in which he states that Capt. Eason rel
ports that DIR. Curran, since May !, has
responded to eleven calls. which,, with
a single exception. were in the district
| bounded by Raymond street, De Kalbl
| Hudson and Myrtle avenues.
~ may be mistaken" says Commits
sioner Welles. but this number does
| not seem to be an excessive demand iq
this direction.
In regard to the premises at 6s and n
| Raymond street, Commissioner WeleS
| says he has no positive Information, but
believes from the statement of the Cap
tain Of the Twenty-frst Police Precinct,
that 1t was due to transposition OF fg1
ures in reporting the number.
Commissioner Welles says he has I'M
formed the Captain of the Twenty-frs(
Precinct that In future he must call 4
registered physician, who resides in HID
own precinct, instead of calling DR.
| Curran.
Commissioner welles declares his be-
| lief in the captains statement that ht
| thought DR.. Curran lived within his pre-
| clint. DR.. Curran lives In the Fourth
Precinct near the boundary line Of tht
| Twenty-first.
Commissioner Welles, in conclusion|
says no Partially or favoritism viii b
shown in the Police Department, espeI
| cialiy In professional way.