The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30
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BOARD OF HEALTH AGITATED.
The Eclectics Repeat Their Demand for
Permission to Visit the
County Hospital.

A request on the part of the California
Medical College for permission to have its
students visit the City and County Hos
pital has created a lively little breeze in
medical circles.
The Board of Health has the power to
issue these permits under certain circum-
stances. Last week it laid the request of
the California Medical College on the
table, practically shelving it, and thought
the matter would drop there. But DR..
Mclean OF the college is bound that the
matter shall not end in any such fashion.
When he learned of the action taken by
the Board of Health, he penned two pointed
notes. One of them was addressed to
Mayor Sutro, and the other, which reads
as follows, was addressed to the Board of
Health:
forms me that the petition sent to you. in ref
erence to admitting the students OF the Cali
fornia Medical College to the City and County
Hospital, was laid on the table.
This may be an expeditions wav of dispOsing
OF matter, but 1t may not be just. The con-
stitution OF the United States, the constitution
of the State and the sentiment of the American
people are opposed 10 granting privileges to
one class of citizens which are denied to others
If the students OF the California Medical Col
lege Will not be admitted to the City and
County Hospital, you cannot expect that the
students of other colleges will. and if you are
prepared pre- for that contingency shall be salts
DR.. Mclean will be panied to learn that
his communication received the same
treatment as his original request-tabled.
First, however, it created breezy little
discussion, started by Mayor Sutro.
Naturally enough the Mayor asked
whats the matter? Why not grant this
request?"
Then he heard the words allopathic,
homeopathic and eclectic.
The California Medical College is an
eclectic institution.
The Board of Health is made up of
members of the allopathlc school. A sec
ton of the code was read to the Mayor to
show that the request of the college could
not be granted
surgeons TO be nominated by the faculty of the
medical department OF the University of
California, and one each of said visiting
physicians and surgeons TO be nominated by
the Medical College of the Pacific Cooper
Medical College,.
The medical college of the University of
California is composed of allopaths. So
is the Cooper Medical College. Their
students may go out to the City and
County Hospital and do pretty much as
they list in the way of gaining experience,
but students on homeopathic and eclectic
lines well, they must go somewhere else
under the law. All this was explained to
Mayor Sutro. He shook his head dubiously,
but as the doctors who explained the
matter had four votes to back their
opinions, he gave the matter a negative
acqulescence by going on with other
business.
]. ?. Kincaid, inspector of school build
ings, asked permission to order the Rich
mond district school opened again. He
promised all the necessary sanitary repairs
should be completed in a month. After
some discussion it was agreed to allow the
school to open, providing all the contracts
for repairs were let by November 5.
In regard to the Sutro School, Superin-
endent of Schools Babcock explained that
the necessary sanitary repairs were being
pushed as rapidly as possible.
Postmaster McCoppin's letter asking for
definite information on the handling of
vessels arriving here from infected ports
provoked a long discussion and several
resolutions.
DR.. Hart moved that the resolution
adopted by the Board of Health declaring
Honolulu an infected port be rescinded
EDr. Williamson amended that, as a mat
ter of precaution, all vessels arriving in
this port from Honolulu be detained across
the quarantine line until the consular re-
ports and bills of health have been sub
mitted and examined by the board
A communication was sent to the Super
lntendent of Streets requesting him to de.
tail some of his men to accompany the
Health Officer in his investigation of the
sewer system of the City, and that Profess
sor Davidson and Mr.. Grunskv be invited
to cooperate with the board and furnish
the data to facilitate the investigation.
One week from next Friday a special
meeting of the board will be held to report
on the state of the hospitals.