The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-14
THE CONTAGIOUS HOSPITAL
COMMITTEE ON ORDINANCE AND BOARD OF HEALTR CONFER.

Another Site for the Contagious Disease
 Institution Suggested-Wan 1t Located
 in Fair Haven East-Board of Health
 Would Have No Jurisdiotlon-Round
 House Nuisance Cannot be Abated.
 Aldermen Belden and Nicoll and Councilmen Beers and Pickett, mem- bers of the ordinance committee, were in conference with the board of health yesterday afternoon concerning the proposed hospital for contagious dis eases. Alderman Belden, chairman of the committee, was the first speaker. He said that it had appeared to the minds of the members of the commit tee on ordinances that something should be done to have the location of the proposed hospital for contagious diseases changed from the site selected by the board of health.
 ''Mr. Belden, do you think if we se- lected any other site that we would not be met with the same objections and that these would not be urged just as persistently?" asked Commissioner Blake.
 The alderman was not prepared to answer this question, but the place he had in mind was available at much lower price than had been paid for the present site. It was on Lancraft street at the corner of Grove street, Fair Haven East, and contained twenty-siX acres. all of which, or any number, could be purchased.
 MT. Blake-'It is not question of purchase. We have already purchased a site, but the citizens object to our placing a pest house. as they call 1t, in their vicinity"
 q think the owner would exchange the whole twenty-six acres for the lot the board of health has purchased and then you could put the building in the middle of it." said MT Belden.
 ''Is this lot in the city of New Ha- ven, MT Belden?" asked Commissioner Stannard. The alderman said that was just the point upon which he wished to confer. He thought that the board of health should appoint a committee to obtain the corporation counseps opinion as to whether the board could have jur- l isdiction over the institution outside of the city limits.
 The members of the board, as well as l Councilmen Pickett and Beers, were asked if the order read fin the town of New Haven"
 1 Upon examination the question was 1 answered in the affirmative. pr. Fleischner did not think that the act l of the general assembly was capable i of any such interpretation. He con 1 tended that the act did not say town of New Haven," which was also veri- fled later
 i An opinion was expressed by a mem 1 board of the board that the location of i the hospital out of the limits of the city would relieve the court of com mon council of all say in the matter. This was looked upon by the members of the board as being suggestive of the attitude of the municipal government toward the location of the hospital on the site selected on Clinton avenue. No expression of opinion as to what the court of common council would do was given, nor was it asked by the 1 board of health.
 But there seemed to be feeling that the court of common council would reject the report of the ordinance com- mittee should 1t report adversely to the resolution offered to enforce the board to dissent from all work on the hospital until further ordered, and would pass the resolution over the heads of the committed Mir Belden was asked If the same objection to the location he had selected, as far as the oyster in terest was concerned, did not hold It was suggested that the New Haven hospital would not object to the hospi- tai on it's ground, if it had full control of it. President Fleischner knew that 1 such an arrangement could not be ac- complished. The town farm was spok- en of, but there would be the objection that the pest house was there, and then the idea of going to the almshouse would deter many who would otherwise take advantage of sending children there. Another strong argument used against the scheme was the distance a mother would have to walk 10 see her child.
 | Councilman Pickett did not think that he would ever vote to locate the hospi- tai on Clinton avenue, as long as the feeling of the people in that vicinity was as strong as it is.
 The matter was discussed at length after which the committee on ordi- nancves withdrew.
 Concerning the two points raised they both seemed to be covered in the first and the fifth section of the act ot 1893.
 The order of the court of common council reads: That the board oi health be authorized and instructed to purchase land in the town of New Ha- ven and cause to be erected thereon a suitable building to be used as a hos pital for contagious diseases" The first section of the act under which the order is alleged to have been issued says: "The city of New Haven is hereby authorized to establish, pro- vide and maintain for said city, pub- lie hospital for the reception of and treatment of patients suffering from contagious diseases, etc" This section of the act is broad enough to allow the board to go out of the city limits, but section Of the act reads as follows: | Said hospital shall be under the charge of the board of health of said city, and subject to the rules establish ed by the board, and by laws of the