The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
GRIFFIN'S PARTIAL REPORT

Specially Prepared for the Grand
Jury-Further Disclosures.
". D. Griffin, the expert accountant of
the Board OF Health, has submitted par
tial report of his IN investigation of the &C.
counts of the City and County Hospital
to DR.. Henry II. Hart, chairman Of the
Hospital Committee. This report has
already been examined by the Grand Jury
and Mr. Griffin himself gave evidence be-
fore that body in the same connection
yesterday afternoon. Other witnesses
who testified yesterday were Officer J. W.
Butterworth, who has been specially de-
tailed by the Chief of Police to assist the
Health Department in its investigations,
and Paul Edwards. the newly appointed
hospital steward. Mr.. Griffin's disclosures
are an ampliticaIion OF the facts already
published. and may. therefore, be left 10
speak for themselves. The report is as
follows:
Henry II. Hart, ". D.. Chairman Hospital Com
2Rittee, Board Of Heath, San Francisco CAL
DEAR SIR: l nave the honor 10 submit for
your consideration the following partial re-
port OF my Investigation OF the accounts of
the City and County Hospital TO date.
Special repair fund sppropr1ation-Jame IS
$3.50; December 4, 1896, 1925; December IS
1896, $40. Total $I275.
1t VAS understood that the annexes and
anterooms OF the different wards were to be
included in this work, but on investigation
the following were found to have been
omitted: " ard A, water closet; ward B, pantry
and office; ward c, pantry, office and bath
room; ward d. pantry, office, bathroom, sink
room and water-cioset; ward Z, pantry, sink
room, bathroom and water-closet; ward F,
Office, first nursery and two anterooms; ward
u, office, pantry bathroom, sinkroom and
water-closet; wards II, J, K, l., NJ n, Office,
pantry, bathroom, sinkroom and water-closet; (;
ward c, pantry, operating-room, sinkroom,
bathroom and water-closet.
Operating-rcoms l and 2-With the excep-
ton OF the vestibu.es no work was done In
these rooms.
Many of the bathrooms, water-closts, sink
rooms and pantries are in very poor condi-
ZION; the walls and ceiling stained with leak
age, the plaster broken off and the kalsomine
scaling
The bill of John J. Mulcreavy for concrete
work is also IN error. On actual measure
ments taken of the work performed the fol-
lowing overcharges are located: StoreIoom
charged for 24x24 should be 24x19:8; over
charge 104 square feet. Vegetable-room,
charge 440 square feet. Butcher-shop,
2sx17, should be 29x17. Passageways,
charged lot 9xoO. should be 9x46, overcharge
80 square ieet; 15x10, should be 6x11, over
charge "a square feet; 12xl5, should be l2x
10. Total oyercharges 664 square ieet, at Is.
cents, 1924 SO.
This same party renders his bill for concrete
work in water-closets in the sum of $195:
which at the rate psr foot charged by him in
the above mentioned bill, would be The
equivalent OF 1893 square feet. The actual
measurement of this work, however. is as
follows: Ward bathroom and sinkroom,
12x12; water-closet 12x12; ward B. water
closet, 12x12; bathroom and sinkroom, 12x12;
making total of 576 square feet. an over
charge OF 462 square ieet at 1S.S cents, $50 IS.
The charge OF lS.S cents per square loot for
this work is, in my opinion, ex0rbitanl, and
should not have been more than 10 cents per
square foot which, am informed. would be
a very liberal figure.
Bill of Timothy Flynn for "iathing and
plastering WALL hall, corridors aud ap-
proaches." 1855. Under the guidance of the
resident physician, DR.. +. W. Dudley, and ac-
comranied by Officer John w. Butterworth,
spt cial detail to the Health Department,
visited every ward and department of the
hospital, with the exception of the nurses
quarters and the sleeping-rooms in the execu-
tive building. and as 10 these made inquiries
of the SUPERINTENDENT OF nurses, Miss Patton,
and the matron. Mrs Black, regarding any
repairs having been PERI ormed There is no
evidence whatever of any lathing having
been done, and the only plasterng which ap-
pears to have been repaired within a great
time is as follows: Ward B. closet, about 2x5
teet; ward c, closet, about 211 square yards;
ward Z, sinkroom. about square feet; ward
ID, ceiling, about square feet
Furthermore. inquired of DR.. Dudley, who