The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-30
THE TUBERCUL IN TIST HAS TIA
ITS DAY.
Lepers Must Of Necessity Still
Be Treated Worse Than
Beasts"
PAIN WILL MOCK 1T 4 CURTAILED
AMBULANCE SYSTEM.
~Eor Does the City and County Get
Modern Hospital-Dr, John F,
Morse's Pen Picture.

AS serious as viii be the result upon
che welfare of San Francisco in the case
of small appropriations for the Street
Department and the Park Commits 81 on,
the details of which were given in inter
views with superintendent Ambrose
and McLaren published in last "Sun-
days CaII,'' it will be seen to fade
almost into insignificance as compared
with the disastrous effect of a small APP
preparation as regards the work of the
Board of Health.
There are, perhaps, many persons who
do not visit Golden Gate Park once a
year; there are doubtless many to whom
the requirement. of Market street is per-
sonaiIy small matter; the Brannan
street sewer nuisance most largely in
teresJs those VINO live in !he vicinity
though this last item win probably
take on certain hue of public concern
Eenerally-but when the direct results
IF a small levy in the case of the Board
of Health, whose work is intimately
come cted with the health and comfort
and even the lives of the entire commu-
nifty, are given upon no less an authority
than IT. John i Morse, one of the fore
most and moss energetic mem bers of
the board, the consequence upon the
public mind, to use DIR. Morse's own
language, Ought to be simply appaI-
n Iing.''
There is to be a curtaiIment of the
ambulance system, no new City and
~ ountp aosPitsI building, better
ment of inhuman conditions and IN It h
DDS of treating Icpers, no more inspec-
ton Of the large ranches and diaries
and the use of tuberculfn to determine
the existence of the dread tuberculo-
sis, and n total abstention from milk
inspection. Inspector Dockery's posi-
ton VIII become a siRecure, and, in
stead of the public not knowing ''where
it is att it Will have to realize forcibIy
the sad fact-so DR.. Morse says-that it
is in bad box, indeed.
We are buslIy engaged in giving the
matter our most earnest consideration
now" said DR.. Morse. at must be ad-
mitted that we are awaiting the decision
OF the Supreme Court with good deal of
anxiety, for upon that decision depend
many matters OF stupendous moment TO
the san Francisco public IN our depart
menr, as wei. as in many other branches
OF The municipal government. If The ola
J.
not then we have not enough money TO
carry out the affairs of this department as
they should be by several thousand
dollars.
IF the new board remains in office we
are not yet decided just how we shall pro-
eeed, but there can be not the least doubt
that very many reductions VIII have to be
made in the staff or there Will be deficit.
The reforms we will have to forego we
deem absolutely necessary Tor a city as
large and as rich San Francisco.
First, there IS the ambulance system.
It is a necessity. The stations have been
the means Of ameIiOrating a vast amount
OF main, and then just think of the num-
Der of persons who would have gone down
TO an untimeiy grave if it had not been
for them. Ii not absolutely abolished
these stations Will have TO be so curtalled
IN different ways that their usefulness will
be greatly i'm paired.
las regards the inspection OF miIk. it
Will be i'm pOSsib bic for US 10 continue the
system as we have, and 1 think efficiently,
Tor The past year. In the deception of the
l in pectlOn We found the milk sold to the
public to be adulteratea with water and
various chemicals, andfIn countless in
stances o be literally akye with the bacilli
of disease and deatf We had TO enact
many Stringe laws and rules. and pro-
cure the passage OF an ordinance compel
ling mllkmen TO take out permits 10 sell
mil, and giving US the authority to re-
woke those permits for good and sufficient
cause.
''The decent appropriation allowed us by
the last Board of Supervisors enabled us
TO insure pure milk for the use of the
public. II we have TO dismiss our force
we will have to return to the old state of
things, and if we do have 10 90 that we
want The RESPONSE bIIity to rest where il
will belong.
There is another matter we have
already undertaken, which we deem one
OF the most i'm portant reforms so far as
the public health is concerned ever inaug-
ureted III this city, and that is the inspec-
ton OF herds Of cattle to determine if anv
OF them are afflicted with tuberculosis
and the killing OF the animals so afh cted
But we have to ave men stationed on
these ranches, who stay there for several
days at a time and give the animals the