The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-19


 Hardening streets ............ 3,36373 Bridge bond account .......... S,lO329 Permanent payements ..,.... 81, ,50S05 Sewers 19,5S734 Salary account .... 3,7S43S
 The report of the police department states that it will be necessary to con- tinue until the close of the fiscal year the laying off of thirty-two men each week in order to save enough money to carry the payroll through the year. The report says further that the cost of erecting the new station house on How ard avenue was 300; the department is composed of 176 officers and men, of which number 123 are patrolrnen; that there are at present ten ex-memhers of the department who receive pension from the Policemen's Relief Fund. These ten men receive $474.19 per month. The Relief Fund now amounts to S33, S61.
 Among the absolutely necessary inn provements which, the report states, are needed in the near future arc more room in the business office at police headquarters, the building of new sta tion house on the site at the corner of Dixwell avenue and Webster street and the building of steel cells in the new station house on Howard avenue, there being now no cells of any description. The estimated value of property i'll the police department is $1S1 107.65 The estimated value of property in the fire department is s346, 043.5o In the report of the health depart ment considerable space is devoted to detailing the unsatisfactory features of the present method of the collection of 1 garbage.
 I Dr. Fleischner, president of the board, states that the present system has been outgrown by the city. He claims that municipal system of collection and disposal of garbage is needed. He states that the board of health. if endowed with sufficient funds will be able to overcome all the difficulties under which the city now suffers in this re- spect.
 | The report regrets that owing to l senseless and virulent opposition New | Haven has not yet a contagious disease hospital but states that the committee 1 in charge of this work hopes soon to be able to report material progress. It is suggested that instead of referring un- complied-with orders to the prosecuting attorney, the health officer be given power to deal with these nuisanceS. It 1 is also suggested that the pest-house as an institution be defined by the com mon council as existing on the grounds at Springside, and that it's management be given formally into the hands of the l r,r hot ha o,-t ment of Charities and Correction be in- structed to be subject, in the matter of caring for pestilential disease patients, to the orders of the health board. The need of additional inspectors in the de- partment is alluded to, and an increase in the salary of the health officer is ad- vised.
 The report is signed by Dr. Flesch- ner. president of the board
 The report of the park department shows that during the past eighteen years the total expenditures on the ac. count of parks has been $460, ,42S.21. The report also gives the following esti. mates of acres and values of the Nari- ous parks:
 East Rock park, 35S acres, total value S19S, 1S5.23; West Rock park, 19S acres total value $25,S34.21; Edgewood park
 11O acres, total value s27 7,4S6.S7; Beave,
 Ponds park, b acres, total value $l6, S71.71; Bay View park, 2S acres, tota
 value s6O, ,439.64; Water Street park, |
 acres, total value S61 ,692.05; Fort Halt
 park 49 acres, total value s27,61S.15
 Fort Wooster park, r acres, total valu,
 $9,60456; Quinnipiac park, acres, tota
 value S6,10S.
 The total cost of the land was S229,
 S25.i0; the cost of the Improvements
 $2So, ,6e2.Si; total valuation. including