The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-18
SITE FOR A CITY HOSPITAL


 the chair to rule on the question as to
 whether or not the members from the
 Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
 wards would be allowed to vote on the amendment. President pro tenn. Dewell ruled that only those members from the ward in which it was proposed to locate
 the hospital could properly be allowed
 to vote, his reason being that while
 hereafter, when the hospital is located,
 the residents of the outlying wards might be effected, he saw no way in
 which the location of hospital in the
 Thirteenth ward had anything to do
 with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
 wards. .t.H
 Alderman Pickett appealed from the
 decision of the chair. He said: Tt is
 proposed to build the hospital from the
 proceeds of bonds issued by the city of
 New Haven of which these outlying wards are now part and the property there Is liable the same as property in other portions of the city. don't think
 that the decision of the chair is in ac- cord with the spirit of the charter" Alderman Dewell-'I do not consider that this amendment now before us has | anything to do with the finances of
 the city, but simply with the location
 of the hospital It would take another | resolution to make 1t effect finances" Alderman Brennan thought that the | ruling of the chair was proper on in view of the provision in the consolida- tion act. A vote was then taken and resulted in vote of to against sus- taining the ruling of the chair 's As | the vote was about'to be taken Alder | man Davis of the Fifteenth ward ask ed if the new members had a right to
 vote on the question. The chair ruled that they had not.
 Alderman Lambert then took the floor. He said: 1T hope this amend ment will not pass. The committee | was offered several sites by real estate | dealers, and the Jewell street site was considered by the committee the best" After explaining the advantages of the Jewell street site he said: "One gentle man who appeared at the public hear ing given by our committee objected | to the hospital being located on Jewell street because it would be only $50 feet from his house. Now, that same mans well is only 150 feet from a cemetery, and he said himself that the water was so contaminated from the cemetery 1 that he could not rent He said that if | the hospital was built close by the | chances of his renting would be even | less favorable. Only three diseases will | be treated at the contagious disease | hospital. They are scarlet fever, ! measles and diphtheria. Some of those who appeared at the hearing thought that smallpox cases were to be receiv- ed at the new hospital. A lot was of fered to us near Alderman Chilling
 worth's house and don't know but we | ought to have accepted it." Alderman Chillingworth-"W the | gentleman from the Fourth state the | distance from the cemetery to the pro-
 posed contagious disease hospital site? | It's a mere matter of convenience, of | course"
 Alderman Lambert-"Oh see what you are driving at It is almost
 an impossibility for physicians to at tend cases ait Springside. For in- i stance, in cases of membraneous sore throat, 1t is necessary that phy- l sicians see their patients three or four I times a day. I hope I shall never be l called to attend cases at Springside. | Now there is no law whereby cases must be removed to a contagious dis ease hospital, but it is an advisable | thing to do. If the first case of conta- | giOus disease that appears on a street
 is removed, it often prevents the disease | spreading along the entire street. don't believe that it would cost one cent to run hospital on Jewell street, | although 1t has been said that the hos | pitaI could be conducted more cheaply at Springside. It won't cost anything, | because every one who goes to the hos pital will be obliged to pay for a room. It is not true that there will be a resi- | dent physician"
 A vote on Alderman Pickett's amend ment to locate the hospital at Spring. side was then taken and resulted in it's | passage by vote of IS to 5, the vote | in detail being as follows:
 | Ayes-Nicoll, Clarke, Brennan, Cor
 coran. Whitaker Bromley, Forsyth
 Unger, Chillingworth, Pickett, TooIe. ] Compton, Isbell, Farnham, Davis Kel- | sey and Van Sickles. Nays-Guernsey. l La1lDeIl, COOlOIldl, 1SOOC ana trdn1Cn.
 The special committee on estimates
 reported some change in the appropri-
 ations as recommended by the board of | finance. In the estimates of the public | works department the committee rec l commended that the following items be l stricken out: Opening and widening
 streets, $1,5O0; crushed stone pavement, | SIS, ,O00 grading streets, $3,O0O; cobble 1 gutters, $5,500; refuing excavations. S2.- 1 0GO-a total of $30000.
 l It was then recommended that there
 be inserted for repairing of streets with | crushed stone. for which a specific ap- ! propriation was made in the estimates l of 1897 and which was not done, S26 900. and for opening and widening streets. 1 grading streets, cobble gutters and re- | filling excavations, S4O0O. The esti-
 mates as amended by the committee l were adopted.