The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-11

of health is at standstill with their isolation hospital We have followed the movement now forward, now back ward, and at present are impatiently waiting the favorable action of your honorable body.
 It Is unnecessary for us to repeat the story so familiar to you all of the misery wrought by a contagious disease which cuts lives short, many of which could be saved by isolation and good care, the spread of contagion from the crowded tenements, where it has its origin and cannot be properly taken care of, reaching the homes of the sick and the poor alike; the loss of money among the afflicted when removal of the sick would set the family and the wage earners free. The rapidly in- creasing prevalence of these diseases more than keeps pace with the growth of the city.
 Briefly stated, these are the results or letting all contagious cases remain where they break out. These facts have been stated by the pulpit and the press again and again, by every worker among the poor, and, best, by the poor themselves. You can provide the only remed-an isolation hospital, and
 Therefore, we, who more than all oth- CTS appreciate the urgent need turn to you and ask you to push aside every obstacle andthen act with all reasonable haste in the matter. We ask you to ap- point a committee, if necessary, to act with the board of health in the erection of the long delayed hospital.
 F. H. Whittemore, F. F. Beckwith, M. c. OConnor, committee of the New Haven Medical association. J. H. Townsend, president; R. A. Me- Donnell, secretary New Haven Medical society
 | The board received a communication from Henry S. Parmelee, president of the Fair Haven and Westville Street Railway company, setting forth, in substance, that the six-minrte schedule for the running of cars west of Norton street had been a source of loss to the 1 company, and the petitioner therefore prayed that the company be allowed to discontinue the same, except at such times as 1t deemed necessary to the ac- commodaition of travel. The matter was referred to the committee on rail- roads and bridges.
 The election of Joel F. Gilbert boiler inspector was concurred in by the coun- | cilmen.
 | Several communications were receiv- | ed from Anthony Carroll, one of which was a petition setting forth that, inas- much as the persons implicated in the alleged irregularity in street sprinkling l J i,, cf3io der the operation of the new charter, and that as these persons were the chief advocates of the proposed new charter, he therefore asked the court of common council to petition the general assembly that no further steps be talk en to enact the amendments proposed Another communication asked that the arrangement between the board of pub lie works and c. W. Blakeslee & Sons whereby the company uses the city's stone cruSher to the detrin1ent of the city, be investigated by special com mittee.
 No action beyond the acknowledg- rent of it's receipt was taken on the first communi cation. The second was referred to the committee on ordi- nances.
 The communication from the board of public works informing the court o1 common council that the bids had beer opened for the construction of the SUI perstructure of the Chapel street bridge over Mill river was referred to the com mittee on railroads and bridges in con- currence with the action of the board o1 aldermen.
 The following were elected special constables: Edward M. Myrick Dwight A. Monson, Joseph A. Rawles, William J. Cook, Robert D. Pryde, Philip Cohar and John J. Mandley.