The San Francisco call., 1898-06-16
A Roast for the Rickety
 Old PeSthOuSe.
PLAN TO REMOVE I
A SITE ON ANGEL ISLAND MAY
 BE SECURED.
Estimates of the Expenses of the Health Department for the Coming Fiscal
 Year.

The Pesthouse received another roast at the meeting of the Board of Health yesterday, but this time something Is likely to be done in consequence. Dr. Hereford. the City Physician, denounced the place as unfit for habitatlon, and James Heating, the steward, added his testimony as to the generally broken down condition of the old institution
 In pr. Hereford's report the place Is termed a disgrace to the city, but the steward comes down to more specific terms. In his report to pr. Hereford he says:
 wish to call attention to the condition of this institution (the Pesthouse) It has been allowed attempt at repairs of any kind that 1t has be- come rotten everywhere. The buildings rot ten, the foundations rotten, the sewers. water closets. plumbing, all rotten. The roof leaks like a sieve, and in case of rain the patients have to move their beds from place to another to get out of the wet for if their bed ding gets wet they have no chance to dry 1t, as there is no way of having stoves and fires in the wards. Consequently after a rain the place is cold. wet and damp and not fit place to keep animals much less human beings. It does seem shame to compel these poor unfortunat te people to suffer for the want oI decent build ing to end their days in. They do not complain at being isolated from the rest of the world, but feel that they are entitled to a comfortable building. To attempt to repair these rotten buildings would be folly and money thrown away. They were built twenty thirty years ago and were put up In the cheapest manner possible, as they were only intended tempor- ary, and they have been rotting away ever since. have been expecting them to blow down every storm that had. Respectfully submitted. JAMES P. HEATING,
 Steward.
 The two communications were read to the board, and it was decided to try to secure a site for the hospital on Angel Island. To that end, Mayor Phelan and pr. Fitzgibbon were. appointed com, States authorities for the purpose, of se- curing such concession. Should the committee be successful in it's negotia- tions the Pesthouse. problem may pc solved by the erection of substantial building on Angel Island.
 Drs. Victor F. Luchetti. Oscar Tobriner, William Bell and Henry Abrahm were recommended by the medical department of the State University for appointment as internes at the City and County Hos pital. The appointments were confirmed by the board.
 The monthly financial statement showed an expenditure of Si3,24l q for this month, most of which is for salaries.
 It was announced that the Mayor had offered to donate library and a building for the same for the use of the inmates of the Almshouse. The offer was accepted and vote of thanks to the Mayor was passed
 The nomination of Dr. P. s. Bruguiere as interne for the polyclinic ward at the City and County Hospital was approved.
 
 of a communication from the Health De- partment all deaths and infectious dis eases at Camp Merritt will be reported to the Health Office.
 It was decided to request the Supervls- ors to make terms with the Olympic Salt Water Company for salt water for hush- ing the sewers.
 The application of the California Un- dertaking Company to exhume the body of a child who died of diphtheria and remove it to Oakland for retirement brought up the subject of compulsory cremation for all who die of infectious or contagious diseases. The Health Officer had refused a permit for the disinterment on the ground of danger from the disease
 The following estimate of expenses for the coming fiscal year has been prepared by the department:
 Health officer sSOOo; secretary. s21oo; assist ant secretary, s120O; clerk vital statistics. sl2O0; clerk health officer, s12O0; statistician. sl2O0 messenger, s9O0 stenographer, $500 chief plumbing inspector. S15oo two assistant plumb s96oO; one bakery inspector, SsO0 two bath and laundry inspectors, slS00; chief market in spector s1200: six assistant market inspectors s54oc; public vaccinator $1200 cigar factory in spector $500; two garbage transportation In spectors $500; janitor. $500: bacteriologist sisCO: assistant bacteriologist. s900; helper to ist. s2o6; first assistant chemist. s12oO; second assistant chemist. sso0; veterinary surgeon :1S00; janitor, $500. Park Ambulance Station Two assistant police surgeons, $lsoo; two bulance Station-Three assistant police sur geons s2700; two drivers $500: two matrons $1440 Food Inspectors Department = Chier food inspector s240O: eleven assistant food in- spectors ss9oO; six dairy inspectors, s54oo; four cattle inspectors s4S00 Total salaries, sS5, 800; expenses of Health Department, s2S,oOO; total sllO, 800.
 The appropriation last year was $So,ooo