The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-07
HEALTH MATTERS DISCUSSED
THE CITY BOARD MEETS IN
MONTHLY SESSION.
Dumps, Plumbing, Charges Against
Inspector Smith, and Other
Problems Aired.

There was am interesting and belated
session of the Board Of Health last
might, during which there were many
discussions pertaining to matters OF
general interest.
The Health Officers monthly report
showed a satisfactory death rate for
May-36 against 81 for May of last
year There were fourteen births dur
ing the month.
The Milk Inspectors report showed
that the Union and American River
diaries were feeding bad hay and using
unsanitary water. The board passed
a resolution instructing the Secretary
to notify the police to remove Menke's
excelsior dairy from the city limits, its
location being between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth, r and S streets Similar
action was taken relative to dairy
at Thirteenth and W streets.
A motion was carried to the effect
that Assistant City Physician Ogden
be compelled to report for duty daily
and regularly.
DR.. Parkinson introduced resolutions,
which We're carried, to the effect that
patrol drivers must hereafter use every
means to learn where injured persons
live, and then remove them to their
homes instead of to the Receiving Hos
pitaL He said the law permitted none
but indigents and unknown persons to
be treated at the hospital Strangers
with means should be sent to their ho-
tells or to hospitals.
Dr.. Fay tried by an hours argument
to fngraft resolution compelling the
City Physician or his assistant to ac-
company the patrol driver in accident
cases. THAT would be a job that DIR.
Ogden could very often do he said
but the doctors decided that it would
not be practica BILE to carry out DR..
Rays ideas unless there were a Separ-
ate patrol.
DR.. Ogden was instructed to prepare
correct and careful reports Of his work
hereafter. instead Of memoranda with
out. names, dates or signature.
It came ito light that the dumps are
doing well all over the city, thriving
and breeding trouble" as Dr. Wizard put
It, Dumping thrives at Twenty-seventh
and b. at Seventeenth, and in other
locations.
We have nothing to do with the
dump question, and we are ON record
for crematories.'' said DR.. Parkinson:
and'some day the people will cry aloud
for our plan"
IHen the charges against Plumbing
inspector Smith came up. He was rep
resented by Attorney Gett, while the
prosecuting witness, w. j. Thompson,
conducted his own case. Colonel Guth-
RE, Secretary of the Plumbers Associ-
alton, testified on behalf of the inspect
or He had inspected premises at 513
., Io14 Ninth, 1922. Third and else
where. The work. he said, was sub
stantially correct, he was not sure
ABOUT certain measurements, however,
While Thompson pressed him on cross
examination and insisted on exact fig
ures.
Drs- Fay and Parkinson insisted on
more evidence. claiming that Drs. Ross.
Henderson and Fay, as a committee.
should have inspected all the places.
Drs. Ross and Wizard We're for deciding
without delay, SO the board went into
executive session.
Thompson said, in part: ST insist
that am not getting fair deal. Your
inspector permits violations much
greater than those for which you took
my license away. 1t is not right for
the Secretary of the association of
plumbers to guess on distances, when I
swear there are pipes that do not con-
meet by ten inches I made my charges
IN black and white, and you ought to
look them up
DR.. Fay insisted on having the COM
mittee examine the premises embraced
IN Thompson's charges. but Attorney
Gett asked for the dismissal Of the case
without further annoyance to his client.
DR.. Parkinson believed the board
should make a thorough investigation
of the charges before taking any steps,
saying that Smiths inconvenience was
part of the incidental worry of being an
office-holder
At the conclusion Of the executive
session it was announced that the con-
tention of Thompson was the sense of
the board, and that the matter be fur
Their investigated by the committee of
the board. which, in fact, has done
nothing whatever with the case, so Dr.
Wizard stated, in two months