The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-01
Salaries and Expenses.
Curtailed.
HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS SAVED
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DE-
PARTMENT IMPAIRED.
Nine Employees Dismissed From the
Service and Sweeping Reduc-
tons Made Wherever
Possible.

The Board Of Health has followed tn,
example of the Board of Education anC
has revolutionized the department owe
which it presides. At special meetin,
yesterday five food inspectors were dis
missed, together with the cigar factory
inspector, bath and laundry inspector, as
s1stant vaccinating officer and assistan
to the bacteriologist
This, with the reduction of the allow
ances for incidental expenses of the at
taches of the department and reduction
in wages of others, will result in a saw
ing of $685. per month. Without reducing
the effectiveness of the officers who con
serve the health of the city it will per
nit of the present board retiring from of
flee without the deficit which has in
variably marked each change Of admins
tration.
An executive session Of the board wa.
held at II o'clock, at which the proposed
changes recommended by the Finance
Committee were dismissed. An hour late1
an open meeting was held. The report O.
the Finance Committee, which consists o.
DR.. r. w. Baum and DR.. J. w. William
son, was read as follows:
In accordance with instructions issued at
the last meeting of the board directing the
Finance Committee to take steps necessary
to expunge the deficit at present existing
in the funds of the department, the COM
mittee herewith submits for your approval
the following proposition:
First-Reduction in transportation account
follows: Chief Food Inspector Dockery,
allowed $55, should be reduced to s25; Chief
Plumbing Inspector Sullivan, allowed $50.
should be reduced to SIS; Chief Market In
spector Ben Davis. allowed $50. should be
reduced to s25; Veterinary Surgeon 1. w.
O'Rourke, allowed S25 per month, should be
reduced to $50 per month; Police Officer
Butterworth, reduced from $50 to s25
Al pa6t in, ~oqo ant
food inspectors: Five inspectors, each
ceiving salary of SIS per month, should
be dropped from the pay roll Of the depart
ment
Third-The following reductions in salaries
of employees at Park Emergency Hospital:
Two drivers. each receiving SIS per month,
should be reduced to $50; two matrons, each
receiving $50 per month. should be reduced
to $780, This will effect saving Of $50 per
month in the Park Hospital alone.
Fourth-The salary of Veterinary Surgeon
I. W. o'Rourke should be reduced from $3.50
TO 500 per month
John Spencer should be reduced from $3.50
to 500 per month.
Sixth-The position of assistant vaccnat-
ing officer should be abolished; amount
saved, $50.
seventh-The position of bath and laundry
inspector, salary SIS, be abolished
Eighth-The position of cigar factory in
spector, salary SIS, be abolished.
Ninth-the salaries of two assistant plumb
ing inspectors, receiving 500 per month, be
Tenth-The salaries of the twoinspectors of
garbage transportation, at 500. be reduced
to SIS.
Eleventh-The position of assistant to the
bacterioogist salary sS5 per month, be
abolished
The report was accepted, and in keepin,
with its recommendation the following
men were dismissed from the department
Food Inspectors W. Brennan, H
O'Donnell, w. McHugh, P. A. Cadogan,
J. Sullivan.
Cigar Factory Inspector R. B. Porter
Bath and Laundry Inspector P. Lydon
Assistant Vaccinating officer DR.
Phipps.
Assistant to Bacteriologist Andre Des
soulavy.
Two appointments were announced-J
Cabal was made garbage inspector, vice
Frank Corbett, resigned; John Thomas
was appointed, assistant food inspector
Salaries were fixed at SIS per month
The bill of C. H. Taylor, a special nurse
at the Pesthouse, for $3.50 salary and $S3 3;
clothes destroyed, was allowed. It was
determined that hereafter no allowance
will be made for clothes destroyed
The changes in the department take
effect TODAY.