The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-27
ARE
LOPPEO OFF
Board of Health Lets
Out Officials.
FIVE LOSE THEIR JOBS
Retrenchment Causes Discharge Of
Hoffman, Howard, Monsarratt,
Shaw and Myers.

swung in deadly earnest yesterday and f
into the basket fell the heads of DIR. I
Walter Hoffman,, bacteriologst:. Dr.
w. II. Howard, dispensary physician; !
DR.. Myers. physician appointed under |
the Act to Mitigate; DIR. Monsarrat and
DIR. Shaw, veterinarians.
The offices held by these officials will
be vacant on New Years day and open
for other appointees. A sweeping reso-
luton adopted by the Board of Health
yesterday afternoon declared that these I
offices would be vacant on the first day /
of the new century.
DR.. Raymond, president of the Board,
opened the way for the Board to pnt
the present incumbents out of office by
making a statement of facts concern
ing these positions wherein he declared
that for economy's sake, and in some
cases for the sake of efficiency, changes
could be made and without further de-
llay.
With reference to the dispensary ply
sician, Dr. Raymond said he believed it
would be a good Improvement to the
service to have two men carry out
that work instead of one. He suggest
ed that as there was a physician ap-
pointed by the Board under the Act to
Mitigate, that work should be contiu
ued in the future under the dispen-
sary's physicians direction. He rec
commended that the work of the exam
lining physician under the Act to Mit;-
gate be turned over to the dispensacy
department and that two men there dc
the work.
BY combining these departments he
had figured out that there would be q
= saving to the Government of the differ
ence between $175 a month as paid tt
the present dispensary physician ano
$75 to the examining physician. tota
of $3.50, and the salaries to be paid Il
the two men in the combined depart
ment, or 5000 month. This woult
save $40 a month to the Territory On'
man could do all the outside work ant
the other all the indoor work In con
nection with the treating of patients.
The President thought that the bes
, way to carry out these suggestions wa
to declare the positions vacant by tn
introduction Of a resolution, rathe
than to request their designations.
Dr. Raymond said he had a nun.be
of minor recommendations to make Il
the reorganization of the Board o
Health, but thought that for the pres
ent too many changes must not b
made The President pointed out tha
there were two veterinarians employe
by the Board. one at $40 a month an
the other at $125. He was satisfied tha
a saving Of $65 month could be mad
by having one veterinarian do tn
work, at an increased salary-say $50
\ month. The whole method of curtail
! ment and decapitation was consisteu
with the resolution passed at the meet
ing last week and was solely on eco
nomical lines, so the President de
clared
Mr. Lowrey thought that specif
salaries had been appropriated for cel
tain of the offices, and especially fC
the examining physician under the \
to Mitigate and he did not believe ths
). the combinations of offices suggeste
by the President would be perfect
proper. He knew of one or two case
where such combinations had been e
fected-and the Board had run I
squAely against the auditing depar
ment when it came to paying the sa
- aries.
Mr.. Dole said he was heartily in f;
vor of such changes as may be nece
sary to make or render the servi
more efficient and more economica
He thought there was urgent need
both He did not expect changes to
uI made to get in friends but whatev
was necessary to do to make the Sc
vice more efficient and more economic
he was in favor of. DR.. Cooper G
Il dorsed Mr.. Dole's expressions in t
I'll matter.
have the support of the Board
-. making the changes suggested.
70 At this juncture President Raymol
wv hastened to state that his suggestio
for changes did not in any way me;
to reflect upon the ability of the ge
- tlemen in question. Mr.. Lowrey r
iterated this sentiment of the Pre-:
dent.
Mr.. Dole then moved that the pc;
tions referred to be declared vacant
January 1, 1901.
I'm making this notion" said \
Dole, ''I do not wish to be understo o
|C that IL was intended to cast any ref.
- tion upon any one"
President Raymond said there h
been no thought other than to impro
the service and to economize. The II
tion was then put to the Board and {
dispensary physician, examining oh
sician. bacteriologist and the two v,
erinarian heads were let out
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