The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-21
CONTRACTION DISEASE HOSPITAL.
Mayor BOokwalter VIII Call Special
Council Meeting-Other Matters.

Mayor Bookwalter will ask a special ses-
sion of the Council, probably this week, to
consider the appropria ton of $13,5OO for the
contagious disease hospital Dr. Eugene
Buehler called on the mayor yesterday
morning and discussed this question and
the milk inspection question. He requested
a special meeting to take up both sub
jects. In discussing the questions he made
plain to the mayor that serious emer-
gency is facing the department of public
health, and unless assistance is given the
work will have TO gradually cease.
Il feel that the Council should act
promptly" SAID the mayor yesterday. I'VE
have been evading necessary duty in
regard to smallpox. l understand there is
opposition to the ordinance because the To-
cation of the institution is believed to
be on the south side of the city. 1 gave
my pledge individually and collectively to
the members of the Council that this in
stitution, no matter where located, would
be at least three-quarters of a mile from
the city limits. / am prepared to keep this
pledge, and provide an institution that
Will be isolated from any pOpulOus suburb.
The subject Will be put Squarely before
the Council at its next meeting, and l
trust II Will be considered without PARTISAN
ship or sectional feeling.
1t will be a serious mistake if the Coun-
Gil should not vote the $3.50 which the de-
partment of health needs to prosecute its
milk Investigations. DR.. Buehler tells me
he finds the grocerymen willing to receive
instruction and willing to follow it, and
that the progress toward pure milk is
gratifying. The amount asked will be
enough TO continue the work and to con-
tinue it means the preservation of a good
milk supply and better health. After we
have made such progress we should not
stop"
1t is understood that Democratic mem
bers of the Council oppose the contagious
disease hospital because, they aIlege, it
is TO be located south of the city-the
South Side as they call it, They urge
that it be located on the old pesthouse
grounds, north of Fall creek. DR.. Buehler
and Mayor BOOkwalter refused TO disclose
the site that has been approved, and no
one is advised whether il be north or south.
The mayor says if the Council could now
see the cases that are kept in the made
quate place provided they would not hesi-
tate. He says the board has minimized
the expense of the quarantine by accepting
the word of honor of families afflicted,
and have yet to ind one breach of faith.
However. this would not do in case of a
serious epidemic. Seven cases have been
reported in the last twenty-four hours.
City Sanitarian Buehler will ask the ar
rest of Albert Daugherty, baker. at Elev-
enth and Broadway streets, for failing to
report a case of smallpox. Daugherty
is the dOughnut manufactures who was
made codefendant with his landlord, Booth
Harrington, in a damage suit. 1t is al
legged that he contracted the disease and
did not report this fact nor employ ply
stefan. He moved TO another house and
his condition was not known until he had
nearly recovered.
DR.. W. II. Ridpatk reports three young
men al Southport in danger of death from
smallpox, because they refuse medical aid.
They are members of the Scientist Church
of God, and believe that if it is not their
time to die prayer will heal them