The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-08
SHOULD Be FIXED.
The City Health Ordinances May
Be Revised.
Proposed Measure Provides For
More Pay For Physician.
is TOO SMALL NOW.
No Provision Made For Smallpox
Cases.
Paving Contracts Are Let to
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stead of $500. Such an amendment was
introduced last night at the city council
meeting and referred to the ways ana
means committee. The councilman Wnc
proposed the ordinance is George W.
Tincher of the Sixth ward
The ordinance amendment is so word
ed that if the city physician attends
two or more smallpox cases In any one
month he gets $50 in addition to MS
salary of $50. 1t is estimated that the
extra $50 can be demanded nearly every
month of the year if conditions continue
the same as at present.
City Physician Judd has been trying
to collect SIS per visit for every smallpox
case he has attended, in spite OF the city
ordinance which provides that 500 snail
be his pay in full for each montn .
service, and which, Of course, Is alb
surdly small and unreasonable pay for
such services.
To prepare the way for this raise IN
pay, City Physician Judd last night
extraordinary expenditures since June,
1901. He says that the average monthly
expense has been $950.7T, and accounts
for this unusual drain by the exception
ally large amount Of work done. The
report says:
THE board has spent considerably
more than has been spent for several
years previous to this in any one yeai
guards for smallpox patients, but the
board felt that every smallpox house
should be guarded day and night
in order to prevent the spread of the
disease if possible
The report cites the fact that 1.-The
board reduced the expenses of the help
at the detention hospital by getting
man and his wife to take care of the
place for $50 month when the city had
been paying 500 a month for the same
service The report does not state that
the wife was allowed 81 apiece fer
washing done, or that the cost Of pro-
visions for the nest hQISR ah0ut
five times as much per patient as 1t had
been before.
The report also explains the expendi-
ture of 5000 On the city dump, which the
city physician and council tried to re-
establish.
That portion Of the amendment which
is of Importance is as follows:
''The city physician shall receive a
salary of $500 per annum, payable
monthly, which shall be in full COM
pensation of any and all services and
duties performed by him and under the
provisions Of this or any other ordi-
his duties except that for attendance
i'm smallpox cases the city physician
shall be allowed and paid in addition
to his salary as hereinbefore provided,
the sum of $25 per case for each case so
attended by him; provided however,
that the full amount allowed and paid
to the city physician for his services in
attending smallpox cases as aforesaid,
'Siidll uOl eACGGQ Tie SuIu Ol $oU IOI any
one month"
PAVING CONTRACTS.
Apparently, the paving contractors in
Topeka have fixed up their troubles,
and will allow the dove of peace to
again make her home in the midst of
the fierce" competitive bidding for Wit
rified brick pavement work.
The squabble which resulted in pave
ment at $1.121a a few weeks ago did not
materialize at the council meeting last
icrf,f no Won't. af, MI a1xy \
vided up among the various bidders.
and the lowest bids were only 21@ cents
below the city engineers estimate.
The contract for building the Wash
| Hanley, at the aggregate sum of $22,-
| 236 10. The only other bid was from
| Ramsey & Ramsey, for $23,574.18. The
| city engineers estimate on the work
| was Slightly higher than either bid.
Ramsey & Ramsey secured the con-
| tract for building the No. % sewer
| which is only a block in length. Their
bid was $S05, and that of Wall & Han
| ley, the only opposition bidders, was
| $s72.5O
The following were the awards on
| paving contracts:
! John Richie, paving at s1.1S; inter-
| section of Quincy and Fifteenth; Polk
Sixth to Tenth, alley at Eleventh and
Huntoon, Tenth avenue bridge.
| Wall & Hanley, paving at $1.17h
Eighth, from Quincy to the Shunga-
nunga, Madison, Third to Fouth; Polk
| Fourth to Sixth; Madison, Sixth to
Eighth.
Wall & Hanley. paving at $1.26, alley
| at Seventh and Quincy; alley at Fourth
/! and Quincy; strip on Ninth street
John Maxwell, grading, at 2375, 30 and
81 cents per cubic yard. All the grading
| to be done.
w. H.Bradbury, at cents per square
| yard all the rolling to be done
! stone, at AZ cents, Polk. Tenth to Hun
| toon; Clay, Sixth to Tenth With Col
orado red sandstone at 63 cents, Eighth
from Quincy to Monroe.
Kepley & Webster, Fort Scott sand
stone at As cents, Polk, from Fourth to
| Sixth.
Ramsey & Ramsey. Lyon county
stone at so cents, Madison, Sixth to
Eighth.
Capital Iron Works, iron curb at S.
cents Eighth street, Monroe to the
Shunganunga; Madison, Third to
Fourth.
Cast iron plates; all to the Capital
| Iron Works at $6.40
| Catch basins, all to Ramsey & Ram
sey at S1S.
+ vitrifed pipe, As and 80 cents. Ram
sey & Ramsey.
Quite dispute occurred over the use
of Bedford stone, which it was claimed
is not sandstone. The petition calls
for any kind of sandstone approved
by the city engineer. Mr.. McCabe held
that neither the Bedford stone nsr the
Fort Scott blue sandstone were technic-
ally speaking, sandstones, and SO he be-
lfeved it was all right to select the
Bedford, as there were no other COM
petitors.
IN SESSION ON TUESDAY.
The council did not adjourn last night
until well toward l o'clock this morn
| ing. 1t commenced its session promptly
at O'Clock, and was therefore together
for nearly six hours
The trouble commenced with the read
ing of the appraisement for IA benefit
districts, for the opening and widening
of streets Four of the districts were
not read last night, and will be taken
up at the meeting called for July 21
One of these four is the big North To-
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