The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-15
BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING
GARBAGE CONTRACTS LET TO 4. N. FARNHAM AND ROBERT DALY.

G9RB IG E CONIhACiS Lh4 1O A. ~
 FARNHAM AND ROBERT DALY.
 MedicaI Inspectors for Schools Resigned Hoard of Finance Action Criticized 1 An Explanation of the Members
 Travelling Expenses Gases of Conta-
 gious Diseases During December
 Peter T. ConIin's Petition.
 The contracts for collecting garbage
 for the year 1902 were let by the board
 of health yesterday afternoon to A. IN.
 Farnham and Robert Daly, who have
 had the contracts for a number ot
 years. For purposes of garbage collec- tion the city is divided into two dis tricts, the eastern and the western, and
 contract is let for each district. MT,
 Farnham gets the contract for the
 western district and Mir Daly for the eastern district. They were the only two bidders, bids submitted by others
 having been withdrawn. MT. Earn
 hams bid was s4,1OO and MT. Dalys s.
 350
 The resignations of the physicians who have been attending gratuitously
 to the medical inspection of the schools were received yesterday and accepted.
 When this inspection was started lit- h,t, a young doctors volunteered their ser
 vices without compensation. An at tempt by the board of health not long ago to have the finance board transfer the appropriation for an additional san itary inspector to an account for medl- cal inspection in the schools failed, and the designations followed yesterday.
 When they were read pr. Fleischner moved that they be accepted with re- gret, that an expression of appreciation of their gratuitous work be spread on the minutes of the board, and that the board regard with serious apprehension the failure of the board of finance to provide funds to pay for medical in spection in the schools.
 Dr. Sullivan, president of the board, thought that the wording of the motion was practically saying that they didn't think the board of finance did right in not granting money for medical inspec- tion of schools. He did not agree to this, although he was in favor of thank ing the doctors. He said that he had asked the board of finance to allow the appropriation for an additional sanitary inspector rather than for medical in epection. He thought the motion re- fiected on the board of finance.
 Dr. Fleischner said that his motion on the refusal of the finance board to give the money for medical in- spection of schools.
 Dr. Maher favored having the motion express thanks to the doctors, and re- gret at the failure to get the money for medical inspection, but did not favor making it too sharp. He asked if Dr. motion referred to the fail ure of the board of finance to allow the appropriation for medical inspection asked for at the beginning of the year, or to the failure to make the transfer more recently asked for from the sani | tary inspectors account.
 Dr. Fleischner replied that it referred | Io tie dpplopi idtioii ol 2i,oVo oohGu iNA 1t the beginning of the year, and after lis motion was amended to be more specific on this point it was adopted.
 The communication from the board of finance asking information as to the right of the health board to incur eX 1enses in going to Hartford to appear before a legislative committee, and re- turning, not approved, a bill of SIS for such expenses incurred nearly a year ,go, was read. A committee consisting if Dr. Fleischner and Dr. Sullivan was appointed to formulate reply to the finance board and this committee a. lit
 e later reported a reply to the effect hat the board of health had instructed ts members to appear before legislative in Hartford and calling at- ention to the fact that it had been the travelling expenses ordered by the board if health
 A petition was received from eX Peter J Conl masking that le be appointed sanitary inspector.
 Health Officer Wright reported tbat turing the month of December there were thirty nine cases of scarlet fever tnd two deaths from the disease, tWen- y-six cases of diphtheria and three eaths and fourteen cases of typhoid fe- rer and no deaths. There were 145 eaths during the month, of which thir- weight were of children under five ears of age and forty-eight of persons yer sixty years of age.