The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-06
SINKING FUND
REPORT.
Freeholders Hear There Are
1896, ,238.98 on Hand
to Meet a Bonded
Debt Of S4,76s,
260.38.
sHlLlpoy PRECAUTIONS ADVISED
DR.. Stewart Of Snake Hill
Tells What is Necessary
For Efficient Quaran.
SMALLPOX PRECAUTIONS ADVISED

Inc report OF the County Slnkng
Fund Commissioners received at yester-
day afternoons meeting of the Board of
Freeholders showed $s66, ,2SS.sS in cash
and interest bearing securities already on
hand with which to meet the bonded debt
of 81, 76s, ,29S3s. Some of the bonds in
cluded in this amount will not expire un-i
til 1928, and this excellent financial
showing is undoubtedly the reason that
investors are always ready to purchase
Hudson County bonds at prices away be-
yond what can be obtained by Jersey
City under its present administration, A
summary of the report is:-
Cash on hand, Dec. /, 1901. $22, ,874. 9S
heceiyed during year....... 304, ,59S AS
Total. ...-..........$3 .$327, Ala. A
Bisbursed. ....s........... 10,320. 81
s.ss,;,,ls cssR balance aa s:.s 81 sls1ss s e e
Total ................. $3.50, ,23S 81
In Communication, DR.. Robert Stew
art, of the Snake Hill Isolation Hospital,
advised that additional precautions be
taken for the more complete quarantin-
ing of the smallpox patients and things
connected with the Institution in which
they are cared for. He recommended,
among other things, that a stable be built
inside the hospital grounds, and that
horses and wagons used to bring patients
to the Hill be kept there.
The Doctor stated that since January
l of this year the average number of
smallpox patients cared for at the isola-
ton hospital was twenty-five day, and
he feared this number was likely to be
increased before the raYages of the dis
ease succumbed to warmer weather.
The board, by resolution offered by
Fresholder Clements, directed an emer-
genoy appropriation Of $1,000 to be raised
by means of a temporary loan bond to be
included in the fiscal levy for the next
fiscal year.
As predicted by "The News" on mo-
ton Of Freekoider Pairson, DR.. Richard
Schlemm. assistant county physician,
was assigned to care for the sick at
the penitentiary, and the contagious dis
ease hospital, and DR.. NJ Frederick
Furey, Of Jersey City, was appointed re-
sident physician at the almshouse, at a
salary Of 81 800 per annum.
A complaint was received in reference
to an alleged nuisance caused by the
Givernaud silk mills draining into the
receiving basins Of the Paterson Plank
road. 1t was referred to the road COM
mittee for action.
w. E. scarrstt and J. Albert Stowe,
Of Kearny, petitioned to have work on
the improvement Of the Belleyille turn
pike under the State Road Act, begun
as soon as possible. The road committee
to which the matter was referred will
consider the requests on Friday.
In communication County 0verseer
Z, H. o'Neill called attention to the con-
dition Of the soldiers burial plots belong
Ing to the county in number Of direr-
ent cemeteries.
County Collector Egan acknowledged
the received Of $14,310 from Director
Ripe, the amount paid by the State for
one quarter towards the maintenance of
inmates Of the asylum.
The reports Of the wsrdens Of the sew
eral institutions for the month Of Febru-
arg, were:
Alnlshouse Inmates, 534: employees,
70; total cost Of maintenance s., ,378. II /;
rage per capita, $8.5z
s. lum- Patients, b48; employees, SO;
II COST Of maintenance, So, ,757 .O6; aver
per capita, $2eos $40.
The Board will meet again on Thurs
day, March 10.
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