Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-08
Consumption and waste

| i2p ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2334 854
am Observation-Disclosures. 2,O56 949
| Gam Observation-Disclosures. 1917 SIC
! Sam NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2O51 7e3
| fam NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1,91254s
Gam Observation-Disclosures. 2,161, 100
| cam INSTRUMENTATION. 1907 2O1
lam ...................... 2,72O, 4G5
| san Observation-Disclosures. 8,25s 14S
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO, 2s3 S62
The results Of these measurements shows
rot only a gradually increasing consump-
ton, but one far In excess of other large
cities, and 1t is this fact which has In
fuenced Congress thus far in its failure to
recognize our need of a second conduit
Motion to Omit q Street Bridge.
A motion to strike out the @ street bridge
! proposition in the report Of the committee
| on parks and reservations was carried. The
! full text Of the report reads:
| Limited by entirely inadequate appro-
! priations, the Commissioners have con-
| tinued the development Of Rock Creek
| Park. which is destined to be one of the
| most beautiful parks in this country. This
| park must be made accessible to the peo-
pie by way Of all the good natural ap-
| proacheS on each side.
THE committee has insisently urged upon
| the Commissioners the recommendation to
Congress that provision be made for a
| bridge over Rock creek at Q street and
| other important matters within the special
| field of this committee. but has to report
| that the Commissioners find themselves
| wholly unable this year to recommend any
thing involving large expense, in the direc-
| ton of park development, because of the
necessity to go before Congress pleading
| for funds for extraordinary expenses, such
| as are caused by the sewage disposal sys
tenn, the filtration plant the terminal sys-
tenn and other absolute needs, which should
be provided for out of special plan of ad-
vances from the treasury. They do, how
ever, hold out strong encouragement that
next year they may be able to make strong
ffa,o In h oh tic
committee is particularly interested One
of these is the projected @ street bridge,
which has now an additional reason for ex-
iStence in the fact that the new union sta
ton, on Massa chusetts avenue can best be
brought into communication with the resi-
Dental part of Georgetown, and the greatly
increasing population north of Georgetown
and south of Massachusetts avenue extend
ed by a bridge at Q street, wholly free from
railroad tracks and planned at a high eleva-
ton, so as to connect Georgetown Heights
and Dupont Circle by a grade with very
little relative depression at the bridge -
The officers of the board were authorized
by a vote of the body to appear before the
proper congressional committees and pre-
sent the plans of the committee on char.
tiles and corrections.
Charities and Corrections.
The report adopted follows:
The board of charties' continues the
good work of deportation of subjects of
found lodgment in the asylum for the In
sene and other institutions of the District
OF Columbia
Persons have been sent within few
years to nineteen states and six foreign
countries to be cared for by the authorities
in places where they legitimately belong
1t has been discovered that In MANY In
stances, persons have been brought here
for the specific purpose of being cared for
at public expense but the evil is fast he
coming rau,adied hy he off oP t1,;,
efficient organization.
Hospitals.
The chairman of a subcommittee appoint
ed by your committee on charities and cor
rections to look into the capacity and use
fulness of the hospitals of the District Of
Columbia reports to the effect that 1t is In
expedient that municipal hospital for gen.
eral purposes should be erected.
I'VE find upon examination" the SUBJ
committee states, that there are available
in existing institutions, which are strictly
hospitals. in this District about 1850 beds
II is reported in some of the hospital re-
ports that the average occupation of each
bed is five days, but assuming it to be two
| weeks, each bed would accommodate
twenty-four patients in the course of a
year, so that there today accommOda-
tons for over $4,000 patients per annum
III existing institutions a capacity which
we believe to be fully equal to, If not in
excess of. the demand.
IN addition to this there are over thirty
homes, such as the Soldiers Home, the
Industrial Home School, and other institu-
lions where hospital accommodations are
available.
Ample provision seems to be made for
most classes of infectious diseases but
there is one class for which there are no
accommodations. We refer to tubercular
! diseases. There are no provisions in any
existing institutions for the care of con-
,1.a1 nBrin toe o,,1 10; f1r
iiCurables of all classes are very far below
those which absolutely required
I'VE have, therefore, to submit that in
place of erecting a hospital for general
purposes upon the ground which was ac-
qGired for the municipal hospital, 1t would
be much more advantageous to provide for
the erection of buildings in which to re-
ceive incurables of all classes confirmed
culoSiS'
This report was signed by Charles E.
Foster, chairman.
Improvement in Housing Conditions
In pursuance of the action Of the Board
Of Trade instructing your committee to take
steps toward the improvement in housing
conditions, efforts have been made in this
direction, as shown by the following taken
from the records of proceedings. beginning
with the appointment of Mr.. Thomas w.
Smith by the chairman of the committee
on charities and corrections, chairman
of subcommittee of three, with power to
confer with the Commissioners and urge
their approval of a resolution passed by
the committee on charities and correc-
tons on March 70, 1903 The resolution re-
cites:
1T is the sense of this committee that
crime and vagrancy existing in the densely
populated alleys of the city could be re-
duced by the closing of such alleys and
opening minor streets. the committee on
charities and corrections of the Board of
Trade indorses the efforts of the Commits
sioners of the District of Columbia made
in the past and will support them in fur
Their efforts to improve the sanitary con-
ditions of alleys, and recommends large
appropriations for this purpose.
Further, That this resolution be
promptly submitted to the board of direc-
tors OF the Board of Trade with the re-
quest that committee be appointed to
wait on the District Commissioners In ref