The San Francisco call., 1905-02-14
COMPLAIN THAT
FOOD IS POOR
Hospital Employees Object
to a Daily Diet of Beans,
Corned Beef and Cabbage
TO PROBE EXPENSES
Supervisors Call on Board
of Works to Explain De-
pletiOn of Various Funds

AT yesterdays meeting of the Su-
pervisors' Finance Committee DR..
Ward. president of the Health Board,
presented a complaint of the internes
and nurses of the County Hospital
about the poor food served. They
averred that the daily diet, which con-
sisted chiefly of "corned beef and
cabbage, beans and hamburg steak %
was SO bad that they were often COM
PEELED to leave the table without eat
ing and rs per cent of the nurses were
sick.
DR.. Ward said $4,000 would be nee
essary for better food and quarters,
but the committee thought the en-
ployes should, worry along as best
they could.
The Finance Committee called on
the Board of Works to explain the
depletion of various funds under its
control, which resulted in the laying
off of large gangs of men in the paw
ing and sewer repair departments. j.
Magee headed a delegation of labor
ers who had been dismissed in an ap-
peal for relief. The committee called
attention to the fact that $500 had
already been expended in seven
alton for repairing basalt pavements,
clear violation of the one-twelfth
clause of the charter.
I'VE desire to ascertain said
Chairman Brandenstein, whether the
money has been properly expended.
Five gangs of civil service men have
been dismissed and we want to know
whether they have been excluded to
the advantage of others"
Commissioner Aigeltinger said he
would have a statement prepared
showing the expenditures out of the
paving, sewer repair and other funds,
also the work done, men and teams
employed and dismissed and other
data, which will be gone into at a
special meeting next Friday at
o'clock.
The Finance Committee criticized
the Health Board for alleged evasion
of the civil service provisions of the
charter. D'Ancona said that four out
of the seven employees in the food in
spection department and four of the
eight in the sanitary inspection de-
partment were non-civil service men,
despite the fact that the appropria-
tons were made for civil service en-
ployes only. DR.. Ward disclaimed
any intention of evading the civil SER
vice, saying that the reorganization of
the food inspection department had
been found necessary because it was
not efficient and that it had been done
citizens. The discussion ended when
DIR. Ward withdrew his request for an
additional dairy inspector.
The City Attorney was asked for an
opinion as to whether resolutions au-
thorizing the payment of demands and
not acted upon by the Mayor within
ten days shall be considered as APP
proved by the board under the char
ter provision. The opinion is desired
because the Mayor did not approve or
disapprove certain demands of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, which was awarded the
contract to impound dogs to the eX-
clusion of H. o. Irwin, who was APP
pointed by the Mayor as Poundmas-
ter.
The Finance Committee considered
the adoption of a resolution notifying
Auditor Baehr and other municipal
departments that in future all de-
mands for wages and salaries outside
of those specifically provided for in
the charter must be presented to the
Board of Supervisors for approval
The proposed resolution is aimed al
the Board of Works, which heretofore
has expended certain funds without
any reference to the Board of Super
visors. Action on the resolution was
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