The San Francisco call., 1905-02-17
FOOD DONATIONS
ARE REQUESTED
Board of Health Appeals to
Public to Give Better Diet
to City Hospital Employees
CHINATOWN SANITARY
Supervisors Are Asked to
Amend Existing Plumbing
Laws, Deemed Inadequate

The Board of Health met yesterday
the public for donations in the way of
better food for the patients, employees
and internes at the City and County
Hospital. The attaches of the institu-
tion recently submitted an appeal for a
more wholesome diet than corned beef,
hamburger steak, beans and other
dainties, which are being served daily.
An appeal for relief was made by Pres
ident Ward to the Finance Committee
of the Board of Supervisors, but with
out avail. The resolution follows:
Whereas. The funds allowed by the Board
OF Supervisors for the maintenance of the City
and County Hospital are wholly inadequate to
tie healthful maintenance of the patients, enI
ployes and attaches of the institution; and,
Whereas. Our desire for a betterment of the
tooo especially Tor the nurses upon whose
good health must depend to a large degree the
valuable assistance they render to the inma teS
of the institution. has been shown by the PresiI
dents personal appeal to the Finance Commit
tee; and
Whereas, A petition has just been received
from the internes asking for a better table
the nurses are sick because the food while of
sood quality, is very limited in its variety;
therefore. be *
Resolved, That the charitably inclined citi-
zens of san Francisco be asked TO contribute
directly TO the hospital. or through the ladies'
committee of the California Club vegeta bIes,
fruits and milk. to allow more liberal dict
and thereby maintain better health of the
nurses and medical staff
n. T. Titus and c. W. Beaver were
appointed assistant chemists in the
pure food department.
J. II. Smith was appointed watchman
at the new leper hospital, the salary of
S25 per month being too low for civil
service certifica ton.
The board accepted the new portable
sterilizer and requested the Supervisors
to provide the necessary funds to meet
its running expenses.
The Board Of Supervisors was request
ed to abrogate the existing ordinances
governing plumbing because made
quate. The board asked that new or
suggestions submitted
The board adopted a resolution urg-
ing the Board of Supervisors to con-
struct the new hospital buildings under
the bond issue upon the present site, at
Twenty street and Potrero ave-
nue.
Miss Dykeman was appointed matron
at the County Hospital, at salary of
$50 per month.
The board adopted a resolution recit-
ing that it has been one year since any
contagious disease has existed in Chi
natown as to require quarantine meas
ures, and that the district has now
passed into a comparatively sanitary
state through the united efforts of the
Federal, State and municipal Boards Of
Health. The marine hospital service
was ordered to be notified to that effect,
and a vote of thanks was extended to
DR.. Rupert Blue for his skillful CO.
operation in all that has pertained to
the welfare of this city.
The owners of premises at 1864 Twen-
ty-second street, 799 Vallejo. 1924 Powell
and 1917 Fillmore street were ordered
to show cause on February q why they
should not be vacated.