The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-18
PHYSICIANS HAVE NEW SITE
ALDERMEN RLFUSE TO CON- SIDER CONTAGIOUS HOSPITAL.

Ministers Urge Action but Present AL
 dermen Put Matter Over to New
 Board-0biections to Salary of senler
 of Weights and Measures--Bonding
 Committee Recommends Mayors Pro
 jects--Railroad Commissioners to
 Hold Hearing.
 compared with some of the sessions of the present board of aldermen, the ex- tra session held in city hall last night was a very quite one,
 Alderman Hamilton chairman of the committee on the contagious disease hospital reported that the committee was of the opinion that contagious disease hospital should be built, but be- cause of the serious objection offered by the people of the Eleventh and Twelfth wards they recommended that the petitioners who urged the Clinton avenue site be given leave to withdraw. The recommendation was accompanied by two letters, one of which was sign ed by Drs. Foote, Daggett, iMailhouse and others, and stated that the doctors had in mind new site, which they thought would meet with no objection. The second letter was from the Min isters association of this city, and was on the same subject. After protest by Alderman Smith, who held that the site should be named, it was voted to table the whole question for action by the incoming board.
 The text of the letter from the Min isters' association is as follows:
 New Haven, Conn, Dec. 17, 1906
 To the Board of Aldermen:-W the citizens of New Haven, constituting committee of the pastors of the Protestant churches of all de- nominations in this city, in the matter of hospital for contagious diseases, would respectfully petition your honor able body as follows:
 First, That you take whatever action may be necessary to secure legislative authority to bond the citw for such amount as may in Your judgment be deemed necessary to build an isolation hospital somewhere.
 Second That, If in your judgment It be advisable to give the petitioners for the proposed site on Clinton avenue leave to withdraw, you proceed to in- vestigate other possible sites: or if there be not sufficient tme for you so to do, that you take now such action as shall leave the location of said hospital as unfinished business to be laid before the incoming board of aldermen for their immediate consideration.
 We would further represent that we thus petition for positive action on your part to secure the civilized care of contagious 'iseases in this city for reasons such as following, viz: Be- cause, according to our best informa- ton and belief, there Is now a public demand that after years of talking about it something should be done about 1t; because further delay in pro- viding this hospital is menace to the public health; because the absence of It proves a hardship, especially to the families of the wage earners, whenever diseases become prevalent; | and because continued failure to pro- vide an isolated hospital at some point easily accessible to all classes of peopIe. would render our city morally indict- able for contributory negligence in the death of many children.
 Knowing that your honorable body Is keenly alive to this public need, we re- petition you to take what ever further action on your part may