The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-03
INDIGNATION MEETING
HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
IN FAIR HAVEN


with Power to Call Mass Meeting If
Necessary.
IA meeting Of Fair Haven citizens to
protest against locating the isolation
hospital in the Twelfth ward was held
at 142 Rowe street yesterday afternoon,
Charles Gay presiding. The other COM
mitteemen are Conrad Rabanus and
James Kane.
1t was unanimously resolved as fol-
lows:
Finst, That the need for a contagious
disease hospital is now and has been
most urgent for several years and that
New Haven is far behind other cities
of equal Importance in this regard and
that delay in building the same has
been the cause of serious loss of life,
health, happiness AMI money and the
means of great social injustlces to all
classes of the community and particu-
larry to the poor.
Second, That this great need of a
contagious disease hospital in the city
of New Haven, being realized by the
people, caused them through their rep
resentatives in the common council
and board Of aldermen,to pass an order
some five years ago which, being duly
signed by Mayor Studley became a law
and authorizing the board of health to
erect a contagious disease hospital at
Springside, where the city at that time
owned and still owns 800 acres of land
for purposes Of a public institution.
Third, That the Legislature of the
state passed law about that time,
which was duly signed by the governor
authorizing the city to issue bonds to
the extent Of about $4,000 for the cree
tion OF said proposed contagious hos
pital for the city of New Haven under
the auspices of the board of health,
within one wear.
Fourth, That an issue of bonds was
printed for the city of New Haven for
the raising Of money for the erection
Of a contagious disease hospital, but
the said bonds have never been signed
Tor issued by the mayor, or the control
Ter of the citvs
Fifth. That the purpose of the people,
the board Of aldermen and the legisla-
ture, to erect contagious hospital in
the city of New Haven, has been de-
layed and thwarted for from five to
six years by the connivance of GER
tain officials Of our city government
and the board of health, primarily
stimulated, aided and abetted by mem
bers of the New Haven Medical asso-
citation, for purposes satisfactory 10
their own personal and professional in
terests and apparently Of pecuniariy
character.
Sixth, That thus by permitting the
time limit Of one year named by the
legislature to expire, without action,
the aforenamed parties hoped to have
the hospital located in the Twelfth
ward contrary to the wishes of the peo-
pie as expressed in the order of the
board of aldermen which order we are
creditably informed has never been re-
scinded and still stands as law.
Seventh, We condemn the present at
tempt of certain members of the med
deal fraternity to place a contagious
disease hospital in some other place
than at Springside, where the people
after an exhaustive, discussion of the
question ordered it built some five and
a half years ago.
Eighth, We hereby instruct our COM
mittee to petition the the board of al
dermen to appoint a committee to go
before the next session Of the legisla-
ture to request renewal of authority
for the issuance of bonds not to ex-
coed $4,000 as the citizens In our judg-
ment are not warranted in mourning a
larger debt for this purpose at this
time, owing to the fact that the fol-
lowing large amount of property is I'M
pustly exempt by law from munich
pal taxation and contributes nothing
to our city treasury while increasing
taxes for its care and protection:
Adams Express company, $16,O75;
banks, SSS,700; Consolidated railway,
$506, 44O; New Haven road, S4.342,7O5
Sheffield scientific school, $1,317 800;
Yale university. $73O4OOO; and also the
water, gas and electric light compan-
les. figures of which are not at hand
Ninth, We recommend and urge that
city to sell the plot of land located at
Clinton avenue in the Twelfth ward be
exercised and that the sum received
for the same be used for the purposes
of building the said hospital in addi-
tion to the $4,000 raised by bonds.
Tenth, We condemn all attempts on
the part of certain doctors or others to
1ocate the proposed contagious hospital
or pest house in any part Of our city,
or anywhere except at Springside, no
matter how much it may serve their
personal convenience. The claim of
altruism for those who would thus
damage property values in neighbOr-
hoods other than their own, is not
even worthy of consideration, A man
must be just before he starts out to
be altruistic and no man or body of
men however learned in the healing
art, are warranted in ignoring the
teachings of the great altruistic healer
of Nazareth, that one should do unto
others as he would have him do unto
himself.
Eleventh, We are firmly of the opin-
ion that the family physicians as a
general rule to be broken only in cases
where special knowledge warrants,
ought to be excluded from practising
in a contagious disease hospital from
whence they may carry the disease