Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-07
CONNELL WANTS MORE MONEY
Asks Larger Appropriation Properly W
Protect Health Of City.
SANITATION IMPOSSIBLE ON PRESENT FUND
Lays stress in Report 60 Mayor
and Council ON Pure MIX
rs Factor A. Coed
health.

Health Commissioner Connell yesterday
sent to the mayor and council a report
of vital statistics for 1906, with a COM
munication setting forth present conditions
and needs OF the heath department. DR..
Connell contends his department should
have a larger appropriation that the city
of Omaha may be properly protected. The
health commissioners report contains the
following figures:
Total deaths during 1906 were 1,2Se Of
which 1,192 we're white and a colored 704
males and SIS females; lS married, eO4 sin
gle and 157 widowed. Nineteen nationalittes
were represented In the deaths. August
May low, with 81. or 9OS deaths from COM
municable diseases IS died Of tuberculosis.
Classified by ages the report shows ~
deaths OF persons under 5 years OF age.
| 104 deaths between 70 and 50. Il deaths
between 50 and 80 and IL deaths between
During 1905 there were 2165 births in
Omaha. Out of that total L05O were males,
| 1000 females and Ills stil births. OF the
| births AZ were colored. The births and
| deaths of colored persons were exactly the
same during 1905.
Deaths from violent causes were as fol-
| lows: Ptomaine poisoning, 4; railway ac>
! cidents 8; gunshots, 6; knife wound, l;
fractured skull, L; throat cut, Il strychnine
poisoning 6; surgical operation, /; falls, s;
automobile accident, /; killed by horse, /;
1 burns, /; general accidents, Is; suicide, 10;
heat prostrations, 2; drowned, s; street car,
| z; opium, 2.
Wants More Money.
| DR.. Connelrs communication states:
! desire to call your attention to the in
| adequate appropriation made for running
the health department. 1t Is utterly i'm
p 0SSpie 70 ma am it AWNING YIN OF ~
money appropriated To show how ridicu-
lously small the appropriation that has been
given this department II, compared with
even thirteen years ago, for Instance, in
1888 there was expended for sanitary in
spection alone Ms6s, The total expended
| for sanitary inspection in 1906 was less than
1890. So the city spent in 1906 for main
| tanning the sanitary condition over 50 100
less than 1t did thirteen years ago. when
| the city was nowhere near the size II
! now 10.
1t is absolutely necessary that you in
vestigate the needs OF the health Office and
see that there is a proper appropriation
made for L the coming year. II attempt
RFng ot the city up , to anything IKE
for the year 1907 will be exhausted by Sep
The total amount appropriated for the
health department for 1906 was s, 1000, with
$50 added from miscellaneous sources in
! the shape of bakers license money and
money received for disinfecting, etc The
total amount expended in 1906 was s. s72S7,
which give in an itemiZed statement else
t Shsre In my report, leaving a balance Of
I'm, Inc total amount appropriated in the
Emergency hospital fund for 1906 was 81 500
The amount expended was s., 5A 49, which,
In an itemized statement, is given elsewhere
in my report. This was an overlapse OF
!AI5. You have appropriated 5000 to run
| ths oepar tment this year. What the ex-
pense will be only time can tell, but there
can be no curtailment of expense necessary
| TO maintain the Emergency hospital or
pesthouse, even IL 1t should run FAR bevond
Ine amount appropriated for Its malnte-
Under a separate section I submit a re-
port OF the sanitary work done by this
o nce. In looking over the work done in
that t Ine department s when you consider
sanitary inspector and one police officer.
who Is under the chief OF police and has
duty elsewhere by the chief YOU Will see
Inat there has been an immense amount OF
work accomplished. -
! also submit a tabulated statement In an
s s foTm OF the mortuary and birth
record OF the health ONCE, compiled by my
| assistant DR.. Robert p. Jensen also
| submit tabulated statement Of tba ci1S,
| veterinarian and meat inspector.
Milk and Diaries.
10 bring about pure milk supply to this
| OF any other city, 1 consider one of the
ment, When / assumed the it dut aspaT IL
neaith commissioner In June, upon inyesti-
sdT! i ! FOUND that there was very little
more or less adulterated. am glad 10 he
able to report there has been a wonderful
ths %if s SO far as the adulteraton Of
great lack of sanitary condition In the
diaries cows, and the way the milk is
! Phase OF the milk supply corrected ON ac-
e tto OF the lack Of help to make inspec-
the many snS sSfs tSi dairy%en to sosc
cows, and the handling OF the milk.
a;s, have asked your honorable body on two
Ian to inspect these diaries and correct
| the evils which are now existing Until
this e done 1t will be impossible for the
| nealtn department to bring about the re-
forms that are absolutely necessary. II
| you would take my suggestions and rear
point veterinarian as a dairy inspectar
which would necessitate only an expendi-
ture OF !l,6Oo more than is now being spent,
some or which Is being virtually thrown
away, could accomplish more in three
months for the good of the city than is
now being accomplished during the whole
year. This does not include some extra
sanitary inspectors which will put on as
soon soon as spring opens and give the city a
am not able to give as good an itemized
account OF the work done by the milk in
the records have been kept in this depart
card system for keeping these Records C in
able TO give a complete record OF the work
| done In the milk department
Weed Nuisance.
The weed nuisance is under the health
| department and is very important In many
| health, but an eye-sore TO the inhabitants
| and show dilapidated condition of the
town and often are the means of keeping
| outside capital from investing In the CITY
-Four years previous 10 1906 the city spent
| ZOO each year In cutting weeds In 1905,
with an expenditure of only $3.50 by the
| city, there were more weeds cut in the
| city of Omaha than there had been in the
last i've preceding years combined. The
| citizens, as whole, are enthusiastic over
having this nuisance removed and some ar
rangements must be made very soon by
| your honorable body to abate this nuisance
! the coming summer.
l would suggest that you make a news
paper publication a legal notice, Instead
| Of having TO serve individual notices. as
this would make a legal notice on owners
OF property who live out Of town to have
! the nuisance abated, as well as those resid-
Ing In the city. II there Is a fund set
weeds that were not cut by the time speci-
| ned the city could cut and pay the expense
out Of the weed fund and tax II up to the
property as those taxes were paid they
could be put into the weed fund and Il
would therefore not be necessary to make
an appropriation for this fund more than
once.