The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-18
DERBY AVE. SITE.
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back of the movement comes chiefly from the doctors. have nothing dis paraging to say about the doctors. But why not have a contagious ward add cd to the other hospitals in the city?
 'tThey ask the city for help the state for help and request subscriptions from the public. The hospitals offer the To- gical and the cheap solution. More over the New Haven hospital has plenty of room for contagious ward. Why should not the doctors and the hospitals meet the public half way?
 "As to the site the doctors are not agreed. It is inmaterial to them where it is located so long as one is built. The doctors, 1 feel, are not concerned with the matter of site. I think it is far the better course to recommit the matter to the committee.
 Maybe most of the damage caused by the hospital would be sentimental Nevertheless, sentimental damages do exist and must be recognized It is { useless to talk of their putting in claims for damages thus sustained. While sentimental damages exist they cannot be proved in court.
 Therefore I move to recommit
 The motion was not seconded.
 Alderman Townshend replied to AL derman Holman. He said T have talked with the authorities of the New Haven hospital. They tell me that they have desired contagious ward at the hospital, but that, carefully con- sidering the question, they found they could not have one there, as, allowing for the normal growth of the institu- tion, they could not do it on account of lack of space. The same holds still more strongly for St. RaphaePs, and especially Grace hospital.
 'sTo talk of waiting until the city agrees upon a site is to wait indefinite ly. This site does not appeal to me as absolutely ideal but it seems objee- tionable to the least number of citizens MT. Mead, it seems to me, is the only man who has any legitimate right to object to it, and he, of course should be reimbursed for any loss he may suffer I don't see that any one else can object very strongly to this site
 While l am not deputed by the board to answer the questions that have been asked in the newspapers, I will personally reply briefly to them. The question as to mosquitoes would arise in connection with site in any part of the city, and so is not specially applicable here. The matter of noise, I am informed by doctors, would make no difference, at all. Furthermore, there is no place in the city that would not be more or less noisy. We hardly need to touch on the danger of contagion. People in cars will not be allowed to come In close contact with patients"
 Alderman Loos continued the argu- ment for the affirmative. If ever in my life," said he, T was disgusted I am now with the question of this hos pital site. Nothing has discouraged me so much as to hear the citizens talk of it at the recent public hearing. As to haste, the question first arose twenty five years ago, and, if we do not take some step tonight, will continue an- other twenty-five years. It reminds me of trying to play ball without an umpire.
 'The matter has been nothing but a game of politics from beginning to end. No one in the board had the political courage to stand up and say, We want this hospital. I am ready to stand for something. I am ready to vote now, and hope the resolution will be passed.
 "The sentimental side has been brought up by the alderman from the Fourth I can't see but that the peo- pie of New Haven will have to get over it in some way"
 Alderman Homen in rebuttal "The