The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-29
PHYSICIANS URGE PASSAGE Doctors Favor Greater Birmingham PETITION TO THE SENATE Big Delegation Will Arrive This
 Morning. Sanitstion will Be Feature of Argu- nent ts Senate for the Pas-
 sage of the Iking
 Dill.
PETITION TO THE SENATE

Doctors. lawyers and others who are interested in the problem of establish ing Greater Birmingham. will reach this city today to urge upon members of the Senate the necessity of passing the King Creator Birmingham bill.
 The principal feature of the argu- ment will be sanitation, 1t having been urged bv MT. King that the only way in which the city of Birmingham can accomplish a perfect system of sewer age Is to give to that city Jurisdiction over the outlying towns.
 When the bill came up before the House this was the greatest point that Mir. King had to offer. He said that the sewerage from the towns they sought to annex washed over Birming- ham. There was no remedy for this because these towns had no adequate sewerage system. and the people of Birmingham had no power to make Magic City had to take the wash from these towns.
 In supper: of Mir. Kings theory. more than eighty physicians have signed their names to a petition that will be presented to the Senate this morning. in which these physicians set forth that it is for the good of the hoalth of the people of Birmingham and for the prevention of a typhoid ep- idemic that the Greater Birmingham bill Is urged.
 In addition to the signatures of these physicians, there are . number of oth- CTS representing the leading merchants of the city and also the professional men. These will have their represen- tatives here today and they will be ready to answer any question a Sena- tor may wish to put to them
 Tho Jefferson County delegation in the House think they have done their whole duty in standing out for the referendum vote proposition to which they were pledged. but that as it seems that the only practical way to make Birmingham . greater city Is to adopt the King bil. they are not opposing 1t.
 Several of the members of the dele- gation spent the recess at their homes and all of them returned last night with the conviction that it was the wish of their constituents that the greater Birmingham bill should pass and that they ought to work earnestly to that end. despite the fact that the method proposed was not in accordance with their previous pledges.
 The petition which will be presented to the Senate today reads as follows: ''To the Alabama State Senate:
 we, the undersigned physicians of Birmingham, Ala, most urgently re- quest you on behalf of the people of Birmingham, and the public safety Of the entire citizenship of this city and the adjoining towns. to pass the King Greater Birmingham bill now pending before your body.
 we are now afiiicted with a local epidemic of typhoid fever. and unless all this territory is put under one city 1oyernment and the sanitation Is rig idly enforced, we may suffer terrible conseuuences in the future from the ravages of an epidemic.
 kp.4 Sf as absolutely necessary for the public safety"
 The petition is signed by the follow
 B. L. wyman. M. D.; A. F. Toole. M D.; R. A. Berry. M. D.; J. c. Berry, M. D.; B. D. sibley, M D.; s. l.. Ledbettsr. M. D.; J: M. Lowry. M. Northington, M. D.; T. L. Robertson, M. D.; W. H. Bell. M. D.; Carl Fox, M. D.; E.. c. Randy. M. D.; R. B. Hardness, M. D.; E. P. Riggs. M. D.; John Douglass. M. D.; R. A. Thagard, M. D.; Baxter Rittenberry. M. D.; c. M. D.: L. G. McCuilom. M. D.; E. M. Prince, M. D.: L. G. Woodson. M. D.; J. E. Dedman. M. D.; P, c. Woodson, M, D.; L. c. Woodson. M. D.; J. T. Coulbourn, MD: Frank E. Nabers.M. M.D.; Charles H. Jernigan. M. D.; w. T. Berry, M D.; O. r. Boaro. M D.' F. H. compton, M. D.; John H. Edmonson, M. D.; Gaston Torrance. M. D.: Thomas 10. Parke, M. D.; Wm. W. Long. M. D.; ]. D. Heacock. M D.; J. M. Mason. M. D.: w. F. Scott, M. D.: H. K. Morrison, M D.: Ira W. Ballard, M. D.; U. J. w. Peters. M. D.; Frank c. Grace. M. D.: M. A. Copeland. M. D.; J. c. Walker, M. D.; F. H. May. M. D.; w. L. Rose man, M. D.; Oscar Whitfield. M. D.; Ira ]. sellers. M. D.; H. A. Elkowi. M D.: !. Ross Snyder, M. D.; L. Whalsy,