The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-27
SPRINGSIDE ON TOP
Majority at Hospital Hearing Favor That as the
 Site.
DOCTORS STILL OPPOSED
More Locations Are Suggested to Com mlttee Now Wrestling With
 Matter.

Something over a score of people gathered last evening to be heard be- fore the aldermanic committee on the contagious disease hospital site. The meeting was held for the purpose OF giving the public interested free rein for the suggestion of sites from which the committee expects later to pick one for a further hearing.
 Springside was the watchword with the majority of the speakers. Charles F. Gay, the first speaker, introduced the word. He favored, first of all, the building of a ward for these diseases at one of the existing hospitals in or der to avoid the large expense of con ducting separate hospital, Failing that, he declared for the Springside site.
 The New Haven hospital, he said had refused to erect such ward at it's institution, but he declared that St, Raphaels had not yet been considered and might be willing to do so. St. Raphael's was his first selection.
 JdIiltS N. htIIlSdll iilttouuCcu pio- posal of a site in Allingtown which would embrace 30 acres and which could be obtained for sl5.00O. Several opposed the plan because they did not think the city need pay for a site when it had one at Springside and be- cause it was outside the limits of the city anyway.
 Attorney Charles s. Hamilton thought contagious disease hospital hardly necessary anyway, but if one was to be built he considered Spring side the best place. He was opposed to locating 1t in any populous ward.
 Dr. Daggett said that the proper sites were either the Derby avenue one or that in the Twelfth ward, Those who are best informed" he declared, consider it impracticable to build ward at any of the existing hospitals. The directors of the New Haven hos pita have given the question serious consideration He also declared that the New Haven Medical association was emphatically opposed to Spring side.
 Mir. Gay said he wanted to ask two questions and propounded these, Do you know whether the directors of St. Raphaers hospital have vetoed it?' and What are the grounds of the New Haven Medical associations op- position to Springside?"
 Dr. Daggett replied that he did not want to enter into an argument and did not care to answer the questions,
 w. F. Smith raised the point that it was illogical to oppose it in populous | districts and still be willing that they should be placed at existing hospitals.
 Professor Tracy did not want Springside and favored Derby avenue, which brought forth a reply from MT. Gay in which he declared that it was time for the doctors of the city to be- come educated. which meant to learn what popular government is He ar raignes the action of the doctors in op- l posing Springside as being the cause of deaths due to failure to build a hos pital.
 The danger of transporting patients ! to Springside was brought up by pr. Foote He favored Clinton or Derby avenue James F. Benson suggested a 1 new site on Crescent street between | Goffe street and osborne avenue. AL derran Russell brought up a sugges- i tion of Jewell street.
 No site was adopted by the commit ! tee hut all will he looked into before another hearing is held.