The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-02

FINANCIERS NOW
HEAR ESTIMATES
Health Department Puts Gar
bage Matter Formally Up
to Guardians of City
Pursestrings.
ALSO REQUEST MANY RAISES
Several Other Departments With
lesser Needs Hcard--S,ipcrin-
tcndcnt F'rohllch for Char
titles Boards Needs.
ALSO REQUEST MANY RAISES

The first Of the annual series of ses-
which each of the department is al
lowed short time to explain and urge
the appropriations which It asks for the
year to come was held iast night at
which time the board of health, the
town clerks office, corporation counsel.
assessors, board of charities. probate
court, and board of relief were heard
while of the departments scheduled the
board Of selectmen. the tax office ana
the office of the registrar of vital sta
tistics were not represented. The esti-
mates Of these departments as printed
were urged upon the board of finance
by the delegates from each department,
The contingent which represented the
board Of health included DIR. Wright,
health officer of the city. DIR. Maher,
president of the board, and DIR. Butler,
Mr.. Rowland and Or. Fleischner Pro-
fessor Brewer Of Yale accompanied the
delegation and spoke on the garbage
subject favoring the requests made for
the appropriation of sufficient money
to install method of taking proper
care Of the garbage of the city.
DR.. Maher went over the list of es-
Inmates Of the department first. He
urged the increase Of the salary of the
health officer to $500 so as to place It
on par with, the money paid for the
same service in most cities The in
crease of Clerk Ward Bailey was ask
ed for to $500, the same as was re-
quested last year but not granted He
alluded to the fact that Mr.. Bailey had
given the department twenty-five years
Of service. The increase Is asked sl
along the line, the board desiring that
the plumbing inspector be raised to
s1500 and the regular department in
spectors to sl.100. An increase OF $500
is also asked for assistant milk and
food inspector, Archie Meigs. DR.
iMaher said that the inspectors endan.
ge-ed the lives, not only of themselves
but Of their families in their duty and
they should receive due compensation
For the meteorological work, $1,000 II
asked. Or. Maher compared the work
done here with that In the state lab
oratory and In Hartford. showing much
more work done at much less money.
In connection with the milk inspectors
he spoke of the value Of this service,
holding that the inspection and analy.
sis Of milk had resulted in the saving
of large number of small children S
lives, which meant a great deal to the
city. He quoted figures of decrease
In the death rate Of young children
which hex Alaid to the Improvement of
the milk supply.
In relation to the meteorological
work Dr. Maher showed that 3,492
specimens had been examined at a
compensation of s4,133 by the bacteri-
ologist for the first seven years work
of the office, while during the last two
years and half there had been 6,7SS
examinations at compensation OF
$1,000.
Little was added to the question of
garbage. DR.. Maher reiterated his
point made last week that whether or
not a plant to dispose of garbage is
granted this year at least the money
for a city collection Is imperative this
year. In regard to the use of pigger-
les In the outskirts to dispose Of gar
bage Or, Maher doubted II the meth
cd could be pursued after this year
as he stated that several law suits are
already threatened over the piggeries
in the Foxon district and injunctons
are threatened and he brought in a
petition of last year signed by ia res
idents against the pggeries at the
Farnham farm showing that a re-es-
tablishment there could hardly be ef-
fected.
Asked what could be done until an