The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-09
DOCTOR SYNNOTT
ANSWERS ATTACKS
ON SOHO HOSPITAL
Defends the Present Manage
ment of the Isolation Institu-
ton in Lengthy Reply.
DECLARES THERE ARE NO
SUPERFLU0US EMPLOYEES
Denies That He Is Doing Any
thing to Spite the Newark
Board of Health.

Or. M. j. Synnott. head of the COM
mission in charge of the Isolation Hos
pital at Soho. has made a statement
in answer to the recent criticism of the
management of the institution made
before the Belleville Board of Trade.
DIR. Synnott points out the defects in
the ventilating system, denies that
there are no patients and a host of at
tendants, and emphatically denies that
there has been any spite work. against
Of. Herman c. II. Herold, president of
the Newark Board OF Health.
DR. Synnott explains the necessity of
changes in the building, and speaks ex-
haustively of the segregation and treat
ment of diseases, as we'll as provisions
for the future.
Following is the statement of DIR.
Synnott in part:
Answers Criticism.
so many statements have appeared
In the press recently concerning the
Isolation Hospital, that there is danger
of the public forming erroneous opin-
ions, unless some attempt is made to
state the facts.
IA few of the various misstatements
have been seen in print so often that 1t
may be proper to refer to them seri-
atm:
81. The hospital has no patients Cor
two ~patients) and forty employees
The truth is that at the present writ
ing the hospital is caring for % pa
tients, 10 of whom have scarlet fever,
and 10 have diphtheria-both sexes be-
ing represented. They come from all
sections of the county, The hospital
x.,ae la,,1 go nat~I@, -- - 49,
Der IL four patients were admitted.
Since then there have been almost daily
admissions of from / to 8 cases, and
several patients have been discharged,
cured. The employees include officers,
nurses, doctors, engineers, firemen.
cook, maids. laundry help, stablemen,
orderlies and three mechanics, tenn
porarily employed.
"2. The institution should be kept for
smallpox, as originally intended and
planned
THE original plans called for another
pavilion, similar to the ones already
erected, for smallpox. but the funds
We're insufficient to proceed with its
construction. AT the present writing
there is not a single case of smallpox
in the county, and statistics show that
ioi a VI ta1I ytdT L uhtly
to elapse without an outbreak of his
disease. Would it NOT have been folly,
under these circumstances, to reserve
one building with its costly ventilating,
heating and sterilizing equipment for a
disease of sporadic occurrence, and to
crow the two most prevalent diseases
in one building. constructed without
precautions against mixing infections,
and urifbot,t rn,Aa -1~orotio,, 80 A.
sexes?
20. tuberculosis cases should be sent
to Verona or Glen Gardner The ques-
ton of receiving cases of tuberculosis
we are still considering nj are pre-
pairing a report which, after careful
study and investigation, will be pre-
scented to the next Board of Freehold
ers.
Tuberculosis is an infectious dis
ease. The deaths from it are in the
ratio of one to eight, of the total num-
Der of deaths. In Newark as many as
eight hundred deaths from tuberculosis
have occurred in one year. Certainly
there is nothing in the law to suggest
that it's trainers contemplated using the
institution exclusively for smallpox, as
suggested by our Belleville friends.
Glen Gdrdner provides Tor lUU a
tients. and the Verona hospital for
thirty-five, but only incipient or cura-
BILE cases are received at either place.
The most dangerous cases, as far as
the public health Is concerned, are the
chronic or incurable cases.
"a. The Freeholders cannot afford to
do what the board of managers asks
On May s, in response to ar invitation
from the county auditor our board APP
peared before. the f~reeholders and in
formed them that an appropriation of
$96,071 would be necessary for the