The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
INITIAL MOVE IN
FIGHT On PHTH|SIS
MADE LAST NIGHT
FreehOlders to Be Asked to Es-
tablish 0pen=Air Pavilion
for
HEALTH BOARDS IN
MEETING IN NEWARK
Committee to Be Named to For
ward the Work Of the
General Body.

At a meeting of the heads of health
boards throughout Essex county at the
Free Public Library last night it was
agreed to ask the freeholders to estah-
fish q pavilion for the exclusive treat
ment of advanced cases of tuberculosis
Nat Soho or some other suitable place.
Moses N. Baker, president of the
Montclair Board of Health, vas select
ed as permanent chairman. Represen-
tatives were present from Newark.
Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, Belle
vile, Caldwell, Montclair, South Or
ange and Verona. The call for the
meeting was sent to the different
boards Of health and to the Board of
Freeholders by the Montclair Board of
Health.
The first speaker was Freeholder Gal
lagher, Of Montclair. He advised the
meeting to find some concrete plan for
presentation to the Board of Freehold
ers, and said that he was sure, with
the backing of public sentiment, which
the movement has, hat there would be
no opposition, blu rather help from his
colleagues in the board. He stated that
it would hardly be possible to get any
money from the county before the first
of May, and advised that all the data
as to cost, construction, etc. be pre-
pared before that time. Frecholder
Winslow, also from Montclair, stated
that 1t was most urgent that the move
ment have some concrete form before
1t was presented to tho board. A let
ter from Justice Francis ]. Swayze was
read in which the meeting was in
formed of the formation of the Newark
committee of 100, appointed to devise
ways and means to combat the disease
and asking the cooperation of the vari-
GUS boards of health and their attend
ance by representation at the big meet
ing to be held on February 16 next.
Petition for PAVILION.
A resolution was offered that the free
holders be petitioned to establish a big
pavilion at Soho for advanced cases.
Objection was made to this by DR..
Worl, of Newark, who stated that there
was q big deficit in the Soho budget at
present, and that he did not consider
that Soho was a particularly healthful
location for the establishment of such a
pavilion. He spoke~of the issuance of
circulars to the effect that a clean and
careful consnmptive was not a menace
to public health, and of the ~inconsist-
ency of following up such statement by
keeping tuberculaI ~atients out of most
hospitals and isolating them.
II. w. Underwood, president of the
Belleville board, agreed in the main
with DIR. Worl. When you take hope
away from a consumptive," said Mr..
Underwood, you almost take away his
. ne - j .J-- tIaX
tive wanted to go where he would see
only his own kin and where he thought
he was gong to die.
AS a representative of the Caldwell
board, DR.. d. M. Gardner. it's president,
spoke in favor of the resolution and
for the establishment of one central
point from which the fight could be
carried on.
General Discussion.
A general discussion followed. among
those taking part being DR.. Ford, of
Orange; DR.. Francis, of Montclair; Sec
rotary MacDougall, of the Newark Blu
reau of Associated Charities; Secretary
Bowman, of the East Orange Board of
Health; DIR. Benedict, of South Orange;
Freeholders Gallagher and Winslow, of
Montclair; DIR. Gardner, of Caldwell,
dl0 H. oiluSG, VI ldlC pit-
ponderance of sentiment as expressed
was in favor of the adoption of the
resolution. A letter was read from DR..
Marvin j. Synnott, of Montclair, presi-
lent of the board of managers of the
Essex County Hospital for Contagious
Diseases, in Soho, in which he stated
that he thought the present steam
plant, kitchens, etc, at that institution
would be ample even with the estab-
lishment of the new pavilion.
President Underwood, of the Belle
vile board, offered an amendment to
the original resolution, inserting after
the words "at Solo," the following:
''Or such other suitable site as may be
obtained" The amendment was ac-
cepted, and the motion passed by a ma
jority vote of those present, the only
NO" being thai of DR.. Worl. Chairman.
Baker stated that he would soon ap-
point the committee called for by the
resolution, and that he would notify
those ca1er4a1 in tho pnar futIIre