Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-20
DR.. SYNNOTT RAPS
FREEHOLDERS FOR
IGNORING BOARD
Scores Preparing Plans for Soho
Building Without Consult
ing Managers.

The policy of the Board of Freehold
ers In considering plans for the con-
struction of a tuberculosis sanitarlum
Without consulting the board of man
ayers of the Isolation Hospital at Soho
Is criticised in a letter written by DR..
Nj. J. Synnott, president of the board
of the latter institution. to Wallace
Ougheltree, director of the Board of
Freeholders. DIR. Synnott states tina,
the board has gathered considerable
data concerning tuberculosis hospitals
which he was willing to place at the
disposal of the freeholders.
Director Ougheltree, of the Board of
Freeholders, said today that he had
received the letter of DR.. Synnott, and
that it would be referred to the board
at the February meeting.
II do not see where the board of
managers has been ignored in any
way by the f~reeholders,' said Mr..
Ougheltree. Our board is responsible
for the purchase of all supplies and
the making of arrangements for all
buildings in o The board of man.
ayers acts simply in a medical ca
pacity. They have nothing to do with
anything outside the case of patients
at the institution. When. the board
decided to ask for plans for a new
building at Soho the building COM
mittee made a trip to Boston and In
spected three buildings there. At thai
time DR.. Synnott knew of the visit OF
the committee and would have been
welcomed as a member of the party
There Is no intention to ignore the
board of managers In any way, but
they have nothing to do with building
aparotiona or oddftiOnca fn the nrpSQnt
property at Soho. There is no friction
between the Board of Freeholders and
the board of managers. The recon-
rendations that are made In MI,
Synnott's letter regarding the need of
several new buildings at Soho will re-
ceive the prompt attention of the
board.'
Ernest D.. Easton. secretary of the
ti-Tuberculosis Society, saw the
plans for the buildings before they were
adopted by the committee and recon-
mended them highly. He said he
thought the buildings were ideal for the
purpose they were intended.
The letter from DR.. Synnott to Mr..
Ougheltree says:
Dear Sir-I desire to call the atten-
ton of the Board of Freeholders
through you to the wisdom of consult
ing with. or at least keeping In toucn
with, the board of managers of~the
Isolation Hospital, in all matters OF
Importance pertaining to the manage
ment and development of that insti-
tuition. I nave read in the Newark
papers hat plans for a tuberculosis
hospital have been approved by your
board, but so far as I know these plans
have never been submitted to the
board of managers for criticism or
comment, nor to any medical authority.
I have. also read of visits of your build
ing committee to institutions in other
States, but in This respect also the
board of managers of the hospital was
ignored.
"A year OF more ago the board of
gathered a great deal OF In
valuable data concerning the require
ments of the county in the matter of
providing for cases of tuberculosis
Every physician in Essex county was
consulted by letter, and many compre-
hensive replies were received. The