Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-31
HOSPITAL AIDES
To Be INCLUDED
IN PENSION LIST
They We're Omitted from Meas
ure by Oversight, Assembly
man Explains.

CITY Hospital employees were mad.
vertently overlooked in my pension
bill" explained Assemblyman j. Will
lam Huegel at the hearing of the COM
Council in the Mayors office this after
noon, when House bill No. 10 came ur
for consideration. Nobody objected te
the bill except superintendent Charles
b.. Talbot. of the City Hospital, who
declared "it was a good bill, and that
he had no objection to offer If the City
Hospital employees were included" The
committee put over the entire matter
until XXI Friday night, and Assembly
man Huegel explained that il the COM
mittee reported favorably an amend
ment including the City Hospital en-
ployees would be tackled on to the bill.
City Counsel Nugent explained the
object of the bill and Andrew q. Brady,
n of the Board of Health inspectors,
pointed out the good points in the
measure. He explained that an em-
ployee must be twenty-five years-in
the city's employ before he could be-
come a beneficiary. Board of Works
Commissioner Arthur r. Dennan
interrogated superintendent Talbot
and got him to admit that it was q
good bill wen if the City Hospital
people were nos included.
The bill was introduced by Assembly
man j. william Huegel IN the opening
night of the session, and is known as
bill No. 10. Mr.. Huegel explains that
he presented it at the request of the
city department of health.
what Bill Provides.
In brief, the bill provides a pension
fund which it is intended shall be main
tanned primarily by fees and fines col
lected by the department for violation
of the health cole. 1t Is set forth thai
the members of the department and
prospective beneficiaries may inoorpo
tate in a manner described and place
their funds in the hands OF a board Of
five trustees. Provision is made to
keep the fund DIP to $40, 900, by levying
assessments. if that be necessary, upon
the salaries of tine members of the
corporation or association. There ia
nothing in the bill that has so in
terested the few officials who have
looked it over as Section 10, which,
itduS dS lOll0WS.
The employees of any UGH local
board or department OF health who
shall be entitled to accept the provi-
sions of this act shall be the health
officer or chief inspector employed by
such board or department.; all persons
employed in the sanitary department OF
any such board; all persons regularly
employed by n such board In the
care of any tuberculosis hospital which
Is or may be under the control of any
such board; all persons actually EN-
gagged. as physicians, nurses or other
wise. in taking care of patients in any
such tuberculosis hospital, excepting
visiting physicians not on the regular
staff of any such hospital; all persons
employed in any dispensary or labora-
tory under the control and management
of any such board, including chemists
regularly employed by any such board;
it being the intent OF this section of
this act to include under the provisions
thereof all persons and employees on
the payroll of the sanitary department
of any such board or department of
health"
The City Hospital employees are over
looked. Among the veterans who are
particularly listed as eligibles for the
proposed pension fund are Health Off
Ger David D. Chandler. Edith Reilly, the
matron of the tuberculosis Hospital
at Verona; Chief Samuel Knott, of the
isinfecting corps; Clerk John J.
Greene, of the Bureau for Contagious
Diseases: Eugene w. Bellar and Will
lam H. Young. DR.. Edward e. Worl,
who holds two offices, has been in the
service a long time. He is superin-
tendent of the Bureau for Conta gious
Diseases and superintendent of the
tuberculosis Sanatorium. City Chem
list Herbert B. Baldwin, John b.. Sulli-
van, chief plumbing inspector. and
Forman ]. Reynolds. sanitary in
spector, are veterans.
The bill has been referred to the COM
mittee on public health of the House.
Nichols, of Cumberland, is chairman.
There is not an Essex man on the com i.
mittee-in fact, no representatives of
the populous districts of the State. The
bill applies to the first-class cities only.
Rcyenue-RaisIng Methods.
The committee will go to Trenton
late this afternoon. Here is how it is
proposed to raise the funds:
/. By paying into such pension fund
moneys which shall have been received by
any such board or department of health
for fines and tees, and which may. from
time to time, be designated for such purpose
by the local board or department. of health
Of any such city, not to exceed, however,
$500 In any one year:
2. BY all rewards. fees. gifts or emolu-
ments paid or given for extraordinary serv-
ices rendeie ed by any such employee q 9 Z
except when the same Is allowed by such