Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-04
Demands Retraction.


tract said Commissioner Charles
s Baker, 'or come before this board or
go before the Grand Jury. Let him
take his choice"
DR.. Herold suggested that a definite
time limit for Mr.. Osborne to deter
mine his course of action he fixed and
suggested that if he did not arrange
within a week to meet the board MEM
beers the matter be taken to the Grand
jury. Mr.. Baker aid that he thought
ten minutes would be about the proper
amount of time to allow. 1t was finally
left to President Herold to determine
the time to be allowed the minister for
the consideration of the boards invita-
ton and its alternatives,
The subject arose when Commission
err John w. Dobbins raised the question
of warning on tuberculosis in connec-
ton with a letter from DIR. Leslie d
Ward, chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the Committee of 100 of the
Newark Anti-Tuberculosis Association
DR.. Ward asked that four more visit
ang nurses be appointed by the board tc
assist in the crusade against the white
plague.
Mr.. Dobbins said that there were
many critics Of the board, and that
while the board had ten friends to one
enemy the fact remained that there
were enemies. He thought that the
4 physicians could do more in a crusade
upon tuberculosis than they appeared
to be doing.
II am trying to do my duty as a ply
sician and a public Official said DR..
Wrightson, land I believe that every
member of the board is doing the same.
/ don't care for enemies. and l don't
care for friends when a question of
public duty is before me. When a mar
enters upon the practise of medicine he
takes an oath that he will do what he
can to prolong life, relieve pain and
otherwise benefit man with his skill
and knowledge. II he discovers n y
thing he is under oath to give the bene-
fit of it to all mankind. No honest ply
sician will patent anything that will
tend to relieve the race"
1t was at this point that the Osborne
attack was taken up. The question os
visiting nurses was referred to the com
inMAtse on tuberculosis.
Sermon That Caused Stir.
That part of the Osborne sermon
which has angeFed the Health Board
follows:
"Our dust-laden factories, reekine
tenement houses and dirty streets are
absolutely ~inexcusable. The reason
they exist is because of graft. Politics
plays a greater part in our boards OF
health, city hospitals, insane asylums
and other public institutions than med
ical science or efficiency. A member OF
the Board of Health, upon being asked
Why that worthy body did not provide
more nurses for tuberculosis patients
among the city's poor said that they
could't get hold of the money for that
purpose because II was held up by the
Common Council. From which we CLEAR
that the Council is helping itself to tine
city's sanitary fund. which is unlikely
or that the Council has not unfalterine
confidence in the Board of Health.
Far be it from me to express ar
o~rinion--you can work it out for your.
self. All I say is there is enough
money appropriated by the city to re,
duce the death rate 80 per cent. We're
it not for greed, avarice and covetous-
ness on the part of private individuals
and public officials"