Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-18
BOARD OF HEALTH
WILL INSPECT THE
CITY WATERSHED
Cedar Grove Reservoir and Adj
iacent Territory to Be Thor
cughly Tested for Pollution.

AS a result of the recent rumors
relative to the alleged pollution at
Cedar Grove reservoir the members of
the Board OF Health voted last night to
visit the Newark watershed early In
June and set at rest the charges that
are made at regular intervals con-
corning the conditions at Cedar Grove
and other points in the watershed dis
trict. Meanwhile Health officer David
d. Chandler will prepare a map of
the entire section included in the water
supply territory, and some of the newer
members of the board will familiarize
themselves with the section to be Wis
tied before the trip is made.
1t Is only a week & that the State
Board of Health wrote to the Board of
Works notifying the members that an
inspection of the Cedar Grove reser-
yoir had been made and that absolute
ly no indications of pollution We're to
be found. Despite this positive assur-
ance the Board of Health deems it
advisable to go over the entire section
and quiet the rumors that have been
circulated during the past month.
The board also voted to increase the
salaries Of forty-eight, employees of the
City Hospital, the action being predi-
Gated upon the anticipated approval
of the 1910 budget recently submitted
to the Common Council. 1t is not by
any means certain that the increases
called for will be approved by the
Council, as the tendency has been thus
far to cut all the budgets down to the
lowest figure consistent with the proper
maintenance of the different depart
ments, and where an increase was not
shown to be absolutely necessary the
item has been cut out. The employees
affected and the increase contemplated
In each case. ore:
Matron, $40 to $50; historian, s45 to
$50; stenographer, $40 to $45; patholo-
gist, $S3.S3 to 500; Waterman, $eb to $40;
night superintendent, SAB to $50: assist
ant to pathologist, s25 to $40; night
cook, $25 to 80; seamstress, SIS to SIT;
cleaners, s14 to SIS; clerk, SIG to $40;
elevator men, three. SIC to SIS; laundry
man, $40 to 80; ward maids, fifteen. $14
to SIG; mattresses, three, $14 to 16; head
waitress, new appointment, $40; princi-
pal, training school, $500 to $116.67; as
sistant principal, training school, SIS to
sS5: night supervisor, $50 to $3.50; oper-
ating room nurse, $50 to s5S.33; orderlies,
fifteen, SIG to SIS, and assistant super
intendent OF hospital, 800 to s116.67.
Despite the objection Of Commits
sioner John w. Dobbins the board
voted to increase the salary Of Assist
ant Superintendent John Preisel, from
81, 200 to $1,400 a year.
DR.. Edward E. Worl, superintendent
of the City Sanitarium, for Tubercu-
losis, at Verona, reported that the cost
of maintenance OF each patient at the
institution was $1.59, while the aver
age for some forty odd similar institu-
tionS throughout the country has been
shj n to be a fraction over $1.66. %
1 rairman Dobbins, who is at the
head of the committee that is working
to reduce the mosquito pest, reported
that his men had oiled all the breeding
places that could be found and that the
work is progressing very satisfactorily.