New-York tribune., 1911-12-05
BULCER URGES
REMOVAL OF DOTY
Commissioner Named by Dix
Saws Health Officer Was
Incompetent and
Negligent.
.olJARANTINE INEFFECTIVE"
Methods of Keeping Accounts
and Records Said To Be "Prim-
tive, Obsolete, Unsystem-
attic and Altogether
Unreliable"

UnrelldUle'
,i,.Dv Dec. 4-The removal Of DR..
u,ob II. Doty. Health officer Of the
Dor, of New York. is recommended in
..,ort 10 Governor Dix to-day by
,,.or,es y Bulger. who was appointed
X, the Governor TO investigate the bust
,ess and affairs Of the office.
DR. Doty was first appointed to the
,ece on January >. 1890. and was last
...cnoipted 10y Governor Hughes on
renrrary 2S. 1907, for a four-year term
., q salary of $4,000 a year.
When Governor Dix appointed MI
purrcr TO investigate the affairs Of the
Hce last May ne announced that no
,..r,nsl charges had been filed against
pr Dory. bat that he wished to famll-
ioriza himself with affairs at Quarantine.
Commissioner Bulger began the investi-
cation i'm June. The report filed to-day
i - yoIuminWs one, in which the Com
missioner makes various recommends
lions for improving conditions at the
Port of New York.
Mr.. BuIger finds that the methods of
seepiug accounts and records Of business
transactions i'm the health Office are
nrjmitiye. obsolete. msystematic and al
together unreliable" The history Of the
business administration Of the states
quarantine. he says, is replete with
evidence of gross incompetency and in
cxcusable negligence.
The Commissioner declares that pr.
poty has failed utterly TO maintain an
Efficient quarantine at the port of New
York" and cites instances where he
'recKessly permitted" steamship pas
sengers 10 leave Quarantine after hav-
ms been exposed 10 cholera and other
diseases.
The Commissioners Findings.
The Commissioner finds among other
hings.
That the Health officer Improperly re-
aimed iu his employ one Fred r. Suther
end. VINO. while acting as his secretary
snoezzled 5000 q Of the states money.
which came into the seer etary's hands
Hsrantne fees from COastwise vessels
Iior 10 December, 1910
Sutherland was continued I'm the ser
,ice Of the Health Officer until Febru
3ry. 1911, and the Commissioner says
be made partial restitution Of the stolen
money. Other findings are:
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transports TOR Pleasure Parties
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CoAFeylns pleasure pdIues over the
nons, at an expense 10 the state of Sl2 an
arati9r Of public funds
That the Health officer improperly pur-
chased or permitted others to urrchase
many thousands of dollars worth of sun
3hCs arnrsI1N and paid therefor without
he d. is ur certificate of any one t6,tt
DE goods charged had in fact been de-
ytgeg al fra CJ4rantine station
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