Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-19
NO ROOM AT SOHO
FOR YOUNGSTERS
Lacks Facilities for Caring for
Children Afflicted with
tuberculosis.

The hospital committee of the Board
of Freeholders at their meeting at
the Isolation Hospital. Soho. yester-
day took up the question Of caring
for children under IA years of age
who are sufferers of tuberculosis.
Freebooter william 8. Rosentrauch
mentioned a case reported to him in
which several boys and girls of one
family were in an advanced stage of
the disease. There seemed to be no
place to which they could be taken
for treatment.
Only patients nor than IA years
old are admitted at the SOHO insti-
tuition, that being a rule adopted by
the board of managers because there
Is no room for segregation of the
children from the adults. DIR. Doug
las. of the hospital staff. explained
that there are important eason why
they should not be housed in the
same wards. The management, he
said, is perfectly willing to assume
the care of children patients if the
facilities are provided.
No Provision for Children.
Several charitable organizations
conduct camps for a few months dur
ing the summer for t~ubercular chill
dren in the %incipient stages, but do
not afford continuous treatment, and
they do not take any who are in the
advanced stage.
Considerable interest was taken in
the subject by the freeholders. Chair
man Ernest E. Ryman said the Up
preparation for Soho was almost ex-
hausted, so that it would not be pos
sible to make extra expenditure at
this time, such as would be required
to establish a juvenile ward. The
matter of caring for such patients
with the present accommodations, he
said, was up to the board of hos
pital managers. and it was suggested
that DR.. Douglas be requested to take
the matter up with the board, partic-
ularly in the case cited by Freebooter
Rosenstrauch. This the doctor agreed
to do.
Discuss Smallpox Bills.
The committee was confronted with
several bills contracted last April
during the quarantine of families 'ex-
posed to smallpox The Belleville
Board of Health submitted an Item
ICED bill for $11S, the amount being
to indemnify Mrs. Della Crowley for
goods destroyed in her home in the
process of fumigation. Her husband,
David Crowley, was employed as a
laborer at Soho when he contracted
smallpox, which caused his death and
resulted in charges of criminal neg
lect of the observance Of sanitary
rules against the management.
The Belleville Board of Health, after
a hearing of the charges, decided it
was a Ease for the Grand Jury to de-
eide, and the matter is still pending.
Among the items of the bill are a
mattress. SIS; box containing dress
goods, $25; blue suit, SO; bed clothing,
window shades, gloves and other ar
ticles. There also was a bill for
$34.35 for groceries supplied to the
Crowley family during quarantine; a
bill of $32.7 rs for groceries supplied to
the family of M. Maher, and a SINH
lar expense incurred at the home of
r. M. Mccarthy amounting to $40.
While it was agreed that the per-
sons mentioned should be indemni-
fled for goods destroyed it was de-
cided to leave the question for county
counsel to decide as to who was re-
sponsible, the Board of Freeholders
or the Belleville Board of Health.