New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
HEALTH SQUAD INCREASED
Sanitary inspectors Replace
Police in Department.
THEY GO BACK ON PATROL
Transfer One of the Features OF
the Stand of Waldo and New
Health officer.

The sanitary police squad Of the Depart
mont If Health had been short twenty pa
,.o1,,or for many weeks it was learned
yesterday. on the calendar Of the Board
If Estimate was request from the Con-
,r,ll.r recommending the modification OF
certain salary schedules In the Department
Of Health providing for the elimination oi
,u,o,t, sanitary patrolman and the substi-
tuition Of twenty-five sanitary inspectors
TIL. board acted favorably on the recon-
mendation and the short-handed squad WIN
once more have a full complement but
TWENTY-FIVE will not be patrolmen.
The disappearance Of the police IS one OF
tho interesting incidents associated WIN
tho anpearance Of DR.. O'ConneH, Health
officer Of the Port. and Police Commissioner
Waldo at the Board OF Health meetings
during the Health officers first weeks III
bis my MACE. When asked yesterday how
tho roIice had come to he transferred TO
the Police Department, as 1t was 1ouhu
out they had been, il was said at the De-
nartmcnt Of Health that 1t had been by
action Of the Board of Health Health
Commissioner Ledorle refused, however TO
sav who had offered the resolution for the
transfer Of the men.
The city charter provides that the De-
parfmcnt of Health shall have not FEWER
than ffty sanitary patrolmen ana not more
than a hundred Al the time when Ponce
Commissioner Waldo desired 10 have some
of tho dorartmont sanitary squad doing
reguIar notice duty there were about sew
only mon I'm tho squad. lie took twenty OF
Thorn hack bv the board resolution. As
the Department Of Health had the money
10 nav thcm for the year. that sum VIII
now 10 used to pay tn" sanitary inspectors
appointed i'm their places.
| DR.. O'ConneU is still regular visitor 70
| tho board meetings each week. but Police
Commissioner Waldo has. since shortly
after the rumpus in tho board, stayed away
and has been represented 10y Deputy Com
missioner Mckay Tho numerous on
slauchts on the sanitary police by certain
magistrates at a time when they said burg
| lars should lo chased instead OF measles
cases are Thought to be ono Of the reasons
why Commissioner Waldo wanted some OF
the men transferred hack to his depart
| ,rort which he said was shorthanded.
| commissioner Waldo and Or. OConnell.
with the appointment Of the latter became
| known as tho majority AZ the Board OF
| Health meetings because OF their acuon III
-einetlting unnecessarily dismissed
medical INSPECTOR ovor the protests OF
Health commissioner Iederle. The adverse
ruling NJ tho Municipal civil Service COM
mission changed the aspect Of the ma
! lorit, S. activities
-Four Of the new sanitary inspectors are
to nave 4 salary II $l.5n each and eighteen
viii have salary ~ sl.9o. involving the
transfer ~ SIS sfG &, II was explained yes
iardly that IN" inspectors were really pre-
| f,rrcd to sanitary patrolmen.
The sanitary polio" had started cru
! sad. against smokers and spitters In the
subway about TN" time the twenty patrol
mon yycro transferred. There has been
nothing hoard NJ the crusade since the
withdrawal Of tho large number Of sanitary
| inspectors II was said, however, that reg
ufar INSPECTORS had been at work corralling
the splitter, and smokers. but tn" number
Of arrests during the crusade was some
thing over two hundred I'm twenty-four
hours That record has not been duplicated
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