The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-11-03
DIR. WEIS GIVES
HIS OWN SIDE

TO THE CITIZENS OF HAMMOND,
IND.
The repetition of the nbeIous article
classified as "Advertisement,, appear
ing in The Times of last Friday and
Saturday prompts me I'm writing and
asking for the publication of this ex-
plantations:
The property mt e4I Holman street.
in which Is located the office of the
health department.. is not now and new
er has bccn owned ny me.
The owner or tlsr pr~msr<s used hy
the heafth Slrpsrxmentse nn~ refused
much more than Twenty-Five dollars
$3.50 per month for the space used.
am now and have always paid the ad-
ditionai rent. I also pay for teie-
phones, light. heating. etc, for said
premises out OF my private funds.
Any undertaken in the city will ex-
plain to you the great convenience 1t
has been to the public to have the Of
flee of the health department. open from
o'clock n. to O'Clock y. M daily.
1t has been during the last three
years only that the city has paid one
cent for the housing of the health de-
pnrtment. The allowance was made
by an unanimous vote (rcpubIican and
democrat) of the city council.
The clerical work in the department
of health requires the continuous
tees of stenoGrapher. The city has
never allowed over $50 per month for
such services As no competent per-
can be secured for suich money.
have paid the balance out of my prf-
vate funds. do not receive one cent
for fumfgatfOns- In order to have at
all times a competent, honest person
to do this work, which lis very indef-
mite to time required. have en-
gagged and pay for the services of such
n person, while not employed In fumi-
Sating work for the city, out of my
private funds.
amounts to less than s35 per month.
I nor my other person ever received
$1,000 per year sanitary inspector
for the city of Hammond.
| If 1 was to receive the amount of
money expended for all purposes by
the health department. for the protec-
tion of the lives and health of nearly
10000 people, the amount would not
compensate me for the time nnd serv-
ices which have devoted to health
work for the people of Hammond. IL
such services were paid for at the rate
of reasonable professional fees
As TO the rendering of medical serv-
Ices to paupers i'm quarantine, the law
does not require permit a health Of
fcer to render and receive pay for such
services 1 have not received pay for
sfucb services when rendered by myself,
but the board of health has paid other
physicians for their services SO rend-
cred. the law requires.
The total appropriation for the en-
ef ,,sn
department of the city of Hammond for
the year 1913 was about twenty-six
hundred dollars tS2.GOOl. II now ap-
pears if the health department will
have surplus on December 81. 1913.
If such conducting of one of the most
important departments of the go-ern-
ment of city of over twenty-five
thousand people does not show nm
/ "honest, business-IiIxe administration
of affnirs, 1 shall gladly give way to
one more competent.
Let me say in closing that I have
never sought the ncccfntment of health
officer of the city of Hammond; that
was appointed by Mayor becker dur
Ing my absence from the city; that
have never spoken with nor have L re-
ceived any promises from Mayor Small
ey regarding an appointment under the
next administration.
Respectfully yours.
Adv. wN. ID. WEIS.