Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-24
PLAN JUVENILE
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FreshoIders Authorize Con.
strdction of $50 900 Building
@ for Young Patients.

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An addition to the Isolation Hos
.pital at Soho. to be used as n ward
for Juvenile tuberculosis patients, was
authorized by the Board of Freehold
ers at it's meeting yesterday. The
new building will cost approximately
$4,000 and besides the dormitory for
fifty patients wi house the kitchen
for the entire tuberculosis depart
ment of the hospital.
! Freeholder Richard F. Mattia was
the only member of the board OPP
posed TO the plan. Mr.. Malta has
been urging a plan of centreing all
county Institutions at Caldwell. and
he said he thought the board should
wait until the committee invsstlgaI-
ing the plan reported.
while the need for the addition
may be great" said he, there will
be no harm done if we delay the
matter for a time. / think the proper
place for tuberculosis patients is in q
higher altitude than Soho. A com
mittee is now investigating aitcs at
Caldwell. and If one of them Is Sc
lectedthe Soho institution may be de-
serted as tuberculosis hospital in a
short time. | believe $4,000 is too
NluCH TO pdyt W0tH III lew years
we may not need the building.
,Freeholder Cardwell replied to Mr..
Malta. Suggesting that probably the
latter did not understand that the
need of the addition was so great,
particularly a kitchen. The present
kitchen, which Is in the basement,
was originally conducted to accom-
modate about forty patients. he said,
but now IL must provide for 100. BET
sides, fthe Cellar was. not a fit place
for Kitchen. ff ~
|. That the Soho site was not just
what was wanted AT the time 1t was
chosen, was stated by Director Evans,
but he said at that time there was
no legislation for the acquiring of
other property. The conditions at the
institution, he pointed out, we're APP
parent to all. The sitting-room was
now being used as a dining-roorn and
the patients have to sit in stormy
weather in the room ins which, they
get their meals or go to their sleeping
rooms. 81 atslaa - ass 4a8r .4r
"Therea is long waiting list of
juvenile patients, the director said,
rand, the various societies have been
agitating that the county make pro-
vision for them. It might require five
years to obtain legislation for acquir7
ing property on the mountain at
Caldwell and in the meantime we
could not take. care of the present
needs. ! do not consider the sexpendi-
ture extravagant In consideration OF
the. amount of good 1t would do. The
building is not intende ed. for persons
of means. but for. those who cannot
go away as advised by physicians, 1t
will not only care for such, patients
but removes, the contagion from the
| family. sss.f9 .s,...5s5 80
The director added that the addf-
| tion was the grea test necessity facing
\ the board at the, present time.
\ Mr.. Malta insisted that he believed
\ the expenditure would be a waste OF
money. If the city and county should
4 get together and construct one IN
,stitutidon, he said, he believed IT
] would, be good thing 1.-THE city
1 now has a place at Verona" he said
\ (which is about. the location wanted
! 1 cannot see why the city should pay
100 per cent. for the maintenance oil
(, its tuberculosis patients and also x
| per cent. OF the cost of keeping pa.
4 tients at the county institution" Mr.
i Matthias motion to lay the matter or
4 the table, was not seconded, and afte
| discussion by other members, durinl
1 Which Mr.. Lacon1be, chairman of tn
| building committees, remarked tina
| there was a waiting list Of fifty o.
sixty children for adn1fttance at tha
hospital the resolution authorizing
the drawing of plans was adopted
Mr. Malta not voting, while the sis
tothers present voted in the affirma-
tive. +