The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-13

| Department Increase Increase.
| Public Charities. e2s2. 900. 90 ID
Street Street cicanins......... issSs.sssS.ssSs is
| Licenses ..s.s.''... 5'voV'Vv 80
PsfS board .rdd. ........ 5000 az
As stated by the Mayor in his letter
to the Board of Estimate and Appor-
tionment. these increases are principally
due to extensions In the city's social
service demanded by the growth In the
number OF city charges in the depart
ments OF Charities and Correction, and
by the wholesome extension OF activity
/ In the Department OF Health.
The Department OF Health asks for
an increased Appropriation to provide
| for:
| Additional medical inspectors and
nurses for school inspection.
Three new milk stations.
Additional surgeons and dentists for
clinics.
Inspectors for children In charitable
/ institutions.
! Additional food and sanitary inspec-
| tors.
The increase in appropriation of tho
! Department of Correction Is only about
! 100000 more than was granted tho
department in 1912. when the total
census was 700 loss than II Is to-day,
or an equivalent Of one institution
smaller. II makes provision for su-
| perirtendent Of industries. for one more
/ inspector for the penitentiary. for "A con-
| iidential inspector for the commissioner
, and for warden at Riker's Island. IL
| also provides for additional practical
nurses for the different hospital wards
of the department and for n superin-
tendcnt OF women and a womans physi-
| elan AT tho workhousc. and a physician
for the Boys Reformatory. All these
additions "a staff arc necessary in order
that tho Department NJ Correction may
begin 10 cope with the urgent problem
the drug traffic has placed upon it's
| Institutions
Tho Department of Public Charities
has requested an increase amounting TO
nearly 100000. This appropriation. II
granted, will enable the department to
construct and equip the proposed Green
point Hospital and will also provide for
the necessary improvements contem-
plated during the coming year at Sea
View Hospital on Staten Island
In the concluding paragraph OF his
letter Ia tho Board Of Estimate the
Mayor refers specifically to the Chart
ties Department and the possible neces-
sity for the revision OF its estimates
as a result OF the European war. He
! says:
The developments in Europe make
| imperative every possible economy. As
general policy Of the city Il will be
necessary FOR US TO carry on tho cur
rent operations of the departments most
conservatirely and economically Owing
To the condition OF the city debt We
shall presently he obliged to defray the
cost OF certain improvements from tax
levy appropriations. But II must he
| borne in mind that the city may be
| called upon 20 assist many brought 10
distress BY the unsettled condition re-
suiting from the European war. II thi,
occurs 1t may prove necessary 10 re-
visc tho estimate for the Charities De-
nartment which Is based on n cont!nu-
ance OF the census for 1914 already
Increased by some 1000 over the census
for 1919"
Tho additional appropriation OF $1,000 |
requested by tho Department OF
Licenses is for the purpose OF establish |
ing free employment bureau for
women. In tho case OF the Street Clean
ing department in reality there is a
reduction OF several thousand dollars
on the amount which was requested for
the departments needs in 1914, and in
addition provision has been made In the
request for 1915 for increasing tho rate
or pay of the uniformed force which
will cost approximately $4,000
To make the foregoing increases pos
slbe the Mayor explains that economies
have been effected not only in tho de-
partments concerned but in practically
all the remaining departments of the
city government. Thus the Fire De-
partment, though il will organize twenty
new fire companies and extend the work
OF fire prevention. proposes to conduct
its increased business with $4,000 less
than 1t WAS allowed In 1914.
Decreases have been made in the fol-
lowing departments not previously mem
toned: Commissioner OF Accounts
Chamberlain. Board OF City Record, Ex-
aiming Board of Plumbers. Parks. The
Bronx. Taxes and Assessment, and
Tenement House.
The total estimates remain practi-
cally the same as the amounts allowed
in 1914 although in every case extern
sions Of work are planned beyond &C
tivlties supported by the present budget
ments listed below.
Board OF Ambulance Service.
Board OF Assessors.
Board of lnebrlety.
Parks. Manhattan and Richmond
Parks, Queens.
Bureau Of Weights and Measures.
Mayor Mitchell criticises tho Legsla-
ture for refusing to authorize the Gre
alton Of division Of administration and |
a central purchasing agency. lie |
states that II the Legislature had passed
tho New York city bills establishing
the latter vast economies would have
been effected and that a department
such as the proposed division OF ad-
ministration would have greatly in.
creased the business efficiency of the
city government. II is 10 be hoped that
the next Legislature will promptly au-
thorize the creation OF this department
which tho Mayor so strongly advises.
Relative to the centralizing of pur-
chases Of all city departments tho
Mayor says: