Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-10
Page Gives Health Board
in Summit His Views
on Common Council

npeciaI to the Evening Star.
SUMMIT, Nov. 1O.--"A body Of full
grown men talking to the galleries
rs II for political effect, and this, too,
IN private conference with gentle
men, was the description given by
Health Commissioner Parker w. Page
10 his colleagues in the Board Of
Health last night of his meeting with
the Common Council last wednesday
night. Commissioner Page and Sec
rotary Thomas j Duffield appeared
before the council members to seek
an appropriation to meet a deficit of
over $500 which the Health Board now
has.
Mr. Page informed his colleagues
that while the appropriation was not
made by council at it's session last
Wednesday night, the money would
be provided by the council. AS told
in the Evening Star, several of the
members of council felt that the
Health Board had manifested lax
business. methods in incurringA de
ficit, and the feeling of the couifciI-
men was apparently made plain to
Commissioner Page in the private
conference at which the health COM
missioner requested the appropriation
1t was learned at last nights ses-
sion of the health board that the $50
which former Health officer Max j.
Cotton had attempted to collect from
Common Council as fees for vital sta
tistics furnished the State depart
nnent of health and which fees Col
ton had agreed with the Health Board
20 turn into the boards treasury had
not been paid to Cotton nor will 1t be
paid over to the Health Board, as re-
quested by President Lawrence.
Mayor Bergen is holding up the
claim because, President Lawrence
explained, council has no legal au-
thority to pay the money over to the
Health Board. DR. Lawrence, how
yer, stated that he had assurances
hat Cor n will not get it and, any
way. the money will be devoted to
hn eity's fund.
,r the West End Association
.ard G.. Holmes complained to the
} ard of the annoyance of the doors
arising from the fires at the city
dump on the abandoned sewage dis
sal ground in Passaic avenue. Mr..
I dimes stated the burning rubbish
and consequent odors have become
ntolerable and are a source of great
discomfort and injury to resiC 'nts
- the western section of the city and
4 r properties. Mr.. Holmes also
. aid that George j. Ferry had closed
lis home on the boulevard because
Of the dump nuisance and had re-
moved to New York. Mr.. Ferry does
not intend to return to his home at
Passaic avenue and the boulevard ur-
il the nuisance is abated.
President Lawrence and Commits
sioner Page assured Mr.. Holmes that
the board had been making every
sffort to remedy the conditions COM
planned OF and had understood that
the dump had n)t recently been
troublesome. President Lawrence de-
clared that the board would start at
once to prevent the dump from being
the cause of further complaint, and
to this end it is Likely water will be
pumped from the Passaic river near
by to quench the underground fires
in the dump, which, it appears, cause
the odors. President Lawrence and
Health officer Duffield inspected the
dump today.
The health officer reported bad con-
ditions existing In bakery In SPRING
field avenue near Beechwood road,
which has recently occupied the at
tention of the State department of
labor. The health officer was directed
to keep after the proprietor of the
bakery until the conditions at present
complained of are remedied.
Five marriages, one birth and nine
deaths were reported for October and
eleven samples of milk were analysed
The receipts to November of the
board were given as s756S5 and the
expenditures $780, The probable
deficit, for which the Common Coun-
oil has been asked for an appropria-
ton to next January 1, will be about
1868, according to the financial state
ment presented last night by Secre-
tary Duffield.