The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-28
Seventeen Thousand Dollars
Transferred From Appro-
priation for Garbage Col
lection to Meet Deficit
Shift Only Temporary
One.
Bacteriologist's Account
Pared to Fill Hole in Sal
aries and Wages Fund
Elm Street Extension
. Money Pays for Election.

1t cost the city of Bridgeport $27,-
500 for it's campaign to impede the
spread OF infantile paralysis, which
appeared here last summer AT the
special meeting of the board of APP
portionment in the city hall yesterday
afternoon, $4,000 was transfe-fed
from the garbage reduction account
to meet the deficit caused by the
board in the preventive measures
used.
The total appropriation for garbage
reduction for the fiscal year was $780,
600. The transferring Of $4,000 from
this account will leave deficit but
the members of the board of health
hope to meet this deficit from other
sources The transfer yesterday was
spoken Of as only a temporary one.
If, however, the money cannot be
found in another appropriation, the
health board will go before the board
of apportionment next year with a
deficit There is a charter provision
which says that no board or commits
sion shall exceed it's appropriations,
but the health, board, charities board
and board of education have powers
vested in them by the state OF Con-
snecticut, to do anything in an emer-
gency, and, if the health board deems
the situation requires it, it may spend
in excess Of the appropriations ant.
the taxpayers must foot the bills
Money was needed to pay the regu-
lar salary account and the salary or
DR.. Walter H. Brown, the new head
of the health board DR.. Brown gets
$4,000 per year. The regular salary
account was greatly denied in paying
the salaries of the special nurses and
inspectors who went on the pay roll
when the poliomyelitis scare was at it's
height, so yesterday $3.50 was trans
ferred from the bacteriologist account
to salaries and wages to meet the de-
felt there. Other transfers allowed
in the health department accounts
were:
5000 from bacteriologist to inciden-
taIs:- $668 from bacteriologist to NOV
ing, alterations and rent; $4,000
from garbage disposal. regular emer-
gency fund; $500 from painting and
repairs, isolation hospital to care or
patients, isolation hospital; $75 from
painting and repairs, isolation haspi-
tai, to supplies, isolation hospital.
Nearly $4,000 was transferred from
one set Of accounts to another in the
public works department. The larg-
est items were transfers Of $4,000 for
macadam repairs. $6,3S8 for street
cleaning and 1884 for bridges and
: drawtenders. The transfers follow:
From bridges, electrical appliances
hardware, masonry repairs, motor
power, painting and telephone, $2,S94
to bridges. drawtenders.
From cu1yert repairs, First district
to street cleaning. First district, Sou.
From culyert repairs, Second
district, z5O
CrossWalk repairs, 33s
< s+ats highway construction. $500
Street sprinkling, goo
River street pumping station, 1000
Beers street grading, 5000
Watering troughs, new, 1000
$s.S8S
TO rnacadarn repairs, $4,000 and to
street cleaning, $6,388.
Reappropriations aggregating near
w $4,000 were made in the police
department accounts. They were as
follows:
From salaries to auto main
tenance, 10000
From salaries to office equip
ment, 10000
From salaries to printing
and stationery, $4,000
From salaries to Third pre-
c,rct 10000
New lockers to sundries, 1915
From silent policemen to
sundries, 10000
From new signal boxes to
sundrieg. 10000
From new signal boxes to
signal system, 10000
Transfers of $11, 57293 to make uT
deficits ia the charities board finances
mostly at Hillside home, were allow
ed yesterday afternoon, The board
also took $4,000 from the proposed
Elm street extension appropriation te
meet the expenses of the special cleo
ton held last Saturday, From the
same account $4,000 was taken to pay
for the recent alterations to city hall
There is $500 left of the original
appropriation for Elm street extern
sion and a larger appropriation must
be made when the tax board meets
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