The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-10-07
MONEY FOE HEALTH WORK.

Are the people of Chicago satisfied
with a "thirty cent" Health Depart
mentf
This year the total appropriation
available for the Department of
Health, not including the Garbage Di-
vision, was $1,O05, 677.30, which is
$64,510.70 less than the amount appro-
priated for the general work of the De-
partment in 1915. The 1915 and 1916
budgets contained certain items for
construction work and betterments,
payable out of the corporate funds,
which should properly be deducted from
the total appropriations for each year.
These amounts thus deducted leave the
following totals for conducting the
general work of the Department: 1915
81 ,O32, 5SS; 1865, OOO,677.
These figures thus show that despite
added activities, the Department re-
ceived ,911 less this year than last
year with which to carry on its work.
In other words, with an increase of
population, added territory and higher
cost of supplies of all kinds, this De
partment had less money this year than
last year for conducting its necessary
work
The principal cause for complaint is,
however, in regard to the appropriation
made for the various supplies re-
quired, such as chemicals, paper and
printing, meats and groceries required
at the various hospitals, gasoline, soap,
etc. The amount available for such
supplies and services for this year is
$129, O992O, which is $21, 800 less than
was appropriated the previous year.
The significance of this reduction is
made apparent, when considered in
connection with the facts that the ap-
preparations made for supplies in 1915
were found insufficient for the needs
of the Department in that year, and
that since then practically all commodi
ties have materially advanced in price.
For chemicals, laboratory supplies,
medicines and disinfecting material,
the average advance in cost has been
almost 100 per cent.
The lack of funds necessary to pur-
chase the supplies required by the
various bureaus and divisions of the
Department has seriously hampered the
x-or;orc oo&iui%iaC ond in in
stances, hindered the performance of
the work in as thorough and efficient
a manner as could have been done, if
ample means had been provided. In
other words, the situation has been one
of having a fairly good boiler and ma
chinery but not sufficient fuel to prop
erly run the same.
Chicago's Expenditures per Capita
for Health Work.-The amounts given
above are the total of all appropria-
tions for the Health Department, e1-
elusive of the Garbage Division, but
this whole amount is not all dependable
for Health Conservation and Santa
ton, as such expenditures are classed
by the Division of Statistics of the
Census Bureau. According to the Cen
sus Bureau method of reckoning such
activities as the maintenance of the
Emergency Hospital, Lodging House
and Morals Commission, carried on by
this Department, are not classed as
either Health Conservation or Santa
ton, and, therefore, the amount of
$31, AGO appropriated for these activi-
ties must be deducted from the total
appropriation before determining the
amount available per capita. There is
then left the sum of 1914, 217.30, ex-
elusive of the funds provided for the
Waste Division available by the De-
partment of Health for Health Conser-
walton and Sanitation. This distribu-
ted among the 2,447, S45 inhabitants of
this city allows an expenditure of 1919
cents for each.
For Health Conservation, as defined
by the U. S. Census Bureau, the Health
Department had an appropriation of
only 1924 cents per capita in 1916.
This figure is arrived at by excluding
from the total appropriation for Health
Conservation and Sanitation the items
classed as Sanitation according to the
Census Bureau Method, viz: Public
Laundries and Washhouses, Public Con-
venience Stations and other Sanitation
and Promotion of Cleanliness, the APP
preparation for which was $233,S2S.
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