The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-12
SOPHIAN SENDS. VALED|CTORY TO
 MAYOR WILSON
Health Expert Completes Labors Here and Complies
 Recommendations.

Dr. Abraham Sophian, the epidemic logist who has been supervising Bridgeport's health department for two months, has completed his work in Bridgeport. He expects to leave Bridgeport tomorrow. His report to Mayor Wilson, published in The Far mer today, reviews the conditions here, and renews recommendations that he has favored through the columns of the press during his activities here.
 He dwells especially upon the need Of keeping up the larger organization he has made of the health department; of providing clinics and of carrying out the welfare building and city isola- tion hospital projects he has been ad- vocating.
 Dr. Sophian will receive $5,000 for his work here. His letter follows:
 Dr. Sophians report addressed to Mayor Wilson, says:
 Two months ago I was engaged by the Commissioners of Health of Bridgeport to take temporary charge of your Health Department, with the special view of recognizing the de- partment and instituting suitable measures against infantile paralysis. During these two months many changes have been made in the or ganization and management of the Health Department. Many tempor- ary special regulations have been in- stituted against infantile paralysis and number of permanent ordinances have been passed. notably those con- corning the production and sale of milIo for the city of Bridgeport, and measures of general sanitation. The latter ordinances, are intended to be permanent and should be rigidly en- forced. That sanitary measures should be rigidly enforced and that education and cooperation of the public is necessary has been amply proved in the great reduction of the diseases of childhood in the past two months.
 ''I shall take the liberty of refer ring to some of the more important work of the Health Department which needs or has needed attention.
 Administrative Department.
 'It is absolutely necessary to have adequate and competent heads of a department to obtain efficient work. There is urgent imm ediate need of an experienced and able physician to serve as associate Health Officer. Un- less this is immediately done, I fear the organization will suffer serious ly.
 "The sanitary department is we'll organized and equipped. The chief inspector is a competent, conscientious worker and executive. I believe it would be of benefit to make the office of chief sanitary inspector perman- ent, one. Competent executives are hard to get a good worker in such position is so important that he should be encouraged to develop as much as possible. The sanitary depart ment has added a number of inspec- tors. The present force is none too large and I would earnestly advise against the arbitrary cutting down of the staff. The saving of a few dol lars at the expense of efficiency is expensive economy in the sanitary department.
 T must emphasize the importance of highly efficient organization in the health department which must not be hampered or crippled through lack of help or funds.
 "A working system of permanent records has been instituted and should be of considerable permanent value to the city. This system of records has been placed in the charge of a clerk who has been trained up to the work. This should be continued.
 s''I would advise that the present method of handling vital statistics be changed. Reports of death should be made to the health department and issuance of death certificates should be made by the health department after it's investigation. In this way it is possible to check up important cases of contagious diseases in the city, to say nothing of cases of death from questionabless sources
 ''The working staff has been enlarg- ed by quarantine officers. This is the only definite way of instituting quar- antine and should be continued.
 The method of sending diagnos- ticians of the health department to all cases of contagious disease is the most satisfactory method of early
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