The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-08
CITY GOVERNMENT
 PLEASED WITH WORK
Scored Signal Success in Finances-Removed h.
 competents in Office.


 from butter to electric wiring, and an appropriation s10,00O less than the preceding year he was able to show a saving to the city of Bridge port of more than $26,000.
 Not alone has he scored signal success in finances, but he has re- moved incompetents and soreheads from office, thus making the working of the system under his direction ef- | ficient to degree of excellence which has not alone brought forth the praise of Bridgeport's civic govern ment, but has caused the officials in charge of the National Conference of Social Workers, to be held in Kansas City, May Is to 22, to send an urgent invitation for the department of char ities in Bridgeport to send a com p1imentary exhibit to serve as a mod e1 for the delegates.
 1 In speaking of the work accom- 1 plished by his department Superin- tendent Thorne was warm in his praise of the work accomplished gy the investigators attached to his de- partment, especially mentioning the
 work performed by Mrs Mabel R. Goldman and Miss Josephine Lillis.
 He also praised the great work per-
 formed by the Emergency hospital,
 mentioning Nurse. Hare, Dr. J. F.
 Keegan, Dr. Gavlas, Dr. B. c. Pasuth
 and Pharmacist Alexander McPher-
 son.
 He had nothing but toe highest
 praise for Dr. Francis P. Carroll, who
 visits Hillside Home every day show
 ing the keenest interest in the work
 of tightening the suffering of the sick.
 In addition to his daily visits to the
 institution Dr. Carroll has made no
 less than 2535 calls on poor persons in their homes.
 In speaking of the work performed
 by all branches of the department Su-
 perintendent Thorne went into further l details and said "The $26,000 which
 was saved out of our appropriation
 we have used to build the new Chill dren's Home and when that is com pleted(we will be thoroughly equip
 ped to care for the little ones. Dur : ing the current year we have cared for about the same number of chil- dren as on the year previous, but this past winter has been one of the most
 severe on record and we were con-
 fronted with many serious prob
 lens.
 'Early in January all the pipes, 1n
 the old children's home were frozen l and we were confronted with an cpl } demic of measles, bronchial pneumo- nia. diphtheria and whooping cough Having no quarantine ward in the old childrens home we were not able } to prevent the introduction Of these various diseases but when the new home is completed we will have the 5 quarantine ward and all children l admitted to the home will be put 1T 3 there for a period of two weeks De- l fore they will be allowed to mix witt the others
 "The equipment of the laundry a
 Hillside has been added to so tha
 now we not alone do all the laun
 dry for the Emergency hospital, bu < for the police and fire departmen and every department in the city. Ont
 of the remarkable things about thl' : laundry is that the only employe o1 , salary is the new manager, Joh1 = Haggerty.
 "The huge work accomplished b! = the laundry can be imagined Whe1 e the figures show that 1S6,7S4 piece Q of laundry were put through. But th' ,. laundry is not the only thing that il = working well at Hillside, for we hav' = produced no less than 43'z0S quart
 of milk this past year as agalnst z1' . SOP for the previous year.
 "Auother big saving for the cll!
 has been made in the Emergenca n Hospital. This past year there "er' n 9,964 cases as against 4,2O4 last year - There were 1866 ambulance calls d : against 1887 calls for the prevlou h year. This 1866 does not 1ncluoe : transfers. This past year there Wer n i3.036 prescriptions against 2'225 tn - previous twelve months. All or tnl n notwithstanding the great increase + the price of drugs was done at les h cost than on former years. The orug
 for the past year costing only SI' : 246.S3 as compared with SlSl0.55 10 '. the corresponding period the year De :, fore. The introduction Of the am u bulaHce slip has saved us great oea
 too, for now we are able to classlf
 the compensation patients, that l
 those who have been insured. "In this manner the city has pee'
 saved thousands of dollars for Ill d stead of paying the Bridgeport an e St. Vincents hospitals for treatln IS patients that are compensation cases e the hospitals are paid by the slnsur J. ance companies. This past year 1nl l. department has paid the Brldgepor y Hospital $5,399.6S and St. vincent l. $5,532.44 as against the previous year y $9,o99.40 for Bridgeport Hospital an IS $10,036.21 for St. VincentS
 ot "This department has also 1naue
 erated a system of charging compen > sation cases in the dispensary ana of far we have collected S226, put '. the payments in those cases are raIn t, CT slow owing to the system or ID d vestigation in vogue with the lnsui le ance companies we have S1oO m ao le dition to the above figure WHICH ts still outstanding. er "Outdbor relief has been both ao b. equate and economical, ana consls re of rents, coal and grocerles' m 1c past year we have taken care or 10 d. cases as against 254 the preViol in year. Formerly the needy Ianllllt CT received bag of groceries regarc I'd less of the age or size, now the sro' r. cries are arranged by an expert oi' Oe ician and are graded accoro1ng 70 In ly size and age of the family.
 Enterta1nment has been p1DxruE