Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-23
FREE TREATMENT At
CITY D|SPENSARY
20 Be Operated Under City
Health Depart
ment
JOINT SESSION HELD
City Council Appropriates SlG,l5O
Fer Sewers-Place Fer Wagons
For Hire.

This city will hereafter have city
eispensary which shall be a part of
The city health department and under
whose supervision it shall be operated.
The objects are to give medical treat
Faent and advice to the INDECENT poor
bf the city and to persons suffering
From other diseases, free of cost to
The patient.
This action was taken by the city
founcil at its meeting last night
Ehen an ordinance revising the health
laws containing It was adopted. It
provides that every year there shall
be elected clinician who shall be in
Iharge cf the city dispensary and in
fonjunction with same perform the
Iuties Of city bacteriologist. The elm
Eian must be a graduate doctor Of
hed;cina and trained in the science of
Iacteriology. His salary shall be 81
100 year.
Health officials reelected at a joint
|ession of council follow:
DR.. Louis E. Foulks, city health Of
licer; Dr.. Fauntleroy Finn, clin!cian;
81 Hiss Sallie NJ. Jeffries, public health
lrse They were chosen for one year
rem July !.
The Co-otA.r.tiv" Charities ''enort-
Nj that during the year to June 1920
Rhey had issued 275 orders for gro
3eries and fuel and that the number
IF applicants was less than the pre-
ions year. The report was referred to
he finance committee.
The sum OF $10,l50 was appropriate
. d for building sewers in different
ections of the city, some of the peti-
ions being standing for more than a
ear They follow: $4,000 for sewer or
Nest street from Cameron to Oronoco
: tfeet and to Wheat and Suter's subdi-
|ision; $1,000 for sewer on Wilkes
treet west of Alfred street; 50 400
: or sewer on Payne between Queen
| md Oroncco street; $3.50 for sewer on
Henry between Wilkes and Gibbor
ftrcets.
Express wagons for hire and other
1eh;cles lor hire. which heretofore
ave stood on the west side Of Royal
(orth of King street. will hereafter
: located on the south side OF Cam.
ron between Pitt and Royal streets.
[ouncil having designated that place
! pr them.
An amendment was made TO the &c
! ant traffic ordinance which provides
hat no vehicles be parked on is"yal
Ereet between Market alley and
{rince streets for a longer period than
|nirty minutes. Vehicles may. how
yer, park in that space north ct tne
l,arket alley. This are1 heretofore
kas ircluded N the congested area
hid in order to clarity the situation
ne amendment was added.
The Street committee and chief en-
= ineer of the fire department recon-
keaded that all buildings for which
/. permit hat; been ijsued by cour-
ki =. th4 l.riheast corner of A.fraf
4 Ind Wilkes streets be covered with
eavy metal and alll distractions n
ne street be removed and the re-
ort was adopted by common council.
/ he aldermen. however, non-concur-
I'D and conference committee COM
.osed Of Messrs. Fletcher and Lawler
md Harrison and Balleager were
amed from each board and they re-
ommended that all frame buildings
f5or which no permit was issued be
cvered with corrugated iron and all
distractions or all sidewalks through
ut the city be removed and the re-
aort of the committee was adopted.
he removal Of distractions takes in
lot only this place but every place in
he city.
a number Of persons petitioned
gainst granting the Alexandria Lum
Ter Company a permit to install a
as tank at its place at the northeast
prner of Alfred and Wilkes streets
Ind it was referred to the committee
h streets.
An adverse report was made by the
treet committee on the petition of
Y. ~ Priest to erect a repair shop
the rear of 1922 Queen street and
be report was adopted The same
ommittee adversely reported on the