The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-09
BARRETT SAYS
FUND ADEQUATE
State Health Department Can
Finish Year Without Further
Appropriation.
BUDGET NOW HALF GONE

Although his budget of $24,500 Is
half gone and the expense OF oiling
ponds for prevention of mosquitoes
still faces his department, Or. Stan
ton III. Barrett, director of health,
states that he is almost positive he
can continue through the fiscal year
without any additional appropriation,
To the credit of the health depart
ment, with all bills for March paid,
there is now sll,7S0. To this amount
DIR. Barrett hopes to have added n
refund OF $500 from the city and
government. or this amount $3.50
expended in connection with the We
nereal hospital at the county Jail will
probably be refunded by the govern
ment.
DR.. Barrett says that fully $4,000
is due his department from the de-
partment of education for school In
spections This relates to the exam
ination OF school children by health
authorities, As further expense in
Cured by his department DR. Bar
rett points to the purchase and
equipment OF smallpox detention
boat. costing $500, An overseer for
this boat is paid 81 day and In
addition $3.50 day for every patient
cared for on the beat.
The Influenza epidemic cost the
health department $3.50, states DR.
Barrett; expense incurred as re-
suit of the recent flood amounted Ia
over $1,000, and other expenses, not
calculated when the budget was
framed at the beginning of the fis-
cal year. have increased the burden
of the department, he adds.
$4,000 Increase.
An increase OF $4,000 was allowed
In the health department this year
on plans submitted by DR.. Barrett,
who stated last September that this
increase would provide for the nee
essary number OF health inspectors,
furnish two nurses and carry out
work that he and government health
officials had agreed were necessary
here. An item of supreme impor-
lance, considered at tho beginning OF
the year and ample provision made
therefor, was money to pay for the
oiling OF ponds this summer.
While no official statement has
come out OF the city hall regarding
expenditures in the health depart.
ment, 1t is, nevertheless, known that
some of the city commissl in
GLIDING Mayor Chambliss, have
looked with concern upon increasing
expenses in the department. Mayor
Chambliss, at the last meeting of the
city commission, while voicing no
opposition to the appointment OF an
additional sanitary inspector In tho
health department, took occasion ia
ask Commissioner Frazier how many
inspectors he now had, leaving the
impression that he Was very much
concerned over tho situation.
Salary Expense.
Salary expenses alone for the
health department run well over
$1,000 monthly, according to the last
payroll signed by DIR. Barrett and
presented to Auditor Allen Head for
payment. or this DIR. Barrett re-
ceives $3.50 monthly, DIR. II. b. Wise.
director of the city clinic, $12b:
Frances Samuel, clerk, $55; Charlotte
Hull, bacteriologist, $135; Victoria
Williams, laboratory assistant, $50:
Mrs. Ollie Stewart. superintendent of
nurses, 500: Mrs. Frances A. Ste
phens. 800; Mrs. w. r. Cleage,
school nurse, 800: MALTA Small, IN
spection nurse, 500: Delalah Mylog,
school nurse. $50; DIR. s. II. ClemoiM,
school inspector, $50; John Cottor,
plumbing inspector. $125: Mrs.
Pickle. colored registrar. $35; Mat
tie Mcconnell. colored janitor, $50;
y. Il. Krug, Inspector $125; C. II.
Weigel, chief sanitary Inspector
$1S5. Added to this for April will be
two additional inspectors appointed
this month by the department. Also
$3.50 monthly is paid out for salaries
for officials OF the detention hospital
at the county jail. DIR. S. s. March,
banks receiving $7b a month; Mrs,
Metcalf. night assistant. $75 monthly,
and Deaconess Mercedes Gore, day
matron. $50 month.