Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-16
URGE ERECTION
Of SAN|TAR|UM
FreehoIder BeIIoff Announces
Intention of Pushing Matter
When Old Site is Sold
GET LETTER ON MATTER
New Brunswick Chamber OF
Commerce Asks What Co.
Intends to Do

NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. 16:-
Middlesex countys prospects re-
garding the construction of county
institution for tubercular patients
received a boost from Freeholder
Lewis j. Belloff this morning when
the freeholder said he favored some
action this year and would endeavor
to bring it about when the Menlo
Park site, recently condemned by
the State Board Of Health. has been
sold.
Freeholder BeI1off emphasized the
Importance of having such county
institution built as soon as possible
and cited the difficulty the county
encounters in having the large num-
ber of Middlesex applicants admit
ted to outside hospitals. All tuber-
culosis hospitals in this vicinity are
| overcrowded, he said. and Middle
sex's noed is imperative.
| The Menlo Park site will be sold
| on August "a, it is expected. A
! that time-the freeholders will receive
( bids on the property. Freeholdel
| Belloff wants another location Sc
| cured at once and announced his in
| tention of working toward that end.
Encourage seems to have
Decu QeTINeu lIOIIl tlle SldleIu
of a prominent manufacturer and a
real estate dealer of this city, who
are quoted as remarking that the
Menlo Park tract should bring sum
greater than the $4S,000 it cost when
purchased by the county several
years ago. This statement is direct
ly contrary to the impression of the
present board. which have UNDER
stood all along that the purchasers
of the present site paid much more
than it's true value. Recent opinion,
however, indicates that the property
has increased in value and that the
county may realize profit on the
transaction when the sale has been
made.
Freeholder Belloff said today that
different method would be en-
ployed in acquiring another site.
This time. he intimated. the board
will obtain options on available
tracts and will get the approval or
disapproval of the state authorities
before making the purchase.
Plans for the tubercular hospital
now in the possession of the county
cost $10.S00 when prepared several
years ago by the former board, and
F'reeholder Belloff remarked this
morning that there was some ques-
tior as to whether they had been
approved by the state health board
The intention of the freeholders, ac-
cording to Mr.. Belloff, is to take II
this phase of the situation at once
and. if they are approved by the
state. to use them in the construc'
ton of the institution instead of TN
dergoing the expensive operation oi
having q new set made.
Freeholder Belloff's remarks or
the project were doubtless inspired
by a letter received by the Board oi
Freeholders this morning from the
secretary of the New Brunswick
Board of Trade. The com munica-
ton requests a reply to a previous
letter which, in effect, asked foi
comparative figures on the cost oi
building the hospital and maintain
| ing as compared to the present plar
of caring for the county patients al
| outside institutions.
The letter is as follows:
ITO the Honorable Board of Free
| holders:
MAY we have a reply to the
previous communication sent to you
| relative to the anti-tuberculosis hos
| pital for the county? Is there any
| thing unreasonable in a request oi
! this character? Are we not, as tax
payers, entitled to have information
of this sort?
| 1--WE would like a full reply to
our previous communication and dc
! not understand why there is any
hesitancy on your part in supplying
| the information asked for. Is 1t the
| intention of your honorable board
to dispose of the farm near Meuch-
en- before replying or do you intend
to wait until after the primaries?
yours very truly.
&C. S. ATKINSON.
! "Secretary" ="