The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-06
COPELAND SLATED TO SEEK TO FORGE
 DOWL ING REPORT

More developments in the Bowling revenue board controversy are ex- pected Friday morning when the board of revenue meets for its reg ular semi-weekly meeting. Accord ing to W. B. Copeland a member of the board, 1t Is probable that steps will be taken at the meeting to force Dr. J. D. Bowling, city and county health officer, to appear be- fore the board and make a report or the money spent by him under the Shepherd -Towner maternity act
 The squabble between pr. Bowling and the revenue board was renewed Tuesday when the board passed a resolution pointing out several omis- sions of names and salaries in pr DoWllng's report of disbursements Tor the fiscal year ending June 30 1923, and asking for a correct report the resolution named Mrs. Lillian Bowling as receiving $135 a month, Miss Zoe LaForge S25 month, and Miss Elizabeth LaForge $50 a month for the shepherd Towner fund and none of these names were turned in with the report.
 Dr. Bowling replied to the reso- lutions stating that the county pro- vided $10,497 to match the $10,497 provided by the national government, 1 according to the provisions in the Shepherd Towner act and that these
 
 government fund. He stated that he did not think that the county board wanted a report of the manner in which the federal fund was spent, but that they cared only for an ac- counting of the funds of the county spent by the health department.
 The board of rN enue, however, contends that as the county is pay ing half the amount of the fund it has a right to know how the fund has been spent.
 Statement Mailed To Board.
 Following is a letter mailed the board by pr. Bowling Thursday; Board of Revenue Jefferson County,
 Birmingham, Ala.
 Gentlemen:
 Acknowledgment is hereby made of resolution of the board adopted May and received at this office on May 21, requesting an itemized state ment of expenditures of so-called shepherd -Towner funds in Jefferson county in the year 1922.
 The information requested Is con tained in the attached statement as nearly as it is available from our records and covers the period from April. 1922, to February. 1923, in- elusive.
 Tn accordance with an under standing had with the state board of health, $5.2O9.27 was transferred from our budget to the state treas ury, to be supplemented by a like amount derived from the federal gov ernment making total of S10.49754 to be expended in Jefferstn county for health purposes. This fund was utilized in connection with nursing activities school health work and other services related to the hygiene of maternity and infancy.
 For the interest and satisfaction of the board, l will say that the di- rector of hygiene of maternity and infancy from the children's bureau at Washington recently made a de- tailed study of the work being done in, Jefferson county on Shepherd Towner funds and pronounced it the most intensive, if not the most effec- tive, piece of work being done any where in the United States and highly gratifying to the bureau. It is also appropriate to remind the board that without the assistance which we de rived from the Shepherd -Towner fund last year it would have been necessary to disband our nursing staff and to abandon that portion of our program. Respectfully sub mitted.
 (Signed) U. D. BOWLING, M. b.
 Health nffiCa,-