Milford chronicle., 1927-02-18
HEARING OVER
STATE BOARD OF
HEALTH MATTERS
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budget. She said these federal
moneys amount to about $17,7S6.49.
She said the Government demands
an exact accounting for them and
she thought the State should have
an accounting as to how they were
spent. She said there are other fed
eraI funds that come to the State
but she could not find them in the
health boards budget.
q do not see why the legislature
is not entitled to this knowledge"
said Miss Lockwood. She alleged
there is no indication in the boards
budget of moneys received from
New Castle County Levy Court by
Brandywine Sanitarium for the care
Of INDECENT patients. She called at
tention to items in the budget cred
tied to the Child Welfare Commits
sion and said this commission does
not now exist.
Miss Lockwood said the executive
secretary of the State Board OF
Health is asking that the state ap-
propriate these moneys to general
fund and she declared at this point
that the Levy Courts of the coun-
ties do not favor a centralized
health department. She said such
department would be an oppressive
centralized system under the ad-
ministration of dictator and that
tbe legislature would be making
such a system possible if state ap-
nropriations are not budgeted 10
special purposes for which they are
intended
Miss Lockwood said if the towns
in the state would do away with
their boards of health the State
Board of Health would have wide
police powers.
Miss Lockwood claimed there was
need of more supervision in the elm
les and stated that if DR.. Davis. is
able to take care of all the state
wide work he wants to be brought
under his charge he had better give
more time to the supervision of the
work in the clinics and take notlce
of some of the things going on in
those clinics.
She said she would give the com
mittee a list of persons who claim
thev have been charged fees Tor
treatment in these clinics. Chair
man Hall of the committee wanted
tbe list of persons making these
charges. but Miss Lockwood SAID
she could not make them public at a
hearing of this kind.
Secretary Buckson, of the commit
tee. wanted to know how long this
sort of thing had been going on
Miss Lockwood said for more than a
wear. Mr.. Buckson asked her why
She had not mentioned it before, and
she replied such cases had but re-
Gently come to her attention. She
claimed she had told different mem
hers of the State Board of cond1-
tions she had found while she was
an empIoyee of the board. She said
she asked for and was granted q
hearing which was held in a doctors
office with DIR. Davis in the mex
room where he could hear all she
said. When she got through she was
shown the door and then DR.. Davis
was called in and she knew nothing
of anything he may have said at tna'
time.
She reiterated that her purpose II
anpearing was to insist that mon
ey appropriated by the state DC
properly budgeted to the items fol
which they were to be EXPENDED
When Miss Lockwood concluded
her statement, DR.. Davis told the
committee that he was ready to an
/ swer the charges.
Senator Allen, member OF tnt
budget committee, remarked he dlC
not think it necessary to hear Or
Davis. Chairman Hall and othel
members, however, thought DR.. Da
Wis should be heard, but that NJ
should restrict his reply to answer
ing Miss Lockwood as to matters
pertaining to the budget.
DR.. Davis, in reply to Miss LOCK
woods statement that there will b.
nothing in the budget showing th'
amount of money paid by the Lev!
Courts to Brandywine Sanltarlum
said there is no Levy Court appro
priation to Brandywine Sanitarium.
DR.. Davis told the committee tina
the money from the Federal govern
ment for the transcribing of births
deaths and marriages is sent to MN
personally by check as an agent o
the Vital Statistics Board and Il
turned into a fund of the Stat
BOARD of Health. The money undel
the Sheppard-Tower act, he said, i
slightly over $1,000, and not ST.
nan as Miss Lockwood stated th'
other $4,000 being an amount tn
state appropriates to get the aDoF'
money from the Federal govern
ment. -.
MIR. Davis pointed out to the com
mittee that the State Board o
Health does not make up the budget
that being done by the State AUDI
tor. but he added, the auditor ma
all that data which it was complain
ed of by Miss Lockwood of not be
ing in the budget.
DR.. Davis said the venereal dls
ease clinics are held in the Dela
ware and Homeopathic hospitals Il
Wilmington and a physician IN Do
yer and that the State Board 0
Health has not control over tnes'
clinics. ~.
In conclusion, DR.. Davis said tn
proposed new plan is a general on
and for that reason it was neces
sary to lump some Of the items Il
the budget.
DR.. Davis occupied less than nv,
minutes of the committees time an'
explained he was ready to go int
the matter more in detail II tn
committee so desired.
Many visitors and also memDeII
of the legislature, who antlclpaIe'
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