New Britain herald., 1929-04-09
|PULLEN'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY BOARD
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Dear Sir:
 T hereby submit my resignation as Superintendent of Health of the City of New Britain.
 Tn order that the Board Of Health Commissioners may not be inconvenienced I will. at your dis cretion, continue to take charge of the department until such time as my successor has been appointed.
 May take this opportunity to thank the Board of Health Commis- sioners for the very loyal support which they have always given me and for the very sincere pleasure that their friendship has afforded me.
 "1n submitting to you what will probably be my last official com munication except the annual report I would be shirking both a pleasure and a duty should l fail to express my vast great appreciation for the executive employment of the Health Department. They are a group whose service to the city cannot be meas ured. They work together with loyalty and individual initiative which am sure is not surpassed by any similar group anywhere. My feeling at parting from them can only be expressed in words of sim cerest regret.
 "As one who is leaving you after six years of service I feel justified in making certain observations on the past and perhaps the future which may be of value. In these six years much has happened. There have been numerous improvements in the department. It should be re- membered that these have been made possible not through increase in personnel but through added ef- fort on the part of those already in the department
 "The annual budget has been in- creased 1t is true. but this has been due primarily to the increased cost of garbage collection and not be- cause of increased health promoting activities. It should be remembered that garbage collection is not logi- cally Health Department problem, and to look upon the increased cost of garbage collection as in increase in expenditure for purely health purposes is not justiiable.
 "One of the most pleasing devel- opments of the past year has been the relation of the Health Depart ment 10 other city departments. To the best of my knowledge there has been no friction between this de- partment and any other for a per iod of several years. It gives me particular pleasure to express my gratitude for the fine manner in which the Department of Public Welfare has cooperated with us.
 ''The health department is now operating at maximum efficiency with it's present personnel. But this personnel is also worked at its max
 mum. Expansion must come but it can only be made possible through increased available funds.
 ''Thcre is ample need for public health nurses. These nurses If made available can probably do as much for public health as any division of the health department.
 "The provision of an isolation hos pital is of the utmost importance at the earliest possible moment Its value is practically impossible to demonstrate until such an institution IS in operation. It's need is realized by every welfare organization in the city. New Britain cannot much longer depend on neighboring cities to supply it's isolation facilities.
 Whether garbage collection re- mains health department service or Is transferred to another depart ment 1t must receive further atten- ton very soon. The present system of disposal cannot by the widest stretch of imagination be considered permanently satisfactory. Serious odor nuisance exists at the present time and cannot be adequately cor rected under the present disposal system. The incinerator must come.
 II do not believe the present per- sonnel of the department can be im- proved. The addition of sanitary in- spectors, however. is much to be de- sired. Working a 16 hour day the present three men could not possibly cover the work eYnected of then,