Evening star., 1936-03-08

additional personnel allowed by the.
Budget Bureau. These were three
guards, q nurse and junior stenog-
rapher. Since the House approved 9
OF IL additional guards proposed by
the bureau, the worst effect there will
be the loss Of the $1,620-a-year nurse.
The penal institutions have q hospital
with but one physician who now cares
Tor sick prisoners, and sometimes per-
forms operations, with the assistance
OF prison help only.
Without explanation, the House bill
reduces by $4,000 appropriations
needed for medical charities, sums paid
to private hospitals under contract
with the District to care for INDECENT
patients assigned by the Board of
Public Welfare. The increased need
is supported by larger deficiencies than
the $4,000 which have piled up this
fiscal year.
Would Close Hospital.
The House bill provides for a shut
down OF the old tuberculosis Hos
pital. Fourteenth and Upshur streets,
next January /. although the Budget
Bureau allowed funds for its opera
ton throughout the next fiscal year.
The Blanton Subcommittee gave the
reason that by next January there
would be in operation the new adult
tuberculosis sanatorium and the addi-
tions to the Children's Sanatorium at
Glenn Dale, Md. Medical leaders de-
clare the problem cannot be meas
ured merely by the present waiting
list OF tuberculosis patients since hun
dreds of additional hospital cases are
being developed from the case-find-
ing survey conducted as a w. P. A.
project.
To effect saving of $15,5o0 IN
sanatorium administration the House
bill provides for that amount of cuts
in salaries of medical supervisors and
the dropping of three of seven posi-
tions. The pay of hospital superin-
tendent, DIR. j. Winthrop Peabody. is
cut from $500 to 5000.
Twelve additional nurses and two
attendants were granted for Gallinger
Hospital as recommended by the Bud,
get Bureau, but the House sliced the
salary OF the superintendent, DR.. Edgar
A. Bocock, from $500 to Sc, 500 and
employment of social service worker
at $4,000 was refused. The social
worker would be engaged to check on
home conditions of INDECENT patients
before their discharge.
The bill puts definite crimp into
plans for improvement of the Health
Department tuberculosis and yenereal
disease work. the Nursing Bureau.
school medical inspection and the de-
partment's laboratories, reducing the
Budget Bureau total estimates of
$5o7,s70 by $23,SOO.
Medical INSPECTORS Denied.
Eight additional school medical In
spectors were sought by the depart
ment. The Commissioners allowed
four and this number was granted by
the Budget Bureau. The House
eliminates them. They would be
parV physicians at $500 a year
each. The department now has IA
inspectors to prevent spread of COM
municable and infectious disease
among $4,000 school children. The
Board of Education some months ago
urged extension of the service in
Keeping with practices in other large
cities. So-called complete physician
examinations now are given to kin
dergarten and first grade pupils. School
authorities urged similar examina-
tions for all pupils entering District
schools for the first time. Such
program would require additional
physicians.
The House bill also would deprive
the department of all four of its gener-
al supervisors, leaving IA operators to
treat teeth ailments of SO, 900 children.
The department also would lose two
of its sanitary inspectors. The House
cut out 81 500 from a proposed $4,000
sum for replacing worn-out labora-
tory equipment.
IA Workers Eliminated.
For operation of the Districts sew
age treatment plant at Blue Plains,
to be placed in service in August, the
House bill cut S33.192 from the budget
estimate, eliminating IA employees and
disallowing some $4,000 from esti-
mated costs of electricity, repairs.
tools and supplies Officials say they
cannot operate the plant with IA
men less than the bureau allowed
and must meet prices for power and
materials as quoted.
The House cut $25,0O0 from esti-
mates for the Refuse Department,
most of the cut applying to opera
tion of the two city incinerators. al
though the plants must be operated
longer periods than last year because
trash from apartments and hotels no
longer may be dumped in Virginia
Charges to residents for property