Evening star., 1940-08-16
RuhIand Sets
Health Budget
Al d Millions
Juvenile Court Stoff
Increase of Is
Also Requested

| ana Jour case SUPERVISORS TO reduce
the heavy load on the present staff
was submitted to the Commissioners
today shortly after Health Officer
George c. Rutland submitted Health
Department estimates of S3,541 457-
an increase of nearly a million dol
lars over current appropriations.
Also turned over to the city heads
today were the budgets of Police
Court and the probation system, the
former seeking only an additional
clerk and bailiff and the latter ask
ing only few pay increases over
the current appropriations.
High lights of the health budget
are provision for a S25O,000 north
west health center; another $780, 900
to begin construction of a children's
ward, four two-family staff houses,
internes quarters. hospital labora-
tory and remodeling Of the kitchen
and laundry buildings at Gallinger
Municipal Hospital; 1920 cancer
control bureau and an sll.6O0
mental hygiene bureau whose staffs
are included in a total request for
235 new jobs.
| Many Carryover Items.
! Most of the Health Department
requests are carryovers from esti-
mates submitted by DR.. Rutland to
the Commissioners last year and in
previous years.
The Juvenile Court budget to-
tailed $4,000, an increase of s3731o
over present appropriations, which
is nearly entirely accounted for by
the new positions. Addition of the
nine probation officers, the Com
mlssloners were told, would bring the
case load per officer from 381 down
to $50, where more efficient work
could be done.
Police Courts total was s139,842,
against present appropriations of
sl36,6O2, and the probation system
asks S19,48O, against S17,680.
Center's Area Defined.
The new Northwest Health Gen.
ter would be three-story fireproof,
alr-conditioned building serving the
area bounded in general by Florida
avenue on the north, Eleventh street
on the west, Constitution avenue on
the south and the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad tracks on the east.
This area provides most of the
patients for Gallinger Hospital and
has the highest general death rate
| in the city.
| Efforts were made to get this
center in the 1888 budget and an
agreement had been worked out
whereby it would be located on the
site of the Jones School on First
and L streets NV. Later develop
ments revolving around difficulties
of evacuating the Jones School
children to another school inter-
vened and the item was eliminated.
DR.. Rutland said the modern
| clinic. which would be similar to
the new Southwest Clinic recently
occupied by the department, would
reduce the load on Gallinger. The
health officers plan envisions a
series of such clinics throughout
the city. with Gallinger Hospital as
a focal point.
Includes Four Clinics.
The new health center would also
house four clinics now in rented
quarters in the northwest area
for venereal disease, tuberculosis and
material and child welfare.
The new buildings and repairs
at Gallinger Hospital will supple
ment a recently completed ward
built with P. w. A. funds.
Present accommodations for chill
dren at Gallinger are sub-standard,
it was stated. and the new childrens
building is badly needed. The new
building for internes would house
30. Addition of another story to
the domestic service house was said
to be perhaps the most pressing
building need at the hospital with
large number Of patients and staff
members to be fed. The new lab
oratory would replace an old re-
conditioned boiler room now being
used for the purpose.
Establishment of the cancer con-
troll bureau and the mental hygiene
bureau was sought in the budget
estimates last year. Both would
be operated by part-time directors.
Cancer with LOTT deaths last year,
is the second highest cause of death
here. DR.: Rutland said
The hygiene bureau would be pri-
marily diagnostic and consultative
with emphasis on children. Estab-
listment of a bureau with psychic
atric and psychological services
was recommended both by the Ke-
PEGS report on child welfare and by
the Public Health Service, it was
stated.
Would Add Al at Glenn Dale.
The 2S5 new positions would in
clude At at Glenn Dale Tuberculo-
sis Sanatorium and 49 at Gallinger.
The Gallinger complement would
include % graduate nurses.
Personnel for the two new bureaus
also would be included in this total
five for cancer control and a like
number for mental hygiene.
A part-time ophthalmologist and
two dental prophylactic operators
for the school medical inspection
service also are asked in line with
recommendations of the Board of
Education's Advisory Committee on
handicapped children. A part-time
orthopedic surgeon for crippled chill
dren is also provided.
Thirty positions, including 20
nurses, are requested for the nurs-
ing bureau and similar number of
nurses is to be sought each year for
the next six years to bring the
total nurses available up to the
Public Health Service recommended
ton of 282 On the basis of the pres
ent population, it was indicated.
Ten positions would be added to
the tuberculosis department and IL
to the venereal disease section. Two
additional sanitary inspectors are
,,1orraJ Dri,,cioo1 iporoacoe for