Evening star., 1943-01-11

| AhC oAotilCt k1edllQ department
will have an additional $44,50l on
which to operate during 1914. II
budget estimates submitted by Pres
ident Roosevelt to Congress today
are approved.
Part OF this increase will 90 to
Gallnger Hospital, which will re-
ceive $19,660 more than it did for
lS43, but the remaining hospitals
which share in the budget, most of
which now are facing the greatest
demands for service in their history.
can expect no relief from this
source. Sums allotted to the care
OF INDECENT patients at Children's,
Emergenucy and Casualty Hospitals
| and the Washington Home for In.
curables will remain the same.
The Presidents estimates call for
total Health Department budget
Tor 1914 of $3,7l4,638, compared with
$3,670.137 for 1943. The figure Is
decrease of $343,791 under the
$4,O58.429 asked by the Commits
sloners In their estimates released
early in September.
Mental Hygiene Unit Out.
In the budget as it now stands
the S4S,340 sought by the Commits
Sloners for new Bureau of Mental
hygiene has been eliminated. The
mental hygiene program has been
urged Tor several years on the
ground that it would reduce both
crime and mental disease.
Glenn Dale Sanatorium was
granted its request that a new posi-
ton OF senior medical officer at
$500 year be created to assist
the superintendent in his duties, but
major portion of other increases
were refused. The 1914 total for this
institution was set at 1881 ,674, a
rise of $46,309 over the 1943 figure
but a drop of s118,987 under the
Commissioners budget.
The old tubercular hospital at
Fourteenth and Upshur streets NV.
renovation of which is expected to be
completed around January Is, was
allotted $l69,060 for 1914, a sum
| slightly In excess of that asked by
the Commissioners. OF this amount
not more than $108,320 is to be
spent for personal services and not
more than $4,000 for repairs and
improvements to buildings and
grounds. The hospital will be
equipped from sum of $18,75O set
aside this year for furniture and
equipment.
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For Gallinger Hospital it was esti-
mated $1,401.207 would be needed
for the fiscal period ending June
80, 1914. This is Jump of $19,66
over the 1943 budget, but decrease
of s25, ,780 under the Commissioners
figures.
Gallinger was granted its request
for $500 annual salary for an as
sistant superintendent. While sal
ary allotments amount to $685., lot.
an increase of s77,06O, the hospital
will have s410,50O, or s42,4O0 less
than In 1943, to cover expenses.
1t will have $4,000, or $4,000 less,
to spend on repairs and improve
ments.
Plans Tor an increased maternal
and child welfare program, involv-
ing number Of new positions, were
turned down. The Medical Services
unit of the Health Department,
which had been given a budget of
s808.999 by the Commissioners, was
cut to s7l0,675. decrease of $14,835
under the 1943 budget.
Also rejected was a request for
an additional 20 junior graduate
nurses and a senior supervisor for
the Nursing Bureau. This would
have involved an expense of $32, 400
for salaries, $4,000 for equipment.
$1,000 for transportation and $500
for supplies.
Estimates Listed.
Other Health Department esti-
mates follow:
= General administration, S12l ,4lO.
compared to $111,775 for 1913.
Laborat ories, $72,0l0, compared to
$66.510 for 1943.
Inspections. s208,6O2, compared to
| $201 $40 for 1943.
Children's Hospital, for medical
| charities, $4,000, the same as for
; 1943.
Emergency Hospital, for medical