Evening star., 1944-01-13
Budget Provides
Three New Posts
Al Ga||inger

A request for an increase Of II
in the personnel of the Health De-
partment, including such new posi-
tions at Gallinger Hospital as a
chief medical officer, an assistant
superintendent and an administra-
tive assistant, is included in the
IS 100000 estimate that Is part of
the 1945 District budget.
The salaries of the II requested
employees would total Sl21,140 an
nually. OF the new personnel. IL
would be for Gallinger Hospital, l6
for Glenn Dale Sanitarium and 43
for the department itself, The cost
would be divided as follows: Gal
linger, s30.080; Glenn Dale, $2o.560.
and the department. s70.500
Late last year. the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee rejected a
request of the District Commits
sioners for new employees at Gal
linger Hospital, sought in a move
to reorganize the administrative
machinery of the hospital. The pro-
gram Of the city heads was worked
out after the hospital became the
target of sharp criticism of a Sem
ate investigating committee.
Gallinger Requests.
| Among the Gallinger positions
sought in the new budget and the
salary are, chief medical of1icer, So
900; assistant superintendent. s4.-
| 900, and an administrative assist
ant. $4,000.
At the time Commissioner Guy
Mason presented his program to
Congress last November he ex-
planned that the chief medical of
f1cer would be a deputy assistant
superintendent and an aide to the
superintendent: that the admin
istrative assistant would handle
business affairs at the Institution
and that the administrative assist
ant would be in the business section.
At Glenn Dale the increased per-
sonnel sought is distributed among
the clerical, administrative and Gus
todial services. In the department.
new positions include venereal
disease clinic director at $4,000: two
more attending physicians. a dentist.
and clerical, fiscal and custodial en-
ployes.
Health Department Fund.
Exclusive of the hospitals, the
Health Department has requested
81 ,433.3O7 for the coming year, in
Guiding these items: Administration,
s71,818; permit bureau, s60.837; vital
statistics, s27,259: dental service,
s122,s9o: maternal and child well
fare, S70,358; medical inspection of
schools, S97 7,563: nursing, 1858 .3O5:
preventable diseases, 500, ,795: tuber-
culosis. $93.422; venereal diseases,
$74,470; laboratories. S89,135: tuber-
inspection. S147,634, and sanitary in
spection, $160.821.
Other items in the departments
budget are: Sl.OO6, ,436; Gallinger,
S1,925 ,496, and $4,000 for Freed
mans Hospital. included for the first
time in the District budget rather
than in the Federal Security Agency
Appropriation Act.
While the total Health Depart
ment budget estimate of 5000. .839
is considerably larger than the So
804, ,OO4 appropriation of 1914. the
later figure did not include overtime
pay provisions and Freedman's Hos
pital. Overtime pay provisions for
the new budget have been set at
s559,911
A request Of DR.. George C. Ruh-
land, District Health Officer, for a
mental hygiene bureau and cancer
control clinic was omitted in keep
ing with the decision of the Com
missioners who felt that they were
not necessary since they duplicated
somewhat the functions of the
United States Public Health Service