Evening star., 1945-01-09
1876 New Positions
Sought in Budget for
Health Department
BY BAINBRmGE CRIsr.

positions Tor the Health Department
and municipal hospitals and funds
for the building of new pediatric
and laboratory buildings at Gal
linger Municipal Hospital.
The total departmental budget OF
SIS, ,756 900 calls for 81 new employees
in the department itself at a cost
of $40 los; l20 at Gallinger Hos
pital at $200, $50 and A additional
employees at Glenn Dale Sanatorium
at payroll of $63,780 Health ex-
penditures for l945, including over
time pay, would total $5.435 $50.
$62e, 100 for One Building.
The pediatrics building would cost
$500 700 and the laboratory $l91 600
A supplemental appropriation in the
last Congress provided funds foa
designing the two structures. They
are part of the Commissioners plans
tor expanding Gallinger into a
municipal medical center.
The budget asks the following new
positions for Gallinger: l assistant
property and supply officer, $4,000;
/ clerk, $l,650: telephone opera
tors, 81 ,450 each; / chief cook, $1,000;
II kitchen workers at s1,860 and
81 200; laundry clerk, $500:
l seamstress. 1890, and 10 laun-
dry workers. 81 200 each.
Other new Gallinger employees
would include: l assistant mechan-
ical superintendent, $4,000; me-
chanic, 1880: / director of nurs-
ing, $4,000; 2 assistant directors of
nursing. 5000 each; 4 superintend-
ent nurses, $500 each; 13 head
nurses, $4,000 each; so nurses aides,
81, 40 each: S attendants, 1890
each; 2 medical officers, $500 each !;
l psychiatrist, $500; admitting Of
ficer, 5000 and psychologist, $500.
Seek Psychiatrists.
Health officials sought three
psychiatrists for Gallinger in line
with recommendations made last
year by DR.. Winfred Overholser,
superintendent of st. Elizabeth's s
Hospital, who headed a committee
investigating the psychopathic ward
of the hospital. One medical ON
Ger would be chief anesthetist and
the other for eye, ear and throat
work
Glenn Dale Sanatorium, which
was forced to reduce its number of
patients last year because of an
acute personnel shortage, would be
granted the following personnel
increases:
Three dietitians, $1,000 each:
steward, $4,000: l assistant steward
5000; assistant baker. 1890; Z
kitchen helpers, 81 200 each: / x-ray
attendant, 81 800; / clerk, 81 $40; !
assistant surgeon, 1920; head
housekeeper, 5000; assistant
housekeepers, 81 $50 each: plumber
81 500; l steam filter, 81 500: 20 hos
pital attendants, 81 200 each, and
elevator operator, $1,000.
Sought Even More.
Both Gallinger and Glenn Dale
had submitted even larger requests
for personnel in their recommends
tions to the Commissioners. Glenn
Dale, for instance, sought So stafI
nurses. These were not recon-
mended. but 1t was pointed out by
sanatorium officials that they have
IS vacancies at present In the nurS-
ing staff.
In seeking funds for a new pedi-
atrics building, health officials
pointed out that the pediatric ward
is in the psychopathic building and
that 1t was unfortunate for children
to hear or see violent patients. 1t
also was claimed that the building
was too hot in the summertime
The present laboratory was said to
be "woefully dilapidated and made
quate in every respect"
Department calls for a new admins
trative assistant at the Southwest
Health Center, along with two clerks
and one attendant. The budget
calls for an assistant director OF
the Hospital Permit Bureau at So, SOC
a year.
Other new positions sought in the
budget for the department are /
demalogist (part time) for the
school medical inspection service
10 senior Cadet Corps nurses in the
Nursing Bureau for six months;
clinical aides for material and
child welfare division; food in
spectors, and for public health in
struction,. l director at $4,000 and
nno y,t,vciCiov, of 81 nm