Evening star., 1947-04-22

however, and VIII make every enort
Ito arrange 1t.
In connection with their state
lment that the case Is only one OF
q number of inadequate city serv-
Ices, the Commissioners pointed TO
1.-THE immense growth Of population
here IN the last seven years. This,
Ithey said, was coupled with reduced
purchasing power Of city income.
aIt shows itself in every field, :
they declared, resulting In periodic
investigations like the present one.
land 1t can only be remedied by .
complete overhaul Of the city's
| financial structure"
| A tax program to revamp the city
| financial structure now Is under
study by . Senate House committee
headed by Senator Cain, Repubh-
lean, Of Washington.
Prior, today's developments, the
Rapid Treatment Center at CAL
ilinger Hospital, rather than the iso-
lation building, was approved by
health and welfare officials as suit
able to temporarily house the nom
delinquent inmates from the Re-
ceiving home.
DR.. George c. Ruhland, Dis
trict health officer, said he had
vetoed the earlier plan to use the
communicable disease building.
Il didn't feel" he said, that 1t
was wise and justifiable for us to
put the children there"
Although the children would have
been entirely separated from the
patients and there would have been
no danger of contact, "any case of
measles or other communicable dis
ease that might have developed
among the children would likely
have been misinterpreteG by the
general public" DR.. Ruhland said.
Held Suitable for Playground.
The unit the children will use
was described by DR.. Alvin r.
Sweeney, superintendent of Gal
linger Hospital, as a one-story
building with several exits 80
there's no fire hazard" Built as q
wartime addition to the Rapid
Treatment Center, is is completely
separate from other buildings and
is surrounded by a fenced area
suitable for a playground, DR..
Sweeney said.
The patients now in the building
will be moved to the area in the
isolation building which earlier had
been set aside for the Receiving
Home.
| "Up to 60 children" can be cared
for in the building, it was said, ahd
DR.. William Stavsky, superintend-
ent of the Receiving Home said
there were about SO non-delinquents
who would be moved to the hospital.
Temporary Expedient.'
The Health Department offered
the Gallinger facility as temporary
home for the children formerly
housed in Lincoln Hall, part of the
Receiving Home The hall was Or
dered abandoned by Mr.. Horan on
penalty of blocking appropriations
to the Welfare Board. The report
last Friday by the investigators for
Mr.. Horan branded the na1i fire
trap"
DR.. Rutland said he believed the
building could be ready to turn over
to the Receiving Home in about
"a week or 10 days"
Representatives of the Board OF
Public Welfare yesterday made a
tour of the facilities offered in the
isolation building and came to the
conclusion that the Y-shaped area
on the first floor of the building
could be adapted for use by the
home.
Just. Part OF Program.
Those making the tour were DR.
Stavsky, Mr. Clapp, Paul Kirby. as
i sistant director of the Board Of Pub
| lie Welfare; A. j.. Driscoll, chair
man, and William Brayshaw, 4
member of the institutions COM
Imittee of the welfare board, and
lDr. Sweeney. 4. i ss
The move to Galltnger would be
only. one part of the program to
evacuate the Receiving Home.
Delinquent white boys would 60
to the Industrial Home School, ac-
cording to plans announced by the
welfare board, while delinquent col
ored boys would go to Blue Plains.
Both white and colored girls would
be kept at Dunbar Cottage, the most
modern part of the Receiving
Home.