Show 1 HEALTH OFFICIAL WANTS HOSPITAL S. Commissioner Stewart Awakes to Need of Another Isolation Isolation Isolation Isola Isola- tion Plant SCORES LOCAL PHYSICIANS At Same Time Expense of Maintaining Own Department Department Depart Depart- ment Has Increased An isolation hospital for an and scarlet fever fe is most urgently recommended by br City Health Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commits stoner M. M n. n Stewart whose hose annual report was ma made e to Mayor Bransford Bransfor yesterday yesterday- ar- ar arAt At the same time the report re- re port t belittles this class of contagion and md sn says s 's the disease epidemic In 1907 didn't amount to much Dr Stewarts Stewart's annual report Is made at the same time the annual statistical report of the health department is Issued and the two show an nn increase In the expense of operating the department department department de de- de- de as well as an increase in the spread d of ot contagious fous disease an and a a. raise ralso in the death late ate o over years ClI rs Dr Stewart comm comments upon the tile phase of or disease in Iii the tho cit during the tho year I pointing out that tho prevalence of or measles during the last ast three months month in 1907 was iran duo mostly to parents who allowed children ren to go 10 to school while there thero was disease in tire tho family He that of the 51 cases of ot cerebra cerebra- meningitis last spring there thoro were sicre 39 deaths and of cases jf f diphtheria during the tho year there were cro 19 49 tl deaths Hit Medical Char Charging Ing carelessness and negligence jn n Ir the part pait of the medical profession Or Dr Stewart says sas th that t local physicians physIcian were ero largely to blame for tor the continued ot of conta contagious lous disease because of or and Inaccurate infer infer- nation to tho thc nubile DubUc lie says that If it t L o oL tho he physicians stated the cause cau Ju u plain hain English the tho public would better understand matters matteis and the tho spread of would be he checked lie He says s 's hc he physicians treated the quarantine ules lightly and antl recommended the re- re naval noval of or flags before the thc proper tune time of the he Department The expense of ot operating the health department In 1907 was a great deal than in 1906 which was alarm alarm- ng enough to astound the finance man- man igers of or the city A comparative c state state- nent rient of om the distribution of the cost costa n a the department for tor the two years cars 1 1907 0 1000 salaries 2500 30 19 salaries Spec Sal 6 1 I. I H Garbage dept Sal 2 95 i Gar Jar Wag Dead Animals O ar fares farea Horse t Expense otc etc SIS 1 12 Stationery Printing Stamps etc 1 y Ex x O rugs ana J f Bf l j lV V 18 CiC 5 2 i Charges Emergency ency cases 1500 jG il at Garb- Garb bag basi Station 1990 Garbage Freight Charges Miscellaneous 2215 H Total 1 Crematory Ex IS 2282 Isolation Hospital 93 Sl Grand Total 33 Statistics I of or Report The annual report of the statistics of the department shows 1954 t cases of ot diseases reported during khe hrc year divided as follows Diphtheria scarlet lever fever 1 20 micalea mea mea- lea les typhoid fever 20 small pox 16 epidemic spinal meningitis 2 simple meningitis 62 chicken pox po 2 whooping CoUgil 35 35 mumps 27 7 5 pneumonia 33 There were 1160 deaths and 2023 2025 i r the A total of ot ironies homes were disinfected iy y the fumigator S. S C. C Evans The work worle of or the food Inspector Is hown as follows Inspection of ot stores 1976 commission houses 1095 1096 meat markets 15 1315 dalr- dalr CB Cs restaurants restaurant candy mfg lZ 2 Ush tish market lOlS lOl'S radish mf mug mfg 1 l breweries 2 Ice cream co po panes ponas nos 1 condemned food total prosecutions 18 |