| Show LAW POINTED OUT OUTTO TO CITY GITY ATTORNEY t Otherwise He Would Have Declared Der De- De r I dared Proposed Contagion b. b P Hospital Legal j PLAN KNOCKED IN THE HEAD Bishof Bisho Spalding Discovers St St. ft i L Marks Mark's Cannot S Sanction V Contract i While the the city council had a legal r opinion from Assistant t City Olty Attorney P. P J Dal Daly that tho the SIgnIng of or a a. teni ten- ten 1 i JJ year ear contract with the the St. St Marks Mark's Hospital Hos Ilos- pital association for Cor tho erection of or a aJ J fc contagious disease hospital was not r contrary to law Jaw It remained for Cor Bishop F. F S. S Spalding of ot the tho association to find r. r j d where whore the attorney went wrong t Now low the whole proposition to have i- i St. St Marks Mark's hospital care for tor scarlet S fever and diphtheria patients under a 1 l joint contract with the thc city and coun- coun r A. A 3 t ty has hos been knocked In tho the head hend Tho The plan was to lave ha the hospital erect two pavilions for the caro care of these pas pa- pa s f receiving r rf Ci fco Co ce from the city and a bonus for tho the establishment of ot the new Institution 1 When hen the matter was put up to Assistant As- As Daly he said It was t Attorn Attorney y entirely legal Ho lie was shown shon tho the law V prohibiting such a proposition but said tho the law was unconstitutional ft About that lint time timo Cit City Attorney Dinin- Dinin t jh ny nr discovered that Mayor faor wanted the elt city to enter into the tho coni contract contract con- con i 4 tract with St. St Marks Mark's hospital Then r the city attorney became Interested and he looked into the matter When Bishop Spalding showed him the same w section of ot the statute he decided that and that the tho mayor t Daly was wrong couldn't have what bo ho wanted anted under 4 tho the law What e Say Says The Tho section from tho the statute Is as follows ollos Location of oC pest houses That no I city It county or municipal corporation or public or private corporation or person person person per per- son or association of or persons shall af- af 4 1 ter tho the first day of or July 1903 use operate opeC oper ate tte maintain or 01 cause to bo be use used operated oper oper- or 01 maintained an any house bull building ing house asylum 4 or premises for tor any pest or hospital us d as ns a place of or detention I Jn In which to keep or confine confIno persons i 1 1 of ot having haying con- con conC C or nr any I ii Ious tas-Ious or Infectious dise disease so within 20 I rods of any public road or within one- one fourth mile of or any my canal ditch aqueduct aque- aque 1 duct or flume conveying a stream of anti and uncovered unco running water on only along alone the surface of ot the tho ground where I t the waters of or such canal ditch aqueduct aqueduct aqueduct aque aque- duct or flume are conveyed ed into or used by the inhabitants of any city town or village for Cor culinary household or other domestic purposes c j 1 This is found round In Section 1113 28 1113 8 of r i Revised Statutes of ot 1907 the r It seems that this law puts p. p i crimp ii bIrt in the proposed detention hospital adjacent adjacent ad nd- jacent ent to St. St Marks Mark's and City Attorney nc fey ney Dininny must bo be boverY very cry grateful to Bishop for discovering |
