191020ORIGINAL TO CITY CLERK
PRESENTED
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CITY OF ST. PAUL
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
COUNC14 RESOLUTION — GENERAL FORM
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COUNCIL NO A -9 1020
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Council File No. 191020 —By Severin A.
Mortinson-
Resolved, By the Council of the City
of Saint Paul, upon- due consideration
of the report of the Commissioner of
Pnhlie Safet • and due- inrnsti2ation_ in
RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Saint Paul, upon due
consideration of the report of the Commissioner of Public Safety and
due investigation, in the premises, that it is found and determined that
there has arisen an existing threatened invasion of the City by an epi-
demic of contagious disease commonly designated as infantile paralysis
or poliomyelitis, which constitutes a sudden and unexpected emergency
wherein the funds of the City provided therefor or available by grant
from National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis or other sources
have become and remain inadequate for the protection of the public
interests; and that supplemental to the funds of the City available
therefor and supplemental to any funds from any other source available
therefor it will be necessarythat the City forthwith borrow and make
available for payment of its expense necessarily to be incurred in
properly protecting the public interests, in the premises, by the
procurement of the requisite vaccine, the establishment, manning, and
operation of medical clinics in public and parochial schools of the
City and in respect of other necessary procedures in meeting such
emergency, the sum of not to exceed $20,000;
RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Mayor and City Comptroller hereby
are authorized, pursuant to Section 206 of the City Charter, in behalf
- of-the City; to borrow temporarily said sum of not to exceed $20,000
necessary, together with all -other funds available therefor, properly to --
meet such emergency and protect the public interests therein, and to
make, execute, and deliver to the party or parties making such temporary
loan, a promissory note of the City therefor in the principal amount of
such temporary loan and not to exceed the sum of $20,000, and bearing
interest thereon at not to exceed six per cent per annum until paid
and payable within one (1) year from and after the date of such temporary
loan;
RESOLVED FURTHER, that said sum of not to exceed $20,000, upon
such authorized borrowing of the same, shall be deposited to the credit
of a special item of the Cityls Health Department Fund hereby established
and designated Subfund 9 C-5; and that such borrowed sum,of not to exceed
$20,000 and any additional funds available therefor by grant or otherwise
are appropriated therefor and made chargeable with the City's necessary
expense in its meeting of said emergency.
Countersigned: proved
City Comptroller Mayor
COUNCILMEN ` y Adopted by t ounc' - 19—
Yeas Nays FEB 17 1959
DeCourcy
Holland Approved 19-
Mortinson
Peterson Favor
Rosen ayor
Winkel Against
Mr. President, Dillon
5M 5.58 •2
DUPLICATE Td PRINTER
CITY OF ST. PAUL
CO "cis NO.
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
COUNCIL RESOLUTION — GENERAL FORM
PRESENTED BY
COMMISSIONER DATE
RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Saint Paul, upon due
consideration of the report of the Commissioner of Public Safety and
due investigation, in the premises, that it is found and determined that
there has arisen an existing threatened invasion of the City by an epi-
demic of contagious disease commonly designated as infantile paralysis
or poliomyelitis, tihich constitutes a sudden and unexpected emergency
wherein the funds of the City provided therefor or available by grant
from National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis or other sources
have become and remain inadequate for the protection of the public
interests; and that supplemental to the funds of the City available
therefor and supplements1 to any funds from any other :ounce available
therefor it will be necessarythat the City forthwith borrow and make
available for payment, of its expense necessarily to be incurred in
properly protecting the public interests, in the premises, by the
procurement of the requisite vaccine, the establishment, manning, and
operation of medical clinics in public and parochial schools of the
City and in respect of other necessary procedures in meeting such
emergency, the sun of not to exceed 120,000;
RESOLVED FMHE.R, that the Mayor and City Comptroller hereby
are authorised, pursuant to Section 206 of the City Charter, in behalf
of the City, to borrow temporarily said sum of not to exceed $20,000
necessary., together -Ath all other funds available therefor, properly to
meet such emergency and protect the public interests therein, and to
make, execute, and deliver to the party or parties making such temporary
loan, a promia:ory note of the City therefor in the principal amount of
such temporary loan and not to exceed the sum of x'20,000, and bearing
interest thereon at not to exceed six per cent per annum until paid
and payable within one (1) year from and after the date of such temporary
loan;
RESOLVED FURTHER, that said sup of not to exceed S20,000, upon
such Ruthorized borrovring of the same, shall be deposited to the credit
of a special item of the City's Health Department Fund hereby established
and eesign:ated ,Subfurd 9 C--5; and that such borrowed sum of not to exceed
$20,000 and any additional funds available therefor by grant or otherwise
are appropriated therefor And made chargeable with the City's necessary
expense in its meeting of said emergency.
Countersigned: Approved
COUNCILMEN ty mp Adopted by tte ounei 19
Yeas I Nays
DeCourey
Holland
Mortinson
P n Favor
Peterson
Rosen
Winkel Against
Mr. President, Dillon
5M 5.58 OW 2
Approved FEB 17 1959 19—
Mayor
bFFI,CE OF CITY`CLERK
BUREAU OF RECORDS
386 City Hall and Court House
St. Paul 2, Minnesota
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FEB 13 I145j
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Mr. Marshall F. Hurley
Corporation Counsel
B- Gilding
Dear Sir:
JOSEPH R. OKONESKI
City Clerk
HAROLD J. RIORDAN
Council Recorder
1.91 020
February 13, 1959
The City Council referred to you the attached letter of Comsr. Peterson
requesting an emergency appropriation of $20,000.00 to continue the Polio
immunization program to be conducted by the Bureau of Health, and asked
that you prepare the proper resolution.
Very trulZj
City Clerk l.v
MINNESOTA
8<:>
CITY OF SAINT PAUL
Capital of Minnesota
Cne admeat 4 Palfic Salell
Tenth and Minnesota Streets, 1
POLICE ROBERT F. PETERSON, Commissioner
FIRE PROTECTION JOHN C. FE MANN, Deputy Commissioner
A. R. ANDERSON, License Inspector
February 13, 1959
Honorable Mayor and
Members of the City Council
Gentlemen:
HEALTH
POLICE AND FIRE ALARM
We are requesting an emergency appropriation of $20,000.00 to continue the
Polio immunization program to be conducted by the Bureau of Health.
The following is for your information:
In 1955, when the Polio vaccine first became available, the Bureau of Health
received an allotment of polio vaccine from the National Polio Foundation, sufficient
to administer two doses of the vaccine to the first and second grade children in
the 130 schools in the City of St. Paul. At that time 23,152 doses were administered
to those children. Again in 1956, through an Act of Congress, 9,530 doses became
available to St. Paul. This vaccine was administered by the Bureau of Health mostly
to preschool children. ,
In January of 1957, the Bureau of Health, with the cooperation of the University
of Minnesota School of Public Health, conducted a survey in all St. Paul schools to
study the acceptance of the polio vaccine since the initiation of the program in 1955 -
The survey embraced 64,944 students in the elementary and secondary schools. 61,401
of the questionnaires, or 97.62 percent, were returned and tabulated. The object of
the survey was: 1. To determine the status of immunization of the school children
in St. Paul. 2. To compile data which would enable the most efficient utilization
of the polio vaccine should it become available. The data indicated that 6.21 per
cent received one inoculation, 51.85 per cent received two inoculations, and only
11.10 per cent received three inoculations, and that 30.84 per cent have had no in-
oculations at all. It was felt that in addition to that, probably another 35 per
cent of the preschool children have had no inoculations. This large unprotected
population of preschool and school children was considered a dangerous reservoir
for the possible polio epidemics that normally recur in the three to four year cycles.
As a result of these findings, a grant of $18,000.00 was made by the National
Foundation of Infantile Paralysis to Ramsey County, of which St. Paul received,a
proportionate share. This was supplemented by an emergency appropriation of $20,000.00
authorized by the City Council, which permitted the Bureau of Health to conduct a
series of clinicsin the schools, in the Neighborhood Houses, Housing Projects, or-
phanages, Booth Memorial Hospital, House of Good Shepherd, etc. A total of 35,064
vaccine doses were administered to preschool and school children. The balance of
the unexpended polio fund was used throughout 1958 to administer the vaccine in the
daily clinics at the Health Center.
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The average attendance at the Health Center Clinic for polio vaccinations is
about 750 per month. A total of 8,325 doses were administered during the year 1958.
In all, beginning with'the initial clinics in 1955 through 1958, 76,071 doses of
vaccine were administered by the Bureau of Health.
In order to adequately protect the children of our City against the possibility
of a polio epidemic, it is quite essential to continue this immunization program.
It is a known fact that crash immunization programs, conducted at rare intervals,
is of very little value. The only means of controlling any communicable disease,.
including polio, is a continuing day to day, month to month, year to year program
of immunizations. It has proven in the past in our continuing program of diphtheria,
tetanus, pertussis and smallpox immunization programs, that the effective way to
prevent epidemics is to have a continuous program of immunization, as we in St. Paul
have had no epidemics of diphtheria or smallpox since the inauguration of our con-
tinuous immunization program against those diseases. We hope that the same will occur
in the case of polio., if our program in continued on the same basis as our other
immunization programs.
Should the City Council grant an appropriation sufficient to carry on our polio
immunization program, we contemplate to continue our daily clinics at the Health Center,
and, in addition to that, conduct additional clinics in the low income group of our
public and parochial schools, in the housing projects, neighborhood houses, nursery
schools and orphanages. We consider these children to be the least likely to avail
themselves of the services of private physicians and these children are the ones that
normally constitute the main reservoir for the spread of communicable diseases. An
example of that, you most likely know from the newspaper accounts of last summer, is
the great polio epidemics that existed in Chicago and Detroit: Those epidemics
started in the low income areas and thence spread throughout their cities. We are
hoping that the program of immunization we contemplate will in a great measure pre-
vent such an occurrence in the City of St. Paul.
Respectfully yours,
Robert F. Peterson
Commissioner of Public Safety
BLL: jn
„OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE
St: Paul 2, Minn., January 30, 19
You are 'hereby notified that the Council of the City of St. Paul will
consider the matter of application of State of Minnesota
Department of Highway for permit to erect a 400 -car
temporary parking lot (for employees) in' blocks bounded by
Rice Street, Carroll Avenue (Cathedral` -Pl -L and Rondo Avenue,
and that a public hearing will be hel W, the Council Chambers of the -
Court House and City,. Hall $uilding oebruary 11, 1959 , in theme
City of St. Paul, at 10:00 o'clock A p
8 File 11363 Commissioner of Finance. -
The City Charter requires this Notice be sent from the Department of Finance.