The demand that Dr. Mortimer Jones, superintendent of the Kings County Hospital, resign from his position after the charges of discrimination and inefficiency were substantiated in the report of Commissioner of Accounts Higgins was voiced by “The Day.”
“Mayor Walker was more than right when he said that religious intolerance cannot go hand in hand with welfare work; the Mayor was more than right when he declared that in a city hospital, maintained by all taxpayers, Jews and Christians, religious or race discrimination is an impermissable scandal. However, in order that the entire world see the veracity of these words, the man who bears the main responsibility for such abuse of his duties must immediately be removed. Dr. Mortimer Jones must go,” the paper declares in its editorial.
A protest against Commissioner of Accounts Higgin’s report on the condition of Kings County Hospital was made by Dr. Mortimer Jones.
“In all fairness to the hospital executives, I must disagree with the findings of the Commissioner of Accounts,” Dr. Jones said. “That is as far as I care to go at present.”
The reception which Dr. Jones’s statement met at the City Hall gave rise to a report that eventually he will be transferred to some other institution.
The only comment from Commissioner Higgins was that he would be prepared “at the proper time and place to prove from sworn testimony and from the record of my recent investigation every one of the twenty-five observations made in my recent report to the Mayor.”
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