V O L U M E - City of Somerville

Harold A. Palmer, Acting Mayor
Executive Dept.
City Hall
Honorable Dear Sir:
Thursday, September 10, 19^2
September 10,
The Board of Public Welfare respectfully request your approval
of a Municipal Relief loan of $63,000. to meet the Welfare costs for
the balance of the year 19^2-
ETH
The Honorable the Board of Aldermen
Somerville, Mass.
Gentlemen:
Very truly yours,
Charles J- Willwerth
General Agent
Executive Department
Somerville, Massachusetts
September 10, 19^2
I am submitting herewith for your consideration reports from a
committee of three docto'rs on annuities for the widows of the following:
HAP:ALM
enclosures (5)
John J- Donahue, City Treasurer
City Hall
Somerville, Mass.
Dear Sir:
Patrick Michael Mullaney, former member of the Somerville
Fire Department
William Russell Burnett, former member of the Somerville
Police Department
Arvid Carlson, former meniber._ofl_the_3omer_vi.lle
Fire Department
Dennis G* Mulqueeney, former member of the Somerville
Police Department
Stephen D. MacDonald, former member of the Somerville
Police Department,
Respectfully yours,
Harold A. Palmer,
Acting Mayor
City of Somerville
Office of the City Physician
August 26, 19*4-2
Patrick Michael Mullaney, 17 Laurel Terrace. Mr. Mullaney worked as
fireman for g years. On April 22, 193^ he volunteered a transfusion at the
Somerville Hospital. The transfusion was given by direct method. It Is claimed
by the deceased, that as a direct result of that transfusion he developed
septicemia. In fact a law suit followed against the specialist who gave that
transfusion, and the deceased won the verdict.
He became a patient at the Somerville Hospital immediately following
the transfusion for 13 months. He developed multiple abscesses throughout
his body, and incidently the patient to whom he gave the transfusion,, died
the following day of septicemia. It was claimed by the patient that cultures
taken from his wounds corresponded to the disease from which that woman died.
He developed arthritis of the spine and both legs. He had to have someone
put on his shoes. He was given light work in the fire department in regard
to giving out permits for gas etc. from door to door. He came to my office in
1939, sometime in September. He had a bad cough from which he was not getting
any better. I told him to see his family doctor, Doctor McCrossan, who is now
deceased,.or if he wanted to I would have an X-ray of his chest at Middlesex
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