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4. IV.
“Bellevue Hospital is often crowded to excess with
sick, so much so that patients suffer through bad air
and inattention. * * * * *
“It is impossible to warm the Tombs, or to keep it
from being damp, unwholesome, and sickly; and until
an appropriation of at least $50,000 is made by the
city, prisoners must continue to be crowded together
and continue to suffer, especially in cold weather,
beneath damp bed-clothes.”
—Report Commissioners of
Charities and Correction.
But
“the Park Commissioner is of opinion that it will
cost $5,000,000 to complete the new Natural History
buildings in Central Park, to give ample room for the
minerals, fossils, and live animals. The wild animals
of the zoological collection take up a large amount
of room in the Park buildings, and it costs the city
a great deal of money to feed them and keep them
properly warmed, but they are a source of great
amusement to the nurses and children.”
—Park Commissioner's
Report.
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