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The Charity Hospital took in the indigent. The arrest books (in the City Archives) document instances of whole groups being “carted off” to the Charity Hospital rather than to jail when found lying drunk on the street. In this case a laborer from Ohio first landed in jail and was then transferred to Charity Hospital. We don’t know why.
[Department of Police & Public Buildings. Correspondence, 1882-1910]
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