Mayor Low's Administration in New YorkCity Club of New York, 1903 |
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Page 472 - ... and six hundred and sixty-seven of this act, except upon the certificate of the commissioner of public charities that such child has been received and is retained by such institution pursuant to the rules and regulations established by the state board of charities.
Page 290 - ... to the preservation of human life, or to the care, promotion, or protection of health; and said board may exercise the authority given by said laws to enable it to discharge the duty hereby imposed...
Page 386 - except for repairs, no patented pavement shall be laid, and no patented article shall be advertised for, contracted for or purchased, except under such circumstances that there can be a fair and reasonable opportunity for competition, the conditions to secure which shall be prescribed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
Page 293 - The board of health consists of the commissioner of health, the police commissioner, and the health officer of the port...
Page 372 - I affirm that such virtual safeguarding of vice in the city of New York is a burning shame to any decent and civilized community, and an intolerable outrage upon those whom it especially and preeminently concerns. I am not, I beg to say, unmindful of the fact that the existence of vice in a great city is, practically...
Page 472 - ... so far as practicable. The inmates of the almshouse or almshouses shall be classified at the time of their admission upon the basis of previous character and conduct, but such inmates may be transferred or reclassified in accordance with their conduct in the institution. Every inmate of the almshouse whose age and health will permit shall be employed in cultivating the ground under the control of the commissioner, or in manufacturing such articles as may be required for ordinary use in the public...
Page 372 - I approach you, sir, to protest, with all my power against a condition of things in which vice is not only tolerated, but shielded and encouraged by those whose sworn duty it is to repress and discourage it, and, in the name of unsullied youth and innocence, of young girls and their mothers who, though living under conditions often of privation and the hard struggle for a livelihood, have in them every instinct of virtue and purity that are the ornaments of any so-called gentlewoman in the land.
Page 472 - The commissioner of public charities shall have all the authority concerning the care, custody and disposition of insane, feeble-minded, sick, infirm and destitute persons heretofore conferred upon the board of public charities and upon the several commissioners of public charities and he shall be subject to the same obligations and discharge the same duties in respect to such persons, except in so far as the same are inconsistent...
Page 373 - Vice not only flaunts in the most open ribald forms, but hard-working fathers and mothers find it harder than ever, to-day, to defend their households from a rapacious licentiousness which stops at no outrage and spares no tenderest victim.
Page 370 - What has been published in this connection is but the merest hint "of what exists — and exists, most appalling of all, as the evidence "has come to me under the seal of confidence in overwhelming "volume and force to demonstrate — under a system of terrorism "which compels its victims...