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further than we have in the question of 

 the care of consumptives. We ought to 

 have some great national institution that 

 would take charge of consumptives, take 

 them away from their surroundings to 

 country places, where all the proper con- 

 ditions can be fulfilled. Of course we 

 have two or three buildings — I believe 

 the new St. Luke's Hospital has a con- 

 sumptive ward or a certain number of 

 wards for consumptives, and I believe 

 there is also an institution in Fordbam 

 that takes consumptives. But here is 

 what has been done in other places. This 

 is the Royal National Hospital for Con- 

 sumptives on the Isle of Wight. They 

 keep them there and a great many of 

 these lives are saved. We must remem- 

 ber that a great many people who have 

 consumption never die of it. They get 

 well. It is found on post mortems that 

 about 95 per cent, of those who have 

 died from other diseases gave indications 

 of having had consumption at some time 

 in their lives. 



There is a picture of a trained nurse in 

 full uniform — and it is an occupation 

 that for any young woman I think is a 

 worthy one if she has got to support her- 

 self, because it means fairly good support 

 and at the same time a fairly good re- 

 muneration. It is overdone, the same 

 as medicine is overdone. I suppose all 

 these professions are overdone, unless it 

 is the profession of pharmacy. 



Now I have a picture here — I hope 

 you are not too familiar with this build- 

 ing. This is a picture of the Tombs, 

 down in Centre street. There is a build- 

 ing that if it could tell the happenings 

 within its walls, what great romances 

 and what great stories would be given to 

 the public press of the world ! A won- 

 derful old building and wonderful are 

 the scenes that have transpired within its 

 walls. But let us look at the interior. 

 Here is a cell where young boy criminals 



have been sent up tor ten days for minor 

 oflFenses. You see they have been ar- 

 raigned here and the Tombs " angel " 

 has commenced to do something to try 

 and reclaim these boys. I suppose she 

 is sometimes successful. She is a wo- 

 man of wealth and gives her time to try 

 and reclaim these little fellows that get 

 into the Tombs for a few days lor minor 

 offenses. Now she may be successful in 

 some cases, but as a rule until he be- 

 comes a man he generally keeps coming 

 up for ten days now and ten days again, 

 until we find him in the class of men we 

 shall see as we throw the next picture on 

 the slide. Here you find the older men. 

 They have been up for ten days all their 

 lives generally, and yet the work of re- 

 form still goes on, and they are still 

 striving to do something to reclaim them. 



Sunday afternoon services in the 

 Tombs. You don't see the prisoners be- 

 cause they are in their cells, but the ser- 

 vice goes on and they listen from the 

 doors of their cells. 



That is another service that is going 

 on in the ten day pen similar to the one 

 you saw a minute ago. These are all 

 pictures from the Tombs. This is where 

 the Sisters are carrying on a service for 

 the reformation of some of the young 

 women criminals that you see down 

 there. 



Now we pass away from the Tombs to 

 a little pleasanter picture, and this picture 

 represents one of the very sweetest char- 

 ities I think that are established in our 

 city ; that is the Day Nursery, so called. 

 The woman who takes her child to the 

 Day Nursery is usually a woman whose 

 husband has either died, been taken 

 away from her suddenly or has suddenly 

 decamped and left her with these young 

 children, and she is obliged to support 

 them. She can take her young baby to 

 the Day Nursery and by giving and by 

 giving five cents to the people who run 



