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he feels himself as a separate individual, allowed to work out his own 

 salvation in his own space. 



I go occasionally into the private home section of the Bronx, and I 

 noticed there a short while ago that the people are usually feeling hetter 

 than people living in congested districts. They seem to be able to go to 

 work fresher in the morning, purely because of the fact that they have 

 plenty of room and the section is not built up solidly. 



Car-sickness 



From a health standpoint, there is a very marked and particularly 

 harmful effect in the daily travel back and forth on the subway. I have a 

 patient who lives in Brooklyn — she comes to me all the way from Brooklyn. 

 She happens to be a stenographer downtown and travels back and forth on 

 the subway. The effect on her nervous system is such that every time she 

 comes to my office she vomits. There are certain other types of patients 

 who have car-sickness. They suffer from traveling on the cars in the city. 

 There are other people who suffer from the noise in the subway. I have 

 patients who simply cannot travel back and forth in the subway on account 

 of the noise. Then also comes the proposition of the irritable individual 

 due to the jostling and constant noise. I happen to have a patient of a 

 neurasthenic type, for instance, who lives in the Washington Heights dis- 

 trict. I order such patients to come down on the elevated railroad or by 

 the bus in preference to the subway. 



I would look upon any plan for the distribution of population during 

 home hours and working hours, and which will cut down the time that 

 people spend in the subway, as a positive health advantage to the City of 

 New York. 



Noise as a cause of nervous disorder 



I feel that if it were possible for those who suffer from nervous dis- 

 eases, to live on a quiet residential street, it would practically amount to 

 living in a little house in the country, and take away a great many of the 

 things that produce the symptoms of nervous disorder. If they could live 

 there they would lie away from those things. 



In building a sanitorium in New York, you must look around for just 

 such a street. I recall specifically an instance of this kind, Lloyd's Sani- 

 tarium, 155th Street and St. Nicholas Place. At the time the Manhattan 

 subway was under construction a great big hammering plant was in use in 

 front of the sanitarium. Some patients treated in that building almost went 

 into spasms with that plant pounding away from eight o'clock in the morn- 

 ing until six at night. 



Statement by J. H. Burton, Chairman, Save New York Committee, 



March 28, 1916 

 Elimination of factories from Fifth avenue 



The plan of the Zoning Commission is of vital importance to the City of 

 New York as it affects its very existence and future welfare. 



I represent the movement which has received the name of the Save 

 New York Movement, which has for its object the elimination of factories 

 in the localities north of 32d Street. We heartily endorse the plan of this 

 commission. 



When this Save New York Movement started, the basic idea was to 

 keep the factories from destroying the vast wealth in real estate, in business 



