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Title: Report on public baths and public comfort stations by the Mayor's committee of New York City
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Public Baths and Public Comfort Stations
Subjects: Baths
Publisher: New York City
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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the way, but simply bathing facilities in the basement ofa school building. The matter was referred to the Committeeon Hygiene, who reported in favor of the baths on October 13,A long discussion was chiefly devoted to the question of the exped-iency of the introduction of baths. It was said that the Board hadbeen at work trying to put in proper ventilating apparatus in theschools to do away with unclean odors, in one school spending$4,500 for this purpose; but they could not get rid of the odors.The order to provide bathing accommodation in the Paul Revereschoolhouse was passed by a vote of 11 to 8. In this city the advisability of providingbaths in school basements was mooted in the preliminary report ofthe Sub-Committee on Public Baths and Public Comfort Stations.!\Ir. C. B. J. Snyder, Superintendent of School Buildings, hasc J planned to leave room in the basement of a new East Side school for which ground has been condemned, but no further move hasbeen made in the matter. Snyder.
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CHAPTER VJl. MUNICIIAL IJAIIIS IN AMERICA. Tlic first city in Uic United States to estab-lish a municipal bath, supphed with hot and cold water and openall the year round, was Yonkers. This city raised a fund of $20,000 Yonkers.and a site was purchased. Plans were prepared for a floating bath onthis site, but by reason of the high cost of this style of bath andthe necessary expenses of dredging, approaches, main entrances,etc., the funds on hand were not sufficient to carry them out. Thefact that the bath could be used but a few months each year, to-gether with the increasing pollution of the river with sewage, alsohad considerable weight with the committee and the plan was fin-ally abandoned. About this time a gentleman from Yonkerssaw the Peoples Baths and induced the Committee and Mr. Cooper,Commissioner of Public Works, to pay them a visit. The new bathsopened on Labor Day are modeled after the Peoples Baths and are25 by 53 feet. They were designed by Hon. S. L. Cooper, Commis- S.

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