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A Comjpluiut About «l»e l»ct of» «lt;*»» to It.I wish you would come out to our city pest house and see for yourself how completely it is isolated from the outside world” was remarked to a News reporter by a citizen who resides in that vicinity. “It is impossible to get to it with a team and wagon on account of a swamp in the roa^.{r(°|“tof the city’s property on which theh.ospital is located which no team of horses can go through and pull a loach Now the city has a good hospital there. It has four good rooms well arranged for hospital purposes and enthely separated from each other bui if any one should be taken there no doctor could get to the place unless he would hitch his team by the roadside and walk across other people s property Or it any of the famhy living there should take sick circumstances would be the same, ^ou see that heretofore the swail has been avoided by driving across the property of others who have grown weary of such trespassing and have ordered it stopped under any circumstances. It any person was to die at the pest house, or hospitahwhatever you call it, the body would have to carried across a man's wheat held to get it out to a hearse.” .“Is there no way in which the road can be repaired?” asked the reporter.“Easily. It would take the street commissioner and his men about half a day to make it passable by putting in drain tile and filling up the hollow. The street commissioner and the chairman of committee on streets were out there about a month ago looking at the place and they said they would havei.tat tended to at once but nothing has yet been done. Unless something is done the man who lives there will have to move out before cold weather for he can’fc get in a supply of coal and people can’t get along very well in winter without fire. Of course Mansfield is a remarkably healthy place and fortunately there has been little need of a city hospital, but what is the use -of having such a place if it is impossible to get to it?’ Besides no one can tell how soon it will be greatly needed. I wish some writer like Bill Nye could see the condition of things out there and write it up?”After listening to this well grounded complaint, the reporter went to two members of council and asked them if anything was being done, or would be done, soon, toward making the road passable. They admitted that it was impassable, but said that council intended to put it in good repair as soonhs possible. There has been so much other street work that it has not been reached- They said the street commissioner could fis the road in about half a day. M hen asked if council would take any action on the matter at the meeting Tuesday night they replied that they thought not as there is plenty time yet this fall to do the work and it can lay^ over to the nest meeting without detriment.
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Mansfield Weekly News
Mansfield, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 06, 1891
Page 8
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Chandler T.
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