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Without exception, the recipients were well
conducted, and appeared to be very grateful
tor the benefits they had received.
The shelter and offices are in charge of a
caretaker, who is responsible for order and
cleanliness, and a Sanitary Inspector sleeps
on the premises every night.
The extension of installations of electricity
marks a new era of sanitation, and much
benefit must accrue to the moral and physical
condition of the employes in large commercial
establishments, who have hitherto been condemned
to work long hours by day and night
in gas-heated, ill-ventilated basements, and
breathing prerespired air, resulting in pale
faces and flabby muscles, to say nothing of
the relief afforded to the respiratory and visual
organs.
At the end of the year there were nearly
3,000 private consumers of electricity, using
upwards of 136,000 incandescent lamps; 483
electric lamps are now placed in the principal