•City Document. - No. 98. 
CITY OF BOSTON. 
REPORT 
OF THE 
JOINT STANDING COMMITEE 
ON THE 
CITI HOSPITAL. 
In Board of Aldermen, Dec. 21, 1871. 
Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. 
Attest: s. r. McCleary, 
City Cleric. CITY OF BOSTON. 
In Board of Aldermen, Dec. 21, 1871. 
The Joint Standing Committee on the City Hospital beg 
leave to state, that they have received a communication from 
the President of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital, 
representing the urgent necessity of providing reservoirs for 
keeping a quantity of water on storage for use in the hospital, 
in case the main supply should be interrupted or cut off. 
The estimated expense of furnishing facilities for holding a 
sufficient supply of water for such contingencies is five thou- 
sand dollars; and the committee would respectfully recom- 
mend the passage of the accompanying order. 
For the Committee, 
EDWARD A. WHITE, 
Chairman. 
Ordered, That the Trustees of the City Hospital be author- 
ized to provide reservoirs, and the necessary pipes and other 
fixtures, in connection with the hospital buildings, for the 
purpose of keeping a supply of water for use in certain con- 
tingencies ; the expense therefor not to exceed the sum of 
five thousand dollars, and to be transferred for that purpose 
from the Reserved Fund. CITY OF BOSTON. 
City Hospital, Boston, Dec. 19, 1871. 
To the Committee on City Hospital, Aiderman E. A. White, 
Chairman, - 
Gentlemen : - The interruption of a water supply, some days 
since, suggested to the trustees the necessity of providing for a 
quantity to be kept on storage. The amount required for the 
various uses of the hospital, at this season of the year, is twenty- 
six thousand gallons every twenty-four hours ; it is used for heat- 
ing the entire institution as well as for all the purposes of a 
family consisting of two hundred and fifty persons. To cut off 
the means for heating, for cleansing, and for all the other peculiar 
requirements of a hospital, contemplates a calamity far more 
serious than may at first appear. Proper tanks can be con- 
structed, capable of containing a supply sufficient for the needs of 
the hospital for from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, with ar- 
rangements for its general distribution, at a cost not exceeding 
five thousand dollars. The trustees believe it important that 
arrangements should be made at once to provide against the suf- 
fering that must inevitably ensue,,should the hospital be for even 
a few hours without water, and earnestly request that, if the sub- 
ject commends itself to your judgment, you will bring it before 
the City Council for consideration. 
Respectfully, 
JOHN T. BRADLEE, President 
Board Trustees, City Hospital.