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The St. Paul Daily Globe, July 1, 1887, p. 3

THE CITY HOSPITAL.

A Building Exactly Suited to Its Purposes Discovered.

At the meeting of the special committee on city hospital yesterday the sub-committee, consisting of Health officer Kilvington, City Physician Dunn and Supervisor of the Poor Curtiss, reported they had investigated the old Bethany home, on Lyndale avenue, the building at the corner of Lake street and Calhoun boulevard, also the building on Hopkins road, formerly built for a military school, and the Murphy property, formerly used for the Sisters of Mercy hospital. Three of these locations are not suitable for the city hospital owing first, to lack of sewerage; second, the buildings are cut up into small rooms which would necessitate a large expenditure for alterations; third, no grounds are attached to the building. The committee found the building known as the Sisters Mercy hospital admirably adapted to the purpose of a hospital. It contains one large ward in which twenty beds can be placed, another holding ten beds, and six others holding four beds each. There is besides ample room for attendants. The building is fitted for heating with hot air and steam, is piped for water and gas, has a large cellar, a barn four stories high which could be fitted up for emergencies in case of an epidemic, and spacious grounds, with a spring and shade trees -- all of which can be obtained for $1,100 rental per annum as it is, or $1,200 per annum, the owners to put it in proper condition. The report was accepted and the committee decided to recommend that the property shall be rented for four years at $1,200 per annum.