Crowded Conditions
An unknown writer for the WPA project "Negroes of New York" wrote:
The over-crowding can be realized when it is known that very often, four hundred and fifty patients are accommodated when there is room for only three hundred and twenty five persons. The capacity of the hospital is always fully taxed and conditions which prevail there are a disgrace to the richest city in the world...
Patients are turned out before convalescence is complete, so that others may be accommodated, and very often a relapse compels them to return.
Cots, couches and stretchers are often put in the hallways or squeezed between beds. Even chairs have been
employed to relieve the shortage of beds.
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