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Ladies and gentlemen. This cornerstone laying. Considerable progress towards the completion of the forty two million dollars worth of hospital construction currently in progress and initiated by the administration and mayor of the. Two thousand bed chronic disease. The crowning achievement of the entire program. Will place the city of New York in the fat fantasy communities which are taking active steps. Back the Great Plague of chronic illness which is then go through our country. Physically this new construction is replacing a department of the cylinder City home that has the people of New York for more than one hundred years but actually it is no more like a city hall than a backwoods kitchen it's like a man operating room. They just pass. When we can and then. Throw up our hands and any patient and say this is hopeless no situation is hopeless until rigor mortis is actually said and we are living in the Golden Age presented and therapeutic medicine and it has been demonstrated now departmental hospital and another throughout the world that the conception that chronic disease is incurable another controllable by the road we have shown that even without the benefit of miracle drug dealer the rehab dilatation team and a proper approach to a patient can transform a bedridden crippled by member of society we have examples in our hospitals suffering as man and five years in bed with a past act of a lifetime of helplessness rather than brought back to their families and major useful. Productive members and their community. Unless we adopt this dynamic approach to the care of the chronically ill the aged brain there will never be enough institute the least. Amount of the total population. To meddle in later life each medical discovery that prolonging life for the Army and the chronically ill you will notice on the cards inviting you to the ceremony that the name of the structure is given as the basis color Memorial Hospital and we have left out the last two words and. We feel that an institution is not a proper home for anyone and that if we have to provide for people requiring a home we must develop a no institutional type of the salary in any event we have so many sick people waiting to come here and I expect that we will reach full capacity within a month after opening and because of our dreadfully overcrowded hospital we will not be able to close the city home until much of the construction under the one hundred fifty million dollar program will have been completed. By the very young and the Saudi and everyone knows named after a man played a great part making I said what it is. Called the leading public figure and for decades he was the first controller of Greater New York. President of Brooklyn and for three times he was commissioner of charities a title which was later changed to public welfare I Department of Welfare hospitals were under him before the foundation I've been a part in the hospital we are privileged today to have a son Eugene De Cola and his grandson and this platform and I should like very much then to take a bow the fair we introduce our speakers for this afternoon. I faced speak after the gentleman of great ability and experience in public affairs by training he is both an engineer and a liar yes save this country as a soldier in both World Wars I am personally grateful to him for his understanding and support of all measures looking towards the improvement and betterment of the sick and as important compassionate as a member of the board of best and that it is their pride distinctiveness for me to introduce to you the president of the Barrowman had to go through the Rajah's. Back to Congress. To make. This thing miscast ladies and gentlemen. About less than two weeks ago we participated in a ceremony down at the other end of the island at which time a very important addition was made to the facilities here making it so much easier for the city of New York through its departments to service they various functions that take place here on the island now again were assembled. To dedicate please to lay the cornerstone of one of the most important nations to our department a hospital system. I'm particularly gratified to be here at this time because in a matter of action I shouted a time I have been able to participate as a public official It's gratifying to me because the sale of the terminations of the parish oppression administration were beginning to see some of the fruits of the planning and the sacrifice and the intelligent distribution of the fans of the city of New York to build up the facilities that were definitely going into decay. It's true that this is about the fourth hospital that we are actually seeing in structural operations. When we added three hundred sixty three hundred six beds in the Francis Delafield hospital for cancer patients when we had a two hundred seventy five that's in the change here in the hospital for cancer patients five hundred seventy beds in the new tuberculosis in kind of disease hospital and now two thousand beds over here I feel proud to be in a part of the team that developed the stains and is seeing them come to life it's amazing when you read the public press and you see the criticism leveled by people who don't know facts and don't take the trouble to inform themselves about the truth. And it's amazing to that some of those irresponsible cynical state. Space. It's a tragedy because the public reach those things and it's misguided into the wrong channels of thinking. It's just as ridiculous for any of us to expect this hospital to rise up and be completed in thirty days as it is for someone to say that if he were elected the day after election he would start a second. Anybody in right mind anybody who has a sense of responsibility no. You can't perform miracles we can't do anything without funds and your fans can go just fine in order to distribute the money that are available to the administration and I wanted to see that investing that the city has spent millions and millions and don't go into the case that money has to be intelligently allocated to all the different purposes that has been done. And I'm not running for public office perhaps I'm in the best position to sing the credit. And to sing the praises of. The team which I was a part. Nobody has to apologize for the things that it accomplished I don't think anybody but if I'm hard enough to do. Me it made mistakes. The administration was made up of human beings and that has made perfect. Taking those mistakes into consideration taking into consideration the good things that tangible evidence of intelligence proper planning and good governance those things far outweigh any of the mistakes for which people can be criticized we've heard many things about previous administrations about the fine right. I don't think any administration in many decades came into power came into its office with Mer travels with map problems facing it then the press. This administration took office immediately after where they are shared in terms of manpower challenges and many challenges of material and where they're allowed to do this good program interview the hospital program where if you have a pair brands a public service I've improvements and maintenance products I venture to say that you will see but we are justified if we are proud that has been done I hope that the public will take these things into intelligent consideration and baby. I'm going to congratulate the commission of hospitals and I find the repetition which in a shared time will be available to alleviate the sheriff beds and to make it possible for me to. Find and assistance that will bring him back to a normal condition and to find their place again in ordinary society thank you for having. I next speak at the responsibility of building the hospitals that are approved for construction. Select the architect and of Rights the Girl Scouts will contract and his staff accept the face of. A distinguished engineer and Iraq attacked in his own right and it gives me great pleasure to introduce our commissioner of Public Works out of those spending Gates simulant. I must talk to Congress most and I think this guy's ladies and gentlemen I am very glad to dock the cover told you that my responsibility is the selection of rockets next for our buildings the cost in this particular case and I write a report this to you Mr Mayor this entire job the largest hospital in the number of beds in the city of the OP was entirely designed from the bottom not and is Tiley supervised in its construction by members of the prop and a public rights several scientists employees. I am proud to had the largest and to my mind and I've been around a bit. One of the finest of engineers and architects in this country and that means in this way. To give you a few with the facts about this building. When completed it will cost very close to seventeen million to balance. It with a candidate two thousand and eight. It was started a major major contract was started on April the seventh of the chain and. It is expected that it will be. Compete head for occupancy not later than fighting for all of next year. When I say competed for occupancy I mean competed in all its details Babs equipment and the like that I think Mr Mayor was a credit to your administration. Not too much can be said about it it is one of the finest accomplishments of any administration that I have had the not my job and I have been a resident of the city in my life. In our program of hospitals it is my duty to select stock attacks and in our program I want to say to you Mr Mayor that two years ago you gave me the honor of selecting me as commission Republic what's. Your department of public rights at that time had done a healing business and as I think everyone will understand because everyone everybody understand the almighty dollar. Your department was doing that business up twelve million dollars that particular year in construction contracts this year by the end of December we will have done seven times that much and that is a tribute to your own people right here before I came as to make. A tribute to you know several scientists whiteners and find hospital employees from the commissioner all the way down last cooperated in every single way in the construction program hospital program. It is a pleasure and a privilege coming from a private life to add spent to is under your leadership. I happen to people of the city of New York and I know that the people of the city will realize what I generally have in this administration lead by you. Place when I devoted an interest in the sector and I great city then I may. Under his administration not only have my hospital projects been initiated the never been in the history of the city but with his help and guidance we have been able to cast off the shackles of traditional practice and blaze new trails and hospitalisation techniques which the entire country is watching with interest and beginning to imitate it is were spying experienced to work under a man who was never asked for my political affiliation. But whose only interested in my ability to do the job I managed to present to you a great mayor of the greatest city in the world. When you know Dr. Family. Nice to walk around in fact. And see this building I was right. I'm training. Every. Memory person. Guaranteed them through. That they're helpless right. Chronic to. Have played. Out there struggling hours of pain. Is about. As finished. They had to continue some time to come. That was antiquated two hundred thirty six buildings. Have been for. A century now serving that purpose. For half a century had been a disgrace. We still must do this. Because I've been through this with the map. And the chronic disease. We have. Accidently. Having medical patients. Anyone who has the slightest idea I passed in the ministration. Isn't a understand for the doctors. To get to those. Patients. Have to spend their man dead after another chronic disease patients that are M.M.R. because lack of adequate space where they can get special treatment and care now but that's clearly a possibility and probably administering some have to my base. As a true political. Bad for bed. That I would mention. For a moment and I bear that with about. This. Sacred duty of the city. Not only for today but down through the years rather building that. Have been planted out of class that this is a nice pensive thing for us to do. That a person. Relax can make up its man I don't take care of its needed sick and then mad preferring that can the gratitude these patients. If their make up this man that is going to take care of them and now. Even Take care most can pay for that. You can have nurses and have but they are inadequate to do the job and you can have them and the pain you can have them working hours that wouldn't be tolerated in private industry you just got to make up its mind that that's got to be done and if the bill is passed and you have got to make every minute or pay that there are let the sick die without the help while I'm there that won't happen either separate proposition for the people of the city make up their minds whether they want I know right I stand for. I we had forty two million dollars worth of improvement new buildings new hospitals since we came in well it isn't dead when there is such an adequate thirty two million dollars rent them use construction is completely left in the maze of need for our meeting stick. That in heaven's name have we to boast about. And we found two hundred and thirty beds for cancer in a city of eight million people and if now we have the Delafield and this now we have the memorial bringing it up to six hundred beds I really haven't really completed that job and there are now I've heard suggest that that was enough I mean married for eleven chronic disease where so much can be done to give the hapless runs an opportunity to come back into life again to give them the giant a morale our master that didn't shift a new life if we spend extra money on a map and succeed there will be most scared certainly not the patient that this idiot says will be served if you can get them back someday into normal channels of self-support not to talk about the dignity and the morality good to the individual so they're pretty I spending money. On this construction today and if we're spending it on housing and I'm screwed right out spending money on anything that isn't needed badly there's not a crying need and ironies of. Services. Now wire and tell him about hospitals. We had to talk about something else let's talk about that face unfair that I get to Pennsylvania and this one. You know down. That they can when you can repair their help in the subway on a five cent fare didn't pay the help. And when you didn't pay and I happened you found out that your album you had to go into Senator Papen and take the money than send idea Papen to pay to have been a sad one. That meant that I had to commanded this parasitic people and I had gotten and take thirty five to fifty one million dollars from Sam was present and I have to pay to help in the subway I raise the fat to pay to help I raise the fare to pay the help they cost if New York City wants to rob the stake that better get someone else from there they don't need me. I want to know how. To take the money away from this hospital and some from the sick. I have got a bad memory for New York every day I'm your bearer of those new hospitals you've got to get to a person's means through in person never reach a patient. And I am not going to suggest that the personnel works for nothing just so happens that in this type of a hospital. There is a ratio of the half of that here you you don't need that many in place now that the two thousand beds here. You know I had going to require an thousand new. Persons to serve in this hospital. I someone's got to pay for that. And to preach Pav a day to the die and the sick. I wrote that I don't care to play in the history of a city that I love. This city that have been kind and then had it and that I had cited some selfish private interests. Never read condemning the sick. This or any other type to write helpless that we stood around with money in our pockets. That's a simple as that. And a decision is going to be made. I'm going to give you something yes. Right now and I had our General Hospital plan. In adequate. Is ancient in many cases and is matched to the bill that they take. I mean now that the invest the express the hospital can so they can tell me they can if you notice and they have come up to us where the simple answer three years ago that we need one hundred and ten million dollars to pay our hospital plan and to set shape that you had will no longer have to blush for it and that's needy sick will be properly taken care of. Out is in general and it isn't easy to get that kind of money because we needed for everything else so I mean finally decided to make and a. Third a permission. To bear one hundred and fifteen million downloads are bad for our debt incurring powers. And I didn't get their permission and they had to get it through separate legislatures. Each one had to pass a resolution giving us permission to go to the people. Ladies and gentlemen we have that permission from two separate legislatures and now this year I'm never going to hate every citizen in the state of New York will have the right to vote on the proposition as to whether or not we can have that money back for hospitals. Wow let's see how you go about that the first place it's an amendment to the Constitution it really had to be voted the pan airline from man Todd parent to Bethel. Even there it applies to New York City are made and will that be a charge are in any taxpayer outside of the city of New York but yet it because it's an amendment to the cast adrift it must be vetted upon by the entire state. That's fairly recent. It becomes an exceptional impact this time that every man in New York City that has a high fantasy the needy think well can through and hope they are allowed and then and you can vote for it unless you're register and you only have this week to register I am not asking you for your vote for me but I am asking you to register and to take that hospital Amendment and do your duty by to secure the needy sick of today and the needy sick down through the years if your dad do it now and if you should lose it and I don't know when again if you ever succeed in having a proposition of this child placed in. The people of this city and state. I HAVE THEIR to thank the press and head for it and thank him for having accepted the obligations in the duties I've staffing this hospital I reckon the disc and seven and a left wrist Care Bear. After home this hospital is named. I read through the creation men who have caring with us today and asking God's blessing on this building and those who are going to suffer in it and those who are going to be made well if that be his will and took a misnamed him urine and a nano rim and I have our Department of Public Works. This efficient job done by city employees that is something to be really proud about and a commission to cover and to that the burning could be preceded him. And herself and between the two hospital commissioners during mad ministration no matter what happens on November the eighth I said I always remember with great joy and pleasure the kind of cooperation first of all I love the things men have had to work on that a pattern of hospitals. They have affection and regard they have for those interests today care. At first they haven't had. Manpower over the use to do the job. Crashed because of the the to erosion of our physical plant impassable to do the kind of a job there but that's been thanking them I'm trying to commend them to you and ask you to get your friends to register this me no matter whether to do it on November the a. Hospital or member of the good God bless everyone who's going to take part the day of tomorrow and down through the years in the glorious work will go on with it thank you.