Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-25

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10 The Hon, O. Godfrey Gunther, Mayor, and
President of the Commissioners of Health:
Dear Sir: In obedience to your request of
this date, l have visited the barracks in the
Park, and present the following report:
The barracks on the Broadway side arc four
hundred feet lsng, by thirty feet wide, under
the charge of Capt Hicks, who has three as
sistants to keep il clean. This is used as q
sort of boarding house or hotel, for the vari-
GUS soldiers in their transit through the city
to and from the seat of war At the present
time eight hundred men arc accommodated
there, independent of the Provost Guard, who
occupy the lower portion of the barracks, and
the number Of which could not ascertain. -
The building il not constructed with sufficient
regard to ventilation in cold weather or means
OF warming and as they have but three assist
ants, it IL impossible to keep Il clean, with
! eight hundred men tramping out and in With
snow and mud upon their feet
twould require at least fifty men TO do
justice 10 the place; and in camp, under mill
tary discipline, it would take the whole eight
hundred, as each man would be compelled 10
police his own quarters, as should be done;
but here they are simply boarders or guests 10
hotel, TO be waited on and cared for, instead
of caring for themselves, and as the superin-
tendent has no control over them, and as there
is an entire absence of military discipline,
some Of the companies having no officers at
all, as a matter of course tho building is much
more dirty than it should be, but is kept as
neatly as can be done under the circumstances,
with the amount of force employed; and I'M
less the soldiers are compelled to police their
quarters, the same as in camp, it will require,
instead OF three assistants, at least fifty, and
these, by constant labor, would not more than
do the work in muddy and wet weather
| Between these barracks and those ON the
Park Row side, are arranged the water closets,
which were constructed for summer use only,
and Of course are entirely untitled for this
cold weather, and absolutely require an entire
reconstruction, as they are now constantly
frozen up.
In the Park Row side small room for the
officer in charge and the medical attendant is
cut of from the lower corner Of the building.
embracing one-halfits width and opening into
| the barracks
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