The building, designed by William R. Walker & Son and built in 1886, is one of only three ward halls (structures built by the city and used as polling places and meeting halls) to survive in the state.
The head nurse, Evila García, fed a blind patient as a stray cat roamed the women's ward dining hall.
Radcliffe Urban District was governed by a council of 24 members, made from six councillors from each of the four wards, Radcliffe Hall, Radcliffe Bridge, Black Lane, and Stand Lane.
(Instruct them that they should use creative descriptions to identify directionality, window-ward and hall-ward, as opposed to east or west).
When I visited this week the place was still teeming with cats that roamed the wards and halls, scouring the floors for trash discarded from the canteen and scattered by visitors.
If recent criminal charges are to be believed, Mount Vernon, a city of 70,000, seems to have been run on the order of a Tammany Hall ward, with public contracts handed out to pals of commissioners, who were repaid in kickbacks.
Gitte Hall, the ward nurse, also didn't take Dhu's temperature because she didn't feel "hot".
Register your new address with local authorities at the local city hall or ward office.
Like Tammany Hall's ward-heelers of yore, Richard D'Ornellas, 48, of the McManus Democratic Association, operates out of a political clubhouse in Hell's Kitchen, helping voters with favors to be repaid by loyal balloting on Election Day.
Somali women and children filled the wards and the halls, lying prostrate and listless.
Meanwhile Hall lay in ward 22 of Little Bromwich hospital, his condition critical.
