STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050

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Ya rp UeEe SC.ar O O O the city traffic is growing from month to month, as conferences and congresses are held in Prague, each of which collects more than the height of the available hotel room. In January, 4300 people were accommodated by the City Transport Office in Hotels, 4400 in Feber and 7l00 in March.- The Church and Cemetery Office, just like the rest of the Aemters dealing with the care of works of art, needed to secure the art treasures entrusted to it. Unfortunately, the question of securing the northern portal of the Teinkirche is still not resolved, since the GB building, despite the mediation of the Protectorate Memorial Office, repeatedly demands new plans and repeatedly speaks out rejections. The last application for at least a primary security was submitted to the Ministry of Transport and Technology by the Memorial Office on 9/2.1944. In order to protect the valuable archives of the various parish offices, especially the matriarchs, from air raids, it has been decided that all suitable cellars of the parishes and churches will be used for this purpose.- tne The municipal burial centre is in a moving complaint that StrSO GJSTOAOS should be deprived of them by the closure of a number of its branches only because the body of the private burial facilities has long been running against the municipal burial facility Sturm. I believe that it is time for the entire burial system to be communalized, because the community has to make a very considerable effort to preserve the cemeteries. In the field of health care, the most important event of the reporting period may be described as the opening of the tuberculosis hospital in the framework of the urban hospital "Bulowka", because it has increased the number of hospital beds for the fight against tuberculosis in Prague to looo and in the newly opened pavilion one of the most modern hospitals of the Great German Empire in this area is available. The fact that the completion of the pavilion during the war was possible can be regarded as double pleasing. In a dignified opening ceremony, the interested experts were emphatically reminded of the materiality of this innovation. At the same time, we expect a substantial intensification of tuberculosis control 53237