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

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90a is not easy to create replacement accommodation for the approximately 2o00 still existing Pfleglinge. However, the most different paths have been taken to reach the required number. Currently, the location is so that for looo Pfleglingen accommodation is found. Part has been transferred to home care for a monthly compensation of 750.- K, another part has been accommodated in empty beds of the Bochnitzer Irrenanstalt, for a third group the Czech women's vocational school was set free in Podskaler Strasse and a fourth group has just been moved to the Felsenschule. The existing 70 German Pfleglinge are to be temporarily placed in the Kramersanatorium in Bubentsch, which was acquired by the recently founded association "Deutsches Altersheim" (German retirement home). A final remainder of about 400 old persons will be provided accommodation in the Czech countryside within 60 km of Prague. The main principle with regard to the division of the Pfleglinge was that the mostly single sills, which cannot be handed over well in domestic care, are accommodated in Prague's homes, while the still healthy old ones are provided by family care after being able to do so outside of Prague. In an unexpectedly difficult situation, the entire electricity, gas and water supply of the city fell due to the persistent and harsh cold in the Järiner. The situation worsened so far that in one day the roadway traffic was paralyzed over many hours and that above all in the time of the peak load a number of restrictions of private electricity and gas consumption became necessary, taking into account again and again the large industrial enterprises and the trade.By shifting the beginning of the official hours and the business hours, but also by limiting the transport of Jews on the tramway, etc. The appeals to the public called for the highest degree of economy. It should be noted in general that the Prague Municipal Works at the head with Arch. Schicketanz have done the utmost in prudence, zeal for work and a sense of duty. If one asks about the causes of these always extremely unpleasant phenomena for a large city, then they must be searched before all in the general war conditions. 53320