Marilyn Monroe was born in the charity ward of this hospital on June 1, 1926.

There have always been people too poor to afford medical care - and often charity wards to care for them.

She died that year in a charity ward at Bellevue Hospital.

I rode the streetcar back and forth to the charity ward.

That was some hospital and I never realized that 20 years later I'd be back, again in the charity ward.

I guess someday I'll die in that goddamned charity ward.

Most hospitals do not have huge charity wards anymore.

He was hospitalized for more than a year, some of it in a charity ward at Bellevue because his insurance had run out.

Two weeks before the 1896 exhibition of war pictures that would have helped him recoup his losses, the photographer died, in a charity ward.

"But if we don't get him off the charity ward and into a private bed with all the little comforts, his uncle will blame us."