1076
Cleveland Morning Leader, 6 August 1864
(ed; 18 inches)
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p.2, col.1
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1076 - L Aug. 6; ed: 2/1 - A large part of New York's population live
underground or in tenement houses, due to lack of ground space. Sta-
tistics show that the excessive death rate, especially among "emigrant"
children, is due to these crowded conditions, and the character of the
tenement houses. The rooms are foul and reek with disagreeable smells,
and the women cast their slop and refuse matter into the streets.
"We have not systematic sewerage in Cleveland and in many parts
of the city gutters are made the receptacles of much of the garbage
anj slop. Would it not be well to have a reformation begun here before
the evil consequences are still more apparent? Good sewerage and a park
on the lake shore are needed to improve the sanitary conditions cf
Cleveland." - (18)