Dr. Evans' How to keep well; (1917) (14747503096)

Identifier: drevanshowtokee00evan (find matches)

Title: Dr. Evans' How to keep well;

Year: 1917 (1910s)

Authors: Evans, William Augustus, 1865- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Medicine, Popular Hygiene Sanitation

Publisher: New York, Pub. for Sears, Roebuck and co. by D. Appleton and company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Assn.Report.462.—Dark, Unventilated Roomsand Toilets in Buildings. Fig INFLUENCE OF HOUSING 1101 field and one that furnishes a large part of the explanation of the high deathrate where the housing is poor. As I see it, when we answer the question as to what are the standardsof a neighborhood we get the answer to the questions as to the cause of thesickness rate. The poor are apt to be fatalists. They are forced to say: It cannot behelped in regard to so many things that they would like to have changed.

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Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Assn. Report.Fig. 463.—Dark, Unventilated Basement Rooms and Toilets Found in Some Buildings. When their children die they grieve but before long they come to think itcannot be helped. Scores of times mothers have said: Mrs. Blank ought to know what to do for a child. She has had ten. How many are dead? I have asked. Eight, but it could not be helped, was the reply. The first standard is that of the babies under a year. Not over oneof ten should die. The first essential is a proper death rate as a standard. There must bea proper contagious disease standard and a militant discontent when thatstandard is violated. There must be a proper standard of household cleanli-ness, of yard cleanliness, of alley cleanliness, of street cleanliness, of neigh- 1102 HOUSING borhood cleanliness. There must be a proper, standard of personal cleanlinessand of personal conduct. When housing is bad all standards go to pot. That statement hits thebulls-eye. If the house is r

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