D.C. Backyard near Stratford Hotel and within short distance from both the Capitol and Union Station, showing flooded yard and debris. In big rains, kitchen and bedroom floors of this house are so flooded that it is necessary to lay planks on them, the inhabitants say. Young people in apartment section recently taken over from white population, Chicago, Illinois. D.C. Washington has many such houses but few government workers would care to live in them. D.C. This outbuilding leaks and drains on land about it.
Negro inhabitants appear oblivious to it all.
No door to this privy, but a sheet of canvas which is seldom used.