The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-23

laboring people Of London, suggests
some further thoughts and notes regard
ing the houses of workingmen in this
country and In our own city. These
houses, which have been built byl socie.
ties similar to our building associations.
are very numerous and have been thor.
| oughly tested. Six million dollars have
been spent in their erection, and thirty.
six thousand persons furnished homes
Among this thirty-six thousand persons
the death rate is much lower than In any
part of the city of London or on the
whole of England. The healthy year
186a-shows death rate In the model
! dging houses OF 10 per 1000. the most
favorable figure for any mixed popula-
ton Of male and female being ga differ
enoe of per 1000 in favor OF the
model dwellings. While the average
deaths Of children under ten years
of age in the general pop
ulation of London is 48 to 1000, that in
| these workingmen's houses is only "a to
1000, Notwithstanding the population
is four times as dense as in the most
thickly peopled districts Of the city,
which is about 285 people to the aore,
while that in the"dwellings provided by
the Metropolitan Association is 1,14O to
the acre. 1t Is thus seen that 1t not the
"crowding together" OF numbers of peo-
people upon small portion Of ground
that causes sickness or general un-
! healthy condition Of the community, but
rather the arrangement of the buildings
and the surroundings. The houses Of
the London societies, although small, are
arranged with especial attention to COM
fort and cleanliness, and with the best
| of opportunities for ventilation and for
the disposal of all refuse matter
In q speedy and efectual manner
To these TWO evils do the majority Of
cities owe most of their unhealthiness.
The houses which the workingmen In
the cities are obliged to inhablt are usu
ally built by speculators for suoh pur
pose, and, in the West especially, are
built without any view to either healtl
or convenience. A row of dark rooms
without ventilation or sunlight, ant
with neither closets, water pipes, baths
nor conveniences for getting rid of tn,
slops, filth and refuse matter, attend
ant upon all households, is the genera
extent of the dwellings which the work
ing people of the Western cities, and. il
fact, of nearly all cities, have to OCCUPY
Frequently. two or more families arr
, obliged to occupy one Of these, and tn
t condition Of affairs is then, o
, course, that much worse. TIL
abominable and disgusting Gus
tom prevalent in many Of ou
cities Of making the open gutter alon
the edge of the sidewalks the Teceptacl
for all the ''kitchen slops," and of allow
ing all this to run to these through opel
cutters across the sidewalk, IL no doub
productive Of a large proportion OF th
disease and death in large cities. Thes
. cutters, with their filth from kitchen
> and wash-houses, are constantly emf
| ling u IOut VuVi nuucE tuO buuuivA puhi
and are every hour In the day stirred u
3 and made more offensive by the wheel
/ OF wagons and by the brooms Of the Wig
0 liant housemaids, who, in their efforts
d clear out the gutter in front Of the
g strip OF sidewalk, spread the fetid mas
i over the street or sweep 1t ON 4
q front OF their next.door neighbor. TT
? result is that this hlth, which should
d at once conducted to the river withou
# seeing the light Of day Or being pc
n mitted to poison the atmosphere, Is lite
J. ally made the most OF by being Allowe
Q to strengthen Its already poisonous col
l. diti on In the gutter, and then stand u
d and spread out in the most artistic an
h excruciating manner. Houses In thi
l. city and in every city should be arrange
|. SO that they can and must have plent
8 Of light and plenty Of ventilation, plent
f. of opportunities for bathing, and pc
'r sonal and general cleanliness, and 9
4, that the filth which naturally accumr
r lates can be carried away witho,
N poisoning the atmosphere, and enda
IN gering the lives OF the entire communit
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