, 1880-07-18
TENEMENT-HOUSES,

| Wlth ll4e h11lui1 people o1 410iy Land"
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TENEMENT HOUSES,
! Results OF the -mcdical Exam1natto
| Of a West Side District.
| The inspection of tenelnemt-huuses hv vot
unteer physicians resulted in doing great
| deal Of good last year, and If they take ho1J
of the work this year with the same vip,v ):
much more can be accomplished in tie inter,
est Of the public health. So far, howevar
the physicians have not responded as 1Ihar'
ally rs it was thought they would !:
yet several Of those who hara
are already going the rounds OF yhpi,
respective districts and gathering data unon !
which to b:lse 4 report 10 the Health Depart.
ment, and the indications are that the canvass
will be thorough, and effective; that lnany Or
the poor and deserving SICK will secure at.
tention they could not have otherwise at.
tanned, and that much Of the cause OF ttlseasa
and death in tenement-house localities wiJt
be banjshed from the city. -.
+ The first report from the INSPECTORS wa :
received yesterday from nr. Graham. Who
has been assigned to q portion of tie yintk
Ward. He w:ls among the earliest yuIDn-
teers, and his report would inlteata
that lie had given the. work con.,
siderable of !ls attention aud
time: t1at It in appearS tnat nc enoss Meridian
nothing more than All alley, lying between
Madison and Washington streets, and nm
ming west from Desplailes To IlaEted street :.
In his report he speaks of it generally, rather
than specifically, III the following language.
My attention has been called to Meridian
CIR
hold forth in their rickety old shantiess. The
population of the whole street is mainly COM :
posed OF darkies and tlirty whites. Soma
Of them are so filthy and yet 50 fat,
that the Tanner test OF starvation would, II .
applied to thent be q real go'lsend. 4 few
there a stray Irish or German, complete tha :.
cosmopolitan concern. They all in common
do their best, think, to keep things what
they call clean, yet, of course, we find faultr
COMING DOWN TO DETAIL,
the Doctor refers to Nos. t2 and 81 NJ M.
ann calls attenfjo1, n y wn,n3n Mt tho i'd ::
nn1ne,I n,,mier wha .S,s ,1elirnrefi nf = ehiiS !
same tlays ago. and is in tIestitute cirrnn.
stances. ii, !.
Tie report further on speaks of minor find !:
inss at 20. iii. 143. and itSs West washington :
strget: Of a dirtv ;lley between ~ yos- Is md:
IL Sonrh I1,,snlaines Straat. anil ,.nncfndas -
ft,liows. in st,1.aklnr Of M is Wpst .IasEsnf !
sfreef. ~
..Tha nrivy ;s fn1f. tha f,oor is hrotan aL.
mit+in@ tIe ,,st I':,jisL sfench ~, ,mr,psis
the w1oI.. uei~;,bnrn1,t. rntta,' ~ etaunsst
water viii, =: -hr;n1;ner .,ff...r s
i,,1 I,,ler the hniiinp nn'l iias ss, ~ % ,ee'n
;ts ,nri.e 3, H., h"if ~ 49, -. .Ss
fan.lv nrostrota ~ tba;r g Sict l To-, 81 '"G Few
tha chit1rpn are nov nnahle r. n ~ 80 8:
m IN he'll onI tt,;r,i chit,fNo o;fi:::,
~ y vcars-is at Ills vrit;nr ill., a.
from cht,lara ,norhus and cnus;,nnitos15 1 +:
Sickness has so far reInceI rho fonilr ~ b, I:
make it impossible for them to even xss =:
medicine for the sick, and the well ones are.s
liable to be taken down any time, 1t the coz !.
ditlon OF. affairs, are not changed; Thls !
property ls owned by a man i'll Walikesa4.: ~.
Upon the receipt Of the report, DE. Do "
Wolf started at once to make a personal es- /
animation ot No. Ct Meridian street, and
found the poor woman referred to in even .
worse condition than had been represented
She was young, rather sood-tooklng, unntar-,; (
rled, and but for the Kindness Ut all old eol-:
oretl woman. who was able to do very l!nias
for her, would have been houselesN. and ass" I.
destitute rs she was helpless. AS 1t was. tbs :.
po?r woman was suffering for the necessar1e5 ::
of life, and the baby ut her breast was nos
much better off The Doctor before ieAssag
her saw that she was provided for. and SUD