Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-28
FILTHY CONDITIONS ARE
MENACE AND DISGRACE
Mrs. Randolph Says Half Has Not
Been Told Of Conditions in
Flooded Section.
FINDS no CITY OFFICER THERE
-Four Children Ill With Whooping-
Cough in Room With No Window.
Washwoman Cleaning Clothes for
Uptown Customers.

Conditions in the neighborhood OF
Fifteenth and Brown Streets are a
menace and disgrace to the city"
said Mrs Norman V. Randolph last
night following another visit of in
spection and relief 10 the colored fam
HES who lost their property In the
Shockoe Greek flood or last Saturday.
1 wish we oouid persuade the Mayor
and Health Officer to go down there"
continued Mrs. Randolph. They stay
at the city Hall and say everything
Is all right-but / have been down
there. | was there from 10 to / o'clock
to-day. and there wasn't a single Of
fetal on the ground. o. A. Hawkins.
president OF the Associated Charities,
and Mrs James Buchanan were there.
and member of the Instructive Visit
ing Nurses Associat!on-ministeri
Angels that they are-but no represen.
ta;ive Of the city government.
The smell of the water standing
everywhere is most offensive. There
is no sewerage. II Is an outrage on
the people OF E!chmond that that place
has not been touched by the health
authorities; The conditions l found
could hardly be conceived Of.
WASHW0MAN ATTEMPTING:
TO CLEAN CLOTHES OF FILTH
1 found washing being done by one
poor old woman for three gentlemen
who live In the best part OF Rich
mond. TIE clothes had been under
water during the food and had been
covered with the mire and filth which
the Health Department says is not a
menace, and this poor woman was do
ing her best TO get them clean Char
1ty organizations have furnished some
Of these people clothes. and they are
now working In various parts OF the
n hnr
homes OF people who would be shocked
III they even dreamed such conditions
existed in Richmond.
The real trouble is with the real
estate men and owners OF this prom
erty; but when the city allows such
conditions to exist. ii should help these
poor people to clean up after each
overflow from the neighboring sewer.
FILTHY WITH ACCUMULATION
OF PAST THIRTY YEARS
1T is condition that cannot be ig-
nored by the people We pay to do
that work. l have list of the owners
or the property and of the real cs-
tate agents, and know what they are
charging these poor negroes for those
shacks. Tho houses should be torn
down. They are not only filthy from
last weeks overflow, but have tho ac-
emulation Of thirty years. Some Of
them are without windows or shutters:
no entrances from the rear, with out
houses overturned by the flood
Il see that Mr.. Bluford has been
reprimanded for making his protest
L suppose I was too insignificant to
be noticed, but I would be glad to go
before the Administrative Board and
give my testimony that Mr.. Bluford
was telling the truth.
II did not find any one from the
Health Department or any other city
department.. but l did find a visiting
nurse attending four children with tho
whooping cough in one room-a room
with no window in it save an open
ing, which had been boarded up in an
effort TO keep out the flood. The room
in which I found these four children
is owned by n reputable man from up
town and rented a@nSi per week. No
health officer was So. and / was told
none had been there