Stephen Smith
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I followed him, my task being to show from the existing condition of the city, the imperative need of such legislation.
My remarks on the occasion were published in the New York Times of march sixteenth, eighteen sixty five and
End of chapter three
Chapter four of the City That Was by Stephen Smith This Liberts recording is in the public domain.
Chapter four New York The Unclean Part one.
The illustrations in this chapter with the frontispiece of the book have all been reproduced from the elaborate report published by the Council of Hygiene of the Citizens Association.
My address before the Legislative Committee is here given as it then appeared in the New York Times of march thirteenth, eighteen sixty five, with the correction of some typographical errors.
It consisted of a detailed presentation of the facts recorded and sworn to by the medical inspectors employed by the Citizens Association, together with photographic illustrations which were
which were made by them.
Mr Chairman, I have been requested to lay before you some of the results of a sanitary inspection of New York City undertaken and prosecuted to a successful completion by a voluntary organization of citizens.
There has long been a settled conviction in the minds of the medical men of New York that that city is laboring under sanitary evils of which it might be relieved.
This opinion is not mere conjecture, but it is based upon the daily observations which they are accustomed to make in the pursuit of professional duties.
Familiar by daily study with the causes of diseases and the laws which govern their spread, they have seen yearly accumulating about and within the homes of the labouring classes all the recognized causes of the
of the most preventable diseases without a solitary measure being taken by those in authority to apply an effectual remedy.
They have seen the poor crowded into closer and closer quarters until the system has actually become one of tenant house packing.
They have witnessed the prevalence of terrible and fatal epidemics having their origin in or intensified by these conditions, and many of their professional brethren have perished in the courageous performance of their duties to the poor and suffering.
Cognizant of these growing evils and believing that they are susceptible of removal, they have repeatedly and publicly protested against the longer tolerance of such manifest causes of disease and death in our city.
Large bodies of influential citizens have been equally impressed with the importance of radical reform in the health organizations of New York and have strenuously labored, but in vain, to obtain proper legislative enactments.
To give practical effect to their efforts, it was determined in May last to undertake a systematic investigation of the sanitary condition of the city.
For this purpose a central organization was formed, and when I mention the names of its leading members, I give you the best assurance that the work was undertaken in the interests of science and humanity.
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