Stephen Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
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patent these causes might be, he had no power to appreciate their real significance.
Minds trained by education and long experience in observing and treating the diseases of the labouring classes could alone thoroughly and properly accomplish the work proposed.
Happily experts were at hand and prepared to enter upon the task, viz.
the dispensary physicians.
The daily duties of these practitioners have been for years to practice among the poor and study minutely their diseases, and thus they have gained an extensive and accurate knowledge of the sanitary and social condition of the mass of the people.
Many of these practitioners have been engaged in dispensary service and in a single district for ten to twenty years.
They have thus become so familiar with the poor of their district, though often numbering forty thousand to fifty thousand, that they know the peculiarities of each house, the class of disease prevalent each month of the year, and to a large extent the habits, character, etc of the families which occupy it.
Buy them.
From this class of medical men, the council selected, as far as possible, its corps of inspectors.
As a body, they represent the best medical talent of the junior portion of the profession of New York.
Many occupy high social positions, and all were men of refinement, education, and devotion to duty.
They entered upon the work with the utmost enthusiasm engaging in it as a purely scientific study.
Everywhere the people welcomed the inspectors, invited them to examine their homes, and gave them the most ample details.
The plan of inspection adopted by the council was as follows The city was divided into thirty one districts and an inspector selected for each, care being taken to assign to each inspector a district with which he was most familiar.
The inspector was directed to commence his inspection by first traversing the whole district to learn its general and topographical peculiarities.
He was then to take up the squares in detail, examining them consecutively as they lie in belts.
Commencing at a given corner of his district, he was first to go around the square and note one nature of the ground, two drinking.
drainage and sewerage, three number of houses in the square, four vacant lots and their sanitary condition, five courts and alleys, six rear buildings, seven number of tenement houses, eleven drinking shops, brothels, gambling saloons, etc.
twelve stores and markets, thirteen factory schools, crowded buildings, fourteen
Slaughterhouses describe particularly fifteen Bone and Awful Nuisances sixteen stables, etc seventeen churches and school edifices eighteen Prevailing Character of the Population nineteen Prevailing Sickness and Mortality twenty sources of preventable disease and mortality twenty one condition of streets and pavements.
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