Stephen Smith
speaker
1,482 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
Stephen Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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achievements twenty two miscellaneous information.
Returning to the point of starting, he was to commence a detailed inspection of each building, noting A condition and material of buildings, B number of stories and their height, C number of families intended to be accommodated and space allotted to each, D water supply and house drainage, E location and character of water closets, F disposal of water.
of garbage and house slops, g.
Ventilation, external and internal, h.
cellars and basements and their populations, I.
Conditions of halls and passages, J.
frontage on street, court, alley, north, east, south, or west.
He entered each room, examined its means of ventilation and its contents, noted the number of
Occupants by day and by night, and carefully estimated the cubicle area to each person.
This report embodied specific answers to a series of questions, furnished in a blank form, requiring him one to the same.
Trace and record the medical history of the sick person, two to ascertain and record facts relating to the family and other persons exposed to the patients and to the causes of the malady, three to report the sanitary condition of the domicile, four to report the statistics and sanitary condition of the population of that domicile, five to report upon the sanitary condition of the
part of the locality or neighborhood and its population, six to preserve and make returns of these records, seven to prepare on the spot the necessary outlines or data for the sketching of a map or descriptive chart of the domicile, block or locality.
Each inspector was supplied with a notebook and a permanent record book, in the first he constantly made notes as his examination proceeded, and in the latter these notes were expanded and put on permanent record.
These permanent record books are the property of the association and embrace for the most part minute details concerning every building and tenement occupied by the labouring classes as also grog shops, stables, vacant lots, slaughterhouses, etc.
Each inspector was furnished with materials for drawing and was directed to make accurate drawings of the squares in his district, locating each building, vacant lot, etc, and distinguishing the character and condition of each by an appropriate color.
Many of these drafts of districts are beautiful specimens of art, and as sanitary charts enable the observer to locate infectious and contagious diseases.
diseases and with the aid of the permanent records to determine the internal and external domiciliary conditions under which they occur.
I have been thus minute in specifying the details of the plan of inspection, the qualifications of the inspectors, and the means employed in order that the character of the work and the value of the results obtained may be properly appreciated.
Early in the month of May, the work of thoroughly inspecting the insalubrious quarters where fever and other pestilential diseases prevail had been commenced, and the fact was soon ascertained that smallpox and typhus fever were existing and spreading in almost every crowded locality of the city.
It was not until about the middle of July that the entire corps of inspectors was engaged.
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