Stephen Smith
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1,482 appearances
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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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The largest number of cases of cholera infantum, cholera morbus, and kindred diseases is always found in localities where the streets are dirtiest.
The inspector of the seventeenth ward writes The two following localities present the appearance of dung hills rather than the thoroughfares of a civilized city viz.
sixth Street between Bowery and Second Avenue and eleventh Street between First and Second Avenues.
The inspector of the eleventh ward says as a rule, the streets are extremely dirty and offensive, and the gutters obstructed with filth.
The filth of the cities is composed of house slops, refuse, vegetables, decayed fruit, store and shop sweepings, ashes, dead animals, and even human excrements.
These putrefying organic substances are ground up.
bound together by the constantly passing vehicles.
When dried by the summer's heat, they are driven by the wind in every direction in the form of dust.
When remaining moist or liquid in the form of slush, they emit deletrious and very offensive exhalations.
The reeking stench of the gutters, the street filth, and domestic garbage of this quarter of the city constantly impairs
in peril the health of its inhabitants.
It is a well recognized cause of diarrheal diseases and fevers.
The inspector of the eighteenth ward reports The streets in the eastern part of the district, east of First Avenue, especially, have for the past six months been in a most inexcusably filthy condition.
The pavement here is uneven, there are deep gutters at either side of the streets filled with foul slops, in which float or are sunk every form of depression.
of decaying animal and vegetable matter.
Occasionally, at remote and irregular intervals, carts come around, these stagnant pools are dredged, so to speak, and their black and decayed solid contents raked out.
If there be anything on earth that is rank and smells to heaven, these gutters do on such occasions, especially in the summer months.
The streets in this part of the city are the principal depositories of garbage, in some instances heaped up at the sides of the streets, in others thrown about promiscuously, the event in either case is the same if it be allowed to remain day after day.
As it usually is.
After having passed through every stage of decay, after having corrupted the surrounding air with its pestilential smell, it gradually becomes desiccated and converted into dust by the summer sun and the constantly passing vehicles.
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