Stephen Smith
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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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Many are not connected with the sewers, are seldom cleaned, being allowed to overflow in some cases, rendering the neighborhood offensive with insalubrious emanations.
The inspector of the fourteenth ward states that the water closets are nearly all in the yards, but few being in the houses and connecting with the sewers.
The greater number of these sewers are in a filthy condition, being but seldom emptied.
Many of those which communicate with the privies are choked up by all sorts of awful being thrown into them, thereby producing a very bad condition.
The inspector of the seventeenth ward reports the privies of the East Eleventh Street rear are beneath the floored alleyway leading to the building.
Large holes in this floor allow ocular inspection from above and admit rain and dirt.
These nuisances are almost always overflowing, and the passage leading to them is full of fecal matter.
It would seem impossible for human beings to create or endure such vileness.
The cellar is used by children and others as a privy.
The foul air there seems never to change.
The inspector of the sixteenth ward says the privies form one end of the chief features of insalubrity.
Nearly all of them are too small in size and too few in number, and without ventilation or seat covers.
About twelve were found locked securely, and on procuring the key and inspecting the privy, such masses of human excrements were found on the seats and floors as
as would justify the locking of the door to protect unwary persons from injury.
Occupants of rear buildings are the principal sufferers from this insalubrity.
The proximity of privies is in some cases eight feet from the windows of rear houses.
The odor in these is especially at night intolerable.
Instances of the kind are to be found at numbers blank blank and blank West seventeenth Street and others.
They are also too few in number, for example, number blank West nineteenth Street, where in the front and rear buildings more than one hundred persons live who have one common privy with a single partition dividing it, and but four seats in all.
twenty five persons are already
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