Stephen Smith
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1,482 appearances
1 recordings
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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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That these people will be especially prone to whatever form of prevailing sickness may be about in the community, no one can doubt.
But whether there is any specific cause involved capable of producing definite forms of disease is more difficult to determine.
An inspector thus describes a visit to one of these subterranean abodes.
We enter a room whose low ceiling is blackened with smoke and its walls discoloured with damp.
In front, opening on a narrow area covered with green mold, two small windows, their tops scarcely level with the courtyard, afford at nonday a twilight illumination to the apartment.
Through their broken panes they admit the damp air laden with effluvia, which constitutes the vital atmosphere inhaled by all who are immured in this dismal abode.
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A door at the back of this room communicates with another, which is entirely dark, and has but this one opening.
Both rooms together have an area of about eighteen feet square.
The father of the family, a day laborer, is absent.
The mother, a wrinkled crone at thirty, sits rocking in her arms an infant whose pasty and pallid features tell that decay and death are usurping the place of health and life.
Two older children are in the street, which is their only playground, and the only place where they can go to breathe an atmosphere that is even comparatively pure.
A fourth child, emaciated with
To a skeleton, and with that ghastly and unearthly look which Marasmus impresses on its victims, has reared his feeble frame on a rickety chair against the windowsill, and is striving to get a glimpse of the smiling heavens, whose light is so seldom permitted to gladden its longing eyes.
Its youth has battled nobly against the terrible, morbid, and divided.
the idolizing agents which have oppressed its childish life, the poisonous air, the darkness, and the damp, but the battle is nearly over, it is easy to decide where the victory will be.
But I need not multiply the evidences that eighteen thousand people, men, women and children, a goodly sized town, are today living in our city in a condition the most destructive to health, happiness, and morals that could possibly be devised.
As you look into these abodes of wretchedness, filth, and disease, the inmates manifest the same lethargic habits as animals.
of animals burrowing in the ground.
They are indeed half narcotized by the constant inhalation of the emanations of their own bodies and by a prolonged absence of light and fresh air.
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