Stephen Smith
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1,482 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Here she died shortly after we made the inspection of her domicilium.
Having no money nor friends, a Christian burial was denied her for four days, although the neighbors acquainted the police of the fact, and they the health warden.
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Picker's Row is thus described by
The houses are of wood, two stories with attic and basement, the attic rooms are used to deposit the filthy rags and bones as they are taken from gutters and slaughterhouses.
The yards are filled with dirty rags hung up to dry, sending forth their stench to all the neighborhood, and are exceedingly nauseous operating upon me as an emetic.
The tenants are all Germans of the lowest order, having no national nor personal pride.
They are exceedingly filthy in person, and their bed clothes are as dirty as the floors they walk on.
Their food is of the poorest quality, and their feet and heads, and doubtless their whole bodies, are an asarchus suffering from what they call rheumatism, but which is in reality a prostrate.
Nervous system, the result of foul air and inadequate supply of nutritious food.
They have a peculiar taste for the association of dogs and cats, there being about fifty of the former and thirty of the latter.
The whole number of apartments is thirty two, occupied by twenty eight families, number one twenty in all, sixty adults and sixty children.
open.
The yards are all small, and the sinks running over with filth.
Says a visitor in the eighth ward, the instances are many in which one or more families of from three to seven or more members of all ages and both sexes are congregated in a single and often contracted apartment.
Here they eat, drink, sleep, work, dress, and undress without the possibility of that privacy which an innate modesty may
imperatively demands in sickness and in health it is the same.
What is the consequence?
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