Stephen Smith
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early vacated the house and made such a thorough reconstruction of the entire establishment that it became one of the most attractive tenements in that east side district.
For many years that house continued to be entirely free from the ordinary contagious diseases of the tenement houses of the city.
It is an interesting fact that the landlord subsequently thanked the writer for having compelled him to improve his tenement house, for he had secured first class tenants who paid him high rents.
This incident came to the attention of several prominent citizens, physicians, lawyers, and clergymen, who became profoundly impressed with the revelation that there were no laws under which such a glaring violation of the simplest principles of health and even of common decency could be at once corrected.
For many years there had been a growing sentiment in favour of a reform of our health regulations stimulated by the writings of doctor John H.
Griscomb, doctor Joseph M.
Smith, doctor Elisha Harris, and others, and the Academy of Medicine had occasionally passed resolutions favoring adequate health laws, but no results had been secured.
It was now resolved to organize a society devoted expressly to sanitary reform, and the Sanitary Association came into existence.
For several years this body annually introduced a health bill into the legislature, but the measure was regularly defeated through the active opposition of the city inspector, whose office would be abolished if the bill became aligned.
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In the early sixties, the famous Citizens Association was organized with Peter Cooper as president and a membership of one hundred of the most prominent citizens.
This was in the days of the Tweed regime and at a period when the city government was most completely in his power.
The objects of the association were reform in all branches of the municipal government, the promotion of wise legislation, and the defeat of all attempts to subordinate the city to the schemes for control by Tweed and the coterie of politicians who were under his directions.
The Friends of Sanitary Reform decided to attempt to secure proper legislation through the Citizens Association.
The application by a delegation for the aid of this association was well received and a plan of procedure adopted.
The Secretary of the Citizen Association, Mr Nathaniel Sands, had been a member of the Sanitary Association, and as an enthusiastic sanitarian had been disappointed at its repeated failure to secure legislation.
At his suggestion, it was decided to create two committees, one on health and another on law, and through these agencies to have the citizens association
negotiation accomplish its work.
The first committee eventually came under my direction, while the second was directed by Dorman B.
Eaton Esquire.
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