Health in home and town / by Bertha Millard Brown.

  • Brown, Bertha Millard, 1870-
Date:
1912
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Credit: Health in home and town / by Bertha Millard Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis or consumption, are likely to spread rapidly. Danger from Fire. — Some of the worst fires have been in tenement districts. The fire-escapes are fre- quently used as storehouses for mattresses, beds, and chairs, in spite of fines repeatedly imposed for this offence. The fire often rushes up through the house by the staircase or air-shaft, cutting off all means of exit except by the fire-escapes, so it is very important to have the ladder fire-escapes, and to keep them clear at all times. ' Need to know about Tenements. — The people who live in the poorer tenements may become unconsciously a real source of danger to the rest of the city in case a fire or an epidemic of sickness should break out among them. Any help to improve their surroundings must come from others. So it is important that we should know about them, and be ready to do what we can to help them. Reforms. — There are public-spirited persons who are trying to improve the tenements, and in the last few years great gains have been made. This work has extended in four chief directions. First, the worst tenement houses in New York and Boston have been torn down. In Boston, 144 houses were destroyed previous to 1900. In New York, two beautiful parks. Mulberry Bend and Seward Parks, now give air and sunlight to a multitude of people where formerly the worst tenement districts stood. Second, many houses have been cleaned and repaired. The chief improve-