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100 1 _aSmith, Stephen,
_d1823-1922
245 1 4 _aThe City That Was
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2018-02-24
505 0 _aA blind metropolis and her dying children -- A great awakening in England -- The awakening in America -- New York, the unclean -- Victory -- The legal work of Dorman Bridgeman Eaton -- The occult power of filth -- A closing word.
508 _aProduced by deaurider, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The City That Was" by Stephen Smith is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book documents the dire sanitary conditions of New York City in the mid-19th century, focusing on the contributions of Smith and others to a major public health transformation. It provides a detailed examination of the health crises caused by overcrowded tenements, rampant disease, and a lack of effective sanitation measures, and it critiques the neglect of city management towards these issues. The opening of the book presents a shocking portrayal of New York during the mid-19th century as a "blind metropolis" plagued by preventable diseases due to horrendous living conditions, particularly among the poorer immigrant population. Stephen Smith, who had been directly involved in investigating these conditions, describes a city with inadequate drainage, filthy streets, and overcrowded tenements, resulting in high death rates from diseases like typhus, cholera, and tuberculosis. This part of the narrative sets a grim backdrop for the implications of urban neglect and the urgent need for health reforms that would later be instigated by the findings of his inspections and advocacy efforts. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPublic health -- New York (State) -- New York
653 _aSanitation -- New York (State) -- New York
653 _aEaton, Dorman B. (Dorman Bridgman), 1823-1899
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56633
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