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Report of the Third Sanitary Inspection District
Report of the Third Sanitary Inspection District
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Citizens' Association of New York. Council of Hygiene and Public Health Harriot, Hampton
In 1864, the New York Citizens Association, a coalition of civic and sanitary reformers, organized a sanitary survey of New York City. The data collected by 31 medical inspectors were condensed into a report published in 1865, including this account of the third district inspection. Page 19-32 of Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens Association of New York upon the Sanitary Condition of the City. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865.
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