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Report of the Twenty-fifth Sanitary Inspection District
Report of the Twenty-fifth Sanitary Inspection District
Contributor(s):
Citizens' Association of New York. Council of Hygiene and Public Health Smith, J. Lewis (Job Lewis), 1827-1897
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 twenty-fifth district inspection. Pages 298-324 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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