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Title: The Survey April-September 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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uction is impossible inFrance today on any but the most simple basis; there are nomaterials available and no workmen. But, as we returned toParis, a picture of the army camps, rapidly constructed with amost meager equipment in the way of housing, the most primi-tive of hygienic measures and yet productive of great health,came to our mind in sharp contrast to the prevalent theory inAmerica that only elaborate hospital and housing buildingssuffice. Rapidly following, there came a great picture of theschools for the blesses in which many, who never before hadhad the privilege, were taught new means of livelihood andnew habits of life and then, following that, the picture of theattempt of the Home Hospital in New York city, establishedby the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor toanswer the same problem. The next day in Paris, the Department of the Seine madeits offer to us of 150 acres of ground, and while they weretalking about it in our office, fragment after fragment of
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WHERE TUBERCULOUS REFUGEES WILL BE CARED FOR OUTSIDE OF PARIS FIFTY acres of meadow and woodland have been offered to the American Red Cross by the Department of theSeine for a village for tuberculous refugees. Architects of the Society of Friends, working in close cooperationwith the construction department of the Red Cross, have planned the grouping of this village so as to leave the beauti-ful wooded property uninjured when the village is transported after the war. A group of Quakers is already clearingthe land and has started to build 150 three- and five-room houses, each with a porch and of a type that can be de-mounted and transported to the liberated districts when the war is over. The village will care for 1,000 persons. All the elements naturally entering into a thriving community in Francewill be developed. Schools and playgrounds, recreation facilities, a cooperative store, a laundry, a community bath-house and a dispensary will be established—all in demountable wooden ho

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