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Title: Beauty for ashes
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Albion Fellows, 1865-1933
Subjects: Working class Tenement houses Poor
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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houses built flat on the ground whichsloped from the alley to the house. In some cases,when it rained, the mud washed in on the floor. Oneof these houses had a damp cellar and a bad cistern,and, needless to say, there were several cases oftyphoid. It was surprising to see how some of the familieswho lived in these houses got along. In one placefour children slept in one bunk under the bed. Four children were sick with typhoid at once inone of these tenements, and at the same time a familyon the other side of the house had it. The childrenhad to go to the hospital to get adequate care.Two of them died. Whenever I think of those fourlittle fever-tortured bodies — what it would havemeant to me had they been my children — I feelsomething boil within me. It was a devoted family,of the better class of our patients, and they were asheart-broken over the two they lost as any of ourcircle would have been. The nurses tale of theirgrief haunts me yet. And those children should nothave died!
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