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Title: Health in home and town
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Bertha Millard, b. 1870
Subjects: Sanitation, Household Public health
Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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h best suited to the neighbor-hood, and all of the sidewalks will be built. When realestate dealers buy a section of land for buildings, theobject usually is to make the most money rather thanto make the best neighborhood. The Names of Streets. — A very common practicein American cities is to number the long avenues, asFirst or Second Avenue. The streets that cross theseare then lettered, as A Street and B Street. The onlyadvantage of this prosaic method is that it is easy tofind any house. The address indicates the location.The city of Paris has a unique and satisfactory wayof indicating the streets. They are named for scholarsin one district, for soldiers in another district, and foran event in a third. Naming the streets for men THE CITY STREETS 215 and women of distinction is a valuable custom. Localhistory and traditions may also be preserved in thenames of streets. The Width of Streets. — Many of the streets in citiesare not wide enough to let in sufficient air and sunlight.
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Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. A Wide Business Street in New York High buildings and narrow streets are a menance tohealth. Wide streets are a great aid to traffic in thebusiness districts. In the center of a city, streets of100 to 140 feet are not too wide to prevent crowding.In a residential district, the streets may be from 60 to80 feet wide. Even then there may be a wide sidewalkand a strip of grass or parking. In many of the older 2i6 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN places in New England the streets are only 30 to 40 feetwide. In the West a street is seldom less than 60 to66 feet in width. The main avenues in Washington are160 feet wide, and in New York 135 feet. The propor-tion of the area of streets to the entire area of a city va-ries very much in different cities. In Washington 43 percent of the entire area is devoted to streets and alleys.The area of streets in New York City is 35 per cent,in Boston 26 per cent, in Philadelphia 29 per cent, andin Duluth, Minnesota, 86

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