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Title: Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Subjects: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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as that private beneficence is totally in-adequate to deal with the vast numbers of thecitys disinherited. We also quickly came torealize that there are certain types of wretched-ness from which every private philanthropyshrinks and which are cared for only in thosewards of the county hospital provided for thewrecks of vicious living or in the citys isolationhospital for smallpox patients. I have heard a broken-hearted mother exclaimwhen her erring daughter came home at last toobroken and diseased to be taken into the familyshe had disgraced, There is no place for herbut the top floor of the County Hospital; theywill have to take her there, and this only afterevery possible expedient had been tried or sug-gested. This aspect of governmental responsi-bility was unforgetably borne in upon me duringthe smallpox epidemic following the Worlds Fair,when one of the residents, Mrs. Kelley, as StateFactory Inspector was much concerned in dis-covering and destroying clothing which was being 310
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Julia C. Lathrop. CIVIC COOPERATION 311 finished in houses containing unreported cases ofsmallpox. The deputy most successful in locat-ing such cases lived at Hull-House during theepidemic because he did not wish to expose hisown family. Another resident, Miss Lathrop, asa member of the State Board of Charities, wentback and forth to the crowded pest house whichhad been hastily constructed on a stretch ofprairie west of the city. As Hull-House wasalready so exposed, it seemed best for the specialsmallpox inspectors from the Board of Health totake their meals and change their clothing therebefore they went to their respective homes. Allof these officials had accepted without questionand as implicit in public office, the obligation tocarry on the dangerous and difficult undertakingsfor which private philanthropy is unfitted, as ifthe commonalty of compassion represented bythe State was more comprehending than that ofany individual group. It was as early as our second winter on Hal-sted

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