Modern cities : progress of the awakening for their betterment here and in Europe / by Horatio M. Pollock and William S. Morgan.

  • Horatio Milo Pollock
Date:
1913
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    ings, and 398,000 in four-room dwellings. The startling facts revealed by this investigation re- lated to the death-rate. It was found that the death-rate among the one-room dwellers was about seven and one-third times as great as among the two-room dwellers, twenty-three times as great as among the three-room dwellers and thirty times as great as among the more than four-room dwellers. Although number- ing only about one-eighteenth of the entire population of the city, the inhabitants of the one-room tenements suffered nearly one-half the total number of deaths. Their death-rate for the year was 163.5 per thousand, while that of the two-room dwellers was 22.5, that of the three-room dwellers 7.5, and that of the fam- ilies who were fortunate to occupy four rooms or more was only 5.4. The facts brought out were so convincing that the municipality was compelled to take action to secure better housing conditions. A somewhat similar study of housing condi- tions and mortality was made in 1871 in Buda- pest by. the city statistician, Mr. Korosi. At that time the general death-rate of the city was about 45 per thousand. Mr. Korosi found that a large part of the people of the city was living in crowded quarters and that many cellars were used as dwellings. The facts brought out gave [46]
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