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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    influence on the health of the community. In one tenement-group containing 600 people there were but four deaths during a year, a rate of less than seven per thousand. While the figures for other groups were not available, it is prob- able that an equal degree of healthfulness ob- tains. The most noteworthy feature of these tene- ments, however, is the school for children be- tween the ages of three and seven years, which is maintained either in a room on the principal floor of one of the tenements or in a small house in the court-yard. The schools are of the Montessori type and have attracted wide attention. A full description of these schools is given in the chapter on “Recent Develop- ments in Education.” ^ Although a caretaker is always on duty to see that everything in connection with the tene- ments is in good order, Talamo takes special pains to enlist the interest of the tenants in the up-keep of the property. To this end he is offering a series of prizes for the best kept dwellings in the group. These prizes stimulate tenants to maintain a high standard of neat- ness and to safeguard the property of the com- pany, and at the same time have the effect of greatly reducing the bill of expense for repairs. ^ See Chapter XIII, p. 250. [51 ]