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"Tenement district" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a thickly-populated section, not many blocks from the water front. It is in the tenement district where dozens of families are huddled together in one house. We pause in front of a rickety building and stop an urchin in the hallway, who replies to the question that we are in the right house. Then the good Doctor pulls out of his pocket the letter he received some hours ago from the grief-stricken ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... something else to do just then. He and others had been sent to the tenement district, near the rising river, to rouse and save the poor ...

— The Story of a China Cat • Laura Lee Hope

... tenement district people were being murdered by the tens of thousands by tuberculosis, by defective plumbing, by new diseases born of the herding of men and women like cattle. I made some feeble attempt to investigate, to ascertain, to acquaint myself with the facts, and my investigation led ...

— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

... mother was a good housekeeper, not afraid of work, has no idea of the attitude of half the housewives of his district. Having been made as a boy "to get the dustpan and brush and sweep up his whittlings," he does not realize that these houses in the tenement district have no dustpans, and that no one would bend his back to sweep up litter if there were. It is all swept into the alley or the street. Cheap, long-handled dustpans would be valuable sanitary implements. As ...

— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards