Footnote 118: There was great congestion in housing, as the negroes were restricted to certain sections with homes usually kept in insanitary condition.
In Glasgow the provision of municipal lodging-houses has reduced the total to 81; most of the old insanitary ones have disappeared, and those newly built are superior even to the municipal ones.
Free shelters, however, especially if in an insanitary condition, may constitute a danger, being out of relation to the true national policy of dealing with destitution.
Beds, especially flock beds, are often most insanitary for this class of persons.
Many were further weakened by the fact that septic sores were very prevalent owing to the insanitary conditions among which the men lived.
At Oblinghem the men learnt for the first time what French billets were like and experienced the insanitary conditions prevailing on the small farms and the draughty and dirty barns.
The sale of all aerated waters prepared from insanitary water-supplies is strictly prohibited by the State.
Nobody considers it a virtue to be charitable to the rich--they save all their charity for the poor, who as often as not are undeserving, and are generally insanitary as well.
Insanitary Smithfield and squalid Covent Garden elicit dishonourable mention from the early 'forties onward.
When the work of demolition was begun it was found to be so foul and insanitary that no house-breakers were allowed to touch a single stone until three months of stringent disinfection had elapsed.
St. Paul’s Churchyard, which served as the burial ground to no less than twenty-three city parishes, became overcrowded and greatly added to the insanitary condition of the city by its shallow graves.
Science will have exposed the insanitary effects of a continuous matutinal contact with these obsolete media, and the common-sense of the community will at last have discovered their curious inadaptability.
Medical Officers of Health will “come down on” insanitary journals, even as in our own time they “come down on” defective drains.
She shudders at the memory of the blurred, insanitarybroadsheets of an earlier time.
At this point are the waterworks, erected recently with modern machinery, to take the place of the insanitary wells on which the town had been dependent.
Besides the insanitary conditions which rendered the City so liable to outbreaks of infectious disease, there were other nuisances which afflicted the inhabitants of the City.
At all times and amid the insanitary horrors of an Indian cemetery he had to bury the dead of a large cantonment in a sickly season.
I thought, Mr. Page, there were no insanitary cottages on this property!
Nor had she any sympathy with people who owned insanitary cottages.
The Frank has done his worst for the lower town of his own building, but the upper town still remains as picturesque, as mysterious, and as insanitary as ever.
As a consequence, in spite of their insanitary working-places (where they still continued to work while being treated for tuberculosis), they often conquered the disease in a few months.
And so the Insanitary Committee went down the whole line, my boy, closely questioning the poor chaps who had lost their reason, and eliciting continued proofs of the national ravages of Insanity.
Footnote 154: Some conception of the insanitary condition of the court may be formed by the fact that fifty persons were struck down there by this loathsome disease during the king's illness.
The poorer quarters were, however, little changed from their old insanitary condition.
Evidently some factor essential for the propagation of the disease is absent, although we have the sick man, his clothing and bedding, and the insanitary local conditions which have been supposed to constitute an essential factor.
Nearly a hundred thousand of these cottages have been built within the past ten years, replacing as many insanitary shacks, which, for the most part, have been torn down.
The same thing is being done in the towns, where the insanitary dwellings of the poorer artisans are being replaced by comfortable houses, rented at a very low rate.
It would be difficult to conceive a prison more hopelessly dilapidated and insanitary than Saint-Lazare.
He collects the rents from their insanitary tenements, and he does so with a ruthless hand.
The woman is not bathed for several days, and the atmosphere and general insanitary conditions can better be imagined than described.
But they do not attribute the mortality to its real causes of congenital weakness arising from the immaturity of the parents, insanitary treatment at and after birth, unsuitable food, and the general frailty of the undeveloped organism.
