RT Journal
T1 SLums of new york
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD February 4
VO 112
IS 5
SP 467
OP 467
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800050081032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800050081032
AB The reader picking up this book from a sense of duty, anticipating a dull and depressing catalogue of human misery and degradation or a social worker's crusade, is soon agreeably surprised to find a readable and interesting character study of slum neighborhoods and tenement denizens. The book deals with four typical slum areas, which are briefly described as follows: Tyler Street is an Old World community, Fleet Street a crossroads between Occident and Orient, Parnell Street an old slum, and Palm Street a "conflict of cultures." The first section of the book is descriptive of the slum areas to be studied, from a general point of view. Then follow chapters more specific in character, dealing in each instance with the slum in its relation to the family and then, in a separate chapter, with the social world of the child in each of these areas. Each general chapter on each