RT Journal
T1 REport of committee on building of modern houses.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD February 6
VO LII
IS 6
SP 505
OP 505
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540320077029
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540320077029
AB This report of a committee appointed by President Roosevelt to consider the housing of the poor in Washington, describes the deplorable condition of the houses of the poor in that city and tells what has been done to better this condition. Much space is devoted to the same problems in other cities and to the solution offered in them; and numerous plans and specifications for cheap and healthy homes for the poor are furnished. There is great need in Washington as well as in other cities, of sanitary homes for unskilled laborers and their families. The committee urges that such homes should be supplied as a philanthropic enterprise by those interested in the welfare of the community, for a profit can not be earned on houses for which only $5 to $10 a month is paid, provided they are kept in a sanitary condition.