TY  - JOUR
T1  - SLums of new york
Y1  - 1939/02/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800050081032
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 467
EP  - 467
VL  - 112
IS  - 5
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800050081032
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800050081032
ER  -