TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe housing problem
Y1  - 1909/02/27
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02540350032006
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 706
EP  - 707
VL  - LII
IS  - 9
N2  - The serious student of social conditions will undoubtedly find for many moral economic and physical ills a common cause—the vicious method of housing the multitudes in our great cities. Self-respect decays where facilities for cleanliness are denied and where a decent privacy is impossible; the instinct of thrift is nipped in the bud by surroundings in which self-improvement seems impossible; and morals, finances and health suffer together in disease-breeding dwellings. Such conclusions have been forced on students in Washington— a city with few manufacturing or commercial interests and with few streets which suggest extreme poverty by their exterior. There was a time when Connecticut Avenue, ignorant of the existence of Willow-tree alley, used to boast that Washington had no slums. As a matter of fact, many blocks in respectable and even well-to-do neighborhoods of Washington are honeycombed by alleys swarming with an obscure population. The conditions revealed by the Washington
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02540350032006
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540350032006
ER  -