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The City That Was

Stephen Smith

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Stephen Smith called old New York a blind metropolis killing its own children with filth. His stirring history recounts the awakening that cleaned the city, the battles fought and the reformers who won them. A rousing firsthand record of the birth of American urban public health. Witness a great city drag itself out of the dirt.

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13 chapters

  1. 1THE CITY THAT WAS
  2. 2NOTE BY THE PUBLISHER
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5I A Blind Metropolis and Her Dying Children
  6. 6II A Great Awakening in England
  7. 7III The Awakening in America
  8. 8IV New York, the Unclean
  9. 9V Victory
  10. 10VI The Legal Work of Dorman Bridgeman Eaton
  11. 11VII The Occult Power of Filth
  12. 12VIII A Closing Word
  13. 13Transcriber’s Notes
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