. New York and the war with Spain. History of the Empire State regiments . es crowd by thethousand after a night of foraging over tables and dishes; wherepoultry is kept huddled for weeks in small coops one above theother; where poi is manufactured and sold in shops sour withfermented slime; where kitchens are built next to foul smellingprivies, and so arranged that a ray of light never enters them;where sinks are maintained with long, leaking drains; where cess-pools and privy vaults are crowded together or combined and leftunopened year after year to saturate the ground with filth andgerms;

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. New York and the war with Spain. History of the Empire State regiments . es crowd by thethousand after a night of foraging over tables and dishes; wherepoultry is kept huddled for weeks in small coops one above theother; where poi is manufactured and sold in shops sour withfermented slime; where kitchens are built next to foul smellingprivies, and so arranged that a ray of light never enters them;where sinks are maintained with long, leaking drains; where cess-pools and privy vaults are crowded together or combined and leftunopened year after year to saturate the ground with filth andgerms; where cess-pools are often without ventilation of any kindexcepting the crevices of the floors above or perhaps a ricketywooden vent ending within two feet of a sleeping apartmentwindow, which is overcrowded at night with occupants, andwhere the ground is often without drainage, so that the seepagefrom the surroundings accumulates and becomes stagnant. Nothing should be forced to the front in the discussion ofproper sanitation of this city more vigorously than the water. : I

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