Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . ve lungblocks, like the large cities, but we dohave lung houses where case after caseof tuberculosis has lived and perhaps de-veloped. Take, for example, the houseshown in Fig. lo: situated far out in 82 Rural Housing the country, and surrounded by as favor-able conditions as one could wish, yetlook at its record in three different andunrelated families:—1896-1898.—M family: father died, mother sick of —E family: father and one son died of —L family: father and mother died of tuberculosis.
Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . ve lungblocks, like the large cities, but we dohave lung houses where case after caseof tuberculosis has lived and perhaps de-veloped. Take, for example, the houseshown in Fig. lo: situated far out in 82 Rural Housing the country, and surrounded by as favor-able conditions as one could wish, yetlook at its record in three different andunrelated families:—1896-1898.—M family: father died, mother sick of —E family: father and one son died of —L family: father and mother died of deaths from tuberculosis in thisone house—surely a record that carriessome meaning with it! Here is the story of a country lunghouse, which, although its occupants be-longed to one family, and probably hadthat terrible hereditary tendency to thedisease, they had such favorable environ-ment that improvement in the resistingpowers of the various individuals shouldhave developed, but voluntary bad livingkept these people in about the same con-. Results 85 dition as if they had lived in one of thedark and windowless lung blocks of agreat city, instead of in an isolated andinviting country house open on all sidesto fresh air and sunshine. T family home (Fig. 15) 1880-1901.—Inhabited by man, wife, and six children: Four died of —Inhabited by man, wife, and eight children: Man and one child have —Inhabited by man, wife, and eight children: Four children have tuberculosis: threeothers are —Inhabited by man, wife, and two children: Man died of cases of tuberculosis in twenty-five years in this nice-looking farmhouse! 86 Rural Housing Fig. II shows a picture of a lunghouse, unique in covering a period ofalmost fifty years. This house is situatedin a small town which has many things ofhistoric interest, and this house, too, hasa history, not of border warfare and heroicdefence, but a story of
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