. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . ight, andwere crowded with inhabitants. Their rear was only separated fromthe stone-wall which supported the side of the hill, by a space of a few feet, and here the contents of drains fromabove found a receptacle, creating a per-petual humidity which must have remindedthe tenants of their native land. Burgess alley runs from the southern ex-tremity of Half-moon place, and its houses,fruitful sources of examples of the disease,are destitute of any opening whatever intheir rear—being built against the hill, andin front
. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . ight, andwere crowded with inhabitants. Their rear was only separated fromthe stone-wall which supported the side of the hill, by a space of a few feet, and here the contents of drains fromabove found a receptacle, creating a per-petual humidity which must have remindedthe tenants of their native land. Burgess alley runs from the southern ex-tremity of Half-moon place, and its houses,fruitful sources of examples of the disease,are destitute of any opening whatever intheir rear—being built against the hill, andin front are separated from the rear of thehouses on Broad street by merely the widthof the alley and a row of narrow sheds and!privies. The sketches can convey a faint idea,,only, of the actual narrowness of the limitsoccupied by an immense population, andthe utter impossibility of a healthy circula-tion of air in such locations, where a freeventilation is epecially demanded by theEntrance to Burgess1 Alley, supreme filthiness of the persons who oc-(Looking out.) cupy them. 55. 434 APPENDIX TO SANITARY REPORT.
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