Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . e had incipient tuberculosis. Thesepeople were well-to-do farmers living in alarge twelve-room stone house, and sim- 36 Rural Housing ply crowded into one room for the sakeof mistaken economy—presumably tosave coal and wood. The picture of thishouse (Fig. 6) shows it to be a very com-fortable and airy building which would beentirely suitable for an even larger familyto live in, under proper sanitary form of this overcrowding isseen in certain mountain districts ofPennsylvania, and I suppose it may bevery much the sa
Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . e had incipient tuberculosis. Thesepeople were well-to-do farmers living in alarge twelve-room stone house, and sim- 36 Rural Housing ply crowded into one room for the sakeof mistaken economy—presumably tosave coal and wood. The picture of thishouse (Fig. 6) shows it to be a very com-fortable and airy building which would beentirely suitable for an even larger familyto live in, under proper sanitary form of this overcrowding isseen in certain mountain districts ofPennsylvania, and I suppose it may bevery much the same in other States. Ithas been noted in these places that thenatives do not have the strong, healthybuild, and a color redolent of health, butthe thin, pale, and wan features of thosesuffering from the lack of pure air. Yetthese people live in the purest of Godsfresh air, in places akin to those in whichwe build our Sanatoria. Why is it? Inmany instances the explanation seems tobe dependent on the personal habits ofthese mountaineers, who, on the advent. House and Room Overcrowding 39 of winter, hole up, a good deal likecertain animals. They lay in a supply ofwood, but as wood is becoming scarceand they are generally lazy and shiftless,the supply is not over-abundant, so theyeconomize space and heat, and have fireonly in the cook-stove in the and unnecessary doors are nailedshut, and here around the stove the familyspend most of the winter, eat and sleep inone, or at the most two, rooms: and theresult? The faces you see here in thesemountain homes remind you of the facesyou see in the densely crowded, insanitarytenements of the cities. The completeoutdoor life of summer is barely able tocombat the bad air and lack of air duringthe winter months, and a chronic con-dition of lowered vitality results. In the photograph (Fig. 7) is shown oneof these mountain homes—a typical bedroom of this house (Fig. 8), 40 Rural Housing which is the loft with a floor s
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