Paul Sorrells

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The infant death rate in the tenements was twice that in private homes, and in the 1860s New York had a higher death rate (40 per 1,000) than any city in the western world.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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