Eric Eggen

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Dark, dank, and filthy, tenements were as antithetical to American ideas of the home as they were hospitable to tuberculosis, typhoid, dysentery, and other waterborne diseases.
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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