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SOME RELATION BETWEEN OUR HEALTH AND OUR ENVIRONMENT: A STUDY OF THE PREVALENCE OF DISEASE IN THE CITY OF DETROIT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE TYPE AND SANITATION OF DWELLINGS UPON DISEASE

Watson Frank Walker

"It is not too much to say that an adequate solution of the housing question is the foundation of all social progress. Health, and housing, are indissolubly connected. If this country is to be the country which we desire, a great offensive must be taken against disease and crime, and the first point at which the attack must be delivered is the ugly, unhealthy, overcrowded house, in the mean street, which we all of us know too well.

"If a healthy race is to be reared it can be reared only in healthy homes. If infant mortality is to be reduced, and tuberculosis to be stamped out, the first essential is the improvement of housing conditions; if drink and crime are to be successfully combated, sanitary houses must be provided. If `unrest' is to be converted to contentment, the provisions of good housing may prove one of the most potent agencies in that conversion."