Joseph Prichard Quotes
Rather filthy 2 -- Filthy 10 -- Very filthy 45 -- Exceedingly filthy 7 -- Disgustingly filthy 26
Joseph Prichard, Mid 19th Century, Director, Wigan Working Class Public Health Association, Report on the condition of the privies and public toilets of the area, ~1848, Quoted in C. T. Clark, Preliminary Inquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and Sanitation condition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Wigan, 1849, [See {69405}.]
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Lyon had spat in the face of Congressman Roger Griswald, 1762-1812 who had called Lyon a coward. Modern House rules prohibit personal attacks and remarks about fellow Congressmen.
This is an invaluable historical quotation showing urban housing conditions in the 1920s.
It was common then for people to die in tenements as a result of shoddy construction, poisoning by sewer gas, and unsanitary conditions. As the result of the efforts of reformers like Riis and Theodore Roosevelt health inspectors were appointed and errant builders went to jail—in some cases for manslaughter.