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to show what could be done by paying instead of buying on the instalment plan. In every room the board of health regulations which could any way apply to that house were posted, and we felt that the neighbors learned a great deal from this, especially since we always had some one at home there in the afternoon to talk over with them the,application and relation of our problems and successes with our landlord to their own. The tenants upstairs became interested, and the people soon asked if they might use the rooms for meetings, which of course gave the tenement a larger influence at once. The whole house took on a different aspect, and one tenant moved because she said she "could not keep up to the pace." This was considered a real fall on her part by the people in her neighborhood, and she has never really been reinstated socially because of it. The landlord has acquired two other houses, and remodeled them, and he frankly admits tiat he has been influenced in his ideas by what he learned from having us as tenants. The tenement was not "given up" in one sense, but after three
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: Dec 1, 1917
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