Sample Essay

One of the earliest recognition of the needs of reform comes at the time when the fear of cholera hangs over New York. The city is painfully aware of the filth and overcrowding in which so many of the city live and the danger that this posed as far as the spread of the disease grows. Soon after this a ‘Tenement-House Act’ was adopted the first legislation of its kind. Also the newspapers by covering some of the painful stories that the author accounts probably played their role in inciting public out-rage.

Legal regulations become together and sanitation officers were assigned to improve the conditions of these buildings. Although at the time this book was written many tenements were still in very terrible states the reform process was underway. The author himself accounts the example of tenement owners who have made the effort to interact with those staying in their buildings and have simultaneously improved the conditions of the building and raised the standard of hygiene expected from their tenants. The experiments in this regard that he quotes have been successful. For the author this is an important part of the solution, a relationship of mutual benefit of owner and tenant.

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