Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930Martin V. Melosi |
Contents
The American Response | 35 |
The Smoke Problem in | 83 |
The AntiNoise Campaign 18931932 | 135 |
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American City anti-noise Association Atlanta became Board of Health Boston Chicago citizens city officials city's civic collection and disposal Commission Committee construction Crane death rate Department disease disposal methods Drainage dumping economic efforts environmental reform epidemic factories George groups growth History of Public houses Hull House Ibid improved incineration increased industrial cities John Louis major Mary McDowell McDowell ment municipal engineers Municipal League Municipal Refuse Newark nineteenth century noise noise pollution October ordinances organizations Passaic River Pennsylvania percent Pittsburgh pollution problems population progress Progressive Era Progressivism Public Health refuse problem refuse reform Rudolph Hering sanitarians sanitary engineers sanitation sewer gas sewerage systems sewers slow sand filters smoke abatement smoke nuisance social Society sources streams street cleaning suburbs tion twentieth century typhoid fever United Waring Washington waste wastewater water closets water pollution water supply waterways waterworks women Women's Clubs York City