Abstract
WE are apt to associate overcrowding and defective housing with towns in the “ old” countries, but it is well to realise that a condition of things as bad or worse may exist in our rural districts and in new settlements. In this little book Dr. Harvey Bashore, an inspector in the Pennsylvania Department of Health, describes conditions of overcrowding and defective housing which exist in his own district. He deals with the subject under four headings: (i) land overcrowding; (2) house overcrowding; (3) defective buildings; and (4) overcrowded and defective schools.
Overcrowding and Defective Housing in the Rural Districts.
By Dr. H. B. Bashore. Pp. 92. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1915.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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HEWLETT, R. Overcrowding and Defective Housing in the Rural Districts . Nature 96, 6 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096006a0
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