Health, Morality, and Housing
The “Tenement Problem” in Chicago
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11018441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Garb (Margaret Garb is with the Department of History, University of Washington, St. Louis, Mo., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1420-1430 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.93.9.1420 |
| PMID | 12948956 |
| OpenAlex | W2157913222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In this article, I trace the history of Chicago’s Health Department, exploring when and how housing conditions came to be considered a serious social problem requiring municipal regulation. Although journalists and labor leaders were among the first Chicagoans to link tenement housing to the spread of contagious disease, Health Department officials quickly began regulating the city’s housing stock under their own authority. I argue that in attempting to eliminate the dangers of contagious disease, a long-standing public health threat, health officials drew new attention to the dangers of multifamily dwellings and set a precedent for government regulation of living conditions in tenement dwellings
Criminology · Environmental ethics · Environmental health · Morality · Political science · Public health · Sociology · Healthcare Systems and Challenges · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Philosophy · Public Health Policies and Education · Gerontology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |