Cover of Fighting for life

Fighting for life

by S. Josephine Baker

2013 264 pages eng

"New York's lower east side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called the neighborhood "the suicide ward" and referred to one particular tenement--in an official Health Department report, no less--as an "out and out hog…

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