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It goes without saying, however, that this acute poverty was always local and temporary; there was then no opportunity for the pauperism and misery of overcrowded tenementhouse districts.
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With a tenementhouse law, passed this winter, which sends the women to jail and fines the landlord and his house $1000, we shall be in the way shortly of doing so.
I become an Author and resume my Interrupted Career as a Lecturer 1901
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A law had been made the year before empowering the Health Board to seize and destroy tenementhouse property that was a threat to the citys health, but it had remained a dead letter.
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