Americans struggled to survive Washington D.C's worst tenement slum in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Hidden away from main thoroughfares and reached by dark passages, overcrowded, filthy and dangerous - life was a constant fight against evil influences. In this account by a contemporary sanitary inspector, you will discover what life was like for people battling poverty in bad and neglected housing in the US national capital, in what was only little more than 100 years ago.

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