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The open stair tenement dweller has his means of escape at his own door . If fire is above him , he can lead his family quickly and safely to the ground , or if below him , to the roof and thence down by another flight , but always and ...
The open stair tenement dweller has his means of escape at his own door . If fire is above him , he can lead his family quickly and safely to the ground , or if below him , to the roof and thence down by another flight , but always and ...
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Until quite recently the visitor had to enter its precincts by means of a primitive lift . Seated in a wooden chair , the visitor was pulled up to the main door by means of a rope . WHERE BODIES ARE TEMPORARILY INTERRED .
Until quite recently the visitor had to enter its precincts by means of a primitive lift . Seated in a wooden chair , the visitor was pulled up to the main door by means of a rope . WHERE BODIES ARE TEMPORARILY INTERRED .
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does not seem a remarkable reduction ; but it means that had the death rate of 1906 prevailed in 1908 , 5,914 more persons would have died than actually succumbed . In 1910 the death rate was 15.6 . Had the 1906 rate prevailed in that ...
does not seem a remarkable reduction ; but it means that had the death rate of 1906 prevailed in 1908 , 5,914 more persons would have died than actually succumbed . In 1910 the death rate was 15.6 . Had the 1906 rate prevailed in that ...
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professional money lender is helpless to escape and how tragedy not infrequently follows the borrowing | 159 |
Making Charity | 251 |
made real financial successes alone in the cultivation of land and she points out some new ways | 299 |
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