The Lung Block by Adrienne deNoyelles - 9780822947868

University of Pittsburgh Press

The Lung BlockTuberculosis and Contested Spaces in Early Twentieth-Century New York\nAuthor(s): Adrienne deNoyelles\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pittsburgh Press\nISBN-13: 9780822947868, 978-0822947868\nSynopsis\nPublic health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much as they do today. The Lower East Side provided an urban environment where infectious disease and other public health concerns flourished. One city block in particular, known in muckraking circles as The Lung Block, housed four thousand first- and second-generation Americans in dilapidated tenements where deadly tuberculosis spread uninhibited. The Lung Block looks at a 1903 reform crusade to demolish this working-class tenement neighborhood and replace it with a park. Progressive reformers aimed to confront the areas moral and environmental dangers, but their conceptualizatio.