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Another Quiz. 1. Where does your tap water come from? 2. Where does your sewage go? 3. Where does your trash end up? Where does your electricity come from? Where does your recycling go?. City as a convergence point Drawing in: people energy (coal, wood, electricity) water food

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  1. Another Quiz 1. Where does your tap water come from? 2. Where does your sewage go? 3. Where does your trash end up? • Where does your electricity come from? • Where does your recycling go?

  2. City as a convergence point • Drawing in: • people • energy (coal, wood, electricity) • water • food • other resources (timber, metals, etc.) • Sending out: • garbage and waste

  3. Description of Garbage Boxes in NYC, 1863 from the New York Tribune: • "composed of potato-peelings, oyster-shells, night-soil, rancid butter, dead dogs and cats, and ordinary black street mud, they are one festering, rotting, loathsome, hellish mass of air poisoning, death- breeding filth, reeking in the fierce sunshine, which gloats yellowly over it like the glare of a devil whom Satan has kicked from his councils in virtuous disgust."

  4. Summary: Urban Industrial Environments • Environmental Conditions • Overcrowding in poor districts • Water Pollution • Air Pollution • Biological Effects of Urban Environments • Higher incidence of disease (infectious & non-infectious) • Higher rates of mortality (especially among the poor) • Decreases in stature

  5. Katherine Bowlker, head of Women’s Municipal League of Boston on “municipal housekeeping”: “One peculiar and inalienable function of women is the provision of a suitable environment for her offspring….[therefore] the housekeeping of a great city is women’s work.”

  6. Wednesday Club of St. Louis: “We feel that the present condition of our city, enveloped in a continual cloud of smoke, endangers the health of our families, especially those of weak lungs and delicate throats, impairing the eyesight of our children, and add, infinitely to our labors and our expenses as housekeepers, and is a nuisance no longer to be borne in submission.” (from Stradling, p. 43-44)

  7. Some Progressive-era Women’s Groups involved in Environmental Reform Hull House (Chicago, 1882) smoke, garbage, sewage, factory conditions Civic Club of Philadelphia garbage (1894) Ladies Health Protective smoke Association (NY, 1884) Wednesday Club of St. Louis smoke (1880s)

  8. "Jane Addams Wears a Star: Appointed to the Force of Garbage Inspectors by Commissioner Kent," Chicago Record (April 25, 1895) “Miss Jane Addams called on Commissioner Kent yesterday. When she went away she wore a policeman’s star. It indicated that she was a member of the sanitary police force for the 19th ward. She went to luncheon wearing her star, and the Hull house colony was in high glee. It was thought there that the appointment of Miss Addams as garbage inspector would do almost as much to better the condition of the garbage boxes and alleys as if she had been awarded the garbage contract for which she put in a bid a few weeks ago, as she will inspect the work of the man who got the contract, and will see that he does his work properly.”

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