The City That Was

Stephen Smith (1823 - 1922)

This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town of the world and the sanitary challenges that each encountered. Stephen Smith (1823-1922) was an American surgeon and a pioneer in public health. “The story of a great life-saving social revolution, the mightiest in the nineteenth century and one of the most momentous in the history of civilization, is told here for the first time. It is told from the standpoint of the transformation of the City of New York, by a chief actor in the event.” Chapter four, New York The Unclean, is the heart of this work. ( Publisher's Note and David Wales)

Genre(s): Health & Fitness, Modern (19th C)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Publisher's Note David Wales
00:03:12
Play 01 A Blind Metropolis And Her Dying Children David Wales
00:07:05
Play 02 A Great Awakening In England David Wales
00:07:32
Play 03 The Awakening In America David Wales
00:20:18
Play 04 New York The Unclean Part 1 David Wales
00:39:08
Play 05 New York The Unclean Part 2 David Wales
00:38:17
Play 06 New York The Unclean Part 3 David Wales
00:48:08
Play 07 Victory David Wales
00:06:39
Play 08 The Legal Work of Dorman Bridgeman Eaton David Wales
00:27:23
Play 09 The Occult Power Of Filth David Wales
00:31:56
Play 10 A Closing Word David Wales
00:03:25