Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health
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| Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens' Association of New York upon the sanitary condition of the city | |
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| Created | 1865 |
Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health[a] is a 1865 report on the sanitary condition of New York City.[1]
The work on the report commenced in May 1864, when the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens launched a comprehensive street-by-street sanitary survey of the city. It was administered by a team of physicians tasked with documenting the living conditions of virtually every household in Manhattan.[1]
Apart from the public healthcare concerns, the report was preoccupied with the “political and social aspects” of sanitation and made a direct link between its poor condition and draft riots of 1863[2]:
The mobs that held sway in our city during the memorable outbreak of violence in the month of July, 1863, were gathered in the overcrowded neglected quarters of the city.[3]
A first edition of the influential Viele map of Manhattan's relief, water bodies, and pristine shoreline was included in the report under the title Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York.[4][5]