Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens' Association of New York upon the Sanitary Condition of the City (Includes Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York)

Citizens' Association of New York; Ezra Pulling; Viele, Egbert L.

D. Appleton, New York, 1865

[History of New York Sanitation : Epidemiology : The Development of Manhattan] Rebound in modern black leather. cxliii, 360 pages :  5 folded  maps (4 fold out maps with large tears and loss but professionally repaired), 12 full-page maps, 6 maps in text. "A Council of Hygiene and Public Health and assigned to it the task of making a street-by-street sanitary inspection of the city. The survey, which was carried out in 1864, revealed that thousands of New Yorkers were living in conditions of incredible degradation, filth, and brutality. These findings were given widespread publicity in the newspapers and journals and, in conjunction with the threat of Asiatic cholera, were a decisive factor in enabling the reformers to push a bill through the New York State Legislature creating the Metropolitan Board of Health. The Board of Health, the forerunner of the present Department of Health, became the model upon which many American cities subsequently built their health departments." JOHN DUFFY "A HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK CITY 1866-1966," xxi pp.