Industrial Housing
HOUSING FOREIGN TABOR AT
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She conunitv ologet rns the firet attempt to solre the senitery
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problem. The disadvantages of this type were eo on spparent, and further
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improvenent moe affeeted by the inn tallation of individasl outeide olosets.
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DMnoussed by . E. Denford. Aset. General Supt.
advance was ade by building conorete basemente under a
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mnber of the housee end providing them with nodern toilets. A11 of the
outbuildinge are thoroughly policed and olenned enoh day. The remalte
44dletom, Ohio, in a oity of about 17.000 inhabitante and with o
In s ner oolony whioh we are now oon-
have been entirely estiefhatory.
1arge mnber of varied Induetries. heee indue tries, with the exoeption
comnity bath for esoh four hounes: nhower
strueting we are furniehing
of our own plan te, hare be en loonted here for a grest many years and
This settlement in looated nesr
bnthe for the men snd tubs for the women.
employ very fe foreignere
The American Rolling i11 Co. brought the
our East 8ide Worke nnd the hounes are furnished with water snd eleatrio
foreigner to iddletomn, nnd the hoaeing problen for thin elass of people
1ight from the plant. heee new houeee are provided with iron oeilinge
in one of adaptation rather than of oomplete new conetruction. Our hous-
and the alle are covered with beaded aeiling. painted.
here ie no
ing question hae dealt only with the foreigner, and it hne not been nee-
beaome arsoked or ull of holes n lodging for
plaster about the houne
esanry for u to denl direatiy ith the problem for our Aserionn labor
rernin. By ceeping the interiore of thene houses we1l painted, they nay
neceeeary to find s plaoe for the Hungsrian and the 8lav to
be kept very nonitary. Shey hare no olothes olosete, but they are provided
1ive, and to do it in euoh n manner no ae to csuse the leset antngoniem
with netal lookere ine tend.
In n11 of our colony rork, we have endesrored to have the morce
1rom the eurrounding nelghborhood, for the plant in loonted wel2 within
that the sen sy either o hoe
the tom. ogordingly, n 2arge trnot of land in
loested se nenr the plant se poeeible so
e on
for s hot middsy mea1, or it ay easily be brought to the nte ror then.
aediate p 0imi ty to the nil1 wa parohneed. upon whioh were neveral
derate 2ed sousen ddisional hounen and oottngen were ereated.
nettlesent, mab ering now about thirty- teren housen. comprinen our
wnn.
The Company has sodded the bante and terrnoes nnd parte orne aaa
hae planted a large munber or trees, and hne enooursged the teaants
model colony. The housen coneiet of from four
mix roone onoh, and are
beautify the preniees by furnishing al1 of the nower and graee seed nea-
und er the onre of the Safety and Sanitary Department. he sajority of
esasry. We also take osre of the graee during the sumer, preosution
them rere built before a nodern eemer sgetem me inetalled in the tom,
the lawn and alno ganrde sgainet the
hioh insured the prenervstion
and ooneequent1y they are not provited with ba th roome. They are supplied
spoiling of the looke of the neighborhood by a fer aarelese tenante. Garbage
ith ranning mater and either outeide or inaide sanitary toilete are pro-
eane are provided, nnd the garbage in 001leoted nnd dimponed of ench week.
vided: in eone onnen nn indiyidual one for enoh houne, in othere a oom-
bbieh ie not n1lowed to soaumlate, snd the baok yarde of thin oolong
munfty olonet in arninhed
noaonmodste three or four houses.
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