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THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL. 4, NO. 141 Chicago, Saturday, March 13, 1915 398
STATE STREET DEPARTMENT STORES
ARE JOLTED BY CITY COUNCIL
Mandel Bros.' Sub-basement Placed on Ffle by Etailding
Committee Unsanitary Conditions in
Basements Condemned
Thousands of people in Chicago
have holes eaten into their lungs by
the great white plague, consumption.
The cause of ft. in a large number
of cases is a vicious air supply, bad
ventilation, in the places where those
people have worked for a living.
"Out of the 3,000 people who die
from consumption of the lungs each
year in Chicago the trouble goes back
every time to bad air.
"The soft pink tissues of the hum
an lungs are the most deUcate in the
human body. They feed and live on
air. IT the air they are fed does not
liave the proper amount of oxygen
and sunlight the lungs begin to waste
away with, consumption.
. "Placing people at work in -a base
ment 40 feet below street level is a
starting point for the breeding of
consumption and all other diseases
that can be blamed on a bad supply
of air for the human throat, lungs
and nostrils."
This is what Dr. George B. Young,
commissioner of health, told the city
council sub-committee which came
to him asking about the ordinance to
make lawful the sub-basement sales
room now run by Mandel Brothers
department store on State street
The ordto&Bce was kicked out of
committee, oftdsfiykiBed, at a meet
ing of tfee SBb-cffraiRrttee this morn
ing. The .members voting unani
mously to place the ordinance on file
are AMonaon Pretzel, ea asd-Estt-koske.
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