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The Sanitary Condition of The City of Mexico

July 2, 1885 issue

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The article presents information on the sanitary condition of the city of Mexico. The homes are damp with dark basements and hovels. The house doesn't have fires for heating purposes and are cut off from the sunshine which is indispensable to health in Mexico. The cold is never severe, but there are chilly nights and damp days, just fitted to cause colds, which only need the aggravating conditions of the homes and habits of the poor to develop them fatally. Still more unexpected is it to find malarial diseases so fatal in a city at an elevation above the sea level of 7,500 feet.

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SANITATION; MEXICO City (Mexico) -- Environmental conditions; DISEASES; POVERTY; MEXICO City (Mexico); MEXICO

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