Show wide streets as health dr anders has been investigating the influence of the width of in cities on tho mortality from phthisis and as the results of examining into the localization of 1500 deaths he has arrived at the conclusion that ber of deaths from phthisis is smaller in proportion to tho population in the wide than in tha narrow ones and that in narrow streets the mortality is greatest where they are long or where they form a cul de sac in other words complete movement of air about dwellings is a point of prime importance in connection with the question of pulmonary phthisis it is on this principle that all modem bylaws as to open space about houses are based and it is as important to have wide open spaces behind houses as in front so as to secure a proper through current of air tho existing tendency to put up an undue limit on the needed area behind dwelling houses is strongly condemned as constituting a distinct violation of one of the most vital essentials senti als to tha promotion of health and prevention of a certain class of diseases new york telegram |