Open AccessSOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HOUSING
Author(s) -
Ira S. Wile
Publication year - 1920
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.10.4.327
Subject(s) - renting , environmental health , typhoid fever , rental housing , disease control , medicine , gerontology , political science , law , pathology
Infant mortality is twice as great in homes without bathtubs, although the infants do not use them, and increases with lower rentals. Housing is also not to be separated from typhoid and respiratory disease. Health, education, standards, inspection, control of rent profiteering and a living wage are health factors related to housing.