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uate play space, 10; inadequate, 0-5 | 10 | ... Has clean drinking water, 10 | 10 | ... Has clean outbuildings and toilet, 20: unclean, 0-10 | 20 | ... | ------| | 100 | | | _Church and Sunday School_ | | Well ventilated, 20; badly, 0-10 | 20 | ... Heat evenly distributed, 20; unevenly, 0-10 | 20 | ... Cleaned regularly, 20; irregularly, 0-10 | 20 | ... Without carpets, 20 | 20 | ... Without plush seats, 20 | 20 | ... | ------| | 100 | | | _Streets_ | | Sewerage underground, 20; surface, 0-10 | 20 | ... No pools neglected, 10 | 10 | ... No garbage piled up, 10 | 10 | ... Swept regularly, 20; irregularly, 0-10 | 20 | ... Sprinkled and flushed, 10 | 10 | ... Has baskets for refuse, 10 | 10 | ... All districts equally cleaned, 20; unequally, 0-10 | 20 | ... | ------| | 100 | -------------------------------------------------------+-------+------ Until recently the most reliable test of health rights not enforced was the number of cases of preventable, communicable, contagious, infectious, transmissible diseases, such as smallpox, typhoid fever, yellow fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough. By noticing streets and houses where these diseases occurred, students learned a century ago that the darker and more congested the street the greater the prevalence of fevers and the greater the chance that one attacked would die. The well-to-do remove from their houses and their streets the dirt, the decomposed garbage, and stagnant pools from which fevers seem to spring. It was because fevers and congestion go together that laws were made t
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