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The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform
The Healthiest City Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform
Author: Judith Walzer Leavitt
Between 1850 and the turn of the century, the population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, exploded from 20,000 to nearly 300,000. The city's quick growth brought with it all of the problems of nineteenth-century urbanization: high death rates, infectious diseases, crowded housing, filthy streets, inadequate water supplies, and incredible stench. Th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780299151645
ISBN-10: 0299151646
Publication Date: 6/1996
Pages: 294
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Book Type: Paperback
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